skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google is clearly not the problem. They have 4k H1B but they also have 60k USA employees.
Well these are applications not granted visas. If a company wants to spend the application fee for that many applications then it is their choice. However it does not mean it will be granted a majority of the visas.

However in light of the fact that now a lottery is in place maybe this is tantamount to buying more lottery tickets to increase your chances of winning.
Could someone explain the economics?

Doesn't it make better sense to transport the bulk materials and have local people make the menstrual kits? This would bring employment, and help the economy.

This was going around couple of years ago: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26260978 . It shows that availability, at least in India, isn't the only factor to consider.
I wish there was more content here than a few mentions of different scaling laws. It's interesting that cities and organisms have similar infrastructure scaling, while corporations and cities are different. However, I think there are some real outliers... SiliValley is an outlier as low density, high growth, high invention. If you asked me why, I'd say the tech focus: Moore's Law, Nielsons's Law, and Social Networks.

In particular, what I found missing and he doesn't talk about is the Internet and what it means for the effective distance between, people, companies, employees, etc. Because that is overlaid on our physical structure (like phone lines for pizza delivery), it will change the power laws. Depending on the uptake, it may change them more locally than the global average.
> It appears, it has the same issue as H-1B visas. At least in my opinion.

For India/China natives on EB-2 or EB-3 categories, I agree.

For all the others, being able to self-petition for the green card as an entrepreneur means you won't need a company to sponsor you. (or your own start-up is sponsoring you?), and the full process could be done in less than 5 years.
The downside here would be the legal costs and hassle associated with it that you would have to take care of.
If I buy a domain from a registrar, I can point the registrar at Digital Ocean's nameservers (or AWS, CloudFlare, etc) for my domain (by adding NS records at the registrar). Then I need to go to Digital Ocean and add my domain and records to their nameservers (via their control panel or api).

If I remove my domain from Digital Ocean, it's my responsibility to then go to the registrar and point the registrar away from DigitalOcean's nameservers. (I own the domain, so I'm the only one the registrar allows to do this. Digital Ocean cannot do this.)

Now, your suggestion is that Digital Ocean goes and verifies that I'm the one who owns that domain. But how would they do this (legitimate question)? I imagine manual verification of ownership of every domain upon creation isn't feasible for their scale. Digital Ocean could query DNS, and see NS records pointing to Digital Ocean, but this only tells them someone configured the nameservers for that domain - it doesn't imply ownership. Digital Ocean can check Whois for the owner of the domain. Checking Whois might work for many cases, but at least some registrars have the option of obscuring Whois data.

It seems simpler to put the onus of security on the owner of the domain. I should cleanup my registrar's NS records before removing my domain from Digital Ocean to ensure nobody hijacks it. I would be satisfied as long as Digital Ocean maintained a simple eviction policy (I don't know if they do) as a way for legitimate owners to add their domains to Digital Ocean's nameservers.
> Where I believe general purpose microkernels have struggled is in the performance of the messaging (often because of the increased access checking).

Jochen Liedtke's work on the L4 kernel family showed that microkernels can be really fast.
Is it possible that an alien race has simply covered that galaxy with dyson spheres? That life is more common than we thought - or perhaps more rapidly advancing once intelligence is hit - and most galaxies are "dark" from their interference?
What your saying sounds like the Grossman-Stiglitz paradox.

http://www.wilmottwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Grossman-Sti...
If we quickly compare Rackspace [1] against Amazon (as a whole) we can find Rackspace margins are bigger except on "Return on average equity".

[1] https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ARAX

[2] https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AAMZN
It's less efficient if the "master" has to select over multiple things. Eg: waiting for children to finish, do some IO with them etc.

In that case you are pretty much limited to polling on the thing (unless apparently you use kqueue, did not know you can wait on process events).
Seems to me copperheadOS seems to be better on all fronts compared to blackphone- open, more functions, and some of it's fixes have been accepted into ASOP.
The big index funds already own REITs in proportion to market cap. Nothing changes here unless you're slicing and dicing sectors.
I worked for an ISP (Berbee or BINC) that was merged with CDW. It was exactly as outlined above -- the private equity company had a big stake in both and merged them together for a later IPO.

In my experience, it was painful because a small highly technical organization was smashed onto a huge sales-centric company. The cultures were not the same at all. It wasn't horrible and I wasn't there long enough to benefit from anything (the Berbee founder gave some ownership to people who had been there longer -- my stay was brief during and after college so it was fine by me). But the resulting company wasn't as interesting to work at and today many of the people I knew who worked there moved on to other competitors in the local market. Nothing wrong with change but it was an awesome company before the merger.

