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Unions and filesharing are not killing hollywood. (Did the mpaa write this?) The fact that 70% of revenue comes from overseas is to be expected. 70+% of people live there.

Unionized, wage earning, labour costs are not high. Look any large production. Compare the headliner (stars, directors etc) takehome to the union workers. The rise in production costs has far more to do with on-camera talent than cameramen.

"Hollywood" is dieing, but only if you are one of the old guard, the handful of old production studios that make up the mpaa. Netflix, youtube and amazon show us that there is plenty of money out there should you produce something people actually want to watch, delivered in a way people actually want.

Ditch the commercials. Stand up to your a-list talent during negotiations. Actually pay the writers (see the Goodfella fiasco). Cut the focus groups. And make something worth my time to watch.
>What you need is a kernel that exposes programs as a file system like plan9

Powershell?
The US has had clear definitions of race in the past - e.g. "1/16 or more". If we adopt such a definition, will you drop your objections to legalized racism? If not, why not?

It's ok, we've discussed this before. I don't expect anything other than evasion of the core philosophical issue.
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He did a couple of streams recently using his language to work on a new game.

At the very least it will be C/C++ where you don't have to type () around if expressions. So there is that. :D
"Prevailing wage" being the loophole.

I get paid >$80k. Yet the wage that all of our "similar position" (actual wage) visa applicants get is $40k.

The "prevailing wage" for a SwE is not $40k, in the NYC area. Neither is the "actual wage". Companies abuse this constantly.
> The Haj visas are only open for certain areas of the country - mostly the airport in Jeddah and then the pilgrim trail to Mecca and Medina.

Sounds like this is would just be a simple action of politics to extend those visas or just waive the need to wait for access -- that's what is expected of nations when talking about refugees. This sounds like a great cultural fit as well, which is important for refugees trying to adjust to a new country.

> There's not much infrastructure there aside from very ritzy / high end hotels that've been being built at Mecca as well, so it'd be a bit tougher to take refugees.

If it's very ritzy hotels, then Saudi Arabia is very financially capable of organizing buses and transport to either temporary accommodations or the facilities that would need to exist for pilgrimages. Of course, these accommodations wouldn't have to be _in_ Mecca, so this isn't really a reason to turn refugees away.

> Getting them from their origin points to Jeddah as well would be difficult - by sea that's 1080km or so, assuming they're coming out of Jordan's tiny sliver of gulf access (which getting to is pretty rough on its own).

I'm sure Saudi Arabia has a naval presence and can organize mass immigration by plane. Refugees are trying to make it to Europe by raft, so it seems as if Saudi Arabia could very easily afford to help bridge this distance.
if they just hate anything but tech on HN.

There have been plenty of political submissions on HN over the past couple of days. There's been plenty of political discussion on HN over the past couple of days. If people are starting to flag political submissions, it may be because there's a limit of how many political submissions there should be. There's a meaningful difference between "anything but tech" (which is a straw man, anyway, as there are plenty of other submissions that aren't tech yet aren't politics) and having so many political submissions and subsequent discussions that end up covering the same ground without any meaningful discourse.
fwiw, in C++11 onwards, apparently NULL is allowed to be nullptr and not an integral constant.
> I am a night owl. You can tell me I have to have my butt in a chair within your line of sight at 8 or 9am, but that is very wasteful.

This used to be me and I used to believe it was just the way things were. I'd naturally sleep 10+ hours until noon on the weekends, struggle to wake up for work, and then struggle to fall asleep before midnight. I had little energy for exercise and always felt stressed trying to find the time to stay on top of all of my other responsibilities.

But the truth is, it's perfectly possible for anyone to adjust their sleep schedule and become a morning person. It just takes some conscious effort and the will-power to suffer through a week or two of re-adjustment.

1. Set your alarm for the same time every day, including weekends. Wake up as soon as it goes off and don't snooze. Yes, it's hard at first. But it's not inhuman, so just deal with it. It'll get easier.

2. You can have a cup or two of coffee as soon as you wake up, but no caffeine after noon.

3. Put down screens like phone, laptop, and TV after about 8pm. The artificial, bright light throws off off your body's natural instinct to get sleepy when it gets dark. Spend some time preparing for the next day so you aren't stressed in the morning, and then read a book or something until you feel tired.

