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In my opinion, the US can afford to do that. Both because it has big control over its population; and that people are relatively wealthy and banks are happy to help. Try that in another country and you'll very likely get an instant uprising with either salaries paid or the government thrown overnight.

In my country this happen with bus drivers (delayed payment of 1 day) and the drivers went on an instant strike. No pay, no work. It's that bad that for many, no payment means their life halting completely. So you can't afford it.

Some people do not realize how good it is in the USA.
As an immigrant it'd be disingenuous for me to suggest that. But the real answer is, it depends. I pay six figures in taxes. I can tolerate a little bit of screwage if my wage gets depressed by increased supply of my skill. Now consider the working poor, who are aiming to get that sweet, sweet $15/hr minimum wage (with benefits!). They're currently objectively screwed because there are hundreds of thousands of people coming over the border willing to work for half that, with no benefits, and tolerate abuse. Or consider a student who has just got her degree and has $100k+ student loan to pay back. Their tolerance for wage depression is a lot lower than mine. So I argue it is not correct to consider "citizens" as a uniform, average mass. Some strata within this mass will do just fine if they are paid a little less, some most definitely will not.
From the Wikipedia page [1] it seems IAC is the same entity that had previously been called HSN, Inc. then later USA Networks, Inc. They started selling off traditional TV broadcasting and production assets in the early 2000s, renamed to IAC/InterActiveCorp in 2004, and only spun out Home Shopping Network in 2008.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAC_(company)
Can you point to just one of those that consists of high quality downvoted comments? Certain topics seem to attract lower quality comments. I don't think a conspiracy theory is needed. I rarely see flagged comments that don't deserve it, although sometimes I vouch for flagged comments when I can't tell why they were flagged. Often they weren't even downvoted at all. Never seems to be the kind of comment or topic that makes me suspicious of a conspiracy/foul play though.
I don't know enough about the healthcare system in Mexico to tell you exactly why the prices are lower there, but it's likely to be one of two things.

One is they have some kind of government funding or other subsidies for healthcare providers there, in which case they should look for a way to direct their funding to their own population and not rich foreigners looking for lower prices.

The other is that the regulatory environment in the US creates unnecessary costs that don't exist in Mexico and people are naturally taking advantage of the lower overhead. That actually seems pretty plausible given what the regulations look like in the US. But in that case Mexico doesn't need to do anything and everyone who can should try to get their healthcare in Mexico, until such time as the US providers lose so much business that they actually lobby for something to be done about the wasteful regulatory overhead in the US which is making them uncompetitive.
Your spouse can't work on a H1B. I know so many people in this situation and it's really shitty.
I don’t think that this is about not having the money at a later stage, but about spending that kind of money when you have other responsibilities (kids) being irresponsible.
Oof. Use a drybox dude.
What.

One consequence of unlimited immigration to America would be a major setback in women's rights and practical freedom in many pockets of the country.
This looks fun! Would be great to have something that catches runtime errors and highlights them in the source code. Then, of course, code completion etc to make it easy to find stuff.

I started working on a bit similar project some years ago (I unfortunately abandonded it...) but I got one thing right: the ability to highlight the erroneous line. See http://write-a-game.herokuapp.com/ and try to call a non-existent function.
That's true of pretty much every engineering discipline. You may disagree but university engineering programs, especially at the better schools are not designed as job training programs. Personally, I don't think they should be. The hot technologies today will be last year's news soon enough. For companies that really do want to hire people whose training is focused on the practical, there are always code camps and other professional programs.
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Here's the stack trace parser used. It tries to extract the line number and error message from an Error object. Sorry for the coffeescript!

https://github.com/raimohanska/write-a-game/blob/8d2111e2372...
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That's likely not the reasoning.

More the idea it's easier to justify spending the money when there aren't other priorities.
In some countries with well-developed public transport, transit stations ARE malls, or malls have their own train stop.
> 99 pct of people reading this would never get to that level.

Wow, that's fairly presumptuous of you. Most software engineers make senior (L5) after they've worked in the industry for a few years.

Source: worked at Google and Facebook before.
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You hate the heritage of America, where you never were able to fit in, and want to see it replaced by the same rootless existence that you suffered. If my parents had raised me in India I would have suffered similarly...

Some self-reflection is in order.
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I've worked in a large corporation before and getting promoted is not easy because you're just a tiny cog in a large machine so it's hard for people in position of giving out promotions to see that you're worth being given a promotion because you're seen as any other grunt in the company. You pretty much need to suck up to the managers and the managers need to suck up to their managers, etc till it reaches someone with promotion powers.

