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Ask HN: Where would one find visa sponsorship jobs?
I'm interested in moving to another country for a job (Front-end developer with 7+ years experience), but having a hard-time finding jobs/companies that help with getting a visa

I'm planning to find a job in Singapore/Hong Kong/Canada (open to other suggestions)

Only one that i know is HN's monthly 'Who's hiring'
Anyone know any other places ?

Thanks in advance
I rented a place with AirBnB in NY once. I knocked on the door and the guy answered with a lit joint in his hand. Another was passed out on the couch. Gross, unclean bathroom.

But whatever shit happens. It was cheap so maybe buywer beware.

What was surprising was the flacid and uncaring support from AirBnB. They insisted on charging for time stayed (the evening of check-in) and refused to refund their fees and the cleaning fees. Why? Made no sense to me given Amazon's eagerness to make refunds for goods with actual COGS.

Haven't done it again since and I travel > 100 days a year.
As the article concludes with "Legal has taken over, I did my part and the rest is over my pay grade.", I think the author is not allowed to disclose this publicly.
The details are specified in the specific Act of Parliament allowing the vote. The 1979 Scottish devolution referendum required a minimum 40% of the electorate vote Yes, so it failed, despite a 52% Yes vote, due to insufficient turnout.
Why care if one is on some list?
If OP shared the nodejs app I think somebody would be able to figure out what it does. I'd certainly have a go.
Ask HN: Cloud versus on-prem. Which is better?
HNers what are your thoughts on cloud versus on-prem datacenters?

Dell Technologies is seeing an increasing number of customer repatriating activities from the cloud to on-prem. They quoted a report showing that 80% of companies were doing this in some form.

Reasons given were cost, security and performance.

Cost might be a factor since I understand if you are running a constant load, its cheaper to do this with your own hardware. Cloud is better for flexible capacity if you need to scale up quickly.

Security... people are not always rationally and may be scared about end point exposure.. not always an issue with VPNs. Also you can't inspect AWS datacenters so banks can use them

Performance - could be a latency thing. AWS does not have 100% global coverage.
It will also make the flag of Côte d’Ivoire be perceived as that of Ireland.
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The same thing happened with “Topology”, now “Journal of Topology”. After some years it was bought by Wiley and is no longer free...

A journal is not an easy task to manage.
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Of course I'm not paying for it.

We don't have cinnamon patrols in my EU country, it sounds like the silliest thing in the world.
Oh, for sure, imagine trying to warehouse [images of] every submitted form in a condition that can be read - so, climate controlled at least.
I've seen Blu-ray disc manufacturers claim lifespans of over 100 years with capacities of 100 GB per disc. An entire warehouse of paper and microfilm documents would be able to fit in a shoebox.
I don't think they hoped it'd fail. There was no chance of anything better than the kind of deal Norway has - they pay, obey the rules and have no say - as opposed to what the UK now has - they pay, obey the rules and have a say.

A democratic decision on a poorly formulated question at best. Democracy assumes informed decisions by the people and this was anything but. The leave campaign made every misrepresentation they could in order to paint a rosy future we all knew would never be possible.
Not in this case. The mujahideen were a specific group of warlords who fought against the taliban (which just means 'students' by the way).
I think in the current research climate, you can replace "biotech company" with "university department" and most of your statements still hold true.

Many purely academic studies are done with predefined strategic objectives of advancing one's own prestige, only publishing positive results that fit "your narrative", and indeed polluting the literature with results that are at best incremental improvements, at worst regressions made up to look like improvements.
The OP is mistaken and like many people think the EU is some kind of antagonistic entity that was forced upon their country, whereas in reality the EU has been funded by its member states as a voluntary union of members states - by unanimous votes, in all important matters. Every feature of the EU is the result of careful, decade long discussion between the governments of members states from all kinds of political sides.

The reason why the EU is perceived so bad in some countries (like the UK) are partly historic and partly because it the EU is the perfect scapegoat for local politicians who have messed things up. In the UK, scapegoating the EU for your own mistakes was particularly common.

Add to this the facts that the Leave campaign lied about practically everything - or at least intentionally distorted the facts - and that many voters don't know much about the structure of the EU, and the Brexit became reality.

It is unlikely that a similar decision will be made in any of the remaining 27 countries, for lack of popular support and because people there are more aware of the benefits of the EU. Never say no, though, fuelled with money from outside the EU, currently right-wing populists are pretty good at exploiting the fact that the divide between the rich and the poor is ever increasing very cleverly, and since poverty will increase in all EU countries, irrational and populist recipes for "the simple man on the street" can continue to gain in popularity. Radical left wing parties have largely the same agenda, so these are interchangeable.

