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You mean like this http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/14/forced-... :

>In June 2011, Zhang and his teenage classmates were taken out of their family homes and dispatched to a factory making electronic gadgets. The pupils were away for a six-month internship at a giant Foxconn plant in the southern city of Shenzhen, a 20-hour train ride from their home in central China. He had no say in the matter, he told researchers. "Unless we could present a medical report certified by the city hospital that we were very ill, we had to go immediately."

Or this http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/7/5078402/workers-in-apples-... :

>The report details the push to find workers to produce the iPhone 5’s 8-megapixel camera, and the means by which companies like Flextronics International, one of Apple’s largest suppliers, recruit for positions on factory assembly lines. According to Bloomberg, companies recruit across the poor cities and villages of Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, and Nepal to staff up the army of workers needed to create components. To accomplish that task, recruiters hire brokers, who charge families high fees — often a year's worth of wages, with interest — for the opportunity to work on the supply side.

>Factory workers were reportedly also obliged to surrender their passports to brokers to ensure they paid off their debts. This practice amounts to the very same kind of bonded labor that Apple has tried to combat in its recent supply-chain audits. According to Bloomberg, Flextronics has commissioned an outside group to conduct an investigation into the fees being foisted on recruits. Apple spokesperson Chris Gaither told Bloomberg that the company will ensure that "the right payments have been made."

Neither of those is the story I had in mind FWIW. I can find you more such reports from mainstream media if you like.

People get charged for a job, shipped out to a location; kept in a virtual confinement (eg passports taken, not allowed off campus), then sometimes the work disappears and they're left high-and-dry with a debt and still no job.

Yes I imagine many do make more in factories but that's not at all the whole story, not by a long shot.
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Where in the US did you live, and which places in Europe do you prefer? Both are huge, with significant regional differences.
I have similar story, probably cultivating beneficial flora is the missing part.
I'm still a student myself, but from the things I've heard and seen about the startup scene here, in Belgium, it's not that big as in the states.

It also seems that education is payed a lot more attention to than some other countries. Don't get me wrong, I understand the value of having a good education, but in the tech-world I cannot believe a certificate/diploma is worth more than visible passion and experience.
Come to Switzerland! You'll love it and as an enterprise java dev you'll find a job. Maybe I can help you here in Zürich, silvan.spross[at]gmail.com
Define "work on your business". If you were just hacking on some code and managing your stuff I think it'd fly under the radar. On the other hand, if you were running around promoting a product, organizing events and essentially raising your profile I'd expect they might catch wind and give you some trouble.
The font isn't very aesthetically pleasing, though.

Almost a prime example of function over form, heh. :)
The article makes it seem like military coups happen every six years or so: "at least the 12th...since 1932".

Here in the UK elections are every five years - we've only had 18 since 1932, and no military coups.

Is it possible that there's a cultural division - "military coup" perhaps sounds more dramatic and decisive to us than it does to a culture that has seen so many of them.
South of Portugal and Spain fit most if not all of that, except jobs. In Portugal there are some dev jobs in Faro (but then you have either a long commute or live in an apartment in the city and pay is quite low to be a one provider kind of family) and in Spain Malaga does have good dev jobs around (not sure about Java but iOS/Ruby can get a decent salary there) and there are some places around that fit the bill that are within commuting distance to Malaga companies.

For better pay, there is Gibraltar and living in the South side of Spain. Sometimes you have to endure a long border cross, but the pay in Gib compared to cost of living in Spain may be worth it (and there are a few well paid of java/php jobs in Gibraltar in the betting companies)

If you want more info about the area, companies or plan/think moving here, shoot me an email (profile).
Generally you have up to 2 hours to edit your post, which is reasonable if you also add a line saying you've done so for formatting purposes.
It may technically be a bug fix, but the "fixed" behaviour is kind of gnarly, especially in the way that it interacts with older Ruby versions. Basically, they're serializing a string containing a timestamp as YAML, but because that string matches a regex deep in Ruby 2.1's YAML code it actually gets serialised as a YAML Time object. Ruby 1.9 then deserialises the YAML Time object to a Ruby time object rather than a string, causing round-tripping issues.
Anything that may be a general-compute device.
Thats the declarative approach that google is promoting with Angular, Polymer and now jsaction.
I've downloaded it and I'm really impressed with the frame rate. Good job!
Also I guess it was very difficult for W3fools people to keep this up, it was a pointless effort, improving parts of W3Schools and thus working against their general message.
"And change we got, but not the good kind."

This raises a bit of red flag, because lots of people migrate with a vague idea of "the grass is greener" without knowing what they're getting into. Since Belgium is not a bad place to live, I'm wondering what it is you're running away from.