Working at a startup however is much easier because you work very closely with execs and people in positions that have power to give you promotions so the value you bring is easily visible and recognized.
They may consider themselves independent, but in practice, would probably prefer to be a part of one of the two countries, compared to being a land-locked micro-state, or the status quo.
not true. for instance an employee at google hq vs a satellite get paid different based on market rate for developers in that locale. the companies pay based on market rate, not “theoretical value produced”. no one who works there thinks the satellite office engineers are producing less and plenty produce more profit for the company than ones who get paid more
Its a fair point. I should have specifically said that the manufacturers are particularly competitive, some more than others, and that competitive quality leads to cheating. That all the big sellers of solar panels in the market are Chinese is not relevant to the point and so I should have left it off.
Stopped reading fairly early on, just comes across as very strange - visit people or your parents to visit them, it's really odd behaviour to want to go and take only pictures of their house.

The only reason we've been encouraged to "share" photos of everything is to enrich social media companies.
Plenty of jobs pay less than a living wage.
There is a audience for live coding? Search at twitch?

It just has near empty overlap with devs?
Are blockchain smartphones the next big thing?
https://youtu.be/kUfF2MTnqAw?t=395
not true. if company X has a satellite office in low COL area. each engineer produces the same value but gets paid less therefore the company has more profit. and govt gets more corporate tax.
Amazon LPs:

1) Customer Obsession

2) Ownership

3) Disagree and Commit

4) Vocally Self-Critical / Earns Trust / Learn and be Curious
That's a very IT/bay area specific view. You can be well respected with a long career in many industries and not make 150k.
your manager can't vouch for you and it's basically up to how well you summarize and present your work to a faceless promotion committee (_i.e. how well you play politics_). (emphasis mine)

Googler here, speaking for myself.

Isn't what you describe literally the opposite of playing politics?
Let us know your experience with going on an Israeli forum and saying the same thing re Jewish immigration.

Then go to a Ghana forum and critique the right of return law for any black people who want to emigrate to Ghana.
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Just spitballing here, but if you just bought a mixer, your odds of buying another mixer is lower than that of buying a cook book or some other related stuff -- which Amazon could totally figure out mining the other stuff people bought at the same time or shortly after a mixer.
Is Google Contributor what you are looking for? https://www.zdnet.com/article/sick-of-ads-now-you-can-pay-go...
They are probably not representative of the average.
Maybe it's my own sample bias. Aren't graduates in top CS schools largely international students?
I would if I was them.
Only you don't.

If you go to a competitor and negotiate a 25% higher salary and bring it back to your current employer, either they give you a 25% raise or you leave. Either way you get 25% more money.

If you go to a union and ask for a raise, they go to the employer, the employer can't afford to give everyone a 25% raise, so they give everyone a 2.5% raise. Then you have to quit and go work for the competitor. Only now they won't pay you 25% more because now they know your current salary based on where you work, your position and the terms of the union contract, so they know they only have to pay you 5% more. So either way you're making less.

Meanwhile the competitor is still offering more, so your current employer starts bleeding talent, which reduces revenue generation and thereby the amount of money they have to pay employees in the future.

It's not as if many people still aspire to work for GM.
I’ve had developers say this before when building public websites and it has cost us in lost revenue when the site has gone offline or cost us lots in virtual hardware having to scale the number of servers available to meet higher than expected volumes of traffic.

Don’t get me wrong, I'm not suggesting that everyone should be building their site like it’s Facebook or Google, but when every public website is already sat on a proverbial motorway, it can be dangerously shortsighted to build your site to only meet demand with no room to scale. CGI falls under that category. There are plenty of platforms that are still very easy to build and deploy, developer friendly, and still runs circles around the performance of CGI.

(Please note that I am talking about public sites specifically and not intranets or other IP white listed resources)
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Completely false. I have filed 3 BBB complaints - Direct TV, BofA, and something else I forgot. The companies wanted money which I did not owe them, and hours on the phone resulted in nothing. 2 resulted in corporate calling me, fixing their billing, and issuing an apology. The 3rd one was unproductive as BBB wanted too much unrelated personal info from me to investigate. Opening an FTC case resolved that though, but surprisingly did nothing for the other two.

