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> But what's the point if the software is only really applicable to certain commercial interests?

Because it's available to all companies with the same commercial interests. OSI approved licenses are all non-discriminatory, so if you are open sourcing the software your business is built on, then the code is useful to not just your own business interests, but every company that shares your business interests, competitors included.

I think that if you're releasing software in such a non-discriminatory manner then it is for the greater good (even if that greater good is only potential) and should be eligible for non-profit status.
I'm glad to hear a glowing report from using Duolingo. I find it easy to put in daily practice with (must maintain my streak!) and it's good to hear that it gave you a good foundation at the end of it all.
I think it's more nuanced than that.

The H1-B is a "dual-intent" visa -- you can be on it while pursuing citizenship. This differs from the TN status available via NAFTA, for example.

Additionally, the H1-B has a 6-year limit in theory (3-year limit, renewable once), but can be extended past that limit if the holder is at a certain stage in the permanent resident application.
Or more accurately. US foreign policy objectives and military aid versus independence.
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> Most Americans expressing your sentiment have no idea how much hassle immigrants have to go through in this process or every time they cross the border.

Exactly. Most Americans don't seem to know how incredibly hard it is to immigrate to this country. They think it's as easy today as it was for their ancestors who came here a hundred years or so ago.

The fact is, if you are not seeking refugee or asylee status, and if don't have close family (a parent, sibling, or child) in the US, it is incredibly fucking hard to immigrate here.

Most of the rest of the immigrants, in the Employment-Based Green Card quotas go through a process that starts with them entering the U.S. on an H-1B or an L-1, and then doing work of such high quality that the employer may be persuaded into going through the arduous process of securing him/her a green card.

In my opinion what we're seeing here is just the plain old anti-immigrant fear mongering that been around since a very long time -- except that instead of bitching about Irish laborers pushing down wages in the low-income segment, it's about how smart, highly-skilled, college-educated immigrants are "destroying" the American economy and culture.

On one level, it's stupid -- because these people actually contribute to the economy. On another level, it's plain old die-hard racism cloaked in a fable about job-theft. If you disagree on the race part, just run through some comment threads on this topic, and invariably there are many whose concerns have more to do with the fact that the would-be immigrant is of Indian (or some other foreign) heritage, rather than their claim about how he or she "stole" their job...
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And they were slapped around and stopped doing it, so it's great that politicians are taking action in favour of consumers only 6-8 short years later.
The stack of hard drives definitely got a chuckle out of me. Which of us hasn't, at some point, had an old hard drive or two sitting around for exactly that reason? You don't want to wipe the old drive until you've got the new one up and running, and at that point there are more interesting things to do, and the old drive isn't even connected anymore and... meh, add it to the stack.
My mistake on immigrate vs citizenship. It doesn't really change the point that the H-1B was created to be temporary.

(And certainly the temporary status factors into the fact that they exist and how many are granted and all of that stuff. FWIW, I think the U.S. immigration policy is a disaster, we should be letting far more people in and looking for ways that we can help to improve the situation in Central America (because presumably that will reduce the most common sort of illegal entry).)
Absolutely! I agree with pretty much everything you said. I meant 'free' in a superficial way, but it's clear that ultimately, there are costs.

I recently wrote a post drawing parallels between the ad-driven economy to the debt-driven economy, and how both damage our lives and economies in similar ways. You might find it interesting:

http://livefreeortry.com/2014/04/30/silicon-valley-data-is-t...
> I hear stories of developers making $500k+ per year, or getting job offers worth millions. At that level, then yes, I think we could stand to see a bit of downward pressure on salaries.

Why? If some developer jobs are as hard as brain surgery, why shouldn't those developers be paid as much as brain surgeons?

Not capping wages also encourages employers to rethink their employment strategies. Maybe that sort of employee should be promoted to partner. Or maybe longer-term contracts should be signed to so that employers can expect a reasonable payback from helping the employee over the learning curve. Or maybe they can rethink their development process to allow more remote workers (thereby increasing the talent pool to draw from).

If developers are scarce, the solution is to allow wages to rise and let the businesses figure out how to compensate.
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Iran and Turkey became enemies when Iran overthrew the brutal dictatorship of the Shah. Same time the US switched from being pro- the Iranian nuclear program to being anti-.

Highly surprising! Nah, not really.
Of course Azure is a __much__ more complex service, but I am currently working in a somehow similar project:

https://www.datapal.io

The main goal of this project is to make it easy for people without knowledge in predictive analytics to use their stored data in order to make predictions.

__It is still a very early prototype__, therefore the "predictive power" is not great yet, and all kind of bugs are expected.

