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>then your H1B visa can be extended indefinitely

This used to be the case. But not any more. A lot of people I know are getting RFEs and rejections for their extensions after i-140. I am actually one of them. Got my I-140, then got RFE. I am in a state that gives license based on your visa and won't renew license unless I have an approved work permit. So, I cannot renew my license, and has been using ride sharing for the last 1 month. Its going to be another 1-2 months before I get a decision on whether I can stay. Fun times. They always find creative ways to make your life difficult. Its amusing they refuse to give me license, but the state has no problem taxing me, even for the income I get in India.

Trump talked about self deportation. He succeeded at least in my case. I am done with all this immigration bull. I hope I can find a job in India soon so that I can escape from here.
2 of those sellers were Amazon itself...so not much help there, but you’re right that’s why they reject them. The seller ratings don’t matter when they comingle though.

Next time I’m going to write a carefully worded one that doesn’t explicitly state that it was counterfeit.
>“Why should the laws of nature care about what I find beautiful?”

I find this question to be missing the fundamental point of scientific endeavour. Nature obviously does not care about beauty, but scientists do because extracting meaning and order (laws) from observations and building models is the very essence of scientific insight.

The goal of science is not to replicate nature, it is to build a model of nature from which we can collect insights and make predictions, the model does not need to 'conform to' nature. That's not the point. If that were the case we could just dump the LHC data into a textbook. There is a great story writen by Borges called The Exactitude of Science where he creates the analogy of a large, but useless map:

"... In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography."
In the vast majority of cases, it doesn't matter. But I think it's ethically wrong for a company to have this power over an individual. Can't it lead to a situation where, for a few weeks, a person becomes an involuntary worker (i.e. a slave) - unless they negotiate or buy their own release?

I live in Austria, arguably the most backward-looking rich Western country, and my agreement requires me to give a four-week notice. While my employer is such that this will never become an issue, I believe that the "at-will employment" is one of the many manifestations of the "American freedom" that also give the US its competitive edge.
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It would be ok if it is voluntary - you can upload your face and choose what information about you is shown, not if someone scans the entire internet to collect as mush information as possible and make an app of that.
> Meanwhile anyone who espouses common sense ideas such as reforming our immigration policy gets called a racist and ‘anti-immigrant’.

Federal policy is hardly ever “common sense”. Have those people actually tried not saying racist things? Because I swear, 99.999% of the “common sense” reforms I hear about I nvolve deporting basically everyone who isn’t super white..
Finally, chemical compounds in demand by adults for private consumption will no longer be available. Victory in the war on drugs!
You spelt Canada wrong.
It's a pretty big search space but one presumably could brute force it and create a site having links to all/lots of unlisted content.
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Probability doesn't really work that way. There are complex factors that go into the calculation, for any set of policies. Every policy discriminates somehow, except completely unrestricted system.
I second Gnucash: I've been using it since January, including the budgeting features. There were some weird settings involving which account categories to count as negative/positive transactions to get the budgeting to work.
The crisis (if it exists) is not triggered by a belief in beauty, but by the simple fact that LHC hasn't yet seen anything "new" (beyond the very-important success of the Higgs discovery).

The observation of the apparent non-existence of something (supersymmetry, in this case) is at least as important as the existence of something. Supersymmetry is one of high-energy physics' best guesses as to the nature of the universe. If that turns out not to be true, we have learned something very important.

"Thirty spokes share the wheel's hub;
It is the center hole that makes it useful.
Shape clay into a vessel;
It is the space within that makes it useful.
Cut doors and windows for a room;
It is the holes which make it useful.
Therefore profit comes from what is there;
Usefulness from what is not there."
Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu - Chapter 11
(translation by Gia-fu Feng and Jane English)

Physics is alive and well; there are plenty of big open problems with strong experimental backing:

How does gravity connect with the rest of physics?

What is the nature of dark energy?

What is the nature of dark matter?

Where is the rest of the CP violation?

What gives neutrinos mass?

(And, the doozies that are so hard to answer that nobody touches them: Why does time have a direction? Is there something underlying quantum mechanics?)
Writing apps to interop with VBA may be terrible, but embedding VBA in documents is a really useful feature that doesn't require your users to have a bunch of runtimes installed.
You seem to assume being a parent (as an employee) is all downside and no upside (for the company). Let me suggest this unstated assumption is not accurate. You learn a lot when you have a family that you aren't likely to learn any other way.

My ex was a really smart guy, but not much of a people person. He once told me that most of what he knew about being a good manager he learned from being married to me. Otherwise, he would be good at the technical parts of his job, but he wouldn't be any good at dealing with people.

