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VC++ 2010 used to think that too and would generate warning C4610 for const non-static members. However that warning was wrong, and was changed to not fire in that case. See this link:

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/...
I mean, it's the same argument for indentured service, which today is considered morally reprehensible. The point is not that the people who took that choice knew the risks they were taking. The point that the kind of situation H1B puts you into in its current form is not one that should exist, even if by choice.

But it is also true that many folks are not aware of these risks. I have many friends in the States on H1B, many are completely unaware of this. Most have good employers so I doubt this will be a problem, but there's not as much awareness as there should be.
According to wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-27, there are two in private ownership in the US. It's been in service since the mid-80s so not so new, and not surprisingly available outside Russia.
Interesting. I've heard about Van Halen specifying "no brown M&Ms in the candy bowl" in their contract rider just to see if the venue managers actually read it.

Maybe you fancy yourself to be a rockstar?
Medium.com and their propaganda can all go to hell.

This site was doomed from the moment they started taking money from politicians.
Think about that as you're taking also tonight. Is the person that wakes up the same person?
I remember seeing a Su-27 do forward flips, backflips and cobra maneuvers during the 2001 Paris air show.

It looked pretty damn sweet - was the best part of the show for me.
Are there two of them? I saw it at the Science Museum in London.
That sounds like a great idea. Mothball the south end of the Capitol Building; let 11,000 representatives meet and vote online.
That's a good point, thanks. I was looking at it as an Ubuntu user :)
We should wait for Medium ... to make a responsive web site? These guys. We'd to fix something.
I'm not sure there are enough people with many years of experience to fill the quota so I doubt new grads are going to miss out.

Looking at [0] and a simple bit of JS, the bottom end of the 65k person cap is at line 281 at a salary of $100,442, which is on the low end for new grads at Google, Facebook etc.

Plus,

> If kids come to the US for their undergrad/masters/phd and want to work here

I'm not sure of the details but some of my colleagues are in this position and they work on some kind of visa that isn't a H-1B and is related to the fact they recently finished studying here.
I think it is more about paradox instead of fear.

a)you want to add enough features to attract/impress potential users. b)you want to ship it, so you can get feedback asap.

a) and b) are pulling to opposite directions, hence the paradox. There is no easy solution for this.

However, if you change the question to "what do I need to build to test my assumptions (about the market and user)", the answer will be more obvious.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
Asteroid Impact Simulator
"Suppose everyone accepts the self-sampling assumption and everyone has to bet on whether they are in a blue or red cubicle. Then 90% of all persons will win their bets and 10% will lose. Suppose, on the other hand, that the self-sampling assumption is rejected and people think that one is no more likely to be in a blue cubicle; so they bet by flipping a coin. Then, on average, 50% of the people will win and 50% will lose."

This bit is wrong because if everyone flipped a coin roughly half will pick blue and half will pick red and roughly 90% who flipped and got blue will be right but only 10% of those who flipped and got red will be right.
Okay, then demand source code for all your USB devices' firmware. Oh, and make sure to request an audit of the fab and supply chain in China.
You are probably seeing the color management of monitor 1 in effect on monitor 2 while the window is less than halfway. Once it goes above half then monitor 2's color management takes over fully and it disappears.
Good PM works for the team, not vice versa.
Not sure what you mean here, but my experience of studying literature at university was not at all that there is "one correct interpretation". There are a bunch of different critical lenses you can coherently read texts through.
To the person who downvoted this: natural birth is associated with transmission of bacterial flora from the vaginal canal, acting as a seed for a different composition of gut and mouth flora.
Uber drivers have also been beaten in recent history - last week in Hyderabad, a couple of months ago in Mumbai. Anti-Uber terrorism is actually pretty common. I don't know if any drivers have died yet, but at this rate it's inevitable that one will.

http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/mumbai-taxi-d... http://www.hindustantimes.com/india/uber-cars-smashed-by-pro... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/26/uber-back... http://www.geekwire.com/2014/uber-protests-seattle/

Do we need to wait for the terrorists to kill an Uber driver before the parallel holds?
> H1Bs can be transferred to a new job

Its not easy as it sounds. Even if I goto a new company, its the same broken immigration system I have to face, and the job change is not that easy, more complications and risks when your green card process is in progress(even the entire process will be reset in some cases). There are many aspects & risks an H1B employee should consider before changing the job. The GC wait times for Indian born workers are around 7 years for EB2 category. Imagine, the worker being thrown out of his queue position just because he changed his job ! Draconian rules H1B visa has. H1B visa is like a bunch of non-compete clauses written all over it. The worker is exploited in his salary,job mobility, promotions, raises and cannot question the employer on any grounds, because if you are fired, you are illegal from the very next day and have to leave the country !

