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> If a company in California has ample opportunities to sell in Florida (>2000 miles away), why then is it significantly more difficult for a company in Greece to sell in Denmark, which is a much shorter distance.

The US has a federal "interstate commerce clause" which means that individual states cannot regulate trade with other states. The federal government has all the control, which would be like the European Union having control.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Clause
It's not about selling stuff to India, its about selling stuff to the world and Indian developers help us do that.

And it's not H1B abuse it's what it's intended for. Since we slammed the door on immigration 50 years ago, this program was created to release a tiny amount of the massive pressure of super smart people world wide who want to come to the US and help make it better.

It's funny that engineers don't get the massive benefits of free trade that built this country, and the huge risks (Smoot Hawley) of trade barriers to our economy.

Every dollar we send to India has to be spent in the US to be worth anything. They can save it, store it, send it to other countries, but it's nothing but imaginary paper if no one ever buys something from the US or reinvests it here.

And if you are tired of foreigners buying our T-Bills instead of our goods/services, then stop running such massive budget deficits and fix the corporate income tax system that is taxing reinvested capital so highly that US firms are forced to park their foreign profits overseas to avoid losing nearly half of them to federal and state taxes. It's like a farmer eating their seed corn.
> The Casino is the one that cheats because the odds are not completely random, as they should.

I get what you mean, but what you said means something different, in a way that leads to an interesting question.

The odds are not supposed to be completely random. The odds are supposed to fixed in most (all?) casino games (and in most non-casino games). It is the outcome that is supposed to be completely random in casino games, distributed according to the fixed odds.

That raises a question. What would a game look like where the odds were random? The odds are determined by the rules, so would the game have to have rules that are changing at random?

But if you are given the distribution of the random numbers that determine the rule changes, you could still work out the players odds for the overall game. So do we have to have the distribution that the random rule changes use be completely random, too? But the distribution used to generate the random number used to pick the distribution for picking random numbers to drive the rule changes...do we need to pick that at random....is it going to be random distributions all the way down? My head is starting to hurt...
Not entirely true. Companies like Infosys, cognizant, Accenture spams the visa applications with huge amounts, causing the H1B visas go into lottery process (if applications exceed the 85k visa availability). And for this spamming they deserve to be blamed.
These companies alone file more than 100k LCAs each year.
LCA is the first step before applying for H1B.
This is a major issue for students who pursue Masters in US Universities, gain very special skills and have to leave US because they couldnt get the lottery.
There's a difference between skilled people and talented people with specialized skills.

edit: one can write good programs, other can invent frameworks
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Anorexia treatment has zero relevance to the vast majority of overweight people who need to eat much less to lose weight.
Tangent: This is nice popsci reporting. Reasonable, not very hyped, contextualized laymen explanation of a technical paper, with a link at the bottom direct to the source.
It's also well known (it's even a movie!) that the counter and the person taking advantage of the count has to be separate people.

I assume casinos use infinite shoes now so it's not even an issue?
Did you read the article? Many tech jobs can't be done effectively in India or overseas with low quality labor for any number of reasons. The 250 American workers for Disney had their jobs replaced in the US, not by overseas workers.

> "These engineers will still be part of the labor pool, they'll just be doing work for our foreign competitors"

Well, let them work for Samsung instead of Apple then.

> "One of my H!B hires had unduplicatable skills and created about 20 high paid jobs in our company."

The point of the H1-B visa is precisely for those cases where there are no Americans that can do the job, so your hire follows the law. But then if it such a hard to find job, then the scarcity implies the person should get a higher salary, especially if he/she created "20 high paid jobs for our company."
>"eating at a caloric deficit" isn't a constant thing. You can eat less, but your metabolism might drop even further

This exactly why I mentioned consistent exercise. Exercise will speed up your metabolism as it causes the breakdown of muscle mass and other tissues which then need to be repaired and improved by your body. You can push exercise even further by buying into linear progression and training your body to rebuild itself in order to adapt to your training regimen.

