skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Immigration of high-skilled labor increases the average skill level of the workforce, and thus, its productivity. If I immigrate and keep you from getting a top-tier job, you'll get a middle-tier job instead, benefiting your new employer. Worker productivity is the foundation of economic growth.
I dunno about everybody else, but I'm pretty impressed. It guessed some obvious ones- but I also had an album of photos of a car at a dealership. All you could see was the car and the service bay, but it knew what dealership it was.
Anyone else find it amusing he is complaining about Facebook knowing the location of a photo by posting it to a more public place and confirming the location?
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Probably autopilots will be sold and marketed as glorified cruise control. To be used only with a driver behind the wheel. And then they will gradually get accepted to the scale that it will be silly not to have a full permit for autonomous vehicles.
Polling and pushing with the Times Newswire API to create nytimestream
iframe causes a BSoD on win 7 x64 via Safari
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My biggest beef with AMOLED displays is that they require more power. True, at all black they consume less, but in normal use it's more compared to LCDs. I just got a Nokia Lumia 800 and I'm down to one day of battery instead of two with the iPhone 4. The same issue was present with my previous Nexus One. Displaymate did a test to quantify this: http://displaymate.com/Smartphone_ShootOut_1.htm

Also when displaying text you are more likely to notice the pentile pattern which makes the text unclear at small sizes. Granted, it may not be a problem at 316 ppi of the Nexus, but it's noticeable at 252 ppi of the Lumia 800
I use Orchestra and as far as I know they don't use keyboard shortcuts. Wish they did.

Nice work on this! I'd consider switching to it if it had a corresponding iOS app to sync with.
Oh so you are turning this into a charity case. The primary goal shifted to "help the Indian worker" not to "help the American economy".

Ok, let's roll with that. If that is the case here is a proposal: pay each skilled worker turned away and replaced by an American worker a stipend to help them rise above poverty in their country (say $2k/year?) then go and hire an American worker and pay them base salary-stipend.
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You should be using APC. It has all the shared memory functions you need and a lot more momentum than eA ever had. Facebook was even hacking on it for a while before HipHop was developed. It's a much better product overall.
To be honest, if it were up to me I'd take only people who didn't have a programming background.

If you look at our community, so many great people don't have the traditional background. Chad was a professional saxophone player. Others studied philosophy, education, economics, or didn't study at all.

We're trying to solve the single biggest problem in our industry: talent shortage.If we accept only programmers, then we're not growing the pool. People with a CS background will get jobs as developers somewhere, I want to find the amazing people who aren't yet a part of this community but are hungry (zing) to join us.

Logistically, LivingSocial has a massive recruiting and HR team who can help out with the screening. Add in a team of a hundred engineers who are eager to find their next awesome colleague, and we have plenty of labor.
Thanks for the feedback. I've been hesitant to add anything more than just list items because they would add complexity both for the user and in my code. However, adding descriptions or some other organizational element seems like it could be useful. If I remember correctly, 37s allows you to add organizational headers or breaks in backpack.

As for pricing, I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet. For now I'm considering just putting up a couple ads, though honestly I hate ads. The other option I'm considering is some kind of freemium model. If I go the freemium route, I'll probably give stripe a try.
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Student assignments also rarely operate in the sheer magnitude of real world programs.

In university, I think the longest assignment I had was in the ballpark of a couple thousand lines of code and you could pretty readily keep it all your head as you solved the problem, there's not too much abstraction or delegation of responsibilities, no interfacing with 3rd parties, few library dependencies, it's all written in a single language, etc, etc. And you wrote it all from scratch by yourself or in a small team with (likely) equally inexperienced peers, so you know all the clever tricks that were employed.

On the job, I deal with company's code base that's over a million lines of code and uses a very messy database, maintained by dozens of people or varying skill levels over the last decade, wrought from an unholy amalgamation of 3 different programming languages spread over several servers and reliant on a half dozen "support utilities" to keep applying band-aids to bugs that "aren't cost effective to fix".

