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Getting an O-1 and EB-1, rather than being some extraordinary feat, is more of an extraordinary distraction, and yes luck factors into it a lot.

My understanding is if you tried to immigrate 8+ years ago, it was relatively certain and less of a distraction, even if it still took ~12 months to be done. It has gotten gradually harder every year, until it went up asymptotically in 2016 (I finished applying for my EB-1 in 2015).

Unfortunately IANAL + immigration landscape is evolving constantly, + the complexities and options of immigration vary wildly with the differences in personal circumstances (from passport to education and work history), so anything I write will be quickly obsolete, and most people would find it either too generalized, or not applicable to them.

Feel free to DM me, I'm happy to share some advice with anyone who thinks immigrating will be important for their career.
This is a good point. I haven't used Spring in forever, so I don't know if/how it takes advantage of any modern Java features, but I could see Java 8/9/10 and (a framework like) Spring being pleasant and productive.
The story can only come from understanding the piece. The understanding requires a deeper knowledge. Interesting that it lacks 'emotional intelligence' - is that something which can also be learnt?
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True. On moon you still have a chance to quickly send some new parts which you can’t do on mars.
The next stage from this is how a spectator remembers a magic trick later on. Good magicians work backwards from this understanding in designing an act or trick. "He put the card in the middle of the deck, and it appeared in his pocket". This is about as granular as the average spectator remembers a magic trick only minutes or even seconds later. It says a lot about how lossy our memory really is even when we are concentrating our hardest. Maybe counter intuitively the harder someone looks the easier it is to direct their attention.

I would recommend anyone learn a simple magic trick or two, if only to help you design your products better. All of the information you learn about how people move through the phases of a trick seem transferable to lots of disciplines.
Why doesn't the file proxy class have a seek or read-with-offset RPC operation instead of just handing you a stream of bytes? This isn't particularly novel for remote-ish file storage (SCSI supports this, NFS supports this, etc.)

Re Termux, I actively don't want any app on my phone to have direct access to the rest of the files on my phone. The fact that desktop terminal apps (cmd.exe, Terminal.app, xterm, etc.) require this access is the root cause of a bunch of security difficulties in desktop OSes that are impossible to solve in a satisfying way. I want a little workspace (potentially multiple workspaces) for stuff where a terminal is the right way to work, but I don't want the ability for any app to cd into my Signal storage directory or my email client config directory and edit files there.

As a result, I use iOS. If Android will get me the same security design plus the ability to call fork() so Termux works, I'd consider switching - it sounds like that's what they're doing.
Parkinson's, too: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-42252411
I can't stress how important 2. is to learning. I don't think I learned anything well unless I used what I learned in practice. Reciprocal don't add anything to your learning if you won't use it on a regular basis.
Exactly. They have capitalism in Europe too, where the Airbus is made, but they don't have these problems because they have much more effective regulation.
Hey, I and others really enjoyed the WP8 user interface. Your fact of “no one liked” is already wrong now.
Wasn't MirageOS bought by Docker Inc? Is the project still independent and active?
> how is Russia coping with things like LGBT

Well, some Russian region (Chechnya) opened a concentration camp for them. So you can get an idea.
Heck how about a colony on top of Mt Everest? Its actually more congenial there, than on Mars. And a hell of a lot closer.
I've been wanting this forever :)... I personally think there's demand for this, unfortunately I don't have the right background to prototype it.
I really enjoyed the Metro UI.

I felt like the tiles displayed the right level of information where I could quickly glance at my phone and see if there was anything important that needed my attention, while helping to reduce the mindless time I spent getting distracted by noise.

When I was using my Windows Phone it felt like the UI was built to decrease interaction with the device, which was a positive to me. It was trying to get the right information in front of me so I could get back to being detached from the screen.

But that is a sample size of 1.
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Some of the HN guidelines that you've broken here:

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Here's the design decision that puzzles me the most: MCAS commands nose-down trim. The pilot uses the trim button on the yoke to command nose-up trim. Why isn't that enough to disable MCAS and cause an audible alert?

Think of an analogy: when the autopilot commands a nose-down elevator input, and the pilot pulls back on the control column, that's enough to disengage the autopilot.

Or think of cruise control in a car: if the computer commands acceleration, and the driver steps on the brake, cruise control disengages.

The necessity of MCAS is to meet regulatory requirements for similarity in handling characteristics to achieve a common type rating. It's not strictly an engineering requirement, nor is it a safety-assisting technology. It's an attempt to mask the actual aerodynamic characteristics of the aircraft being flown. That is a conflicting mission if you will.
Is it more energy efficient to use a counterbalance? Compared to simply putting the load onto motor torques?

