skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The counterpoint to that would be that many brands would prefer to not use discounting as an advertisement strategy.

I can see how mobile offers at Facebook can be beneficial, but it's not totally clear how that gets extended out to advertisements without discounting.
Which in turn would leave 13 votes absent. Although it's unlikely they'd all vote in favor.
If I want a prime rib-eye steak for $5 and can find it, is there a beef shortage?
I don't necessarily disagree, but I don't see why that shouldn't be just as true for people on the other side of the issue. As in, "We have a shortage, let's get some cheap Indians in here."
The stock response such arguments is: "there is no shortage of programmers, just a shortage of programmers at a given salary". Yeah right!

"There is no poverty. just shortage of people with money"

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I've said it before, I'll say it again. Every coding job I've ever been in has ben "Always hiring". We just can't find enough people worth hiring.

We have been small groups, not pursuing H1-B visas or anything and it's possible H1B's are being given grunt work... However, the graph in this article, and really the central tenent that "we have so many tech workers not being hired, hire them first" is complete malarkey. I've gone to Undergrad and grad school. I've TA'd... The fact that even two thirds of those students find jobs (As the article claims) astounds me. Thats a higher number than I'd imagine. In two years TAing at a large research university I think I saw maybe 4 students I'd hire go through the program.
Would be interested in a consolidated list names of those who voted in favor and against this bill.
I think it's important to keep in mind that the 12 vote margin is comfortable for Amash and supporters of new NSA restrictions and uncomfortable for its defenders.

Here's why: opponents of Amash wielded an argument that "split the vote". Representatives who voted against Amash could have done so for one of two reasons:

(1) They actively support providing the NSA with unchecked access to cell phone metadata under the "business records" provision of PATRIOT, or

(2) They don't support that access, but can't support a broad amendment that potentially de-funds whole NSA programs, and instead need something finer grained to correct NSA with.

Meanwhile, everyone who supported Amash believes strongly --- so strongly that they're willing to do something disruptive to NSA --- that new checks on NSA are needed.

I think this was a pretty hopeful vote.
Hooray for annoying stupid fuckign ads all over Facebook.
Hi. The site just launched. So far it seems our members seem to like Zimmerman. It's out of our hands as to who people want to rep, as that should be up to the community.
I'm knowingly paying an organization to openly wage cyber warfare and espionage operations on me?

Splendid. At least we may get a few good HPC and IR publications out of it.

Actually, it will probably be outsourced to contractors who will squander it away without producing anything.

Unless, that is, the next 9/11 gets planned using twitter hashtags. Actually, since the Sandy Hook shooter openly talked about his plans on 4chan, I'm guessing that even a twitter campaign would still "pass under the radar".

I bet the only real consequence is that someone will lose a laptop with like, everybody's social security number and financial history on it. It's going to be so awesome.
If you think Web apps work everywhere, you've obviously never written one. The feature gap and performance gap between browsers is still massive. My company has shifted its focus from web apps to mobile apps. Because of the failings of HTML5, we can deliver a better experience with native apps.
It was 201-217 when the chair called it as there weren't enough uncommitted votes to make up the difference.
tptacek is fairly well-known as a government sycophant and a "nothing to see here" type. His position is not at all surprising.
Having worked in that industry for 15 years... You might want to study math after all. It's going to be part of the job interview.
So if you tell Infosys that they can't have Indian H1-B cobol programmers in the US, don't you think they'll just hire them in India at even lower wages? So we lose a job, we lose the taxes they would have paid, we lose the spending in the community, and we lose good people in the country.
Yeah, but hirers always complain about having to pay for talent. Doesn't matter what industry.
Nice to see they're working on rendering-performance. I bought the prev Nexus 7 but returned it some days later. The jittery scrolling and constant microlag drove me crazy.
I wouldn't take Bachmann very seriously; she also doesn't seem to believe that NSA has phone books.
But the number of new jobs at Microsoft/Twitter/Amazon pale in comparison to the number of new jobs in the domestic industry as a whole.

In fact, the vast majority of foreign worker visas aren't snatched up by the tech goliaths. They're snapped up by low-tier consulting companies. [1]

Google may be forced to look abroad to find rock star programmers, but the overwhelming majority of foreign workers brought in to the country are not rock star programmers. They're rather low paid consultants.

1: http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/04/03/176134...
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I would be interested in knowing where I can find this sort of information in general.
Joking with friends last night: "Facebook Liked your status."

I've held the opinion that FB is poised for major user erosion, as a consequence I took a short position in the stock some months ago. However, since they've entered a phase where they're aggressively monetizing, I'm probably going to get out on the next pullback. I still think the conditions are right, but there's also no catalyst event on the horizon.
Copied from the other thread, because it bears repeating:

I think it's important to keep in mind that the 12 vote margin is comfortable for Amash and supporters of new NSA restrictions and uncomfortable for its defenders.

