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> Not only that, it is unfair to others countries who lose workers. If these employees are so valuable then isn't almost evil to steal them from poor underdeveloped countries.

Then that would be a good thing, both for America and the workers. What is good for other countries isn't and shouldn't be a 1st-order design consideration for an American policy.
> The people would put in a year to two years at $75k working 70 hour weeks before they realized it was an intolerable and nonsustainable situation.

Indeed unsustainable, but getting that experience and Bay Area connections might quite likely be a rational career choice for these grads
Exactly. There is nothing in the Bible that authorizes the change. In fact, the Catholic Church has said so explicitly and takes pride in being the one who changed it from Saturday to Sunday.

Them having tradition AND scripture as foundations for doctrine, have no trouble reconciling their practices with their sources. And I think they're consistent on this point.

What I think is a big problem with doctrine in all protestant denominations is claiming they follow the Bible as they know it, and accepting without a secound thought this legacy of the church they separated from.

One can make up all sorts of fables about why Sabbath is Sunday now (such as that Jesus resurrected on Sunday) to justify it, but the plain truth is that the change originates with the Catholic church.

(I don't understand why the downvotes to my comment above. I'm just pointing out some interesting things, not trying to say someone "You're not going to heaven")
I've had too many friends be forced to spend their last two weeks on the job training their H1B replacements. I'd be happy if the H1B program was done away with entirely. The idea you can't find enough employees in a country of 326 million people is a joke.
What about equity to employees? founders?
Great answers, thanks for the insight! Responses to the responses:

2. Definitely squares with what I remember of the problem. Seems like accommodating the most extreme operating conditions would compromise the design so strongly that it's better to just constrain the envelope it's intended to work inside. If you can reach continuous operation at "reasonable" latitudes during a large portion of the year, that could still be a strong value proposition.

3+5: Gotcha, so I just wasn't appreciating how small the tether cross-section really is.

4. Ah, makes sense - that sounds much cleaner. 4 flying wings trying to do a VTOL while attached to a weight seemed a little crazy.

1+ 6. Wow! So this is one big boi. Pretty cool. I would have pictured a much faster rate of revolution.
The key point is "if you can demonstrate that your project doesn't compete with Google's business" IARC is really easy. I was approved for a couple projects, including one that absolutely could be considered to be competing with Google's business if they wanted, in like a week.

You aren't actually legally required to go through IARC. The contract isn't enforcible in CA if you really don't compete, but I have prewritten verification of that now, and it was painless.

IME, Google's earned the benefit of the doubt in this context.
If we were talking about OpenBSD I would agree with you, but I can promise you all those are functional across many laptops and desktops I've used.

> Consistent UI, consistent configuration schemes

Have you used Windows?

> easy file sharing over LAN

Every install of Ubuntu for years has come with a "public" folder for easy LAN sharing (Samba).
https://xkcd.com/949/
A long history for some practice does not make it right.
I'm curious, could we expect Linux support for Apple designed Arm?
I agree; I think this thread and a couple similar threads (basically repeating the same objection) are vastly overrated. Not spying + hardware and software under user control is far more important than whatever someone considers lagging video or anything that animates, particularly for a device people insist on calling "phones". I might prefer no animated GUI.
Silicon Valley significantly predates the immigration act of 1990 that made the H-1B visa category.
RedHat is (was?) sortof an example, but their product wasn't the open source software per-se, it was the guarantees their consulting and support offers.

RedHat makes, for example, patches for kernel vulnerabilities, but they actually give that away for free. What they sell is a promise that when there's a new vulnerability, you can get a patch from them quickly.

They also spread this service across MANY different open source packages. Like you said, a company that just offered services around a smaller package would have to run a lot more lean and would probably be a risky venture.
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Are there? How do I find them?
This is an attack on families and, per the article, would impact women almost exclusively. And it would inevitably result in more under-the-table economic activity.

Another lose-lose from the Trump administration.
People actually listen to red scare!?
in the end, that's probably a bad thing because Google might get better employees
> the only thing we really have going for us is our sane points-based immigration system

I lived in Seattle and enjoyed it, but staying in America long term was never an option for me. There's so much more to living in Canada than just our immigration system.

Even with the pay cut for being in Canada, and even with the additional taxes, I still make enough money to not need to worry about money. More money would be nice, but it's not all that motivating.

Meanwhile, those taxes go to things I think are important: a strong public education system; a health care system based on need, not wealth; a safe, gun-free society; a safe haven for refugees in need.

In my office in Toronto, probably 1000+ Amazon devs could transfer to an American office and make more money. But we don't. The same goes for the even larger Vancouver office.