I understand energy efficiency is an odd thing to optimize for at this stage, but that would explain the design.
That's exactly what I want as well, phones are powerful enough to do that. I could even use the phone screen as a second screen terminal and type with my keyboard in both, switching with ctrl+something.

Everything is technically complicated on Android, I've also worked into customizing ROMs, trust me, Android kernel & top layer are so clunky that it's even a miracle that the phone is switching on. There's really nothing we can save from this garbage system. Sorry for the Android fans reading this but that's truly my personal opinion after digging into it for a few months. it's just piles and piles of hacks as far as the eye can see.
I'm sure there are a lot of useful technical features, but I can't get past that UI. That has to be one of the ugliest app layouts I've ever seen [1]. There's just so many unnecessary elements.

[1] https://lh3.ggpht.com/-aGrlHAFIEPCk-tusiw91bH6sn-YfzS5pNo-ng...
> nor is there trivial integration for JS assets/asset pipeline functionality

...WHY would anyone ever want that?! I thought that splitting an app into one frontend-app and one backend-app, each in its separate repository too and runable alone is the very minimum everyone does nowadays.

(Yeah, later you may go on and chop the backend into microservices, but for starters you at least keep these two sepratate - why would you want to impose knowledge of Python or Django as requirement for your frontend developers?! Even if you start with a couple full-stackers, you'll want to later be able to hire more narrow focused specialists.)
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> All you need to do some very impressive tricks is a single move — the double lift.

As someone who has had a casual interest in card magic and sleight of hand, here’s an observation about how so many different tricks can come out of such a seemingly simple sleight.

There’s a fairly simple formula that makes it possible to be very creative and come up with endless new tricks and variations.

At the heart of any trick is some sleight, such as the double lift, where the illusionist creates a seemingly trivial rift between reality as the audience perceives it, and reality as it actually is.

The illusionist can then get creative with what to do with this difference.

Usually you maintain the facade and do things that would be possible in both realities. From the audience’s point of view, it’s like the trick hasn’t started, when in a sense it is already over. Then, at a safe distance from the original sleight of hand, in terms of time and attention, the illusionist can now seem to break the rules of the reality the audience believes in, simply by revealing the difference between the two realities.

This allows you to amplify an underwhelming “Ok, so I couldn’t see that you picked up two cards” to a very impressive “Wow, my card magically reappeared at the top of the deck after you put it into the middle of the deck and let me shuffle it”.
I agree on security issues, and making the path depend on an environment variable/per-user config file would be opening a new can of worms.

However, an issue I have is that while you can configure that path system-wide, there is no way to control it per-user, or with a finer-gained approach. You can probably use mount namespaces to shadow a ~/.ssh with another config, but that seems overkill.

I admit I have no practical use cases for this right now (though I probably did in the past) besides "uncluttering $HOME". As for hunting the config files, those would reside in ~/.config/ssh by default. I personally find it more irritating when a program picks a random folder instead of conforming to the spec (and if I set the environment variable to somewhere else, I then know where it is). Go hunt trough ~/{.program,.program/conf,Program/conf,Documents/Program/conf,Documents/My\ Games/conf}, or countless variants I experienced. Thought it is admittedly a much smaller problem with better-established programs such as openssh.
As someone who is currently living in Russia (not voluntarily, I was born there and still haven't managed to get out), I can see the results of the brain drain myself. I'm currently trying to hire a Python programmer for the company I work at, and the quality of the candidates I have to interview is absolutely dire. Even though the pay for this position is really good. I'm pretty sure anyone half-decent has left the country already.
FTA: Although the technology is impressive, we’re still a long way from it being deployed in an actual warehouse, especially around humans. That would involve a level of complexity that robots haven't yet mastered.
>All you've shown is that I do know what -oid means

Yes, now you do.

Before, e.g. in your comment, you confused what it "often" means (in some terms) to be what it must always mean (in every term).
Yep, head facing is maybe even better than eye contact. In addition, local road rules even out the rest (e.g. which side of the road do people drive on in the country where you are currently walking).
One correction: the author of that book is Jacob Rees Mogg's father, not JRM himself.
Will be good to move human bodies after the machine uprising of 2048.
They deserve to go out of business, and for their executives to go to prison (along with whatever PE signed off on this atrocity).

