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Ease of doing business report only deals with formal legal requirements and paperwork, but running business is not only about law/tax compliance.

Access to labour, facilities, depth and readiness of local market to accept new things - all that matters.

I am not agreeing with assessment that legal compliance in USA is easier than in China at all. USA has hideously complex tax system, you can't do a single thing without a lawyer, and any dealing with securities is past all hope for a person who have not purposefully studied that.
This article[0] appeared on HN the other day. I think it describes Richard Feynman using exactly the approach your talking about with an early distributed/parallel architecture.

See the eighth paragraph of the "An Algorithm For Logarithms" section.

[0]: http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-and-connection-mac...
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> But if you’re a company sued asking for less than what the cost of fighting would be, it’s in your interest to cut a deal.

Or, it's in your interest to fight and make it as expensive as possible for the person making the claim to prosecute it, if you have a good case, because while it's an iterated game, not a single round, and you need to make sure the next however many potential trolls (whether the same with a new claim or a different one whose seen how you react) don't try to shake you down.

To quote Kipling: “But we've proved it again and again, / That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld / You never get rid of the Dane.”
25 years old? You are still a kid!
Seems like such a simple issue to fix: the only condition for getting a specialist visa should be to find an employer willing to pay a specialist salary, say above 150K. Doctors included, I see no reason to protect them from competition. Hop jobs at will but need to maintain within 85% of that level.

If a company can't find workers, it should pay more up until a level that puts the competitiveness of the economy under question. Below that level, it's the citizen's right to a fair salary without labour dumping from a poor country. Above that level, it's everybody's right to fairly priced services without professional rents.
Ask HN: How does one even attempt to change the technology adoption culture?
Moved around the world, mostly doing analytics work and ended up in a large financial company in HK. I see a lot of things that are just not working out here but feel so helpless trying to change it.

Example:
We have multiple people working with SQL scripts embedded in BASE SAS (I got no idea why) where all they do is store them as data sets, because there are several people working on the scripts, everyone has a different idea of the output. And nobody is actually using SAS for SAS, basically just an additional layer to run SQL scripts and store them.

There is ZERO version control, the table structure of the data is poor (multiple redundant rows), ZERO documentation and no control list to our data. Things are added and removed based on what they feel like and nobody seems to see any value in the things I have mentioned. There is also no automation, no testings of our product (which is an analytical dashboard) and something that I am very uncomfortable with, no validation of the data coming through with any control parameters.

My suggestions of installing open source for automation is slowly getting through, but it is shocking that it actually took a lot of levels of convincing for it to finally happen. It is a mix of my frustrations having access to certain technologies that are unavailable to me now, but I am also thinking that you either make the change or make it work with what you have, where do I even start or is it even worth it.
That's sad to hear, but I was unaware she was still alive. I'm a huge fan of the Knoll design ethos - a few years ago I purchased a Barcelona chair [1], and it remains my favorite piece of furniture for reading.

If you are ever in New York and want to take a gander at some of the iconic pieces in person, the Design & Decoration Building has a Knoll showroom. A few years ago I also saw many Knoll pieces in a modern furniture exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, but I don't think that's still showing.

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1. Technically Knoll didn't design the Barcelona, that was Ludwig Mies van der Rohe almost a century ago. But Knoll licensed the design and commercialized it.
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When I was applying for a job about 3 years ago, I scheduled six phone screens from different companies in one day. They all led to invitations for in person interviews, and all four in person interviews I ended up doing led to “40 hour a week, six figure jobs”. I’m no special snowflake - except for my network of local recruiters.

Why would I go through the song and dance? The salary ranges for senior developers/architects were all around $20K of each other. Unless the company is offering salaries in the 80th percentile, why would I jump through hoops just to work on a company’s software as a service CRUD app?

My last job hunt, I found the job that met all of my criteria (salary, technology, commute distance, size of company) within two weeks of looking.
I'm not getting the sense from you that you're especially familiar with how this particular IETF effort came together.
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You act as if Knoll pioneered open offices specifically to slight you. When Knoll was getting started the modern population of software engineers didn't exist. You can't reasonably lay your grievances with tech office design at the feet of a design agency which fostered the movement half a century ago.
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You realize this can constitute fraud, right?
Or you know your worth, and as soon as you change your status to “actively looking” on LinkedIn, you’ll have job opportunities flooding your mailbox.
I’ve been on h1b for over 7 years now , with no chance of getting a green card because I was born in India , all my immigrant friends who started working at the same time have already gotten their green cards - they all have the option to quit their jobs if they feel like they are being underpaid or exploited. But not me , I’m looking at 70 years before I get my freedom , until then I have to tolerate the indentured servitude. As long as the law allows it Corporations will take advantage of it . The system is broken . And for those of you who feel like I should “go back to where you came from “ sorry , I worked hard to get here , I played by the rule , I pay my taxes . I came here because this is the land of the free, just like your ancestors
Excellent work. Almost forty years ago my first paid job on graduating was clean room reverse engineering a spec of a binary dump of somebody's code. You put me in awe of how well you did this.

