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God says...

of lions.

11:34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword,
out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to
flight the armies of the aliens.

11:35 Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were
tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better
resurrection: 11:36 And others had trial of cruel mockings and
scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: 11:37 They were
stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the
sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being
destitute, afflicted, tormented; 11:38 (Of whom the world was not
worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and
caves of the earth.

-----

God is just.

God says...

myself also.

18:3 But the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee
away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they
care for us: but now thou art worth ten thousand of us: therefore now
it is better that thou succour us out of the city.

18:4 And the king said unto them, What seemeth you best I will do. And
the king stood by the gate side, and all the people came out by
hundreds and by thousands.

18:5 And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal
gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. And all the
people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning
Absalom.
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Setting the issue of worker treatment aside for a sec, what IBM and it's many clients are doing is a wide-known shady practice that's been around for a long time - hourly rate dilution. Dilution as in mixing different elements (hourly rates in this case) to lower the concentration of something. Customer love it, IBM loves it (when they can pay close to nothing for their H1B workers - and they do) and american workers rarely actually find out. Frighteningly close to a perfect white-collar crime. EVERYONE in consulting does this, small and big. There's no "American IT Workers Union" so this is not going away anytime soon.
Is there a law for residents/citizens that requires employers to have insurance plans that cover all expenses? Emergency treatments are not exactly free or paid for by tax payers. If a H1-B loses his job or doesn't pay for med insurance and goes to healthcare institution (are there any publicly funded ones here?) - they will treat him/her but slap a collection for the full costs. As far as I know that is a potential loss for the healthcare provider not the general public as they did not fund the private organization.
Here is my modest proposal for how to handle the H1B issue.

In order to hire an H1B worker, you have to post a significant bond. The worker arrives and has a fixed number of years in the USA. Once the worker arrives, the worker has absolutely no legal obligation to the hiring company.

In other words rather than ask companies to swear up and down that they can't find American workers, while they have every incentive to lie, make the company prove with its actions that there are no Americans available. And rather than believe the company when it says that they are paying the market rate, let it prove it by paying the worker enough that the worker does not immediately jump ship to a competitor who will pay the prevailing market rate.

Of course nobody wants to see a system like that, because the current system is all about getting companies cheap labor while hypocritically pretending that this isn't what the system is about.
Wow, $20,000 for something you can arguably teach yourself. Hungry Academy must have been a huge success.
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Also, doesn't have a GPS, so only WiFi location services...
It's so DRY... I absolutely love the approach. Way to take the original idea and run with it.
Can you give a brief summary of how Hungry Academy turned out (not necessarily placement statistics)?
I feel that article, along with many more closely tied with computer science, significantly underestimate the utility of SPSS. In addition to actually now supporting integration with R and Python, their feature-set over the last several years has grown impressively to accomplish the majority of what one needs in a much more user-friendly way. Plus it has actual ongoing support, which is nice.

I hate SAS, and am not a fan of Stata. R is obviously awesome though, but for the really complicated stuff I go with Mplus which I swear nobody seems to know about.
I had a bike in the bay area too, and in broad daylight someone cut the lock as it was parked on Sansome. I put together a PHP script to scrape craigslist for "white" or "Giant" bicycle ads with images, but after two and a half months I stopped checking and moved on :(

If this service connects just one bike owner with their stolen bicycle then it's worth it, imo.
The issue isn't so much that they won't be selling it, the issue is that you won't be allowed to have it on your computer at all.

Since people are going to increasingly consume things on computers this provides a level of censorship power that would disgust people if it were proposed by a government.
Have you ever tried putting a GPS in your bike?

http://www.gizmag.com/spybike-gps-tracker/22999/
In ruby, this is true:  eval %) :~ == :~)
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The major problem with trying to locate a stolen bike is that it's quite likely not being listed as a "1995 Schwinn YZ123", it's listed as "MANS BIKE L@@K".
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Same basic principle, it's a Promise library, but this one is by wycats.
When I used Matlab daily, I never used the ide. The command line and editor were good.

Matlab is awesome above all else because the design is coherent. Both the syntax and the standard libraries.

It is extremely quick to whip up anything and then turn that into a script and then into a software with functions (since functions can return many variables, and they also have zero overhead, you don't need any includes or requires, you just call them). Type conversions are practically never a problem, since they are sane and automatic. None of this 1+1.5 giving syntax error. Real booleans. Data input and output libraries just simply work like you would expect them to. ( A=imread('/home/gravityloss/abc.png') creates a width x height x 3 matrix with all the rgb values. No requires, includes, plugins, hunting and compiling libraries.).
You don't need libraries to do a huge amount of stuff, but if you need them for something experimental, they work extremely easily.

