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There are 2 mistakes in your post. First this:

"I think it's very selfish to oppose H1B visas. America is wealthy compared to almost everywhere, and phenomenally wealthy compared to many of the places these H1B workers come from."

Your reasoning applies to immigration, not to H1B visas. If America is wealthy and should share its wealth with others, then it should have open borders. H1B visas bring in foreign workers on a temporary basis, tie them to a specific job, and therefore leave them in a precarious situation, unable to demand pay increases. If you believe that America should share its wealth via immigration, then you should be fighting for a more generous availability of green cards, not H1B visas.

About this:

"The downvote button is not a disagree button. If I'm wrong, tell me why."

Paul Graham has specifically said that the downvote button can be used to express disagreement.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

"I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement. Obviously the uparrows aren't only for applauding politeness, so it seems reasonable that the downarrows aren't only for booing rudeness. It only becomes abuse when people resort to karma bombing: downvoting a lot of comments by one user without reading them in order to subtract maximum karma. Fortunately we now have several levels of software to protect against that."
When you say that national intelligence communities are secretive, you're absolutely right. So much so that they would certainly not share any sort of information with commercial/multinational airlines. It sounds ridiculous, given that lives are at stake, but it is important to consider their calculus (taking the US intel perspective for a moment):

Knowledge that rebels had active radar-guided SAMs would be derived from a handful of classified assets, from satellite to radar to drone to people. Adversaries to the US are meant to be unaware of these modalities (to prevent countermeasures), but you can bet they are all in use.

The challenge is that disclosure of any facts gleaned from classified systems potentially reveals their capabilities.

Now disclosure is a continuous spectrum, from "there is a threat" to "here is a multispectral image of a launcher", so perhaps there is some shareable information. In considering that, you weigh the utility (external risk) of the information shared against its credibility (details), and the potential loss of capability incurred by disclosure. When we say "loss of capability", in this case it may mean disclosing the capability to detect missile launches early, which represents a critical piece of US missile defense.

For a historical case study in this type of calculus, it's worth looking into the disclosure of images during the Cuban Missile crisis. There, the US had to provide credible information that there was a threat in Cuba, and did so at the cost of the revelation of U-2 images.

By the way, this same calculus played into the US President's wording when he spoke yesterday about the tragedy. Obama was careful to say little about how they knew where the missile came from.

Unfortunately, from the perspective of an intelligence agency, NDAs are insufficient to protect classified assets, especially where multinationals are involved. Anything that is disclosed would go through several levels of indirection, and would probably end up in a NOTAM (like the one prohibiting flight under FL320 in the region).
A lot of the terminology here is different just for the sake of being different, I think. That, along with the feeling the author believes himself to be some sort of genius, kinda remind me of Urbit and TempleOS (google at your own peril).

Interestingly enough, all three projects seem to get some level of respect from HN, for reasons that are beyond me.
I gave it a quick comparison to Ivona (which was the best TTS engine last I checked) and found that by pasting in the first sentence from the video, both did a relatively poor job. Ivona was more natural sounding, but still wasn't anywhere near as good as the video.

I know Ivona has a phonetic markup language, so it's possible that the reason the video sounds so good is that someone has spent a lot of time tweaking it to get rid of any mispronunciations and misplaced inflexions.
Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971. More details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg
the roads have car on them something like less than 1% of the time, that doesn't mean there are not enough cars on hte roads.
ShellJS – Unix shell commands for Node.js
It appears to be a bug in pdf.js (or the PDF format itself): https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/issues/5064

As somebody else mentioned, you can use the arrow/triangle to display the regular viewer toolbar, and zoom out. This is obviously not ideal, but there's not much else that can be done until a fix comes from pdf.js upstream, I suppose.
It's in the best interest of a nation to welcome the best and brightest workers with open arms. H-1B visas are a very bad approach towards that goal.

The H-1B program, in its current form, suppresses wages because employees have no leverage or bargaining power with their employer. The visa is held by the employer, and if the employer wishes to terminate the visa, the employee may face immediate deportation. If employees had some more flexibility in changing jobs, the power balance wouldn't be so one-sided.