As for airline expansion, Airbus can certainly pick up the slack and double their production capacity in short order. All they have to do is buy up the facilities from a now-defunct airplane manufacturer in the Seattle area. I'm sure there'll be a bunch of recently-unemployed engineers, technicians, and other manufacturing personnel happy to take a job there too.
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You realize that many modern aircraft are all fly-by-wire, right?
I used it in production for 2 years w/ MongoDB and it worked fine for fast development. At the time the main knowledge resource was the Manning book "Sails.js in Action".
To everyone looking for a decent file manager for Android, please check out MiXplorer[0]. I just discovered it and was immediately impressed with it's features and functionality. Some of my favorite native features:

* Packing/unpacking 7z and Zip/Zip64 (splitted-encrypted), TAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2, GZIP, BZIP2, XZ, WIM, Lizard, LZ4, LZ5, Zstandard.

* Root access for all advanced operations.

* SAMBA, FTP, SFTP, WEBDAV supported as well.

* Intuitive, unlimited tabbed browsing.

* Very pleasing, nice-looking, easy to use interface (I know this is silly, but as much as I like Total Commander which is good I always felt it's interface was a little clunky.)

* Developer is very active and receptive to feedback.

Give it a try, it's free on XDA with a paid version on the Play Store[1] with at the time of writing, only 5 and 4 star reviews.

[0] https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1523691

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mixplorer....
Ideology none believes in should be called differently.
Thank you, I believe that you are correct.

In any case, the 1960's foreign body impact regulation has not been updated so far as I know, and at the time it was designed for the largest civilian passenger aircraft then flying. The 737 fits in, the 747 (introduced only two years later if I'm not mistaken) does not.
All true, but omits the change in the litigation climate here in the States. Dealing with pernicious, baseless lawsuits taught me never to hire employees again.
> There was a lot of scifi about the information society

More importantly, there is a lot of literature about totalitarianism.
Got two gdpr complaints, so I added automated removal of uploaded photos and metadata extracted from those photos.

Now photos and data are only stored for 3 minuites, then deleted (app artitecture requires server side processing of uploaded file and to compare results with your photo I have to store it - to be able to show)

Also reflected information above on the website itself.
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People who use more happy words are not necessarily happier
Not really, no. People talk like that about their own and foreign nations politics all the time. Of course the American ambassador to Ukraine has strong opinions about politics in Ukraine. It's their job.

What is being alleged, or at least vaguely suggested, is America causing a coup that would not have otherwise happened. That's simply, obviously not what occurred in Ukraine and anyway they've had many free and open elections since. America and the EU was exerting diplomatic pressure in exactly the same ways as Russia (except for poisoning Ukrainian politicians with Dioxin), none of which justifies military action.
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"takehome" seems like exactly the right solution for technical interviews. Have you gotten much traction?
After reading that, due to a majority of their reasoning this should be titled "Seven ways the world is not designed for smaller people". I am not a big dude myself, but more than half the points were about clothing/uniforms/protective gear not fitting correctly. Am I strawmanning this?

edit: I can already see flaw in my thinking as I sit here. It is unfair that these industries aren't prepared to support women, who are on average smaller, where they are happy to support the average male.
Given how consolidated media ownership has become, I'm not sure this is true. In addition the ability to destroy reputations is real damage that the media does all the time.
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Surprisingly birdlike in their form and movement. Interesting to ponder the convergence of evolved and human-designed balance and bodily physics.

Also: Kept waiting for some guy to come in and try to kick it over. I thought that was Boston Dynamics' signature move in these promo videos...
Framework != library. A framework is defined by a DSL or all encompassing architecture that has an opinion on how you structure your app. Frameworks trade choice for supposed convenience.

Libraries are just collections of functionality that you can mix or match. Good libraries are framework or paradigm agnostic and are very unmagical in their interface.

Libraries are replaceable, frameworks are usually not. In Go, if you use an interface to abstract the library calls you need (which is trivially easy to do) you can easily replace any library in your code. But ditching Rails is a ground up rewrite of your entire application and chances are you have read entire books on Rails so switching is going to cost you a lot.
40k gbp still isn't that much. That's around what the top boarding schools cost in the US. My main concern wouldn't be the sticker price but whether you need to come from the right "background" (e.g. not nouveau-riche) for your child to get accepted. To my understanding the top US boarding schools are less concerned with your financial pedigree, which makes sense given that most rich people in the US are nouveau-riche by British standards
They also own Riot Games, Grinding Gear Games and Supercell.
Yes, the structural change is "make individuals be on a hook for overpayments"
I'd like to see the EASA ban 737max flights over Europe permanently, by requiring them to have a new type rating for the aircraft, which Boeing won't do. They should also criminally prosecute Boeing executives, in absentia if necessary, and seize Boeing assets in Europe.
I can only disagree.

I have coworkers going to meet-ups. And trust me, I know, since they can't stop speaking about it. And what do they talk about ? Internal meetup politics, how X said what to Y, etc...aka the usual human chatter. Also, they spend a fair share of their workday actually preparing and organizing those.