As a former chdk user on canon and a Fuji x20 owner I hope somebody carries on your amazing work!
It's not about being macho or anything. It's about societal expectations. I feel that here in the US this shit is actually seeping into the female population as well as more women insist on equality with men. So rather than insist on affording quality parenting time to fathers (which IMO is what they should actually want if they want real, actual equality), they give it up themselves. The aforementioned Swedish use-it-or-lose-it model strikes me as sensible. Some companies here in the US offer vacation time in this fashion, without rollover into the new year, and anecdotally people make it a point to take vacation in that case.
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Needs to be adjusted for cost of living, salary changes over time by profession (Tech salaries are in a bubble rn. which makes 150k reasonable by bay area standards, but they may go significantly up / down in the future) which is complicated enough but there's edge cases like Universities / Non profits etc. that can't pay salaries to compete with the private sector but people work there anyway because of passion.
Relevant ads through tracking are different to relevant ads because your favourite author thinks "hey, my readers will be interested in this."

I don't mind the latter, too. I usually have a lot of interest in the sponsorships chosen by my favourite writers to include on their sites.

Automated ad networks and tracking though, I just block those.
Last year it was discussed in https://qz.com/889524/the-us-says-oracle-is-encouraging-indi...
If you have Amazon Prime, a WaPo subscription can be had for $4/mo.
Very pleased to be able to download just Microsoft Word from the store. It does seem snappier than the previous version. Sidenote, I use MS Word for one thing only, and that's Chinese homework. Are there any other word processors that do Pinyin well? I'll pay.
Slavery or indentured servitude implies you have no choice. You do.
Yeah I clicked the link. I was also joking, saying he should buy it with his own funds, naturally the business wouldn't reimburse him :P
It's kind of just the way golang's compiler statically compiles everything. If you use gccgo, you can get a 762KiB binary easily.
The question I have abiut this is that some news agencies claim that this will make it harder for regulators to break up FB. Hows it even a legitimate argument.
Cant FB use the same technology replicated for each product in the worst case?
I quit shopping at Amazon completely. Counterfeits are mixed in with legit. If I want cheap shit, I hit eBay or Ali. And if I want legit I go to the store or order from local box stores and pick up.
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it's true, too intense emotions are an issue;

we should reduce car usage for energy, pollution, life quality

but let's not be extremists
why would you spend so many years in a country where you feel enslaved?
Easy for you to say. You're probably not bonded to your employer like the OP. Get your head out of the sand.
you could multiply the h1b quota by 10 and it would fill out.
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Well you at least don't want to bring a pillow to a knife fight.
If you're allowed to quit and go to another country, whether your country of origin or another country, that's a choice.
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> But since those in charge are addicted it's probably not going to happen until facebook shafts them directly in some way.

I think the 2016 US presidential election actually started to do that: Democrats have become critical of Facebook due to Russian trolls and pro-Trump fake news, and Republicans have become critical due to the perception that "California liberals" may start deciding to suppress conservative idea on one of the widest-reaching mass media platforms.
I can relate to this phenomenon (the “hey this $10 gadget I didn’t know existed but for an ad I saw has actually ended up being super useful to me!” thing), but the problem is that stories that end with me making a purchase with which I was satisfied, from which I got utility commensurate with the cost, are a vanishing minority of stories that begin with me seeing an ad.

In fact, the vast majority of the ads I see I couldn’t tell a story about at all, because I see hundreds or even thousands of ads each day and they’re so fleeting.

But the effects of seeing so many ads isn’t fleeting. Whether the deliberate manipulation of my attention is successful at influencing my behavior to increase the advertiser’s revenue is irrelevant, because my attention being manipulated either way, and relentlessly so, by numerous actors who are competing with each other for space in mind, using tools and techniques so sophisticated as to be heretofore unimaginable... and this results in much less space in mind being left for... me!

