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> In the short run, increasing salaries will only get you a greater share of the existing engineers.

That's how the market works. If you are Google or Facebook and you need 10000 more engineers, just pay enough to attract them. You'll get them from lower paying companies, which in turn will raise their salaries as well (but not as much), and so on. At the end of the chain, the companies which are the lowest paying and cannot hire anyone anymore will simply remove those positions. In time, more and more people will train to be software engineers, and salaries will shrink.
See also: Little Elixir and OTP Guidebook. Currently reading that book, it's good so far.
Fear is real but unfounded. You don't get sued by Monsanto for doing something accidentally. You really have to intentionally violate their rights.

The one case referred regarding this (Monsanto vs. Schmeiser) is widely misreported by anti-GMO and anti-Monsanto activists. See Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_Canada_Inc_v_Schmeise...

The case is widely cited or referenced by the anti-GM community in the context of a fear of a company claiming ownership of a farmer’s crop based on the inadvertent presence of GM pollen grain or seed.[21][22] "The court record shows, however, that it was not just a few seeds from a passing truck, but that Mr Schmeiser was growing a crop of 95–98% pure Roundup Ready plants, a commercial level of purity far higher than one would expect from inadvertent or accidental presence."
Not water but it's essentially nicotine suspended in two types of glycerine (think: fog machines and inhalers). Additionally, most include some type of flavoring agents and I think this is where much of the questions come up.

The "mainstream" of ecig liquid makers (and certainly all the DIY folks) have been at the forefront of testing these things for what they produce when heated, atomized, and inhaled. For the most part, all currently accepted flavoring agents produce negligible levels of anything carcinogenic or otherwise toxic as far as I've been able to find.

The traces of potentially harmful compounds that do exist are at levels that are a small fraction of what's found in any combustible cigarette so for ex-smokers, it's the equivalent of getting the active drug (nicotine) while removing 99%+ of the harmful byproducts of smoking as a delivery method. The way I understand things, it's largely the combustion of tobacco and the tars and particulates deposited in your lungs that cause the health detriments associated with smoking. Without that stuff, your health issues are largely limited to your addiction to a mild stimulant drug.
> Funny because that is Lyft's (né Zimride)

Holy crow, I've always seen it spelled née, and sure enough, it's because it's almost always used when referring to a woman's name before marriage. Turns out né exists for men! Are companies masculine, then?

(Gendered languages belong in the dumpster of history.)
Python treats a tab character as the amount of spaces needed to go into the nearest multiple of 8 column. With py2 ability to mix different indentation as far as it amounts to the same column, you can format your code in pretty interesting ways.
My mistake! And in retrospect, Guy Steele saying that makes way more sense.
While I quite like that style, now you have to convince people to never align, before you can convince them to use tabs.

I've not seen any large public code-bases uses this style, so it's hard to know how well it works in practice. Do you know of any major projects with a 'no alignment' requirement?
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It comes very close, but still misses.

But I was dreaming about a little more, such as rssi measurements from the Pebble itself or scannig Bluetooth tokens proximity.
Good. The top 10 recipients are all outsourcing bodyshops. It's undeniable the program is being abused and no longer functions the way it was intended.
That is reasonable for a solo project, which naturally has a common style readable to the author.

In my (maybe skewed) experience though once 2 or more people start adding comments on the same place of code things can get very confusing quickly -- with mishmash of different styles, commented out comments, multiple copy-paste, etc., so the only way to understand what is going on is to delete the whole Kunstkamera and look only at the code.
China Now Leads the Server Race: Meet the Phytium MARS
I host my email with FastMail who allow the use of subdomains. This is a great feature, and I use it frequently.

HOWEVER, you should only do so after careful consideration. This will restrict moving your email hosting to the limited number of providers who provide provide this type of service, or hosting your own server.

Alternatively, you could go and reset your email address with all of the services that you gave a subdomain email.

For myself, I have been using FastMail for years and feel confident that I will continue to use their services. In the event that I needed to move from FastMail, I know that could self host if forced to.
I think this is how it works.

1) A judge awards the estate be split in a given proportion

2) Illiquid assets are priced and allocated using the mechanism

3) The judge's split-proportion is achieved using the liquid assets' market prices
I also like a rule that states that you either put all the parameters on one line, or each one on its own separate line, but never something in between.
Chinese-Canadians Fear China’s Rising Clout Is Muzzling Them
Have you ever flown with an SSSS, if so, how did it cause any issues? If not, at best your response is speculative.

My experience is that those with SSSS get through TSA screening faster and given they expect the search, don't have anything worth searching.