On a side note, there's a question as to whether the H-1B visas are actually being used by employers to attract top talent, since the majority of H-1B visa applications are for the lowest wage bracket. Also, from U.S. News and World Report:

"Between 2007 and 2009, Accenture hired nearly 1,400 H-1Bs, yet during that same time it sponsored a mere [2 percent] of its H-1Bs for permanent residence. Clearly, many employers choose the H-1B program for cheaper temporary labor rather than permanent immigration."
Oosterhout had that covered:

> And if the Y-axis is something good, depending on your definition of something good, then I think most people would pick the red trajectory over the blue trajectory (..unless you think you're going to die before you get to the crossing point).
Sorry but the image seems to shake up and down a bit, although not as much as it would without stabilisation. It's still noticeable.
One should note that though Air France from from Paris to Bangkok used to take the route south from the Ukraine, the KLM from AMS to Kuala Lumpur was going through the country, both later merging to the same route over Turkmenistan.

Given that Air France-KLM is a one corporation since 2004, it's pretty surprising. Paris is a bit more south than Amsterdam, but not that much.

[1] http://cdn1.spiegel.de/images/image-726710-galleryV9-ocpi.jp...
The rebels had already shot down a number of Ukrainian military aircraft before this happened, so it looks like they can operate the system.
If you don't know how to use a model checker you have no business creating a distributed algorithm. Either implement someone else's or do it right. The world has enough broken distributed algorithms and we really don't need any more. Either you are using Raft and you can depend on its proofs and just do the work to ensure that the model is implemented correctly or you are using something different and you need to write the proofs and models.

The casual attitude that most people show when building these algorithms mind blowing.
Many other airlines continued to fly over the Ukraine, even most respected airlines like Lufthansa and Singapore Airlines:

http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/bild-981813-726883.html
There's other answers here that suggest it's enough to merely pass though a correct state, without having executed all of the operations. If that's valid, then the wording of the puzzle should state this more forcefully. Even then, the last sentence can't be satisfied. Imagine if you were competing against the machine, it could simply always select moves that left one corner in the down position.

From my reading of this puzzle, you can't sample the board in order to capture the orientation of the caps. Hence, I don't believe there's a way you could reach an outcome.

Also, the base case doesn't work. Imagine there was one cap. You can choose to flip it or not flip it. Can you get everything in the up position without sampling the board?

"Can you devise a sequence that ensures they all face up? Down?"

No. Garbage in, garbage out.

The only thing I can think of that might be useful at the moment: repeatedly hammering some combination of sides and diagonals, causing some statistical pattern to emerge. But without knowing the origin states, not sure how to use that.

There's a similar problem here:
http://gurmeet.net/puzzles/tumblers-on-a-rotating-table/
As a computing specialist who makes a very generous income from a large US employer, I am an expert in a specific technology. I've also been in the position of trying to hire developers with similar skill sets. As a result, I might bring a slightly different perspective.

I am a US citizen. As you point out, I don't need to dress "business casual" and I can (and do) work remotely, and the pay is good.

But in some specialties, developers are scarce in the US. They're probably also scarce worldwide, but the greater wages available here could entice them to immigrate.

In my niche in particular it's hard to find good developers for anything like reasonable wages. And in my specialty, it's not possible for a typical "generalist" to just hop in and learn quickly; for what I do, you'd need a broad background in C, C++, cross-platform issues, Windows, Android NDK, and Unix-ish development environments, as well as real-time/game experience. Someone missing any of those would have a steep learning curve.

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. I'm not quite there myself, though at my salary's current rate of growth I could see hitting that threshold in ten years or less.

That said, I do actually agree that H1B workers are often illegally used to pay below-market salaries. [1] I don't know how to combat this other than through better monitoring and stronger enforcement of the law. (For example, if an employer is found to be paying less than they should, forcing them to retroactively pay the difference in wages+penalties to any affected employees would be a strong motivator to pay them enough.)

Currently, H1B workers need to be paid 100% of the "prevailing wage"; maybe a higher threshold like 110% (or pick a number that makes sense) would convince critics that these workers are really hard to find in the US? Because if you can't find someone locally for 110% of the "prevailing wage" then that's a compelling argument that they aren't here.

[1] "Employers affirm in the labor condition application that the wage offered to the applicant is at least as high as that paid by the employer for the same type of job, and the number equals or exceeds the prevailing wage for the job in the same geographical area" http://www.immihelp.com/visas/h1b/h1b-visa-requirements.html

[edit] added comment about "hire a generalist" not being good enough
As I pointed in response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8057808 :

While Air France avoided Ukraine, KLM did not. Given that AF-KLM is a one airline holding [1], that's rather surprising discrepancy.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France%E2%80%93KLM
"that is actually the reason why drugs won't be decriminalized in the US anytime soon" (emphasis mine).

