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The purpose of the H1B is to allow companies to fill a need the labor market cannot supply. It does not exist for the benefit of the worker. It makes no sense to make these portable.
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All these effects are the product of workers being stuck in their jobs through the H1B program. Give H1B workers the same rights as American workers and they will compete on the same terms, getting a competitive salary and not bringing wages down.

If someone's got an H1B, it's because there's demand for the job, unsatisfied by US workers, wether at the original company requesting the visa or in the industry in general. Companies will pay them correctly when foreign workers are free to leave for the competition. And when they do, they're not unfair competition for locals anymore. With equal pay, companies will prioritize US workers over visa hassle.

Also, ban H1B outsourcing.
Anything that causes a delay can be a potential safety risk
Reading through l3m0ndr0p's comment history is quite a surreal experience. Almost every one of their posts is downvoted to grey, even the extremely uncontroversial and mundane ones. I can get how, with a comment history like that, whatever algos HN has running might automatically drop them to the bottom of the page since it would just run blindly on whatever metrics it sees.

What I find harder to understand is how they ended up in that position in the first place. Their comments aren't exactly in lock-step with the general HN view of the world, but they're not that far out either. If anyone thinks I'm being OTT here, go and see for yourself. Diversity of opinion is a good thing. I'd hate to see HN turn into another mindless echo-chamber.
Skill engineers and scientists are despite terrible universities, not because of it.
It won't change the fact that a lightweight scripting language is coerced into running increasingly heavier apps. Defending it, comes off as a Stockhilm syndrome really.
> I think its very apples to oranges to compare Uber's subsidies with Amazon's infrastructure spend.

Yet you are comparing them. My point was exactly that comparing these are apples and oranges. And it is a matter of obviousness because you seem to think it's obvious that Amazon's "moat" was an obvious moat whereas Uber doesn't have a moat at all.

I'm not even saying Uber has found their absolute moat either. I'm saying a lot of analysis we take for granted was never obvious when the companies were in their early days.

Youtube's model was never obvious either (and still not obvious in terms of profitability) yet they managed to near monopolize the online video sector. You could say the same thing about Youtube. They didn't know how to make money, and they just kept bleeding money. So bad that they had to sell themselves. Yet they have built something valuable, and someone wanted to buy them to use as a very important strategic asset.

Who knows what will happen to uber but I don't think it's so bad that they will obviously fail. It's more like 50/50. They do provide great value to people, and I am sure they are doing whatever they can to create what you call a moat, just not visible to you. I still stand by the fact that Amazon's "moat" was never obvious until recently.

If you really think it was as easy as "Amazon was spending money purchasing real things so they were actually accumulating value, compared to Uber", you should read this book https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Store-Jeff-Bezos-Amazon-eb...

There were so many points in Amazon's history where everybody mocked them and criticized them just like you're doing right now for Uber. For example at one point everyone thought a decentralized marketplace (eBay) was the future and Amazon will die off because eBay never kept inventory, which came with a lot of benefits such as high margin and low operating cost, not to mention people used to say "eBay is the true internet marketplace, Amazon is just a web1.0 company and won't survive in the world where every sale happens online peer to peer".

So basically what you're referring to as a moat now was actually considered the biggest weakness for Amazon at one point in history.
just received mine. rejected! Well, good luck for the interview guys!
What does the ebay app do that it needs different binaries instead of the standard <whatever an android jar> is called?
I would absolutely go to lunch events. (It's quite common for the non-programmers where I work within their fields.)
The fact the positions would not otherwise go unfilled does nothing to diminish the contributions of OP to the country.

You may have a valid point (at first) but then it gets ugly. There isn't a reason to make someone just trying to get the best out of life feel bad.
Polymer's polyfills don't work very well, for what it's worth. Sometimes they get confused if things don't load from the network in the order they expect and start eating up gigabytes of RAM and all your CPU...
H1B is a privilege not a right. You seemed to have done quite well for yourself, more proof that h1b isn't endentured servitude if you're good enough.
You could care less. So that means you do care when someone makes the mistake?
I suspect you could hack a similar collapsing thread UI together with styled radio buttons and no JS, if you really wanted to prove a point.
I fell off my skateboard and landed right on my bum. I don't remember much about it, just a profound shock. Like something bad had happened.

I tried to walk home but ended up walking down a curved lane. Part way down the lane there was a gate that I had already walked past, I was confused, but realised that I needed to turn around and just keep walking. Then I'd see the gate and realise that I had got confused and turned around. So I'd walk down the curved lane without turning. But I'd reach the gate again and have to turn around and walk without turning.

My friends found me some hours later. Walking and crying.

My spine had been shoved up into my brain. Something had got jiggled around. I had lost around three years of memories and my short term memory was confused.

