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Anyone trusting a computer - any computer - is a giant fool in my book. Trust is a strong word, and computers suck balls fundamentally at keeping information safe.
My H1b petition got approved in January,2017. My questions are 1) Does this affect stamping? 2) Does this affect premium processing for amendment?
Cutting their satellite programs would be a loss for the whole world: some years ago we[1] used it to find gas flares in Nigeria and estimate their environmental damage and the amount of energy wasted by flaring it instead of power generation for the population of the Niger Delta:

http://gasflaretracker.ng/

[1] I built the application working as freelancer for http://www.stakeholderdemocracy.org/

While processing their raw data I got a small discrepancy and they very kindly replied my questions with the exact formulas and constants they used: the cause was that they used the density of methane at 20°C instead of 25°C as I had done.

Getting that kind of data from similar agencies in other countries, even Western European ones, is immensely more difficult even when it exists.
I started watching the Blendtec video. I had a hard time understanding what he was trying to communicate. He said flame instead of fame. It felt slapdash.

If you are somewhat anonymous (Officer401) it makes sense to roll some video with voiceovers. But this video felt like a voiceover and a completely pointless one at that.
He expressed something similar to what he had said in the forementioned talk, that conventional mathematical notation is unhelpful, and that we ought to be able to express things more clearly as programs. I agreed that I find conventional mathematical notation unhelpful; when I try to read papers there are concepts I easily understand as code but I can't parse the symbolic math of. "There's too much operator overloading", I said, "and that makes it hard for me to understand in which way a symbol is being used, and papers never seem to clarify." Sussman replied, "And it's not only the operator overloading! What's that 'x' doing there! That's why we put 'let' in Scheme!"

https://dustycloud.org/blog/tag/sussman/

Looks like you are not the only great mind to think of this (although I do also think that a diagram with some text can lead to the clearest explanations)

There is a link to a video in that where Sussman explains the notation although there may be better ones also.
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Restaurants and anything mom&pop will probably be cash-only, but pretty much anything that's a chain (big supermarkets, stores in malls with their own branded cards [includes JR train stations], etc) tends to support electronic payments.

I find a lot of places may accept cards if you ask them, but they don't have card logo stickers anywhere or a prominent card reader.
At least some of the donations would have been made directly to charities had Paypal not advertized in their name. So charities who weren't informed, couldn't get or didn't want a Paypal account were deprived of donations.

They did the whole thing to get people to use Paypal but didn't want to put in the effort to run it properly. In effect they ended up defrauding charities. If you put up a sign that says "accepting donations for charity X" and then don't make every effort to donate the collected money to X, it's fraud.

"Paypal accused of defrauding charities" would have been the appropriate title.
H1 visas are not immigrant visas! Additionally, the new administration isn't 'anti-immigrant' but anti-illegal immigrant. There's a huge difference.
>> law in question is bad

>> If a law is unjust

To me those seem like very different things. I'd bet Jefferson was talking about laws that severely impact people's lives (slavery, torture, things we would consider human rights breaches) and not pretty innocuous things like taxi regulations.
I see. My impression is that in US film and television "legos" is used almost exclusively. But it's not like I've been taking notes or anything, and I could well be wrong.
I'm not sure what your point is. Is it that since every state benefits from NOAA data it's a sensible investment federally? What if a state requires 5x as many resources as another state? We already have a scenario where southern states draw a lot more than they contribute. We enable states to avoid managing their own citizen's welfare. A lot of people don't want to pay for other people to live in known tornado alleys, just like those people wouldn't want to pay for people to live on fault lines overlooking the ocean or in flood plains.
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In a lot of places the public transport cards (that are anonymous and can be recharged with cash) are also accepted for payments at various retailers (see Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong...) and are very popular since everyone already has one to ride the subway, so why not buy a drink at the convenience store with it too?
> But the patten is there, already laid out. The only role bureaucracy might play will be to get out of the way. To not impede.

It has another potential role to play though: safeguarding the playing field. For each Tesla trying to make the world a better place, there's an Uber, fucking society over for profit. The role of bureaucracy should be to allow the former and prevent the latter.
Some UEFI implementations even call themselves BIOS :-)
Well, it is deviously clever.

But using it at scale with drivers and investors at risk? That's crazy.
Error in conciseness! I can empathise completely and do understand the reasoning of the opinion of a large number of people who do not want a third party being privy to every transaction. I was attempting to convey that there are likely many people on both sides of the debate, should have expanded a bit more!
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Works great! On my project full builds went down from ~20s to ~17.5 and dev builds down from ~10s to ~7.8s! Good stuff. :)
There are also the Elbrus processors which I believe are entirely designed in Russia, although some models are manufactured by TSMC (and some are manufactured in Russia).