Bonus points if you get a workout in sometime during the day. It'll help you fall asleep earlier which will make waking up early easier. Also realize that alcohol reduces quality of sleep, so cutting back or avoiding it altogether will make waking up easier.
I have a MYSQL and MSSQL background. I never understood everyone's fear of using CLOB/BLOB data types. Then I started working Oracle.
Brings back good memories. When my power pack went, I was devastated.
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Just to reinforce what you are saying, there were people doing this even in ancient Greece, see Plato's Gorgias.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1672
Four times, it was America that installed said dictator...
This isn't an angry rant - I just had a large cup of coffee so I'm in my "no bullshit" mode :)
They can certainly accommodate a lot of people. They have over 100,000 air conditioned tents at Mecca which can hold over 3 million people:

http://www.bricoleurbanism.org/beautiful-urban-moments/mina-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mina,_Saudi_Arabia

Despite the facility to do so, they take in no refugees.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2014/12/facts-figures...
The more important part of this is: what if Trump fails like Obama did despite fulfilling more than half of the mandate.

Suppose Trump bans all Muslim countries from entering US and somehow (dubious) it does not affect American businesses negatively while improving local hiring.
What if that is not enough? (it likely isn't)

Whom will the electorate choose next? A full on warmonger perhaps?
The CDM is a lot less of a huge pile of unverified third party code in the browser than was Flash and Silverlight before.
Looks like a busszumo clone... what's unique about it?
I really like Substack's philosophy of development. It has stuck with me for a long time:

https://gist.github.com/substack/5075355
Just curious, as I'm a morning person, when do you get non-work stuff done? I start work at 8 and stop at 5. From 5 to 8/8:30 I'm doing chores like cleaning up the house, running errands, making dinner, washing dishes. I get an hour or two of relaxation in watching a movie or reading a book and then I go to bed.

When do night people fit in the time for that sort of stuff? I would imagine that you could do that sort of thing in the morning when I'm working but my perception (perhaps false) is that night people sleep in later.
It is a sad life when you end up in a town where the only social connection you have is your work. When all your friends and family are hours away, odds are you'll end up spending your evenings and weekends on the couch, either working too much or watching movies.
I feel like in your book, having an ID is a bad thing. You would be surprised that this is a very American thing (and which surprised me a lot when I first learned it); no foreigner thinks like that (bar people that don't want to be found).

In fact, you would be surprised at the number of doors that close if you don't have ID or have that crappy ITIN. EG: while I was studying, my friend only had an ITIN on his first year, and it sucked really bad for him. No access to credit, no access to most rentals (because no credit check to run!), etc. Even stuff was more expensive, as I could get the 10% Target discount and he couldn't.

(I was lucky enough to had a SSN from when I worked with a sort-of-diplomatic G4 visa, and it was incredibly useful, and allowed me to get a good credit score, a nice apt close to campus, etc.)

I understand that you are annoyed by having to hand over information about your kids to the govt, and maybe the process of getting them a SSN is a chore. But believe me, both legal and illegal immigrants would love to have SSNs.
I love how on HN you can make a statement like this with zero evidence and it doesn't get downvoted. If someone were to do the same for a tightly held HN friendly view, you would be crucified.

Show me the numbers. What percent of homeschoolers are radical Christiana? Every home schooler I personally know is atheist/agnostic, well educated and want to make sure their kids get a solid education. (Because the public school system isn't delivering). If we are going on personal experience or assumptions, then my view is equally valid, if not more so as I have 5 data points :)
> Like the author of the article, I too am not a morning person - people may scoff at this, but it's a real thing. Before noon I am almost useless, the proverbial bear with a sore head.

Barely done an ounce of work before 11:00 in my entire working life. At home at least I can ease into it and work later comfortably. While I'm working in an office there is always someone super focused on how many bums are on seats at 9:30 every morning (even in places with flexible hours this always seems to inevitably happen at some point). So I'm forced to under sleep and just procrastinate for the first few hours of the day to keep them happy.

Not to mention get stressed while trying to fall asleep because I'm scared of oversleeping.
If I build hand made products from my garage and sell them online for example:

1- make up a new word based on a word that best describes your business (e.g. Maker = makr)

2- if taken, look for synonyms of that word and repeat step one (e.g. Craftsman = krafsman)

3- if taken, repeat 1 and 2 with a combination of 2 words (e.g. HomeMade = Homade, etc.)
I think it strongly depends on how spaced repetition is being done. Spaced repetition of content isn't useful (simply viewing), but spaced testing is [1]. Also, a test might be just testing syntax (could only know answer via docs), or more syntax+conceptual (e.g. would know answer if you understood the concept of a pipe in x language).

A big benefit of testing concepts is that people often overestimate how well they've learned something, so someone may think they have the concept down and that testing is unnecessary, which makes seeing spaced tests is a sort of long-term memory reality check.

[1]: http://learninglab.psych.purdue.edu/downloads/2008_Karpicke_...
When the developer is the domain expert, you've achieved the singularity. /s

A large percentage of the time, there is no domain expert available, or there simply is no domain expert. We've all worked at that place. You start a new job and you're left to your own devices to sink or swim. You wonder why no one can be bothered to take the time to give you the big picture. Who is the customer? Who is the user? Are they the same person? What problems are we trying to help them solve? Are we optimizing for speed, correctness, usability? How do our competitors do it? Who are our competitors?