It came back. Oh, the wonder at when it came back and I was living in two times at the same time. I was two ages. My younger self could ask my older self about the future, old me would hand memories down to young me. Like TV pictures.

It has always felt like I have a rotten bit or a bruised bit (like an apple) inside my brain. Smells or feelings will trigger mild panic. I dream of that lane. And walking. I can poke at the broken bits of my memory. I don't want to dive into them, but I know enough now to poke around the edges. I can write the story down without feeling too much about it. Like an old hard drive that sort of knows where the bad sectors are.

Brains are weird. Meat that thinks.
yup! and
"neccesary"
Do those Starbucks workers have a technical background? If yes and they're still working for starbuck wages, then there is something wrong.
Corbett Report: Derrick Broze and 'Manifesto of the Free Humans'
Just received my rejection.
Same in SF and LA where you can split lanes in traffic and use the carpool lanes. If you want to risk it the motorcycle is the fastest way around, even across the bridges.
Keep going, you can do it next time!
Using this from Australia - would love a checkbox to turn all measurements to metric!
Another propaganda piece by Jeff Bezos and Co. and the military industrial complex of the US empire.
It isn't just him. Facebook slowed for whatever reason on my PC too in the last half a year.

4.5 GHz 4670k, 16Gb of tight timings ram.
Developing for Alexa Using Elixir (Part One)
American citizens and GC don't need H1Bs.
Old school devs and those who prefer to invest the bulk of their effort on the backend might be delighted to discover Intercooler.js

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12885980
I know a dual physics/mechanical engineering major who is driving trucks.
... that was pretty uninformative. The first 4 paragraphs the author is just talking about nothing.

React Fiber is nothing new. It's more than an year old. Facebook has talked about it many times. Anyone who uses React would know this.

Shouldn't we prefer official sources instead of articles written by third party content writers that are clearly not that knowledgeable? Seriously, this article looks like the author was being paid by character count and not quality.
we just received our rejection. Good luck guys!
because it was gaining huge traction duh
Intel loses its Lustre – Chipzilla bins own-brand HPC file system
https://barnacl.es/ kinda...?
> institutionalized misogyny was pretty deeply ingrained in every pre-modern culture

This is an extremely simplistic view that ignores millennia of men being injured or killed for the sake of women. How many lifeboats have been recovered packed with women and children and not a single grown man? Was all that done out of hatred? If we really want to be simplistic, let's look at history and sum it up that women are indifferent toward the safety of men. That's about equally accurate.
I'm guessing you are from the US.

I am from Australasia and the fewer/less distinction is largely respected in my experience. I find the example jarring.

Regarding light/lite, I am doubtful that this is a problem outside of the US.

Don't give in so easily!
Last time I tried to use the Windows Subsystem for Linux it was a mess. I thought I could access my files from windows and messed all the filesystem.

Now it looks like I can freely exchange my files between the WSL and Windows. Is it true?

Do I finally have a linux inside a windows machine where I can install things using apt-get (instead of cygwin setup.exe)?

When will it goes into the official Windows 10 version?
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Just received rejection.
Rejection mail just hit the inbox.
Sure. A vision is an imagining of what the future might hold. If you don't have someone keeping the vision, a visionary, calling the shots and resolving conflicts, then the vision gets diluted amongst all the different people believing in it. It's a game of telephone only the end result is the livelihoods of everyone involved. It's easy to lose faith in.

Whereas if you have a person where the buck stops, vision-wise, then you don't have to know every little detail, you can just trust the person to make everything work. Most people aren't very imaginative, they want to deal with their own stuff and leave the kingdom-building to someone else. It's just enough for them to keep the faith.

Picture it this way. Say you have a plan for a better world. If the plan is, "hope X will happen," then that's a very different thing to believe in than "do X, Y, and Z, and if we do those things right, then A will happen." Both are imagined sequences of events, but one is more concrete than the other. A person in charge of the vision makes the vision that much more concrete than if it's spread out amongst random others.
So H1Bs would end up only working in NYC, Bay Area etc and only for the big players. Not good either.
Thanks! Mine is not a technology business at all, not sure how much that weighs on the decision.
Why port emulators to the browser?
I deliver sheds I build, and I use Windria to see which way the wind is blowing to find out the best time to travel with them.
> That's not true

It's true for not so good schools.
Still Life with Smoke Bombs
this x 1000
Interestingly, when the game launches or exits on my mac, i can see my desktop flash briefly as it changes into and out of what looks like ultra-high-res mode, a kind of 1:1 pixel retina screen mode. I wonder if the game is rendering the oldschool resolution but then nearest-neighbor-scaling it to ultra high res for no good reason?
My personally most played RTS. Is actually amazing that this game is still being patched. And also used in AI classes.