I have a lot of ideas on how to improve the service and your feedback would be really appreciated in order to prioritize the next steps!

Thanks!
Of course. There's just no language in any net neutrality proposals that will avoid that.

The net neutrality crime in the Netflix debacle was trying to charge Netflix for access, not refusing to upgrade the peering point (since all traffic is equally/neutrally affected by the congestion).
I really love the diagrams; very beautiful and good palette.
I'm of a similar attitude.

The final nail in the coffin of cinema attendance, for me: Stories about bedbugs.

As for laser-lit screens, aside from lingering thoughts of "vaporware" on my part -- conditioned by years of "a performant pocket laser projector is just around the corner" stories -- my other thought might be that it's needed to outshine all the cell phone screens people invariable light up during the movie.

And, last time I was to the cinema, some of the CGI-heavy scenes in particular were actually rather dim. Amongst other things, I recall some news articles about the switch to digital projection and that a number of the digital projector designs actually "cheated", as a cost-saving measure, resulting in low/sub-standard output levels.
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I can't remember the name off hand, but there is a VoIP provider that has part of their marketing about how they are stable in the face of degradation. They specifically pointed out samples between theirs and Vonage with the same (poor) network conditions.
Backlinks[1],[2],[3] and rankings[4] might be interesting to some people as well.

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First, nobody told you to keep your trap shut.

Second, if you don't trust the site moderators, HN isn't going to be a pleasant place to spend time.
I bought a external drive and backup all my computers to that. Better yet if you can store it in a water/fire proof safe.

You could also look at setting up a NAS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-attached_storage

I don't' trust any backup source that is not my own.
Protip: Browse nytimes.com using an incognito window. In Chrome, right click, open link in incognito window. No login, ten articles. When you reach ten, close the window and start again.
As someone who has heavily used AWS products in the recent past, I can totally see why companies are switching to AWS for their hosting and other services.

Question though: does anyone know what sort of profit margins AWS generates for Amazon? Last I heard it was 20%-25%, but I was wondering whether Google's cloud cost cuts were having any impact on AWS' bottom line.
I won't watch very many new movies even at home. If the product's good enough, then that's the experience.

According to Martin Scorcese's movie-about-movies (Personal Journey), theaters used to be on-network with the studios. They would stagger releases to test audience acceptance. Then there was U.S. V. Paramount coupled with television. That led to the "Jaws" style hype and time-coherent releases.

Still, looking at parking lots at theaters, they appear full.
Local linux machine with three 2T drives (WD Red's), setup in RAID 5 for redundancy against a drive failing. LVM running on top of the RAID 5 drive trio to allow slice-and-dice allocation of the space. The LVM backup partition only consumes 220G.

rsnapshot (http://www.rsnapshot.org/) from other machines (they are Linux as well) onto the Linux backup server (so now there are two physically separate copies, master machine and backup machine). And rsnapshot provides "point in time" views of the backups.

Periodically rsync the rsnapshot tree to an offsite location with enough space to hold the 220G worth of backup data.

What I don't do, which you imply you did with your Drobo, is have the only copy of anything truly important on the RAID5 array only. If Linux md or LVM corrupts the backup partition I just remake it, and start rsync'ing again (and pull old snapshots from the offsite). If one drive fails in the RAID5 array, I'll replace the drive and rebuild the array, but the data should still be there. If two drives fail in the RAID5 array close on each others heels (so that the whole RAID array goes away) then this is the same as if md or LVM corrupted the data.

"Backup" does not mean having "redundant protection" in one device, it means having plural separate, fully independent, copies such that corruption/loss of one copy is meaningless to the other copies.
US ambitions keep the theocracy powerful. Since they overthrew the US backed dictator which had overthrown the secular, progressive democratically elected government of Mossadegh.

Every time the US threatens Iran or imposes sanctions, or funds and arms a terrible dictator in Iraq so he can bomb Iranian cities and drop poison gas on them killing hundreds of thousands of people. The theocracy steps up to the plate the only force powerful enough to stand up to the US.

Any more liberal voices get drowned out by the need for security from the US and its interests.
But, was there an exclusive right granted? Copyright comes from creating something, and not just the output of some computer program.
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Conceivable, but far from proven. An apparent employee of a major ISP+TV firm (username started with a "g") claimed that all company decisions were weighed against hurting TV profits. If neutrality could eventually force them to
decouple those decisions, prices could go down and performance up.

Further, ISPs are currently profitable by a hefty margin, so they could continue operating the same network at the same price, but neutrally WRT to content.