Writing good code the interacts with bad code is one of my hardest professional endeavors.
The externalities of adding more workers to an economy at less than full capacity are negative. The public gets to support the $80K native who just got laid off, and the extra corporate profits are shipped off to an overseas subsidiary and the CEO's annual bonus, never to be seen again.
That's sort of what I was trying to say, except maybe I have a more pessimistic estimation of how many organizations are open to being convinced. Of course you have to sell yourself, but it still matters who's able to buy. Startups may have the most flexibility in this regard.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure that's a quibble on my part because your post still gave me an adrenaline shot of motivation to GET OUT THERE and MAKE PEOPLE LOVE ME!
It is great. Please not, that Z and X are not next to each other on a QWERTZ keyboard. I'd suggest to double the shortcut of Z with Z and Y.

Next thing: The modifier keys do not work on my Apple Mac Book.
Which browsers have implemented SSE/EventSource?
Can you provide a link? I'm curious now!
If you have any questions, I'm happy to answer where I can.
you cannot hire a h1b for 40k/year, minimum prevailing wage requirement prevents you from doing so.
>So it's your desire to consign the Indian would-be immigrant to a life of poverty just to make sure your wage stays above $150k/year

The reality is that the government will make policies that favour citizens over foreigners. So yes, it may be someone's desire to cosign an Indian would-be immigrant to a life of poverty just to keep their wage stable. We're already doing that by not taking in unlimited immigrants from, say, war-torn Africa.

>But as long as you are happy with me shipping jobs to India, I guess it's all good.

Skilled immigration has nothing to do with offshoring.
I wouldn't say internship, because to me that means "some learning, some stapling / paper folding."

Our dream is that this program is "better than college." There are people out there that want to do what we do, we want them, so we need to help them build the skills to do it.
Furthermore, on a team of any size, it is virtually guaranteed that someone will change the code without changing the comment as well. Then you have a bunch of comments that are not only useless, but actively misleading.
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1. Why give $150,000/year to an immigrant who will send some of that money back to his/her home country? The "no-brainer" is to keep the money here.

2. Skilled workers in India should be able to get above-average pay. (If the situation is really that bad, the ones who are willing to travel elsewhere to get education and jobs should do much better than average.)

Taking that graph at face value, the Indian immigrants could have no jobs at all, and still live better in the US than in India. They wouldn't have to compete with skilled workers here at all.

You're looking at more skilled workers and thinking that they will add to our economy. So you're asking, "What's the absolute value of (say) and Indian worker to our economy?" But I'm thinking it's closer to a zero-sum game - more immigrants will mean less work for native workers - and I'm asking, "What's the difference in value between an Indian worker compared to a native one?"
You can't modify your code, but you can modify your php.ini?

OK.

PHP has a very nice feature where you can automatically prepend (and append, if you want) a file to all requests. Create a single file, modify your php.ini, done.

I am not telling you that eaccelerator isn't amazing. I am showing you how to get around problems you may run into if you end up using a different op-code cache.
Couldn't resist this Hitchhiker's Guide quote on the subject of eddies:

"I have detected," he said, "disturbances in the wash." …
"The wash?" said Arthur.
"The space-time wash," said Ford. …
Arthur nodded, and then cleared his throat.
"Are we talking about," he asked cautiously, "some sort of Vogon laundromat,
or what are we talking about?"
"Eddies," said Ford, "in the space-time continuum."
"Ah," nodded Arthur, "is he? Is he?"
He pushed his hands into the pocket of his dressing gown
and looked knowledgeably into the distance.
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Recommended changes yet Facebook has six months to implement the changes.

Most peoples perception of Ireland is the stereotypical, bumbling, backward nation that is so consistently portrayed in the media yet the one thing our nation tends to respond well to is technology. This isn't a restriction they are imposing, it's better transparency for their users. Lately I've become more and more disenfranchised with my home country yet moments like this give me faith that there are actually people in power who know what they are doing.
Great to hear about your continued success, especially the engagement.

One minor issue with the title. The ampersand is a ligature representing the Latin word "et". To make the title grammatically and typographically correct, you'd need to go with either "etc." or "&c.". Though the latter may be too pretentious. :-)

Hope you have an awesome 2012!
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Assuming one made it through the 5 month training in DC and was offered a job, would that job be based in DC or would it be remote-compatible?
>Wouldn't it be harder for skilled Americans to find jobs here if they're competing with immigrants?

You must have missed a paragraph or two of the article, see below. Wouldn't it be easier for skilled Americans to find jobs if there were more technology companies?

