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It's unfortunate that most of the people writing about the problems with H-1B visas can't distinguish between companies that hire the best they can get (and paying competitive salaries), and outsourcing companies that file a ton of applications (and pay their employees much less).

This approach seems deliberately lazy, as though it's some kind of head-scratcher that the displaced IT support guy hates his outsourced replacement; while the Googles and Microsofts of the world support a program that allows them to hire top engineers from all over the globe.

I find it especially galling that this NYT writer can't make the distinction, given their paper did a great article about H-1B abuse by outsourcing firms:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/06/us/outsourcing...
Excess power in California? Sounds like a good time to build a desalination plant.
> The employee can change companies without too much trouble.
Am I mis-informed?

This rule changed so recently that it hasn't trickled into the job market yet.

https://www.uscis.gov/news/news-releases/uscis-publishes-fin...

Effective from Jan 17th, 2017.

Previously, if your employer found out that you interviewed elsewhere (due to to a reference call or other means), they could fire you and there was only 10 days where you could wait for the new employer/offer to materialize.

https://www.uscis.gov/tools/ombudsman-liaison/practical-immi...

So, yes - you're somewhat married to your company.
I am confused by the article. The examples given are examples of outsourcing, which doesn't require visas at all, right?
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>>There are more issues in your post that make it downvote worthy. For example, you consider nuclear weapons and a space program a sign of progress, while many in your country live in abject poverty. Maybe you could use that money for infrastructure, then you wouldn't have to raise taxes? I'm sure the expertise created by these programs is totally worth the investment. Regardless, there are far more important developmental milestones in a country before either of these goals make sense.

The issue isn't space program. Things like the space program are necessary to ensure national readiness for high quality skills. ISRO has explicit goals that their missions involve more than just going to space it is to train people, build in house know-how for larger things. IITs are necessary to build the next generation of trained workforces that will build industries and provide more jobs. Health care spending is needed because you don't want 40% of your population to crawl with polio. Food security is needed because you don't want bulk of you population tilling farm lands just to feed themselves.

When you spend on these things you get a bad quarterly bill for tax payers. But you also build your nation for the next century which pays many times over.

Eg: http://www.isro.gov.in/pslv-c25-mars-orbiter-mission/mission...

>>Or this gem. Because capitalism is such a fad, and not the result of world history/economics.

In Indian context it is a fad and continues to be.

>>You can argue that capitalism isn't great, but so far there's nothing better in practice.

Sure you should educate us how we can build great capitalistic society without a trained workforce, without education, without healthy people, without able government bureaucracy.

You can't go from 0 to Wall street capitalism in day 1. Nor is it possible.

>>Spare us your simplistic, vague and condescending history lesson. If you have any insight, analysing the situation in more depth and looked at how other countries handled similar situations and why/why not that applies to India would be much more valuable.

Which are those countries? China? 90% of where China is largely manufacturing. And even they took a good 5 decades non-democratic communist rule to get there.

Try reading some history of China and how many millions of people died there due to famine and draughts.

You can get to these fantasy land capitalist figures, if you are ready to kill millions of your population to such things, with non democratic processes along the way.

That is not what we want here in India.
"My sense was that, given the rate at which people typically move, it's normally a wash."

The difference between renting and buying isn't just the monthly payment. It's also the range of outcomes. If you buy a place with 20% down, and the property price goes up by 20% whilst you're living there, you've doubled your net worth.

In some US states (e.g. California) mortgages are nonrecourse[0], so it's a bit with unlimited upside, but capped downside. If the property price crashes to 50% of the purchase price, you can walk away, losing only your initial deposit.

[0] http://www.financialsamurai.com/non-recourse-states-walk-awa...
Zealandia [1] is the largest continental fragment [2]. It broke off from Australia and then largely (or wholly) sank. Later uplifts from the subcontinent include the north and south islands of New Zealand and New Caledonia. 93% of the microcontinent remains submerged.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zealandia_%28continent%29

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_fragment
Communism is well suited to giving people a better horse instead of a car - when the whole system is collectively planned and owned - there is no incentive at all for creative destruction.
This sort of personal attack is a bannable offense on HN, and you've done it repeatedly. Your comments to HN have also frequently been uncivil, often egregiously so. Since we asked you to stop breaking the site rules and instead the problem has gotten worse, I've banned your account, at least until we get some indication that it won't happen again.
Personal attacks are a bannable offense on Hacker News. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13577142 downthread.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13575388 and marked it off-topic.
REAPER is such amazing quality software. In my makeshift studio/music room there is a spare machine with an 8-in/8-out sound card, just to record some drum tracks and so forth. The machine is an Athlon Thunderbird 1400 with 512 MB of RAM and Windows 2000. REAPER runs flawlessly, rock stable, fast as any other DAW you'd care to name on a modern system. It's a recent version; I see now that the very latest one doesn't support Windows 2000 anymore but it did as late as maybe a year ago.