So it's possible that one or two countries might attempt to exit the EU after some populist party has won an election. It's unlikely, though, because the EU offers overall way more benefits than disadvantages. It's budget is ridiculously cheap in terms of percentage of GDP and you get a lot of bang for the bucks out of the trade union alone. Moreover, future generations are fairly pro-EU in most member countries (though there are some outliers).
Cannot emphasise enough how interesting these breakdowns on Adrian Courrege's site are for me as a non-games dev. I wanted to post a comment in case an upvote isn't enough of an endorsement: if anyone's scrolling past and wondering what to read over their lunchtime, then click the links in parent post's comment - you won't be disappointed!
Show HN: Nicheboard – Spend less time googling and more time applying
Or, even better, your services need authentication and authorization even on internal network, with some sort of SSO and/or federated authentication, so it actually doesn't matter where you are. Google's own BeyondCorp initiative works kind of this way.

Getting a route to the outside internet is not such a big deal; access to internal data is.

By the way: it's "amateur hour" if, as you say, that happens for a switch in a public/semipublic area in an office structure. On the contrary, I've seen a lot of "all-enabled" switches if those were accessible just from INSIDE the datacenter, where few people had access. It's not a really reasonable scenario.
the article makes the massive assumption that the 'gifted person' whose name and home address were exposed is also the person who wanted it in the closet.

Either that person has phenomenally bad tradecraft, or they are actually innocent.

There are so many plausible ways in which the 'gifted person' is not in on the plot; for example, they may have sold the pi to the disgruntled employee before the employee was disgruntled or with no idea of the use that the disgruntled employee would put it too.

Have to kind of hope thats how it all ends up.

When I was young I often set up computers and stuff for others. These days I try and get slopy shoulders when people ask me for tech support, and if there were a young gifted wizkid nearby I'd be sending a lot of innocent business their way....
It's taking things to an extreme – like automatically mistrusting the source because it seems to attempt playing the reader's heartstrings – that's a defining characteristic of the Internet era.

Not everyone makes up their stories, and not nearly everyone is lying – but there are people who will abuse the natural trust people exhibit, and take the profits into their pockets, as opposed to helping their fictional cause.

It's so prominent because there's a whole lot of people who do that. Similar to the "vocal minority" phenomenon, people start assuming that everyone in the same group is <something>, regardless of how valid the assumption is, because of the exposure towards a certain kind of the group's members.
Ireland doesn't want to leave the EU. It's entire economy is based on EU membership. And they fought a war of independence in the 1920s specifically to avoid being in a 'mini union' with the UK. This kind of 'it would be easier if everyone did our bidding' thinking is one of the reasons exit negotiations with the EU have gone so badly.

The 'war', if it happens, would be a restart of the intractable civil kind among the various NI groups, not EU vs us.
If you don't mind I'll push a little more

> 1. It's hard to have an IT department when it's about 10 people in a whole firm.

I think that's both a blessing and a curse. If it was a 10000 person firm it might be a really big step, but right now it's a small step! Nothing wrong with getting in a role early and growing with it (and the company).

> 2. I'm afraid it wouldn't be as much fun if all I did the whole time was something like this.

That's true, and there are very real downsides like burnout and there's on problem with staying where you are if you're happy and getting what you want out of your job, but if what you're doing now isn't your dream job, and you don't absolutely hate the upper tier of the company, why not do a job you like slightly less for much increased future career prospects?

> This is a plot that hinders my career my whole life: too interested in too many things to fully commit to one of them. And the field for which I feel enough passion (music/studio work) has no money to compete with other jobs I can do. I really wish there was some position to exercise more of my wide but not-excitingly-deep skill set.

Yeah, that's difficult -- Imagine how much time you'd have to be a renaissance man/woman with the money/freedom a good C-level gig might afford? Of course responsibility would also increase, but it might be possible to keep it to the same usual 9-5 schedule, and that might not be too different from what you're doing now, except with a bit more stress at work, and maybe in a year or two you can take a whole year off and just do music/studio things? or fund a "startup" that's really just you having fun in the music/studio space and maybe finding a way to make it your living (if that's what you want).

Definitely don't decide your future off of a random HN comment... But also maybe it's worth some thought.

> In regards to writing it down: I have a residual sense of guilt for not expanding the libvirt wiki right after I was finished, but, honestly, I was low on energy and had a bunch of my regular work built up. And, as usual with memory, I'm already not clear enough on the details to write a coherent guide.

Well if you've got a list of TODOs, why not write it down? even if you share something as vague as you wrote here I'm sure it'd give someone out there enough of a clue to move forward.
I think Republic of Ireland not wanting to leave is "stopping them". They're much more integrated into Europe than the UK too. Have the euro for example.
see also https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/16/android-app-es-file-explor...

1. What about the timeline?

2. What about IPv6?
Do you have sources for this?
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XS4ALL is much more than a competent ISP. It is the essence of the Hacker. The founders are a mix between the EFF and RMS.