Our immigration rules are just one aspect of why devs live here.
Those are more like guilds than unions.
It's been approved by RH and the DOJ. Google tried to make a larger offer. Where is the risk in not getting $190 a share?
They are increasing access to markets for the average person. They're also encouraging uninformed investment decision-making by doing things like sending push notifications when big name stocks swing way up or down, earning money by selling users' trading data to the highest bidder (increasing the overall fraction of "national product" that ends up in the pockets of financiers as the purchasers of that data make fast moves on that info) , plus that whole debacle with their "checking & savings" product.
First, it's awesome that these are live-streamed and publicised.

Second, I didn't hear anything unreasonable in that meeting. SW has a reputation for ego, but honestly this particular extract just sounds like frustration with buggy/messy documentation. I mean, the fact that the CEO is personally going through documentation is telling in itself.
Trump. Making Canada great again.
Are there any good NextJS tutorials out there that you can link here? I am looking to learn NextJS. Thanks
Have you tried 1 drink of beer or wine first? Can reduce your inhibition and keep the other person less judgmental.
100% agree. We are working on a YC W18 company (www.cointracker.io) and loved that Segment made it easy to get up and running on a bunch of metrics platforms. Really slick product!

Unfortunately, the recent price hikes are completely out of line with the value we are getting with the product and we are being financially forced to stop using the service. Chatting with the sales team has been extremely painful and unhelpful. It has been incredibly validating to hear that everyone else here is feeling the same way.

@Ilya — I really hope you'll consider taking this feedback to heart. You have absolutely nailed the product. The pricing needs a complete overhaul.
I'm long in these holdings. The S&P500 over 60 days involves no research.
Very encouraging.
As OP said, the typical way to go into management consulting or investment banking or another of these "big bucks" careers is to do it right from the start. Going to a "prestigious" undergrad school helps immensely. Being able to look and talk like a big shot helps. Slog it out in a bank as an analyst for some years. Then at some point go to MBA school as a finishing degree, and then back into a bank/consulting company as a made man higher-level employee. The key is to get that "elite" pedigree early, which opens the rest of the doors.

There are also career changers who start out as something else (like a software developer) and go to the best MBA school they can get into, in order to try to "sneak in to the back door of the club" that way. I actually tried (and failed) to walk this path. My jaded view, after blowing more $ than I care to admit on B-school and literally dozens of interviews that went nowhere, is that these employers are looking for people already in the in-crowd, pre-blessed as elite, and are in general not welcoming to working class career changers. Investment banks are primarily looking for pedigreed former bankers, and management consulting firms are primarily looking for pedigreed former management consultants, and good luck if you're not already in one of those clubs.
Not a list, but here's another lib:

https://github.com/originrose/cortex
Is it? This program Trump is getting rid of didn’t exist before 2015, yet Silicon Valley and Facebook were a thing.
It really seems like the opposite would make more sense - that companies should have to bid in a salary-auction for H1B candidate slots, with slots going to the highest bidders. At the very least that would make the body-shops that H1B opponents point to unworkable.
Ummm, we want to but New Zealand ISN'T TAKING PEOPLE ANYMORE! I looked into it =( it super bummed me out.

EDIT:
I should say, from the U.S. anyway.
Individuals are actively choosing to make investments.
Although I will say that it seems that their risk assessment department is seriously lacking. (see: u/1r0nyman)
> If you deal with Heroku, OpenStack, Cloud Foundry, etc. there is a ton of shell all over the place. With buildpacks, Travis CI, etc.

Cloud Foundry Buildpacks were rewritten in Go and the (quite elaborate) automation for manufacturing them[0] is mostly test-driven Ruby these days.

I can't claim credit for the former but I had a hand in the latter. Bash is not a sane production language.

[0] https://github.com/cloudfoundry/buildpacks-ci (though I note someone snuck in some Crystal and I suspect it was Dave).
Why do you post the same lies in every H1B related thread?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19156756

As I corrected your lies in that thread, I'll correct them here as well.

H-1B visas had nothing to do with Silicon Valley. The H-1B visa was created in 1990. Silicon Valley had already existed for decades by then. How can H-1B visas be the reason that Silicon Valley exists if Silicon Valley predates H-1B visas by decades?

You do realize that H-1B visas aren't confined solely to Silicon Valley right? Zuckerburg could have gotten H-1B visas workers to work in Massachussettes. There are plenty of interviews by zuckerburg stating why he moved to california. It had nothing to do with H-1B visas.

And H-1B visas doesn't prevent zuckerburg from opening offices all over the world.

Canada is a country, not a small region like silicon valley. And if canada becomes the new silicon valley, good for them. Please stop repeating the same lies over and over again.
Yet another hurtful policy that puts paid to the notion of "oh, but we're perfectly ok with legal immigration".
It is more that they're buying their kids a social circle that includes the kids of other elite families. They're not buying better math instruction, they're buying access.
Sounds like slavery.
sounds like the game industry
#P is still decidable by Turing machines.