Actually, I can't think of any reason why net neutrality would ever cause prices to increase. All ISPs need to do is give customers a dedicated allotment of priority/low latency inbound and outbound traffic, with the rest of their "advertised speed" served as best effort. Then the customer can decide what matters to them (or the application designers for less technical customers), and that should be cheaper for ISPs since they need no DPI hardware and fewer employees deciding what to throttle for profit.
> At that level, then yes, I think we could stand to see a bit of downward pressure on salaries.

Why??

If you're a lawyer specializing in sovereign debt restructuring and charge $2000 an hour, we don't hear about downward salary pressure.

I've never heard anyone complaining that petroleum engineers are too expensive, even if it takes them a Master's degree and an extremely costly speciality to understand their profession.

If we're playing the all-out capitalist game, then as a salaried employee you should go for all the leverage you've got, because your employers are doing the same through these and similar maneuvers.
I'm confused. Normally one cannot "pair" a device without entering the passcode to unlock it.

Is this not the case?
That's not even a big number.. Apple earns more revenue every quarter, so do GM and Ford, it takes Google two quarters. These are companies not industries.
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We have that in the US too - a combined restaurant and theater.
Wow, if you're looking at the Chinese government as a model for governance...

Uniting all world governments into a single state scares the hell out of me, and I think it could very well be the worst idea, but suggesting China as a pattern is the icing on the cake, quite frankly.
* work and dotfiles are on github

* personal projects are both on github and on tarsnap

* my pictures are on google drive and on tarsnap

* my music goes into google music (even thought now i'm using spotify now)

everything else is either on google drive or in any other kind of cloud service.
So, I definitely felt as if I were familiarized with some of the very basic, generalized concepts I would need to pass the mid-terms and final exams, but when push came to shove, the only real parallel that was a direct one-to-one translation was the piecewise-defined function. The rest of the class was still quite the steep climb.
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Firebase (YC S11) is hiring a senior front end developer
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I'm not sure what you think you're saying here. You might have noticed that in something like 90% of the countries on the planet, that country's government is dominant over the entire country? Dominant only means that nobody is capable of challenging them currently for the title of being in control of the country, not that they have total control over everything that happens there.
>My mother, for anecdata, came out of a computer science program in the mid eighties with her education financed by her employer.

I don't believe thats a 100% apt comparison. In the 80s, tuition at MIT, a private school, was less than 10k/yr (according to wikipedia). Considering to do the same now would cost nearly 5-6x as much, its no surprise that corporations haven't continued those programs.
>If they did then the average Wal-Mart worker would be making a lot more and have much better benefits.

But tech people seem quite okay with buying things made in China, and third world countries. When was the last time someone bought a router that was 40% more expensive but made in the USA? How many of the people who upvoted your comment made it the top comment ever check for a Made in USA sticker for their clothes or furniture even if it was expensive? Screw the low skilled compatriots so that you can afford higher spec MacBook and a Starbucks coffee, right?

Google/Motorola learnt the above lesson very fast with the Moto X which was assembled in the US and now that facility is closed because of bad sales inspite of a big advertising campaign.

So tech workers take full advantage of everything else becoming a commodity and now want to prevent the global tech labor supply affecting their already comparatively high wages so that computing/software stays expensive for the rest of society?

Next up, restrict open source software and remote work from other countries so that there is more work for tech workers and wages stay high?

Won't artificially high salaries affect startups, where a few thousand bucks can easily kill a promising startup that needs time to grow?

Restricting H1B visas will increase offshoring, which means the folks won't be paying local taxes in the US including State Unemployment, Social Security and Medicare taxes(they're not eligible for benefits though).
AFAI'm concerned, even the standard German cinema chains (Cinemaxx; UCI) have very decent theaters and seats.

And maybe it's because I avoid going to movies on Friday/Saturday night, or because I avoid the worst of blockbuster movies, but I almost never have problems with noisy people or children around me in the movies I see.

I like the cinema, but actually don't go very often. Laziness, I guess, and I'd have to adapt to their schedule.
Servers:

- Configs and small important files: http://www.tarsnap.com/

Laptop:

- 2 x TimeMachine

- Amazon Glacier with Arq (Weekly, just important files)

- External Disks mirrored to same model with CarbonCopyCloner
I list the stuff that I'd be really distressed to lose (the photos of my child; My Great Novel;).

That stuff gets archived (zero compression) with recovery data; with PAR2 recovery data as well; it then gets copied to multiple USB sticks and microSD cards. These get posted out to various family members (who are asked nicely to keep them somewhere safe) and kept in my firesafe.

Any passwords and serial numbers and etc are printed out, with the name and URL of the software they're for. A copy of that goes in the fire safe. There are copies of the spreadsheet on various drives.

