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When I graduated from colllege I started working at a top tech company on a contract to hire.

The company was paid 50/hr fore and I was paid 20 an hour. When I asked for more, the indian-born Indian CEO of the company went apeshit on me.

No real story only that almost everyone is scum. It's not just the companies. When I told the director of my org what I was getting paid she hired me full time right away at a competitive salary. And I was just lucky that she happened to like me. Other people who complained simply got let go.

I sense there is something else at play here
IT work isn't that hard, yet for some reason instead of increasing awareness that there is huge demand for these jobs, we fly people in from india. We pay 150 bucks an hour for them, when an eager college kid can do and would do the same job with a bit of training for a fraction of the cost. Something else is going on here.
I think it's absurd that people are legally prevented from purchasing drugs that haven't been FDA approved. I think it is reasonable to e.g. force companies to put "Not FDA approved", but I don't think it's reasonable to preclude sale at all.

There are a number of medical treatments that have been proven safe to EMA (the European version of the FDA) standards, but were either mired for further years in the FDA approval process or were never approved at all due to the increased complexity and cost of the FDA approval process. Take a look at http://www.bioworld.com/content/ema-trounces-fda-2013-drug-a... to see the disparity.

The argument I always hear against allowing people to purchase drugs that haven't been officially approved by whatever agency has jurisdiction over the patient is "But what if some unscrupulous drug salesman bamboozles them into buying snake oil?". It seems to me that the existence of the FDA, EMA, and any number of other national and private certifying bodies is more than sufficient to allow people to make an informed decision for themselves.

I think that any argument for drug decriminalization or bodily sanctity can be applied in favor of allowing people to choose what drugs they wish to consume (even though some people will make unwise choices).
Ask HN: Mobile app that works offline and syncs data periodically
At our startup, our target market is increasingly conducting their business, on-the-go. Therefore, we have to augment our browser-based desktop app with a mobile app.

Therefore, I'm now evaluating what it would take to develop a mobile app that could work completely offline and sync transaction data periodically with the central server.

I've read briefly about Firebase, Parse, Usergrid, BaasBox, master-master replication, and the CAP theorem. As expected, I'm royally confused now!

We've already built out or backend using Postgres and RoR. Ideally I'd like to stick to it, especially Postgres, as we're dealing with financial transactions. We already have HTTP/JSON APIs to read/write data. We can also develop fine-grained APIs using Thrift, if required.

Now, my question is, is there a project/service/SDK out there which has already solved this data sync problem? What about conflict resolution when it comes to transaction data? I understand that this is like resolving merge conflicts in git, which basically requires human intervention, but is there an SDK that will reduce dev time for such scenarios? Can said SDK work with a custom backend API?
59s for droplet creation is a myth as well
I am sure you are SJW but please dont troll. Do you think company making offer to new hire that cheap ?
Please fuck off.
The book (Spark, link above) analyzes a handful of studies comparing the correlation between the type and duration of exercise, and its effects.

In short: you won't see any long lasting benefits from a single 15min. The best results were achieved at 75-85% of your aerobic capacity, at least a couple of hours per week (total).

You can also benefit from mixing simple aerobic exercises with others that require more coordination and fine movement of your body - martial arts, for example.
Location: Los Angeles or Orange County, CA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Unlikely
Technologies: Clojure(Script), Om/React, Rust, Haskell, Swift/iOS, Go, Scala/Play!, C++11, Python/Flask, Ruby/Rails, Machine Learning
Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ml6njfjnswexpnz/resume-pub.pdf
Email: in resume
Site: http://www.blaenkdenum.com

I'm a generalist who doesn't get bogged down with dogmatic views on specific technologies. I strive to learn a very diverse set of technologies in order to keep an open mind and blend the best ideas from each [0].

[0]: http://www.blaenkdenum.com/notes/

Most recently I created a web interface for rtorrent in Clojure/ClojureScript and Om/React [1], and I'm currently working on a static site generator in Rust [2].

[1]: https://github.com/blaenk/levee
[2]: https://github.com/blaenk/diecast
Which is why you have to be way more aggressive in just about any endeavor.
I don't the tech companies do this because they want to. They just try to get a contractor in and because the market is filled with these scum companies they inevitably get into all the companies.
Strattera usually isn't the first drug chosen, because it doesn't work for everyone. It primarily works on norepinephrine as a reuptake inhibitor. It's basically in the same class as bupropion (which is sometimes also prescribed off label for ADHD, though it's usually used as an antidepressant for those with cyclothymia or to aid in smoking cessation).

Ritalin works by inhibiting the re-uptake of dopamine and norepinephrine.

Amphetamine (adderal) works on dopamine, norepinephrine and seratonin. Not only is it a re-uptake inhibitor, but it actually "reverses the polarity" on neuron vesicles, causing them to dump their loads.