Clearly if you have an SSSS and create problems or provide surface for friction, then sure it's a pain, but then again, with or without an SSSS there's the potential you'll still have issues.
I'm not saying it's impossible for me to start generating money in 3 months. But merely generating money is not of interest to me. There are certain things I want to build, things I'm interested in, and these aren't things anyone's going to ship in three months starting from scratch.
As some of the commenters before have mentioned - its a lottery when the # of applications exceeds the quota. And it has nothing to do with country of origin.
"Either way it's an amazing achievement."

What the what.

We've gone from "holy ish, sci-fi reusable rockets and we's living la vita future!" to qualified approval..?

No. No. This is not about satellites. This is about the primary cost component for transporting a colony to Mars. And it's already destroying the competition pricewise, and this will widen that gap enormously.

Did the Spanish Govt say, well, that's nice and all, but spices are still pretty pricey? Maybe we don't go back? No. They didn't. They said, "Awesome, lock that ish down. We want a monopoly. And bring us more funny trinkets to show off to our landlocked friends to make us giggle and feel superior."

So yes, it's a huge, amazing fucking achievement.
Ask HN: How Did You Escape 9 to 5?
Title says it all.

How did you escape your 9 to 5 job to start your own business?

I am curious about how you effectively spent your time while having a full time job and a side business and at what time did you decide to take the full plunge.
> 1Password now has a subscription service for $3 a month and you get the first 6 months for free.

Don't pay for this people. Use the open source password manager Keepass http://keepass.info/
Physics Confronts Its Heart of Darkness
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Show HN: Jongler-Juggle the Ball Game
When you say 'recalling a conversation', you mean going over notes from the time he interviewed Ehrlichmann for a book. Given that Baum is a professional journalist, whose career depends on being able to accurately quote people, I reckon it's a bit better sourced that your phrasing suggests.

Note also that Erlichmann's family based their denial of the Baum story partly on the notion that he never said anything racist in front of them - though his propensity for racism is definitely confirmed in the Watergate tapes.
Well, python most certainly do care in the case when tabs and spaces are used inconsistently. In python2 you could even redefine tab width inline like https://gist.github.com/yxhuvud/2006599 .
Honestly, between the possibility of Microsoft open sourcing Windows and Google open sourcing Google Apps, I'd give ten times the odds to Microsoft. Microsoft is on the path of being more open from where they were. Google is on the path of being more closed then they were.

This here wasn't persay an argument for more Android forks. As I said, Android is buggy and insecure. I'd rather many of the other open source options like Tizen or Ubuntu Touch get a chance to thrive. My view on Android itself is simple: As long as Google is incapable of updating it's own software, it's a joke. A literal joke.
The original context was a H1B via employee who realized, or suspected, what was going on but didn't leave.

> They'll say something about being able to leave, but completely ignoring the situation being extremely stressful and scary. Victim blaming and a complete lack of empathy will ensue.
Well, the other two (pot and LSD) are not physically addictive at all, so it would be impossible to be less addictive than that.

Yes, alcohol can have physical withdrawal symptoms for people that stop after already having abused the drug for long periods of time.

According to what I am able to find, even of alcoholics already with a long term problem, only 50% experience withdrawal at all, and only 3 to 5 percent of that 50% experience DTs (tremors) or seizures.

As far as I can tell, even these withdrawal symptoms result from damage to the nervous system, rather than being due to a sudden desaturation of certain receptors in the brain, which cause the craving most associate with addiction.

The big difference for me is the difference in the craving aspect, and the time and number of doses it takes to start feeling the effects of the "addiction".

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra1407298
> Elixir and Phoenix, for want of a better way of saying it, show great programming taste. So to say it's a coat of paint is a bit harsh; it's the right coat of paint, in my opinion.

Fair enough. On rereading my comment, it came off more brash than I intended. I completely agree with this statement.
If a "evaporate a big city" or "kill all humans on Earth" asteroid strikes, the existence of a Mars colony doesn't help my personal survival or well-being in any way whatsoever unless I'm there.

And if I'm there, odds are that it made my personal survival chances worse, since they're mostly determined by the many "normal" causes of death and being a pioneer in a world not really suited for humans is likely to be worse than Earth.

You could make an argument that it's not wise to put all your eggs in one basket, and it has some merit in this discussion, but when all I have is one egg, the only thing I can do is to pick the safest basket I have - and for now it's Earth.
Hey guys, i’m a computer science grad student and launched my first iOS game today.
Jongler is a juggling game. All you have to do is juggle the ball and smash the high score!

How to play

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* Tap on the ball to juggle and score a point.

* The game gets over when the ball hits the ground or spinning star.

* Swipe Up (anywhere in screen) for super kick, to prevent ball from hitting the ground or to avoid the spinning star.

