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We'd be living in times that'd make us look back on romantic poets as stodgy.

I don't think that follows, because people adjust to the improved situation[1][2]. To take a case where the gains are pretty undeniable, nobody celebrates regularly that they are much less likely to get polio or some other disease that used to be much more common. We just adjust to the new reality, and keep complaining about the diseases we do get today.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8LaT5Iiwo4
But most people anywhere would jump at a chance to live in another place for a couple of years even if it's ten to a room. I did that kind of shit when I was in my early 20s and don't regret it.
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<< I guess I should just not work for a living, then. I'm hoping that people making such an observation have native American ancestry.

In addition to being cheap and uncivil, it's absolutely unbelievable (but not surprising) that a foreign national here in this country as a guest of the American people thinks that it is in any way acceptable to say things like this.

You would do very well to advise yourself on the laws of the United States, which do not require ancestry from any particular place in order to qualify for citizenship. That includes people like you who also don't have any native American ancestry.

America is a sovereign country, and we the people have every right to make whatever laws we like about what qualifies someone for citizenship or entry into our country. You're not an American citizen, and you have no such rights. For example: that's why you can't vote.

One more thing: in America we have a word for people who believe someone's race disqualifies them speaking.

It starts with R.
I sold a lot of bicycles during my teenage years and we had a sideline in skateboards.

Sometimes teenagers would buy their own bicycles with their own money earned through doing actual work. However when it came to BMX and skateboard sales it would always be a parent that would be paying, with the child being one of those that has to walk three metres behind their mummy in a very teenage way. None of the skate/BMX crew had any money themselves and most were not that employable even in sales assistant roles (such as mine).

I also found it funny how important it was for BMX/skater types to get 'sponsored'. Someone might give them a T-shirt once and they then think they are 'ambassador to the brand' or some such nonsense. In their quest for validation on small wheels they ended up just trundling up and down the same ramps in the officially mandated skatepark and that was about it.

So this is the problem with the 'future of skateboarding' - the people that skateboard are skint and there just is not going to be a time when every town has a skateboarding shop. It is a sport where the boards/wheels bearings and T-shirts can be sold entirely online.
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But those low paid professions should be nonstarters for immigrants. Can't hire enough nurses? If the pay floats up to React Native developer salaries, I'm sure you'll be able to.
It has been my experience that different languages will usually have their own form of humor that tends to be more common, and other forms that are more rare or even unheard of.

For example, with French, I have found that it is usually the double-entendre which is much more common.
There were a bunch of Lisp variants for the Connection Machine, but the commercial offering was StarLisp.

http://people.csail.mit.edu/bradley/cm5docs/nov06/GettingSta...

For more: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/parallel#C...

Other variants were Connection Machine Lisp and Paralation Lisp.
Okay let's run that train of thought through, because ... you are VERY wrong.

What would happen if we opened the floodgates entirely ? Let's be 100% idealistic and just assume everyone reciprocates, China and the like magically become non-dictatorships, and so forth. Rule of law in rural Madagascar magically becomes as reliable as in the central cities of Switzerland. We just equalize the labor market worldwide.

What happens ? Well wages everywhere strongly trend to the worldwide average wage, and benefits. Okay ... so what is the worldwide average ?

1480 PPP$ or 600 actual $ per month. (source: ILO) (note: I would argue there are several reasons why this is too high, for instance this isn't a real average. This is pre-tax income of employed persons, and it's the mean: 80% or so of the population actually earns less than that. Pensioners, kids, disabled ... all earn $0 in these statistics)

And, by the way, you might think, this would make it cheaper to live in those places with high-paying job, but even a cursory analysis of what happens in Delhi will quickly correct you: no it won't. Places like Melbourne would likely actually become more expensive if you open the floodgates.

WHO would this be a desirable outcome for ? Well, there's 3 groups:

1) Obviously for the people currently in high-paying places this would be an extreme negative. They would face 60-70-80% pay cut without a real reduction in living expenses.

2) For people that would immigrate to those places it would be a slight improvement, or a wash. They would, after all, not improve that much in wages, would be far away from where they want to be and have to pay much higher living expenses. (and initially it would probably be a strong negative, as an outsourced wage pays for a lot of luxury in India and doesn't even approach the poverty level in Melbourne, but that's what they'd get. And with wages like that, they wouldn't be able to leave)

3) For the people staying behind this would be a strong negative. A pretty decent portion of the market would disappear (because people drive GDP, more than any other factor), which would mean that most industries would downsize. And that's to say nothing of China's and India's outsourcing sectors. Those would be utterly devastated.

