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Every rational developer at Microsoft must be screaming in their heads, but can't say anything because god knows how many levels of management have beat the will power out of them to speak out about the horrible decision of making the start menu a full screen affair. It's funny having watched this horrible design decision keep going on for a year now. It's only going to get worse once windows 8 is released. It's been like watching a train wreck in very very slow motion.
I agree that a green cards (permanent residency) and citizenship involve significant obligations.

From a fiscal point of view H1-B's are all win for the Government. They won't take chronically sick or otherwise disadvantaged people. They don't take old people. They mostly (all?) get health insurance.

H1-B don't involve much more long term liability than tourist visa's.

Many (most?) H1B don't have kids. When I was an H1B I paid many multiples of $20K in tax and had no kids in school.

> It costs $15-20k per year to educate a child in most states.

I am wondering your source. I don't know where this money could go. Teacher student ratios are about 25 to 1 and teachers cost about $75k, so I figure it costs about 3K in basic salary plus about 1K in reasonable overheads + $6K in government waste.

Total spending is k-12 spending in the US is $526.1B (1)
Total children are 25.0 + 25.4 million (2)

So it actually costs about $10K per child.

1 - http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/year_spending_2013USbn_1...

2 - http://www.childstats.gov/americaschildren/tables/pop1.asp
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H1B workers don't get government assistance. They get deported if they stop working.

Children born in the US to H1B workers are US citizens, just as you and I are.
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It may be a ploy to get users to switch to Office 365, which does include Outlook. Since Office 365 is subscription based, it will be more profitable to Microsoft in the long run.
it may not necessarily be that we're having a hard time, but that there are technologies or practices that can make our work faster, more scalable, more readable, or in some way better than the standards.
That's not necessarily to say that there is a problem with our HTML/CSS/JS, just that certain things work better for certain projects or developers.
I still like random replacement; it's really fast and works better than you think.
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> Distributing a photoshop plugin containing GPL code is a violation of the GPL as it is worded.

That would only be true if the distributor failed to provide the source code to any interested party who asked for it. If he met that requirement, and if he included all the original copyright notices in the source along with his own, there's no violation.
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Colin for offering his four-part CS "final exam" and then offering to grade our submissions. It must have been a ton of work, and it is appreciated.
Good catch. Yes, this all reads as very fake. Link to real people who said it if it's real.

All of these names sound like made-up people.
Another UI which ignores mobile devices that have small screens?
upvoted. i am aware that i used ethics and morals interchangeably in the parent response, and as i was originally writing it, i debated whether that was appropriate (i left it because i didn't thin i'd get called out, obviously wrong).

From one of your links "According to Dictionary.com, ethics is a system of moral principles, while morals are principles of right and wrong conduct."

this is the sort of discussion that can rapidly devolve into something less interesting than the story of virool's hustle. i don't think anyone will dispute that the behavior was aggressive, questionable, possibly unprofessional.

i don't have a strong position on whether it's ethical or not, but i still dig the hustle.

i won't dwell, since i think it detracts from the real story here.
Not mentioned in the article but WVGA now supports 240fps. This is amazing on such a cheap camera.
Yeah, this is a huge problem.
The straightforward answer, and the one that seems to be implied by the contrast with Python as a "general-purpose language", is that Matlab, R, and Julia are specifically designed for data analysis, mathematics, calculation, statistics, etc., while Python is not. But that's not a very concrete answer, of course.
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Nowhere does your long post explain anything about "artificial inflation", only market pricing.
I disagree that it's FUD. Not every concern expressed about a new technology is FUD. And it seems to me that Google's history of canceling projects that get only limited traction does provide a legitimate concern.
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Or, without US prices, producers would have insufficient recenues and go bankrupt.
I dont see how a project will get more contributers when the site isn't adding something or removing something. What is it really? Seems like viewer of Github repositories.

Also, "github url" on projects page should possible be a link, not plain text.
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it is possible to disagree with an agent's behavior even if you don't believe there has been a breach of ethics
I like the T-shirt idea and really just the attitude of spur of the moment making it happen kind of marketing. Step 3 seems a bit much.

We just started marketing a start-up for the first time and this article led me to question an upcoming situation:
If I was unable to secure vendor space at a conference/expo, would it be ethical for me to wear my company t-shirt and have cards/fliers available for people who ask me about it? Would it be appropriate for me to talk to vendors about my company?
These things pop up because we understand CSS and its limitations and come up with solutions faster than the committees.
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Imagine global trade were nonexistent or price matched to US. Why do you think US prices would drop, instead of Intl prices raised?
What you describe is illegal. H1B's are required to be paid the same as American peers.
One of my bioinformatics courses "required" MATLAB because the class project was based on a simulation framework called the COBRA Toolbox which was developed in MATLAB[1]. I didn't know who to ask about obtaining a MATLAB license, so instead I just got it to work in Octave and used that. I was pleasantly surprised at how little I had to tweak before the framework just worked in Octave, given that as far as I know everyone in the lab that develops the framework just uses MATLAB.

