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H-1B shouldn't be used for entry level positions though. It should be used for positions that cannot be filled by the local workforce.
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Do you have a source for your claims about political alignment and skilled foreign-worker policy? My impression was that many Democrats want green cards for those who earn advanced STEM degrees in the US, while Republican policy has recently been more protectionist/nativist.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3096103/it-careers/the...
How does this compare to Pied Pipers algorithm?
This is fairly typical of companies that use this employer-client or employer-vendor-client (EVC) business model. In this case, the employer is Cloudwick, and the clients are "Apple, Cisco, Comcast, American Express, Bank of America, Safeway, Verizon and Visa".

It is very common for employers in the EVC model to pay well below market wages, and often withhold, or ask employees to pay back some of the money under the table, making the actual wage much lower. The employees are pretty much powerless - if they refuse, they would get fired and be forced to leave the country.

These employers often add fake projects or fake experience to their employees' resumes when offering them to a vendor or client.

There is only one solution - a massive clampdown on third-party placements on H-1B employers, as is already done on L-1 and STEM OPT employers.
I don't know what you're talking about.
As a new graduate, I have a very hefty Data Science offer in the Bay.

(Canadian here btw).
They're also a way to reward exploitation. Why ? Because exploiters can just rapid-fire requests and therefore increase their odds massively, but companies that want specific high-performers cannot, because there aren't that many.
I'm using castnow, a cli in nodejs and has support for streaming torrents and local files

https://github.com/xat/castnow

Edit: from Python to nodejs
One of the coolest hidden easter eggs in the main release of Celeste is stumbling upon the little room with the PICO-8 version of the game (https://i.imgur.com/7iNbBNA.png). I didn't know PICO-8 was a thing, so imagine my surprise when I found an entire complete game built into the main game!
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I learned this the hard way.

When I was at university I happened to be 'fluent' in 68000 assembly language, so I was able to do that assignment within minutes of the task being set, no cheating needed. I actually understood what I was doing and wrote an assignment that was not cribbed from the work of others.

I thought this was going to be marked well, passing was expected. However, when the results came out a 'see me' was on the board. The lecturer was angry at me because I wouldn't say who I 'copied my work from'.

But then I remembered showing my code to a colleague in the minutes before handing in the assignment. Mine worked perfectly the first time but when I ran it again it failed. I realised I had cleared a 'byte' instead of a 'word' and changed my work accordingly before handing it in. Nobody else had this change, just my work. That one byte of real difference showed I knew 68K assembly when nobody else did.

So it turned out that my original 'done in ten minutes' code had been fished out the bin and typed in by someone else, they had then spread this around and everyone on the course except for a few mature students that were out of the loop had copied my stuff.

Now this was just one incident, as well as that there were other problems with groupthink which is not the same as cheating. I was behind on one project and submitted a simple diagram. Everyone else submitted reams of stuff, all returned with red pen on most of the pages. My assignment had just the one tick for perfect mark. Had I huddled with my colleagues in depressing group think panic sessions and done my own version of the 70 page assignment they were doing then I would not have got that perfect mark.

In my opinion plagiarism is just scraping the surface, beneath that there is a bigger problem of original thought and problem solving. Most people go along with what everyone else is doing.
Agreed. I am a software engineer in Bangalore. And quality of life is good enough that I would consider moving to US only for salary > $100k.
Restrictive visa requirements is the reason why workers are willing to put up with the abuse in the first place.

Workers have a better shot at demanding a fair wage if they didn't have to face deportation if they spoke up.
> I particularly don't like when the first result is the paid result from company X, and the second result is the organic result of company X, which is only paying to outbid competitors that could appear as #1 when people search for "X".

Haha that annoys me too, and I can totally follow the logic for choosing the organic result, but I use the reasoning that I want to "stick it" to the company whose advertising and force them to pay for the ad they are showing me, so I actually intentionally click the paid result.
It should be pretty obvious that engineers stuck in offshore IT contracting mills are in the bottom tier. All the best Indian engineers are getting paid top dollar at companies like Google and Facebook or are doing well enough on their own in India.
South Korea Government wants to censor HTTPS traffics
What if souq.com is blocked instead ? How is that good for AWS or the internet ?
I have a 2yr ol, and me and my spouse have the exact same way of functioning. We haven't quite figured out how to get 3-5 days but 1-3 days of exercise each is what we aim for. Or thinking it's the same: you can't have a happy family if your vitals (sleep, exercise, healthy food) are low. We try to combine 1 exercise (running) with going to a playground all of us and then one runs a round while the other cars for our son.
This leftist is is vehemently and resolutely against H1-B. I've posted about it many times here on HN. I feel like access to good jobs and housing are bedrock social justice issues for American workers. I've been called a racist, even though I certainly don't care where the H1-B workers come from. If it were up to me, I would literally line up the planes and send them all home.