>research shows that exercise is, for most people, counterproductive for weight loss because they wind up eating afterwards than the calories they burn

This is not an argument against my position. This is caused by a lack of discipline. Also, eating after exercise can be a good thing. The effects of a heavy weight lifting session will linger for several days and burn far more calories than the actual session itself. The muscle that was damaged during the training session needs high quality nutrients to be rebuilt. I, for one, usually eat a philly cheese steak or hamburger if I have a really intense training session because I know I need the fat and protein. People seem to think that exercise is a means to burn calories. It is not. Exercise is a means to an end. For some people, it's strength, for others it may be rock climbing. For others still, it may be for general health.

>Yes, exercise leads to general better health, but that's a very different goal from losing weight

My argument is that losing weight is a means to becoming healthy. You cannot become healthy without a well balanced diet AND consistent exercise. If your goal is simply to lose weight, exercise will aid you in that endeavor AS LONG AS your diet is in order.

Becoming healthy is not a diet. It's not going to the gym once a week. Becoming healthy is a lifestyle choice and not everyone has the foresight and discipline to do it. If someone doesn't have that discipline and self control, that's fine. Just done blame it on genetic issues or confusion. Say it like it is, you're(general you) just lazy. And that's OK.
The ownership cost of a small Cessna drastically exceeds that of a hummer (purchase price + certification + maintenance). I'll take your word that they have equivalent fuel efficiencies.

Cost isn't a big deal when it's less than a 50% increase, we're talking 3-5x here. This is equivalent not to a Hummer but to a Ferrari, that's a difference in sale volume that makes a flying car unit unsustainable give the increased non-traditional expenses.
I have been banned from playing at a few establishments.

Just knowing when to raise your bet does a lot to tip the odds in your favor.
Interesting, I didn't realize Mark had resigned from LaRC.
I'd be interested to hear a more complete take on his opinions about NASA Aeronautics, because he sounded a bit disillusioned.

The big caveat when comparing to industry efforts, of course, is that NASA Aero, by design, is not an airline, or an airframe manufacturer, or a regulator. It's an R&D outfit that still very much follows the structure of its predecessor, NACA.
Nested lists == trees
Thanks for doing that! I think that these topics are indeed distinct, and it's important that once people see the news, they see the leadership's plan for RethinkDB. I've been really impressed with RethinkDB's leadership through this arduous (and often uncertain) process, and really looking forward to seeing where they and the community take the project!
AIUI BSD only covers copyright, unlike Apache and GPL3 for example.
Yeah.

It was a really sad day when they started teaching English and Math to elementary school kids.

Kids today are just punching out novels and theorems like there is no tomorrow...
I think you might mean the Jepsen tests: https://aphyr.com/posts/329-jepsen-rethinkdb-2-1-5
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I have a general understanding of all the nook & corners of the I-140 portability rules. Its very precarious & employees with a family and kids in school will not dare to do this. Its a high risk maneuver.

Suppose an employee did take the risks, think about when he will be getting a greencard for EB2 or EB3 from India/China, 10 years ? If the queue readjusts, 15 years ? What if the portability provisions are taken out by a new government ? Whats the point ? Why should an employee's future be dictated by a broken immigration system ? I believe in fail-fast, so that's why I took the Express Entry path of Canada and I didn't fail.
I suspect we talk about the GPL as programmers because the relative freedom level of a software license matters far more to us than it does to actual end users. Restrictions on what you can do with the source code only matter if you're both interested in and capable of modifying that source code. On a practical level, the Average Joe is "locked out" from modifying an application's source code by virtue of not being capable of performing that modification, not by the license. I have a lot of non-developer friends and acquaintances who use LibreOffice, and I can assure you that they're using it for the "free as in beer" aspect, not because of a philosophical attachment to free software. For most end users, freedom is contingent on data portability, not license terms: if I can open my word processing document or Photoshop file, it doesn't matter to me in practice whether the editor is open or closed source. If the application stops being developed, I can move to something else with minimal pain.

