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I've seen consultants in Houston enticing Masters students or spouses of H1-B holders (holding some technology degree) with H1-B promises [Masters students on F1 visa are good targets, because they can work for 12 months if their Optional Practical Training (OPT) gets approved]. A company outsources projects to these consultants, and the consultants pay these people following any schedule they like. Someone I know was hired by one of these consultants, and then she managed to get a job offer with H1-B sponsoring. The consultancy created lot of problems when she tried to quit, and threatened all sorts of repercussions.
How is the quality of writing for this? I know essays are extremely important for college admissions so I'm wondering if this site's work is actually contributing to changing people's future.
I'm not sure in the US, but in the EU, frankly employer racism keeps wages up. You cannot get many jobs in the Netherlands unless you're culturally dutch. Certainly lawyer or Doctor (normal, GP) is off the table.

Now don't be confused, you can be Indonesian or South American and be strongly culturally Dutch (though there aren't many). But you can't be Polish or Algerian, for example.
Then the wage auction doesn't solve any problem that the prevailing wage requirement already solves, it only creates more issues.
Direct link to article: http://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html
You can have both auction and prevailing wage requirement.
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The question is why they log passwords in the first place?

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As the main text is included in the HWP file of the original press release in Korean, here is Google Translate link of archived cached copy of Google:

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=ko&sl=ko&tl=en&u=h...
>e.g. asks about allowing people to volunteer if they are conservative or democratic in the HR system.

Sorry, what? You have to formally register your political views with the HR?
> And "munitions" (e.g. what encryption algorithms used to be) can be traded hardly anywhere.

That regulation is only in place to protect the established players ... and to ensure the CIA decides who gets the weapons.
the second half of the quote might even be more relevant:

>"This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”"
Interesting points, thanks for your comment.
Consider talking to a doctor about your problems instead of asking on HN. No offence.
And in case anyone here doubts this is true, try using Google, Facebook or Twitter in China. It is absolutely possible for countries to block these services, including AWS or parts of it. Amazon has a duty to it's other customers to protect them from that sort of impact caused by the frankly unethical action of another AWS user.

This is a real shame and I wish there was a viable option open to Signal, it's an important app that provides a valuable service, but they really should have seen this coming.
Nice name. I probably wouldn't want to work for you anyway.
"But after going through our systems, this is an example of the kind of control we think you should have. It's something privacy advocates have been asking for -- and we will work with them to make sure we get it right."

He does admit it's been asked for in the next sentence.
It is not that Java or C# are able to beat C and C++ on micro-benchmarks, rather they are fast enough for most tasks that need to be implemented, while providing more productivity.

The few cases where raw performance down to the the byte level and ms matter are pretty niche.
Is this the moment Facebook jumps the shark?
I don't get why anti-H1B attitudes get so consistently downvoted on HN. I mean, supposedly HN is leftist. Ostensibly people here are smart and care about the poor. How come smart people aren't able to see how this system works, when it keeps and keeps getting explained how it's exploitative ?

And yet, the words "anti" and "h1b" in the same post ? -5 karma, at least !
This is the price for Americas individualism I guess.
The attachment details on the method of censorship: basically a DNS-based method for now, and will transition to an SNI-based method until 2019. Funnily though there had been multiple successful investigations dealing with the illegal copies of copyrighted works in South Korea. This particular censorship attempt is a result of the stronger demand from publishers to censor problematic websites as soon as possible---a bit of questionable development.
Experience is usually worth more than skill. It's pretty stupid to turn away smart young people who you have paid to educate in the best universities in the world.
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Yep, I had the same thought a while ago, which is why I built catt! It's come along very nicely, it works well and it's especially suitable if you run it as part of some automation (for example, you can make an Alexa skill to cast videos to your TV from various sources).
Nonsense. Degrees show that you ran the gauntlet. I don't think confer anything more. Cheating cheapens that.

I think they are projecting their own disillusionment after they themself realized the degree doesn't represent knowledge or whatever personal meaning they had attached to it.
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I was of your attitude but the moment I saw a comment on HN explaining their position and how they're not worried I am now reconsidering my bet.
I don't want to get killed while running benchmarks.
Then you'd drastically lower the inflow number of skilled laborers contributing to the U.S. economy - which is the opposite purpose of the H1B program.
Is your Chromecast on the same subnet as your computer? If not, autodiscovery won't work.
Then what problem does the auction solve that the prevailing wage doesn't already solve, other than creating more issues.
Ah, yep, sorry, I was going off in another direction there. Thanks for pointing that out.
It is difficult because to develop the programming logic side of it involves knowing programming and how to implement a system that takes in student data, analyzes it and then creates a new learning path/customized learning materials.

Most people creating educational content simply do not have those skills.
2. Here's one nerd who made the exact opposite jump from Android to iOS in 2017-2018, also from misc Linux machines to Apple. But personal anecdotes don't really matter, do they?

After half a year of this, I'm quite happy. The competition will have to make some miracles to make me want to change back.
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30 years ago the landscape looked quite different.
> you will see the “normal” PC become more GPU-like in the future than it is today.