You also rarely need stuff like loops since mass operations on data are native. If you as a newbie create a custom function for a scalar, there's good chance it will work for vectors or n-matrices automatically. This reduces the amount of error-prone housekeeping code for indices and lengths immensely. It's also much much faster than some looping in another scripting language.
As a result, the code is often very readable as well.

There's help which actually returns something sensible when you type help, you can type help help or help command or search this or that, the help texts are actually very thoughtful and helpful too and not at all like Linux man pages... I could go on for hours on features that don't really exist anywhere else, even though everything's been in plain sight for decades in Matlab.

Julia's an awesome thing though, I hope it gets more traction...
It's disingenuous to say that they're offering to pay to do the training. They're offering to pay for marketing incentives to get people to do STEM.

"Microsoft is not simply trying to solve the immediate worker shortage. The software company proposes boosting the H-1B visa fee to $10,000 to raise money for a STEM-version of the Race to the Top federal grant program spurring education reform in schools."

$10,000 pays for about one year of K-12 education in the cheapest states, and about 6-7 months in a state like NY.
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In montreal yes but probably not in the smaller town. Hope you will enjoy your trip.
I really doubt pg likes the fact that HN is so painful to use on mobile, and this is just one example. I understand that he doesn't have time to work on the site himself, but he should at least consider appointing some "community committee" consisting of trusted users who are willing to help. Sometimes letting go is best.
How is this different from the async library? Are they both trying to solve the same problem or are they complementary? https://github.com/caolan/async
Thank you for the kind words Bryan!
tl;dr Somebody discovered the power of mixins

I don't see how SASS is doing something unique here that other preprocessors can't do as well.
Try doing that for trek and you end up with 67000 results. I don't think that would work.
Well, as the Zuroa rep mentions, it's an enterprise level product so they have a very wide range of plans. To be fair to them, it's likely best to just give them a call.

To give you a sense of scale, however. For a small company, with decent revenue, it costs a substantial chunk of a dev's salary.
I'd be curious to know if jQuery Deferred object passes the same promise test that RSVP.js mentions. (Not quite curious enough to run the test myself though, work is a bit to crazy today. Wait, what am I still doing on HN!)
Well it can be wise (if a little gloomy) to think about the worst case scenario. I remember people having the same worries about OS X anyway.

At least with Linux you have multiple distributions and the source code available so if you don't like a particular decision it can just be forked.

The article is talking more about 20 years down the line.
Good name, GetMaid, but I think I read it wrong at first...
textPlus raises $18M as daily usage grows 350% since April
Neat! Back when I was riding, those didn't exist. I would probably get one now though, so thanks for sharing.
Had to chime in on this. MSFT has had a lot of experience but not at the quality level of Apple. Look at the $1B XBOX charges. Something like 1/3 of all xboxes got a red ring of death (I know people who went through 3-4). More like Wal-Mart to K-mart :).
Seems interesting. I would use this for around around half of my conference calls - especially the ones that don't involve any screen sharing.
Avoiding PostgreSQL database corruption
Is it time for Hacker News sub-categories?

ie /h/something
So... basically, author uses a compiles-to-css to DRY up his code.
About 1: Either the money comes back to the US eventually, or if it doesn't, the Fed can just run slightly looser monetary policy.

About 2: The solution is of course, to set up a second firm to compete with the first one. The wages saved should thus eventually go away from being excess profit to making prices cheaper for the consumer.
Again isnt this what SASS is for?
Wow, I hadn't expected so much anti-immigration sentiment on HN.

All those people worrying about foreigners taking their jobs and decreasing their wages..
Love the way that works. The only problem with it is that a another, non-related, CSS class still needs to be used. If the element doesn't call for another class you could select the elements directly, but that kinda defeats the point of OOCSS.
They are, and continue to. However everyone needs to be able to talk and work together. It's like hiring a programmer to write genome sequencing software. They need to know some biology! In this case the stats people need to know some CS, the CS people some stats, and they both need to know some business.
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Kaspersky Lab to create new OS 'to save the world'
Yes, because nothing says "Microsoft isn't harming the platform and developers" like "we'll always be able to distribute software that users can run in their VMs".
Placeholder classes are new in SASS 3.2, so the blog post is explaining how to do them and what problem they solve.