And, I’m pretty sure that #BQP is too.

(Just with a large slowdown.)

Now, yes, there are models of computation which cannot be simulated by a Turing machine, but I don’t know of any substantial evidence that a physical process uncomputable.

Any computation which has a finite number of possible inputs is computable, using a lookup table, and therefore using a Turing machine.

So, for any physical process to be uncomputable, it must be such that there are infinitely many possible states of it, for it to proceed from.

And, the Bekenstein bound, if correct, would seem to suggest that no structure like that can exist within a bounded region of space.
To me podcasts and audiobooks are totally different animals. An audiobook about a subject will have many times the information density than a podcast about the same.
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Hobson's HR department.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobson%27s_choice
If you already are a Canadian citizenship: PSA to get started early in the process so you're prepared in the possible eventuality

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...
Most billionares don't make their fortunes playing the stock market either, what's your point?

They make billion dollar companies, except for a very select few.
If you mix desktops and mobile you might try PocketCasts and its web version, though it doesn't sync playlists/up next.
Silly Valley and NYC aren't exactly low-tax areas, either. The difference is that in those places the pay makes up for it; if pay in Canada weren't so far behind the taxes would be a non-issue.
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I'm not sure I understand. You're saying that it's not possible for someone of sound mind to decide to trade a technically-unconstrained probability distribution of demands on their time (with exit rights) for a fixed wage, no matter how high? And that two parties should be prohibited by law from making this exchange?

I'm not making a general-purpose argument against regulating nominally consensual labor agreements, but this specific example is an awfully weird context to decide that people need to be protected from themselves. I've had jobs where the exact hours of oncall rotations weren't explicitly spelled out in the contract, and I made the decision that the oncall rotation was worth the fixed pay. Trading fixed amounts of money for probability distributions is all over the economy (this is what insurance is), and you're the first person I've ever heard suggest that it should be prohibited.

Would you mind elaborating on why you think this is so egregious that people need to be protecting from themselves so they don't engage in it?
> Here’s a good yardstick for citizens: for any given immigrant policy X (or heck, any policy X on any subject), would you want to live that way? If “no”, the policy is Wrong. Period.

We're a long way from thinking like this. First, let's get most of the country to stop treating immigrants as the enemy.
>H-1B visas had nothing to do with Silicon Valley.

Nonsense. I am guessing you have never been silicon valley. 90% or more of tech workers there were born outside USA.

Edit: it is 70%, which is still very high.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/01/17/h-1b-foreign-citizens...
My question is how common this abuse is in software, vs. elsewhere.

If I had to guess based on my friends/family, first jobs are horribly abusive for 100% of med school graduates, 90% of law graduates, and 20% of software engineers. That 20% is common enough that we hear about it all the time, but it's still much less frequent than other high-paying jobs.
Recommend adding (1996) to title. That doesn't take away from it, it just shows how prescient the thought was.
The amount of hassle there is to actually get a view of this without installing it is quite a bullshit task.

From the readme, you have to navigate to an entirely different repo, which contains only contains a handful of preview files.

Even then, they are all gifs, so if you wanted static content you're out of luck, as gifs are pretty much the incorrect format for lengthy content such as this. Files average 6-10MB each, so if you're actually on mobile, github won't preview them (how nice, they think of my data plan).

Consider ShareX [https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX], who quite some time ago did strip out their entire readme for putting more information on their own website, but they still have a gif showing a majority functions from their application. It's less than 200kb, because someone decided to optimise their content to an acceptable extent
Adopt a form of magical thinking, and you too can get extra days off. ;)

But seriously, if you're on a flight that still has meal service, ordering ahead-of-time the kosher or veg/an option usually means you'll get yours first. :D
In the last 4 months, I've already seen more than 5 friends in my circle who've left the US for good. They do not plan on returning to the US until the pathway to a green card is sorted out. They work at companies like Microsoft, FAANG, etc. Over the next year, another 10-15% of my friend circle is moving out of the US - most of them cite the green card issue as the primary cause of returning back.

They've already worked at good tech companies here, most of which have offices around the world. Their choices directly cause the shift of their jobs from US to outside. Couple this with the fact that many of my juniors at the best universities in India (harder to get into than Stan/MIT here) now no longer consider moving to the US because of these cases, there is already an effect of really good talent not arriving here. The effect is not obvious in a year or two, but surely over time you will notice the secondary effects: a lot of engineers coming from India/China would not be the countries'best - the best do not want to put up with this, more employees leaving earlier/not settling, the expansion of India/China offices for these tech companies, or China/India companies doing better than the US counterparts (in cases where this is already happening, a lot of the HN crowd blames Chinese protectionism rather than acknowledging the talent that already exists in those countries).
I have a pet theory that as an organization increases in size, the probability that it will develop a tool named Fusion approaches unity.