A lot of people in Silicon Valley fall in the category that would benefit from moving (after all, that's why they're there), so they think that if it were to repeat, they would once again benefit. Even if that is a correct assessment (I don't think so, many Silicon Valley positions would be fine with dont-care-about-IT seat-fillers), that is still a tiny, tiny group. The vast, vast majority of people would fall into groups 1 and 3.
> Users can launch text-only private messages, separate from Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp.

Now what's that about? You can keep your history of initial messages in your messenger history after you're married/in a relationship?

Is this some poor idea of following Google in self-fracturing messenger apps into incompatible silos?
im pretty sure you can open chrome and just drag a local video into a tab and then chromecast the tab.
Not to mention it would drive down wages for American jobs.

This national auction for visas would be an economic disaster, resulting in immigrants being paid much less in areas that have higher a cost-of-living.

Companies could pay immigrants less than the prevailing wage of American citizens, and lay off the citizens. Immigrants would take the jobs too because it has the added value of the visa.
Seconded--I got this book on a whim and didn't expect to finish it very quickly, but I was having so much fun with it it displaced all the other books I was working on at the time. This was step two on my journey towards embracing FP (step one was seeing OCaml in a class).
What single-core frequencies could we hope to achieve if chips were working entirely on optical components? There are no heat problems, or is there?
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The 9% only includes H-1B folks who are directly employed by Apple.

Apple also has hundreds of contractors employed by Tata, Infosys etc on H-1B's, in Apple's internal IT department ("IS&T"). These people are paid less than the 9% of people above, and would not count towards Apple's own H-1B numbers.
Well put! I shouldn't assume.
The grouping of "leftists" as a singular group doesn't make sense. The economically left person might say that work visa programs are just ways for capital to cheapen labour by exploiting foreign workers who have less opportunity to not be exploited. The socially left person might say that work visa programs provide diversity and opportunity to people from less developed countries.

Similarly, an economically right person might say that work visas are necessary to make certain kinds of labour affordable for business owners. A socially right person might say that work visa programs are abhorrent because they bring foreigners into the country.

"Left" and "right" are broad tents - they're sure to contain conflicting or mutually exclusive viewpoints on some issues.
Just my opinion, but virtually every person I've ever met working in "State Department" operations is some breed of unlikable. "Shallow ... and full of shit" (with an enormous ego) could be a one-liner describing a lot of those folks. That's not to say they're all seedy spies. They just share aspects of a certain profile that isn't what you'd consider to be a paragon of wholesome goodness. And this is going to sound weird, but usually also a kind of ironic naivete about the world that reminds of you of the goody-two-shoes from school. The kind of person that tattles as an adult.
yes, but pervasive AR is not coming any time soon.

i think the next step is getting a computer to be contextually useful through an audio interface, rather than sight and touch. haptic is helpful but i don't see how it can encode enough useful yet intuitive info to be a standalone interface.

the problem is not that apple is not working on this (since it is). it's just that it's not obvious that apple has a clear vision of how to get to the future. they are chasing all the shiny things at once, throwing them all at the wall to see which one(s) sticks.

(to be clear, this is not an endorsement of google and android btw. they're even worse in this regard, but they're taking more of a microsoft strategy of being all things to all people anyway.)
Ask HN: Should I keep using stimulants?
Preface: I know that superficially I should not be abusing any prescription drugs, but I want to know about the experiences of HNers and how they would approach my situation. I am in the process of getting appointments with actual doctors, and I am not here for medical advice. Rather, as a STEM student, I am looking for life advice.

I'm currently finishing up my first-year in undergraduate at a top-5 computer science university. The coursework is extremely difficult, and I am more intellectually and academically challenged than ever before.

On two or three occasions I have made use of prescription stimulants (specifically Adderall in small doses) purchased from my peers (who obtain it legally). The effects have been tremendous -- for the first time I feel like I can choose what to focus on, and the positive effects on my productivity and learning are unexpectedly high.

Does anyone have specific experiences, data, reading material, etc. to dissuade me from occasional use of study-aids? Was it worth it for you to do in college? Can anyone personally speak to long-term effects?

Thanks
Want to rabbit-hole deep on traffic engineering? There’s a long-running thread on the Something Awful forums about traffic engineering:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=31...