It's not unique, but it has been an awfully long time coming. See: https://github.com/nex3/sass/pull/236
Is there really a problem to solve here?

I have cleaners from a notable SF-based cleaning firm come every two weeks. Sure, I have to call them up if I want to reschedule or whatever but it's really no big deal.

Interacting with a human being who knows me by name isn't necessarily a bad thing, esp for something so personal like cleaning my home.

Thinking about cleaning, the issues I care more about are thing like are they using quality products like Method, are they bringing their own equipment, do they do do stuff like change my bed, is it the same person who comes every time who therefore gets to know my place and what I like.

Whether I can book an appointment on my iPhone isn't high on the list. Unlike something like Uber, I don't see how the addition of high-tech is really helping here.
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No, the idea was that the Empire was using clones for their pilots so they didn't give a crap whether they lived or died. Therefore they received the cheapest equipment possible. That way they could often win by sheer numbers. Only important people got nice equipment that would keep them alive.

On the other hand the rebels considered every pilot they had as rather important since they had so few. That, plus the fact they had so few in the first place, warranted more expensive yet more robust equipment.

So, as the rebellion continued, the rebels were winning more often than losing and were swaying more and more to their side. Which made it easier to obtain the same equipment. The Empire had to respond in kind because pilots started becoming important, especially the pilots that had learned how to win against superior equipment. Kind of sucks to lose your best pilots because you were too cheap to get them cheap shields. This led to the development of later TIE fighters that had shields and other "rebel" equipment. You didn't really see things like the TIE Interceptor's until Return of the Jedi time, which by then the rebels had the A-Wing to counter that as well.

This is the reason that TIE Fighter is one of the greatest games ever made. You don't know how much it sucks to face a highly trained opponent with superior equipment until you fly the TIE fighter into combat. It's like being the pilot of a flying trash can with two lasers attached to it. Also keep in mind that a common tactic of an X-Wing or Y-Wing pilot was to fully charge forward shields and just ram the poor guy in the TIE fighter. No need to debate who survived.
SQLite is used everywhere. Embedded devices, all sorts of different architectures, etc.

C# and LuaJIT are not options. I don't really understand what your point is, because they implemented their own VM instead.
Really awesome, not sure how Racklove will prevent thives from selling stolen bikes...
Maybe if it will be integrated more with FB, it will be less likely that thieves will use their real fb profile.
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They did. It was called dosshell; it sucked (for various reasons).

Arguably things like screen in a terminal can be interpreted the same way. It's still a very awkward way of multitasking.
It's a solution. Until it has been evaluated, can't say if it's the best solution. It certainly is a way to consider however - like you, I'm not against any solution.

But the radioactive example is a fun one- wasn't there a plan to reduce the risk of radioactive materials by including them in construction materials, so that the emitted radiation would be lower? Some believed that it was safer than concentrating/burying them.
They are both trying to solve the problem of handling asynchronous operations in an easier way than nested callbacks.

Promises are a different abstraction of async operations. I am still trying to wrap my head around them fully, but one of the advantages seems to be writing code that looks a little more sequential.
The @extend directive, especially with placeholders, is very powerful and allows you to not repeat yourself in compiled CSS as well.
>Tell that to the thousands of people who got sued several years ago, or the Pirate Bay guys who are either in prison or facing prison sentences.

compared to the 10s, 100s of millions who still share, download and copy copyrighted media everyday?
SASS pre-3.2 didn't have the idea of classes that exist at compile time just to be extended. Without the placeholder directive you'd have unused classes polluting your CSS, which goes against the DRY ideals of OOCSS.

It's a complete no-brainer, and I was a little surprised to see SASS didn't have it last year when I was looking into it. Better late than never though!
Thank you for this completely level-headed and unbiased comparison of the two products. You clearly outline all the relevant aspects of each product instead of just cherry picking to make one product look better. I know I can trust your comparison because you state only the facts and are careful to not play favorites.
What dataframe operations do you find to be slow? Usually I'm able to get huge performance wins by rewriting my slow R code in a loop free way (*apply and friends).
800 carrots for 100,000+, thus a red herring.

I believe desperation for innovation is the key factor though.
The "old" tablet technology is ... the iPad. Well, "already established in the enterprise" is a better description, but I think that's what you meant.
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We named our daughter Ada after her, hoping that this would serve as a reminder of what you can achieve through curiosity and passion.