Here's why: opponents of Amash wielded an argument that "split the vote". Representatives who voted against Amash could have done so for one of two reasons:

(1) They actively support providing the NSA with unchecked access to cell phone metadata under the "business records" provision of PATRIOT, or

(2) They don't support that access, but can't support a broad amendment that potentially de-funds whole NSA programs, and instead need something finer grained to correct NSA with.

Meanwhile, everyone who supported Amash believes strongly --- so strongly that they're willing to do something disruptive to NSA --- that new checks on NSA are needed.

(I think Amash was a good amendment, if only because it would force the House to do its actual job and carefully regulate intelligence collection; if it caused a temporary shitstorm, so much the better --- it'd be a well-deserved comeuppance for a legislature that has been derelict in its duty to oversee these programs. But you should be aware that opponents of Amash had a persuasive-sounding argument for voting it down even if you believed new regulations were needed.)

I think this was a pretty hopeful vote.
> $12 device
Not exactly. With shipping plus taxes , total came to ~ $41. So 41 - 3 x 7.99 = $17 device
I call bullshit. I was a H1B worker, and "indentured servitude" has no basis in reality. The job market is amazing. If I need a new job, I can literally walk into one in 5 days (eg. the time I did exactly that).

That said, points 1 and 2 are definitely worthwhile. But you're devaluing your points when you compare a high paying job with some annoying visa clauses, with indentured servitude. Indentured servitude is really serious: it's like when people talk about "raping" the environment. Don't make the comparison, it serves no-one.
There is a lot of bad financial reporting out there, but this isn't it. They aren't "comparing the per-share number to the total revenue." They are comparing the current quarter's EPS to the EPS for the same quarter a year ago and to the consensus expected EPS. The difference between the expected EPS and the actual EPS accounts for the jump in share price. EPS is just a way of normalizing earnings on a per share basis, kind of like how we quote the price per share (about $31 right now) rather than the total market cap.
Is there actually a legitimate performance or scalability need to incorporate a NoSQL database in this case?

Ever since NoSQL databases started receiving a lot of hype a few years back, I've witnessed a number of teams use them without any real justification. They'll build unnecessarily complex systems using one or more NoSQL database systems, all while a relational database would be more than sufficient for their needs.

In several of these cases, some of the developers have been quite adamant that these NoSQL databases are essential. Then we rip them out, usually because they've been causing problems like described in this case. It quickly becomes obvious that they were never needed in the first place, and won't be needed even in the face of significantly increased load.
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I can barely get AirPlay to stream music reliably ten feet away for half an hour

I don't think that is the typical experience.
certainly if politicians felt it was feasible to allow terrorist attacks to occur without mass hysteria resulting, they'd be doing that? Perhaps if all the media in the country were state run, and the government simply suppressed reporting of incidents like that in Boston, they'd be able to contain the hysteria. But as it stands, we have a free press, and on 9/11 as well as in Boston, the government did absolutely nothing in the immediate sense to cause the resulting hysteria; the 24/7 media did that all by themselves. The government's overreaction to all of it was only after the populace collectively freaked out (which you can argue, they could have downplayed, but again the government is extremely politically reactive - which is likely better than them not giving a shit about political opinion); this because they were informed by the media, which itself is an institution resulting from what the populace wants, as the media is a for-profit, market driven entity.
Good stuff! Well, it seems to be working.
Apps which want to support this would add a 'stream to chromecast' button which would use the Chromecast android/iOS API. (https://developers.google.com/cast/)

It seems to not be possible to stream the web browser from a mobile for now - all the mobile apps in the demo (netflix, google video, youtube) triggered a video download straight to the dongle from the internet, with the mobile effectively being used just as a remote. That's the primary use case. The 'stream a web page a browserdirectly from your computer' bit is still in beta and, AFAICS, currently only works with chrome on Windows/MacOS/chromeOS.

But it's possible it'll be added in future to chrome for iOS/android, and if it is: yes, you'll need to use chrome, the chances of Apple supporting chromecast in safari are... slim.
Definitely no polling! Model changes are done explicitly with ractive.set() (or ractive.animate(), or array mutator methods). It uses a dependency tracking mechanism to update the view with the fewest calculations and DOM touches necessary.
The fact is that, as a computer programmer I don't even have to look for a job currently. I am surrounded by job opportunities and freelance contracts. Very high paying ones at that. So if there is indeed not a shortage, then I am missing something. But life is good currently for developers.

