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Increase supply of labor, decrease wages. Econ 101, folks. The Wall Street types benefit from immigration. There might be "more jobs" but there will be lower pay checks. Working Americans are the targets in this upper class scam. Polls show that most Americans are for moderating immigration. Strangely, rich Democrats are the ones most for open borders and "free" trade. The party of labor? No way.
Not all forks are equal, but GitHub shouldn't treat them differently regardless if they are they are the original fork or not.

The only exception is if the fork contains no changes of it's own and could be fast-forward merged into the fork you are viewing. (They do this already in the graph they render under the network view.)
OT: Didn't he KDE4 release make you want to try something else?

Made me try a switch to Gnome, wasn't good for me though.

KDE4 now is great IMO, still a few things I don't like but really good, but then ... sheesh!
Two things to add to this:
1) A way to mitigate the risk of winding up with a camera sitting on the shelf is to start off with a used SLR from a few years ago. If, six months in, you don't like it, you can almost surely get your money back out of it on Craigslist.

2) As to bringing it everywhere, this quote from Jay Maisel jumps to mind: "You should always carry your camera with you because it’s easier to take pictures that way." Just depends on the attitude I guess. That said, I completely agree with the documentarian comment - if you become "that guy" (the photographer), you have to consciously remember to participate in things like family events, and not just shoot them. It sounds ridiculous, but it's true.
You are misreading the comment while making untrue economic and policy comments.

"They can unilaterally declare their debt to be in their new currencies, if they separate." is juts a wrong statement. How is sovereign debt different from corporate debt? Do you have an example?

Example: If Italy goes back to the Lira, the face value of Italian debt that the U.S. Government holds, in dollar terms, will not change, even if that debt is changed to Lira, IT IS NOT re-valued to a price the Italian Govt. sees fit. Should a devaluation of the debt occur, the U.S. would have to write-off billions from its balance sheet (assuming a devaluation of the Lira occurs, which is most certain).

If each country does this, billions will have to be written off, there isn't such thing as "Sovereigns do not play by the same rules as the rest of us.". I suggest you read any debt offering memorandum from any European Government or even the U.S. Government, all terms, clauses, reps/warranties are clearly explained and detailed.
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Your point is valid, but it's becoming less so. The web is taking over more and more of what used to be desktop territory, and the OS is becoming a device driver for the internet. There are plenty of people now who just need something that will run a web browser (granted, there are also still plenty who have to have MS Office or whatever).

The more cheapass the PC, the more of a difference the Windows Tax makes. $50 out of $1000 is only 5%, but $50 out of a $115 Walmart computer[1] is pretty substantial (not that Walmart is likely to be paying that much for a Windows license, but at the low end a little bit of money makes a big difference).

[1] http://www.walmart.com/ip/IBM-40GB-8183/16880171
This is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Thanks!

On the point about how they cook for cameras, I remember reading years ago that most ice cream ads actually used mashed potatoes!
> Why does everyone taking photos have to be expressing themselves artistically? What's wrong with people who just want to capture a moment where someone they love has a sparkle in their eye?

This is a brilliant reason to use a camera. Almost any camera is good enough for this; using a prosumer DSLR will usually be a hinderance (they're big and bulky and have many buttons and switches and levers) and using a little digital compact is cheaper and easier.
Regarding your last point, there's a series of videos on YouTube where pro photographers are challenged to take the best pictures they can with 'subpar/cheap' gear; the results are pretty incredible.

Here's the first in that series: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUkKtkEZNjs
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So the green card issue is that of "status transfer," where if you change jobs in the first step of the green card application, you have to start again, since your employer sponsorship status doesn't transfer, putting you at the back of a nearly decade-long line. Based on anec-data, we suspect a large number of immigrants want to start companies but can't until they get green cards, which is a big problem for an innovation-based economy.

For startup visa, the latest version has other paths, involving $100k in US revenue or simply being a H1-B/student visa holder with sufficient assets/income to not be a drain on US taxpayers: http://kerry.senate.gov/press/release/?id=4e6a51f6-fb2b-4212... Meaning, there's less pure reliance on VCs as the gatekeepers for visas and green card, a la the criticism of the 2010 Startup Visa by folks like Vivek Wadhwa.

Additionally, the Lofgren-Polis IDEA Act opens up a whole new path, though one I don't think has any chance of passing in this current environment: http://www.usimmlawyer.com/news-blog/42-blog/293-rep-zoe-lof...

By and large, though, completely agree with the points here.
Your observations are pretty accurate.

I'd like to add that something similar to Urban Dictionary has existed for a very long time now (10+ years): eksizosluk.com. They had their fair share of trouble with litigation but mostly managed to protect free speech. In fact it is so successful that it spawned many clones, which themselves became very popular websites.

