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"IPv6-only cell service is coming soon, get your apps ready"

And yet, AWS itself doesn't natively support IPv6 - you have to create a gateway for it. Grr. (Sorry for the off-topic rant)

I'm curious, how does Apple detect apps which don't support IPv6?
on H1b visa can I accept prize money (say about $2k) if I win a online coding Hackathon ?
In traditional polling terminology, this was a 2% shift
You could obtain a TN visa under the sci-tech category (which does not require a degree). Before I had my degree this is how I got my first TN.

It is a little less straightforward then the Computer Systems Analyst category but it can be done.
There are two essential traits I look for in a leader. They should have goals that align with my own, and they should advocate for policies that could reasonably be expected further their goals. At least in American politics, I usually see the term "idiot" applied to politicians who pass the first test but fail the second.
Immigrants hiding in trucks in Calais to get to Dover are not going to care if the land on the other side of the channel is flying the EU flag or not. They are doing it illegally so they will continue doing it anyway.
Firstly, I don't think you can dismiss the racism/bigotry of a candidate like that. When even some of his supporters are calling him out for racism, it is hard to argue that it isn't an aspect of his platform. I personally feel that should be enough to eliminate him from holding an office like the presidency regardless of his legitimate ideologies.

The objective truth is that globalization and labor arbitrage overall produce value. That is why we are seeing markets around the world react negatively to the UK's decision. Global economies will work less efficiently in a world in which the UK is not part of the EU.

However as a society we are doing a bad job of distributing the increased value that comes from globalization. Int is true that the way we are distributing the value is leaving the people you are talking about worse even off than before. That is the problem and it will only get worse as other countries continue to develop and more jobs are taken over by automation. The way to solve the problem is not to roll back progress and retreat back into isolationism. That would leave society as a whole worse off. The answer is to continue to encourage progress but increase redistribution efforts to help the people who are left behind.

It is simple math really. Imagine a scenario before globalization where person X has $10 and person Y has $30. Now after globalization person X has $5 and person Y has $40. Person X would clearly be angry about this development but that doesn't mean the solution is to revert everything to how it was before globalization. The answer is to take somewhere between $5 and $10 from person Y and give it to person X. That way everyone is better off than before and we all benefit from progress.
Apple's bullshit so far is infinitesimally smaller than the bullshittiness of removing 3.5mm. I am certain more people would leave their products.

But even disregarding that, I disagree with your assertion that people using Apple devices are using them for only social reasons. I love my iPhone SE. It's my ideal phone: fast, lots of storage, all interactions are smooth, long battery life. I've honestly yet to encounter an Android phone I liked more, though they are getting closer and closer. Social doesn't enter into it.
And they might loose Scotland also..
The model assumes that time spent on services is perfectly efficient, or rolls this into the service quality measure.

In reality, a potential service period can be divided into utilized and unutilized segments. The model of a CPU's run queue and time slots may be useful here.

If you're under-provisioning services, you'll stack up customers (processes) in the run queue. If yo're overprovisioning services, you'll have high idle times. Most likely you'll see a bit of both. If you have a perfect allocation system, the queue length is always one (the job running) and there's no idle time.

Technology allows you to approach that ideal. Waiting customers can be paired with idle servers. But it's not perfect, especially with services that have a physical component and travel. And you're left with the hard limit of there being only one hour per hour.

Scheduling and dispatch systems are also already aggressively persued. See Lyft.
Because we know the Japanese have been doing this since the 1600s. Kyoto is credited with the earliest recorded history of this brewing method.
and enacted brutal colonization all over the world, akin to slavery if not worse.
Unfortunately, I'm not quite sure either. Alan Kay has a very socratic way of communicating (at least from reading through all his comments on the AMA) and I often feel like he's been sitting in a higher plane of thought for so long that the only way he is able to communicate his ideas is by 'forcing' the recipient to make the same jumps he has (a bit like the square in Flatland). I could be completely misunderstanding where he was going with those thoughts.
VR headsets aren't platforms in their own right with their own operating systems like consoles are, they're hardware peripherals. It would be like a company refusing to launch their game unless it detected the "right" controller plugged in to the computer. All of the game's code is being executed by the PC itself--that's why a shim like this was almost instantly thrown up to allow Oculus Store games to be played on the Vive, all they needed to do was translate the I/O from the Vive to the protocol that the game was expecting from a Rift. It's along the same lines as x360ce, a wrapper that lets you use any gamepad you want with games that only have official support for Xbox Controllers.

There are real differences in the Rift/Vive systems right now in terms of what they're capable of (Vive has touch controllers, Rift won't get them until a few months down the road), but hardcoding a check into your DRM that makes sure that you're using the correctly branded headset is just asinine. There's no real differences between the headsets themselves that justify it, it's just artificially trying to cut out competition.
So question,

Why not do 2 factor authentication and require fingerprint + temperature sensor (has to be the right heat signature?

