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The tv movie Pirates of Silicon Valley has a decent (if dramaticized) take on the birth of the personal computer, of which Microsoft, and its misdeeds, played a huge part in shaping for its own benefit. Microsoft under Bill Gates abused their monopoly position numerous times to force uptake of their own product which was often vastly inferior.
I'd love to understand the business benefit to PayPal of censoring its customers, particularly when the content they are trying to censor is not "criticism of PayPal." Has PayPal actually measured some negative effect on its bottom line when people who use their service talk about sex?
Billions of tons of H2 that take more energy to harvest than you will get out of them...

Resource availability isn't only about the mere presence of a resource, but that it can be extracted and used efficiently. The laws of thermodynamics are a stone cold bitch.
Our business model will be similar to that of BuiltWith's, i.e selling list of websites using a particular technology. For eg., list of websites using Drift chat (https://www.whatruns.com/technology/drift) will be a super-useful competitive intelligence for other live-chat startups.

Also, we are planning to introduce a predictive sales system which will suggest clients based on their technology adoption. For eg., if a company migrates to Magento, they are a potential client to Magento extension developers.
Let me just say "thanks" for your help with our immigration needs!

Because Peter is probably too modest to self-promote, let me do it for him: working with him is great, it was completely friction-free and we got our employee's visa situation handled very, very quickly. Highly recommend.
Not always but it is destined to be at this spot for a very long time.
AFAIK in this case law enforcement is the Inspection Service which is part of USPS; if images are divulged to any other agency, it's through USPSIS.
I have no degree, but have had a documentary made about my first startup in Canada + speak at conferences / meet-ups from time to time, have a couple of pieces of press and have a profitable business with a handful of employees
That article wasn't the first broad mention. I remember reading about BuiltWith being an outstanding one man project a couple of years ago, so I am in fact surprised the copycats took so long to show up.
If I can't get a research position in the States, but can in Europe, that is a problem.
This is really tough. There are all kinds of reasons why a financial services firm wants to deny services. They could range from trivial (this customer keeps trolling our customer service reps) to more serious (this customer serves an industry with a high fraud rate and we don't have the system or processes in place to handle this) to legally ambiguous situations (marijuana being legal in some states but not others, or arbitrary measure of what constitutes illegal porn).
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The $129.99 is not meant to be purchased. It's mostly a psychological artifact to make other in-app products seem more affordable.
You're right, I was quick to judge and patronize the previous comment, which isn't helpful. My b.

I think what irked me, specifically, is the way the question was phrased, as though guilt was the default assumption, which is absurd to me.

I interpreted "What alternatives exist for getting this info?" as "What other way would big brother be able to violate your rights, except through this?" which I now realize is not what he was trying to say.

Has there been any evidence linking the users of this site directly to this riot? My core issue is that this seems to me to be a case of attacking political opponents through the legal system.

What evidence do they have that there is relevant information in those records directly tied to someone who committed a crime? I fail to see anything in this article that actually mentions a valid reason for this search.

Their original request covered over a million users. How could that possibly be reasonable?
> Wait, don't the police get similar information dumps from similar fact patterns kind of routinely?

It does, and that's bad. Hopefully more people start realizing this.

> The concern is that the "investigation" is a pretense for intimidation.

Absolutely, and that's the toxic cherry on this poisoned cake.
Does this have any material impact on the H1 process or is it simply an annoyance?
It would depend on how often the "in-tribe altruism / out-tribe selfishness" trait crops up in other intelligent species.
Isn't sexual identity / orientation protected as well? These companies are banning clients for simply talking about sex.

That seems like a grey area but it's treading pretty close to discrimination in my mind.

Then again, should Google be forced to put adsense ads on a porn site? Really murky territory.
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After 12 years (of which 7+ years waiting for a green card) I have come to a similar conclusion.

How do you compare living in Canada vs USA , like schools and opportunities for spouses ?
If Apple and Android had a separate search/install/purchase experience based around demoing games and unlocking the full version, I would buy so much more then I currently do.
I imagine MUCH higher fraud and chargeback risks. I think a lot of places won't deal with porn sites because of the 'fraud' (real or claimed) issues.

Gambling may be illegal under US law, so I can see why you'd avoid that.
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The Fermi paradox still applies if, every time society reaches a point of advanced development, it sets itself back to the stone age by triggering an extinction level event.
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>> Honestly it's people like you who equate Trump supports with terrible people (or who equate Hillary supporters with terrible people) that are the problem.