American tech companies are basically the richest companies on the planet, and they can well afford to hire and train American workers. In light of growing income inequality, it makes me sick to think that so many of the best paying jobs in the economy go to foreign nationals.

Oh, and, as I've said many times before, non-profits, which include basically all hospitals and universities in the entire country are exempt from the annual cap.

H1-B produces terribly unjust outcome for American workers.
Majority of its employees are in Bay Area, the rest of the offices are insignificant comparing to bay area.
Including the example in this very article which no one has bothered to read.
You must be either insane or ignorant if you think Newark, CA is not in the San Francisco Bay Area.
What kind of applications need cryptographic randomness during early boot?
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So no jobs for newly graduated students who are not citizens?
You can use that line of reasoning to justify a lot of things. Most of them aren't appropriate for a civilized country. Neither is this one.
> The privacy problem with Facebook is its size and the amount of personal data it integrates.

... And The business model. A dating site you might pay for while you use it - there's no way to "pay" for Facebook in way that aligns fb's priorities to coincide with yours.

This is also a big problem with Google, although they have some experiments were they appear to be breaking even.
What reasons are there not to implement the OpenBSD model where the bootloader passes the kernel a seed that the kernel generated previously?
That's what http://lifefaker.com is for!
What is Paleo Diet or Cavemen Diet and does it work?
I quit messenger, but haven't been able to quit whatsapp yet, as it's de facto the only viable IM app in my country.

I have a clean, libre LineageOS setup on my phone, except for whatsapp.
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But then you'd need to switch your gender back to male if you wanted to save money on, say, healthcare, clothing, and haircuts.

I wonder if it might all even out, at the end of the day.
The commercial release of Celeste is a new game, written from scratch, implemented in C# (XNA/FNA/MonoGame). It includes a port of the original. I'm kind of curious if they actually wrote a PICO-8 emulator for that or just ported it to C#.
ha ha... but people need to eat. my startup and I are willing to pay for more. We love Fedora and Linux. I want to support more initiatives here. I would rather pay for something that is as good as OSX that billions of kids in India's villages can use for free.

Also - Fedora + Gnome + Dell XPS 13 has been the first laptop package that has gotten envious looks from macbook owners.
Maybe one box needs to communicate with a network of other boxes to keep traffic in sync over a wider area. I'm guessing that the bottom rack with the yellow cables plugged into it is some kind of networking gear.

Also, the equipment has to switch some fairly high-power loads - until the recent adoption of LED-based traffic lights, I'd guess that traffic light bulbs probably drew a few hundred watts each, and there can be many lights in a large intersection. You can see a row of 15A and 20A circuit breakers in the box in the photo, on the left side of the second rack from the top, with a 50A main breaker below them. The equipment below that rack looks like power-switching modules.

It's also entirely possible that this equipment is 20 or 30 years old, built at a time when computer hardware was much bulkier. There would be little incentive to replace it with something smaller if it was still working reliably.
Most of their advertisers use the pixel to retarget people.
These are by far the most profitable ads for advertisers, and often play a part in a sales funnel in which advertisers may lose money on initial traffic acquisition but make it up and then some through retargeting. Without the pixel, I don't care how many pages as I have "liked," how well they know where I've been, or how many data scientists they hire, they'll never be able to extrapolate that I was considering buying a specific brand of coffee maker at a specific site recently and be able to show me an ad for it.

Retargeting is not just an optimization. For many advertisers, it's the saving grace of the Facebook ads system that produced absurdly poor results before it was introduced. Facebook ads were the brunt of jokes back then, and it will return to that status if too many people use this feature.
I’ve invoked the dictionary accidentally 10x as often as intentionally. Probably a combination of having a decent vocabulary and reading material that is not that challenging.
This way they can at least show relevant ads to your significant other before they're aware of an imminent break-up. Be that for Kleenex or Colt.
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Yes, but it's always possible to block IP (targeted attack). Federated with a big amount of small servers make it hard to automate. You can block several hosts but the rest of the network would work fine. And because of how federation in XMPP works you just need a one client to server connection to reach the entire network.
> "I suppose that this is a good first step if you want to write a formal semantics of Rust in 𝕂, but it seems like there's not really enough here yet to be of interest."