For some with ADHD, strattera works just fine. For others, strattera will make them feel like a zombie (or do nothing at all), while as little as 5mg of amphetamine salts a day will be sufficient.

A lot of folks with ADHD do just fine without medication. And others struggle with the thought of taking "the easy way out" for decades, and end up with a shitload of additional problems - primarily in the self confidence zone. Some only need the medication to get things back on track, establish routines and so forth ... but others really do need it.

Chronically untreated ADHD is painful, debilitating, embarrassing, and so unnecessary.
The issue here is that people use it in two ways:

1. As a signal that you embrace your own identity, and are not ashamed of what you are, despite societal prejudice.

2. As a signal that you see yourself as superior.

Most of the time when you hear someone say they are proud to be gay, or black, or otherwise proud to be member of some other minority group, it is 1 they mean. Sometimes it is 2, but it is fairly rare.

Most of the time when you hear someone say they are proud to be white, it means they are white supremacists using it in form 2.

While it is certainly possible for members of majority groups to use it in meaning 1, it is incredibly rare, because it makes little sense: The point of using it in that form is to counteract prejudice. Pretty much the only members of majority groups that consider it necessary to counteract prejudice are racists that are paranoid that they are being pushed aside.
I'd really like to get a surface pro 3 at some point for on the og type stuff. I really like literally sketching things out and when I tried the surface at best buy I loved the feel. I'm doing a lot to learn higher math that I never did and it seemed pretty great for that too

As a side note, one thing I've noticed on hn is actually a lot more love for what Microsoft does right than I might have first predicted. That's not to say that it's all great all the time but level heads opinions seem to surface pretty quickly. I'm not in love with ms myself, but I really like and appreciate a lot of what they're responsible for, which includes the surface. Going to have to get one.
This. Is. Hilarious. :-D

Just in case you guys aren't clear on the intent of the post, another submission by this user talking about cats breaking Firefox:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8541621
The most important aspect of the Federal Reserve Bank is that it was established by a small British Bank and 5 private families. They automatically pass their privately held shares down from one generation to the next. It is not "federal" in any sense.

The Federal Reserve Bank is the fake name they gave the bank so that the public would not examine or challenge it. These handful of people have been ruining (yes, I meant ruining, not running) the U.S. economy since its onset for the purposes of keeping control of the U.S. financial picture and ensuring their 1% position.

The manner in which its discussed here gives it far too much importance when in fact it is a private bank that can be resolved as easily as we got rid of the pony express and outhouses.

Simply take away its power and move on. You do that by being serious about establishing crypto currency and rendering the 5 private families control obsolete.

The only importance the Federal Reserve Bank holds is the importance you continue to give it.

We used to travel by horse and buggy and we lit our homes with gas lanterns. It's time to dispense with this relic of a banking system that no longer serves any purpose other than to enrich a handful of families.

As Americans, we should all be ashamed and embarrassed that as a nation we've let this farce go on as long as it has. The only people wanting to keep it in place are those with contracts to make peripheral revenue from it as long as it holds it position.

Consider how fraudulent it is that years after its inception, this private group still has the only monopoly on printing money. The creation of the Federal Reserve Bank in itself is one of the biggest financial frauds that has ever taken place and most didn't even notice.

Yet even you guys, whom are embarking on crypto currency, considered the future world economy, still genuflect when you see a U.S. dollar.
Microsoft have gone out of their way to support everything!

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virt...

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-mac...
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Where did you get the voices?
I have been passively following this subject for past 10 years (since I graduated college). Your suggestions are all valid and with good intent. However, 'one' group of workers these labor shops exploit are in a vicious cycle and are looking for ways to escape.

The following is typical scenario for this group: A student is enrolled in a university with average or poor CS program. There is no funding/scholarship or good on-campsu jobs. So, student works, often bending the laws, off-campus for more than 60 hours to pay for college. Obviously, education takes a backseat and somehow student graduates with huge debt. They struggle to find job and due to time restrictions on F1 visa, they are forced to find an employment and hence sign for these labor shops who give them employment letter (and apply for H1B visa) and securing students stay in US. So, initially, its a mutually beneficial arrangement.

Once workers realize they are being exploited, the struggle to get out starts.

I signed up for one of these contracting companies and they were paying me $48K when most of my fellow new graduates were making over $72K. I got out after 2.5 years, but fortunately, it was hassle free.

This is a very complex web of fraud, exploitation, bending the rules, and what not. IMO, it starts with mutual agreement/need on both sides, but descends in to the scenarios the post has brought to light.
Show HN: Self-hosted website builder and light CMS
>School for most kids is "prison-lite".