But if we're talking about tools for a developer audience--like RethinkDB, and frankly a whole lot of other open source software--then developers are the end users, and so the license really does matter. I've long thought that one of the strengths of the GPL is that it's more restrictive from a developer standpoint, rather than less. If I was trying to build a company around open source software, the (A)GPL would be attractive expressly because it makes it more difficult for competitors to build on. If the company goes away and there's no way for someone to buy a commercial license with a different set of restrictions, that can become an issue, as we've seen with RethinkDB -- but the (A)GPL isn't necessarily an impediment to strong community development, as we've seen with, well, a lot of other software over the last two decades.
This wasn't a particularly good counterexample, since Linux is more advanced and successful than FreeBSD, and same can by said about git.
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This is the tester/hacker in me talking, but have you checked for cases where one can loop your own images hundreds of times? (e.g. https://i.scaley.io/jpg/i.scaley.io/png/i.imgur.com/DZjrx4E.... but more than 2 times)

A simple url DOS attack from my puny browser may cripple your entire server.
They were charged and pled, that doesn't necessarily mean fraud was actually committed. DAs have wide latitude when charging people with crimes. If you were a foreign national caught doing this, would you want to take a chance with a jury or bench trial in a hostile (to you) jurisdiction?
My point isn't about radical Islam (no quotes needed, it does exist), but rather about privileged Western know-it-alls who feel the need to lecture about things with which they have no experience. Especially to people who have experienced these things firsthand.

Radical Islam is but one example. American Communists lecturing Eastern Europeans is another.
> One of my H!B hires had unduplicatable skills and created about 20 high paid jobs in our company.

That type of thing was the original intention, and I think most people would be okay with that.

But a gigantic majority of H1Bs are not used to fill positions that require unique skills. If 99.9% of H1Bs are abusing the system to avoid paying market wages then the system is broken and it needs to be fixed.
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Thanks! I'll make the instructions better to select multiple products, make better use of white space, and indicate which product is being compared. I'll also make it so that you can go back to the comparison once you log in. There is a progress bar while you are comparing the products that indicates how many more comparisons to go through. Each comparison is considered one match and is weighted the same to give an overall score for each product.

Thanks for the feedback, it's helpful to understand what should be improved overall to have a better method to match products to user preferences.
One has to wonder how well that works if one of the governments turns totalitarian and starts seizing private businesses, as has been happening for the past few months in Turkey. (Turkey makes a large proportion of the lower-end TVs sold in Europe, amongst many other things.)
On the one hand the law should be freely available in full text to everyone.

On the other hand, how many legislators are qualified to write a fire code?
By "Can't fix", they mean "could fix by putting in new slot machines whose PRNGs aren't crackable, but choose not to because it wouldn't be cost effective".

Why don't slot machines use true random numbers? They could still skew the results however they like.
Pretty cool that an intern was given this level of confidence. Less data for updating/installing applications is good no matter how you slice it
This is fantastic news. My current project would not have been possible if it wasn't for RethinkDB. Very glad to see it moving forward!
> and have unlimited vacation.

How much of that is paid?
Sometimes because they are intentionally gatekeeping, as in Half Past Human's conversational delta analysis reports.
You do realize that the average salary of a tenured professor in the US is around $100k right? It goes up to $200k for some private universities but I would say 100-150k is what most top public universities pay. So 130k is a shitton of money in academia.

Ignoring all of that, average salary of a senior biomedial engineer is 90k. The rest of the USA doesn't live in the 100k++ bubble that is SV.
Yes, Horizon was included. Since it's MIT licensed, it's already freely available, but it joins The Linux Foundation under RethinkDB's aegis.
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Yeah I really liked 21st Century C as well.

Just a FYI for anyone looking to get it - make sure you get the latest edition (currently 2nd edition) as the first had a lot of issues which they fixed in the 2nd edition thanks to good feedback.
Yeah, absolutely. I can't imagine anyone who has engaged with these philosophers at any length agreeing with what he's saying.
Here's a neat paper on transfer learning:

http://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/machine-learning/shavlik-group/torrey...
Capitalism uses greed, but a person in the Soviet Union would still be greedy.

Capitalism uses the environment and when you mine something you use a resource. Capitalism was not really present in Nazi Germany and they were the cause of an unbelievable amount of destruction.