Traffic controls, intersection design, role playing regional transportation planning, and much much more.
I have a 3D jigsaw puzzle that makes a globe (i.e. the Earth) that consists of curved plastic pieces. It shouldn't be too hard to make such a Klein puzzle, though solving it is harder. The globe puzzle includes a small bowl (of the same radius as the finished globe) to assist putting the pieces together; this wouldn't be possible with a klein bottle due to there not being a consistent radius.
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AFAIK it is actually using a proprietary streaming protocol called CASTv2. It has been a community effort to reverse engineer the protocol and write implementations.

Some useful links:

https://github.com/vincentbernat/nodecastor // one of the earliest attempts of figuring out CASTv2

https://github.com/thibauts/node-castv2 // one of the first libraries to support chromecast streaming based on the works of vincentbernat.
But H1B is not the answer for entry level jobs. It is for skilled workers.
Very unlikely. Github is working on this since months/years [1] and it is much more likely they had to wait for wildcard support by let's encrypt plus a few weeks testing.

Googles announcement is much more along the lines of Progressive Web Apps (PWA) and Service Workers which require HTTPS [2].

[1]: https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/156

[2]: https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/check...
Is it OPT or H1B?
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Take GMail as an typical service. GMail exists solely to show me ads. It's not Google's product, Google doesn't sell it to me, it's a free tool that exists to display Google's real product, the ads. It's a billboard. A brilliant, useful, and clever billboard, but still a billboard nonetheless. This is true of every Google service that they give away for free.
It also reminds me of the 'live smiley' stuff Apple weirdly put front-and-center in their unveiling of the FaceID features.
> We are not sponsoring new work visa at this time.

What about OPT?
strictnein's comment was blanket statement, and not limited to GDPR.

More specifically, tuke pointed out the territorial scope of GDPR, and strictnein's response seemed to argue that the underlying premise should be invalid.

My comment was to point to a counter-example that is already widely supported.
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Exactly. What's bettter than a solution is not having a problem.
Chromecast even stops working if you do not have a working outside internet connection. On many occasions I've been unable to cast movies to chromecast simply because my internet connection was broken.

After some time it bothered me that I had a machine plugged in 24/7 connected to both my local LAN and Internet, owned by Google. So, every night I unplug the chromecast and then plug it again whenever I want to cast something.
This is not true. One of my friends and myself have both paid for registration of different .app domains and some ten hours later it still says pending at two different vendors listed there as EAP providers.
> It starts with R.

And ends with N? /s
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Well, some advertisers for sure deserve that, but think about, eg, SomeGoodCompany.com which is organically and legitimately the top result if I search "SomeGoodCompany" in my url bar.

If SomeBadCompany comes and starts bidding for the keyword "SomeGoodCompany", and SomeGoodCompany doesn't, when Joe Average searches "SomeGoodCompany", he will see "SomeBadCompany.com - we're even better than SomeGoodCompany..." as his top result - guaranteed by Google, the expert Joe trusts to find the best websites for any subject!

How can SomeGoodCompany NOT pay Google to stop that from happening, supposing they have the means to do it?

When "SomeBadCompany" had their results displayed on the right column, that wasn't an existential threat. Now, it is.

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Like how many?
The PICO-8 language is just Lua with some minor syntactic sugar.

It's also worth noting that TIC-80 has a $5 "PRO" version; the free (as in no cost) and open source version is basically shareware.
Not all of India is like that, but there are enough people who would jump, and giving them a chance to jump seems to me a good thing.
Got that too. Interesingly enough, these automated processes were able to get through:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180501183242/https://queue.acm...

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:sClfdA...
H1B auctions would drive wages down for American citizens.

Companies could hire immigrants for less than what the prevailing wage is of citizens working the same job in the same area - then lay off the citizens.
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I call those social connectors - one of the biggest differences I’ve seen having moved from California to the PNW is that they have large groups with absolutely no connectors. Having usually been one (but between groups), it’s signifcantly detracted from the quality of relationships here - it takes so much effort to get “into” a group because there is no front door, just a long slow osmosis by proximity.
I've only done a bit of GPU kernel writing, but I always found it very .. unergonomic. Its like they mashed C to work in a context it wasn't meant for. Which is understandable since you want to encourage adoption, but I'd guess it's part of the motivation behind creating SPIR-V and allowing people to target other languages to the GPU
You don't need a setup if you buy a Taylor.
"Upload your entire browser history here and we will take care of securely deleting it for you".
Because thrift store criminals spend _so_ much time reading deeply nested comment threads on hackernews...
That's an illusion small business owners keep putting forth. It is a well established fact in economics that free movement of capital will concentrate the capital in fewer hands.