Check out the app preview video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLI9mXd97AM
Project Sidewalk: make sidewalks more accessible for everyone
So besides resetting the password, should one also unlink devices and apps?
An electronic paper display for when Slack is no longer enough
I think in our industry we have a huge wrench. It's very hard to hire experienced Americans in Silicon Valley right now because the cost of living is so high. There's no way that an experienced engineer, making a Silicon Valley salary, can afford the same kind of home that he/she expects everywhere else in the country.

In contrast, an H1-B from a country where homes are typically smaller, might think the kind of home that he/she can afford in Silicon Valley is perfectly fine!
One buys the PTR mostly for the looks since it lacks the battery life and water-proofing of its siblings. A good reason to buy a watch for and it looks mighty fine! [1]

Still, a daily charge is too often. I charge mine every other day. Do you have a watchface showing the seconds ticking by?

[1]: https://twitter.com/aerique/status/770983686539972609
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... and a TARDIS of a train track box.
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/86/1/107.full.pdf+html

"A low-glycemic-load diet improves symptoms in acne vulgaris patients: a randomized controlled trial"

Cohort size 43 persons.

My summary: At 12 wk, mean total lesion counts had decreased more in the low-glycemic-load group ( 23.5 +/- 3.9) than in the control group ( 12.0 +/- 3.5).
I once heard somewhere that before Google+ became a social network, it was supposed to serve as a way for people to insert custom information into Google-searches about themselves. So, if you're for example someone famous, you could create a Google+-profile and put in your detailed information and then when people searched for your name, they'd see the information that you put in.

No idea, if it's actually true, but it seems about right, especially also with the name and that Google replaced the plus-operator in Google searches to search through Google+.
Yeah, a criminal history will make it difficult to get a legal gun. And there are some checks on mental health that apply to transactions with a dealer (but private sales can be legal and not require the checks).

It's kind of unfortunate that people talk about gun control in association with incidents like the one in Aurora. More stringent control won't do much to stop motivated people from getting guns. What it will do is keep guns out of the hands of people who are suicidal or having a dispute with someone they know, both of which are much larger gun violence problems than random mass shootings.

It's also the case that most proposed measures would be pretty useless in combating random violence. Many proposals focus on meaningless cosmetic features and others ignore the rate of sustained fire that can be achieved with a modest amount of training. Without shifting the culture, I think you'd need incredibly strict rules to really do much in the US (like a ban on all pistols and semiautomatic guns, which would probably best be done by amending the Constitution).
> So if the median salary for skill X in locale Y is 150 and foreign labor is willing to accept 120, apply a 30 tax to neutralize any difference.

I wish that every single individual who on this site rants against H1B, understood one thing about H1B (or any law in general):

The intent of a policy isn't always the real usage of a policy.

Or in more general, the art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.

I can clearly see how you approach this problem. You see these economics and incentive problems as some sort of equation, where you notice that foreign labor undercuts local labor in terms of wages. So your solution is: "Lets make it expensive for companies to hire foreign labor", but that's incredibly naive.

The elements of the equation you're missing is:

* H1B is a path to immigration, not just some mechanism (as stated by the policy) to acquire labor. The stated reason is how it might have been sold to the American people, but at the end of the day, it's how high skilled immigrants come to America.

* The foreign labor is much larger, and (economically) diverse than you think. If you put a 30 tax on a foreign labor who is willing to accept 120, then some other foreign labor who is willing to take 110 would find himself in demand.

* H1B regulations make it difficult for the foreign labor to easily change jobs, this results in them being more 'loyal' (that is, they work for a company for longer than their local counterparts), which means it's worth investing the training time on foreign labor (which means they would hire a 100K foreign labor for a job which needs a 150K local talent, pay 30K and train him).

* The reason why local talent can't be paid what they are asking for, is because not every product has the same 'gross profit margin'. People are willing to pay $600 for a smartphone which can be produced for $300(gross profit margin 100%), but they are not willing to pay $300 for a smart watch which is being produced for $150. However smartwatches could be sold if they were available for $250(that is if they carried a gross profit margin of 60%). Lower profit margin means that the local talent who demands $150K may not be available for hire.
I am with you on this. I've had some pretty awesome flavors coming from alcoholic drinks.

It's expensive, and I don't make any friends by drinking expensive drinks (my friends don't really care)

I would love to see someone make "virgin" versions of various stronger drinks I like, but so far they don't taste anywhere near as good.

It sincerely annoys me that drinks make me sleepy and such. I'm only having one or two, but I would like to still be able to study and play chess, AND have nice flavors.

I've even starting trying to find creative ways to water them down without losing flavor so I can enjoy them without the side-effects.

(I should probably mention that I don't really enjoy "sweet" flavors, so part of it is that only alcoholic drinks get the bitter/sour flavors done well)
I applaud anyone willing to look back and reason about what we've lost.

