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> Why does the U.S. need to depend on the ~80.000 odd first order immigrants per year to generate that amount of wealth.

The U.S. doesn't need them - Silicon Valley was created by Americans.

However, companies have tasted what mass immigration does to engineering salaries (stagnant since 2000) and labor mobility (almost none for H1B's) and are as addicted as heroin addicts.
Then I don't understand your position. Just because a court order can compel some things that law enforcement can't compel in its absence, it does not follow that a court order can compel anything that law enforcement can't compel in its absence. But that seems to be what you're claiming--or at least it seems to be the grounds on which you're rejecting the argument you were responding to.

My point is that even if a court order can compel the owner of a secret to either divulge it to law enforcement or face consequences, that doesn't mean it can compel a third party to help law enforcement pry loose the secret in the owner's absence. That seems to be precisely the distinction the article is making.
What about good references? What about "Okay, we understand, but we'll gladly have you back (with a signing bonus) when this blows over?"

A court order doesn't extend to Apple being required to be a dick to its ex-employees.

(And yeah, if any of you folks want a job, there are a zillion people on HN happy to talk, I'm sure)
Can you expand on what sounds very different? On its face your comment is self-contradictory.
>My bias is my personal relationship with engineers abroad who are paid fractions of what we are. I am completely aware of my own bias and do not consider my position to be the "universally correct" position. I don't think such a thing exists.

My suggestion may go against your preference since it wont always help your engineer friends but I think dynamic targeted immigration at jobs that are suffering from worker shortage is the solution. What we have now is a disaster though, a long lasting law targeting fields that may not even need the increased supply in workers anymore.

I personally have nothing against immigrants, the people I have met are in general amazing. But I have my own interests to take care of before I can consider others.

Also H-1Bs target IT in general but is the sort of IT that disney laid off really facing a labor shortage?

>What I do find to be self-contradictory, is when many Bay Area tech workers support protectionism for their own interests (immigration) but oppose protectionism that oppose their own interests (housing development).

I'm not from the bay area so I don't know the fine details of the housing market but are you talking about engineers supporting building more apartments? Also if they are acting in a hypocritical way you would be right to call them out on it.
> These are not the downtrodden masses.

A lot of them are, if not downtrodden, at the least unable to earn a wage in the labor markets that is commensurate with their skill set.
I see things more in terms of signal/noise considerations.

Rational minds can disagree, and intelligence can't understand much-greater-intelligence (so lessers might downvote much-greaters for that reason, besides the first-mentioned reason), but you don't have to worry about armageddons of downvotes. Or the balance of votes.

Just upvote what you consider "signal", and downvote the worst kinds of noise.

Thus you, my parent comment, are barely voted on at all, while the one by jewbacca rises to the top all day, no matter the weather.
Two words: Underhanded C
"These 44 companies, the study says, are collectively valued at $168 billion and create an average of roughly 760 jobs per company."

Firstly, that's 33,000 jobs or about 0.0003% of the US workforce, so hardly the backbone of the economy.

Secondly, the H1B program, the subject of the article, is not an immigration program but a guest worker program. Generally, H1B workers leave the country and don't go on to start companies because the visa is limited to six years.
Patriotism died under the past few decades of left-leaning culture. Entire generations seem to believe that America has the worst culture on Earth and is singlehandedly responsible for all of the evil in the world. You can't assimilate foreigners when you don't have any respect for your own culture. You can't assimilate foreigners when you view assimilation as a negative goal.

On another note, if universities can't assimilate wealthy, educated Chinese, no wonder Europe is having a refugee crisis.
Even for non-Indians it takes 2-3 years thanks to USCIS's general bureaucratic inefficiency.

Even a naturalized American who loses their certificate of naturalization and applies for a replacement copy has to wait 6 months for USCIS to issue a single piece of paper!
What sort of decryption task would even be needed if ? Suppose Apple can update the phone signed backdoored update, the DOJ order never asked for decryption, only a way to bruteforce the phone.
Seems like a big deal. Dengue is different (and more problematic) than a lot of diseases in that if you've had Dengue even mildly or at least not severely, you're actually far more at risk for serious effects the next time if it's a different one of the four varieties of the disease. The article suggests that the trials so far protect against that effect as well.

[EDIT: As pak notes elsewhere, this trial apparently didn't test against all four varieties although there was some evidence it might protect against multiple.]
For me it doesn't bother reloading; but it shows up when I reload.
The MS Band2 has skin temperature and galvanic sensors but you don't see the temperature data like heart rate. I think skin temp used for the calories burned data but it would be nice to see it, there are third party apps to view it. It has a UV sensor too but only on-demand when you select it.

