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Immigrants are actually more law-abiding than US citizens and they are less likely to end up in jail. [1,2]

Immigrants and the children of immigrants are also disproportionately likely to be productive citizens. I wouldn't be surprised if half the current Fortune 500 were founded by immigrants and the children of immigrants. (The figure for 2010 was 40%.) See my comment below. [3]

It's certainly possible that the majority of America's wealth is generated by relatively recent immigrants.

Of course, this is controlled immigration. No country anywhere lets just anybody in.

[1] http://www.vox.com/2015/7/9/8922783/immigrants-crime-donald-...

[2] https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/criminal...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13576840
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If there's a legal requirement, I would be uncomfortable being right on the edge of it.

In any case, the problem here seems to be that regulatory approval for additional plants is supporting Public utilities like PG&E who have guaranteed returns over independent companies who don't have guaranteed returns. It looks like we need the ability to exempt proposed projects from the guaranteed returns in order to fix the misaligned incentives here.
It's the difference between riding a hand-tuned motorcycle versus a car. The latter is low maintenance, always works, etc. but ask a biker, he'd say how passionate he's in maintaining his beast and how well it performs, etc. a car is no comparison to it.

Now how many bikes do you see as opposed to cars? The premium would always be lesser, only for those who want it and are willing to sweat for it.
Just given the timing of the business cycle, Trump is likely to face a recession or at least a stagnation by the time he's working on reelection in 2020. There's very little he can do about it now: Most economists believe it takes almost four years for fiscal policy to affect the business cycle and two years for monetary policy. And Trump won't be appointing his own Federal Reserve chairman to set monetary policy until 2018 at the earliest.

But Trump can take action that will open up jobs and raise wages for American workers even in the face of a recession. He can deport illegal aliens and cut off the H-1B and L cheap professional visa categories. That would create a lot of working class and lower-tier professional jobs for Americans fast.
Same could be said about the minimum wage. Who am I to tell a homeless person that they can't sign a voluntary contract to work for less than $15/hr? We won't let them live on starvation wages, we will just ensure they never get a job.
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It sort of plays disconnected songs fairly well; I wouldn't say it plays music perfectly fine.
I just happen to have bought some sand recently, and it isn't that cheap. Especially not the type of sand that you'd feel comfortable mixing into food.

Where I am, a ton of sand aggregate using in construction is ~$100 per ton. The better sand used in gardens, the brown sand (it's used to repel water so you don't over-water crops) is more than than.

Considering the wheat/ton spot price is $160 per ton at the moment, I don't think the actual prices would be too different.

[0] http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity=wheat&month...
I can't buy it but I can contribute to it for free if you like.
The people of Yugoslavia once believed a similar thing.
Asphalt.
>> that's not what is happening with many of the H1B visas

That looks like a speculation, and a justification that a less skillful local worker might want to use. There are all kinds of H-1B Visa holders out there. More, equally, or less skilled compared to the local workers - but they are invariably less expensive than their local counterparts with same skillset. That's why companies are using them. Low quality software has a cost associated to it as well in the long run, so we can safely assume that the companies are deciding what's financially best for them. It's equivalent to competition in any market. Same argument is used by the less developed nations when an American multinational company begins their business there and kills all small local players in the market. Then these local companies bring their fake nationalism/patriotism in picture, but with globalization it's bound to happen and whining about it is not going to help.
And after they read Marx and Rawls they can read about what Stalin did to the revolutionaries that got him into power.
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This is good news. Making fully baked ePubs for the first few versions of the B&N Nook was more art than science due to some of the problem with ePubs.
Why are we giving up? Tech workers, startups, and VCs collectively control huge amounts of money and skilled labor. Organizing it all would obviously be a challenge, but fighting this is a solvable problem!
To be fair in my POV you are all just immigrants. When someone in europe knows about his 500 year history he also usually considers himself part of his origin culture and does not claim to be 100% whatever his passport says.

Fucking 500 years. Most beers i like exist for longer.
So which is Linux in your comparison? I think many users, especially developers or "power users", feel things just work on Linux compared to more frequent twiddling required on macOS / Windows.
There are a lot of possible paths between those two points.[1] And the Google directions for car/transit/walk/bike all differ. So why shouldn't Google directions for a bot also be different? All you need is one viable path, and the knowledge of city conditions to find it.

That, or a lawn gnome shell with a display saying "I'll give you a cookie to walk me down this street"...