Part of what I knew about dealing with people came from being a full time parent. I'm also much more of a people person than he was, but potential gets developed by practice and real world experience. It doesn't happen in a vacuum.
It is possible using \\?\ prefix, eg. \\?\C:\con.txt is valid path. Unfortunately these files anyway confuse many applications that don't use this prefix, including Explorer.
This breaks my chrome.

I see the site. Cant click anything and a popup "Wait for page".

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I get the impression it would be harder, because ICBM launches are really obvious (to current equipment) and you can at least make a good guess about their ballistic path, while anything of that size launched from the moon would be invisible until it had almost hit you.

While it is often said that stealth is impossible in space, that tends to assume the appropriate tech has actually been manufactured rather than sitting in a lab somewhere waiting for a purchase order. Radar, even lidar, is going to have awful signal-to-noise ratios and almost all of the return signal will be stuff that bounced off the moon rather than any projectile. Even the lunar retroreflector turns 10^17 photons out into one photon back, according to Wikipedia, and that’s about as far from stealth as you can get.

Edit: I suppose one could reasonably argue that any industrialisation of Luna would, as a result of my own argument, make governments choose to put loads of effort into appropriate defence technology. On the other hand, I’m told trench warfare was more accident than deliberate planning in WW1, so perhaps governments would be as myopic as ever even with a massive space gun on the moon.
I tried to switch back to Firefox, but my password manager (lastpass) doesn’t work correctly, I guess the new extension APIs are too restrictiy. So, Chrome it is.
Serverless is more than a cloud computing execution model. It changes the way we plan, build, and deploy apps. But it also changes the way we test our apps.

Serverless can also change the way we test our non-serverless apps. For example, UI testing or load testing.
You can limit immigration fairly. But don't tell me I have a lesser chance of working in USA than a Kenyan and that's not discrimination.

You as one of over a billion people from the same country will understandably have more competition than a Kenyan who is competing with under 50 million countrymen. Overall more Indians have a chance of working in the US than Kenyans, but the pools drawn from are at least an order of magnitude apart.
It was against the TOS to do pretty much anything with the Google Glass API. They forbid both charging for apps and showing ads. (And then wondered why no one wrote them a killer app.)
Because it's almost the same thing copy-pasted repeatedly; textbook boilerplate. I know it's a matter of taste, but the last one also looks by far the best to me.
So much controversy in theories of evolution. All thinkers can benefit from this feeling that "we're over these solved problems." Get to the root of the problems by looking at the various paradigms before one went mainstream and trampled the rest - and stop trying to jump to the same conclusions the mainstream did.
He's been a very accomplished theoretical physicist* (a mathematician actually) and an inquisitive mind. He also has met literally everybody, he's living History of 20th century Physics and more. You just can't ignore this kind of figures if you're interested in Science.

When Freeman talks I always listen, even when he's wrong he still has a point: don't underestimate him, even at 94.

(*We're still using quite a bit of his QFT formalism... laid down almost 70 years ago now.)
Why such desperation for consensus?
That's a good point although it's not wholly unique to open source.

In addition, container platforms for example may be made up of a fair number of different projects including container orchestration, the base container capabilities, monitoring, logging, CI/CD, etc.
She could try, but the patents might be found to be 'non-enabling' and thus invalid. Patents are supposed to teach a reader how to make the invention.

In particular, it seems that the microfluidics stuff needs new inventions to make it work in practice. So presumably those aren't described in the patents. Although it wouldn't be the first time that management overlooked solutions provided by their own researchers.
The numbers game is a part of the modern Patent system. It is almost certainly impossible for a patent officer to asses the scientific or technical merit of a patent application. At best, they can throw out the nutbar submissions. The submitting companies often want patents partly (or mostly completely) for marketing reasons: "Our technology is protected by N patents!".
Even Steve Jobs said this when he introduced the iPhone: "We’ve been innovating like crazy for the last few years on this, and we filed for over 200 patents for all the inventions in iPhone, and we intend to protect them." I am sure many of them are great, but one of those 200 is mine, and, frankly, the idea in it was never used in the iPhone.
This is an opportunity for Amazon to thrive into. It already has a lot of experience in a related industry, combining that with logistics is only logical.
Not really. Future contracts will also track the probability of asteroid mining feasibility. The markets are always fully discounting whatever information is available. The price of gold will crash before the first rocket will take off.

Many centuries ago, speculators would sit in harbors and when they noticed a ship on the horizon they would immediately start shorting on the market the commodity supposed to be on that ship.
I will take this optimism with a grain of salt. There are physhiological and social hard limits to acheiving a lot of goals.