No I don't work for Microsoft.

Blood pressure would be tricky then again the watch is around your wrist so maybe not.

A real-time blood sugar reading would be nice to see too.
Boston Dynamics always seemed an odd fit for Google give they were making robots for the military and Google has its "don't be evil" motto. I'm not sure how you bring those two together.
> What if people could 'emigrate' from Detroit to California?

They can, there's no restriction of movement within the US.
When an Elon Musk or a Max Levchin shows up in your country itching to get to work, the best course of action is not to say, "couldn't we some how draw your kind of ambition out of a local?"

Far better is to give them visas let them build in your country rather than elsewhere.
It's the latter. These immigrants aren't poor uneducated people like you would encounter in an impoverished part of the US.
> strictly speaking welding requires bringing metal to a melting point

"Strictly" speaking you don't, because there are other techniques, such as diffusion welding.
HN counts as social media.
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>companies have tasted what mass immigration does to engineering salaries (stagnant since 2000)

Do you happen to know if there were studies done to link these two?
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First, educated and immigrants of means are a great addition to any economy they go to and a drain to the economies they leave. It's understandable why educated people might want to leave a country with few economic opportunities for their careers.

What I'm not so clear on is what attracts educated people of means to emigrate to the US [and AU and UK] from otherwise stable mature economies? We're better off for them, just a question as to what attracts them given they also have opportunities in their home countries.
I used to hear this kind of thing from the fanatical free-market libertarians behind Xanadu. (Xanadu, the pre-WWW web system envisioned by Ted Nelson. Everything is pay per view in Xanadu.) Twenty years later, it hasn't changed much, except it now uses Bitcoin as a buzzword.

Bitcoin is a terrible system for micropayments. The overhead is high, since every node has to find out about every payment and you have to pay a fee to a miner. Confirmation times are a big problem. (Accepting zero-confirmation payments doesn't work, as Satoshi Dice found out the hard way.) Yeah, there are all those fancy tree-based schemes to reduce the data being transferred around, but none of them work yet.

Meanwhile, anyone knowing the whereabouts of "Big Vern", the CEO of Cryptsy, the Bitcoin exchange, is requested to contact the Silver Law Firm. The CEO and most of the assets are missing. "Big Vern" has blamed "hackers". Some people believe him.
I actually received a physical postcard about this today (in addition to multiple emails and a notification on the Amazon home page).
You could put each of them in an <iframe>.

(now to hide from the abuse, and hope my karma doesn't fall below the voting threshhold for suggesting this)
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>Generally, H1B workers leave the country and don't go on to start companies.

Do you have any stats on this or is it just a gut feeling?
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Couldn't agree more.

Django's documentation has ruined me. I took the high quality for granted. Now when I use any of these tiny NodeJS/frontend modules, I'm surprised at how barebones the documentation can be.

Such an excellent project, community and set of docs. By far my favorite framework.
Some glues are flexible.

Certain epoxies can be mixed in a range from 2:1 to 1:1, giving a range of flexibilities.

Epoxy can also be combined with rubber.
All I want is Friendly C. Eliminate unnecessary sources of undefined behavior, stop exploiting undefined behavior in ways that breaks sensible code, and give me sane semantics like two's complement signed integers by default.

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1180
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https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/12493-hacker-news-folding-...

I wrote this a while ago, which seems to work. I reused the vote arrow with 1/4-turn rotation, placed on the other side of the comment header line to avoid confusion.
No, he was OPT, at least initially.
If I understand what you are saying, then the same could be said about the iPhone 5C - that it was built with a backdoor/security flaw - the ability to install a new OS without passcode that will allow brute forcing simple 4-digit passcode.
There are no terrorists. It's a fiction imposed upon the American people by a government with a power trip.
...or not. It's pretty shitty to fly right in the face of its creator's wishes.
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Alright. Let me list down some immigrants who came here on H1B visa.

1. Jyoti Bansal - Founder of AppDynamics The guy in the above mentioned article was on H1B.

2. Kevin Systrom - Cofounder of Instagram was on H1B visa.

3. Jay Scaler - Founder of ZScaler an unicorn, was on H1B visa

4. Vinod Khosla - Founder of Sun Microsystems and well known VC was on H1B visa initially

Will list down some more in some time.
Well perhaps the military isn't evil. Maybe that's how.
No, I just find the "hackernews pedant" shtick to be banal, tiresome, and very played-out.
Isn't that the limitation of the current immigration system, rather than anything on the immigrants themselves?
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Of course, the obvious defense is an up-to-date backup
> 2. Kevin Systrom - Cofounder of Instagram was on H1B visa.