Well, I think you could say that it is a reason, but I don't think you can say it is the reason.

There are still a lot of people in the United States who believe that doing these illegal drugs is morally wrong, and that making them legal would increase, not decrease the damage.

I'd bet that this is driving the resistance to decriminalization/legalization much more than people trying to keep their jobs (and no, I'm not denying that there are people who resist it for that reason).
But those Airlines were not shot down.
Chengannur :)
"The HN guidelines ask you not to post questions like this to the site, but instead to email us"

Is this for the reason that you do not want site criticism on the front page, with lots of people commenting about the policies? Instead the site would rather only one person emailed you about the problems rather than hearing a mass voice of concern?

This is the biggest entry on HN today, yet you have decided to remove it from the front page! I realise that at this moment in time you have not read the thread, but this is one of the issues which was highlighted and one that also pisses me off!
Interesting titbit:

One of the videos that is supposed to prove that the airliner was shot down by pro Russian rebels is one day older than the incident according to the meta data:

https://twitter.com/ofehr_en/status/490039740595707904/photo...

The truth probably is that a major propaganda war is under way and we simply do not know (maybe never will know) who is directly to blame for the incident.
> Plenty of them

Wall Street does draw some students from the math/physics/EECS departments of the very top ranked schools, but this represents a tiny percentage of students graduating nationwide with STEM degrees.
I couldn't agree more about the old "garbage" lying around.
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Adding a bunch of smart, hardworking, educated, ambition people to society is always going to be a net-win, even if it puts a little downward pressure on wages.

However, I don't equate H-1Bs with permanent immigration. There are limitations on duration of stay, what happens with your spouse/family, switching employers, etc etc. That really doesn't lend itself to people moving their whole family to the US and buying into becoming permanent residents. If all we get out of the H-1B program is downward pressure and wages and people that will come for 5 years, make a bunch of money, go home and not come back, then I am against the H-1B program.

Note that I 100% put the blame for this situation on the US immigration policy and not the people that are H-1B holders. I am sure most of them would love to get a green card or even become a US citizen, but for some reason we've gone from 'Give me your tired poor huddled masses' to 'Oh you have a masters degree in an engineering degree and want to move here to start a business? Too bad!'.
So you will have to trust Verisign not publish a different, compromised, set of domain name keys along with your nameservers.
If would also be great if you could provide some information about whether the link change set off a flurry of user flagging. From the outside look of things, the change of domain appeared to set off someone's alert to have a bunch of accounts flag the story. Either that, or a single flag is extremely powerful. I suppose a lot of people could be extremely prejudiced against certain domains, but it appeared something more organized was going on. Some insight into how flagging suddenly started and buried the story shortly after the change would be nice. Thanks in advance.
I disagree...Apple's size makes it ideal for resistance - the government has been very pro-business for the last decade, and congress has been way too receptive to lobbying groups. If Apple, Google, and a few others really put some muscle into it, they could make a real difference.
Replace the word terrorist with communist and you have McCarthyism all over again. When citizens have to fear of being labeled as a terrorist, I can't help but see history repeating its self.
You're right in principle but not in practice, as you yourself point out in your final paragraph.

How are users supposed to know which ads are honest, and which ads are crappy products spun as great? And if crappy products far outnumber quality ones (case in point, how much of the content on the web do you think is garbage?), how does advertising achieve what you claim in your second paragraph?

And even for those non-crappy products, how much incentive is there for sellers to tell half-truths to increase sales? "Here is my great product (but I won't tell you about this other better or cheaper product that I know about, and in fact, I'm buying this ad to make sure that that upstart competitor never even has a chance! It's so nice that my established market dominance pays for my wide and deep advertising mote!)"

See this thread for more on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7733941
So you're saying we should always pay the best people above the market rate? Why would you pay $70k for a new Tesla if you can get one for $40k?
Ask HN: How do you back up your drives?
I'm currently going through a meltdown because my Drobo, which is supposed to give users "redundant protection", has corrupted +4TB of data: years of photos, all my music, all docs that go from way back at university to personal projects, raw video files... everything. I just want to know what HN users use to backup their data, drives, etc. I haven't heard good things from Backblaze, Crashplan, etc, so I was wondering if there are other alternatives. Thanks
The part about being a commodity, wearing business casual and not working remote is something that I experienced early in my career. So my thoughts and fears of that time keep me motivated. All of us in tech right now are pretty lucky, but I suspect there are people in the industry that never experienced groveling for a job or having to toe the line. The idea of having to put on a tie or show up at exactly 9am is simply laughable! But, were the balance to change I have no doubt that is what we will all be doing. I've been enjoying the ride as much as anybody, but I'm sometimes surprised it's lasted even this long.