I very plainly said I don't do this (first sentence). The rest of your post is a rant based on you missing that, so I'm going to ignore it.

There are many Trump supporters who are more critical of him than I am, and I'm fine with those people. I don't really understand them, but they seem to get that a lot of his positions and comments are bad.
I'm not certain on their reasoning for banning payments related to guns, but for porn and gambling they have a very good business case for denying it. Both of those verticals have astronomically higher chargeback rates compared to other verticals, and that's just bad for the bottom line.
Ok, so bitcoin then
The difference is that those systems goes to great lengths to ensure that the decision is done based on clinical needs and objective measures of what achieves the most patient benefit for the available money.

As a result it is very transparent what is sacrificed - e.g. you can find NICE [1] documentation on evaluations of individual drugs and treatments and their benefits, and documentation of the decision making processes of the NHS trusts, so they can be debated and used as a basis for deciding funding, or you're free to sign on to additional private cover if the exemptions worry you.

What we don't get is debates like this where people need to exchange information about whether or not an insurer is likely to try do be excessively strict in denying claims etc., because those kinds of things are extremely marginal here, not something most people ever need to deal with.

[1] https://www.nice.org.uk/
It's a 1:1 association. When I changed banks and tried to sign up online, it kept giving me an error. I stopped by a branch, and my old bank had registered me at some point. The teller had to call support and remove my previous association before they could create the new one.

Also, the association is to receive, not to send. Sending is initiated by your bank, which obviously already knows your account number. You send from your bank account to an email or phone number, which Zelle then translates to the target bank account.
I came to ask the same question, I followed the comments link on the tfa and notice it linked back to HN 1200 days ago and that was one of the top questions.
Why shouldn't a company like PayPal be able to pick and choose who they work with? It's not like they have anything close to a monopoly. If you're selling something controversial and PayPal doesn't want it, shop around until you find somebody who does. If every single financial services company rejects you, there's still bitcoin and cash.
What about religion? Religion is, strictly speaking, mutable. But, for me at least, saying "no Muslims" or "no Sikhs" is the same level of badness as saying "no blacks".
But it does hold up a big sign saying "Hey, look over here!"
Perhaps the right value proposition hasn't been made. It the ones that have been made have been made with poor arguments. "Research" in itself is neither inherently good not bad...just asking for more of it doesn't make sense...just like asking for more water doesn't make sense unless you know the context is you're dying of thirst and not pumping out your flooded basement.
I don't know, that's really not that much depending on the quality and quantity of product you receive.

Do you have actual stats on how many people purchase this sort of thing, or are you just guessing?
A lot of people want to work on more cutting edge problems - at present we don't have companies solving healthcare problems with datascience, or self driving cars, or tesla like companies.

There is also a charm of moving to a more developed economy too.

For many people living in developed countries, moving to a developed economy seems like a good way to travel the world. Though it might be more of a mindset and exposure issue, travelling the world is much easier when one earns in dollars.
Android kills stuff when it feels like it wants more room to cache apps in ram. The background stuff like the media indexer takes CPU time and generates heat (these are pretty easy to overheat when used like this.) I think some of the older android userspace even has flaws exploitable over the network. etc.
"The US will always be the beacon of innovation in the world."

This is nonsense. Just ask Rome, China and every other country that had it's turn at the top of the heap. We can argue about how and when this will change, but the only thing we know for certain is that it will.
There are fewer permanent positions being created,not fewer academics. Hence the post-doc crisis. The risk is that a paying country might win a big portion of US born post docs ifthe situatio doesn't change.
A screw-up seems a lot more likely.

The Navy just punished another crew for running a destroyer into a cargo ship. I'd imagine we'll see a similar response here.
Amazing little blackthrows too. Or so I've heard.

You can usually find a rootable phone in Walmart for about $15.
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Stripe lists their reasoning here https://stripe.com/blog/why-some-businesses-arent-allowed

A lot of it has to do with the underlying financial companies.

Overall, given Stripe's constraints, it seems pretty reasonable.
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No, it's not the end of the world. Just the end of humanity, probably.
couldn't this open the path to approving programming courses without ever handing in compiling code?

What about pseudo code that has the "right logic" but will never compile?

What if I submit python code that works as a c file, should that count?
How would you go about establishing us income for an E1 visa?