I don't think that's correct.
It's nice seeing people suggesting abt being mindfulness. Although I didn't read this book, but I understand what you mean here. Nice recomm.

Since we are talking about this, just a little reminder for interested ppl, it's more important to practice meditation than only reading any book on mindfulness.

Meditation is mental training. Understand it by practising meditation. Also for us to note is that negative thoughts are a defilement of our mind, abandon it :)
The trouble is most startup founders don't have $500k lying around.
I don't know why people keep taking "don't be evil" seriously. It's obviously an effective slogan and somehow it's convinced a lot of people that Google is something other than a business, whose only purpose is to make a few people very very rich, but unless Google is legally bound to "not be evil[0]", it doesn't mean anything.

[0]illegal forms of evil notwithstanding. maybe.
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This whole thread has devolved into a Poe's law fugue.
"few" ?

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100593528

"Yet when Americans are asked about raising or lowering the number of immigrants coming into the country, only a small portion favor higher immigration levels and a very sizable plurality favor lower levels. A 2006 study by the Pew Hispanic Center, for example, found that 40 percent of those surveyed said legal immigration should be reduced and just 17 percent favored an increase. (Apparently Pew stopped asking that particular question after 2006.)

This chart from Pew shows that as recently as 2012, 69 percent of those surveyed agree that "we should restrict and control people coming to live in our country more than we do now."

Americans are divided over immigration. The lobbyists in Washington? Not so much."
You're correct as everything is dependent on the tech industry. That's part of why this is such an important fight for Apple, because it directly effects just about any industry that requires privacy these days.
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>They can ride those fines for quite awhile.

They could, but they're still a publicly traded company. I wouldn't hold it against a board that wasn't OK with spending $250,000 a day on a principle, but I'd be mad as hell at the people collecting the fine.
Well... Here is your chance to be able to add "The guy who wrote the encyclopedia entry on CaaS" to your resume ;)
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With the next release we will package the ability to have editors based on document slices (aka prjections): https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/284099/13857486/6...
Hey that's a good way to put it!
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1. Many want it to be true that it's an objectively good idea to allow more immigration, or for there to be a broad consensus that more immigration is objectively good, or for there to be more ammunition to conduct moral posturing upon the outgroup when the outgroup has negative valence about immigration, or maybe two or all three. (I don't particularly disagree, immigration is fine.)

2. One great way to accomplish all of those is to create an association between "immigrant" and "success" or "innovation" in people's minds.

3. People gloss over the difference between P(A|B) and P(B|A) all the time. If you can show that P(B|A) is surprisingly high, and there's sufficient motivation to do so, people will instead think something much more like "A and B are associated" than "A often implies B though not at all necessarily the converse".

4. So, just show that {thing you want people to have positive valence about} is overrepresented in {tiny set of things with positive valence}. This will probably be easy, since there are lots of tiny sets of things with positive valence.

This strategy is far more used in the negative case -- "people who do bad thing Y are often from group X, don't concern yourself with the base rate of bad thing Y among all members of group X" -- but either way it's very effective and very insidious.
So as a Scala Play dev... Trying to get the user stuff to work with email as username and still work on the admin page? Super crufty.

Overall very good docs though :)
You could use a secure password in lieu of the 4-digit one, though, couldn't you? My understanding was that the software running on the device to enforce the retry limit functioned as a backup measure against passcodes vulnerable to brute force in the first place. If the password was strong, the brute force would be futile.
Julian Assange set up shop outside of the US, now he lives in the basement of an office building.
While I am of course a huge fan of NIAID and vaccine development against dengue, and I believe that a vaccine that works against dengue will probably be found within our lifetimes and prevent millions of hospitalizations (EDIT: not deaths, sorry) per year, this is a classic example of a downstream news report editorializing the headline and misrepresenting the implications of the original article.

The whole challenge in creating a dengue vaccine is that it has to protect against all four serotypes (called a tetravalent vaccine). Incomplete protection against one of the serotypes could potentially lead to an even worse infection if you are infected, through a process called antibody dependent enhancement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody-dependent_enhancement This is why vaccine development against dengue has been so painstakingly slow.

The candidates in this trial were only challenged with one serotype, DENV-2. Therefore, we have no way to know if the tetravalence of the vaccine actually achieved efficacy against all four serotypes (although promisingly, antibodies against all serotypes were seen in 92% of the patients). The sample size is also quite small (N = ~20). This is why the original article states its impact conservatively as "This model may serve as an early check for dengue vaccine candidates, limiting the risk of conducting large unsuccessful trials" and furthermore "the true efficacy of TV003 can only be established by performing a phase 3 trial in endemic areas." Here's how you write a more honest headline and summary for lay people: http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/16/health/dengue-vaccine-effectiv...