I keep telling people to get used to develop on Xeon Phi's and nobody seems to listen ;-)

Today's Xeon Phi is tomorrow's Core i9.
Capital moves freely. Labor doesn't, or can't. You're ignoring the previous message's point.
BLISS, Modula-2, NEWP, Mesa,...?

Of course, some of those tricks are only allowed in SYSTEM/UNSAFE blocks on these languages.
what about brave? https://brave.com
>What if I want to use local.my.app for development; Or, in a more textbook example, i want to use workstation-1.building-a.my.internal.my.app without https?

uh... don't do that?

if you're developing locally or internally, use my.app.local or workstation-1.building.internal. If you want to use public domains for non-public things i guess go ahead, but you can't expect everybody else to support your weird thing. Or if you really need to run your internal dev stuff on public domains, get a certificate for it.
I think that problem could be handled by having the RNG return an error until crng_init=2 and introduce a way to check the state of the kernel RNG.

Applications can then check if the kernel is ready to do RNG and if not, handle the delay themselves.

But I guess that would break some applications so there might be another way (extra device for early boot randomness? ioctl?)
Well the Soviet Union of the seventies was a quite different place from that of the thirties, if you mind. Systems change over time.
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I really like the .app idea, it will save me some time.

echo ".app" >> lists/google/domains

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service ufdbguardd reload

Problem solved. It is just a matter of fashion, black or white dress? Last few years, black fits better.
You claim it's not a numbers game, but obviously a discussion if immigration quotas and wages is a pure numbers game. Let's not pretend.

We control the supply completely, which means we control the price. We can set any floor, or regional floor we want, and we can keep the existing rules in place if we want as well.
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To be fair, the one in New Jersey is far more famous.
> Why not just adjust the H-1B program so that the highest paid positions get priority?

Why not just eliminate the employer-sponsored H-1B and allow individuals who aren't personally barred from entry to pay for temporary residency and work permit on an annual basis, with prices that escalate with higher demand?
Well, I would accept a partial solution. Pay 49,99€ a year, and we track only the information we really need to make the service work fine for you. We won't use that to cater ads to you, and you have the option to create your own dashboard. For me it would be better to have a composition window and then a dashboard with groups I care about, events, other apps I use.
The later case is different than simply updating the DeletedAt column.

The database not actually deleting is still the application properly deleting it. If the DB eventually carries that out or not is a lesser concern to me, tbh.

The concern here is that facebook doesn't actually tombstone their entries or doesn't even have their DB mark it deleted.
Last year I ran a script to do just this. It didn't get everything, but I eventually gave up. I recently tried Social Book Post Manager to accomplish the same thing.

While it did a better job, despite my activity feed being clear, I'm still seeing a lot of posts.

The rub is that I can delete posts that show up from 2008, but that same post will show up on refresh.

Looks like I'm moving to Europe for a day in a few months.
I've only done a bit of research, but my understand was that while bats eat a lot of mosquitoes, they're so tiny that even a bat doesn't get much out of each one. The stomach contents of a tropical bat are less than 25% mosquitoes by mass after a night of feeding, IIRC.

I admit I don't know if that's true of all species or in all locations.
No, I claim that the purpose of the H1b program isn't to play a numbers games with wages.

The purpose is to allow new skilled labor into the U.S. so that the economy can flourish. The prevailing wage already sets the wage floor to prevent stagnation - scrapping it for a wage auction only creates more problems for American citizens working in skilled labor positions.
> What about other artificial systems with defined rules, like sports? Is doping or other cheating permissible? If so, at all levels, or only professional levels?

Actually you raise a good point. The sports system is like that too, it's just an artificial system. I don't watch sports so I don't care what goes on inside that system.

> Edit: I should point out this isn't a theoretical concern. I personally resent the people who have attempted to 'beat the system' with simple dishonesty and caused me to have to endure uncomfortable and tedious attempts to minimise cheating during my education.

I resent the fact that I had to spend so much time in world renowned educational centers learning so much theory that I never use in the real world.

I resent the fact that we put the college-as-job-credential system on a pedestal instead of coming up with something more efficient and doesn't let professors hang the fucking sword of Damocles over your head.

> So having cheated my way through schooling, I should probably drop a few more bucks into getting some jobs-board contractors to knock out a couple of 'passion projects' to throw onto github?

Nice straw man bro.
SPIR is a reaction to CUDA's adoption.

NVIdia always allowed multiple language on CUDA via PTX, with the offerings for C, C++ and Fortran coming from them, while some third parties had Haskell, .NET and Java support as well.

Yet another reasons why many weren't so keen in being stuck with OpenCL and C99.
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It solves a problem of, say, Google and Infosys competing to get the lottery. With auction, Google gets all of them.
NVidia designed their latest GPU architecture to run C++.
- Burnistoun (sample here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAz_UvnUeuU, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnistoun): I have regularly thrown laughing fits over this.