This 10yo interview with one of the founders (Rop Gonggrijp) is fantastic and covers their fight against Scientology, lock picking, privacy, governments using terrorism as a pretext for power grabs, etc. (in Dutch)

1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CptNDlLKYxA

2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9e4rlKIFW4

3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fJMnrT4u0k

4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bek2Rrefwlw

End of an era.

(Anecdote of what I personally greatly admired: they used to run a hybrid SSH server on their main website, "xs4all.nl", on port 80. the SSH protocol is a "server-first" one, but HTTP is "client-first", so if you pause the SSH banner for a few seconds, you can basically host both on the same port. this allowed me to defeat many a draconian proxy back in the day; nobody would block a huge ISP like xs4all.nl on port 80. Truly unique.)
But that's partly because KPN is a monolithic monopolist. It's hard when you can't get good rates on anything...
> If the EU is that bad, why aren't other countries holding referendums and leaving the EU?

I think you're wilfully ignoring what has been happening in Ireland, Greece, France and Italy in recent years.
Show HN: Thank-you-stars – tool to stars to a PyPI package and its dependencies
Is it possible to use the iOS app store without ever entering a credit card, i.e. only using free apps?
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Not massively useful, but a fun option none the less.
Hey! Obrigado pelo input :-)

I'm already doing that, sending CVs and applying all over.

I would like to target Portugal since the language barrier is smaller, specially for the wife which does not speak english. But I know salaries are smaller there and whatnot.

About the Panic Attacks: They are handled. I underwent treatment and stuff, took meds for a couple of years, thank goodness I don't need them daily anymore :) I still have them once a month or so, which is really good, compared to daily.

I believe I have developed this shit in this job, before joining here 7y ago I had never experienced any of that. I am an overactive, overachiever type of individual and I sincerely don't fit the .gov kind of environment of lots of people doing almost nothing all day long, the extreme boredom makes me anxious, I need to have shit to do.

As you now, I'm here for the job safety and good income, that's it (I hate it too). The private sector is too risky right now and salaries are worse than what I earn right now, so it'd be dumb to go back 'just for the thrill' and jeopardize my family and the house.

That's why I'm trying an international move. I speak three languages and I've been coding since 8 years old (started on Pascal, then C, C++, AWK/SED and friends, now Python+C mostly). I'm oldskool ;-)

Thank you man o/
He did say "CIA", not "FSB".
That's an amateur job. Resin explains it - you try to do some exfiltration via an external commercial service? Come on.

If the author had setup an encrypted partition where all the "real stuff" was found, and the key for such partition was in-memory only, possibly going alone one of the small rpi UPS/batteries to prevent minor electrical hiccups to make the whole operation fail.... it would have been almost impossible to get back at the author.

Also, using a nice "black box" that looked like a sort of electronic device, instead of some randomly put together rpi+pieces, would have made the device mostly invisible.

So: an amateurish hacking job.
Initially he suspected, but didn't jump to conclusions. It was only confirmed after matching the WiFI SSID.
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Aside from the fact that any US company is an instant no-go if you care about your privacy (and that last mile isn't an issue in the Netherlands), 35ms is actually quite a lot of latency if you're used to a Dutch connection (which will hover around 9ms for a cable).
I think OSM is a more natural, and even higher quality, match for DDG. I'm pretty surprised by this. Sure, Apple is pretty privacy concious too. At least they want their users to have that image of them. But OSM is on a whole different level due to their open nature rather than a black box with an API in front.

OSM is becoming pretty impressive too. Even smaller towns here in Sweden are decently mapped. A huge difference compared to just five years ago¹, far greater difference than since Apple Maps was launched as far as I can tell. Apple Maps launched in a better state, yes, but not in a good state, and I think it's been moving slowly since then. OSM launched in a minimal state but are moving forward like a maglev train.

¹ Also visualized here: https://labs.mapbox.com/ten-years-openstreetmap/
It seems you're mostly arguing with the description of "collection", because to you it implies high density in the full n-dimensional space. But the point of the curse of dimensionality is very much that most points do not lie in regions of high density, because regions of low but still non-negligible density are so much larger. If you prefer, you can say that they are "close" to the surface of a sphere, without implying high density.