I thing the work is interesting.

It would be a great endeavor to model the whole language so you need people to help with that. But how would one know that someone has started a project like that if they don't publish something about it?

In my opinion the whole story about only accepting "novel" and "readily applicable" results in academia isn't quite helpful. A "Publish early, publish often" strategy could produce more and better results in the long term I think.

If a result isn't useful or novel on it's own that's no issue imo. It can still become an important building block of some later innovation! Reusable work done is work done, indifferently of it's "novelty" or direct applicability.

Also the 𝕂 Framework is amazing for formal reasoning about languages so this work is indeed an important first step.
So what's this Cloudwick is actually doing? I went to their homepage and it's a buzzword bingo.
They want to make us feel that we are in control of our data but at the end, nope.. they're just playing us around.
This would be great if it worked. It's pretty simple, just pip install pychromecast and call pychromecast.get_chromecasts() in the repl. This returns an empty list for me every time.
Wait, so do you think single family housing prices will go up if the city bulldozes all of the high density housing downtown and south of market street?

You're saying that if you have the only single family house in a high density area that house will actually be worth less?

I think it's very unlikely either of those things would be true.
Antitrust much?

Why couldn't Tinder go-ahead and sue them for anti-competitive behavior and get the FTC with them.
> It's such a big world out there, so much to know.

I love this type of articles, there really is so much out there to learn.

I always found myself thinking, while waiting for the green light:

* Who makes these traffic lights?

* What software controls the traffic system?

* Are all traffic systems controlled by the same organizations?

* Can they get hacked? Of course they can… Are they difficult to hack?

* How can someone land a job to work on this type of SCADA systems?

I am right now sending my resume to McCain [1] they are currently looking for .Net, Java and Embedded engineers. If I don't get any of these jobs, at least I know where to continue looking. My dream have always been to work in projects like that, someone people consider them boring, I find them very interesting.

Wish me luck :-)

[1] https://www.mccain-inc.com/company/careers
> It takes a bit of experience to be able to refactor in the middle of a Lisp block without messing up the balancing of the parentheses

I double-click on one parenthesis and the whole expression gets selected - I can then operate on it. How would I mess up the balancing?

The only way to mess up the balancing is editing without s-expression support. No Lisp programmer would do that.
This is not true. If you make it wage-prioritized, it will help real employers (VC funded startups as well as big companies), and make life difficult for body-shop employers like the one mentioned in this article. The body-shops are consistently the lowest-paying employers.
> Google was founded on a set of ethical and moral principles that go beyond the immediate business mission.

Those would be the ethical and moral principles that Google has since broken?

> As described in the IPO founders' letter [0], their objective is to do "good things for the world even if we forgo short-term gains".

Which apparently includes: entrenching the ad-supported business model regardless of the damage it does; killing apps that were extremely popular with and beneficial to users, because they weren't generating enough ad revenue; locking people into walled gardens; etc.

> the drive to do the right thing independent from financial results is deeply ingrained in Google's culture.

Is it? Because it's sure hard to tell from the user's perspective.

> Seems to be working pretty well for them

For those who are benefiting from Google's profits and stock price, sure. But doing good for the world?
Some people suggest the same when they hear I moved to Mexico.

"Wait, everyone wants to get out of Mexico though. Why would you go there? My gardener cut off his testicle to come."

These are the sort of people who most desperately need to leave the tit to meet other people in other cultures but in my experience they are the least likely to.

On the other hand, the people leaving Mexico to be taken advantage of in the States are the most desperate. Just like these Indians. So if those are the only people you hear about from Mexico or India, you don't get an accurate picture.
Maybe someone (ICANN) could start a donation register for domains which tells applications they allow using there domain name in domain fronting for censorship circumventing purposes?

Since Amazon's TOS does allow domain fronting when the domain's owner allows it.
Random quantum circuit easiest way to beat classical computer
I agree with GP - yet another 'culture clash' article with a marginalized group focus.

You could probably create a Markov generator to create these stories. "I don't fit in, look at my talent! Let's talk women. She'd stand out in any decade!"

Snore.
I’ve been a native speaker of American English for over 50 years, and I didn’t get it.