- Hardy Bucks (https://youtu.be/qq-G2ugAG44, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardy_Bucks)

Tech-wise, Silicon Valley I think is funny esp. the earlier series.
I also use Google daily (startpage actually) but your reasoning is flawed a little. You always find the result in first page not because Google's product is that good because you're very familiar with the product and know how it behaves on what input. When I can't find the result in the first page I don't go to the second page, instead I change my input and find the result in some other first page. But ultimately Google failed to give me this result on my first try.
It solves a problem of real employers and body shops competing for the lottery. Body shops lose the auction.
That would be illegal (in the EU, at least). Why would a successful business risk that?
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The post and linked slides focus on comparing different clouds, but the slides actually have a couple of comparisons of AWS Aurora, RDS and Aiven PostgreSQL performance at the end.

We'll update that with other managed services soon.
I am in the process of doing so -- I have appointments, and am waiting.

I just wanted to hear about the experiences of others who may have been in my position: overworked college students in STEM fields
Just take some good vitamins and change your diet.
I definitely need to negotiate a bigger home office with my wife...
That may be true but Signal is purposely using high-profile domains, not someone's small side project.
But see, I don't think that's "the other hand". It seems unrelated, at best, to the moral question of whether you should profit from helping other people to cheat.

Maybe the schools should put more effort into catching and punishing cheaters. But they shouldn't have to -- if the students were being honest.

The easier and cheaper it is to cheat, the more tempted the students will be. You can lubricate that market by providing the cheating-materials, maybe even by marketing them. Cheating numbers will go up, thus increasing the cost to detect and catch and appropriately deal with cheaters. The last bit is probably the expensive part.

And the more the schools crack down on easily-detectible cheating, the more sophisticated it will get. Sure that means increasing the cost of cheating, but that's an arms race that can only be won by a culture that values honesty. You reinforce that culture by not selling cheating-materials.
It's not a significant direct cost. Millions of extra DNS queries amounts to single-digit dollars (route 53 pricing).
Yeah but that doesn't matter. Disney has a lot of lobbying power. That's why they keep getting copyright extensions passed.
Yes, it is stupid, I wholeheartedly agree it should be fixed, but I disagree that it should be fixed by H-1B visa.
Apple Finder (magnify glass in top right) by default will search both local executables on your computer, and (as a second best option) the net.
If a user sees *.app in finder, they might be very well getting something they don't expect.
I do not doubt some people were using unclassified public domains maps. CIA should use Openstreetmap so they can all share the same info, just add a "NOT_FOR_TERRIES" the the entries that should be kept secret.

Getting names of landmarks right is really hard unless you have people on the ground that are specifically looking for that, and who are supposed to update maps. I don't know how the military/intelligence community works, but have they really invested manpower into this? This is from experience with mapping around lake Victoria and Haiti, the map might look ok but when you put your boots on the ground things are different. Especially since official vs. local names can differ so much.
I am basically taking the bare minimum for being a "full-time" student. I don't particularly blame the university or its policies, I am just struggling academically more than I have in the past.

Plus, my own time-management issues sometimes result in a need to cram, which is helped by study-aids.
I actually can't :) I mean, I can see why one would oppose it because of how it affects Amazon, but I can't see how it could be used for a non-noble cause.
But not only to take care of internet security, but also to protect our children from terrorist and pedophiles, right? I wonder where I have heard similar use of wording that introduced a bunch of new laws harmfull for anything related with freedom...
Their hands were forced by law, which is why they implemented this. The law itself was created because of Facebook Actions (being one of the main reasons).

You are making it sound like he is doing it because of the goodness of his heart, or to please his user. He literally didn't have any choice.
I've not given you anything other than a warning that it's too young.

Pipenv is promising. That means at some point I'm fairly certain it'll be and deserve to be the standard in Python packaging. In the mean time, it doesn't.
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I take a daily multivitamin and eat very healthy by most college-student standards.
I write all my CLIs in Python.

I find that I always need various random things to work together and have always found Python to be the most robust at this. Plus it has pretty much anything you'd need already implemented.
so a web based product can be called an _app_ and get hosted for a certain *.app domain?
It works with shell scripts.

Having a name ending in '.sh' is less reliable than the output of file for identifying shell scripts, since any file can be named with that ending.

cat199 said '.sh' is unnecessary and that is correct. I am surprised that this is controversial. (except wait, no, this is the internet... I'm not surprised. ;-)
Society is all about limits on freedom. We need to find the right balance. I think a society where some things are not for sale is a good thing.

Consider also according to studies, a majority of voluntary prostitutes have been victims of abuse as children.
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Just to be sure I understand fully, if I take a small embedded router running OpenWRT, that maybe take ~1min for the urandom pool to be ready.
https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commitdiff;...
On the first boot we save 512 bytes from getrandom().
On the second boot we restore the seed (cat seed > /dev/urandom) before almost all the user space starts.
Many daemons (dropbear/openvpn) will read from /dev/urandom before urandom pool is considered ready, but after the seed is restored.

With the new patches, are the daemons benefiting from the seed ?
I understand; but you're saying you can tell they feel entitled by the fact that they're not objective or unbiased. And what I'm saying is that not being objective doesn't show they feel entitled.

Maybe they feel entitled, but I don't think there's anything in the blog post showing that. All I see is (fairly mild) disagreement with Amazon's actions.
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