The full version is a nine megabyte download. It has pretty much all the same features of Cubase, Pro Tools, Logic etc. and is way ahead in terms of customizability.

REAPER must be some of the most well-written and likeable software out there currently. It's just refreshing to see such thought and care being put into a program. It's very affordable, too. I recommend it wholeheartedly whenever someone asks me about how to start recording music with a PC.
His other talks are great too! My favourite is "A Whole New World".
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks
Did you read the article? That was brought up in there.
I use MPC-HC for that, and haven't noticed that effect... though I haven't been listening for it. Yet.
> Tech is basically the most overpaid career there is.

It isn't because if you don't maintain your skill set by constantly keeping up with the latest frameworks, data stores, or even languages then you become obsolete. Not all of this can be done during work hours. Consequently it's a career that's prone to ageism.
Most certainly. This current work I am doing builds upon the mountaintops of huge amounts of work built by two men who base their work on yet more huge foundations.

Igor Ledochowski - http://hypnosistrainingacademy.com

John Overdurf - http://JohnOverdurf.com

As far as context-free therapy goes, that's a bit of an advanced subject, but can be learned and mastered through some of their programs.

The key tenets are simple though. As a model, consider that human language builds around 5 concepts: Space, Time, Energy, Matter, and Identity. These 5 also map cleanly to questions (5Ws and H) and language predicates in human language. Space is Where, Time is When, Energy is How, Matter is What, and Identity carries two with Why and Who.

Every problem you've ever had is built up of some combination of the 5 in a specific way, unique to you.

The pattern of all change is this:

1) Associate to a problem, or in other words, bring it to mind.

2) Dissociate from the problem, or basically get enough distance from it so that you can think rationally and calmly. Similar to a monkey not reaching for a banana when a tiger is running after it, your brain does not do change under danger and stress well. It can, but that usually leads to problems in the first place.

3) Associate (think about, experience) a resource state. Another thought or experience that will help with this one, for example if someone were afraid of clowns, I'd ask a question like, "What clowns fear you?" It usually knocks them out of the fear loop for a second.

4) While thinking about the resource, recall the problem and see how it has changed. Notice I said has changed. It always changes. You can never do your problem the same again. Will this solve things on the first go? Maybe. Maybe not, but it's enough to get a foothold and a new direction and loop until it's done.

Which is what makes this fun and exciting to do in person and fun and exciting to help teach a machine to mimic it to.
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Bonus fact.

`go-fuck-youself` is great for developing `go-fuck-yourself`.

All you got to do is:

$ cat howto.md | gophersay
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// get updates
go-fuck-yourself get -u github.com/adamryman/go-fuck-yourself
// make updates
go-fuck-yourself build github.com/adamryman/go-fuck-yourself
// or
go-fuck-yourself install github.com/adamryman/go-fuck-yourself
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And bam!, your new version of `go-fuck-yourself` will build!

~~Plz give a star if you dig~~
If supply and demand were allowed to run their course then a lot might, but a surplus supply is created instead.
Ball Valves, Butterfly Valves, Foot Valves
You want https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsule_hotel

Not very popular in the states yet, but we'll see.
Sorry, where? I'm not seeing it.
37signals' Know Your Company is hiring their sole programmer
Sure, but if you're doing intensive graphics of any sort you really need to use OpenGL for compositing. Doing it at the OS layer is really inefficient.
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That third paragraph could make for an awfully interesting short story. It would just need a bit of plot or social commentary added beyond just playing around with the initial idea.
Even though, the number of React's API is still larger than [Binding.scala's API](https://static.javadoc.io/com.thoughtworks.binding/binding_2...).
One solution is to revitalize second- and third-tier urban centers. Places like Nashville (already hot), Tampa, Detroit, and Indianapolis. Perhaps even Lincoln, Nebraska, and Birmingham, Alabama. Not everyone can live in Manhattan itself but the density, services, and lifestyle millennials want can be recreated elsewhere where land costs are practically zero. An art scene, a food scene, some condo loft conversions and trendy commercial space; it's a sort of county-level cultural CRISPR process. Smart entrepreneurs are already hard at work on this but it's an effort in which I think Government could provide massively effective incentives to accelerate the outcome.
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Why should you have to work a shit job because someone from another country will?

Start prosecuting employers of illegal immigrants, and you'll see the wage floor rise.

Employers are not entitled to cheap labor. Advocating for such an environment is why the US has a pseudo-populist president now.
How and Why Government, Universities and Industry Create Domestic Labor Shortages
Less than 60% of Californians have air conditioners at home, as opposed to 80% of Americans. So, you seem to be missing a comparison to the 47 other states whose AC ownership percentage is strikingly higher.
Mike Acton's Data-oriented Design is definitely a must.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc
Slightly OT, but is there a modern eqivalent to 2600 or Phrack?