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Sutter-Stockton+Garage,+444+...
If you want to disregard economics, politics and a lot of other things (which is a big assumption, but let's continue with it), lets start with the first principles - why do you advocate borderless planet? Whats so compelling about it?
How about online storage that you will charge me only when I pull data?

I have 20TB of data that I would like to access about 1MB statistically per year (!!) only I don't know which of that 20TB its located. Sure there is AWS and then Glaciar but with my limited knowledge with AWS you need to spin a computer and then set the rules how those files are accessible and it already goes into tens or hundreds of bucks per month. Amazon Glaciar is too expensive to pull data out.

Perhaps I didn't do enough research. If you know company who allows me to cheaply store XX TB in cloud and charge me only per access to it, let me know please.
It's interesting looking at the US Social Security system coming from a country (Australia) where the social security system doesn't have the facade of being a contributory system and is funded entirely out of general tax revenue - there's no such thing as "paying in" to the social security system. There's still a bit of an attitude of "I've paid my taxes, now I deserve my pension", but the system doesn't act as a piggy bank for you to save up over time. (For that, we have a mandatory minimum 9.5% superannuation/401k-equivalent contribution that you invest in shares/property/bonds etc.)

In my mind, this is fairer than the US system, but there is a good case to be made that keeping elements of a "contributory" system helps to maintain political support for the welfare state among people who are a bit more, um, selfish.

(An interesting piece I read a while ago that describes how the "contributory" nature of Australia's social security system in the 1940s was actually just a cover for a general tax increase: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-27/berg-chifleys-politica...)
Well, we anyway have http://movies.stackexchange.com/. Would have been nice if they had moved to some other platform.
> They have the cleanest, least intrusive ads imaginable, they don't do 3rd party tracking, they work with publishers to try and make ads that are relevant to their audience etc and yet their ads are still blocked by AdBlockers.

Well of course. And ad is an ad. And the point of an Adblocker is to block the ad. The main reason I install an Adblocker is because I don't want to see any adverts. (preventing malware, and slow page load times is just an added bonus for me)
Is it just me or did they forgot to add css? Nothing wrong with a HTML-BASED backend. But for Tux sake, get some fancy Frontend-Dev to have it look nice out of the box
If you consider individual actors as adversarial, it becomes less ridiculous quite quickly. Reframe the question as "Why would I, an American software engineer, give my Syrian competition an easier time?". If I have privilege and a family to raise, it makes sense to exploit that privilege rather than to give it up based on the assertion that my privilege is unfair. Often only the young have the privilege to give up their privilege so easily, because of their lacks of dependents.
I think I can agree with your basic premise, as human beings we have a fundamental, basic even inalienable right to any part of our planet.

The fact is humans living in a particular generation are far more connected to each other than to our ancestors.

The problem is this is classic utopianism completely divorced from the historical development of our political and economic systems, property rights and the structure of nation states and societies. Tribalism will always perpetuate the concept of the outsider and a natural suspicion, and often with good reason. That's how colonialism happened.

In any time going and being accepted in other societies is 2 different things. In other times we would need technology and resources to travel, account for disease and the reception of native populations. Now we have nation states and rule of law that governs movement of people for travel and emigration. These rules can be improved but there is no alternative that does not impose controls, even if we have post nation states there will still be controls.

What I would like is significantly less restrictions and more 'openness' and good faith policies that acknowleged every human being's right to travel and see the rest of 'their world' unhindered.
IMDb seems to be in low maintenance mode for years. I don't understand why Amazon doesn't invest more in it's valuable sister company.

Every slight renovation of the old IMDb website design makes it worse. They should just modify they CSS if they don't understand their job.

IMDb is the Wikipedia of movies, started as community mailing list (or usenet?) and became one of the first websites.

The forum softwares never got improved, it worked the same for 15+ years.

So sad, as really a lot of insightful comments can be found related to movies. Yes, there are the usual troll threads "Person X looks like Person Y", etc but those could be shadow banned really easily. Even if the comments ate archived by Archive.org/etc there will be no method to ask questions or use the forum in future - and all upcoming movies will have no comments. Very sad.
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How much you get payed as publisher varies a lot depending on how valuable your traffic is and how much you do to optimize your revenue. AdBlocking is one variable, e.g. techy sites will have more people using AdBlockers.
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It's not that big problem for you then.
Right, but I don't believe any of those people came here on an H-1B visa. And it seems like many of the best and brightest are still trying to get into the US, though right now perhaps fewer than previously.

I'm not arguing against immigration. Heck, I don't even think that the current administration is against immigration. (Yes, I know this is not the popular view of the current administration here on HN.)