EDIT: https://youtu.be/L7XiE_V0PZ8
Keep in mind, this is not a replacement for class css transitions, but stylesheets can only go so far. It may feel a bit funny at first, but it truly opens up new possibilities that were not previously possible with simple css animations. The most obvious being state-dependent dynamic styles. And since you can animate any value you want (not just styles), the applications are only as limited as your imagination! Cheers! :)
When looking forward to what could be a good change, it's easy to miss out the importance of the intent of this reform. H-1B system is inefficient, but the intent of the current administration is not to make it efficient but to score the cheap points on nativist sentiment. H-1B reform will not make SV go republican, but anti-immigrant and non-skilled voter base of the president will be pretty happy (especially when there is nothing else to be happy about).

That and given the log of the current administration's initiatives, we can be rest assured that this reform will be as reckless and uninterested in details as possible and will do more harm than good to the US. Or there will be no reform at all.
Rejected. Sad :(
"These are my 32 square meters!"

If you're from Russia you probably get the reference, for everybody else:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Irony_of_Fate
Hopefully they'll add linux support with that new opengl backend they have
Oppenheimer and the Gita (2014)
What the article doesn't mention is that Muscovites are right to be concerned about "replacement" apartments offered by the government. There have been plenty of cases across Russia where "replacement" apartments were sub-standard, unlivable, or in some extreme cases existed only on paper. (In a variety of circumstances, e.g. after homes were destroyed in the wildfires in Khakassia). This is of course the consequence of corruption (which unfortunately hits hardest on the poor, the elderly, the working class, etc).

Another interesting point that the article doesn't bring up is that "khruschevka" apartments are not just limited to ex-Soviet countries - you can find them in other ex-Soviet allies, most unexpectedly in Cuba!
Wild guesses are nearly always junk, but some of the best physics looked like wild guesses before lots of testing.

I didn't get into just how an object could have a net electric charge, but IIRC such a state is accepted as possible in astrophysics.

For the FRB being not continuous but only intermittent, maybe the orbit is not perfectly circular; maybe there are other effects that make the FRB intermittent.

Science does not start with a testable hypothesis but with intuitive guesses; the more solid stuff comes later.

In this case, for these FRBs, we know so little that doing solid science has to wait and all of us can guess!
Anyone know if this is just the base game, or if it includes Brood War as well?

It'd be very cool if they open-sourced it, a la older IdTech games.
Works great for bioinformatics too. I've exited the Apple world (high prices etc.), and don't miss much now.

No longer have to modify Powershell to make it more Unix-like. Jupyter notebook works fine, so I'm happy. No more bother with dual booting either; Ubuntu is gone as well.
cheaper labour is good for those who own capital, not the people providing labour.
Cheer up! You totally got this next time!
The lower age group categories are kind of silly. The oldest Boston Marathon winner was 41 so I think it's only fair to group everyone at or below that age compete in a single category.
Well, that too, but the issue here (thinking that a central repo being offline means you can't use your decentralized version control system) shows that they don't understand git in any form.
Noam Chomsky was interviewed the other day and he said something like "the only thing the Democrats seem to be complaining about with Trump is that he wants to ease tensions with Russia, which is probably the only sensible thing he is doing".

Schumer is the Democratic leader, the leader of the party that 80 years ago was very well-connected to working Americans - even in the south. Trump is playing him and the Democrats like a fiddle. This is what the Democratic leadership stand for? Infosys and Tata? Taking a more war-like stance against Russia?

One additional point of Trump's cleverness is he did it in such a way that screws the most disliked element, Tata and Infosys, while not harming too much those actual PHDs that Google, Microsoft, Oracle etc. hire.

And people wonder how Hillary lost to Trump. You all should queue up that video Michael Moore made before the election about why Trump was going to win.
Sure, you can be a highly paid, yet bonded worker. Much different from slavery. MUCH different.
Experiment HN: I'll build whatever you want
I'd like to try an experiment live here on HN. I'll build whatever HN wants and document the process.

It'd be a useful thought exercise on how hard it is to evaluate and execute ideas, and I hope it will help me snap out of denial building things people don't want.

All ideas submitted will be public. Please keep v1 of the idea to something that can be built within a couple of days. I'll keep the source code and may push it further but feel free to copy the idea I end up working on.

If you wanted a way to test an idea fast, now you have this option.

To make sure I build something people want, I'll use a metric that shows how much you want what you're asking. For me to choose your idea, I ask that you pay.

It can be whatever you want, but if someone offers more their idea goes to the top and displaces yours. Feel free to discuss the ideas as much as you want here on HN.