This is the problem with which I take issue.
I am sure locking in employees played a part in their decision. However, I have to point out that foreign graduates, especially from China are preferred in my profession due to their strong technical background. Its kind of how things evolved over time. So a similiar thing might be going on here.
Well, Calgary for example has a Land area of 825.56 km2 or an Urban area of 586.08 km2, and a downtown area of 1.8 km2. Which means it has less than 0.3% area for the downtown.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Calgary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary

I suppose there are pockets of high density that aren't counted for. Also Calgary is probably unusually spread out for the given population compared to larger cities like New York or Los Angeles or San Francisco.
https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/2017/university-o...
GPs are the lowest paid doctor by a factor of 3 to 5.
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Employ human curated collections, no algorithms. There is simply no other way that guaranteed kid-friendly content will exist in a space. Otherwise people will game the algorithms and you get Elsa-gate.

I’ve talked about this before, but if you have kids, the only surefire solution is curating the videos yourself and downloading them. Then playing them offline. Anything else is a gamble, which may or may not be the route you want to take.

YT cracking down on videos also has a lot to do with skittish advertisers. I’m not sure if a solution is possible other than utilizing Patreon, librepay, etc. Even if you don’t make “controversial” content, that’s what most people do these days for consistency, as well as merchandise.
I have very restricted choices, it’s different from the choices you have and that is why it is easy for corporations to keep the wages down , the “lower wages” I get here is still way higher than what I’d make if I chose any of the choices I have.
There is a big difference between a 8 bit computer and a 8 bit FANTASY computer.
But you don't get it, sorry!
I'm super jazzed about this. Wonder if there's anything gained by compiling to web assembly? Thanks for making this.
HN moderaters,

Please explain how this person actually saying “fuck you” in a post doesn’t break your rules against incivility.

The pro-India/pro-China bias on this board is getting ridiculous.
In order to not abuse the h1b visa, they would have had to establish that there is no available local talent per an objective standard.
Because hope , because I believe in America.
Usually we talk about waterfall being riskier, in that there is no validation that your approach is leading to a working system, or that the working system is meeting business needs, until the very end. The big bang integration step might fail, the testing might reveal show-stopper bugs, or the customer might go "oh, that's not what I meant," etc. but by the time you're learning any of that, it's too late.

Why do you think it's preferred in risk averse industries? Is the agile-partisan view of the relative risk incorrect? Missing something?
I disagree, if you can find cheap programmers in Des Moines, Iowa, then by all means expand there, spread the love within the country before going for import labour. As for bubbles, that's the point, there shouldn't be any if labour is available and willing to come in.
I checked out the git source and built it from there. It was non-trivial to get it built and configured properly for JMAP, but I wanted the latest as the spec is still in flux.
As soon as they do, those jobs will move overseas. Unless there's some kind of legal / regulatory block to prevent it (e.g. tariffs)
> You're probably not bonded to your employer like the OP.

No one gets an H-1B involuntarily, and it would be an unusual circumstance where someone who had one was not free to leave.

That said, I support liberating everyone bound by the H-1B by eliminating the visa category entirely.
Protecting completed educational certificates for their users free of cost seems reasonable. It's not like they force you to keep paying, they are just not easily deleting your educational history on their platform.
Also for the same reason dead's organs are not reused unless consented by the person or his closest kith/kin when consent of the person is unknown. Mostly there is no consent by them because they are humiliated by having the thought of being valued as a food first by a stranger of their society.

2. If you have enough poor in your country and human flesh is valued enough, people will get killed for black market.

3. Human flesh can be deadly like Kuru. I couldn't watch videos of how they had tremours! The clan was on the verge of collapsing so they stopped.
Was it provided to WL, or do you want them to copy and paste it?
So basically 2 things: 1) Things will be worse than indentured servitude if you go back. 2) Dollars are more valuable Rupees even it is earned by slavery.
Feel free to look at the BLS mean pay above there. They do surveys to determine those numbers.
That doesn’t seem too hard to solve. You just say that an h1-b job needs to be at the 85th percentile, salary-wise, in a basket of similar jobs by location/position.
Well, in TFA:

> The records are part of a class-action lawsuit focused on how Facebook targeted children in an effort to expand revenue for online games, such as Angry Birds, PetVille and Ninja Saga.