[1] http://opencobra.sourceforge.net/openCOBRA/Welcome.html
Keep in mind that the parties used to stand for something different too. For example Strom Thurmond, a far-right-wing senator from South Carolina, was a Democrat until 1964.
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I wish he wasn't ... I'm trying to pay him for his time and he's giving it away for free to total strangers :)
I'd like to know how Rust is better/different than Vala. Not the usual feature comparisons, I can look them up myself and have done. But rather if anyone's done programming in both and can compare the experience.
Doesn't work on Chrome indeed, did work on Safari. Here's another link: http://d.pr/f/LH9U
> Lesson: Crash your competitor’s panel

A better title:

How To Land Any Major Brand For Your Startup By Being Dick
just went back and re-read your paragraph.

I am fine with "Ethics != Morals".

However your explanations seem suspect:

1. I disagree entirely with the comments "ethical/unethical pretty much always refers to a relationship" and "ethics are about relationships"

2. "Some things that are clearly immoral in one value system or another are clearly NOT unethical in any system of ethics." -- This confuses me. Can you give me an example of an act that is CLEARLY IMMORAL in one value system and also CLEARLY NOT UNETHICAL in ANY SYSTEM OF ETHICS
I do not want to say that UML is totally useless, but honestly, I did not even meet one single programmer who were using it.
UML may be useful for things other than CS.
There is no enforcement, though.
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For Start Menu, I've been getting along well with http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/ - but I use it in Windows 7 too.
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And ethics, professional tactics and being classy be damned...
If you're wondering if H-1b (and E-3) workers are paid less than American workers you can find out for yourself. The US Government publishes the employer, location, title, and salary of every H-1b application (whether accepted or declined). It's also a good source of information about how much large tech companies are paying for new hires this year.

http://www.flcdatacenter.com/ (also available from data.gov)
It's tasteless, considering they actually placed the flyers on the seats of attendees at an event of "X company". I think it may even be fair to argue they were directly sabotaging that event, in which case this wasn't only unethical but also legally questionable. Maybe as a European I'm culturally impaired in this regard but that's not what I would call "hustle", at least not in a good way.
> It becomes a "markup" language (ala markdown, etc) when the "markups" are removed and replaced by htlm codes.

No. Asterisks that aren't lexical content are markup. HTML tags are also markup, just a different markup. When you replace asterisks with HTML tags, you're translating from one markup to another.

The markup cycle ends when the markup is rendered as styled text that a human recognizes as lexical content. For example, italicized text.
Or just good ol' fashioned accountability.
Hi, I am changing my name to distant-uncle and embarking on a public campaign of cat torturing all across America. Is that acceptable?
Touchscreen only works on mobile devices for extended durations, end of story.

The only input scheme that would be an enhancement to mouse/trackpad and keyboard is something akin to Leap Motion: https://leapmotion.com/
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Isn't it easier to use the keyboard (eg: Start + 'Exce.. + Enter) to launch apps, than go to the mouse?

Most ubuntu users had a similar transition, when they moved from gnome to unity. It isn't that bad; or even at all.
Respect, karma, reputation, breaking the law - these topics can be related to this incident and discussed in an insightful and rational way.

Ethical? I remember what Linus Torvalds said: "ethics are to me something private. Whenever you use it as an argument for why somebody_else should do something, you're no longer being ethical, you're just being a sanctimonious dick-head."

( http://linuxfr.org/nodes/85904/comments/1230981 )
You use this in Windows 7? Mind if I ask why? I find the Win7 start menu super useful, just for the fact that I can pin very common apps on the first menu, and see recent items, and have the search. Very very rarely do I go into the "Programs".
That's exactly how I felt about Diablo. After waiting for so long then waiting longer still just to connect online (NZ bandwidth isn't exactly the best), I got far too frustrated to continue playing.
A rabbi visiting my house had an easier solution:

Every time he left his bike, he removed the seat and carried it with him. Annoying to steal a bike without a seat! Cost goes up!
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Maybe you would be interested in watching a discussion between the leaders of these two projects. I think Dart shouldn't be dismissed as a "ridiculous" ambition. I would also like to point out that Dart compiles to JavaScript the same way as TypeScript, so your remark regarding replacing the JavaScript runtimes in all browsers is an exaggeration

http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Anders-Hejlsberg-a...
I think what he is saying is that the Drake Equation does not get us anywhere useful. A theory that has such a wide range of outcomes does not eliminate much - and most science is eliminting options not demonstrating a truth.

