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Pick one of:

1) Nobody has ever brought the problem up before.

2) It's a tricky problem to solve.

3) Mobile usage is a niche fad which will go away if left alone so no point addressing it.
It's not like you leave the store balancing everything in your hands... Scan, put in whatever bag you brought and then go.
I have astigmatism and the one and only time my glasses have been incorrectly dispensed was with a pair that I got through an optometrist, discovered a year later ("your glasses don't match your prescription!") written off in the early days ("it'll take time to get used to a new prescription"). I've since purchased glasses from zenni, warby parker, jins, costco, and 39 dollar glasses without any problems. Bonus is extra pairs of glasses and upgrades included for the cost of the optometrist's lens price alone - driving sunglasses, work/computer glasses, transitions lenses, an extra pair in case I accidentally step on the current pair...

My dad also has some vision issues requiring prism correction and high diopters. He's also a big fan of the budget and online retailers. Seems to be good enough.
Would you mind not taking HN threads in spurious, flamey directions?
> No one is being forced to remain on H1B visas for any length of time, you can always quit and leave any time

I'm taking the abuse for a better life for my family.

>This affects individuals who have a green card application pending and are being granted 1-year extensions while their application is pending due to a country-based quota system and thus backlog.

The wait time is somewhere between half a century and three and a half centuries [1]

The Tech companies or the attorneys never tell their employees about this long wait time. Instead they just lie it being 5-to-10 years. It happened to me, I realised my turn will never come up only after waiting 10 years in the line.

[1] https://www.cato.org/blog/no-one-knows-how-long-legal-immigr...
I would also add "do some market research" because let me tell you, right now, the biggest issues I have with self checkout machines are:

* Scanning multiples of the same item. One retailer has this down: You scan one yogurt, and it shows "(+) 1 (-) yogurt". You press (+) five times, you get billed for 6 yogurts. The second biggest retailed just doesn't have this, so you stand there swiping the same yogurt six times, praying that the hard-coded delay between consecutive scans is small enough that you don't swipe too quickly.

* Consistency & Internal vs. external definitions: When scanning loose bread and cakes, the interface is quite clearly copied 1:1 from the existing cashier system. How do I know? Because it isn't ordered in any reasonable fashion. The available categories are something like "Bread" (makes sense), "confections" (Makes sense, I guess?) and "small baked goods" (???). I'm sure that makes sense to someone working there, but if buying a cinnamon bun stumps the user, there's something wrong.
H1B was never created as a path to immigration. It was always designed around a single purpose: temporarily filling a shortage for a specific position until a qualified American could be found.

Read the regulations. This idea of H1 as a path to a green card is just a fraudulent use of that visa. I am not opposed to people getting green cards — I am opposed to the idea that the H1B is some kind of back door to permanent residency.

If you want to immigrate, get the proper visa.
The US immigration system is notoriously backed up. Even family-based green card processing are backlogged by 5-6 years last I’ve heard.

It’s a perverse situation where people affected have no power to request any changes or improvements, and people who have power to do so, are not affected in the least, so there is no real incentive to improve anything.
Just as food for thought, being able to lie or con people is also not necessarily a bad thing: Giorgio Perlasca was able to save more than 5000 Jews from deportation by posing as the Spanish consul in Nazi-occupied Budapest.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Perlasca
I’m very glad they have such a good support network. A close friend of mine got a job out of law school prosecuting child sex crimes, and there was absolutely no support. After a year, he couldn’t take it any more and left public service altogether. Even a decade later, you can tell he’s still bothered by it. I have an incredible amount of respect for people who can do that work; I’m absolutely certain that I don’t have what it takes.
> That being said, I'm personally excited about the managed Kubernetes offering AWS recently announced.

Another alternative for managing containers on a cluster of machines is AWS ECS. It has been around for a while and integrates really well with other AWS services (e.g. Cloudwatch, ALB). Unlike Kubernetes the scheduler is proprietary, but the agent running on individual instances is open source.

We've been using ECS for a while together with Terraform for managing the whole infrastructure in immutable and declarative way, and it has been great so far.
"Do not hastily throw any hard drives away."
How to make your own crypto wallet?
I am interested in making a crypto wallet that I can sell as a product. How does one create a wallet?
We're in a forum of programmers. Our entire industry is constantly automating itself out of work -- that's practically the entire point. And yet thus far we endure because there is still plenty of other work to do. It's not like this property is unique to tech.
Lol. I had a good laugh.

How do you manage to continue working on something you know is a dead end though? Is the money that good? Would the money go away if you worked on another project at the same firm?
It's a hardened belief that jobs are a zero-sum game — and from this arises the idea that every skilled immigrant takes away a job from a U.S. worker. This isn't true. More skilled, educated workers will actually add to the economy — and grow the economy.