The early models implemented a proprietary VLIW architecture with enterprise-y features (like hardware-tagged pointers, probably borrowed-ish from Itanium) with a dynamic binary translation layer for x86 compatibility on top, not sure if they still do that or perhaps the other way around now.
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Yes, This Old Tony one of the best Youtube channels at the moment. His old videos are all good, but the last few videos were really excellent.

edit: Another good channel is Clickspring, right now he is building that ancient greek mechanical computer thing which was found in a shipwreck.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13742449
> gay people shouldn't have kids people

Come again?

> Very much doubt this is due to our history of immigration.

The south is full of racists anyway, according to media portrayal.

> Is this the same kind of logic

Since the US is a multi faceted country you can reasonably assume that it's not all ideally awe-inspiring.

> the bigots will bully

Whereas you take extra care to remain neutral or at least not to flame offensively in an unrelated thread? That doesn't seem to be working for you either.
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I think those unimaginative bureaucrats are your best bet right now. The sort of technology that could solve climate change is probably in the "hard science" category, and startups probably the worst structure to tackle those. What this crowd could contribute is more along the "thousand papercuts"-strategy: shaving off a few watt-hours here and there, and not inventing any more cryptocurrencies that turn coal into ashes and hashes.

Governments and universities have been quite successful inventing the big stuff, and they're also best situated to fight climate change via the other, equally important, avenues: getting agreement on worldwide collective action, incentivising the private sector , and transforming economic structures, habits, cities etc. For example, Germany almost single-handedly financed the 90% reduction in the cost of wind power generation with subsidies.

One initiative from VC-land that might be of interest to you is Y combinator's research effort into the future of cities. That may seem only tangentially related, but a well-designed city could probably eliminate the need for private car ownership and radically reduce the energy need for heating. Add in reduced use of materials for construction (apartments instead of single-family houses), smart concepts to share equipment among neighbours (washing machine, tools etc) and a few lifestyle choices we already see people in cities making, I wouldn't be surprised if energy usage could be reduces by 2/3 without loss in quality of life.
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It sounds like this happened in some places - uber cars getting vandalized in France, for example.

Once you say "we're not going to follow the law", do you have the moral right to demand it be enforced on other people?
I graduated one of the top schools in Japan and went to the US to get a PhD. (But somehow I got patriotic and came back to Japan after that, don't judge me.) In many ways, Japan feels like a gridlocked country. And people (especially young) already know it but can't do anything about it. I'll point out that the heart of the problem is its lifetime employment system, which the entire economy and social system of Japan is optimized for and depending upon.

So you wanna change schools? You have to change the system and reposition many teachers, but nope, it's not allowed. Teachers are well protected by the Japanese labor law and they can't do any other job (and from what I saw they're particularly inflexible work force). You want more diverse students? Good luck with finding a good career path for them, because under the lifetime employment system you can get good choices only when you're young, and you have to stay in the same company for the rest of your life. Again, many people assume that way and many financial systems in Japan are built upon this assumption. And finally, you want many more competitive researchers? Nooo, because there are too many mediocre researchers that have tenure already. You can't compete with them. Again, blame the lifetime employment system.

I, too, honestly don't know what's a good exit path from this. Personally I think having more immigrants is a way to go, but then there's this right-wing people and Trumpism going rampage right now. Sigh.
Why don't you research the job agencies and find one that says it works with candidates to help them with interviews and the like? Since the agency will be paid only when you are placed in a good role, their incentives and yours would be aligned. They would also have no reason to lie to you or hold back on the feedback they received from the prospective employer.

Even if you go off on your own to find a job apart from the recruiter, the advice they give you on candidate assessment will be invaluable feedback for you.
It sounded fine the first time I heard it, but I don't buy the "it wasn't free and Linux was available" argument any more. If more Linux users had read the papers like you, and done so early enough, they might have had an aggregate influence on Linux's design when it was still malleable. A Plan9-like Linux would have been just as good as Plan9 eventually.
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> norse languages

"Scandinavian" languages, please. Or even mainland Scandinavian, to distinguish from the (not very mutually intelligible) insular Scandinavian in the Faroes and on Iceland.

> I did know quite a few Danes

That last word is the explanation. :-) More below.

> I assumed the differences between the three big norse languages were roughly equal.

Swedes and Norwegians have little trouble talking with one another in their own languages. Norwegian written language looks more similar to Danish (indeed, bokmål is highly similar) in that a Dane would have no trouble reading Norwegian or vice-versa. Written Swedish differs in more than just the last three letters of the alphabet.

Spoken Danish is a whole other animal. It works out when people try to speak as standardly as possible. Norwegians and Swedes (except some from the very south of Sweden) will struggle with ordinary spoken Danish, and are even likely to turn on subtitling when watching Danish TV shows (likewise there will be Danish subtitling of some Swedish shows).

In some technical settings you'll see more use of English among Scandinavians because there is a non-commonality of terms, and of course it is simply more polite to talk in English when talking someone whose only common language (or indeed only language) is English, and it is especially Danish to do so in order to avoid excluding anyone.

That may have coloured your impression.
This is a genuinely cool idea. Seriously.

It raises a lot of questions about what sort of transformative spectrum (excuse pun) would be applied here though. It's is incredibly abstract as presented.

But even at the abstract level, the one thing I know would absolutely happen for sure is that the fixes that made the biggest difference would be hand-waved out of existence by infecting them with viruses, creating scare-campaigns, etc.

Source: I've learned a lot about Big Pharma over the past 10 years as I've quietly found real solutions to my own mental health issues. I'm sadly too scared to share what I've found and I keep seeing products disappear off the market or suddenly attract customs/overseas shipping issues. Suffice it to say that the medical industry is opposed to anything they can't patent - and that, as an industry, it must ensure its own survival. Interpret that any way you see fit.
Not quite as good, but if you invested in AMZN the day after its IPO at $1.49 on 7-27-97, it is $849.88 today. That's more than a 500x gain.
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Are there any examples of this? Where Americans got rescued but people of another country were left behind? I only have vague recollections of articles of people complaining of the massive bills the US charges for rescue operations, and that Anthony Bourdain Beirut episode where the Americans were some of the last out, after such military powerhouses such as Sweden.

Wouldn't a country like Luxembourg have an agreement with an ally? You have countries where the US has no diplomatic presence - e.g. the US doesn't have an embassy in North Korea, and Americans have to use the Swedish embassy if they need protection.
TBH I don't see anything wrong with him posting the links. How do we help people with depression and suicidal tendencies if we just hide any mention of it.

Dennis' post of what he went through and him coming out the other side should be bright shinning beacons tell people in the same situation to consider not following through.

HN: Although the links were off-topic, consider not removing them unless for the sole reason of being off-topic.
> Skåne, i'm looking at you

With a view to stamping out the dialect? You're a real 08er, indeed. :^)
Might I point you to this extremely short story: The Last Question, by Isaac Asimov [1]

The reason I bring this up is because of the "always"

Link(s):
[1] http://multivax.com/last_question.html
Just because the legal team approved it doesn't mean it is legal. Legal teams make mistakes all the time
> It's not normal to tip in a restaurant (or anywhere else).

Um, what? It's still normal and people do tip at resturants in Sweden. To be fair, neither you or I have any numbers to back it up and have to chalk it up to experience/intuition.
You realize cash discounts exist for precisely two reasons: the merchant avoids the 1.5-3% credit transaction charge, and (2) the merchant gets to under-declare on their taxes.
Steve Jobs wasn't an immigrant. Using Steve Jobs as some kind of H1B argument is silly. This is a false equivalency. H1 visas are not about importing the next Sergey; the vast, vast majority are about filling skilled jobs at lower wages than the current supply of workers in the US would support. Some world renowned robotics or AI engineer doesn't need an H1, s/he can apply for an EB visa. H1 visa restrictions aren't 'harming' anyone except companies that want to pay less than the US market currently would support. The evidence is the firing of employees at San Francisco State University in order to outsource the work to cheaper foreign labor. In San Fran State's case, there isn't a shortage -- they actually fired qualified experienced people. Thus the 'solving shortages' argument is practically bullshit. The 'shortage' exists when the desired wage is lower than the supply of those willing to work for that wage. Pretending that H1 is going to bring in the next Sergey et al -- that's just hyperbolic nonsense not supported by the statistics. The next Sergey isn't coming in on an H1 with Infosys -- ultra improbable.

The EB-1 visa is designed for the future Sergeys and it's an entirely different category than H1s. Then there is the EB-2 for the highly educated and are employment based. Finally there is the EB-3 for highly skilled immigrants.

H1b visas are for TEMPORARY, NON-Immigrant, workers in a specialty occupation.