A man couldn't be an MMA fighter at 50 if he never worked out his whole life. A woman can't have her own baby past menopause. Even experiencing the similar events is different at 20 compared to 30 or 40.

Even when you can acheive the goal,the journey is different if you start too late. I could probably climb everest 10 years from now but will I give up midway then where I would have the stamina to finish it now?

Never the less,it's never too late to start doing what is right.
For some reason YouTube assumes I really like Mariya Takeuchi - Plastic Love and recommends it from almost every video I watch. A look at the comments suggests I'm not the only one this happens to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bNITQR4Uso
Dupe. I assumed HN checks if an article with the same link was already submitted ?

This exact same article / link was already posted a day ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17320218

Plus another link, plus the original research link.
"some painting was done"

That's like saying Stanley Kubrick did "some" work on his film prints after exposing them.
1) Competing engineers are often advised not to read patents, because it can result in treble damages in infringement claims: https://www.essentialpatentblog.com/2016/06/supreme-court-ru...

2) Patents are really hard to read

3) The difference between something that looks plausibly like it might work when written down and something that actually works can be hundreds of millions of dollars of bugfixing.
So you have enough of a material to flood the market and wipe out any competitor. What competitor is going to invest billions in trying to compete with you? To kill them stone dead all you have to do is turn on the tap. I think investors are going to understand the idea of maximising return on investment. It's not an unheard of concept in business.
I misused the term. How about "fraud," then?
Again, if you know what you're doing, it's pretty easy to tell tell the difference. I followed the link in the article about the Elevation Lab headphone mount. The counterfeit listing is actually more convincing than most, but wait, "sold by suiningdonghanjiaju Co Ltd?" Hmm.

I'm not saying it's great that Amazon is allowing this stuff, my point was just that, even with the presence of some noise, it's still a quite useful service and it seems silly to act like it's "over."
Having a decent notice period favors the employee much more than the employer and most employers offer PYLON (pay in liew of notice) and often half a months notice period will be taken up by annual leave

And as some one living in Austria I thought you would have been acutely aware of the social status symbol of working in a professional role that has a long 3 - 6 month notice period.
Not really. An interpreter doesn't convert the language syntax tree into machine code, instead it just performs the operations. It sounds like Swift's REPL actually converts the lines into opcodes and runs those.
It is interesting/surprising to me that there isn't the suggestion of auto-loading/unloading the trucks themselves. Is this one of those problems that seems pretty tractable from the outside looking in but it turns out there are some fundamental difficulties that aren't obvious at first but make it much more difficult than first imagined?

I could imagine the beds of the trailers being conveyer belts themselves that would "plug in" to the system at the sorting facility. From there the automation could take over. It would be something like training the robots to play a combination of Jenga and Tetris.
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The book, "Bad Blood" (written by the WSJ reporter) goes into great detail about how Holmes and Theranos were able to get away with their scam. "Fake it till you make it" is a thing not particularly bound by physics, especially when you have charisma and the friendship and backing of influential investors and board members.

Incidentally, the book does contain a lot of discussion about patents. Holmes offended a longtime family friend, Richard Fuisz -- who, incidentally, was a former CIA agent -- around 2005-2006. He was mad Holmes and her family never consulted with him about the Threanos idea, so he wrote his own patent (made public on Jan 3, 2008) that he described as "the Theranos killer". It turned into a big legal battle that caught the eye of a Fortune writer, who ended up writing the first big magazine cover story on Holmes/Theranos:

http://fortune.com/2014/06/12/theranos-blood-holmes/

The whole subplot is quite remarkable. Fuisz's battle with Theranos led to some damaging testimony in deposition. Fuisz's son became determined to take down Theranos and from what I can tell, had a big (but mostly unknown) part in the unraveling of Theranos. He found in a Google search a blog post [0] (now taken down) that made serious accusations about Theranos after the New Yorker cover story.

Joe Fuisz, Richard's son, ended up contacting the blog author and telling him about the Fuisz vs. Holmes fight [1]. This blog author ended up contacting a WSJ reporter that he had previously worked with, John Carreyrou.

So rather than science/engineering directly leading to Threanos's downfall, it seems a personal spat played a bigger part. And ironically, this spat involved a guy who wanted to out-patent-troll Elizabeth Holmes.