In fact the less-than-helpful results are a useful reminder of Karl Poppers maxims
You overshot. Read the version in the US Constitution.
Keeping the CD in the drive to play seemed acceptable to me. Product keys in a user manual weren't so bad. I always made sure I had my original packaging. I could compare it to registering an account and having a persistent internet connection and some may see the latter as a better option but I don't. I frequently timeout here in NZ and I need to be within a wifi area, a secured wifi area, just to play.
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Maybe I missed it but may I suggest one extra filter to be applied - once a civilisation reaches a level of technological sophistication, it finds the base code for the matrix, works out how to dial out and leaves, going up to the pan-galactic teenagers bedroom we are running in.

Thus the answer to Drake and the filter question is no one is around because there is an exit to a more interesting universe.
The original point you were making though is undermined here - as he points out, the community is getting more out of H1-Bs/potential immigrants than it is necessarily giving back.

That goes against the narrative your are backing - i.e. societies subsidize care and education of all - including immigrants, and hence should have natural rights in controlling membership.

The way it is currently set up, there are several bars and challenges in being naturalized, and you really have to work at it if you want it.
Are you sure you aren't misrepresenting the issue? I never had distortion issues with my Hero2, and looking on google it seems the rolling shutter issues mostly pertain to engine vibrations and aircraft props (?), which I don't really expect a $200 camera to be able to capture perfectly, action-oriented or not.
> The Metro interface is cute but after a while, I am completely back to the Desktop environment. To my surprise, it is exactly like Windows 7, minus the start menu. I even wonder whether this is because I upgraded from Windows 7?

It's not because you upgraded from Windows 7; a vanilla Windows 8 installation has the same desktop too.

In particular if you use the Windows 7 Start menu with the keyboard - typing in a name to search for it - that works much the same in the Windows 8 start screen. Some useful keyboard shortcuts:

* Windows+W to go directly to the Settings

* Windows+F to go directly to Files in the new start screen

* Windows+X to get a quick popup menu of power user tools

* Windows+I to open a panel of quick settings

If you want something more like the Windows 7 Start menu, try Start8:

http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/

I've been trying it out a bit and am not sure whether I prefer it or the Metro start screen. I very much like the lack of animation in Start8 - that was the main thing I missed from Windows 7.

One other subtle thing I miss from Windows 7 is that shortcuts to apps like Notepad will start multiple instances of the app. For some unfathomable reason, the Windows 8 start screen always goes to the first instance of the app if you try to start Notepad or the like multiple times. That would be OK but I can't find any way to override it and easily start multiple instances. Start8 brings back the old behavior here.
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"You need +3 friends on Facebook for your Sim to be promoted"

I fear that.
I guess people were kinder to wepay because the hive-mind was pissed-off at ebay at the time (and still kind of is).
It seems if your company has Microsoft Office you may be eligible to buy it for just 10 bucks. I though this was fake originally but Microsoft links to it from their own site:
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For STEM workers - the only reason to argue against it, has a single kernel: There aren't enough jobs.

For that matter, getting the smartest STEM majors into your country, and working on new technologies could create new jobs and opportunities.
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You usually can get a backtrace using the right commands in WinDbg after opening the crash dump.
The Drake equation was meant to be illustrative; lowballing everything (particularly the L term, since we were in the midst of the maddest of MAD at the time) and still coming up with a non-zero value was really the point. As long as what you're plugging in isn't on the order of "the Scriptures say it can't be, therefore it's zero", you will arrive at a non-zero value, and that makes at least the attempt to find and make contact with other technological civilizations reasonable.
indeed!

a trouble here is that the original fault is in user-mode csrss. you cannot use a user-mode debugger to debug csrss, so, to debug it you must use a kernel debugger. the process is involved. it is documented by microsoft though...

another trouble is that it seems that, at least on my systems, the ability to create a full dump of memory from the faulting process has been removed in w7. all you can do now is dump kernel mode memory, which would not include the needed information...
btw I'm not smart in webdev. the page may look different to you as compared with other websites developers have created.
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I suppose I should be glad they decided to continue making a full game and not just build something akin to Sims Social on Facebook/iOS/Android.
A) The update is that it's been approved and is in the App Store now.