"High-skill immigrants innovate, patent, and start new firms at higher rates than natives. At least one-quarter of the new firms in technology and science fields, from software and semiconductors to biotech, are founded by immigrants. In Silicon Valley, more than half of the high-tech start-ups were founded by immigrants. High skill immigrants especially with degrees in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (aka: STEM) create more jobs and higher wages for Americans."
The economy isn't just a single lump. There's a severe shortage of competent technical talent that we're all familiar with.

If someone expects to make 80k and they haven't updated their skills since the 90s, yeah they're gonna get laid off to make room for someone who can hack it. There's still a need for that someone. Artificial scarcity isn't a good thing for the industry.
What do you think so and happened with Android?
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In reply to you and smountcastle, here is the text verbatim: If you survive the five-month program, you’ll be offered a position on LivingSocial’s elite engineering team (18-month commitment required).

I read this as, if you TAKE the position on the elite engineering team after the five-month period, the contract is for 18-months. I don't think it is necessarily tied to the 5-month learning period.
The original articles announcing that there was a ban noted that it would be easy to remove the feature well before the deadline, and turning off a feature doesn't exactly seem hard, so this isn't much of a surprise.

But the article I read also said that it was a Google Android feature that Google would also be removing from Android. I wonder which article is correct?

Since I haven't seen any of this auto-linking in my Nexus One, I'm going to guess this was an HTC feature, but if anyone knows, now I'm curious.
I agree with all you're saying.

The wording of the RFC has improved since that draft and the flexibility could be useful in some scenarios.

I ended up with an API which can be asked to deliver complete messages 'if possible' given the buffers provided by the client of the API. If it's not possible and the buffer becomes full then the API simply gives you the fragment of data and tells you if it knows how much more there is to come or not.
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Anamax didn't bring up Mexicans, and it's not his hangup. Here is video of Obama talking about how great a startup visa is, and then tying the startup visa to comprehensive immigration reform.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/obamas-...
The WebSocket protocol guarantees that all hops along the way preserve message boundaries except in the case of explicitly negotiated extensions that dictate otherwise.

Even in cases where your WebSocket implementation exposes incomplete message fragments, the boundaries of the message are still clearly and accurately preserved.
As a mortgage man and father of two, I totally agree. If you have ideas on how we can make this work for people in your position, please let me know.

I thought about it being similar to one spouse working crazy hard while the second goes to law school for the eventual payoff future. Five months is a lot easier than three years, especially thinking about the $150K you'd owe.

So it's not easy, but I think it will be possible. I really hope that some join us, because there's no one hungrier than a person working to provide for the ones they love. Families teach you so much about work/life balance, how to do things efficiently, and how to smile -- things I'm looking for in our applicants.
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I realize this is an opinion piece but it was posted on HN so I wanted people to see both sides of the story.
Very exciting. Are you going to livestream everything?
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I didn't play the video but I seriously doubt that Obama used the word "amnesty".

"Low-skill immigration and amnesty" is quite clearly talking about latino immigrants. Not accusing him of being racist or anything but that's who he's talking about.

Comprehensive immigration reform is needed in some form and a startup visa is one aspect of immigration reform. So it's really not outlandish to include it when talking about the subject. I'll spare you a websters-mirriam definition of comprehensive, immigration and reform.

Sorry, the original comment just sounded like off-topic whining to me. Lots of putting words in people's mouths, very little contribution.

EDIT: And the conservative downvote brigade has arrived. I'll just call it a day here.
I'm using Chrome and all CTRL + something shortcut don't seem to work. Running Windows 7 here.
If they don't specify the use of a stack, why is there alloca() vs malloc()?
On the other hand, online user bases are notoriously mercurial. Facebook's valuation implies an assumption that Facebook won't fall victim to the forces that have claimed every social site to come before it.

That's a pretty gutsy assumption, considering Facebook could plausibly be seriously damaged by something as simple as kids deciding they don't want to hang out at the same place their parents do.
The protocol preserves message boundaries but not fragment boundaries. You may send a message of, say, 100 bytes and get 100 x 1 byte fragments arrive, or you may send 100 x 1 byte fragments and get 100 bytes in a single frame. The main issue, for me, at the time, was that when you get that first 1 byte frame there's no way to know how big the resulting message will be.