So you might expect in the future to be merged with a company that looks good on paper but is painful in practice. But of course from the PE viewpoint, the point is to make money so as long as that happens, it's a win. It's just their interests are probably not aligned with yours.
Rather than repeating your first comment, can you address parent by citing historical examples of drug law developing this way in places with strict drug laws like South Korea, Thailand, Singapore, etc.?
As you may have noticed, I precisely did not go into any details about Chomsky's politics because I know how the large majority of HN thinks and it's pretty much useless to reason about this here. The fact that his political ideas are barely backed up with data speaks for itself. If you look at what he writes, it is obvious that his view on history is strongly influenced by the lens of his ideology. This is very unlike his work on grammars, which I greatly appreciate. That is all I'm going to say about this. Judge for yourself.
I think he's referring to the german version of the implicit association test
In addition to being a false dichotomy I think this fundamentally misunderstands the nature of evil. I don't think you can attribute evil to a non-sentient object like drugs. Evil is something that people do to other people and drug addicts aren't the ones doing the evil, they are its victims. Criminalization has only fuelled organized crime without helping the addicts themselves.

If you actually want to tackle "evil" you have to help the people in the grips of addiction instead of sending them to jail.

By the way, your comment here is completely at odds with your previous sentiment:

> It's like, they've made so many stupid decisions, disregarded so many warnings, broken laws, possibly harmed other people (theft, robbery, etc.), and now people like me, people who heeded the warnings, avoided the drugs, have to pay for them one way or another to get out of the hole they dug. And addicts are addicts for life - it's not like it's a one time treatment. They will be mental health money sponges for the rest of their lives (esp. ones that relapse), and the people that made good choices have to pay for it all. It just seems unfair. Uncharitable? Maybe. But as long as I'm contributing to a charity, I would like to pick the people my money goes to. I don't like the government forcing me to be charitable and then paying out my money how they see fit to people that make poor choices.

^ that is by definition giving up on curing or treating drug addiction and instead taking the "less expensive" approach of fighting a war with no feasible end.
I would have recommended Posteo [0]. They are known for their efforts of keeping your stuff private.

[0]: https://posteo.de/en
So you need a calendar view in your iOS app. Apple didn't build one.Now what? :/
This is probably the most complex code i have done to date. Its a Swift calendar library(https://github.com/patchthecode/JTAppleCalendar) available for anyone who wants needs a calendar library view in their iOS or tvOS application. I believe it is also the best iOS calendar library available out there on Github. Yea, that's bold statement right? Checkout the screen shots what users have created with this library here(https://github.com/patchthecode/JTAppleCalendar/issues/2).
It is common mistaken belief that drug companies don't have an incentive to find cures.

Cures are actually tremendously profitable. You can charge more money for a cure than drugs for a lifetime of symptom management, because cures result in better outcomes and significant cost savings for the entire healthcare system.

The recent development of cures for Hepatitis C is a perfect case in point. Gilead is pulling in $10B+/year in revenue from these drugs. There has been plenty of outrage about how much Sovaldi costs, but it's still way cheaper than a liver transplant.

That said, you're probably right that it would be difficult to profit directly off of exterminating mosquitoes. That's exactly that sort of research that governments should (and do) fund (search for "gene drives").
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Chrome is, in turn, in violation of the robustness principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle
The US has never had an issue poisoning and killing drug users wholesale.

We only have to look at the disaster of the Prohibition, and federal agents poisoning alcohol with methanol. People died. A lot of them. And those poisoning murders were done by the precursors of the DEA.
Assuming dark matter is a WIMP, I think it would be invisible and fall through your hand (and the earth) when you tried to pick it up. Stars require the particles in question to bang around against each other and interact with each other. WIMP particles wouldn't even be able to interact with each other except gravitationally - ie. they wouldn't "collide" or create pressure in an enclosed space. A cloud of dark matter is likely to stay a cloud for a very very long time rather than collapsing in on itself.

I think of it like an N-body gravity simulation[1] with very very large N and no collision detection.

[1] http://justfound.co/gravity/
The context helps a lot, I do have the same problem to an extent.

I tend to view it as similar to seeing the facial/body cues I'd get normally [and often miss...] that tell me someone is attentive and participating - or about to- in in the conversation.

I learned elsewhere in this discussion that there's a config option to disable that feedback - I'm undecided on whether that's what I actually what I want...
Chomsky had a very famous debate with Foucault where they discussed "Human Nature". It is quite enjoyable to watch.

The problem isn't with Chomsky, it's with Sam Harris.
the test is fair if the goal of reducing racial bias is not to reduce crime but to achieve a more integrated society. in the long term, if such a policy contributes to a more integrated society, then more crime in the short term is deemed an unfortunate but necessary sacrifice. this is, in essence, the implication of such social pressure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)
Many factors play into addiction. Abuse and environment might factor in some cases.