Background is I showed the consulate all my sales reports. I'm in a niche where almost all worldwide sales are in the us. So about 85% of my sales are from there.

They're not considering the documents. They want a report from an accountant or an auditor. I'm producing that, but given their extreme skepticism so far, I'm wondering if there's something else I should be doing.
It sounds awesome but what is the use case for me? It allows me to grab parts of a webpage as bookmarks? I thought Safari does this already (and no-one uses it).

Get a .com too (you have read all of Paul Grahams Essays right?); linkfish.com or something similar is fine - I particularly dislike the .fish it pheels very script kiddy to me.

Given that this isn’t a new idea can we all agree that User experience and design is going to be the way that this wins. Try to find someone awesome on Dribble or Behance to bring the code to life.

Finally adding “please sign up” at the end of your video came across as a bit desperate; it should be self evident at the end of any video that the person should sign up right! Maybe this will help: https://youtu.be/u4ZoJKF_VuA

Apart from that congrats on launching. My product is going to be launching soon and it’s way more work than you ever think!
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I'm going to the US on a J-1 visa, I don't have a Bachelor's degree, though I have 2 years pursuing it.

It seemed unlikely I'd get a H1-b w/o the bachelors, what other options do I have?

I've thought on going back to Brazil for a year, then coming back on a L1 as a last resort.
Nonetheless, I'd expect a far more agile battleship to be able to move itself out of harm's way.
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If there was money then why are there not enough research positions open?
high fives.
Have you had algerian clients in your career ?
Most sites are either echo chambers or fighting cages. The civility of Hacker News makes it a great place for not having shouting matches. Perhaps you know of other political sites with a HN-like community?
How does the job market for research positions and potential employee pool in the States versus Europe compare?
How is this allowed in Paypal policies?
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Nice list. I wish I had something like this as a student. I made all those mistakes and had to learn them the hard way.
I'm always struck by the arrogance of parents. It never changes through the ages. Why do you think you know what's best for your kids? Do you really have the insight and experience from a single lifetime's perspective to know what's best for kids?

Especially striking are the programmers who grew up on technology. Literally spent all day on a computer as a kid, and now have high paying jobs, and happy lives. And then they say "no tech in the house!" - like it is some bad thing. It's almost like a cult, there is a striking lack of rationality. It's like that protestant ethic - if it feels good, it must be bad.

I have two kids, and I do limit screen time to an extent. But I don't go and brag like I know this is the best thing for them. I have very mixed feelings about it. Certainly when my kids are teenagers, I think an attempt to control them is just going to end up bad for everyone involved.
>No one expects a chemical engineering 1st year student to have mastered

Neither ghaff nor I wrote anything about kids "mastering" the STEM topics before college or the first job. Therefore, that higher standard stated by you is a strawman.

I thought ghaff was talking about STEM side projects which is certainly something within the abilities of teenagers without mastery of programming. That's what my reply to him/her was about and how "playing with science" is not unique to programming.
Apparently he is mostly focused on Typescript nowadays, and not so much on C#, although he still participates on its development.

At least given his latest interviews on Channel 9 and BUILD sessions.
Douglas adams said it best:

“What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.”

Plus you can know everything about how to move a boulder, if your context doesn't let you apply the knowledge, it's game over.
1) For assistant professors, a better chance of tenure

2) Grants!

3) becomes easier to attract good postdocs, which helps you publish good papers faster, which helps...

4) Grad students
I feel like that's a reasonable position given the realities of the near monopolies these kinds of companies have. It would probably be better if there was real freedom of association in these kinds of cases, but you'd actually have to have other options for that to work right.
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Problems you mentioned are not unheard of from my personal experience but it's highly dependent on which company or industry. Most of my peers who work in the software industry never had a problem of getting vacation time of few weeks and never work more than 8 hours per day. Of course there's a few times during the year where working more hours are encouraged (e.g. before release/deadline), but even then it's pretty rare. A lot of my friends from foreign countries will not hesitate to come to U.S. to work if they can resolve their visa situation. Also, this article mostly addresses academic jobs which is a totally different story from typical corp jobs.
> Your blog is extremely difficult to read on wide screen monitors. The entire left 50% is basically just blank space. My suggestion is to make the left side maybe 20% width on desktop or less.