I mean, I find some interesting blog posts here and there, but these days I haven't been able to find a good quality, (relatively) frequently updated source of grey hat news/exploits etc.
I'm not saying it's easy to write shader code for all of these things to offload the bulk of the drawing work to the GPU, but it would provide a huge boost to performance.

OpenGL makes for fairly portable code, especially if you're doing something extremely narrow like rendering on a 2D texture canvas. It's only when you start to use exotic OpenGL features that you quickly get into trouble.
I'm an American and I have no idea.
Oh, I just mean that some things work really smoothly - it's not just a basket case. I didn't have to install or modify anything with the 3G modem and the network manager just took care of it (and prefers a wifi connection if one is live), which was surprising. This is an option that the biggest prestige laptop maker doesn't even offer.

Debian in particular won't work OOTB on most computers because their philosophy excludes proprietary drivers in the base install... and wifi loves proprietary drivers. That's a 'Debian-philosophy-specific' issue, not a 'linux' issue.
The scarcity of housing in cities is artificial. Most cities have a class of elderly landowners who enjoy their unobstructed views and high property values and have the time to sit in planning meetings all day and will fight tooth and nail against any new construction, using both liberal (gentrification) and conservative (crime and crowding) arguments.
Had the same doubts... although the ad obviously makes no sense with no company/product name being shown.

Pretty sure it's satire, but as a non-american I don't understand it either.
Nice story. And yes, I still have WinAMP, even if I don't use it much...

Picky point: Apple opened the iTunes Music Store on April 28, 2003. The iPod came first.
My apologies, I used the word extreme because it is one end of a spectrum, which is to change everything. I did not mean "extreme" as a value judgement as the word is often implicitly used as. My logic was also extreme in that it argued that nothing should be changed.

In regards to your second paragraph, I know you didn't and I hopefully didn't insinuate that you did. I'll try to clarify: Moving from the current system would be done by the American (Person of privilege) helping the Syrian compete for his job, which the American logically may not be interested in, given that it threatens his or her stability.

My apologies, again, if you believe my comment was convoluted. I can rephrase if you direct me to what specifically was difficult.
Excess power is kind of like garage space. If there's any available, we'll usually find some to take.

The amount of potential energy from rooftop solar is insane. It's so powerful and cheap that in my home buying selection I'm avoiding homes with obstructed south-facing rooftops.

Rather than building plants we should be expanding the "dumb" residential grid to handle many, many more kW of residential solar and fairly subsidize the owners who feed it.
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More pretty graphs here about the big outsourcing firms' H1B salary distributions:
https://www.axios.com/h1-b-salaries-2228205505.html
It's a bit a both, although probably best termed 'art'.

It's satire by proxy in the sense that nearly all 'projects' Cards Against Humanity and the ad in question were, and the prose mirrors the structure of similar post-mortems undertaken by legitimate companies in similar situations. It may have elements of truth (although hard to confirm at this point), but the purpose is to hook the ad (which was context-free) to the cause, and thus generate buzz, speculation, and more analysis. In other words, a publicity ploy intermixed with a pick-your-own-layers of social commentary.
Capitalism also drives greed, destruction and human misery as well as some other pretty evil things.
Definitely satire, although I was surprised they mentioned a well-known ad agency by name. Just check their past marketing efforts (and the general idea of Cards Against Humanity.)
Is the Linux Desktop less secure than Windows 10? [pdf]
It's clearly satire
I wonder if they could use an underwater wing design, similar to this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5SHn0SdXjw). You keep swapping the angle of the wing so it's always pushing forward whether the vessel is moving up or down, but it would be powered by the waves moving the ship. It might be possible to get a slow base load speed for 'free' with a large enough wings
How to activate your brain's ability to learn
Xfce, kde (possibly unity, maybe enlightenment) can do the former. Dmenu (probably unity, kde, other standalone programs) and enlightenment can do the latter (Enlightenments Everything launcher is amazing).
> What stops this from happening in the Schengen Area

EU countries are much more uniform than the rest of the world in their level of welfare support and social development (e.g. UK and even Portugal are much more alike than say Bangladesh and the US).

Besides, there has been a lot of movement from poorer countries to richer countries within the EU, and many people in the richer countries are angry about this. See Brexit etc.
There is an incentive for creative destruction - failure. If you can't continue innovating (eg you can't make a better horse) you have to take a different approach.
I prefer "du -h|sort -h" (for new versions of GNU sort, that support sorting "human readable" sizes.
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I have a vivid memory of being on a train journey, probably c. 4 years old, with my grandmother and her explaining to me that the reason the train stopped every now and then was because the people pushing it got tired. Yes, it's funny what you remember. I'll never know if she actually did say that or if I invented it. I don't think she was much of a joker.
Amicus brief filed opposing the executive order barring immigration
I wonder if this is really solvable by technology and tools?