Content is the main bottleneck. Something like UD exists because it generates its own content, whereas HN or Reddit clones don't exist because there isn't enough Turkish material on the web. A good part of population doesn't understand English, and the ones who do, choose to assimilate in the more interesting English space (ahem).
We're happy to refresh your count if you run out prematurely. We just have to keep bandwidth costs in mind.
Thanks! Very kind words.

The one case I didn't link but talked about was my co-worker Michael's snipmate.vim project.

https://github.com/msanders/snipmate.vim

He stopped working on it because he felt it was dead end to keep supporting it since vim plugins are so hacky, but the community loves his plugin. It's has a massive number of forks and patches but he hasn't touched it since 2009.

This fork has taken up most of the new development on the project and really has pushed it hard to almost a 1.0 now: https://github.com/garbas/vim-snipmate
10k a day for strategic advice is not a lot
“You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.”

- Charlie Parker
Americans need to support the Startup Visa:
http://trendguardian.blogspot.com/2010/03/support-startup-vi...

I think Obama is starting to hear too:
http://trendguardian.blogspot.com/2011/04/startup-america-te...
Sure - re-reading my comment I see I was perhaps a bit dismissive but that wasn't my intention.
Yes, but it's very likely the 50 direct jobs will be handled by people mostly brought in by Apple and some won't even live in the town.
The US style of winner-take-all representative democracy creates a huge collective action problem. My ballot choices boil down to "mediocre to useless", "complete wingnut", and a few somewhat preferable third party candidates I don't dare vote for because dividing the mediocre vote guarantees the wingnut wins. A third party can't succeed unless they somehow manage to attract today's left and right wing voters in equal and large numbers. In the meantime, my views are being safely ignored—they just never seem to be on the radar of my only feasible choice from the ballot.

I would much prefer direct democracy within a sharply limited scope of government powers. A laboratory of the states, with a couple dozen hellholes and a few places I'd be eager to live. But I don't see a path from here to there.
> The US really needs to emulate other countries here.

Which other countries are these? As the holder of an employer-tied 3-year temporary Danish work permit, with no possibility to even apply for the Danish equivalent of a green card until I've resided in the country with solid employment for at least 4 years (and passed a language exam, something the U.S. doesn't require), I don't think it can be this one...

Though to be fair, the Danish consulate was friendly and efficient with processing the employer-tied temporary permit.
The NYT had an interesting article about increasing numbers of international students on American campuses, possibly for financial reasons, since most universities are not need-blind for international students. I'm guessing it's easier now, and there are certainly professionals who facilitate the process in China, according to the article.

http://chronicle.com/article/Chinese-Students-Prove-a/129628...
The editor are modding all dissent in this page down. Can't handle another side of the story ? Shame.
We'll see what the final numbers are once all is said and done but I think we would be up for doing it again. Many of us have non-game original music, and there are a few of those in the bundle already, but it's a lot harder to pitch something that isn't game-related. We got picked up by sites like Kotaku, Joystiq and Destructoid because of the game connection.
"It causes unemployment (at least short term) in the country outsourcing its work"

This isn't a problem with outsourcing. It's a problem with technology. Technology has now made it so everyone must compete on a global level. An small mom and pop shop now competes with Amazon and every other website in the world that sells similar merchandise.

If you control it in the US, business owners will just incorporate elsewhere to remain competitive. The US should provide tax incentives to business owners that keep jobs in the US.

"There is obviously something wrong, and the poor are being exploited."

Rather than blaming companies, which are actually providing people with a living, blame governments. In many of those countries (especially China), bribing government officials is the only way you can do business.

"But these stories are really more about greed and exploitation, which we should definitely stand against by asking for more regulations, monitoring and rules for outsourcing"

It's interesting because outsourcing has many parallels with software piracy. Many people don't want to pay the price for some software (businesses don't want to pay American wages) so they download it for free instead (businesses go to a foreign country and pay peanuts). We see what happens when you try to control these sorts of situations.

More regulation and control isn't the answer. It needs to make sense business-wise to keep jobs in the US rather than outsourcing. Some jobs are already gone forever. But it doesn't mean there won't be something else to take its place. It will just require different types of education.

This is only the beginning.

Open source will eventually either put developers out of a job, or massively decrease salaries. Why would a business owner pay for a software engineer when they can pay for a software mechanic (someone with much less experience and at a lower pay-scale)? Open source developers are giving out the difficult parts for free, most business owners only need to make additions.