Luckily there's a rather excellent compliance test suite, here: http://www.tavendo.de/autobahn/testsuite.html which should go a long way to help nail interop issues.
Following whatever 37signals does is what seems like cargo cult. They do so many things wrong, and yet designers like this come and say "If they are doing it that way then it must be the right way".
I don't see how DeSopa can work if ICE seizes domains. As soon as a US-based domain is seized, it will propagate to foreign DNS servers as well. So merely using DNS servers outside the US won't help.

DeSopa might help against local ISPs who engage in censoring certain domains on their nameservers, something the SOPA legislation might mandate, but it won't help if the domains are seized.

Better would be some kind of P2P DNS system proposed by Peter Sunde of Pirate Bay -- a decentralized replacement for ICANN and DNS.
All except IE and Android, as usual.

http://www.caniuse.com/#search=eventsource

However, since SSE is HTTP-compatible you can easily implement fallback for these, e.g.

https://github.com/Yaffle/EventSource
Yes, they do have registered trademarks. Do you think we should rebrand even if we both have different names (with only thw 'owl' part in common), different branding (colour, design etc) and a completely different owl mascot / logo?
I find it very hard to believe that many American employers hire foreigners, with all the paperwork that entails, unless they are persuaded that the foreigner in question is indeed better than the Americans in their pool (modulo wages, but there's a wage floor for H1B, and in any case it's a question of value).
We already have tons of refugees in the USA. In New Hampshire for example (a very libertarian state, with not much sympathy for socialist programs), we have a large contingent of Somali refugees. They are not skilled workers. I'm not saying everything has gone smoothly, but they have been made welcome by their new neighbors. I think charity (giving something to people who don't seem to deserve it) is much more palatable here than entitlement (giving something to people who think they do deserve it).
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> immigrants [...] who stay take the place of a US citizen who could have had the job, if our education system was better and our government's policies were otherwise aligned with the welfare of its people. All routine immigration should be immediately stopped, and indefinitely kept that way

Yes, and to be consistent also ban imports. Each suitcase produced abroad takes the place of one that could have been produced in the US, if the manufacturing industry was better and governmental policies were aligned with the interests of blue collar workers.

I mean, North Korea is so successful, there's no reason to not emulate their economic policies!
Possibly. Though they'd either have to build in something to monitor the driver or accept that they're just going to tune out and read the paper/go to sleep.

Could be a potential way to bring it to market that keeps the insurers happy though. Make the driver 'promise' to pay attention and should an accident happen and the driver didn't take over then the insurer doesn't pay.
this does work as just tried it :)
btw here's my dev checklist for the site: http://checklisthub.com/lists/4ef1d6af66a6a2000100000f
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I am sick and tired of employers in the U.S. viewing people with degrees from universities in third-world countries as if they are equal to a degree from the U.S

I, on the other hand, am sick and tired of the immigration authorities questioning my degree from the UK and refusing to confirm that it is equivalent to a US degree. Hardly third-world.

But in any case, your problem is solved very easily- by firing people. At a previous job we hired a guy with a Masters from a college in New Jersey (I forget which, sadly). He was useless. We fired him. Education can get you in the door, but it can't keep you in the room.

The problem with this is that hiring immigrants is more expensive and time-consuming because of the process you have to go through. Although it sounds backwards, if it was easier to hire immigrants it would be easier to fire them when they aren't as good as they say they are.
I wish I could say more about the salary.

Let's say that I taught middle school and high school for five years, and both the training period and job afterwards pay WAY more than I ever got.
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Good thing we have professional prognosticators to give us up-to-date forecasts of such things as "the enterprise will increasingly use cloud services."
No way. It's a black metal and glass slab with a silver antenna band around the edge. From the edge-on view it looks exactly like an iPhone.
This is a silly argument.

Immigrants from the low skill tier lower the average skill level of the workforce (in the US), but they are still beneficial [1]. The time a low skill immigrant spends cleaning my bathroom is time I have to devote to my startup.

Trade benefits everyone because of the consumer surplus it creates, not due to some nebulous "raising the average" effect.

[1] For the sake of argument, I'm assuming purely market forces at work. The welfare state substantially complicates this picture. This article argues immigration overall is a net drain on the US, mainly due to redistributionist policies: http://cis.org/immigrant-welfare-use-2011
You can hire an H1B for 45k/year. I know because I was that H1B at one point. My previous employer gave me quick pay rises once I proved that I was capable, but not everyone is so lucky.
she said yes. We’re announcing to our family on Christmas, as per our family tradition.

Congratulations, Patrick.