From my personal experience: you are lying, and you have an agenda you are trying to push here. Now let's watch me get downvoted and shadow banned by the incel mods.
Nah, that was basically some kind of a communistic conversion that didn't have enough impact on Greeks. Civil war was actually a proxy war between Russia and UK/USA, countries that participated and helped the Greek communist party were Russian puppets.
FWIW this is completely reasonable. Push in XMPP works the same way. They way FCM (Google) and APNS (Apple) work is that only the app vendor with proper credentials can trigger push notification for an app. Therefor it has to be proxied through the app developers server anyway. And of course it cleanly separates the MDA from the various, proprietary push solutions.
Interesting to learn about the DDoS group posting it. Distributed Denial of Secrets. It’s like they’re positioning themselves as some sort of WikiLeaks competitor.
In the specific case of Leica, the company did raise their prices rather steeply. If he bought before then, his camera might have increased in value.
That is your definition, because otherwise the Google PR message is a failure.

de facto - "existing in fact, although perhaps not intended, legal, or accepted:", Cambridge dictionary

"A de facto standard is a custom or convention that has achieved a dominant position by public acceptance or market forces (for example, by early entrance to the market). De facto is a Latin phrase that means in fact (literally by or from fact) in the sense of "in practice but not necessarily ordained by law" or "in practice or actuality, but not officially established", as opposed to de jure."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_facto_standard

Example taken from the Wikipedia page.

"Microsoft Word DOC (over all other old PC word processors): one of the best known de facto standards. Due to the market dominance of Word, it is supported by all office applications that intend to compete with it, typically by reverse engineering the undocumented file format. Microsoft has repeatedly internally changed the file specification between versions of Word to suit their own needs, while continuing to reuse the same file extension identifier for different versions."

So much for Google's definition of what a de-facto standard is supposed to be.
Jeremy mentioned elsewhere in the thread that you can do this :)
China already outputs more than the EU in per capita CO2 output.

EU plans to be carbon emissions neutral by 2050. (Reduction of emissions, planting forests, increasing use of renewables, and so on)

That is quite aggressive for the EU and we'll see how it plays out e.g. with the use of goal.
Definitely worthwhile, I think a huge amount of people in the UK use Debit cards with Deliveroo and other services so no money will come back off these.
You may be correct, but possibly for the wrong reasons that you are are inferring.

The University of California lost a lawsuit in which they were accused of preferring international students to in-state and out-of-state students because the international students could afford the higher tuitions. UC has several of the top CS schools in the nation.

It's possible that the we could could replace many of those accepted with US students, but it would take a major audit of the university systems to find out.
Well, I've been around 3-letter agency guys here in the US who tell me that we have a rating system for everybody in the United States - as well as lots of information tracing their entire life. How many people in the USA know about that?

I suspect that both countries have a lot more data than anybody realizes. I've heard some incredible stories from those agency guys.
Salaries are not based on the value a company gets, but on supply and demand of workers. If the said developer brings in $200k of value to me, but I can hire the developer for $100k a year in Dallas, then I am going to hire them in Dallas. The reason I am willing to pay $140k and hire in NY is because the same developer cannot be found in Dallas. So it is possible that the Dallas employee is actually more valuable to the company ($100k profit vs $60k profit), but they still have to pay more just because people are not willing to move to Dallas from NY.

Indexing on CoL will help is better distributing wealth across the country - think of the impact of $100k going into Dallas economy vs $140k going into NY economy. So there are some long-term benefits to the economy in general.
To me, it feels like people not getting the promotions they think they deserve is an extremely mundane problem. That’s fine though, since I can see how such a thing might be of legitimate concern for many of us and is worth discussing overall.

What mainly bothers me mostly, is how click-baity this article is. Such a heavy emphasis on drama and controversy, with every attempt to garner as much divisiveness as possible. It’s annoying, and I notice Bloomberg is notorious for almost always putting out these types of highly charged articles.

Do authors get bonuses for releasing fiery volatile articles at Bloomberg or something?
US immigration laws aren’t just economical but also rooted on how the country was built, by immigrants (eg jus-solis and diversity ratios).

Particularly to the H1b, the discussion is about cost of transaction (I.e.: changing jobs). There is no bending over in the US labor market.
My skepticism level remains high. This is billions of dollars, with easy access to tons of data.

I'm not sure if put more stock in the government successfully hiding a fake moon landing, or analysts in one of history's most successful companies not running the numbers.
I don't understand why the daemon needs to client to escape newlines in the message. Can't it handle that before feeding the message to STDIN?

For example, my browser sends:

This is line one...
...and this is line two

as a string ("This is line one...\n...and this is line two") and the websocketd receives that, and passes along

This is line one...\\n...andthis is line two\n

to the STDIN.

It knows that the message is one thing, so the newlines aren't the same as the end of message, right?

It'd also be nice to use EOF as the indicator to flush STDOUT to the client, so the program can also emit newlines without needing to escape them first.

All that being said, this is nifty. I think I can use this for some low-volume ideas I have on an internal app. The newline handling isn't a problem because I'm not replacing anything that already exists.
Embedded Java is also the full J2SE minus GUI.