More: http://journal.dedasys.com/2014/12/29/people-places-and-jobs...
Worked fine on my copy of Chrome 63.0... running on a Nexus 6 with Android 7.0.0, and I could scroll horizontally to view the editor.

When I visited the page with Firefox Beta 58.0b12 it ran, but I couldn't view the editor.
I am on an H1-B visa. I would say no to working on weekends.

Changing jobs is actually relatively painless with an H1-B visa. The only risk is that you have to find a new job in relatively short amount of time if would get fired.
If anyone is interested in getting to know about healthcare system in a neighboring Asian nation, South Korea, here's an article you may enjoy.

http://askakorean.blogspot.com/2010/01/healthcare-system-in-...

It seems to be an efficiently run program.
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Just stop with these ridiculous restrictions and allow anyone who doesn't have a criminal record to come in.
I always attributed the use of "female" and "male" in non-scientific speech to the polic-i-fication of general society. Use of these words in daily speech used to be rare until the TV show cops came about. "BOLOT for white male ages 20-25 with blue jeans and a white T-shirt". Also smacked to me of greater police contact in a captive population where mannerisms of the higher status police being copied by those subjugated.

Totally my opinion and could be completely off-base, but seems to ring true to me.
Of course. But high blood pressure can damage the kidneys, which can in turn raise blood pressure further- so if blood pressure is high then it's probably a good idea to start lowering one's salt intake, anyway.

My relative has been complaining that she was not made aware of the detrimental effect that high blood pressure has on the kidneys, and how salt affects this, even after multiple visits to a nephrologist. She could probably have avoided those crazy high values at the start of the graph if she was aware.

I was not aware of the connection either and I believe many people are also oblivious to it, so it's probably a good idea overall to highlight it.
You must be godly. I have a couple of problems I have been thinking about for years that I could use some help with! But my problems in are the real time rendering realm.

For me personally I have found that when I find initial solutions to problems, they are usually just a shadow of the actual problem. The true complexity is not revealed until I start stress testing it, or making it interact with other systems, trying to expand it to handle more functionality.

Maybe this can be attributed to the fact that my first step is to just make things work. And it not until I make them work do I really see the patterns. Then I usually manage to remove half the code as the patterns and abstractions resolve themselves.

So for me, coding is essential to truly solving the problems.
Depending on the specifics "I knew I'd be killed if I didn't do it and was afraid" is a perfectly valid excuse.

The reason it's not accepted is because it's too difficult to discern if it's a lie in order to (attempt to) avoid punishment.

Following an order to attack an enemy in time of war, when you'll probably die for not attacking them ... if you knew for certain the enemy wasn't trying to trick you, and were genuinely saving civilians, then of course you should disobey, ... maybe ...

Even if that particular captain was saving civilians, it may still ultimately save lives to sink the enemy ship; that's the "glory" of war. Taking a pragmatic approach then, sinkng the ship can be considered "moral".

Indeed taking such an a priori callous action could require a degree of bravery.
I found it ate so much data that I had to turn it off :/
My local grocery store (Giant) has a system like this. The hardware is IBM branded, I believe.

I used it quite a bit when it was first offered, and saw a number of other customers use it as well, but now I rarely use it and I rarely see others using it either. The scanner guns are still there near the entrance to the store, but now there are carts piled in front of them so they'd be hard to get to even if you wanted to get one. Nobody cares, and I suspect they'll disappear at some point soon.

Honestly the whole system was just not reliable enough, IMO. The scan-it-yourself guns are not as fast as the laser barcode readers used on the actual POS systems; there's a noticeable and extremely irritating 1-2 second delay per item, which doesn't sound like much, but it's pretty annoying when you are trying to scan a dozen cans of cat food or something. Oh, and you can't do a [scan x quantity] entry, you have to scan each individual item, so for e.g. those cans of cat food, there's a disincentive to buying too many.

The real killer was the integration with the POS payment system though. When you get up to the front of the store, you go to a self-checkout line -- so right there, you might still have to wait in line, because there's no dedicated self-scan payment kiosk. One supposes they could have one if there was demand, though.

When you do make it up to the register, there's a complex dance that you have to go through to link the scangun you used to scan your items to your account, and then to the register you're paying at, so that the items will flow through and total up correctly. You have to scan a barcode on the self-checkout system, and then scan your "Giant card" (loyalty card), except sometimes this doesn't work, or sometimes it works but only if you scan them in the opposite order.