Human missery? Capitalism has almost eliminated all human missery, we are talking about it being a reasonable goal that by 2035 the should be no humans living at less than a dollar (adjusted for inflation) a day. In the last 15 years that number was cut in half, and it stayed mostly constant from 1900 to 1960 despite the fact that the worlds population grew massively.

The only reason you can even write that is that you have no idea what human missery was before Capitalism.
There is a lot more to diets than calories.

Like nutrition.
I would be excited if I had taken an internship and someone had told me to do this :)
*M GB

M is well-known in headlines as million. A GB is something people appreciate the size of, TB not as much, and PB is definitely not in most people's vocab.
How would this look to you?

I was thinking recently that I'd like a liberated Android, found CopperheadOS, but I'm still not sure I'd like to use it on the desktop.
> know how your congressman votes on each of the vote

Actually, the opposite may be a better way.

Our representatives votes should be secret for the same reason that the people votes is secret: prevents the voter from being intimidated and from selling his/her vote.
I agree, even if all she did was comment out one line of config and enable another line, doing it at scale, in production, is not to be done lightly. I suspect as a student intern she learned a lot about doing that and contributed a fair amount to making sure it was done carefully and correctly. I'm jealous actually and I change config lines like that every day.
Wax on Wax off.
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Comes down to jenkins for me. RethinkDB aced the jenkins tests.

Mongo has failed every jenkins test it's been put through, dunno about the status now though. Last I checked Mongo's default durability level was "data loss on power outage". Aerospike failed jenkins too, and not on small edge cases like Mongo, but with major dataloss.

Going by the problems Gitlab has recently with Postgres I wouldn't use that for a distributed database. Likely true for MySQL too.

* Yep. I meant to write Jepsen :)
Try spacemacs [0].

Emacs with IMHO better keybindings, lots of integrated packages which can be switched on/off as functionally related "layers".

For vim users has of course evil package.

[0] http://spacemacs.org/
What makes you think she came up with the idea? Read the article -- it's clear that it was her "project". She's an intern at Google, they're generally on a short leash.
Is it possible to be too ‘nice’ for your own good?
>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.)

His top advisor, Steve Bannon, is definitely against immigration.

"Isn’t the beating heart of this problem, the real beating heart of it, of what we gotta get sorted here, is not illegal immigration? As horrific as that is, and it’s horrific, don’t we have a problem, we’ve looked the other way on this legal immigration that’s kinda overwhelmed the country? When you look and there’s got 61 million, 20 percent of the country, is immigrants — is that not a massive problem?"
Here in flyover country, companies are paying new-grad software engineers 30-38k.
These are witch hunting cases. Why didn't government took action against these companies who are buying services from companies like TCS, HCL? Why demonizing younger and talented foreigners and enforcing hypothesis based on these 5% wrong cases?
Where is your study when these people get selected in touch interviews at places like FB, Google, Linkedin?
Branding H1B people as "Cheap Labor" is an old fashion and the saga continues at alarming rate.
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I've worked with a fair number of people that graduated from the Mathematics and Informatics at Babeș-Bolyai University. I'm generally very impressed by them, and is just another data point of areas of that world that get overlooked.
H-1B and J-1 consulting and labor firms are far more nefarious than people probably think.

Most of my personal experience is with J-1 pimps. These "firms" import seasonal labor and directly collect wages from the hiring company. The catch is as old as markets, as they usually debit housing, food, and fees that are grossly outside of true cost, but allow for just enough origin country adjusted income to still make sense for students to keep signing on. I have dealt with these firms from Eastern Europe and South America, with both operating on the razors edge of indentured servitude.
These exact same practices dominate the H-1B program.

The most effective change to any of these programs, outside of just volume, would be the direct to employee payment requirement or minimum percentage. That change would force the either higher salaries in order to maintain the labor firms margins, or the labor firms would have to eat the cost to keep the prices down. Enforcement would have to be extreme. As the nature of the relationship between the firm and the visa holder is already indebted, and there would be lots of opportunity for harassment and coercion of the visa holder to fork over more of their paycheck.

Addition:
Another solution may be a visa marketplace that the government would run, to connect employers and visa seekers directly and eliminate the middle man.
> Yet no one thinks about taxing tourists.

German speaking countries do tax tourists.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortstaxe