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> Just imagine a gardening and cooking class where you could teach:

> 1. Plant biology and genetics of seeds 2. Chemistry and Soil Biology, Composting, Decomposition. 3. Use geometry to design raised bed frames 4. Learn some vocational carpentry to build raised bed frames 5. Plant in different environments, track growth, production, measures in a scientific experiment 6. Learn to cook some different recipes with what you've grown as well as how different temperatures affect what you're cooking (caramelization of onions, etc)

> In a single intensive class you can bring together so many subjects and life skills that seem otherwise unrelated on their own.

> Heaven forbid you take it to the next level and get into programming a farm bot.

Add in "the student is interested in learning about biology/genetics", and you have unschooling.
You are assuming a zero sum market. Generally, when the market changes, the labor force changes as well (skills retraining etc.). It might be inelastic (i.e. changes in labor takes more time to adjust to new markets) but it does eventually happen. This is how the US workforce made the jump from agrarian to industrial to service economy.
Usually, a VC or other American investor sponsors the visa.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-10/how-tech-...
When it comes to immigration, there's two different concerns that we shouldn't try to conflate. There's the security aspect and the work permitting aspect and they should be handled almost entirely separately. As far as security goes, I'm fine with DHS and the various three-letter agencies being able to weigh in and veto someone's visa based on whatever vetting process they need to put in place. This part of the system doesn't seem particularly broken, despite how much Trump wants it to be broken so he can keep beating that drum.

As far as the work permitting process goes, that part is almost certainly broken. The H1-B system benefits body shops the most and is almost impossible for smaller businesses to use. It should be scrapped in favor of a system that puts the onus of determining who gets a work visa on the employers rather than the government. A points system is an unnecessary proxy for actually determining someone's ability to do the job and the job interview process is, despite how imperfect it is, the best tool we have for making that determination.

I'd be in favor of allowing any US company to get work a permit for any employee they want to hire, provided they pass the security screening. The necessary caveat would be that the company would need to maintain a certain ratio of US to immigrant employees and salary. This would destroy the body shops that know how to game the current lottery system. And it would make hiring immigrants much more predictable for smaller companies that currently don't benefit, at all, from the immigrant labor pool due to the complexities involved in sponsoring an H1-B visa. It would take race and country of origin almost completely out of the equation, at least from public policy since those decisions would be made by employers. And it would make life better for H1-B visa holders as well, since they could easily transfer to any company that was below the required ratio. Other countries have a ratio system and the worst that happens is they game the system by employing locals in no-show jobs, which doesn't seem like such a bad deal for those locals. It seems appropriately protectionist while still making it as easy and predictable as possible for immigrants.

As far as the wall goes, it's the dumbest public policy suggestion I've heard in my lifetime. Speaking as a Californian, our economy won't work without the steady stream of near-slave labor that comes across our southern border. It's an uncomfortable truth, but almost everyone in the state depends on the work of these people, whether they realize it or not. The fear of deportation keeps them from using services that cost us money. Getting rid of them would be like getting rid of the motor oil in a car engine. All the individual parts would still be there, but the engine would break down. And on top of destroying our economy, the wall would cost at least $20b as well, and Mexico won't be picking up that bill.
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> Most office jobs don't have an analog to "broom sweeping."

There used to be entry-level, no-skill "mail room" type jobs for people with little or no education. I'd imagine many Baby Boomers got their start that way (the same Baby Boomers who are amazed that their Starbucks barista has a PhD).
I've never seen a way to root my phones without some risk of turning them into bricks. How would I quickly and safely get root access to a Galaxy Note III without risking the destruction of the device?
>It's just not the way I would have interpreted the meaning of a border wall.

Well, consider a country as a people's collective house.

In this, a border, if not analogous to the walls, is at least analogous to the fence around the house and/or the lock on the door.
Every time I see a scroll text that jerk, the old demo coder in me wants to scream - I never released anything exciting, but, but figuring out how do scrolling smoothly was pretty much the first thing you'd learn.
The employer-employee relationship is almost always adversarial, we just don't notice it because the power is so imbalanced in favor of the employer and it's to their benefit to convince you it's not adversarial.

The employer pays you the absolute minimum he can to extract the maximum amount of value out of you in return. If he could force you to work an extra day for free, he would. If he could force you to work unpaid overtime, he would. If he could force you to take a risk to your own health in order to work more quickly and make him more profit, he would. This is all inherent and necessary qualities of capitalism.

We have checks to try to make this system palatable for human beings to exist within -- employers are liable for workplace injuries, you must be paid for your labor (unless you are salaried), and unions exist. Corporate interests are constantly trying to undermine every single check we have installed, and to prevent new ones. They must; it's their job, it will increase profits.

Most complaints about unions essentially boil down to them being too powerful. But if the government isn't going to step in and be a check on corporate power, unions had better be powerful enough to do something about it.

Tricking you into thinking this relationship is not adversarial is the greatest trick your adversary has ever pulled.
In all of my interactions with the police I've found that they pretty much have a free pass to do whatever they want to. Make up laws, threaten, beat, or kill. The punishment they receive will never measure up to any crime they commit.

Not sure what, if anything, could ever be done about it.
It's just slightly sloppy editing somewhere. It should be "rolling fluid principle, a vortex dynamic" or something like that. "Rolling fluid principle" is the name Sedláček gave the particular mechanism at play here, and it falls under vortex dynamics.
>A professional certificate is not a quality grading tool, it's a pricing mechanism.

Is it? At one time, physicians, too, were not all that keen on the idea of licensing.

"David A. Johnson and Humayun J. Chaudhry's surprisingly engaging Medical Licensing and Discipline in America: A History of the Federation of State Medical Boards was published to commemorate the centennial celebration of the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB). It opens with the infamous John Brinkley, known for transplanting live goat testicles into men in order to 'cure' impotence, and segues neatly into demonstrating how vital licensure and discipline continue to be for the medical profession and the general public. The authors pepper the book with many other such examples, making the dry remote process of licensure absorbing and pertinent to the reader..."

Having seen (allegedly) senior software developers do architectural things equivalent to said ghastly transplant, I'm not so sure licensure for software engineers would be a bad thing anymore.
Agree, the article even mentions the touchpad as a weak point... the touchpad is the single biggest reason I stuck with a rMBP for my last laptop purchase... it is overpriced on every component aspect save two. The aluminum unibody are nice imho and the touchpad is absolutely wonderful compared to every other laptop I've ever tried. The chromebooks have similar interaction, but much lower quality in feel... Most others fail on some usability, even if the feel is nearly as nice.
Clever trick. Thanks!
There is nothing to be gained by having a discussion with someone who insists that you are discussing in bad faith.
You get an exemption from the rules if you are a Nobel Peace prize winner or were ever the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge.
Easy to run at home with a web-based GUI for whitelisting, blacklisting and such. I like this tool a lot, personally, and it helps me feel better about keeping the family safe(r) online at home.
And you think of the millions of people wanting to get in here they're all world-renowned physicists or spiritual leaders? We would long run out of money supporting the hordes of cancer-stricken dirt farmers clamoring to get in here before the next Stephen Hawking shows up.
Maintenance aside, what should the future of govendor be?
Investors like data. The same data. The same fucking data
This after Tesla dumped Mobileye, due to Mobileye's inability to detect stopped vehicles partially blocking a lane. (3 known crashes, one fatality.)
The attitude you just displayed is basically why Trump won the election. Let me translate your statements to an economic reality: "Screw the entire middle of the country and anyone who doesn't live in cities. Except those guys in Chicago, I guess they're alright."

Low wage earners are a huge chunk of the legal US population. After the government the next largest employer in the country is Walmart. Most of those people live outside major metros because at those wages it's not affordable to get housing in major metros.

I understand your city folk bubble, but I suggest you step out of it before spreading elitist rhetoric. Economies are complex systems which cause strong interdependence between cities and rural areas. The politics from both sides of the aisle of trying to injure their opponents is counter productive to the entire nation.
The added spending from the additional incomes is likely to be larger than the reduction in spending in the baseline incomes.
I just thought I'd share that with the world... I have been using bind() and mock object for almost 1 year now... -_-

Maybe some people as slow as me will benefit from this.. sigh
> This is just not sound economics at all.

Honestly I think the statements I made are extremely simple.

Is it false that low-wage earners are also consumers?

Is it false that low-wage earners have less money to spend as consumers?
A friend of mine wrote in MUMPS, banking terminal applications. greenscreens, that kind of stuff. He hated it, but he told me then it was a job for life, he got paid well (not many people with those skills) and didn't really have a lot in the way of stress....
The person above you didn't say CEO. They said exec.

If she had stayed at Google and had some equity comp she would have netted more money. Absolutely.
> Hopefully it finally gets shut down during the Trump administration

Are you insane?? Didn't you hear many of Trump speeches saying that NSA doesn't have enough power??? And that we need to monitor more, especially certain groups but pretty much everyone as well?

And that companies like Apple should be forced to decrypt or have tools to decrypt their own technology.

Bush made surveillance wanted by public fear because of 911. Obama made it further legal by not doing anything against it and praising NSA as "your friendly neighbor". Trump is here to make it more invasive and to make it stay for good!
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This is so true. The touch pad on my Dell Latitude is a let down too, if anything it's too responsive and nothing I've tried seems to make any difference. I've got cheap chromebooks with better touch pads.
it's a bit offtopic, but I'm curious why you changed your opinion and became euro sceptic. Could you explain ?
It's particular a big deal given how hard it used to be to get information about these things... When I finally learned how to do DYSP's, it was thanks to finding someone willing to photocopy something like a 3rd generation photocopy of a cycle-count diagram that someone had drawn by hand.

So much effort was lost because of the communications barriers.
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https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2016/10/11/sho...

Also: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2016/10/13/fas...
Yes. I am non-ironically suggesting exactly that. Indentured servitude emerged as a solution to a socio-economic need in a bygone era, like the H1B does now. Neither is a perfect system, and all stakeholders concerned - the company, the employee, competing employees, society - get some benefits, some pain. But overall, American society is the net beneficiary of the education, skills, and entrepreneurial drive that immigrants bring with them (circling back to the original topic). Want proof? Look at the America today that was built by the ex-indentured servants and their descendants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_33#Origin

So what I mean is that last time they had high marginal income tax rates holding shares would simply entitle you to a number of benefits, a famous one of which is Disney's Club 33. Lots of things were available though. Yachts, ski cabins, ... Needless to say, zero tax was paid on this.

So good luck with that 90% tax rate. Not going to happen.
I don't want to butt in on your thread but I noticed the same thing
Ask HN: Best Enterprise Stack?
Hi Everyone -- I am setting a new company (not a tech focussed / engineering / product company) and am wondering what people have found to be the best stack for collaboration across the company. My needs specifically are:

1. Collaborative File Storage system (Box / DropBox / etc.)
2. Wiki or some other place we can collaborate on documents and keep organized.

Any thoughts? There must be something better than SharePoint for the wiki!
Line gets fuzzy when ISPs, in most part, are government-backed monopolies (I'm "lucky" because both Verion and Comcast covers my area)
That's something that happens. It's always worth talking to the mods to sort that out. There's a bunch of stuff to detect vote rings, spam, etc etc and sometimes it unfairly blocks the wrong stuff.

From what I've seen mods are happy to fix any problems.
That is most certainly not the case. While there are many who stay, there are also a sizeable number who go back to their home countries.
>Knowing that explicit white nationalism could be problematic, a white nationalist might speak in code.

This is a terribly dishonest debating tactic.
+1 for "3d-printed 'save' icon"!
The customers were given no choice. Either upgrade to new hardware with closed blobs or fall behind your competitors.

AMD is in the unique position of having price competitive hardware (per core anyway) in a market where they have effectively zero market share. Big players are going to be switching anyway. If there's no technical reason not to open up the boot process then why not tack on the value add? A few million USD in engineer hours and in a few generations the server market might flip back towards the good guys.

I can see a situation where an entity demands having full hardware trust and even if Intel outperforms, the trust is worth it.

Even if AMD doesn't, and I wouldn't hold my breath, we'll likely see a smaller market emerge for open chips by way of RISC-V and the like.
No. You cannot apply for your own H1B. This memo should be useful.

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Laws/Memoran...
>As long as there is a PSP on the system it cannot be fully controlled by the user, even if it's source code should be known.

Why can't you have self-signed PSP/ME firmware ? Why is this not similar to the way android handles bootloaders ? i.e., You either have OEM's keys in the chain, or you have your own. If your employer owns the machine, they do whatever they want. If you own the machine, you do whatever you want.
have you checked this tutorial out?

https://learn.adafruit.com/pir-passive-infrared-proximity-mo...
> Are you under the mistaken impression that increasing wages paid would cause people to work those jobs?

Has anyone actually tried paying $25 per hour plus benefits for strawberry picking?

Let me guess, you're entirely consistent in your beliefs and likewise oppose the $15/hour minimum wage for fast food workers. Because after all, that would lead to runaway inflation.
>Reasonable != true.

Right, but in some peoples' opinions, the moon landing being a conspiracy is reasonable. That doesn't mean we should discuss it like it's true on this website.
>> It's expensive, and a massive change in lifestyle...

I don't think it's expensive and not so much of a difference in life style. I went on LCHF diet (low carb, high fat). I don't even miss sugar, or pasta or bread, I don't need it. Once I had a cheat day every 10 days, but now I don't need this stuff. I enjoy amazing 0 carb deserts, that are sweet too. Plus I am lucky to have a gf who makes amazing 0 carb cakes. For breakfast I often eat egg omelette with spinach (in leaves), with sour cream and butter. It keeps me full for a long time. My energy levels are through the roof. On LCHF you can also eat out, just don't eat starchy foods, stick to fat and proteins. I think this is the easiest diet to try and tweak later.
Shard it out and have several accounts. If you do that much business, set up accounts/companies for subsectors of what you are selling.
Being Wrongly Accused of Being a Paedophile Because of a Typo by Police
Agreed. Except format strings and stream formatting and printing options get confusing quickly.
>Your own comment implies this bias even if you didn't mean for it to sound that way.