In this case, I prefer leaving the past in the past. Startups used to need to hire dedicated DBAs, and these days they largely don't. Scaling business logic that lives on horizontally-scaleable hosts is markedly easier than scaling business logic that lives inside a database. Debugging, zero-downtime deploys, and logging are all complicated by putting logic in the DB.

Unless latency is far-and-away your highest concern, I don't recommend using these features.
1Password has this builtin to all their clients so nothing other than 1Password itself is used to sync.
Suing the theater for something so obviously out of their control is crooked. Suing the victims to re-pay the exhorbitant fees for your "expert testimony" is also crooked. Everyone involved are crooks. That is interesting.
I use Google's authenticator on my phone and a 50-line python script on my desktop PC. I store the OTPs in a JSON file and the python script runs them through the TOTP algorithm and spits out my 6-digit code on the console.

I'm less worried about losing my "computer" since I don't own a laptop, plus the secrets are backed up using my normal backup process.
Sure, but it's being used as an example of something that exists, which for the vast, vast majority of the US, doesn't.

My mistake here was forgetting the echo chamber that is HN. There is a world outside SV, but it doesn't really matter.
Not to offend you or anything, but have you considered that the problem of your potential (better) employment is you. I see a lot of people claiming that the H1B program is bad and that there are tons of developers available in the US etc. But my experience is the polar opposite.

And to make things clear - I am actually a H1B holder, working as a CTO for a US based company, been here for 3 years now. When looking for people for our engineering team, we get lots of resumes but very few actually promising ones. Out of the promising ones, almost none are actual people with tangible experience that could be hired as a senior person. If there is someone who could be senior, they ask for like 200k and up a year - and this is just to be a senior engineer, not even in a managerial position or anything (P.S and this is the NOVA area, not the bay area).

So yeah, I would say good people are always in high demand, and the lack of good engineers right now is troubling. Then again most of the H1B visas get abused by companies who hire second rate talent from abroad so...
This is a category mistake. Treating bacteria (foreign pathogens of an entirely different species) and treating cancer (which are rogue cells belonging to individuals) are not the same thing.

What you're describing is the normal pharmacological approach to cancer treatment. Because these are the individual's own cells sharing the vast majority of its characteristics with normal, healthy cells, you have to go deep into the handful of mutations that occur that cause unmitigated cell proliferation (leading to cancer). These are targeted for treatment.

Bacteria are a foreign species and have all sorts of foreign biochemistry that can be taken advantage of. The health industry is not doing anyone a disservice by going after the low hanging fruit. Why climb through the 3rd story window when you can waltz through the front door?

Boosting the body's defense mechanisms could carry more risk that just attacking the organism. Boosting chemotaxis (WBC migration) to an area will increase inflammation which has it's own set of potentially dangerous risks. Sensitizing the adaptive immune system's to bacterial antigens runs the risk of autoimmune attack on similar-looking antigens in the host.

This isn't like D&D where you can take one point from "bactericidal" and put it into "immune boost." There are big systems in play and hardly anything can be reduced "one weird trick."

> Look at the molecular machinery of the Polymerase Chain Reaction which makes copies of DNA molecules

Antifolates, topoisomerase inhibitors, imidazoles, rifamycins are classes of antibiotics that target pathogen DNA/RNA synthesis.

> Not to mention the Ribosome which is the molecular machine in your cells which manufactures protein molecules https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribosome

Aminoglycosides, tetracyclines, oxazolidinones, peptidyl transferase, macrolides, lincosamides, and streptogramins are all classes of antibiotics that target bacterial ribosomal units.

> And there is Reverse Transcription which converts RNA molecules to DNA molecules

Using reverse transcriptase pharmacologically would undoubtedly be dangerous, difficult, unnecessary, and ineffective. You'd basically have to engineer a virus that knows how to use reverse transcriptase that also targets the right pathogen and rewrites a portion of its DNA.
> If you've used Brainfuck for more than 5 minutes, you already know the entire language. Is it the most readable language ever designed?

Oh, come on... BF was specifically/pathologically designed to be unreadable.

> Will a cursory read of the source code either tell you how the library deals with corner cases, or convince you that such corner cases don't exist?

Um... no, not really (at least not a cursory glance), but readability certainly helps track down issues later when you do run into an unforeseen corner case. Language choice is all about trade-offs -- if things like this are what is most important to you, perhaps you would be happier with something like Haskell or Ada.
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The problem with auctions is that employers in areas with high cost of living would get away with bargains while everyone else would get nothing or very expensive employees. This would result in some perverse market incentives and unintended consequences. Not so dissimilar to the unintended effects that the H1B visa created in the first place.
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