My point was that the H-1B program is basically built on the hypocrisy that these are jobs that cannot be filled without bringing in immigrants because no one here has the skills.

It seems pretty obvious that the reality is that the H-1B program is built to enable employers to bring in high-skilled workers at a steeply discounted rate, and to keep them steeply discounted by preventing the immigrants from looking for better jobs once they get here. If this were untrue, I wouldn't read so many comments and even articles about how people here on H-1B visas ought to have the right to find another job.

In other words, make the program declare its real intentions. But that would never fly, because politically it would be unpalatable to people in any part of the political spectrum, with the possible exception of the <1% of those who profit from H-1B employees.
How does it argue against structured programming?

My argument is that "recognizability" is in the eye of the beholder. One programmer's "map is a powerful abstraction over transforms, for example loops" is another's "this is some cutesy code/math creole by a CS graduate who desperately wants to find nails to apply his functional programming and applied math hammer on".

That's a fairly harsh way of saying that at some point the abstraction isn't clarifying, whether it's recognizable or not.

Disclaimer: I'm a big fan of functional idioms (they're one of my favorite parts of Rust, for example). I'm not so much a big fan of absolutism or over-generalization.
iTunes has got to be the worst piece of software shipped by Apple. The bloat has gotten worse over the years, takes ages to load and I have no clue how anything works with its utterly non-intuitive UI. They should have just kept it as a simple music player and put the purchases/radio/everythingelse options on a different app.
The place I learned it was hypnosistrainingacademy.com and where he derived his teachings from was a man named John Overdurf who had a program called beyond words. I'd start with Igor's material first. He calls his version (which is based upon, but wholly distinct from beyond words) mind bending language. There are even card decks and training programs to consume. Or free articles if you wish to check it out.
The nice thing about T is that it's the first letter of True and of Type. E.g.

;; catch-all method for any type
(defmethod foo ((arg t)) ...)

;;
(defmethod foo (arg ...) ...) ;; alternative spelling: omit class

NIL is the empty list and that is mnemonic for "empty type". For instance, the intersection of two mutually exclusive types is the empty type. Nothing can be both a cons and an atom, so the type denoted by the type expression (and cons atom) is empty; and that is nil. The set manipulation which underlies types needs an empty set, and nil fill the need for that empty set (pun intended).

NULL is useful in writing methods that capture NIL (the only instance of NULL). That may be recognized as the "null object pattern":

(defmethod foo ((arg null))
;; (foo nil) called
)

(defmethod foo ((arg number))
;; (foo <number>) called
)

(defmethod foo ((arg t))
;; (foo <anything else>) called
)
The problem with using sails is speed. On average, cargo ships travel approximately three to four times faster than sailing ships (20 to 24 knots vs. 5 to 8 knots).
What is to stop millions of poor masses from being born? (And why does our inability to stop it not inhibit a welfare state?)

The amount of a welfare state you can sustain is certainly dependent on your tax revenue, and in turn on the quality of your economy, on political willingness to set high enough taxes, etc. But I don't think there's a point at which a welfare state is flatly impossible.

And there are certainly lots of unforeseen possibilities. Perhaps an economy where employers can hire anyone without bureaucracy will grow companies that generate enough revenue, even without lots of human employees on payroll, to sustain the welfare state.
Not at first. But if the tide turns enough, Apple with have to jump on board to avoid losing market share.
Figure out a way to reduce the not-in-San-Francisco penalty for startups.

There are some very good reasons why startups flock to the bay area, including "lots of available talent" and "that's where the VCs are", but there are also problems with being in the bay area -- talent is considerably more expensive (due in part to the cost of housing) and visa issues (particularly under the current presidency) being the first two which come to mind.

If you can find some way to give non-San-Francisco startups the same advantages that San Francisco startups have -- better tools for remote workers, for example, so that companies can easily hire from anywhere rather than needing to be where the largest number of potential employees are found; or something to make VCs interested in investing in companies which aren't within a narrow radius of Sand Hill (since I've never dealt with VCs, I have no idea what such a solution would look like) -- then you'll create a huge amount of value for companies around the world and it should be easy to transfer some of that value into your pockets.
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Completely anecdotal - a non-programmer at my work used a chat bot provided by their ISP to help them with some internet connectivity problems. I was surprised too.