There are also descriptions of the curse that do not involve spatial analogies at all. Assume that the data is independently identically distributed along each dimension and is an outlier if it's sufficiently far along one dimension, which happens with probability p in the one-dimensional case. Then in n dimensions, the proportion of outliers is 1 - (1 - p)^n -> 1 for n to infinity. Most points are outliers along at least one dimension.
I think the author just doesn't know what it does. From his Reddit post [1]:

>Still no idea what it actually does except for the program being called "logger", the bluetooth dongle and it being only feet away from secretary / ceo office

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9xveq5/rogue_rasp...
yeah after reading that I came to the same conclusion and tought that he mostly blames it on cluster size, which is just wrong.
Now its an adult.it can survive without donations,
Some "leavers" just want to trade with the rest of the world with flexibility and not be bound to the EU. It's a hard argument to make that the EU is better when "leavers" compare the economic growth of the EU, which employs protectionism to prevent easy trading with outside of the EU when comparing the potential trade deals with the rest of world outside of the EU, without the need for VAT etc.
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I'm incredibly excited for his hopefully-inevitable RDR2 investigation.
Econonomic freedom is not essential to attain political freedom, or "essential" here is fuzzy, or whatever is being called economic freedom here, and whatever is being called political freedom here, has probably suffered a terminology contortionism. Mind you, I am not a fan of unnecessary rhetoric patrolling, for example, if someone says "Bezos built AWS" I think is ok, I understand perfectly that the commenter wanted to say that he gave the order to the employees to build it, not that it built it with his own hands. But some things can be toxic, when unintentionally reverberated.
You'd have to take the fact that they fight this on faith, and given the track record of basically every US company so far... You'd have to be very naive.
Let me know if you want to pass on a crappy deal like that.
> You, as a nation

I'm Russian.

> sorry if it hurts

You aren't.
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Ask HN: How to Get IT Job as an Medical Doctor?
Hello,

I'm a medical doctor with medium IT skill (soft dev,network management) working in Algeria (north africa), and I want to change my career.

I want to have an IT Job in the western world (french or english speaking countries) , but I have 02 obstacles.

1) No IT degree
2) No prior IT experience
3) Immigration limits

So here is my questions.

0) Is my profile valuable ?
1) Can I find a job + immigration opportunities without a degree (ex: Healthcare IT sector) ?
2) Which is better (online or offline) bootcamp or IT certification so I can immigrate ?
3) Should reply to job offers or is it better to contact management directly ?

Thanks.
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Well, the mods updated the title to the one of the album.

The previous title was "I started making a video game because the CIA was ruining my life"
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But they don't make it available as a service. They distribute binaries and perhaps source code.
This petty, begging article might be the third biggest mistake
> Examples include Iran, Iraq, Cuba, Chile, Pakistan, Egypt, Afghanistan. These are the ones I can name off hand.

I think these are good examples. I agree. Though don't I don't agree with your overall assessment.

America elect representatives (not leaders) and it seems overwhelmingly to be the case that its representatives haven't been in control of its own government. The accountability structure broke and this has been going on for decades (probably since JFK) or perhaps even earlier.

America gives more foreign aid and has more immigration than all other countries combined. Its constitution is the longest standing foundational document in the world and genuinely (at least on paper) gives the people liberty and justice for all. America changes at a very rapid pace given its emphasis on liberty and immigration.

I think America is overwhelmingly a force for good in the world despite its rogue out of control agencies doing very bad things. Even so I deeply respect America as a nation. Given the age and the huge amount of power that has been consolidated its going through some inevitable problems. I think the American people are resilient and have the character to get through these times.
What else do you have in mind?

There are dozens if not hundreds of different types of democracy, each with its own set of advantages and disadvantages, and many forms of democracy that have not yet been tried. Most of them would be disastrous, for example "direct democracy" as opposed to representative, parliamentary democracy could not possibly work outside of a small village.

But it's odd to look at this as trying something out. As far as I know, no political system has ever been tried out. Okay, maybe you could count the genocide in Cambodia by the Red Khmer as trying out, but even they didn't really have the intention of just "trying out" this new, accelerated path to communism.

Political systems are put in place by emerging elites after a disruptive event (e.g. revolution, war, cataclysm, mass exodus) has taken place.
Distrust not without good reason I’d say!
For desktop devices (without gyroscope but with cursor) this quite asks for "cursor following tilt", like https://micku7zu.github.io/vanilla-tilt.js/ .
> Legal has taken over, I did my part and the rest is over my pay grade.

Wow, I never wanted to work in a company where I had to say this. Really, if the pay grade decides which human you are, I better get no money but can do whatever I want, like go to that person, ring on its door and ask it about its plans.
Please excuse me if this comes as overly harsh, but this sounds a lot like a complete misunderstanding of how the world works, if I'm being frank.

Let's try this with a simpler example. Let's assume that the UK and the EU are two people in a monogamous marriage and the UK wants to divorce the EU.

EU: "Sure, we can divorce, but we can still be friends."

UK: "No, I want to break up and still have sex with you, but also with others and I want you to cuddle me at night when I want to, but with no commitments from me."

EU: "No. We can either be friends or we can be married, but you can't have all the benefits with no drawbacks."

How exactly is the EU a gangster for this? It's basically like any other relationship in the world, be it economic, political, emotional. The two sides have to agree. The UK is free to go out without a deal at any time.
It does now ;)