B) It wasn't rejected because they said there's no In-App Purchase -- it was rejected they said "or any of that nonsense."

This is pushing it as a story, really. The headline should read "Developer gets game rejected for calling IAP 'nonsense'" which shouldn't surprise anyone.

If I run a shop, you want to sell products in my shop, and you refer to one of my sales methods as 'nonsense', then I'm probably going to ask you to leave as well...
> it is important to take a primary stake in your own well-being.

How does this translate into care for a severe, long term, mental health problem where the patient is non-compliant with medication?
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I love the way you described this. The people disagreeing with you seem to have a completely different values system though.

They don't see themselves as part of a group with mutual responsibilities. "Atlas shrugged" off your inclination to see a community, where these people think everyone should be able to do whatever they want (and vice versa, to them???).
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This was submitted 11 hours ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4661364), but only got 9 upvotes so was probably missed by many people. I sincerely believe this is strong Hacker News material that wasn't successful due to an unfortunate submission time, so it's worth resubmitting. This news deserves quality HN discussion.
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States like CA, TX, and NY still have their say, AND states like OH, VA, and FL. It only takes 11 states to win the electoral college (CA, TX, NY, FL, IL, PA, OH, MI, GA, NJ, NC), but those never agree, and likely won't, that's when other states come into play.

With a popular vote, instead of candidates trying to vie for states by visiting regions in them, would hit a few hundred cities that they would already hit in the Electoral College process, but then stop there. It would effectively leave entire states out of the campaign process. That will only be magnified as we switch to the Internet for our media, so I think it's still worthwhile to get candidates out there hustling for votes, in front of hundreds of local media outlets while they exist. I genuinely think it helps vet them, as it gives the more opportunities to say things, including "the wrong things", and things that will change peoples mind's.

I fear when we start cutting back on physical appearances, we'll get to the point where the Internet is all that's left. Then they'll control the message completely. Imagine candidates who not only don't answer question, but seemingly don't get asked them. At least we currently have people who throw metaphorical wrenches at the seemingly monolithic candidates, hoping to snag them.
I hate everything about the approval process, but this one isn't that big a deal. No retailer wants products on the shelf with snark written on the packaging.
I love Windows 8 and think its the best one yet because of the design and detail. If you can't recognize the good changes made to the regular desktop it's probably because you have already made up your mind to not like Windows 8. Hyper-V mode is also another reason why I am upgrading to a new laptop in a month.
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It is totally possible. It is just very very difficult and almost never done 100%
> Musk declined to say what 'MCT' stands for, and declined to answer further questions on the project.

There's some speculation [1] that MCT stands for Mars Crew Transporter (or Mars Cargo Transporter).

(The comments on [1] are very interesting, speculating on Musk's aims for a rocket that currently doesn't have that much value to private industry)

[1] http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/10/spacex-developing-larger-en...
I have seen class and sequence diagrams used on a few occasions. The others, never. My teams at Microsoft years ago were getting into statecharts (state machines made clearer with a few extra features, e.g., events which happen on any transition between groups of states) but not the UML notation for them that has apparently popped up. I have the impression these are more common in consulting shops which charge by the hour for reams of waterfall design docs which only roughly describe the actual software written as an afterthought. Even though the way we typically improvise software design is blatantly stupid, this stuff doesn't seem to be the solution.
I can at least speak about law - this link showed up on HN a few days ago - Suicide prices and the coming crisis at big law firms. http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/10/suicide-prices-the-comi...

Law firms have been in crisis for at least several years from what I know. I even remember having to go through a prospectus for a legal services outsourcing firm at work a while back.

Finance - I know for a fact that post 2008 a large number of firms went bust, and the recession was brutal - lots of people returned to their home countries after finding no work.

And it was the financial sector that added to the STEM shortage by hoovering up those students. Science and Math types that can demonstrate good math and organizational ability are the ideal rank and file for Financial modeling and its related task set.

On top of that there is no shortage of natural finance types either.

S0 those two sections of the economy are almost overstaffed, and one of those sections is dying.

With regards to plumbing - thats a guild oriented job and aside from the usual complaints about collusion and what not, its also expensive because its likely not that attractive.

I think of all the reasons, STEM poaching by other industries was probably one of the larger issues which should be reduced now.

Still, your system is strongly aimed at attracting and retaining the best talent in the world.

The issues people are complaining about are because they feel job searches have become a zero sum game - the presence of a competitor reduces the size of the pie for everyone.

The solution is to make more pies, but that is beyond my ability to detail out.
Agree. Particularly since you are normally supposed to pay for a seat drop, it seems dishonest to me.