I guess answer is hardware isn't built that way yet, but I don't see why we can't get enough trust mechanisms that it has to be a real finger.
I am on h1b and have a blog with pretty good traffic. Can I have a google adsense account and earn ad $$ ?
Would that reply to HTTP requests or still timeout?
Actually, it's just called "copyright complaint". Youtube's system goes well above and beyond the requirements of the DMCA.
Good for the grandmother country to break out on its own. I've never had a high opinion of the EU. Mostly because of their ridiculous laws about the internet. I'm happy about this and I hope it works out well.
No worries; thanks for the reply.

Have you had experience with DACA + 245(i)? We're hoping that doesn't complicate things much.
Can I recommend an espresso while you froth the milk for a flat white? That's an actually perfect morning combo which also uses your savage wake up technique.
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I'm a UK citizen that has been looking at EB-1A all week (because of Brexit), I'm now sure I do not want to continue living here if we in fact do withdraw from the EU. My questions:

- How many of the 10 criteria must you actually satisfy? Is it a binary decision, i.e. proving 3/10 is the same as is the same as satisfying all 10. Is a positive decision 100% guaranteed is at least 3 criteria are proved satisfactorily?

- What is the standard of proof?

- When would my obligation to complete a IRS tax return begin, i.e. is it when the consulate adds an MRIV I-551 to my passport, when I arrive in the US an immigrant and CBP endorses it, or another time. This might impact when I would apply.

- How long would the EB-1A process take, how long does it take for a permanent resident to sponsor a spouse, can these applications happen concurrently, and are both categories current?

- What are the indicative costs?
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You have obviously

a) not seen the ESTA and visa applications forms (the content and questions are very similar) for traveling to the US.

b) not have one of these denied for an arbitrary and opaque reason (the applicant is not told the reason).

c) not have had your personal information stolen and abused yet.

If Americans had to go through this sort of BS whenever they travel to Europe there would be an uproar. But in reverse it is OK, because, obviously, the people on the other side of the pond (which is the majority of who the ESTA system applies to) are somehow more of a threat.

Mate, seriously ...
The investment requirement is "substantial" relative to the enterprise so there's no legal minimum but in my experience most consulates won't entertain E-2 visa applications where the investment isn't above $50,000. And understand that the investment has two components, the money transferred/invested into the U.S. company and the money spent by the U.S. company and a substantial amount needs to be spent and the percentage is higher the lower the investment. So, where the investment is as little as $50,000, most consulates will want to see nearly all of this spent. But to be clear, $50,000 is really low. And yes, the money can come from others as long as here the money is coming from Mexican citizens or Mexican-owned companies.
Stripe. Their docs are amazing too, I always find it a pleasure integrating their API.

https://stripe.com/docs/api
Thanks for pointing that out. I've been reading through the bug reports and some people have been mentioning other apps in addition to Outlook: Notes.app and Mail.app. I haven't noticed any others yet.

Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=618771
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I'm sorry, but I think that trivializes huge chunks of history up to a point where it's more imprecise than correct.

I think the cultural roots go to Greece, not Rome. Rome basically was a logistical and administrative juggernaut but I'm not aware of anything new they created - Roman law being the only exception, I think, which created basis for the laws in a large group of european polities.

After Rome, there was the period which is called the dark ages, but probably mostly only looks like that in the context of the exceptional developments which started after it.

1400:s europe finally was done with dark ages, and the energetic cities embraced innovations from around the world (including material from greece antiquity preserved in the muslim civilization).

The catholic church did not really do much to help that progress. You will notice that e.g. industrialization was fastest in the countries where the church did not have as much power - the mostly protestant ones. Big parts of what we call 'western civilization' was innovated ny guys despite the stifling effect of the church on sapient inquiry.

In the border regions where a bunch of tiny polities that imitated and admired the developments of biggest neighbours.

My point is, just saying 'rome and christian culture' is giving undue prominence just to a one cultural development that moulded europe.
It may be seen as complexity, but it's something I loved in Windows. The ability to flag any connection as metered.

- I used it for my AT&T LTE USB modem.

- I used it in my car, which has a wireless access point connected to LTE.

Apple's "solution" seems to be (and I can't recall if it was even directly described as such) "we're moving to a world where cellular data will be the same as Wifi, so..."

Except here's a fun fact for you. Did you know the same amount of money will buy you _less than half_ the data package in 2016 from AT&T and Verizon as it would have bought you in 2012? Data is twice as expensive now over cellular, not half.
But that's considerably more reasonable than asking that the developer completely lock out 50% (or more) of their potential customer base.