More importantly, the answer to the shortage in the long term should not be to try to get more of the same. Our real goal as computer scientists should be in making our own jobs more efficient. We need to empower more users to have control to manipulate the machine they are using instead of entrenching us deeper into this never ending hole of proprietary software that continually re-invents the wheel and never works precisely how the user would like.

More concretely, we need to automate programming by making it more accessible to everyone and eliminate our own jobs.
Hi, I am the author of the app. Thanks for your comment.

There's a limit on how often you can rep a single person (once every 24 hours), and if you are to spam different people with rep, your rep is likely to be deleted by the person's profile, which will take your score back down two points. Since a person's profile is public, they likely don't want their profile filled with spam rep or to like their reps are fake. We are hoping members will play their role in moderating in their own profiles.
Before you go down that road.. why don't you do a couple of jobs together as a trial?
So, Amazon actually said when Chromecast might ship by? When I was about to order it, it didn't give any indication of when it might arrive, it just said "we'll email you when we get an idea."

The Google play store guaranteed shipment by August 7, though, so if Amazon really expects it to arrive by late August, I'll just go with the play store.
Table 2 in the Brookings paper says the opposite.

" In recent years, from 2009 to 2011, nominal wage growth for U.S.-born workers with at least a bachelor’s degree has been high for the most prominent H-1B occupations. The average native-born worker experienced flat annual growth in wages over that period (0.0 percent), but wage growth for those in computer occupations—the largest H-1B category—grew by 1.3 percent each year since 2009 and 2.7 percent each year since 2000 for those with a bachelor’s degree. Wage growth was even higher for engineers, with 2.1 percent growth since 2009 and 3 percent growth since 2000."
Thanks for your comment. I am the author of the app. We are always checking for abuse, and if someone abuses the system, it will be dealt with.
this graph is great

http://movebits.net/2013/07/23/ubuntu-edge-funding-level/

you can really see how the new "deals" really helped it take off again.
The real problem is college degrees, especially ones from foreign countries where cheating is not only commonplace but actively encouraged, provide little to zero value in a tech sector that actually expects people to be useful. The education system needs a dramatic revamping (in innumerable ways) if it wants to churn out workers capable of these jobs. Trying to compare # of jobs to # of useless degrees is, unsurprisingly, a useless exercise.

This is why there's such a staggeringly large number of tech-all-stars whose education & experience comes from non-traditional places.
Um, its worth nothing that ActionBarCompat is not an addition to 4.3. Its an addition to the support library. If you include the support library in your project and you can use features from 4.3, such as fragments, and the action bar all the way back to android 1.6. The support library is a backport of modern functionality.

This is part of googles approach to addressing fragmentation on the Android platform.
don't you think they'll just hire them in India at even lower wages?

Don't you think they already would if they could?
I'm not sure why you keep bringing up the Brookings paper [2] to support the authors' case. They clearly said this at the beginning: "Without attempting to fully resolve this complex issue, new detailed data on H-1B wages by occupation, presented more fully here, suggests that the H-1B program helps to fill a shortage of workers in STEM occupations."
Very excited to see Peepcode tuts coming to the Pluralsight library. Pluralsight is broadening their coverage, and it's great to see Open Source front and center!
For those with bandwidth needs outstripping Dropbox, S3 is another good option (although not as available for most people).
agreed, especially how quickly it came together and how hard the Dem establishment came down on it. I hope that this is the seed for a strongly bi-partisan group of legislators concerned about civil liberties.
I've been a Pluralsight customer for a while and find it money well spent. This is the first time I'm hearing of PeepCode and I hope that Pluralsight customers (and PeepCode customers) will benefit from this acquisition.
One downside to this: a lack of group browsing. Right now I have a PC attached to my TV- it's kind of old and I'm considering just replacing it with this ChromeCast thing. But when I have people over and we're watching a movie we browse the selection as a group- it'll be a shame not being able to do that.
Bruce Schneier's point wasn't that there's anything wrong with a representative democracy, but that this claim is massively overstating things: i.e. where a single secret court suddenly becomes the "U.S. court system" and a few legislators that were forbidden to discuss this matter with anyone (even where they saw problems, as Wyden and Udall did) suddenly become "both houses of the U.S. Congress".
Clarify acronyms please?
It's not available yet, but will be posted first at http://clerk.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.asp?year=2013&rollnumber...

SF HNers: Rep. Pelosi was against the ammendment.
To be fair, it's not my conclusion. I just suggested an alternate explanation. :)

You're right that the Brookings article suggests that my quote isn't the case. I wish we had more information on how they controlled for different effects. IIRC BLS etc don't generally control for cost-of-living, and Brookings doesn't discuss the issue except for in the conclusion:

Likewise, the bureau should also consider how demand and supply play out in regional or metropolitan area labor markets, since job search and recruitment often happen locally.