Even after it was explained, I still don’t really remember the claimed plan that they were going to put her on the $20 bill.

And any pun that has to be explained is a failed pun.

It doesn’t even deserve a groan.
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If they don't have a skill that employers are willing to pay top dollar for, then no. H-1B is designed for bringing highly skilled workers into the country. It's not a program for job security for new grads.
All the big tech companies are pretty well represented here - it is most likely an employee spotted and flagged the issue whilst having a wee browse over their morning coffee.
> If academia could produce a search engine of equal quality but without ads

Um, isn't that exactly what Larry Page and Sergey Brin produced while they were in academia?
Great, another new way for nerdy white guys in tech with Asian fetishes to creep, stalk and sexualize Asian girls. I look forward to this.
Fremont's jobs/housing ratio is 1.44 which is larger than the regional average.
What to consider while converting iOS app to android?
It's easy to exploit immigrants though. Cultural differences (less likely to speak out), as well as lack of knowledge and experience of local laws, make the likelihood of legal action very low indeed.
Could get legally interesting for people from the US flirting with Europeans on-line.
Have a look at the list against .app with 'EAP' against their names:

https://www.registry.google/about/register.html
These are pretty loaded statements.
That would result in tech workers continuing to be underpaid, just slightly less so, and other professions being complete non-starters for immigrants. Working in tech, it's easy to get myopic about H1-B issues and only see how the program affects our workplaces. But it's important to realize there are professions other than tech that get paid a lot less than even the underpaid tech H1-B visa holders. And adjusting the program to fix problems in tech can easily break it for everyone else.

But I think there is a better way to fix the program and not have the kind of collateral damage that your plan would create. It's a method that's in use in many parts of the world and it works well...ratios. Let companies hire as many DHS-cleared immigrants as they want provided they also employ the requisite number of US citizens in similar roles.
> Immigration destroys labor

Free migration empowers labor in the same way that free movement of capital empowers capital; real immigration systems in capitalist regimes tend not to favor free and reciprocal movement but instead are regulated to favor domestic capital, but it's a foolish leftist that is opposed to free migration rather than migration regulated to favor capital.

OTOH, H-1B is one of the most blatantly capital-serving elements of the current US immigration[0] system.

[0] well, it's really a guest worker, not immigration, program, though it's possible for people to move into the immigration system directly from it.
Castnow is great, but it is written in node.js not python.
There are those of us for whom Spoonerisms are a legit speech impediment.

It rarely happens to me anymore, but rare != never.
Im just skipping all American articles about terrorism and how terrorists hate America because of the freedoms, and now America has to go bomb someone to make the world a better place. My iq drops 50 points from that garbage. We live in a world where people are so dumbed down or busy all the time that nobody even seem to reflect on the madness of this thinking.
The Soviets explicitly helped the early Chinese nuclear weapons program.

There are reports, like the Cox Report, that China used espionage to help improve their weapon and ballistic missile designs. Other discredit at least some of the veracity of that report. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox_Report .

If there has been leak of nuclear secrets to China then Chinese espionage is much better than Soviet espionage, where we were able to find several spies.

Wen Ho Lee received $1.6M because of misconduct and misrepresentations of the US government when they accused him of nuclear espionage. So it isn't like the US isn't trying.
> is it necessary for web search to be profitable?

Yes. What's not necessary is for those profits to come from advertisers instead of users.

If Google really wanted to do good for the world, it could show the world how a product like their search engine, or maps, or any of their mainstay apps, could be monetized by revenue directly from users. That's how for-profit is supposed to work: you find out what users want by finding out what they will pay for. And if there's any company that could do that, it's Google. But instead, they're monetizing our ad clicks. What the ...?
If you studied in a US university you don't need H1B visa for 3 years. You can work on OPT with F1 visa. However, OPT is very restricted, you job should be very close to what you studied in university and if you didn't study STEM you get only 1 year. That's how I worked in US as Software Engineer after studying Computer Science.
Also possibly a connection to a central traffic control center that can override signals during emergencies or special events that generate abnormal traffic flows.
What is this if not IP?
The right to exercise control over an asset is common for normal property at least.
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Pink tax has been debunked many times. You're not comparing the same products. Male haircuts are much simpler, male clothing is much simpler, and women's biogy is different.

If you really think you could make female products cheaper, which women would still buy, why wouldn't you? It seems like an insane business opportunity. I'm sure YC would jump on that startup pitch.