How about some backstory on this codebase? I can look through source history like I'm doing an archaelogical dig. But how about a narrative on why certain choices were made?

The reason no one will take the time to answer these questions for you is that they will quickly be exposed as not having answers. The best they can do is say "I'll have to ask so and so", and then you'll never hear back.

Also, there is a pervasive vibe that when you're brought on as a developer, it's not your place to ask business-y type questions. Let the people person talk to the people, and you dig ditches where we tell you to dig them. And if we ask you to fill it back in because we told you to dig in the wrong place, well then, you're here 40 hours a week and work is work right?

/end rant

Sorry guys, my fingers just kept typing.
WTF? I just spent $1,207.40 on Books?
"..some interest in a budding industry." Yeah, probably. There is a lot of money that will be made in the recreational marijuana industry. When this gets addressed at the federal level the floodgates will open, since that will fix the cash problem.
Socialism does not necessarily mean welfare state or vice versa, unless you strictly define socialism as being any government service offered that could potentially be offered by a private firm.

We are socialists as long as we use tax dollars to pay for public police officers and firefighters.
>Consider the volume of traffic going over big backbones though (e. g. 100gbps per second). Let's say one of the devices terminating this backbone has a piece of memory go bad that mangles IP payloads. At 8.3 Mpps (1500byte mtu line rate), a 1 in 4 billion chance would trigger on average every 9 minutes or so.

I think someone would notice when only one packet per nine minutes successfully traverses their 100 Gbps core switch. So mission accomplished. :)
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Not sure if unthinkable is the right word

That's exactly what I'm asking about. I'm familiar with Hickey and Nolen.
Don't think people/general public will be as outraged about this as the ban on refugees this past weekend.
I use f.lux. Cuts out most of the blue spectrum. But being a night owl is not the only reason I get more done. No one bothers me at midnight. No one calls or texts or emails. I'm left to my own thoughts. Add to that the fact that people have been describing themselves as night owls since before electric lighting was invented, I don't think that is a full explanation.

I have total blackout curtains in my rooms. My circadian rhythm has no idea if it's 12 noon or 12 midnight. I don't think anything magical happens to make it unhealthy for me to wake up at 9 am Pacific time vs 9am eastern.
Negative action, thoughts or words based on race. No individual is a stereotype. Treating a racial group as a stereotype is racist.

Edit: fortunately we can legislate the hell out of the actions. It's not that difficult. Though I will give you credit for willful ignorance for the sake of argument. Good rhetoric. A-
I think the golden age of arcade gaming has been over for quite some time. Consoles and PC gaming have taken the need of the arcade away from a lot of people. Consoles and PCs are now the target for games rather than arcade cabinets.

That said, if you are ever in the Chicago area I suggest you check out Galloping Ghost. It is the largest arcade in the US and they have over 500 arcade games and it is all free play. $15 gets you in the door and then you are free to come and go as you please throughout the day as long as you keep your receipt. My buddy and I would go and play Mortal Kombat II and NFL Blitz for 5 or 6 hours at a time.
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Nice seven samurai avatar :)
Sounds like someone is really good at coming up with excuses.
Racism is making decisions about a person's character based on information about their ethnic background. Usually these decisions negatively impact the subject of the racism, serving to position them as inferior to the decider's race.
It occurred to me that the cinema as we knew it would be soon over as soon as I saw the first episode of Lost. Technology is definitely driving the price of content production but also content consumption to the bottom and there is no way escaping it, except maybe what Netflix is currently doing - original content - which they are getting better and bette at.

It is kind of a medium between hollywood productions and youtube - fun, engaging and most importantly agile. According to Netflix reports they spent a lot of money last year but the amount of original content produced in a single year is astonishing. That being said, younger generation prefer watching youtube which is 95% free - and I can see the appeal.

I doubt that we will stop watching movies anytime soon but I am more than certain that the format will change to make it bite-size, more engaging and instantly available for a small fee that makes it actually rather annoying to use torrents to consume pirated content.

Netflix is right there but what I find even more interesting is what Amazon is doing because of the way they package everything up into a single service. Let's be honest, the most annoying thing with subscription services, regardless how less you are charged, is the renewal. I know this first hand because I run my own SaaS. Amazon packages everything into their prime subscription which is annual and for a small fee not only you get to receive expedited delivery on many of the items but also original content and music and that is quite a killer feature that is hard to compete with. Combine this with the fact that almost every modern TV you can buy since 2016 is preloaded with Netflix and Amazon Video - you start to get the bigger pictures.

I am sure others such as Google and Apple will follow but they might be too late in the game.
IMHO This is a stupid knee jerk reaction. Many Uber drivers ARE immigrants. Not using Uber makes it worse for them, not better.