I don't intend to detract from the achievement here, but I don't like when headlines oversimplify the implications of a clinical trial. It sets unrealistic expectations and decreases the public's trust in proper vaccine research.

Disclaimer: I am doing research with a lab that studies dengue virus, and we have collaborators that are working on a commercial vaccine.
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Those things are not like war. Calling people who don't want war to be a turn-key thing "stupid" is not helpful.
> "People are often content with using the tried and true, code-prescribed systems," he said.

Unlike aircraft that are made in a carefully controlled factory environment; building sites can be harsh places to work and fastening systems have to have the flexibility and design margins to cope with this.

Unless glues start getting a track record of being significantly better (cost, strength, resilience) than current fastening systems I doubt we will see much adoption.
Exactly.

People are already aware. It's being covered in all forms of media, across all demographics. Awareness and understanding are wildly different concepts. People are aware, they just don't understand. The public can't be properly educated in the matter, because it's so nebulous and complex that it requires dedication to understand it. That goes for most of the issues we face as a society.
You actually make a good point. The analogy gets used a lot because big ships do have big turning radiuses. But the better analogy is probably something more along the lines of the captain gives an order and various groups within the ship don't really agree with the order, so they say they're doing their part to make the ship turn but they're really not. Maybe the rudder have been moved a bit but the propellers are acting against the change. Furthermore, some percentage of the crew has decided that the ship should really be a plane and that's what they're working on.
Google dropped that motto long ago ( http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2009/04/goog... ) ...

note: I had to use duckduckgo to find that web page in the top 10 results.
So, we know people get Dengue fever and what it does to people. Why do you still need the placebo group in a study like this? I'm having a hard time seeing the morality of such a choice when we already have plenty of data on Dengue fever.
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I've been to Venezuela a couple of times and have friends there currently. I'd ask them how they are doing, except that we usually communicate over Skype and Hangouts...

I believe they'll be alright though. The one family I know owns a farm on the side of a mountain, so plenty of food, and they get fresh water from a mountain stream, so no worries there. They use a bit of electricity, but don't really need it to live.

The other one, the husband is a US citizen who does some occasional work online. He needs electricity, but he's told me before that he can get by on ~$130 a month, so he should be fine for a week.
They left out how Wolfe Rd. is already gridlocked during commute hours, and that will only get much much worse when Apple's "spaceship" HQ opens just down the street.
I didn't know that people are still making games for C64! That must be a great deal of hacking! I think I will spend this weekend with C64 emulator, playing this game, recalling good old times...
This is basic supply and demand. Not everything needs a peer reviewed study to make a valid assumption.
I agree, but they could let those fines stack up while waiting for their turn at the SCOTUS. They definitely wouldn't hold out forever, but they can hold out for long enough if need be.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY

Wow.. How come nobody is bringing THIS up whenever the FBI tries to assure us that the bypass they want from Apple will never get leaked into the wrong hands?
In chrome you can just open up dev tools, select an iphone emulator (6+ if you want the biggest screen), and refresh.
My local gym has running & cycling clubs and uses fb groups to coordinate events, provide a social area for members to share stuff, and maintains pages where they curate important information for the group.

FB isn't the only way to do this, of course, but it's certainly low friction for most members, since they generally already are guaranteed to have a personal FB account.
Back in the days of the PalmV I was aghast at the terrible "technique" they used to store the user password to unlock the device. I was young and very stupid, but I pushed through proper, for that time, handling of the password.

With a court order, LE asked to unlock a device, and I was able to do it, did it and they sent me a letter of thanks which I still might have somewhere. I remember being happy to help, it was a drug case, drugs are bad mmmmkay.

In thinking about it I'm embarrassed at my younger self, but also cognizant that anyone familiar with the art could break it. It was a terrible, reversible scheme. After I pushed through the change to store the password I was confident that it could not be reversed and that it was "safe" and that I could no longer break it.

If they had suggested removing the other safeguards e.g. allowing any number of tries, etc. That would be this Apple situation and I really hope my younger self would have had the sense to plead "ignorance," refuse or whatever because my principles have not changed that much, and I am 100% on Apple's side on this issue.
Wow this is great news. I was the type of person to not even give thought to these types of diseases, thinking they only applied to poorer populations in less-developed nations. When I went to a destination wedding in Jamaica two years ago, I laughed at all my friends who I thought were being excessively paranoid in constantly applying bug spray for fear of mosquito born viruses. You can imagine what happened next: I was infected with one of those viruses - Chikungunya more specifically - and it was one of the worst year and a half experiences of my life. I've just recently completely gotten over it, but man has the experience changed my outlook on these kids of things.