I personally would not characterize every addict as having made a "stupid" decision per se. Maybe ignorant decisions, but not flat out malicious stupid ones. Some people who are hooked on opiates for instance got there via "gateway" prescriptions given out by their doctor for pain management (Oxycontin etc.). Some people get addicted to amphetamines simply because they used them as a "quick fix" for performance pressures (see: truck drivers, late-night construction crews, certain corporate jobs). Sure, some people get addicted as an escape for life problems, but I think being judgmental is probably one of the worst approaches you can use towards an addict even in the case that seems most "stupid" to your eyes.

Most people don't have even a very casual knowledge of how pharmaceuticals work. Drugs tend to be divided into "good" and "bad" based on social and political reasons, not scientific ones (elsewise marijuana would have never made the "bad" list). A lot of people will just glaze over at the thought of receptors and neurotransmitters and the like. And there are an awful lot of people willing to sell addictive crap to these people. We're not just talking unethical Chinese chemists selling dirty cathinone analogues as "bath salts". We're talking major pharmaceutical companies that marketed their new time-released opioid as "less addictive" despite little scientific backing. Frankly I have quite a bit more sympathy for the addicts than this lot.

At any rate, like others mentioned, I think a more preventative approach vs. punitive will be cheaper for society as a whole. Prison is terribly expensive and not very effective.
Regarding your mention of the "politically motivated provider", this [1] is relevant:

Using Google-translate + some tweaks by myself:

"What does political Provider mean?

Even if JPBerlin is a political provider, that does not mean that we ourselves are politically active.

We give politically and socially active organizations the technical infrastructure they need to enable them to work with modern tools such as groupware systems or mailing lists.
They should be able to focus on their content rather than vexed with the technology and its implementation.

The JPBerlin itself represents no own political content or opinions. We see ourselves only as a reservoir and implements of the assets from [politically] left, environmental and social areas. And so it is not surprising that we accommodate almost all well-known organizations, foundations, communities and other groups from those circles. Of course we also have non-politically-motivated individuals and organizations as customers.

Our customers have no relationships to each other. The same applies to our position in relation to our clients and their views and work.

Our only position is to be clearly distinct from the [politically] right edge!!"

[1] https://www.jpberlin.de/hilfe/allgemein/was-bedeutet-politis...
"It also didn't really convey just how critical the scientific community is of Wolfe's take on linguistics."

Uh, the article literally has a link to the takedown you posted. I agree though, the premise of the article is flawed.
Based on my knowledge of some folks in research science, I'd wager a guess that they don't want to hire US Citizens because they are more expensive, even if they got their degree from the same institution hiring H1Bs. It's...a twisted situation from my experience.
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I put Chomsky on the same shelf that I put Richard Stallman on. They've both spent years building huge and sometimes impenetrable rhetorical castles. Yet there is a cost of staking out all of your moral high ground and putting out impaling spikes of a specially compiled lexicography of precise, barbed, and hand crafted definitions. Eventually you are left alone in that high castle and abandoned by future generations.

Sadly for Stallman it happened mostly in his own life and Chomsky will have at least a good decade after he passes.
> Why does it have to be this "Dark Matter" causing the mass differences we've been seeing? How do we know it isn't undetectable-through-normal-means normal matter, or aliens, or mistakes in our calculations/observations, or anything else?

"Dark matter" is just a name for "a phenomenon that only appears to interact with the rest of the universe through gravitational fields, and not through elecromagnetic fields, the weak, or the strong nuclear force". There are many competing theories for what dark matter actually "is".

The name is independent of any particular theory that describes its true nature, whether that's an exotic form of matter, aliens, or mistakes in our observation.
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Is this Poe's Law in action or something?
I'd tentatively argue that "old people with old ideas die out and society moves on" could be a form of overhaul.
There's a German law forcing telcos and email providers with more than 10.000 customers to provide access for law enforcements.

German wikipedia article about it: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Mail-%C3%9Cberwachung
Is that a factual statement?
"The salary is the average salary of all proffered salary on LCA or Form 9035. Sometimes the visa sponsors(employers) does not enter a specific salary, but a salary range. Our algorithm uses the middle point of the range to calculate the average salary."

Yeah, I'm not quite buying that as a good methodology.
The best streaming deal by far is Youtube Red which includes a Play Music subscription as well as ad-free youtube and youtube backgrounding on mobile.
Yup, the thing that is even MORE interesting is that these positions can be classified as more relating to research which has much lower wage requirements. So the employee may be writing software for your business but she is paid like an academic researcher.