And it's not quite a loan. It's prepaid Steam revenue.
It's no more similar to Rust than any generational collector is (which is to say: not much at all). Rust's memory management story is primarily static, while this is dynamic.
Same way I kicked smoking. Extreme levels of contentedness.
> That is of course a major factor. The costs all in, including legal fees and filing fees, vary considerably from attorney to attorney but the average, as far as I can tell, for an I-140 extraordinary ability petition is between $5,000 and $15,000. This is the same range for an I-140 national interest waiver petition.

Where does that money go? Fees associated with the application or general attorney fees?

Is it possible to complete this process without an attorney? $5-15K is peanuts for a larger organization but it's a decent chunk of coin for a small business.
> but is somehow managing to do it without requiring exclusivity. At the very least, Oculus could require store exclusivity but not hardware exclusivity.

Their massive share of teh PC gaming market via steam gives them more freedom.
Can you please give piece of advice how to prepare response for RFE in case of L1 visa? Some tricks or typical mistakes.
If you think the full on collapse of the UK banking system, and the mass exodus of financial jobs isn't going to instantly dry up any startup funding in the UK, you're kidding yourself.

Large companies in the UK are already announcing their intention to move thousands of jobs to Germany or Ireland.
It's hardly a peripheral though. VR games are incompatible with traditional displays, and the development requirements are quite a bit more strict (low latency, high framerate).

It's quite a stretch to say that VR is "just a new way to display a game," in my opinion.
> If you're pro-small business, then you should be excited about the opportunities we have now.

Such as? Please elaborate.

One thing we can look forwards to is paying VAT to every EU country individually. That's going to be fun.
Hi Peter,

I've received my green card through my sponsor company 2 months ago. (It's a highly reputable fortune 100 company and I am building their core web product)

And I have a project that's getting traction and really want to leave the company and commit full time to it.

But everything on the web says I need to wait at least 6 months before leaving the company after I receive green card, otherwise they can kick me out for fraud when I apply for citizenship later. But some people also say this is just a myth.

So the question: Is this true and I am stuck with this company for next 4 months even though I really want to go full time on my project? Any ways to get around this? Thanks!

p.s.
I know this is not a type of question that you may be interested in answering since it's a minority case, but I would really appreciate at least a one line comment on what you think (or even saying it's not something you can answer). It looks like it's not just me, at least 6 people are interested so far, we will all be grateful to hear from you!
67.23% of all votes cast. Turnout was 64.62%, so 43.2% of all registered voters [1]. As fraction of total population, it was 56.23 million in 1975 [2] and the total number of Yes votes was 17,378,581, so 30.91%.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_European_Commun...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_Kingd...
Something lower and different really. For those who have not won major awards, it's really a mix of media coverage, publications, awards, good work, etc. To put it in perspective, we've obtained green cards for those without degrees and under the age of 25 but who've created really cool companies. It's very fact-specific and in the end it's a feeling that someone is very bright and doing interesting work.
For everything there is a season. Globalism had a great reputation at the turn of the millennium. Then we had Iraq, the Great Financial Crisis and Syria, which damaged the credibility of the leadership class. So now status quo in the west cannot be taken for granted.
> Do Dropbox employees need to worry that infringing content is being taken down fast enough, lest the face prosecution?

Not as long a Dropbox doesn't offend the wrong people.
Is it even possible for someone to immigrate like the Ellis island days? It sounds like it is a complete stonewall if you don't have some exceptional skill and a lot of money ... how could a "normal" person immigrate now?
Thanks for this AMA!

Who is behind the "Washington Alliance of Technology Workers" and why do they keep bringing lawsuits against STEM OPT for F-1 visas?

Is there any moves on increasing the H1-B quota or modifying the H1-B altogether?
Not related to the Smalltalk implementation apparently.

http://www.object-arts.com/dolphin7.html
Hi Peter,

First of all, thank you very much for doing this.

My questions are about the USA Diversity Lottery (https://www.dvlottery.state.gov/), as I rarely see any discussions about it:

- Out of all the people you have seen who obtained a green card, roughly what is the percentage of them getting it through the lottery?

- Roughly how much time and money would the process cost? (I would assume it's similar to the ~2-4 years and ~$15K that a regular green card application cost?)

- Any other general comments you have about the lottery?

Thank you.
Not Robert (and I defer to anything he has to say) but I teach a class that uses the LCA [H-1B] visa application database as a test dataset. If you banned all H-1Bs today, you would effectively be losing approximately half a million talented workers.

Now, some would like to argue that this would "free up" half a million jobs for U.S. citizens, but keep in mind that the H-1B is for skilled labor that an employer couldn't find a citizen for. There are H-1B abusers, like Wipro, Qualcomm, etc., but they only accounted for about 3-4% of the applications in 2015, and are (thankfully) being dealt with on an increasingly frequent basis.
>darker roasts are easy to achieve.