Apparently in due observance of the ALD, she just sleepwalked for the first time.
By these standards, practically no historical figure counts as having "found [their] life's work". Maybe Gandhi. Certainly not, say, van Gogh.
I was thinking of self-organized citizens, in the way some self-governed open access projects on the net have established hierarchies (i.e. wikipedia). Everyone can be a candidate, people can judge their contributions almost directly, and thus be more informed voters. Politics in much of the west depends too much on who you know, and who pays you to pay old media pundits to promote you. The tech sector has barely touched the way politics is conducted (i believe mainly because geeks detest the way politics is run and opt to escape to libertarianism).'

I don't really think it's a big deal if online-voting servers go down. It's not like you have to pay billions to re-run the elections.
The allocation of property taxes amongst renters and landlords isn't a simple calculation. It depends on the dynamics of the market.
I can't get hyped about this game. It will become the always only failure that Diablo III became.
I can't tell if you're trolling or not....

> Either the money comes back to the US eventually, or if it doesn't

That may be the most superfluous statement I've ever read.

> The solution is of course, to set up a second firm to compete with the first one. The wages saved should thus eventually go away from being excess profit to making prices cheaper for the consumer.

And it will put every local person out of a job, or force them to work for a wage lower than they were willing to accept in the first place, thus driving down minimum wage. That's a great way to turn your country into a developing one.
The website says it is "not released yet" but the concept seems quite straightforward. It uses PhantomJS to render the complete page and return it to GoogleBot.

The only issue I could see with this are slow response times because Google penalizes sites for being "slow." But definitely something to keep an eye on and/or contribute to.
The front page and about page are incomprehensible. I have no idea what it's attempting to say about how to play this game.
It seems to me that the H1-B was more a response to young Americans not entering various fields than the other way around. In machining, for example, companies all over the country from automotive to aerospace to medical to mom and pop machine shops are having trouble finding skilled workers. As many as 50-70% of respondents in major industry surveys are saying that a skilled worker shortage is a major problem for growth and expansion. [1]

A shortage of talent isn't just a problem in the software industry, it's becoming endemic to engineering. For example, there are a few dozen electrical engineering consultants that do most of the hardware work for many of SV's startups (including ones such as SpaceX) and I've heard stats (that I don't have official data for on hand) like Mexico City universities are graduating more mechE's than the entirety of the US and anecdotally, it's becoming very difficult to find talented hardware engineer in any industry (most of the non-software startups I know of are 25-50% immigrants).

The H1-B Visas are critical for experienced and knowledgeable workers and if you artificially limit the supply (which is already the case), you have cases such as foreigners coming to the US, getting their BS/MS/PhD, just to be kicked out of the country a month later. Meanwhile, employers can't get the skilled workers that they need. IBM's abuse of the H1-B is kind of irrelevant, as they're not even in the top 10 of H1-B employers [2]

[1] http://www.themanufacturinginstitute.org/Research/Skills-Gap...

[2] http://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/pdf/prevailing_wage_d...
Some problem playing the video, in both Chrome and IE10.
What's the relevance of such a law? The point isn't whether H1-B's contribute more or less than residents/citizens. The point is that letting something in the country creates a set of reciprocal obligations. The people in a community are entitled to exercise control over incurring these obligations.
"tech professionals" usually bundles software engineers, system administrators, network administrators, and sometimes "business analysts" whose job it is to produce a report in Access.

Some of these sectors experienced severe declines, e.g., companies hosting their email with Google instead of advertising for an MCSE and Exchange administrator position, so the pay for some of the sectors adjusted accordingly.
And to extend the argument (as in the article), if those same people can't actually sell their inventions because of interlocking patents held by competitors then the patents they do hold aren't much use.

The idea of a patent is heavily predicated on one novel advance in an otherwise freely implementable design. But in software that is (or threatens to become) a myth rather than a reality.
Whatever the legal framework, if you don't tell anyone an idea, then you can keep it. If you tell people, then you have to negotiate if you don't want them to run off and do it too. If your idea needs lots of capital and labour to get it off the ground, then you always have to negotiate anyway, just to do it in the first place.

For me the question isn't, 'how do we protect the intellectual property of the people who do research', because the term intellectual property is a legal one that varies massively in time and geography. I would probably be more inclined to ask the question 'how do we make sure that the people who do research get paid really well and are really well resourced', and work from there.