I see your point, but I disagree in this situation. If there was no context around the discussion, you'd be exactly right. But there is context, and the context is the immigration ban put in place by the president. That immigration ban excludes people from specific countries. This article was very obviously written to show how important immigration is as a way to counter the reasoning that bore the immigration ban, but I feel it cheapens the point when you include immigrants who are not part of the ban.

Basically, if the point of the article was just "immigrants are good", then yes, you're right. But since the point of the article is "this immigration ban is bad!", it makes sense to restrict the discussion to people from countries actually listed on the ban.

To put it another way, what if the article mentioned Canadian immigrants, South African immigrants, German immigrants, British immigrants.... but no Iranians? No Syrians. No Iraqis. The conclusion of the article could then be portrayed as "see? muslim immigrants don't do anything useful anyway! ban them!" For every immigrant you put in the article that isn't affected by the ban, the case for the ban becomes stronger. That's why I think we should limit our conversation to the context implied by the article's conclusion.
Well it does serve as a nice class filter. Lower class people tend to not be able to afford college...
If you are more proficient in Lisp than Python, your Lisp will be more readable than your Python.
On-the job training?
Machine Learning: A New Weapon Against Forced Labor and Human Trafficking
Place a moratorium on legal immigration. The economy is a means rather than an end, and, three-hundred-million people is more than enough for North America.
Could also be titled, "humans continuously reinvent the wheel, take credit anyway."
I'd love a link!
Wow, thanks for this excellent resource and links!
There has been a - now defunct - working group which tried to address the issue of setting cookies on sub URIs: https://www.w3.org/TR/csp-cookies/ Particularly interesting is the proposal by someone from Akamai: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webappsec/2013Se... to include a path scope for cookies. I don't know if there are any more recent developments on cookies and their scope policies.
> thanks to Zhendong Su and his team whose fuzz testing prevented many bugs going into the release.

http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~su/ claims 1228 bugs found (counting both LLVM and GCC). Impressive!
> "If we didn't have a compensating factor, those stories would dominate the front page every day and HN would no longer follow its primary rule: "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity". Of course that means HN is subject to our interpretation of what counts as "intellectual curiosity"

I appreciate the straight talk. I had some questions about the above. Suppose there was a post on the front page that was popular, and "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity", but it happens to conflict with the interests of

A) HN,

B) YC, or

C) Specific individuals within YC, such as sama or pg

Can you guarantee that such stories will not be negatively moderated for that reason alone?

In the interests of transparency, can posts that are negatively moderated be publicly flagged, so that people can form their own opinions on whether the mods are using their powers in a fair and unbiased manner?

Most of us HN readers appreciate the work you're doing in moderating this forum. We're all in favor of mods using their powers in order to further the site's stated goals, but we're also very wary of mods using their powers in order to further their own personal agendas. We're worried that without sufficient transparency, it's only a matter of time before mods start abusing their powers. Hence why posts like this, and accusations of censorship, are such major topics of interest.
But 26.9% of immigrants in the US are from Mexico (as of 2015), which dwarfs the next largest country of origin India at 5.5%. Furthermore, the Mexican fraction was even larger in the past.

http://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/larg...
Computers as we know them are, in fact, dying. This is a genuine pain point for some people, while being an opportunity for others.

Click-baity and misleading are not the same thing. Having a title that gets people to look at all is necessary to get traffic. This is true even on HN, in spite of how much people decry the evils of click-bait titles. It is incredibly hard to title things excellently well, such that it gets traffic but won't get labeled as "evil, nefarious click-bait with some dirty agenda" by the HN crowd.

I do freelance writing and I blog and I submit stuff to HN regularly. My view of this is not rooted in stupidity. It is rooted in knowing that click-bait titles work to get views and can get your article flagged to death even if the article per se is an excellent piece of writing, yet trying too hard to not be click-bait can mean you get very few views and no upvotes.

Titling things well is hard. I see nothing nefarious in how this is titled and I have too much firsthand experience with how incredibly critical HN is. The criticisms here are to the point of being neurotic and cranky. It is not merely a case of placing a high value on excellence.
Which is a great point. The NEED for immigration and how to address it should be balanced with the NEED to develop the knowledge, skills and training of citizens. Importing labor because it's lacking doesn't address the problem of why it's lacking.
Exceptions all. The point of any laws is not to catch the exceptions, but to state the rule for the average.

There's no way a standard policy is going to somehow separate the Stephen Hawkings from the general population before they have actually accomplished anything of note.

So your policy can either be cautious, or it can be over liberal.