Some of them are doing it out in the open[0]

[0] http://www.diyatvusa.com/2016/07/07/us-universities-use-h1b-...
"Privacy oriented" is something I strive for in my own dealings, but centralized service privacy is and always will be lip service. What does "privacy oriented" actually mean? It must be very clearly defined.

Let me give an example. A government entity sends a subpoena to receive all data on an email account. If the service provider is legally mandated to respond with data or face prosecution, what happens? In this case, Google might actually be better for "privacy" because they at least have the economic capability to push back against Doe subpoenas. A small provider won't have the resources to defend against a frivolous subpoena and will hand over everything.

Something to keep in mind when considering this stuff. I really think the only way to at least control the option to defend your privacy is to run your own servers.
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While in principle I agree with you, in practice N was most of the time equal to 65k, with the exception of the dot-com bubble (years 1999-2003, so 80% of the time; program was added in 1990). And there probably should be something like H1B in any immigration system. Anyhow, the current political climate in the US does not give many hopes for an upgrade. In the meantime, I've discovered Switzerland, and quite honestly - I'm not looking back.
"Best university system in the history of humanity", which nation are you talking about? What is the metric for "best system"?
> S&P 500

Plus everyone knows the S&P is a terrible benchmark because it excludes mid- and small-cap cos.

After watching mine from a far for ~7 years, I've come to accept that one really needs to invest in multiple index funds to get global diversification as well.
You go on and on about the risks of long-term space flight, but deny the risks of spending a lot of time at airliner cruising altitudes? How bizarre. Obviously, the ill effects aren't nearly as bad, since the radiation exposure is lower and there are no negative effects from zero g, but it's fairly well established that flight crews suffer greater incidences of certain diseases, like cataracts and some cancers.
Why if instead of spending money researching the diseases that mosquitos could transmit to humans on the future we spend all that money into figuring out a way to exterminate all mosquitos from the surface of earth once and for all?

As if that were somehow... easier, or even more tractable?

They're arguably (much) better optimized for long-term survival than we are, you know.
Are you sure you understand what they mean by saying they are a political provider?
Every country has "undesirables", and a need to harass and abuse them. That's human nature. Drug laws are awesome for that, as there's a pretty strong mapping between membership in undesirable social classes, and use of illegal drugs.

It's not "We don't want drugs". It's "We don't want the kind of people who use socially unacceptable drugs." This is an important distinction. Obviously, it's not about health hazards and social risk, or alcohol would be prohibited everywhere and marijuana would be legal.
I might be missing something, but can't you just choose not to use it? For those using Scala who are interested in access to more advanced functional programming techniques, or using libraries that are written with a more "mathy" bent, this seems like a good thing. For those who'd prefer to never have to read the word "monad", just use something else.
Having a top year, month would be a 100x more attractive for me. Weekly is too much churn to figure out what is good.
I was under the impression that 'leftist' (like SJW) is a derogatory term used for people who would likely call themselves 'liberals' or 'progressives'. Just like I've never seen someone unironically call themselves a 'fundamentalist'.
When an App Is Called Racist (2015)
> If businesses are to be able to raise capital by selling shares to outsiders, “you need a deep market of active investors willing to take a view on the valuation of the company,” Inigo Fraser-Jenkins, head of quantitative strategy at Bernstein in London and lead author of the “Worse than Marxism” report, told me this week.

And that's a terrible investment strategy to ask of the average layman, the people who are concentrating on index investing.
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And various members of parliament have been caught doing drugs. I was particularly fond of Lord Sewel's cocaine brag:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/watch-the-unde...

Hypocrisy at its finest.
2 years here, nothing to complain. While the service is relatively new, the people behind it have been in the business way longer. Years ago I set up my first own mail server using their books ;)
Fair enough on the offline access (though the only time I'm offline and want to listen to music I am using my phone so I've never had a use case to keep the music on my computer) but Chrome supports the media key access and you can grab extensions on any browser to use them so those work the same.
I built "forts" throughout what felt like miles and miles of empty woods. Leave the house in the morning, get back sometime later that day.

I'd want the same for my future children, but my greatest fear is a nosy neighbor calling CPS due to my seemingly negligent parenting style. (As inferred from my children having copious amounts of free time, bereft of adult supervision.)
I agreed with you until you talked about exclusives which is the definition of anti-competitive. Paying labels for exclusive content is probably the largest signal that your product isn't as good as your competitors.
It would be so much nicer if we could somehow convince old people to change their views. Everybody would benefit!
If your Unix user is in the docker group, no need to sudo.
Well that's because the diseases are rare. Regardless of profit, it makes no sense to work on a drug that will save 20 lives, when you could work on one that saves 200 lives.

Another part of the problem is that the cost of getting drugs approved is ridiculously high.