> Working harder than everyone else for a year should put you way ahead

Well, I don't know how to explain that, you should work there to experience it or take a look at glassdoor reviews for amex.
Vim mainly, jupyter notebook for little python things
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Post-structuralism
On opening this thread in HN client "Materialistic" app. It crashes on its own. Is it happening with any other hn clients too? What's the reason for it?
Great point. I had two laptops with pre-installed Linux. Both were not even cross-update compatible. Video driver of my System76 laptop broke after the first major Ubuntu update. XPS 13 Developer Edition failed to hibernate the very fist time I closed the lid. WTF? Both laptops cost well over $1k.
The USAF has a long history of acquiring foreign aircraft[1], sometimes through defectors, other times by purchasing them from foreign militaries. I don't know the source of the Su-27's in question here but I believe the USAF acquired a few airframes from the Ukrainian Air Force. Various MiG's have also been acquired from the Moldovan and Belarusian Air Forces.

Also, there were two Su-27's for sale privately in the US a number of years ago[2].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4477th_Test_and_Evaluation_Squ...

[2]http://www.prideaircraft.com/flanker.htm
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You got an F because no one cares if you liked the text or not. That's not what academic literary criticism is about.
Why not? What makes it more traumatic/infeasible than removing a tooth in the first place?
A very interesting read. In what way does a "Craftsman Home" differ from what we internationally regard as a California Bungalow (or cal bung)?
If you don't get it, try it. It's not just bash. It's the whole Ubuntu userspace. Yes, you can use apt-get there.
What is the pixel format of your OpenGL surfaces?
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It has been used extensively in our organization too, and our CTO is now searching replacements after the announcement.

We've have been exposed to JIRA through external suppliers and that has been enough to make him on his edges now.

Personally I don't think much will change, at least in the first year or so until the contracts of the original developers lapse and they can move on to new things.
I am a beneficiary of such a program in Canada called Express Entry. I quit my H1B job in US and is currently working in Canada and my Permanent residence process is in progress. I expect to get it within an year. I was selected based on my skills rather than my luck(H1B lottery) Canada's express entry system is a skill based immigration system. I think Australia's is similar. Under the Canada's system, the visa is not tied to the employer and if you have the skills(express entry point system), you get permanent residence.
Amusingly, it's possibly because of the CCRC that Democrats won a supermajority in the CA assembly as CA has shifted even more blue since it's been in effect.
Reminds of a scene in JAG where the main characters, 2 US military officers, steal a Russian jet. The Russians wonder why they stole the plane, as they could have just bought it. [1] I miss that show.

[1] https://youtu.be/Ei9KEF7OsKQ?t=2m
Can you leave your email? I would love to apply.
TSR, omg, that brings back memory.
Perhaps I'm just a grump, but when the article says "couldn't find instructions for installing WeKan on other cloud providers like Vultr or DigitalOcean" did anyone else groan a little bit.

Heroku is a cloud provider. Vultr and DigitalOcean sell virtual private servers, which are pretty much just full servers virtualized. Follow any instructions anywhere for installing a Meteor app on a linux box and there are your intructions.

I really am prepared to be downvoted for a "damn kids get off my lawn" moment ... but sheesh, it's almost as though cloud vocabulary has numbed us to what a service is actually providing.

Note: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/deploying-a...
I don't think you understood what I've said. Debugging is perfectly fine when you can't explain what's going on even though you understand the code. "The silicon is wrong" so rarely, that it makes for nice, memorable trench stories. Either that or you work at a really low level, which is something that is not the default.
The prediction is really that these stars collided about 1795 years ago, and we may find out about it soon.
> Most of the upper midwest lacks cellular coverage.