Right now, we are in a transition. Many business owners don't realize this. In 5-10 years, this won't be the case.
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I wonder how much of the popularity is because popularity was perhaps a goal of some of the NodeJS advocates. Recently I stumbled on http://nodejs-vs-ror.nodejitsu.com, which in the source at https://github.com/mmalecki/nodejs-vs-ror/blob/master/public... seems to imply beating Rails follow count was a goal. I'm not sure where I found the link but probably here on HN.

I guess someone in the Rails community could create a similar project and say "OK guys everyone go follow Rails on GitHub."

I have no issue with the technique as businesses do this all the time... encouraging customers to Like them on Facebook, follow them on Twitter, etc. Perhaps this a hacker version of social media marketing... who needs Facebook likes, let's get Github followers.
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I honestly want to be a better (game) designer
One of the richest cities in China with a regime that borders on anarchism
It's not a zero-sum game when you bring in bright people. Smart people create opportunity around them.

On the other hand, I'm not so enthusiastic about lowering immigration barriers so we can get cheap workers to robotically throw together CRUD forms. (I guess that work is outsourced, anyway?)
I don't think dynamic scoping makes it possible -- I think it is used simply because it is there. If it wasn't there, some other solution, just as good (if not better) would be used.

When writing e-lisp, I find dynamic scoping limiting, and using lexical-let, especially when I want curried/partial-application, is extremely annoying.

For me, extending emacs is harder because of dynamic scoping. It is entirely possible to have code be executed in some sort of "Reader" monad/env, and execute it in a different than default env -- which gives you "dynamic scoping" on whatever input you want, without contaminating every other name.

I think almost every negative feature you could possibly implement would find "good use" that defended its existence (Dynamic scoping, $_ in Perl, implementation inheritance, etc).
Hopefully they aren't storing it Euro!
I should have mentioned that I've tried Ubuntu 11.10 on the same machine and noticed similar UI performance problems compared to Ubuntu 10.10 (as well as a broken compiz).

Yes, some of this could be attributed to Ubuntu 11.10, but the comparison is still valid since both are competing for me as a user. If the Mint team finds it necessarily to subsume Ubuntu then they must be prepared to accept the problems that are inherited as a result.
I keep seeing new articles in this type of tone. Like they know what's wrong but are afraid to say what they want for fear it won't be published. What this article is describing is capitalism working effectively, maybe too effictively to be sustainable. Capitalsim is all about using technology to produce profits more efficiently. By building a data center in a small town Apple is efficiently using its techology to produce profits. This isn't something to be complaining to Apple for doing.

Technology's effictiveness is outstripping captialisms mechanism for job creation. The unemployment problem probably cannot be fixed without drastic socio-economic reform.
Education and health care are both dominated by government as the single largest player in the marketplace. The U.S. government actively sets the number of doctors, the types of procedures that can be covered by insurance, and dominates market spending through its Medicare, Medicaid, and VA programs. And if you aren't on a government program, the tax code forces you into a employer-provided insurance ghetto.

Healthcare innovation will remain low, and costs will continue to grow at double digits, until America passes real healthcare reform. Allow insurance competition across state lines, give private individuals the same tax treatment as employers when buying healthcare, and allow individuals to form groups to purchase health care (e.g. alumni groups, church groups, etc). Those three steps would go a long way to opening up the industry to the web and to innovative, competitive forces.
Urgent - Ask HN: Should I follow my sense?
Hello,
I am going to launch a new web service in 10 days.. and I am very excited about it. I have a vision and sense that it will make a big success..

Its not a new idea in general, but I will represent it with a new features that will make it much easier.. along with a social part, and smart system..

What made me excited for this idea, is that I was able to reach 100k visitors per month, just in 4 months duration only, and from a small core of the main idea..

So.. should I go on without fear in this idea? And does that 100k visitors/month reach makes sense or it does not mean any thing?

Waiting for your help indeed and thanks in advance,

Ahmed.
> Though you can't program on the iPad currently

Ah but you can:

http://twolivesleft.com/Codea/
Why would anyone even begin to think about developing this sort of thing?
This isn't exactly criticism, but curiosity. I would like yosefk.com to address the following:

1. Is the revenue generated by a company proportionate to its size? Or do smaller companies make more? Or larger companies? Comparisons would be like WePay vs. Microsoft (or, in the same sector), WePay vs. PayPal.

2. Are the problems he notes in a hypothetical industry dominated by small companies outsourcing exclusive to hardware manufacturing, or to all aspects of the manufacturing process?
I think this explains quite well the debt default threat to the UK (and various other countries including the US): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15748696
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They contracted someone to build the thing in the first place. Whoever is there for the data centre will be renting or buying a place to live, or at least staying at hotels, shopping for food and going to restaurants.