And of course if anything isn't working correctly, which happened way too often, you end up just having to re-scan all your groceries again, manually, at the self-checkout. I don't know about anyone else, but once I had that happen a couple of times, that was the end of using the scangun system for me. If I might just end up having to do the work twice, forget it -- I'll do the way that I know is just going to result in me doing it once. I hate lines, but what I hate even more is rework.

So I hope Kroger has worked out some of the kinks from the Giant system. It was a promising scheme, and I really wanted it to work, but it seemed like a 90% solution and what they really need is a 99.9% solution. Having the system fall flat on its face and force me to re-scan all my groceries even a few percent of the time is a non-starter IMO. That needs to be an outcome right up there with having the whole thing just catch on fucking fire, in terms of never being allowed to happen.
Simply because a fixed term before a Green Card gives us more data on how this individual is likely to perform in the US, not their country of origin. That's the whole point after all.

Plus at least in the UK they don't immediately get permanent residence.
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Hmm are there many large tech companies left that do not have dev. offices outside of US? The place I work at has r&d offices in Germany, Ireland, India in addition to US. So if this goes through people can shift to working from whatever non-us office they like. The only effect on US is that tax revenue from salaries will go to Ireland, Germany, India.
I began learning PHP, wrote Kowope, an enterprise tool and launched it.
>Owning an OS with a stable device driver ABI

Are they actually doing that though? I haven't read anything along those lines, not that I have looked at Fuchsia in depth.
Ftom scratched my videogame engine project...for a third time.

Much better this time around
This is explicitly racist: it will primarily only apply to Indians on H-1B seeking permanent residency, some of whom wait 10-15 years for their green cards. I would say that Indian-Americans working with the Trump administration with any decency should resign in protest of such actions, but I'm not sure they have a sense of self-respect to begin with.
That's approximately 100 lava lamps each at 100W = 10,000W = 10kW/h * 20.4 cents = $2.04/h * 24 = $48.96/day $1,489.20/month.

Ignoring the fact that is very little money in Silicon Valley. Lava lamps consume a large amount of electricity in order to generate the heat they need. There are cheaper better ways to generate randomness, this is purely for spectacle clearly.

It makes me nervous more than anything. If that's the front they put up, inside is there a Rube Goldberg machine that triggers DDoS protection?
> I went to a ton of meetups and group events in real life over the course of three years (and to a lesser extent for years before that), met a lot of women through that, but very few of them were either not in a relationship or emotionally available at the time

Don't go to events and activities looking for love. Go to events and activities looking for interesting people to get to know and be friends with - and let them be a filter of "Hey, I know someone you should meet" when they know you're single. Similarly, if you have friends who've never met but who are single and have similar interests, don't be afraid to introduce them to each other.
> But still, I'm in favor of more "bullshit jobs" like elevator operator, in lieu of universal income.

This is literally throwing away money and human effort. Our country could be so much better than it currently is if only we had the drive and man hours to do it. The very idea that "bullshit jobs" are even necessary ignores all the real problems that that the hypothetical person could be tackling.
Which, fittingly, involved getting rid of Alan Kay.
Remains to be seen how this impacts the US universities. Part of the incentive for the international students to choose the US over other countries for higher studies is because there are some seriously great professional opportunities after the studies if you can immigrate. For example, our industry is centered in the US, the US is truly a super power in research, the US mindset (startups, relatively merit-driven systems) etc compared to other developed western countries.

If there is no clear path to immigration, and if high quality education becomes relatively easily available (see: western universities setting up centers in the east), that can dry up the desire to choose a US based university I think.
We should also start allocating H-1Bs through a salary auction rather than by lottery. It'd put an end to body shops.
I let a close friend recruit me, after over a year of trying, and have been working on a new project that took on a life of its own. I've been more productive and happy in the past few months than I have been in years. 2017 was the best year ever. Before that, so was 2016, etc., every year better than the last. 2018, I'm sure, will be another new all-time high.
Citation needed.

Hell, for a claim that suspect and borderline hostile, multiple, peer-reviewed and reproducible citations, plural, needed.
Stop&Shop here in NJ has this and it's mostly convenient and faster than regular self-checkout. They occasionally stop you on checkout in order to scan some items to confirm you didn't "misplace" something. Unfortunately, this doesn't ease lines, as self-checkout lines are still long and you have to wait for your turn in these lines in order to pay.