Considering this is Hacker News, it suprising how immigration and H1 seem to be conflated almost every time H1 is discussed. If people want to immigrate to the US, an EB is the appropriate visa for highly skilled workers. Those using the H1 as a backdoor to a green card are essentially committing fraud if their intent when getting the H1 is to ultimately qualify for permanent residency. I would argue that an H1 should never be granted residency but instead an appropriate EB visa applied for instead.
Several comments have mentioned that sand is not a renewable resource and the need for alternative building materials. Where I live in Hackney in London there has been a gradual increase in the number of buildings built using cross-laminated timber. It offers huge benefits over concrete, it is a renewable resource and much lighter than concrete. Despite expectations the buildings are still just as fire proof as concrete and can be constructed up to 10 storeys high. There are 23 such buildings either built or completed in Hackney.
I'm still pretty new to docker and docker-compose. I've setup a few dev environments but how do you all deal with your app code? Do you mount it or do you copy it. I'm having permission problems with mounting. If you copy what's the workflow like and does kubernetes help at all with any of this?
I don't know if you can say that Uber has made the world a worse place. That requires at least a total ordering on Uber's biggest actions and probably quantification of the consequences.

If the advent of Uber has resulted in a billion drink deaths not happening but one person making $2 less per hour, it's clear. The other way around is clear too. But as it is right now, you can't assert that as is. You have to bring something more convincing to the table.
True, that statement does suffer from overreach. I was stuck in thinking of big government and entrenched players using economic tools to stifle positive disruptors. Of course there is a role for good as well.
> I've gotten every job I've ever interviewed for that I really wanted

Thanks for your account of anecdotal evidence. The thread needs more observation bias.

edit: I think you are onto something in terms of motivation (vs professional care), don't get my sarcasm wrong, I simply doubt you ever applied to jobs you really really didn't want. Call that survivorship bias or whatever.
LTS releases (like 16.04) get hardware enablement stacks where X/kernel/etc gets upgraded to the versions from the non-LTS releases. So if you make it work with ubuntu 17.04 for example it will trickle down to the LTS users. Makes LTS a much more attractive solution on the desktop. I've stopped bothering with the intermediate ones.
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I don't think compliation is the issue, it's supporting the diverse platform APIs and UI toolkits.
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The State Department has a similar service for expediting passports. It's great because it lets people that actually need it fast to prioritize themselves by paying more.
>This is terrible advice. As soon as you start the job, the people who interviewed you will wonder why your accent is totally different, and it will instantly put you on the backfoot.

Struggling to see why this would be seen as bad advice. The basic human response to a foreign accent is "this is hard work for me to understand them". On a more subconscious level, they're probably wondering if you share the same cultural interests and therefore whether you'd get on. If you are not like this, good on you, but I assure most are not.

Some people can be horrendously unforgiving about accents, the quickest way to experience this is to go to France or China and try to speak French and Chinese to them respectively. (these are the two countries I've found to be the most unforgiving on accent from personal experience).

If someone is presenting you with a solution to a problem (as defined by other people), why is that terrible advice?

In any case, why should the acting classes stop after landing the job? Being able to speak with a native accent in a non-native language should be seen as a virtue...
Agreed; I thought this article would be about countries who treat you unfavourably if you've gotten a visa to visit the US.
Only we've had what you ask for since the last 40+ years. And it hadn't work out that well, costing billions and untold lost hours and security issues.
> The only role bureaucracy might play will be to get out of the way. To not impede.

That's an incredibly myopic view of reality, and of the history of scientific progress. Bureaucrats eradicated polio and smallpox, invented the internet, space travel, GPS – and actually almost anything important you could think of (if you include public universities and publicly-funded research). They have the power to massively support new technology until it is self-sustaining. There wouldn't be any renewable energy production today without the help of bureaucrats organising massive subsidies that allowed these industries to scale up to competitiveness. With regards to power-consumption, regulation has played a massive role in decreasing energy needs: from fuel efficiency standards to seemingly stupid stuff like standby modes, which used to consume dozens of watts continuously because that was a few cents cheaper to manufacture, and consumers just didn't care.

Tesla is a fantastic company. But their best allies are just those bureaucrats and politicians: many countries support electric cars with tax breaks, sane countries have long ago started taxing the externalities of oil consumption, and there are thousands of initiatives on the smallest local level to allow electric cars to compete.

Cities create reserved parking with charging infrastructure, or open bus- and taxi-lanes to electric vehicles. Universities have massively invested in the basic research that made not just those cars possible, but also the generation of it's power from non-fossile fuels. Not to mention that (at least in sane countries), public transport and bike infrastructure have probably prevented CO_2 emissions at a rate that's still 3 or 4 orders of magnitude ahead of Tesla.
There was a story on Reddit a while back about a soldier who bought a Rolex in the 1960s for $120, and it was worth $70,000 today. Pretty lucky, right? But then someone pointed out that if he'd invested in the S&P 500 instead, it would be worth $25,000 today (if I remember the figures correctly).

It's pretty hard to outdo investing in the S&P 500, and most anyone can do it.
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