They have a strong case, I think. Indeed, the facts are so egregious that punitive (treble) damages are possible. So even if class counsel take ~30%, the class could get ~100% recovery. How much? Well, basically it'd be [number of children]*[amount charged per child]. Maybe a few $billion?
So you're choosing the best option according to an objective standard, which is your wage. Restricted choice != no choice, and in the face of that, to compare it (and the salary that exceeds most of the world) to true slavery is pretty melodramatic.
No offense meant or anything, but living to 101 is hardly an "unfortunate passing". I can only hope to have a life so long. And yeah, open offices are a plague passed to its employees as community when it's really cost savings. Still, a bit rude to so callously celebrate a person's death, but such is life (and death).
Not sure about signals in the UK, but the signals I've experienced in California tend to want a certain minimum time as green in a given direction... If that direction has been on a green for at least that long, any input for the other direction will cause the light to cycle immediately; and if the crossing button was used in that direction, the minimum time is usually increased.
Ok. But I assumed consent obviously. Did not think about the black market angle.
I’m sorry, did you say jazzed?
I want American to be a shining city on a hill, a place so great that people are strongly motivated to want to live here. I also want immigration to be fair. You might consider what your statement says about what you want about these two things.
Yeah , that is spot on.
Is there a sample game to view?
Why do you think that? You entered a legally binding contract with an obligation to pay. You refuse to pay without canceling the contract. Why should the fact that it's a recurring payment change anything here?
So, you've conceded that it's likely that nobody has an answer on which people can take action and reliably expect a positive outcome, but then doubled down and insisted that people should take action anyway?

Can you not see the unhelpfulness right there in your comment?

Consider someone who is desperate to get healthy, and is determined to do whatever it takes to do so, and has already spent years desperately trying in vain to get results; if they were to read your comment, what could their reaction be, other than to be frustrated and dispirited?

For what it's worth, I do actually have answers; I've been researching and experimenting with this stuff for many years, and have figured out a approach that seems to work for me and others and should work well for anyone who follows the same principles. And I agree that calories-in/calories-out is part of it; but it's only one factor among many, and it takes a lot of time, persistence and knowhow.

So perhaps you can understand that I'm familiar with your point of view, and that I've heard it frequently enough and thought about it long enough to know just how simplistic and unhelpful it is.
Prediction:

Once the initial excitement/novelty wears off people from the surrounding suburbs/communities will find it more difficult to shop/visit/etc in the city and revenues will drop.

As a result, businesses will move to the outskirts so they can make more money, making living in the city more difficult (and thus less attractive). So people will move outwards as well.

This will leave the city center either desolated or turned into some sort of historical site or park.
True, but as far as I know none of the major HTTP servers use forking anymore either. I believe there was a time when forking per connection was fairly standard for servers.
Facebook had $15 Billion in US ad revenue (2018) and 214 Million US users. So ~$70/yr/person. I would gladly pay that for an ad free experience given the option.
> I always understood that the Stress–energy tensor in general relativity has a momentum component, so two electrons whizzing past each other at near the speed of light would exert a stronger gravitational pull between them, in all frames of reference, than if the electrons were 'at rest', relative to each other?

The stress-energy tensor does have a momentum component, but remember that all components of a tensor are frame-dependent. So is "gravitational pull". Obviously the trajectories of two particles passing each other at relativistic speeds will be different from the trajectories of two particles at are at rest relative to each other at some instant; but the difference is not quite as simple as "more gravitational pull", although the two particles having relativistic velocities does mean that the center of mass energy of the system is larger than it would be if both particles started out at rest.

(Actually, the electromagnetic interaction between electrons is so much stronger than the gravitational that the gravitational effects are negligible in the scenario as you state it; but we could eliminate that issue by considering, say, two neutrons instead. My comments above assume that the scenario has been modified accordingly, which is why I said "particles" instead of "electrons".)
I wouldn't say they have substantially more syntactic sugar than other languages with the same. If you need to use them in the context that is not optional, you need to use HasValue/Value, or casts, or (since recent versions) pattern matching to extract the value.

The only special sauce I can think of is that C# also implements null-lifting for most operators in the language, which is not necessarily a good thing because it treats null as "unknown" rather than "missing" - e.g. a + b works on int?, and will produce null if either a or b is null. With Boolean operators, it's even clearer - false & null is false, true | null is true, but true & null is null, and false | null is null. But quite often this is not what I actually want! If null really means that the value is missing, then a + b shouldn't even compile for optionals. But in practice, I'd say that vast majority of all uses of Nullable are to denote missing rather than indeterminate values.
[Banter about a Powerbook]

> ...the new video democracy. Through it he could see how technology, with incredible speed, was transforming dumb television sets into smart ones, making it possible for viewers to select, organize, and interact with programming and information rather than passively consuming what was offered on fifty, or even five hundred, channels.

NINETEEN NINETY THREE!!!!!

> With the click of a remote-control or a telephone button, they will summon up movies from the equivalent of a video jukebox.
This was the most infuriating part. He either doesn't understand what a hof is, is actively lying, or just hasn't even used typescript long enough to understand this is incorrect.
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