Thanks, I'll take a look when I have a chance. I myself don't own a widescreen monitor, the site looks fine on my MacBook and several other computers. It's not a paid job, not a lot of effort went into it ;)

> but the title is misleading considering that the bulk of the article is actually about which JS tools you use on recent projects and not why you moved.

Hm, actually, it's not. I'm surprised by this comment. I point out precisely the JavaScript features that weighed the most in my decision: "So with JavaScript you've got arrow functions, the method shorthand definition syntax, the spread operator, destructuring assignments, all functional Array methods and async functions. Combined with Vue's minimal patterns and Nuxt's conventions, I can't think of a better language to write web applications in."

> Also, could you clarify what you mean by
> > Also, there's no acceptable way to pass a function body to another in Python.

Exactly that, a "function body", "closure", "inline function", whatever you wanna call it. In Python there are lambdas, but they're limited and not even encouraged anymore. We're left with passing function references, and that's where JavaScript comes out the winner IMHO.
To my (admittedly weak) understanding, those laws affect employment, government agencies, and the ability to get any sort of government funding/aid. Are there laws that actually require organizations to allow membership in or provide services for all people? That doesn't seem workable.
Government funding for research is important, especially for the pure science, but government should not blindly increase funding because some people are not finding academic jobs.

With the (IMO pretty broken) tenure system in the US, research-track academic jobs can be very lucrative and with many researchers un-fireable regardless of what they do academically makes research both more expensive (folks goofing off) and less valuable (sharp researchers cannot find positions) for the society that it can be. I think we need to tune the system before we talk about more funding as a solution
Huh? They're explaining why they wouldn't switch the radar on.
Well, I intentionally miss all the doom and gloom and doom and gloom.
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The results for metformin in animal studies are all over the map, with many studies showing no results on life span or health span. A great many people have taken metformin for a long time with no great and obvious results. Short-lived species have far more plastic life spans in response to metabolic adjustment in comparison to humans; the two most reliable and sizable effects on mice (growth hormone receptor knockout and calorie restriction) do not have similarly sizable effects in humans. Laron syndrome sufferers and calorie restriction practitioners do not live significantly longer than others.

The one and only reason why metformin is getting into trials is as a political lever to get the FDA to acknowledge aging as a medical condition with defined causes for which treatments will be approved. Metformin couldn't really be rejected in the way the FDA likes to reject a lot of things because it is so widely used and has been so widely used for a long time.

The future of human longevity is not tinkering with metabolism to try to push it to be a little more like calorie restricted metabolism. That is a waste of time and effort. It is enormously expensive to carry out the work to try to understand metabolism well enough to adjust it safely. Hell, look at the past 20 years of work on calorie restriction: how much has been spent, how many man-years focused on it, and the research community is still only scratching the surface on how to induce similar effects via therapies.

Yet there is another approach, one that is far more cost-effective in time and money. Repair the causes of aging. Look at removal of senescent cells: in a bare few years, and at far less cost than has been spent on calorie restriction mimetic development, researchers have demonstrated robust effects and reversal of numerous age-related conditions in mice. Unlike metformin and similar drugs, the results are consistent, sizable, and produce rejuvenation in old individuals, not just a slight slowing of aging.

There is an enormous difference between the bad way forward (typified by metformin) and the good way forward (typified by senolytics). In the former we all die on the same schedule as our parents and grandparents. In the latter we can gain decades or more of additional healthy life.
> Please, please just start charging for apps again

The top grossing apps are all free no matter where you look, if charging for apps was profitable we'd expect to see at least some paid apps right?:

https://thinkgaming.com/app-sales-data/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/topgrossing?
hl=en

It's well known in app development that not having a free app will seriously hamper your traction. The only apps I've seen get away with it are technical utility apps, and remakes/releases of established games for non-mobile (GTA, FF, RCT, etc.)
the problem is callbacks as a pattern

if you have a multiline function it should be named and unit-tested instead of just stuffed anonymously into some pyramid of doom
Maybe I misunderstood chunking when I watched the class. I took it to mean grouping items to remember into a larger whole. Orthogonal to concept vs fact.

I can remember my credit card numbers because I have chunked the digits into a whole. Or at least that's what I thought was meant by chunking.
And also illegal to varying extents in a number of jurisdictions.
When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.

We don't have to pay as well, someone else will always be willing to ravage their own country to beat us at that game. We just have to not screw up the local society and environment as badly as the superpowers.
How about refusing to sell someone a cake?