It may not solve all of the town's problems but it probably does not do any harm either.
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One of the differences between computer science and other fields is that, in a sense, computer science is a meta-field: it's the study of information. You learn how to solve problems from the very foundation, empirically. In that way it's probably akin to philosophy, although I don't know enough philosophy to be sure. Basically, instead of solving problems you're solving the problem of how to solve problems.

This is what makes computer science, along with a few similar fields (mathematics comes to mind) very special.
I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but I have to ask: do you really think there were no indigenous peoples in Canada when the French and English came to settle there? Just pristine wilderness?
Cool, but why can't I see this hierarchy when I plug my HTC Droid into my Mac? I certainly don't see a /data/data directory, even with ls -a. Do I have to root the thing?
It looked like someone who really wanted an Accord (a very nice car, I had one for 10+ years), got too big for their britches, didn't understand his-or-her situation, and spent money on a Ferrari instead, and had to live with the consequences.

It sounds like someone who is really passionate about cars, and Ferraris specifically, and who has made the car fit his or her life.

If the person can afford a Ferrari, I'm going to go out on a limb and say there is probably little obstacle to also owning a commuter box, if that person were so inclined.

they look like posers

That is entirely in your own head. If you go around judging people that much, how can you possibly feel about yourself?

You're better than this. Stop searching for reasons to look down on others.
I absolutely agree. And it's all well and good talking about startups creating jobs, but really, what YC startups have created any meaningful number of jobs (aside from highly paid developers (Dropbox, Heroku) or sales staff (Airbnb)? I'm not taking away from their success in any way, I just think we need to recognise that there's a fundamental problem on the horizon. I suspect the solution lies in fewer people working and contributing a greater proportion of their income. Obviously that's unpalatable to everybody.
I don't agree. I think the quotes listed are sufficiently universal, but not implicitly obvious, that they would be appreciated from just about any source. Unless of course that source was being hypocritical. I don't think this is a case of Jobs worship - it just seems like the sort of advice Paul Graham would have given. Good, solid advice.
I think my previous company did not get the memo about us all being on the same team. You never knew who were gona stick a knife in your back. My personal theory some people do better playing the game at a big corp, some do better trying to run their own thing. Neither is inherently superior. Different games for different personalities.
And I don't agree with you. I took all the photos with your average digital camera of the time:

http://boston.conman.org/2003/07/04/p100059.jpg
http://boston.conman.org/2003/07/04/p100049.jpg
http://boston.conman.org/2002/12/17/movement.02.jpg
http://boston.conman.org/2002/12/12/turnpike.3.jpg
http://boston.conman.org/2011/07/04
http://boston.conman.org/2003/08/13/clouds.1.jpg

It's less the equipment (although nice equipment certainly makes it easier---I found it vastly easier to take pictures of lightening with a 35mm camera than a digital one, but it's not impossible as you can see) and more what you do with what you have.

I majored in Computer Science, but I did take two semesters of photography in college (this was back in the early 90s, so no digital cameras). The first semester was all about the technical aspects of photography, the relationship between aperture, shutter speed and film speed, along with guidelines on how to compose the shots (The Rule of Thirds, etc.).

While some of the stuff I learned there is no longer applicable (such as developing film and photographs), much of it still is (aperture, shutter speed, the simulated film speed, composure). And one other thing---the first semester he had us use just about every feature of our cameras. And that's something I still do to this day---whenever I get a new digital camera, I play around with all the settings, and take notes of what settings were in play for what pictures. That way, I can concentrate on getting the shot. And yes, playing around with night shots on a digital camera allowed me to shoot fireworks.
I'm pro-immigration, but the article still feels like a bit of a sham to me by highlightling Brin, Omidyar and Yang without addressing the fact that Sergey Brin immigrated to America when he was 6, Pierre Omidyar was also 6 and Jerry Yang was 10.

How do you know then that they'll be massive job creators? Certainly each of them had ambitious parents and that's something, but then so does just about everyone who actively works to immigrate to a new place for a better life... assuming we can't figure out who the next Brin will be when they are 6 or 10 (and we can't), is the author arguing we should just open up the floodgates to everyone with educated parents? Because that's a heckofalot of people.
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All these errors are reported in Webmaster Tools in the Diagnostics section. Verify your site and you'll have access to this and a wealth of more data.

Also, we do send notifications in Webmaster Tools, and you can confgure those to be delivered by email too. I'm not sure if we send messages for these kinds of serious crawl errors, so I'll need to check. If not, that's an interesting idea I can ask the team to think about.

Thanks for the feedback :)

Pierre