I'd be interested in seeing those results, as I would expect a greater concentration of H1B workers in large metropolitan areas (SF/SV, NYC, Boston), where wages are much higher than the flyover states (where I'd expect less racial/ethnic diversity).
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So go do it! be the change you want! You know, if you want something done right, DIY! Setup a noble, patriotic company that only hires "Americans" and pay then $250K or $1MM salaries... Go ahead!

Stop whining and enough already with the arm-chair generalship, easiest thing in the world.

Remember this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpkJZuxSayo
govtrack.us generally has this info although I don't think this particular vote is posted yet.
Ractive does have a way of including JavaScript evaluations in the template which as far as I'm aware is unique: http://learn.ractivejs.org/#!/expressions/1

The JavaScript expression is parsed into an AST, and references to parts of the data model are extracted so they can be dependency tracked and evaluated against the right context. Quite hard to explain concisely but I think it does what you're after.
I hear this persons perspective but .. I can't agree overall with the generalities he is making for all the rest of the 316+ million US people. I know at least one person who isn't like most of those "ideals" he's got listed .. that'd be me.
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Actually, many (perhaps even most) TV USB ports don't provide power (or good enough quality power) for anything beyond basic thumb drives. It's also possible for ports not to offer power unless the right handshake is made by the device. Also, some TVs have a USB port which is only for diagnostic use, and can provide unsteady/harmful power output.

However, I'm guessing this device ships with a USB cable + wall wart for everyone else.
The issue with this analogy is that the vast majority of the imported foreign workers aren't rock star programmers. They're not Real Madrid starters. They're second string junior league players. They're consultants.

Facebook/Google/Twitter/Microsoft/Amazon aren't the major users of H-1B Visas. Consulting firms are.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/04/03/176134...
For what it's worth, I read this recommendation a year or so a go and it helped a lot despite my initial skepticism. It's mostly a mindful awareness thing.
While its primary mode is indeed method-for-sending-pointers-to-media, it also has an option for streaming the contents of a Chrome tab directly to the Chromecast device [1] ala-VNC. With caveats: that feature is still in beta and requires a fast computer/connection.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-cast/boadge...
I remember listening to Ira Glass talk about how terrible he was as a storyteller when he first started, and how the only reason why he got better was because of the real basic idea of keeping at it and increasing his volume of work.
Quoth Ira Glass. I wish whoever made that had attributed it - Ira certainly deserves it.
I think it's more of a confluence of "cheap", "perceived engineering smarts" and "spoken english" for the managers.
I'm a "junior developer" (and first time poster!) who is about to graduate with a degree in CS and have a little over a year's worth of internship experience both at a medium/large (1500-2000 employees at HQ) and small/startup (~70 employees) sized company. As I apply to a number of companies I'm interested in working for it still surprises me that the majority of these listings for dev's are asking for 3+ years or 5+ years experience. Now I completely and whole-heartedly agree that if the job description mentioned something ridiculous (we need you to create custom SOAP requests using haskell) then perhaps the experience is merited. But when I actually reach out to the companies asking for 3+ years experience and ask what they're trying to accomplish in the immediate future, where they need additional developers (i.e. what team is this for), etc. I'm surprised to hear it's nothing unusual. There might be the need to occasionally do packet inspection (or something else semi-uncommon) for debugging or what have you but is this really beyond me and my peers? It might be beyond some, and while I can't speak for all the junior dev's out there, I personally am comfortable enough to do this on my own.

Now please correct me if I'm wrong but basically it comes down to this: if I were the hiring manager I wouldn't focus so much on the number of years the dev has but rather if that dev "still has it" (if they're older/more experienced). By "still has it" I mean a genuine passion for writing solid code and being humble enough to know when they're wrong and changing their behavior. If it's a younger dev maybe it's best to focus on trying to determine if they have a genuine interest in becoming a better programmer and a real thirst for knowledge/love to learn (in-line with the article). My only gripe with the latter point are how some of these companies are filtering but that's entirely their choice.
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The fine text on the linked page says "Power cord required" (emphasis mine).
what is that these people do, that they turn down even 125K,150K,200K - according to you - "low salaries"? McD? or Welfare paying higher?
I would guess it's because the context is relatively obscure whereas with Google it's not.

Yes, they can uniquely identify you by your profile more than Google can, but for many who don't 'like' everything left and right (or like everything they come across) how would you determine what ads to show them? Just because my friends like something doesn't mean I will. And that's a wasted impression.

Google on the other hand knows what you want - you're actively searching for it. It's pretty straightforward for those who want to serve ads to target what they want to target.
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Senate: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/vote_m...

House: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/index.asp