The whole "delete Uber" thing may have been started by the taxi drivers in the first place. Maybe they saw an opportunity to take out some of the competition.

Do what you want though. We get it. You're a freedom fighter.
Firefox' non-developer version is also getting more locked down. I had to change to it from the regular version when I couldn't use the extension I have written for myself anymore, because Mozilla removed the option to install unsigned extensions.
> To me it's a way of retaining some programming knowledge - but to retain something you need to understand it beforehand

A critical factor here, though, is that it's very clear from the spaced repetition/testing literature that the way you learn beforehand affects retention. (e.g. Karpicke and Roediger 2008).
> Removing Disqus integration from Breitbart would be a remarkable use of tech industry tools for political activism.

I'm not sure more fracturing of American political discourse would be a beneficial form of 'activism'.
Every post of mine on this subject gets downvoted, but here goes.

Please don't preface your comments with this. The guidelines explicitly ask you not to.

Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never
does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I know a Trump voter who voted for him because of his Orlando speech where he was apparently the only candidate to state what actually happened: Islamists were killing gay people. Everyone else apparently didn't talk about either or both of those things.
Just a quick request: let's not get lost on semantics here. It's a huge field of rabbit holes to get stuck in in usual populations, and discussions derail to garbage pretty quickly.

Please don't vent here. We have a chance on this forum for a meaningful discussion, but venting will ruin that.
> The six Gulf countries - Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain - have offered zero resettlement places to Syrian refugees.

That's really shocking to me as these countries are rich in resources. Further, AFAIK, the majority of the populations share a religion/culture and these countries are very close (comparative to Europe/US) to the current middle east struggles, so why would they turn away refugees? I'm surprised there's not more political discussion happening to pressure stable, neighboring countries to help in this global challenge.
Date: 2010

Past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8286898
To be honest , I am not law expert, I dont have very experience about citizenship laws in Iran, but as far as I know (You should consult an expert if you want to become sure) Iran's law written in a way you cannot get rid of your citizenship, even if you change your nationality, I think Iran government would consider you an Iranian. This law is ridiculous (I know). But I think the reason they wrote law in such way was not dictatorship or something like this , there was rationality (at least in their mind) behind such law.

p.s. I want to make you sure, the information I wrote in this comment maybe are wrong, so do not rely on them.
Anti-labor rhetoric and actions is almost always the first response of dying old gaurd in industry. This should come as no surprise
I was looking at relocating to South East Asia but Singapore's wages are really low compared to the cost of living.

Median salary for software engineers are a measly SGD$48,953 (34,360 USD). Average rents being SGD$1,971 for a one bedroom.
> There is nowhere near the kind of market demand for developed world tech workers in developing world markets.

I think the suggestion from the parent was that if you prevent i.e. Google from bringing in H1B workers, they will simply hire them in their India office.
The fact that a random opponent performs better means that simply inverting the output of a bad strategy (assuming that is even possible, in cases where the output is more complex than binary it should not be) would just give you another bad strategy.
SpaceX is beholden to NASA for big budget contracts. Maybe Musk is afraid of how Trump might coerce him via NASA so he has to tread carefully.
I always emphasize that it is hardware design, not hardware programming.

You describe a physical and electrical reality at register transfer level when writing implementation code in Verilog and VHDL to be used in FPGAs and ASICs.

I've seen quite a few implementations (esp in VHDL) by people not understanding that what they write will end up as hardware.

As an example, ff your design contains numerous wide variables written to and read by several instances, that means there will be buses going back and forth between your logic gates. There are only a few levels of wires crossing eachother (that can either be built in an ASIC or are available in a FPGA device). When that limit has been reached, you will have to route around.

Think HW (at fairly ideal RTL) and write code to efficiently describe that in a way that _all_ tools in your chain can understand and parse correctly.
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Right. Look up John Kleese's talk on creativity for a convincing explanation of why solitude is critical to the process.
Can you describe to me the difference between the nature of work that requires group creativity and individual focus? How much of each do the various roles of your employees spend their time on? How much control do your employees have over whether or not they are in an environment that suits their need for focus (and when that focus ends)?
Please don't snipe at people. If you don't have something constructive and civil to say, please just don't comment.
Green card holders are being exempted, that was shitshow disorganisation rather than policy.

This policy is still not the same though, no.

The previous administration only suspended Iraqi refugee processing for ~6 months.

The thing I'm mostly annoyed about is people claiming "only the new administration would pick this list of countries" when they inherited the list. I'd much rather we focused on how much worse things they're doing with the list instead.
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Considering the fact they lock accounts for "suspicious behaviour" that don't provide a phone number and keep it that way until you do provide one. I'd say they don't care about your privacy.