I don't think it's that, I think it's because they last longer on the shelf (light roasts go stale faster) and because dark roasts just taste burnt, meaning you can swap out one bean for another and not notice a difference. So if a cheaper beans becomes available, that will get switched in.
Wait, I thought Alphabet is selling Boston Dynamics...
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Christianity spread fast among the poorer subjects of the empire, and frequent persecutions occurred, until 311 CE (maybe slightly off the year), where the edict of Milano by Constantine officially recognised it. When Theodosius issued the edict of Thessalonico in 380, the nicene trinitarian Christianity became the only state religion. About into the 6th century, tensions begun among the eastern post-Roman states and the church of Constantinople, which led to the great schism that happened early into the second millennium.

Whilst the anatolians had sort of a partial continuity into Islam by the middle of the millennium, a process that completed with 19th-20th century genocides of ottoman christians. (Off-topic: I'm reading into comparative genetic reseach about anatolian/near-east peoples, of which I'm a member, which suggests that there is a continuous people since the paleolithic here, that is divided differently at different times in the history because of culture replacements of imperial origins, i.e. Parthian, Armenian, Greek, Roman, Muslim and Turkish empires. But especially the Turkish-speaking, the Armenian-speaking and the Kurdish-speaking peoples seem to be genetically very close to suggest common origin, whereas Anatolian turkish-speakers are genetically closer to brits than central-asians.)
I have a TN and I would like to learn more about the legality of passive income forms like advertising, affiliates, etc. Where or who is the right place to get info on this? Thanks!
I agree, ethics are pretty much the same across Europe too.
We know they've been doing it since the 1600s. As far as written history goes, Kyoto is the furthest back we can trace this brew method.
"developers of the Tor browser" probably not, lots of incompetent people in infosec. Tor itself has decent devs, but even they have seen leadership troubles recently, pressure from feds etc. Check the mailing-list.

Reminder, this isn't a vulnerability in Tor, but an IP leak in Firefox, or at least the way it's configured in TBB.

Maybe a sandbox is irrelevant to an IP leak though, idk.
nice I hadn't seen that post, thanks!
It's not that simple. At least now you had one set of rules, and under them you could've operated in whole EU by passporting your licence. Now there will be two separate ones. If you want to expand from UK, or vice-versa enter UK, you need to do twice as much work in terms of regulations. This is especially applicable for fintech startups, which are very prominent in UK.
"Although there have been some recent minor steps in a positive direction concerning copyright in the EU, politicians have been trying to undermine them with really terrible ideas. We already covered the push to effectively outlaw outdoor photography,"
Judging by the mood of once upon a time British unionists here in Glasgow there's a strong probability of that.
A bureaucracy in Brussels is hardly necessary to enact simple pan-European tariff reductions. It is necessary, however, to begin building what globalism truly demands: a de facto European government, complete with dense regulatory and tax rules, quasi-judicial bodies, a nascent military, and further subordination of national, linguistic, and cultural identities.
Hi Peter,

I'm a Canadian citizen with a four year computer science degree. I've gotten a TN work permit twice, with two different companies over the past three years.

If I started a company with an American citizen and they opened it up, could they then hire me as a Computer System Analyst? Is there a minimum salary they'd have to pay me (e.g. could I get a TN and still only get paid $10/hour)? Is this a common way for Canadian co-founders to enter the United States or is there a better route?
> You didn't have any software freedom -- how did you modify your software?

In a program called a debugger, which back then was known as a monitor. You pressed a button, and the monitor was started from a cartridge, or you loaded a monitor, and then you loaded the machine code. And then you stepped through that disassembled code, and then you inserted a breakpoint in a strategic place. And when the program would stop execution, you'd consider the state of the program, and then you'd make the desired modifications, either by changing the existing processor instructions, or by adding your own code and hooking it in. Worked for an entire generation of crackers, I don't see what the big deal is.

So in that sense, there was no closed source, as nobody can really hide machine code, and believe you me, people have tried, and then some! But to a cracker, to a really good coder, every piece of code is open source, because there is nowhere to hide.

A much bigger deal was if you were not capable of this, because it meant you were a lamer and didn't make the cut.
It's not obvious that the "0" is a zero, as opposed to the letter "O" (cyrillic, latin) or the something entirely misleading, as this gesture: http://i.imgur.com/6KZ1nKG.jpg

I suspect the vertical slash | has as many lookalikes as the O, but I won't go there. I do want to mention that, as you demonstrated, the "1" that means on is more often represented as the Latin I or just a vertical stroke as in |, making it just as hard to ID as a numeral, especially if you don't know that the 1/0 are derived from the binary logic gates.

I would argue that the words "ON" and "OFF" when seen as glyphs are much less ambiguous than I/O.
They just want to protect their walled garden. Thankfully Dolphin's word of mouth has been really strong.
One of my colleagues described the atmosphere in a bar in central Edinburgh today as being like a wake.