I might postulate that programmers have more of an aversion to chatbots than the general public. Presumably because we tried one of the famous general purpose ones at some point - then were disappointed when we failed to make it understand why humans cry and why it is something they could never do.
Container ships are already going slower:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/jul/25/slow-shi...
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It's not too difficult to make your own PACS, there's even open-source software for this. However, you need to be compliant and this usually means obtaining FDA approval of any device you want to install on the hospital network.
Uh oh. Is there forgiveness available? When I was a kid, I tried to write all kinds of games in BASIC (including an ASCII version of Super Mario Bros, a distinct disappointment). Thing was, I had only ever seen one letter variables. So all my variables were the first letter of what they stood for, and if that letter was taken, I used the next available letter. I never finished any of the games, because at some point I'd run into a bug, or have not worked on it for a few weeks, and I had no idea what anything was doing. It was only after getting a Peter Norton book for my birthday that I discovered variables could be more than one letter. I found the programs really annoying to type out, because of all the long variables, but it was a whole lot more readable...

Although, I kind of like open office plans. Definitely better than cubicles, which have relational isolation but no sound isolation. So you feel disconnected with everyone, but you have to hear them anyway.
Do you reject all candidates you interview because they might compete with you to avoid layoffs?

One hopes that when you hire a Syrian software engineer, both you and they will benefit. I'd certainly prefer to hire a good Syrian software engineer than a mediocre American one (and a good American one than a mediocre Syrian one, naturally), if we're hiring someone anyway.
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> AI based on algorithmic induction tech i.e. not the usual DNN and ML tech everyone calls AI. This is way more interesting if you have a novel approach.

Any chance you can elaborate on what you're talking about here?
I spent many years repurposing cartographic tools myself. :-)

Three big missing features off the top of my head:

- Insufficiently correct and high precision computational geometry, which compounds with the iterative/recursive nature of many complex sensor analytics. Many people don't notice unless they ground truth their analytic process; I learned this the hard way. For many industries, 1% cumulative computational error is a catastrophic bug for analytics and the reality can be much worse in many common systems.

- Lack of first class tessellation types and operators. Once your data scientists have them, they'll wonder how they lived without them. Such things are completely useless for cartography and therefore don't exist in those platforms.

- High-performance computational geometry. This is particularly noticeable if you work with sensor coverages (like drone data). Your typical cartographic system has serious difficulty joining a few terabytes of complex polygons, but these are tiny data sets for many remote sensing sources. It literally takes weeks or months to run these types of queries. You can optimize this to be much faster but there was no pressing market need in cartography and cartographic systems aren't designed for scale-out generally.
>How else would one view the Social Security program that you are paying into?

I'm certainly no expert, but that sounds more like a description of an IRA or 401K, I think.

As far as I know, the social security program in the US isn't actually structured in such a way that each person's SS taxes are going into an individual investment account under their own name (despite the "how much I've earned" statements which might seem to suggest this).

In fact, the SS taxes being collected right now from you and the entire current generation of earners, are going directly to the current generation of retirees.

So rather than being a career-long savings/investment scheme where your own money comes back to you at the end, it is actually implemented as a wealth transfer scheme from the current generation of earners to the current generation of retirees.

Some years the fund might book a surplus (more taxes raised than benefits paid) and in some years a deficit.

But I agree that it seems to be a common view (or perhaps just metaphor) that people's own SS taxes are being accrued against their name for later payback as benefits. But as far as I can tell, social security has never worked that way and wasn't designed to.
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I've heard that cargo ships are currently prevented from going much slower because of the human crew. Drone ships could help.
Usefulness includes:

* You like to own your own music files

* You like to listen to music in without depending on an internet connection

* You don't like to waste bandwidth

* You don't like to depend on an external service / walled garden.

I think that streaming services like spotify are kind of like american cable television. It brings music to the masses. But I bet they are going to slowely diminish in popularity, making way for the next mass consumer revolution. In the mean time real music lovers have all their CD's and records ripped and stored on their hard-drives (or SSDs; or whatever). And are going keep on listening that way when someone else makes a similar statement about streaming services as you made about locally stored music files.
Fascinating discussion about technological development. The article didnt say if there is a part two where he answers the question posed in the title.

Inflation (or really the deflating cost of light) is mentioned, and we can infer many things that probably matter based on the falling price, but I still want to know why it matters.
That might be true for some users, who are into the tweaking. But I don't think "OS as a challenge" characterises Linux users generally.

All my Ubuntu laptop installs have been pretty much plug-n-play, and I leave out the "last 1%" like installing 3rd party drivers for the fingerprint reader. Last time I spent effort was when setting up dual boot on a Macbook, and all the effort was on the macOS sids, shrinking encrypted partitions using the CLI tools etc.

(Of course I research Ubuntu compatibility beforehand and select the laptop based on that)