If the top idea is something I don't have the skills to build I'll refund your money.

If this seems like it might be a useful experiment, I'm game. Else ignore me, but I'm not sorry to experiment.

Here's the link to place your bids.

http://138.68.19.20/
The new remastered version to be released in Summer is the same client as the normal version - I'm guessing 1.18 is actually here to test new engine for that release.
This reminds me of an article about unions in hollywood i read sometime ago. It wwnt somewhere along the lines of a guy talking to an actor on a set, and he brushes some dirt off the actor's shoulder. Later, he is approached by a women who asks him never to do that again because it was her union approved job to brush the casts clothing.

union driven bureaucracy is known to have extreme consequences in the name of job security
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Why 1866 Set the Stage for Two World Wars
Rejected. Thanks everybody. Congrats to invites and good luck to all!
I guess they'll just have to settle for (horrors!) American workers.
I just received my rejection. I'm NOT sad at all. I will keep going. However, I'm happy that I have received an answer from Y Combinator even if it is a rejection.

Good Luck everybody!
What sort of logs and processing are you doing? Do you mean 40 log entries per second, or 40 calls against your log processing service/infrastructure?
Rejected as well. I will keep making progress regardless.
That's what I thought until I decided to use Vue for one of my smallish projects and subsequently realized the cognitive benefits are enormous. Now I'll only revert to plain old JS for VERY small projects where the mild overhead of a framework really doesn't make sense.
I downloaded a previous version 0.8something (I'm not at home to verify) and it did include Brood War.
Yes, ditto. Having seen the tragedy of "urban renewal" in my city (Hamilton Ontario), where solid buildings with good bones were torn down and replaced with strip malls and bad 80s brutalism and parking lots, I can't help but think that Moscow is following our mistakes.
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It seems like 500 Million suns worth of energy ( not totally converted into momentum -- since we can observe it ) to power a spaceship, by an advanced civilisation, is a bit wasteful.

I think it's more likely if FRBs are from a civilization they represent something like the output of an industrial process ( maybe for creating dark matter or other exotic materials ), or the equivalent of blasting to get access to minerals, or even a weapon, like a super powerful nuclear or dark matter weapon. Someplace the expenditure of energy is justified by the cost. Or maybe it's a race of super-advanced giants playing with enormous laser pointers just for fun.
Runtime checks don't stop you from doing heavy data processing or having microsecond-level response times. It seems like your objections fall into two categories. One is caused by it running in ring 3, which can be solved by correcting "anything" to "any user program". The other is moderate performance limitations that don't stop it from running full video game engines. Those may not be ideal but they won't stop you from running anything. Video games are among the most demanding things you can do in most ways. The single core of today is better than the multi core of a few years ago, and nobody claimed that those couldn't run all programs.
It includes Brood War, too.
Yes, from East Berlin to Kamchatka. One size fits all.

The advantage for me was that I always knew where the bathroom was, even if I didn't speak the language. Rather than my usual act of disappearing into a cupboard...
Thanks! Nice differential geometry! I have some good books and plenty of background to read them, but I do need to read them. Want to; have for a long time; came close a few times but always something got in the way; will have to wait until my startup is done.
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For all the "rejected" : “There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it’s easy.” Let's keep going guys,even after 1000 rejections. At the end, the difference between an unsuccessful person and a successful one is that the latter never gave up.
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I don’t think that was an oversight.

I think rust safety model prevents rust containers from returning mutable pointers to the contained items. Especially pointers to item's implementation details, like nodes of that linked lists.

And without raw pointers to items, you can’t easily compose containers to make higher-level data structures from them.
Pretty unlikely given they've never released a game for Linux before, despite having OpenGL support and internal builds.
That's entirely addresed by "The implication was applications."

Nobody was trying to make a claim about web assembly drivers. Just applications.
Come on you guys, one link is probably ok but at 5 you're well into spamming.
Interestingly enough, the article you refer supports my point: the alternative to H1-B is jobs shipped overseas entirely. In fact it states that shipping jobs overseas is the end game.

The stories I hear about are very often the IT departments being outsourced. This will happen with or without H1-B. These jobs are being replaced because they are relatively low skill and easy to replace.
Ah, sorry. In Dutch it is Restauratie -> restoring.

So, restoration rather. Thank you. Too late to edit though.
ICYMI: Government has a technology problem – view from a former fed
> doing full stack web

Is there really an abundance of really qualified full stack web developers? I met a lot of incompetent US citizens claiming to be full stack devs.
Yup, "We're sorry to say that your startup was not selected to interview for the upcoming Y Combinator batch. Please don't take it personally." TRICKSY HOBBITZES! :(

Thank you for opportunity! You're darn right we're applying W18!