PayPal and U.S. Bank have internal tools named Fusion. (I want to say that Cisco Systems does too, but I can't remember for certain.) Oracle, VMWare, and Autodesk all have products named Fusion (Fusion Applications, VMWare Fusion, and Fusion 360, respectively). IBM has two products named Fusion (Fusion Commerce and FusionAnalytics). Google used (naturally) to have a product named Fusion Tables.

What did I miss?
I bought XOM about 2-3 weeks ago at 71.75 You're also not calculating dividends. Xom is pay 4.4 and some of my other holding have already paid a few thousand in dividends.
Yes, in states without "right to work" (for less) and other union-busting laws. More importantly would be for workers to quit en masse and start their own employee-owned co-op so they're not cheated out of profits they helped create but rarely see.
> our punishingly high personal income and capital gains taxes and dearth of good exits for startups

Yet, taxes are still higher in California than in Canada unless you make something like $350k+ (the crossover point used to be a bit lower but then Trump removed the State tax deduction).
What do you mean by “users’ trading data”? If different from the trades themselves?
I've got a feeling that if they let you get Jordans, you wouldn't be into cheapest shoes today. I don't know why.

It's crazy how little things from childhood affect us so much for the rest of our lives (not talking about your case right now but got me thinking). I see traces of "always save" mindset in international friends who come from countries where their parents were poor.
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> If you're going to design modular libraries and scripts with best practices, unit tests, etc, for those languages, then you should be doing the same with Bash.

Or: not use Bash at all.
got you. thanks for commenting. maybe it's more of a thing for the younger audience
I'm not old, but I tell people that I don't check work emails when I go home. But I give the offer that they can call me. Usually this leads to almost never being contacted on the weekend or after hours, and only really when there is a dire need. People seem to be more hesitant to call or text than send an email, and so this method works. But that's part of the implied condition. I think it is fair to call someone after hours for emergency type stuff, but not typical work stuff.

Doing this has facilitated a healthy work life balance and I believe leads to better productivity.
Thanks Chandan, we're hearing this loud and clear. Open to give us feedback on pricing/packaging changes we're working on? If you're willing, can you send me an email at: ilya @segment.com
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That sucks. I used them in the past.
On iPhones it just allows them to wipe your phone if it's lost.
Sounds like a great way for 1 angry employee to hijack a Facebook page.
You didn't get my point. Of course the doc should be long to where it should. In this case, I want the doc for my base function is easier to be discovered from the helper functions.
> Certainly a whole host of laws from keeping kosher to keeping the sabbath seem to be on a pick and choose basis, which has always made me a little cynical about the choice to pay lip service to Leviticus only where homosexuality is concerned.

do the jewish people stone adulterers where you live?
how about homosexuals?
soothsayers/crypto-pagans/fortune tellers?
stay out of the synagogue when you have ejaculated until taking a ritual purity bath?

etc, etc, etc.

not to harp or seem anti-jewish, but picking and choosing happens everywhere -
it's the broader context and totality of being pure/godly/etc that is important, which is (kind of) Jesus' whole point.. (see also healing on sabbath, etc)

but yes, christians are not concerned generally with fulfilling the law of moses as a whole.. that said there is tradition and rationale around what guides christian morality/ethical code, though various groups do/do not pay attention to this accordingly..
>it is frustrating that immigrants are still expected to just somehow pull it together

But understandable, companies that use H1Bs tell us that the H1B holders are highly compensated and doing work that no available Americans can do.

I live in the bay area and I hear (rightfully and often) about the ways that xenophobes make life harder for immigrants (H1b / illegal / otherwise), but I never hear people commit to making the changes they can make here or prioritize the election of officials who will do things like approve enough housing to make it possible to get a 1 bedroom apartment for less than two thousand dollars in SF / Palo Alto / San Jose.
I have and even more, I know people who work in silicon valley. Have you been there?

Ignoring the fact that "90% of tech workers there were born outside the USA" is absolutely false, what does that have to do with H-1B visas?

It could be true that 90% of tech workers were born outside the USA and none of them could be H-1B visa holders. There are plenty of american tech workers who immigrated to the US as a child and became american citizens. Like sergei brin or jerry yang. They may be born outside the US, but none of them are H-1B visa holders. They were all american citizens.

The fact that you are intentionally lying and being sneaky with stats is very worrisome.
I see what you mean - it seems to be title VII of the Civil Rights Act that is relevant here - or did you have some other point in mind?
> [Gopher] is still going

Hum, yeah, most of the world is connecting through Gopher...