The only problem are missing shopping bags and scanners which are slow, still running some flavor of embedded windows, I believe made by motorola.
I agree! I love this feature. It's so good that I sometimes don't even notice that my music ended.
I wouldn't have thought of that, but yes. :)

Most of my inspiration nowadays comes from my kids.
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Hey, please come to US to be a slave for 3 years, then get off my lawn once you'd like to be promoted into a free citizen! Your only value is that your value is lower!
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I think in many cases the reason people can't maintain focus on programming is motivation, not incapacity. Sounds like bullshit when they say most lose focus after 30 minutes and check their phone. If you're really interested in something you focus on it. Yeah I struggle to focus writing CRUD apps for unsexy products. But I wrote a puzzler game in twenty nonstop hours. I know this is anecdotal but I've seen the same with friends A exercising, B playing videogames, C reading, D playing music.
well minus sunny but actually good option. Malta is another option with the bonus of nice tax system if you make enough.
There is private health care in the UK and Germany. Presumably others, but not all EU countries.
I'm curious - how much training do you have in SWAT tactics? Where did you get it from?

Assuming it is zero, would you in whatever field you are in accept advice from someone who has zero experience in the field?
Agreed, I was referring exclusively to managed serverless services. I'm not a big fan of managed anything over the virtual server level (which I can't argue with).
I am guessing you are an Indian national currently on a H1B visa (given that you are apparently on an H1B visa and have been in the green card queue for 10 years).

If this comes to pass, you will either (a) be transferred to another country by your company if they like you enough or (b) lose your job and get kicked out of the US unceremoniously. How is this better for you or your family?

If you dislike the your job and the H1B program, you can leave right now on your own terms, rather than wait for the Administration to enact new policies to kick you out.
If you have a strong prescription (first number = sphere, second number = cylinder), then all lenses (except expensive freeform lenses) will be distorted away from the optical center, see slide #21 onwards: http://idaho.aoa.org/Documents/ID/CongressPara2013/Customize...

If the WP lenses give you a headache, most likely the PD or fitting height (vertical location of optical center) is wrong, so you are looking through the distorted part of the lens. Even a few mm offset can cause this. Have you tried moving the frames up/down and side-to-side to see if the vision gets clearer when looking at distant text? Do this with each eye separately, then both eyes together.

Take the WP frame to a local optican and pay them a few bucks to tell you (a) the actual fitting height on the WP lens, (b) the correct fitting height (pupil location) for that frame on your face. Then email WP and ask them to remake the glasses with the correct fitting height. If they won't do that, try EyeBuyDirect, who will.
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Started as a side project in January, and I had no idea it would take off like this. We now have 20 employees, including instructors from Google, Apple, Blizzard, etc. and our first graduating students are getting hired for great salaries all over the US. (Average is $85,000 in low cost of living areas)
And yet still a vast improvement over the status quo in my opinion.

The ten years is a fixed term, it can currently take at least that long but you can be deported earlier if you get fired from your job and are unable to find alternative employment compatible with your H-1B visa.

It might be unnerving knowing you may have to leave in ten years time, but imagine how unnerving it would be to potentially be fired every single day and get deported that same year. That's what is currently going on.
I don't know, in the supermarket I go to, in California, they're very possessive about bags in the self checkout, as if there's high penalties if some customers walk out without paying for their bag.
No, it would increase throughout because there are more stations.
>If not, what prevents or complicates the existence of such a quantity?

I'm not an expert either but this type of thing is incredibly hard to measure not only because of the constantly changing external forces from changing governments, technological progress, "animal spirits" etc., these things alone would make it nearly impossible, but there is also the role of money creation and very imperfectly run central banks around the world destabilizing things even much more. Think of it like trying to measure demand elasticity of bitcoins, it seems to be changing by the minute.

Anyways, this whole discussion seems like a straw man to me. How can they pit keynesianism against neoclassicism and gloss over monetarism and the importance of money and central banks? Few serious economists will defend neoclassicism as a main causal factor of recessions at this point. Comparing descendant theories of Keynesianism with descendants of monetarism would be more appropriate.
Aside from the microkernel, doesn't Android already do capability based security?
Ah well, time to restock the 'ol dinosaur-proof bunker.
It’s much cheaper than paying for human labour though.
I do technical agile coaching and I’m telling you not only will Serverless be successful in the enterprise it’s going to take over.

1. Enterprise systems are always Rube Goldberg machines. Serverless is perfect for this. Check out the 12 Serverless architectures talk at reinvent.

2. Most enteprise IT shops completely missed containerization. Many are still struggling to adopt the public cloud. The feet dragging and lip service by IT Infra and Security regarding public cloud is real.

3. It’s easier to give someone permission to use lambda than EC2. Thus teams follow the path of least resistance. Infra really fucked up in a lot of shops by allowing lambda but feet dragging on EC2. Teams are skipping over the whole containerization and devops mindset and just going with serverlesss. I’m seeing it happen in my F 500 clients. Teams are designing around lambdas because they know they can get their apps provisioned and deployed easily. Remember bureaucracy is enemy #1 of success so anything that circumvents it will become a well worn path.