Though I don't really agree with keeping the ride going by blocking immigration. I'm just not ready to join up with the "they took our jobs" crowd, even though it my be in my own, selfish interest. It doesn't seem that having an artificial shortage of workers is ultimately a good thing.
> Then there are not enough tech workers: supply and demand.

No,artificial increase of supply through government intervention to drive down wages. It's a bit like "reverse protectionism",but at the expense of local workers. But hey i'm sure if you could own slaves you'd still be bragging about "supply and demand".
Considering the story (true or not) about Coventry not being warned about the German bombers coming for it isn't exactly treated as one of national shame, it isn't quite clear that losing 9 citizens is a big deal to them under these circumstances.
The propagation characteristics of VHF are substantially better than 900MHz. I've used voice radios in the VHF band in urban Minneapolis, and have been able to easily surpass a mile of range. I'm surprised they didn't choose a lower frequency still.

In addition, using something like DSSS, a low data rate, and retransmission ability will probably help a lot for this application.
Seems it's just a problem with Youtube's encoding of dates and times according to this post:

http://pax-americana.livejournal.com/660.html
All Google Services Are Blocked In China: VPNs Still Allow Uncensored Access
but they DO have the option of designing their hardware and services to minimize trackable data, to get as close to "zero knowledge" as possible. The government cannot force them to collect data, only share data that they have collected.

For example, there are alternatives to Dropbox that do this: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/17/edward-sno...
Excellent review and analysis!

I watched the original video (about the time-stamp) yesterday and someone in the comments section said about the same (that there is a bug in the system).

But I wouldn't label the original poster a conspiracy theorist over this.

It's perfectly normal for someone to assume YouTube is working as it should, in which case, seeing the early time-stamp should definitely set off some question marks.

In combination with the current regime's use of indiscriminate violence, misinformation, and downright lies, it reasonable to question anything they put out.
Now you are going to rightfully be down voted for insulting the rest of us by complaining about being down voted. Your comment as it stands now, should be down voted.

You aren't new to HN. You know this is wrong. Don't do it.
This is a relevant and interesting read from Ellsberg's book Secrets: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/02/daniel-ellsber...
Let's nip this in the bud. That's a Youtube bug [1]. The reddit story [2] has some nice comments.

1: https://gist.github.com/klaufir/d1e694c064322a7fbc15

2: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2b4kpg/conspira...
>H1-Bs are the very antithesis of freedom

Laws restrict freedom, that's their entire point. Whether a society, political ideology etc deems those limitations in freedom necessary is a different story. Visas put a wedge in the law to allow someone to work at a business. Global immigration laws prevent people/workers from moving freely to other areas of economic opportunity. By making immigration controls more restrictive (denying visa grants) you leave people with less opportunities and ergo freedom.

Should we create inter-state immigration controls? Should I need to apply to the state of New York to move there? By supporting immigration controls and denying H1-B visas you're in essence saying, yes I should have to apply to the state of New York to move there.
Castro is a great podcast app.
This. I am super excited about the GoTenna because it is basically Ham Radio for the masses. But I'd also like to talk to GoTenna users with SDR or similar - in the spririt of non-encrypted ham communication.
No. It is in the 150MHz (VHF) range, which is probably one reason why it is as long as it is. I assume they rolled at least a semi-custom radio solution.
Offtopic:

Yet another site that uses a ton of scrolling, space, and images to provide information that would fit in a couple of paragraphs. It's true that a picture can speak a thousand words. On the other hand a few dozen words can make up for six giant pictures that convey little information.

Note to mention the giant video that greets me. Has this actually proven effective, as it becomes more and more common? I don't know about most, but I will seldom watch a product video during my day - I don't have time or patience to wait for speed-of-speech delivery of information.

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My concern revolves around credibility. They took a beating after Heartbleed regarding the cost of revocation for certificates/credentials affected. While that is mostly a business decision on their end– it raises concerns about what their business is about. Nothing is "free", it just might not cost currency. "If you don't pay for the service, you are the service."

Since I don't have experience with them I am looking for some level of assurance that they are a legitimate service. In my opinion it is difficult to gain that assurance just from their website.
Maybe make H1B applicable only to direct hires no contracting via a third party body shop - also reduce a companys H1B allowance by the number of redundancy's in the previous year