An excerpt from the book about what started Richard Fuisz's feud:

Richard Fuisz was a vain and prideful man. The thought that the daughter of longtime friends and former neighbors would launch a company in his area of expertise and that they wouldn’t ask for his help or even consult him deeply offended him. As he would put it years later in an email, “The fact that the Holmes family was so willing to partake of our hospitality (New York apartment, dinners, etc.) made it particularly bitter to me that they would not ask for advice. Essentially the message was, ‘I’ll drink your wine but I won’t ask you for advice in the very field that paid for the wine.’  ”

Carreyrou, John. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (p. 71). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

[0] edit: Here's an archive snapshot of the now taken down blog post: http://archive.is/BGtRJ

Carreyrou gives a lot of credit to the author for giving the tip that turned Carreyrou's interest toward Theranos. Strangely, there's not mention of why the blog suddenly shut down. If you google around, you'll see it closed up a few weeks after Carreyrou's first big Theranos story.

[1] edit: via a comment on the oldest HN post (Sept. 2013) about Theranos, I found a link an online summary of the patent dispute:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6349870

https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdco20121203541
Every time the topic of H1B comes up, people bring up Infosys. Why is that? Why is nobody talking about the 100 thousand Indian students who come to US every year? Who is employing them? These students are one of the primary abusers of the H1B system. They go through lengths to stay in US. They will settle for low salary so that they don't have to leave the country. Literally every scam I saw in H1B is from body shops in US, not the Indian companies. Indian companies do abuse it, by forcing the employees to sign a bond that if they want to resign, they have to come back to India and serve a 3 months notice (I know a Indian arm of an American product company who is top 1 or 2 in what they do with a 12 months notice policy by the way) or pay 5-10 lakhs Indian rupee if they want their experience certificate. And the pay offered is also only half or less of what they charge the customer.

>IT industry body Nasscom on Monday came out in defence of its members TCS and Infosys, saying the two accounted for only 7,504—8.8%—of the approved H1B visas in 2014-15.

https://www.livemint.com/Industry/pHkRcTtIoKd8MkTkBNdtSN/Inf...
Yes, good point. I've seen a few well-known/famous tech writers make that mistake, either unknowingly or carelessly.

Open source or free software (as in speech) vs. closed source (proprietary)

and

commercial or paid / non-commercial or free software (as in beer)

are 2 X 2 (orthogonal) variations, giving 4 possibilities in total.

Odd that not many people see this. Maybe sloppy as ghaff said.

Correct me if I got it wrong, anyone, that's my understanding of "free as in speech" vs. "free as in beer".
Landing asteroids in the sea is a really bad idea if you care at all about either the ocean ecosystem, or anything you have on the coastline anywhere in the region.
Gliding/skipping entry is not feasible for such a massive, unpredictable and uncontrolled object. Both due to accuracy and aerothermodynamics. Thermodynamically speaking, entry angle is a trade-off between the peak heat load and the total heat received, and for the prolonged reentry the object has to be engineered to radiate much more heat away than with a steeper angle entry. Also, skipping entry is extremely inaccurate, and must be precisely controlled to achieve the desired result.
Peter Woit writes regularly about this crisis on his blog "Not Even Wrong". He wrote about Sabine Hossenfelder’s new book "Lost in Math" here https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=10314

Feynman reminds us that "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool."
It seems to have been referenced 272 times in HN comments and 3 times in story headlines.
I believe "meteoric" mainly refers to the speed, not to the sky-reference.
There is no significant advance in tech regarding colonization, mining, and manufacturing in space without significant dual uses. If “that could be a weapon!” is the end of it, then we’re stuck on this rock until we all die. It’s all pretty moot, since dropping rocks on a country won stop a proportional nuclear response.
Interesting because the site has multiple references for its statements and you have none.
Oh, it's an obligation for everyone, not just members of oppressed groups. None of us is free until all of us are free, and all that.
The patents don't really tell you whether the Theranos technology actually works. They cover small parts of the overall system - fluid handling, centrifuge configurations, software processes and so on.

It's quite common for companies to use a mix of patents and trade secrets to protect their technology. Filing for patent protection is a tradeoff - you gain the exclusive right to use that invention for 20 years, but the invention becomes public knowledge. In many cases, that tradeoff isn't worthwhile. The fact that a set of patents don't add up to a working process is quite normal.
Have any other retailers (especially those with similar "marketplaces" like Walmart and Newegg) implemented the commingling idea?
Smells like an opportunity for anybody that can figure out how to define and filter on "genuine".
Under this analysis, some portion of the Open Source efforts out there fall into a very old tradition that includes promotional giveaways, loss leaders, and so on. It is the application of old principles to a new arena.
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Results are compared with known optimal algorithms for the Rubik's cube: Kociemba's algorithm, Korf's algorithm.

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I’m very confused about the legal status of ketamine in the United States. It’s seemingly illegal (schedule 1?) but also there have been stories about ketamine therapy for depression symptoms and now this? I don’t understand US drug laws.
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