And since you put a work/life balance, cheap health insurance and cheap education top of your priorities (all things Belgium already offers) and don't seem to know very much about the US, I wonder why you're not considering the much less complicated and safer option of another EU country? (Also, of all continental European countries, Belgium is probably most like the UK with it's post-industrial similarities.)

What is it that makes you think you and your family be happy in the US?

I'm getting a strong sense you don't really have a clear picture of that, and are just looking to flee to a magical land far away from your current troubles. I live in a place with lots of expats, and that scenario usually doesn't work out well.
Most US companies it's 2-3 weeks of vacation and 10 days a year of public holidays.
The good bit for the OP is that he might be able to work remote, and spend local. That's the best of both worlds.
I see the value: you get to debug real, working algorithms based on a quantum computer so that once they're available, you already know many of the fundamentals and pitfalls of programming it.

I was thinking myself about the problem of 'slowdown' of this type of approach -- I think it would be interesting if the simulated quantum computer could also give you performance metrics that say, 'If this were run on a real quantum computer, it could have been done in 100 cycles as opposed to 2000.'

So you could make an algorithm in normal computing, and one on a simulated quantum computer, and compare the running time of the normal computation with the projected running time of the simulated quantum algorithm (obviously the actual running time of the simulation would be incomparable to the projected running time). I think that would be quite useful.
Do not underestimate the cost (time & $$$) of immigrating and the in(s)anity of US immigration law. Winning the H1b lottery is probably the easiest way. Getting a green card requires a pretty dedicated sponsor willing to spend $5-10K, not to mention the >1 year wait (this is assuming best case: EU citizen with "US equivalent" of a Masters).
I'm a 25yo Java developer from Russia. My gf and I don't like (almost hate) our country and we want out.

We choose between USA, Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Switzerland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

I'm not a well-known software engineer, not an outstanding genius (yes, I'm not very confident about my skills) - that is why it seems very difficult for me to get a job outside Russia.

But I love programming, I try to learn something new every day, improve my skills and knowledge. And I hope we will get out someday (hope dies last :) ).

I wish you good luck - don't worry, everything would be alright!
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Hi Blair. Your profile is very interesting. I sent you an email. Thank you in advance.
Spend a small amount of time with a cat or a dog, and it becomes pretty clear that they have moods and emotional states

Completely agree. Anecdotal I know, but I've experienced a few cases that make me certain that cats (and therefore other animals) do, indeed, have moods and emotions.

The first time I was away from my cat for more than a day (I was away for three), she sat in my front window the entire time and wouldn't leave. I had a friend feed her and she barely left to eat, wouldn't play or otherwise interact. When I got home, she saw me through the window and started meowing and pawing at the window. When I came in the door, she flopped on her back on the ground in front of me and started purring.

A friend of mine has a cat that she had to bottle feed. He (the cat) is now ultra-protective of her and gets extremely jealous when she pets her other cats - occasionally going so far as to attack the other cats for it, or not letting her pet him afterwards.

That's only two of many examples. The stories that I've heard from dog-owner friends make a good case for dogs having emotions and moods too.
The Diversity Visa Lottery will be likely repealed in the near future by the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 so that won't be an option for very long.
Remote work from Spain?
"Relationship between stress hormones and testosterone with prolonged endurance exercise." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15618989

More importantly: looking in the mirror. Even though I'm older, I'm leaner now doing zero steady-state cardio than I ever was running/biking dozens of miles a week.
Emigration is going to be difficult, isn't it? Companies seem to rarely sponsor immigrants unless they're total rockstars or aqui-hires because in-sourcers like TCS can bring "average" IT workers in cheaper.

It looks like the days of Google et. al. recruiting from far-afield are over, unless you're CTO of an early-stage startup someone like Google might buy, or at least have some kick-ass side projects you can point to that will make you irresistibly attractive enough for someone to deal with all of the associated immigration headache, perhaps being better / worse off from a lifestyle perspective is a bit of a moot point?

Sorry to be a downer but... cart before horse, etc. etc.
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It's not like copyright. Copyright is automatic, a patent requires expensive application, and even then it's only as good as it works in court. This is why the patent trolls choose venues for their actions that have a historical bias in their favour.

A patent by itself is not a very big moat to protect against competition; if you don't believe me just ask Samsung. The only way to actually turn a patent into force is to spend a gargantuan among of money on lawyers. I just think 99% of time that capital is better spent in other areas in the business. Spend it to get better at "running upstairs" - http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html for example.