I have no idea. The answer might turn out to be a social question of redefining the concept of a "job", for all I know. If the answer was obvious, I'm sure it wouldn't be an untapped opportunity. ;-)
The development obstruction is real. If you don't believe me then join Nextdoor for a neighborhood that's in the bay. You will find a group of highly dedicated and organized individuals who's sole purpose in life is to prevent any new high capacity zoning or construction.
This may be naive, but that sounds like a good use case for a head-mounted collision-avoidance system (like the ones in self-driving cars). I bet you could fit such a thing in a fairly light-weight headband nowadays.
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Sorry, I thought the claim was that removing immigrants would create more jobs for Americans.

As far as I can see, it would just create jobs that Americans won't or can't do.

And while you can raise the wage-floor, that increases costs, which may well raise prices....
It serves a purpose. But, in practice it means 1/3 of my life is spent doing nothing but checking the clock to see "Am I not dysfunctional yet? Nope. Dammit."
The licensing for the ISPs is atrocious. It's often 1/2 or more of what they are able to charge the customer, total, for the entire hosting package.
...that the user has to opt into by selecting a device in the popup, and not hitting cancel.
Probably a recent version of GNU sort. AFAIK "sort -h" dates at least as far back as the version shipped with Debian old-stable.
>Couldn't one also argue that a group of humans have a right to exclude other humans from the zones they hold

They could, but they'd be dating back to the principles that were prevalent when various species of the Homo genus existed. When Sapiens were a threat to the Neanderthals, the Neanderthals a threat to the habilis etc. They were thought of as threats for similar reasons as you mentioned; one being more privileged than the other, which led to an insecurity.

A lot of factors such as the geography, and the natural resources that companions the land play a huge factor in the well-being of the society. From what you're suggesting, I get the idea that you want that to remain as a given privilege that should only be cherished by the people who were born around it. That a human born in terrible conditions is a threat to the more affluent, and it's resources and security, solely because the latter was born in a better habitat.This doesn't seem very different to me than the ideologies adopted by the tribes and the cavemen that date back to tens of thousands of years.

I hope I'm not coming off too strong with my words. The language is my barrier, and I've been known to go off on a tangent sometimes due to that. I hope you understand.
People can't choose what country to be born in. But they can choose to move to a country with better welfare.

If you're thinking of women/couples having a lot of kids to collect those kids' welfare, it depends on how the welfare for those kids compares to the cost of raising the kid. Also many people would be morally against bringing a kid into a life of potential suffering just for their own monetary gain. But for someone with no dependents, moving to a new country poses no risks to anyone except themselves.
>- Android w/out Play Services

this is China
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Simplify worldwide taxing, company creation, money routing?
Also, migrants don't have mortgages, which lock down their mobility.
Trumps proposed economic plan is going to blast so many of the benefits to owning a home since the standard deduction will be doubled[1]. It will be cheaper to rent and it will really help maximize space. Say what we will about the president but this will be a massive boon to renting nomads.

Coupled with the fact that soon state tax might not be deductible, and there may be an entire class of people who find it better to sell their home and live elsewhere.

1. https://www.donaldjtrump.com/policies/tax-plan
Some of it's not how much it matters in modern times but that without that decline in cost it wouldn't BE modern times. Even now there are large chunks of the world where LEDs are making a huge difference because their lower cost means it's possible to power them with self-contained solar cells where it'd be a challenge to power even an incandescent nightlight without expensive fuel or a generator.

For those who like podcasts, Planet Money also covered this a few years ago: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/04/25/306862378/episo...
This is the funniest thing I have seen in a while. Loving the dig at postmortems. Working at this company must be wild.
Anyone who watched the super bowl, did they actually air that 30 second ad or not?
These are the same people that dug The Hole. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/28/cards-aga...
I was thinking that they could be tracking ships going in and out of ports, not necessarily while out to sea.
The Amiga 2000 shipped with a 7.16 (NTSC), 7.09 (PAL) Motorola 68000 CPU which was 32 bit internally with 16 external data bus.
If it is always better to move forward with a project with the cheapest labour available to fill the role, what purpose does the H1B system serve? Why not just grant entry to everyone who has a wanting employer without all the unnecessary hoops?
I found flights to Berlin on flychecker at 88 €
Daily color imagery of Earth from the EPIC camera onboard the DSCOVR spacecraft
Is there something that stops American workers moving to American places that have jobs? It seems to me that a lot already do that.
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