But even if it was the full J2SE, better don't let people understand that implementations get improved, that there are commercial Java vendors with better implementations than Android.

Google's PR message would suffer from everyone understanding that improving a platform does not require forking, after all.
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Supply & Demand.
Profit driven economies always find & exploit loopholes.
Nope: playing politics mean talking corporatesse and a promotion commitee only understands that. Like when asking for scientific funds.
Reminded me of the two times I’ve been hypoxic. One was in the altitude chamber. The Navy was great about training and had all pilots experience hypoxia so they could understand how the symptoms effect them in particular. My first indications was tingling fingers. The second time was flying into Iraq. I had skimped on the preflight checklist and missed the cabin pressure switch, which was always in the on position, but had somehow been set to off. Took my mask off at 20k heading in country and started to feel light headed with tingling fingers. Told my commanding officer / flight lead something was wrong. We started to return to the carrier. During the emergency procedure checklist hit the step to check the cabin pressure switch. Oops. “Sir, we don’t have to abort the mission!” The Navy had some great training that saved my life on more than one occasion.
This is a dark pattern usually dying companies like to follow. Why? Because, if you are confident of the value you provide to your customer, you don't need to be so aggressive about not letting them go. Yes, retention is an important KPI, but trust and transparency are even more important than anything else, so companies that offer little value and can't keep up with competition usually do this because they know they are dying.

A little while ago, I noticed the dark pattern that dropbox uses and showed it to my friend while talking about dark patterns. Turns out he was in charge of his university for selecting a good vendor for file storage. He saw it and immediately said 'fuck that' and went for another vendor instead. You see, this is how dark patterns shoot you in the foot - the cost of trust and transparency is even higher. In this case, dropbox lost significant money that they could have otherwise won.

Besides, In this day and age, there is literally no value that dropbox offers to its users. Their competitors offer way more value for similar price points and the experience with dropbox isn't even that good. All they have is their brand name, which will also be gone soon after they've tortured their customers with these dark patterns.
Uh, this comes up quite a bit in Europe too. You say the Bay Area is a bubble and yet you seem trapped in it all the same.
Sorry snarky was the wrong word. But I'm on the same boat!
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The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or one.

Seriously, we can come up with something other than 2 ton vehicles.

Hundreds of millions of people will live better lives if we can build our cities without needing cars.
It is interesting how the “vice mayor of urban development” only talks about getting rid of “private cars”.

While train, bus and bike can get your quite far, in large enough cities it will still be a challenge to get to and from many places. Not in the city center, but in the outer areas where people commute to and from.

I live in Hamburg (Germany) where we have a subway, S-Bahn (similar) and a quite good bus network. Still, three big car sharing companies are successfully operating: Car2Go (by Daimler), DriveNow (by BMW) and Miles (private startup). They _do_ fill a need.

Another experiment will be started in April by the company I work for, MOIA (by VW): They provide ride sharing with a completely electric van (based on the VW Crafter) with 6 seats and permanently employed drivers. The focus is on the commuters who don't have a train-/subway-station nearby.

I think there are two lessons here: Just removing all cars will probably not work, we need at least intermediate solutions to slowly move people from owning a private car to shared solutions. And second, many of these mobility on demand/mobility as a service-solutions would be very hard to pull off without mobile phones and uniquitous mobile internet access.
I am absolutely blown away by the dedication of this person. I can't imagine spending so long working on this.

Somewhat unrelated but I wonder if we will make the move to open hardware like we have done with software. Having access to schematics and firmware source does wonders for the reparability and upgradability of hardware.
Get some exercise? It’s just rain. Has CA weather made everyone here soft?
Pretty cool! but it doesn't support HTTP2 which is a bit disappointing
"then doubled down and insisted that people should take action anyway?"
Where have I said that?

"Consider someone who is desperate to get healthy.."
I can still say flying is statistically the safest form of transport, regardless of whether HN readers have been in a plane accident? I'm not saying ha ha tough luck. I'm not saying drive instead of fly, because its safer either.

It is peoples choice to lose weight, I'm not forcing them. I am simply trying to point out that as part of that, calories in need to equal calories out.

You yourself accept that, so currently I am at a loss as to what it is I have said that's wrong, what I've said that is rude, what I've said that is toxic?

To be clear, because it seems to need clarifying. I have a life outside of a HN username, I have friends and family, I know people dealing with these issues, as does most of the western world. I'm not blind to their suffering, this isn't an abstract thing for me.
How do you think people in dense European cities do it? Hint, life is way better there.
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