Patents can be valuable as part of a business's competitive advantage. However, recently the damage caused by trolls using this as their only competitive advantage has made patent's negatives far outweigh their positives to the markets at large.
Nitpick - it was MI6 (AKA The Secret Intelligence Service) that plotted to kill Nasser - MI5 is the Security Service.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spycatcher

Poor Harold Wilson - he really was a case of 'Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you'

NB Given the famously poor relationship between MI5 and MI6 I did wonder if the former had decided to take up "spying" by itself... :-)
> No better manifested by the fact that most of the restaurants are there for eating and not for socializing.

We use bars and the internet for that.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but just saying California isn't really even enough to narrow things down. Remember that California is about the size of Spain, but in many ways with more geographic, population and economic diversity.

The cost of living, job opportunities, weather, and life style varies dramatically from San Diego, Los Angeles, Bakersfield, Sacremento, and San Francisco.

I'd recommend a trip to see. That said, California is the last place I'd move if I were a tech worker right now. You can get many of the same benefits (except possible access to VC money) in lots of other places. The Research Triangle NC and Austin TX for instance both offer much of what you are asking for at a much more affordable price.
>You can't get 'free daycare', 'good weather', 'affordable fresh food', 'beautiful nature close by', 'free healthcare', 'friendly and approachable people', '5 weeks of holiday' and 'free education' all in one serving.

I agree with your general statement but this description actually fits a big chunk of Italy. It's ironic, I don't like my native country (Italy) and I'm an expatriate and yet I can realize how awesome it might sound to people not from it. The description fits everything you're going to find in Italy. However there are huge downsides, mainly the corruption, government, economy, large taxation for small businesses, very backwards tech (especially IT) industry.

If one can get a remote well-paying job, Italy is probably one of the best options to go for that. Downside: the language, Italians are very proud of their language and most of them have a hard time speaking English.
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It works as long as it works. Posting here under your real name is maybe not the best idea, people have been turned back by US immigration based on google searches of their name.

Yes, that sounds Orwellian.

Before we get the 'citation needed' police:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070427/095314.shtml
See, more pointless perl bashing from a pythonista. Writing good perl is like writing good english, easy to learn the basics, tricky to learn (but aren't all programming languages), but can express good ideas fast and clearly. Python trades off the expressiveness for greater uniformity. Both languages have their (different) warts, but at the end of the day the by both do the same job and do it well. I'd probably recommend python for people who prioritise uniformity over expressiveness, and perl for those who want to try to realise their potential more. But at the end of the day they both do the same job and do it well.
The only way to figure out if you like it is to try it out. Unless this was a bash US starter, in which case, carry on.
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> what it gets in quantity it tends to lose in quality

To some degree, yes, but I feel that's something that has been changing some. In the town of 150K people I'm from, you can now get a decent variety of food products from Italy. They're expensive, but at least you can get them. 20 years ago, there's no way you could have even found that stuff. So I think some people are starting to 'get it'.

As another example, when my parents moved to Oregon in the 70ies, you could count the number of wineries on one hand. Now there are plenty of them, and some of them produce some decent wine.
> Thanks Colin.

NP - HTH, & YW.

> I don't feel that I should have to beg for a privilege
> that is afforded even the newest account on HN. It just
> bugs me every now and then such as in cases like these.

Finding out what happened at least might afford some insight into the thinking behind it. Then you have more information.

> I probably lost my upvote capability due to some perceived
> slight and I'm very much tired of that sort of thing.

Or you got fat-fingered, or it's a false-positive and they'd appreciate the heads-up to help them improve the accuracy, or you really did do something they disapprove of. Without knowing more it's hard to say. HN is a complex place in these regards.

> ... if a user interface component is non-functional it
> should be grayed out or not there at all. At least that
> would be clear, open and honest.

Much of the behavior is driven by the anti-spamming, anti-trolling concerns, and this could easily be one of them. Openness just gains more knowledgable trolls, as I've discovered. I can understand the stance they've chosen, although it is at times frustrating.

> edit: and some smart-ass flagged it. Too bad.

Indeed. I got down-voted for suggesting that the item on Llanfair PG was not really of intellectual interest. <fx: shrug /> I'm learning that not everything can be fixed, not least because some people don't think it's broken.
For the sake of your child you should probably stay in Europe. The education system in the u.s. is terrible. 100% of my European friend couples have moved back to Europe as soon as they've gotten pregnant or gave birth in order to provide a better education for their children.
Ask HN: How can foreigners get a job in the USA?
I was reading another recent Ask HN about living and working in the US [0]. A question that came up a few times is "How do you plan on legally working in the US?". I'm sure there are people here who have experience with moving to the US and getting a job so hopefully we can get some good answers.