What now? This simply isn't true.
Amazon was founded in 1994, so over 20 years ago and somehow they managed to succeed without AngularJS 3.7 or whatever the fashion of the month is.
> “The second defense is more complicated. On entry to a function, it essentially "encrypts" the address being returned to by the function, prior to any code that could possibly corrupt the return address. The key used to encrypt the return address is stored in a reserved CPU register, generally ensuring that the key itself should not leak. The resulting value of encrypting the return address gets saved in a register, but the actual return address in memory is not modified. On return from the function, the instrumented code will compare whatever return address exists at that point (either legitimate or attacker-modified) to that obtained from decrypting the encrypted return address saved in the other register. If the two do not match, execution is terminated.”

There's probably a very good reason I'm missing, but could the return address be hashed and then on return hash the address that is being returned to and compare it with the previously hashed address? This would prevent the issues around the encryption key leaking, but probably raises its own issues.
It's a huge piece of the problem. Better voting systems don't establish themselves, you have to bootstrap, and that's using the FPTP process to vote in folks who institute change and get us to IRV or Condorcet.
Birth rate will never decline to zero, as the next generation will be biased more to whatever it was what made their parents to get kids, and less to what made people childless.
For example in the extreme case that Facebook would make people sterile, than some day simply the Amish will rule the US.
Sounds more like H-1B is just 21st century legal mean for the company to chain down those employees (like indentured servants of the past).
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Does the coil whine only happen with Linux? or does it happen in Windows too?

Was thinking about the latest XPS w/Kaby Lake CPU... but this would give me pause.
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If only that were true... "Fixing a DOS machine" used to be the entry level skillset to get into IT. At this point, the issue is more faded memories than finding the people who did it.

(My first real IT job was creating the DOS configurations for IBM ThinkPads at F100 corporation. Prior to that I was a total point-n-click Apple guy who was into DTP. If I could write a bullet-proof CONFIG.SYS, a lot other people could too.

Those ThinkPads were weird too, some of them had more devices than available IRQs, including a "mwave" DSP, so you had to create boot menus. Plus, they were running token ring, and there was actually a relevant difference between ISA and PC AT.)
Because it doesn't matter. It'll be a holding company for people who basically want to own Alibaba shares. From that perspective, it's a great name, because it reads a lot like "alternate alibaba".
Yeah I know, which I aknowledged. My problem is with people who write 50 lines of code and then open up the debugger to see what it does (As in "rely on the debugger")
we have a winner !
So there's un-needed friction on the H-1B process that serves only to lower wages.

Remove the link between H-1B visa holders and their employers and suddenly all that wage depression disappears!

In Japan, while an employer can sponsor your work visa, after you obtain the visa you can change jobs at will (so long as its still within the broad category of visa you were given). You just need to signal the change of employer to the immigration office.
And what about debugging issues with data that I don't have access to at compile time?
> I mean, it's the same argument for indentured service

Everytime there is an article about H1B, people start flinging "slavery" and "indentured servants". Please be honest and don't analogize H1B hurdles (which I agree exist) to situations where people were actually killed.
Don't forget the Aggressor squadron. They play a similar role (tactics, strategy) but with different equipment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggressor_squadron
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SipHash
"open source software has been making the editing ease-of-use accessible to any JavaScript developer"

What's a great open source mediumesque editor at the moment? Feel like the choices are never ending / always changing. Quill? Medium-Editor? Scribe?
In the northern constellation Cygnus (the Swan)
As far as places in the sky to notice a new star showing up by eye it is suboptimal since it is right in the middle of the Milky Way.
Most articles could be condensed into headlines
Never noticed that art nouveau apparently didn't make it to the US. Or is that because the chart only focuses on the single-family home? It's probably the most characteristic style of most cities from Brussels to Russia.

Examples: http://www.rhein-ruhr-region.de/info/wp-content/uploads/wett... or https://birgitrehse.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/planufer-1.j...
Atom. Been using it 8 hours since day 0 and I have very few complaints.
Are you aware that the majority of pre-revolution willing immigrants (so not counting slaves) to what eventually became the US came under indentured service? This is basically voluntary time-bound slavery. They, too, had a choice. They, too, had full rights to complain about it afterwards. It was a good thing that that was abolished.