So in reality, free movement of capital is bad for 99.99% good for 0.01%.

However, I get it, it is a very popular illusion among business owners that this is not in fact true. That they could do better if they could just put their business in more places, deploy their money and capital more flexibly.

99% of them are wrong. Of course, you wouldn't be running a business if you didn't think you could do this, I get it. But time and time again it is shown: 99% of them can't.
Common misconception: having your finger in a lot of different pies is not being a Maven. If you joined an improv group, a church group, a softball team, and an MMA gym, you're at best a conglomerate, but more likely an overextended end node.
40% of Fortune 500 companies are founded by immigrant families. A large number of jobs and companies wouldn't exist today without work immigration.
> What happens ? Well wages everywhere strongly trend to the worldwide average wage

Like wages in the US are all equal to the national average? Like wages in the EU are all equal to the EU average?
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Alternately, if the workplace is a caring one and not sociopathic, it could encourage people to socialize more. I’d bet people socialize a lot more in Europe for example, where there’s a more even contract between worker and business.. but hey may be wrong.
> after going through our systems, this is an example of the kind of control we think you should have.

No. You didn't 'go through your systems' and you didn't think of this at all. The European GDPR requires you to offer this, at least to EU citizens. Don't pretend that isn't the only reason you even built this feature.
Newark is like 5 miles (as crow flies) from Facebook and Google.
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GDPR is very specific. You must have written policies describing what you do with data, what you do if there’s a breach, how people can find out what data you hold, how people can have their data deleted. And you must have consent to contact someone unsolicited. If you don’t have consent you must have legitimate interest. Legitimate interest includes the words “reasonably expect” but that’s pretty standard for laws.
Sure, but they do maintain an official public stance of non intervention which is what's at hand here, because companies must abide by that official public stance, not by off the record spy activity.
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Why do we even use the word "delete" in this forum? We know that (so far) it is NOT deleting anything. It only means "hide from view". Facebook will not forget and will not forgive. Some 10-hour-question-avoiding in front of a committee (irrespective of importance) will not change FB's business model (aka money-maker) overnight.
There is no reason not to try it, but you would still want to cater for the initial boot when you have no previous entropy to read.
I'm not sure about the US, but in Australia pretty much all traffic signals in metro areas are all linked and controlled over fibre networks. You need single mode fibre given the distances between cabinets etc. (hundreds of metres to kilometres).

And if you're doing that, may as well just use single mode internally too because the transceivers and patch cables aren't really much different in price and you can get better volume discounts.
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The story (skip this paragraph if you don't like stories in your job posts): I founded and continue to run this startup. Most of the team works from our office in South Africa. However, I'm now moving to Singapore for work / personal reasons. I used to be quite averse to the idea of remote workers, but seeing as just about everyone will now be remote from my perspective, I decided it's a good time to start focusing on hiring for remote work.

SimplePay is online payroll software for South Africa, Ireland, Singapore and Hong Kong. Our software lets thousands of small business owners (and their accountants) run their payrolls without headaches, so they can focus on the challenge of building their businesses.

Do you believe most SPAs are a pile of steaming crap, but wouldn't mind digging into Vue.js for pages that will benefit from the increased interactivity?
Do you laugh when people give up the power of PostgreSQL in favour of data stores that don't offer any benefits for their use case?
If so, you may fit in well with our mindset.

The work will include: Doing direct integrations with banks that offer good APIs. Expanding our API for other systems to integrate with us. Adding new features. Optimising for performance. Integrating with government systems. Squashing bugs. Eventually, the opportunity to do some mobile development (probably using Flutter).

Experience: Due to our full pipeline, we can only hire developers who have a few years of Rails experience at this time. Previous experience with remote work would be a bonus - we need people who understand the challenges and can share what they've learnt.

Location: Most of the team is in GMT+2, and I'll be in GMT+8 going forward. So anything from GMT+0 to GMT+8 should be OK, unless you keep unusual working hours. We are a registered employer in South Africa and Singapore, so it would be hassle-free if you're based in those countries. If not, and if you've never done remote work for a foreign company before, please be sure to find out how to legally do this iin your particular country (it may involve registering as self-employed, for example).

Please mail careers@simplepay.co.za and put "Hacker News" somewhere in the subject. I look forward to transforming the company to being more remote-friendly.
I suspect that parent meant "libertarian fantasy".

Terms like "liberal" and "conservative" are virtually meaningless.
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