Personally I would love to live in the US. I've entered the DV Lottery several times with no luck. The reason I'd rather have a permanent visa is that I don't want to start my life there, lose my job, and get sent back home. However I'm getting older and am becoming more willing to take that risk.

I'm an iOS developer of 5 years and have been freelancing for those 5 years. I'm not a 'rockstar' programmer but I'm a solid developer, enjoy learning new things, and I'm good at picking them up quite quickly.

What chance does someone in my position have of getting a visa to work at a company in the US? Do I even have a chance? What are the best visa options, how much do they cost, and how does the process work (do I apply for jobs and then a visa or vice versa)?

I would like to hear a range of answers that can help everyone but if you want to answer more specifically I'm in the EU and have dual Irish and British citizenship.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7788678
Sorry if this doesn't sound as much but... do your research. Ex ante it appears you and your wife are under a lot of misapprehensions and, if I may say, grass-is-greener media/cultural European clichés about the US --too many, perhaps, to disabuse in a single "Ask HN" thread.

Like others said below, a good idea would be to come live in the US for, say, a summer or so under a short-term tourist or student visa (eg maybe for a career-related summer course or unpaid internship) and see for yourself.
I'm from Belgium as well, and in the 3 years I'm working, I've worked for 2 startups, both in Ghent.
There are quite a few startups here in this city, and it's not the biggest city in Belgium as well.

My education was a footnote on my CV, a good starter for the talk with recruiters. They generally know you know 'nothing' when you're fresh from school, so they have their expectations set accordingly.
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My point in this case is that LT3957 does not even contain any embedded firmware. There even is a block diagram in it's datasheet that consists of few opamps, about 20 logic gates and few blackboxes that does not do anything complex (I assume that each such blackbox is not more than about 20 transistors).

[edit: the "seriously, wtf?" comment has to do with naming it "inverting controller", not with it's destruction]
And then wait 5 or more years until your wife is allowed to work there legally, pay obscene amounts of money for child daycare and schools, all while waiting for a green card.
It should not be too hard to search the whois registry data for all instances of support@namecheap.com that are not for a namecheap.com owned domain but simply registered through them.

That would turn up the companies that are at risk of having the same happen to them.
It is stupendous how much effort we are using to make our nice flash disks look like the old rusty rotary ones instead of (re)writing our software to be aware of the true characteristics of the underlying hardware.
IMO you're getting downvoted [sidenote: I wouldn't worry about karma so much] because your complaint is sort of analogous to complaining about higher prices at the Mom-and-Pop store across the street from the Walmart Supercenter.

Newegg's "strict" RMA policies are often compared to the much-larger Amazon, who practically allows you to set a purchased item ablaze and return it for a full refund, no questions asked. Amazon will even pay for the return shipping in most cases.

Sure, you can get better customer service from Amazon, just like you can get the same brand-name products from Walmart for cheaper than the Mom-and-Pop, but "supporting" a business typically implies sacrificing some sort of convenience (or money) because you believe in a business's philosophy. Since you were eventually reimbursed for the defective merchandise, you actually fared pretty well.
You didn't mention the visa thing at all.

You said you are EU citizens. It's ok for you moving around EU but moving to the US is going to create immigration problems for you.

One of you will need to get sponsored for a long-term working visa not the temporary one. Then still I think according to US laws your Wife won't be able to work until you get a Green Card. I heard that they are trying to change that law but still.

Sorry to break it down to you like that, you can still try and make it, but its not an easy thing to move to the States especially having a family with you.

I'd suggest you apply to 20 companies+ and try schedule them all within a week. So you and your family can go there for a week do your interviews and see if you can get someone to sponsor you.

It's not like you said I am just going to move there... If you say that to the officers in the airport asking you the reason for your visit they are definitely not going to let you in.
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Too serious, too serious. I like the best the version in which each participant starts with a can of beverage in one hand and has to finish it before pulling with both hands.
We have seen life expectancy go up with good sanitation.

Sure, but to what extent is it causation and what extent simply correlation. Also "sanitation" covers a huge range of improvements and activities, and just because some can directly be linked to life expectancy, doesn't mean that they all can.
I think you mainly missed "good local job market" in the can't have it all list, otherwise I agree that much of southern Europe qualifies.
Weird, not seeing this in safari, even with a browser window stretched across two screens!
Australia dude, best country ever. Salary as high as in California. It has all the good things that the U.S. has, without the bad things.
May I ask what your bad experience in Belgium entailed? I'm curious, being belgian and a programmer... Although IT management here ranks very low in my humble opinion, it's not bad working here in the IT sector ( unless you work for banks and financial institutions, those are jerks :-) )
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