Not everyone coming here is fully aware of the consequences of what they are doing or have been misled. Additionally, humans are allowed to change their minds; and as you get settled in the country you lose that opportunity. Indentured service was orders of magnitudes worse than what H1-B does but there are a lot of similarities in the situations involved and the arguments surrounding them.
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This is an easy thing to confirm, and I guarantee you that nobody with physical access to machines also has access to any data ON those machines, nor can anybody simply copy over some data to a usb stick and walk out with it. We have a highly complex system with very strict security protocols, and the mere act of inserting a usb into a server in production would not only fail to work, but it would set off alarm bells like you wouldn't believe.
Saying you’re working on FLT in the late 20th century is a good way to make everyone think you’ve gone nuts and are wasting your time. It makes some sense to make sure you have something solid before you mention it.
depending on your mouth, you end up with your teeth covered in plaque, which protects them from cavities, but also gets you gingivitis and eventually your teeth will fall out

your water might also have fluoride; when Calgary stopped fluoridating its water, i got a bunch of cavities.
It's populated with Trump voters! Internet neophytes who cluelessly spread fake news and use Yahoo email. That is the Internet population Verizon bought which probably is a good ad clicking demograhic to buy into.

While the majority here are progressive thinkers technologically and politically who don't click on ads. We may have a Yahoo email account for spam only and or used Yahoo email circa pre 2005.
Hell no. If they find bugs before it gets deployed, it's that much easier to fix.

It occasionally annoys me for a few seconds when someone will nitpick the style of the code, but I get over that quickly. Usually I just change it and move on.
Well, it kind of happened but with a Soviet pilot (defection).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Belenko
Very nice article
The H1B program is literally a giveaway to the 1%, owners of capital. I am glad Trump wants to reduce immigration!
I wonder how it's comparable with Infer [1].

1. https://github.com/facebook/infer
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> Most articles could be condensed into headlines

There really needs to be an app for that
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13348829
We don't notice because the Facebook app's battery usage grows faster than 20% every two years.
> How vital are debuggers really though? Shouldn't proper design and testing mitigate the necessity of using a debugger? They're more akin to a crutch are they not?

Shouldn't a debugger mitigate the necessity of overly paranoid design and testing? Testing hardware is much more expensive than testing software - to do so properly, you first have to build the damn thing. Hardware 'revisions' (builds) are more commonly measured in single digits, not the 6+ digit monsters of your local CI setup.

Another answer: In the exact same sense that bug databases, assertions, unit tests, static analysis, 'safe' programming languages, code reviews, etc. are all mitigations and crutches for the human condition.

A third answer: Crutches are useful medical devices.

A fourth answer: I routinely interact with software and hardware that hasn't undergone proper design and testing. This is a bit of a mouthful, so I generally shorten this to "software" and "hardware", respectively. Why yes, I do debug and workaround 3rd party issues - for which no amount of "proper design" or "testing" of my own stuff will help - regularly enough to need a debugger.

> EDIT: Adding this: ( http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=23476 )

To quote from that:

> Once you have exhausted every other avenue of diagnosis, and have given very careful thought to just rewriting the offending code, then you may need a debugger.

Yes, even that admits you'll sometimes need a debugger. Not "want" - need. Even for software.

EDIT: Various typos.
Common. There are even OS/2 industrial machines that still get sporadic software updates by the the company I work for.
Amex seemed to have a pretty aggressive attitude towards a person who moved across the world to work for them.

Here's a person who had a job, paid taxes, participated in daily life, helped this company grow, and you think you gave them something?

They were hired by a company in the US, the company thanks them by paying them and helping them with immigration. This person was working like most of us, I don't see why they don't deserve to be treated like a human being.

Calling this indentured servitude isn't a stretch. You uproot your life to come to the US, and now your new life is being held hostage through arcane immigration procedures. Of course they have the right to be pissed off!

There's also the irony that most people "earned" the right to work in the US through the difficult task of being born in the country.
Why shouldn't they? Salary is proportional to economic value. Shouldn't we be trying to maximize the economic value generated through the H1-B program?
No, at least not on stock Android devices. ADB is pretty constrained (SELinux policy, the DAC, etc). It shouldn't be possible to go from there to something like root+unconfined on a normal user device, though of course with additional exploits anything is possible.

If the comments above are correct this is either more like JTAG or is JTAG. That's commonly far more capable, usually providing the ability to do things like read and write arbitrary memory without any kernel hinderance at all (although ARM cpus can typically still protect trustzone memory).
In most cases, the latter. See https://compat.spec.whatwg.org/ for some of the resulting fallout, for example: the entirety of that spec is due to sites being faulty, not browsers....