All the other stuff is kruft. I do have multiple copies of my music but that's only because tagging MP3 files is hell.

I'd be interested to hear how the drobo failed.
I agree, but change the context just a little and the same error could have convinced people the evidence was faked. The potential is there.
First of all, please kindly don't use language like "pisses me off". This is YC's platform, which it built, maintains and pays for, and works very hard to make good. We are guests here. I don't have a problem with you airing concerns, but I really think it will be more beneficial for you and everyone else to remember that we are guests, and to be civil. Actually, being civil is usually better anyway.

Secondly, regarding your concern - I'm not a mod, but I'll take a stab at why the guidelines are the way they are:

HN, above all else, wants to be a place where hackers find interesting stories and discussions. Meta threads are generally not "interesting", not in the way that HN wants.

But that's not the only problem - the problem with "meta" threads like this are that they are very superficially interesting - after all, they concern one of the few things all of HN has in common - HN. But almost everyone here has ideas of how to improve HN - almost everyone here sometimes has things they would like done different. If every user wrote a post on this, that's all we'd talk about. Moreover, since most users are talking from a position of ignorance compared to the mods, oftentimes what they talk about will simply be wrong without them knowing it.

Therefore, the best solution is exactly what HN asks - email questions directly to them. I've never done so, but from what I understand, they usually answer.

Also, in terms of timing, you couldn't pick a worse time to complain about the moderation - this is literally the time in history that HN has been the most open and straightforward about moderation policies, and they're doing IMO a fantastic job too.
I hope and believe that there will never be a government for the whole planet until such time as there is some entity off of the planet that we need to negotiate with as a united planet.

One powerful government per country might not be perfect, but so far, it seems to be better than anything anyone else has some up with. The alternative is not some imaginary perfect government, but a lot of little competing governments/militias that probably pay even less attention to what anybody not a member of them wants.
Crashplan. Off-site backups. Works great on linux. Saves old versions/deleted files forever. Multiple devices for cheap. Set it and forget it.
Title (article's own) makes it sound like this is some sort of trend. But unless I missed something, this is just one unfortunate host's struggles with a jerk tenant.
What is the appeal of 'real life' simulators?
In short, the feeds are heavily denormalized and are constructed when new photos are added by people you follow, rather than at request time.

They seem to favor using disk space and saving on processing time and memory.
An astute consipracy theorytician will just claim that Google has changed their API and changes the timestamps on the fly after their initial blunder was discovered.

Just to stay, that evidence does not usually persuade beliebers.
>Laws restrict freedom, that's their entire point.

The point of laws is to ideally balance freedom and security. You are not free to rip me off because doing THAT infringes upon my freedom/security.

In the case of H1-Bs there is nothing gained by restricting workers' freedom to switch jobs freely - EXCEPT, that is, by the company employing you.

That is why they're so toxic to everybody else and such a perfect way to keep labor in line for the company.
I would love to see how such people answer the question "beyond legal status, what factors do you consider affect the morality of ingesting a substance?"
I really want to setup something that's easy to use for my parents. Does anyone have any suggestions? Crashplan seems like the easiest choice. Does backing to to glacier with arq require any technical expertise after it's all setup?
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Banking, auto and pharmaceutical industries I can see lobbying their agendas as they're largely private. Are there significant privatized anti-drug agencies with capital (comparable to the 3 above)?

The US has a large conservative (often Christian) mindset that I think would reflexively fight this without thinking about it. Don't think it's necessary to jump straight into the conspiracy theories yet.
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I've been using Degoo for a while. They encrypt all your stuff and spread it around the globe.

You get the first 100GB for free + 50GB when you invite friends.

http://www.degoo.com
This isn't really Airbnb's problem, though I imagine they could do a better job of showing what lengths of stay would make tenant rights' laws or other legal complications kick in.
Ask HN: Is there a web app to inspect network requests from any device?
Desktop browsers let you inspect network traffic via a developer console. For mobile devices you can install software like Charles proxy onto your local computer and proxy HTTP and HTTPS traffic from your phone through that computer and inspect there.

Is there a web app that does what Charles proxy does? If not, why? Would a web proxy that allows developers to see network requests sent by their phones or any other device that doesn't have a developer console be useful?

Would people pay for this?
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Which specifically of my points will be addressed by adding Suhosin?

You gave some good advice. Assuming your software still works without cURL and with Suhosin, yes, you are probably going to avoid some attacks by using your disable_functions list and Suhosin. Still, I think what I and several others take issue with, is giving an example php.ini that was so incomplete and inconsistent with its reasoning.