I seriously doubt they're the best engineers out there, they just have a hobby and like to talk to about it like everybody else.

Also, not going to meetups doesn't mean you have to do a 9-5, what I observe is that it's actually going to meetups which forces hours on you since you got to leave at a predefined hour to not be late there.

Maybe the meetup scene is very different where you are, but around there it's the same ~30 people going to every possible meetup subject to have a friendly chat, chug a few beers and listen to a talk rarely given by an expert but rather someone who spent a handful of hours hacking on something fun. I'm just not convinced it makes anyone better.
I’ve been using Linux and UNIX systems professionally for ~20 years and this is the first time I realised they were distinct protocols too.
> They only need to get another 11% to vote with them.(assuming they have 40% voting representation).

This depends a lot on who owns the other 60%. If it's one other party, the 40% effectively has no control. If it's a public company with a million other owners and they're the largest individual shareholder, many of the others won't even show up to vote their shares and their 40% of all shares will generally be >50% of the ones that show up to vote for anything.
Seriously, give me a phone running windows 10. Not windows 10 ME or some other special edition, just regular windows 10. They went to all the trouble to make the OS touch-friendly then failed to put it on a phone?
Read books in the bathtub.
I don't get the self-driving car move for Uber, et al. Instead of letting drivers use their own cars or making money on loans they will all of a sudden have to buy tens of thousands of cars, maintain them and replace them every 5ish years (unless they get yet another exemption from taxi regulation commissions).
I still look lovingly at my N900 and wish it worked with my cell-provider. IMHO it was the 'One True Answer' to all this crap.
Among people with epilepsy or who have children with epilepsy, its pretty common to hear discussion about 'seizure dogs'. These are either pets or specifically trained dogs that can predict when a seizure is going to happen, sometimes up to an hour before. They are somewhat rare but certainly a known phenomenon.

Apparently the training is a bit hit and miss, some dogs can do it and some can't. Training a dog to react to a seizure that is actually happening right now is quite a lot easier, and still very useful (e.g. train it to run to parents room, barking).

edit: also, one hears of scams where people claim to be able to provide seizure dogs but dont, so bear that in mind.
First Ethiopia lawsuit was filed today in Chicago

MH370 was a multi-national class-action lawsuit filed in SC that was only dismissed because the circumstances of the disappearance were not clear and nothing to do with it being multi-national

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3512628-16319045179....

With the Lion Air crash the settlements the Indonesian government had passengers sign included waiving any right to sue Boeing in the USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/world/asia/lion-air-crash...

The fault being with Boeing in this case seems a lot more clear-cut
Thanks for this link. Are you related to this? I’m interested in this part “Further studies will aim to look at potential applications in terms of anticipation of seizures.” And if you’re into this field, could you let me know how I can stay up to date with those further studies?
I think Rails is amazing. My only gripes with it are that tests run slow and you need plenty of tooling to make things work (redis, sidekiq, anycable).

I have been particularly interested with Phoenix as of late as it fixes all the gripes I have with Rails and Liveview is an amazing pattern that I think would simplify a lot of things.
It's surprising how little you actually need, and as you point out, how little more you need for a 3 week trip than you do for an overnight trip. I don't backpack much but my bikepacking checklist is pretty much the same regardless of the length of the trip. The main (and heavy) variable is the amount of water to bring, and that's more dependent on weather and available water sources than on length of the trip.
While it's true that fighter jets have been aerodynamically unstable for decades, they're not built for transportation and have ejection seats.

The main reason they are unstable is to increase agility. Is this necessary or even wanted in passenger aviation? I don't know but I'd guess not. Probably safety, comfort and fuel economy are far more important and can (should?) be achieved with a stable airframe.
I can understand why they changed the definitions, because both conditions have the same root cause (an issue with sensory processing) but I think it was a mistake. You've got a completely different presentation, and completely different treatments. So now any research into developing new therapies for autism will have to specify which subset of Autism spectrum disorder they are targeting, subsets which may not be well defined or consistent. I think eventually they will carve out sub-categories of autism based on which therapies they best respond to.
You're presuming that everyone has affordable access to a (reliable) car. That's not necessarily always true. Amtrak is significantly cheaper than renting a car to travel short to medium distances when there's a corresponding route.

Support for Amtrak-style rail is very low. Hell support for subway-style rail is still pretty low, but it has its uses in the truly developed areas (a la NYC). I'm ambivalent about Amtrak. I'm strongly supportive of subway-style rail, when it's appropriate (it's not appropriate aside from a small handful of cities).

There's multiple types of poor (rural, suburban, and urban). Are you not facing selection bias from living in a fairly suburbs-dominated metro (DC)?