The parallels are numerous. You are legally compelled show up under threat of violence (although usually targeted at the child's parents, in the form of being arrested). You are not free to leave when you desire. You lose certain basic human rights while you are there (e.g. [1,2,3,4]). You are subject to the arbitrary authority of non-elected persons. Until recently, you were subject to physical violence at the hands of these persons. Social cliques and violence are relatively common. In many situations, self-expression, experimentation, and curiosity is discouraged.

I know, as a child, public school left a bad taste in my mouth for some of these reasons.

[1] Board of Education of Independent School District #92 of Pottawatomie County v. Earls

[2] Bethel School District #43 v. Fraser

[3] New Jersey v. T.L.O.

[4] Morse v. Frederick
This article is pretty much dead-on. Our laws have become more broad with absurdly high maximum penalties, and this extorts guilty pleas. For example, an internet merchant accused of failing to deliver 10 $200 orders could be charged with 10 counts of Wire Fraud and face a potential sentence of 300 years in prison (up to 30 years per count). Thus, when this hypothetical web merchant is offered a deal for 6 months, he will take it, regardless of whether he may have won at trial or not.

The system is designed to extort guilty pleas. The statistics are pretty straightforward: if you are standing in court facing charges, you've already lost. You just may not know it yet.
What frameworks/libs you use in TypeScript?
I realise there are others that likely have much more severe manifestations of the symptoms than me, but I don't think it's quite as black and white as you're making out. Surely the line you describe as "full-blown clinical ADHD" is somewhat arbitrary, when the symptoms exist on a spectrum?

I didn't attempt to get myself diagnosed, but yes, it was a significant impairment towards my life, and yes, there still is quite a negative impairment. If I wanted to get routine tasks done with any kind of consistency, I may well have to look into medication.

But instead, I structured my life around a very diverse range of stimulating past-times, and set myself up with very few obligations (e.g. no employer). This leaves a lifestyle of jumping between stimulating and challenging activities, which allows me to be a lot more productive, and achieve much more, than I ever did when I was in formal education or working a repetitive office job.

> In my direct and social experiences, however, those with clinical ADHD diagnoses are assisted with such suggestions, but very rarely do they improve things to the point that there is no longer a significant impairment to that person's life.

How far did they take the suggestions? Did they quit their job and start their own startup? While I agree that medication is probably the best solution for certain types of lifestyle, I do think adjusting one's environment is an underrated and underexplored solution, that could do with more research.
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Willfully ignorant of science.
Yeah, nice try actually to sell some stupid shit. Do you even read ? Every fucking now and then I hear now ---
women are paid less, sexism , women in tech and shit.
Look at India you fucking morons in US. Millions of girls , women graduate in tech each year. Thousands come to US. Then why US only have such problem.

Real answer is there is no such problem of women in tech. All non-sense political shit and you morons are played as usual by rich and powerful.

Also, isn't that book from same woman who did not want to pay to her "Intern" . Also note ..."WOMAN" intern.

Book is non-sense and mere hype.
I definitely agree that HN is first and foremost utilitarian. Which is why I have every confidence that, in the coming years, as the # of HN'ers who've reproduced grows, there will come a critical mass of folks out to maximize the outcomes for their children.
https://www.moneysoft.com.au - is a running on C# & SQL Server , hosted on our own servers.

And https://www.calendartree.com/ (startup by Dilbert's Scott Adams + others) are C# / SQL site, on their own servers.
Have they improved the pen tracking? For example, using a ruler can you slowly draw straight lines at a 45 degree angle? [0]

In my experience with the SP3, the N-Trig pen tracking was far inferior to the Wacom pen in the earlier Surfaces. The poor tracking made my handwriting unacceptably sloppy-looking. I'm surprised artists can use it, but maybe you use mostly faster and longer pen strokes?

[0] http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/forum/surfpro3-su...
Well, if the adversarial system is effective, then it's the combination of prosecutors driving for convictions and defense attorneys driving for acquittals that produces justice. Hypothetically, only the judge is concerned with justice. And even then, only obliquely, because they only oversee justice of the trial process, not justice in general.
Survey says probably not:

https://cognitect.wufoo.com/reports/state-of-clojure-2014-re...

There was an announcement of Clojure in Unity3d [1] a couple weeks ago which is ClojureCLR.

https://github.com/arcadia-unity/Arcadia
Some people choose L1 simply because their wife cannot work on H4 but can on L2 spouse visa.
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"... spending his days at a company apartment in Norcross, Georgia. His first assignment:Wait for Softech to find him a job. After languishing for 10 weeks without work or full-time pay ..."

This means free housing and paid unemployment benefit, plus the people paying you are finding you a job themselves. I'm sure there are some Americans who wouldn't mind subscribing to that service. Yes, there's a cost of not quitting before you contract's up, but for some it may be worth it, as long as they're sufficiently well informed.
Isn't the "something else" just money? The employer gets an employee who is afraid to ask for a raise, since that might mean losing immigration status and returning to a (not as comfortable) life in their home country. With the green card process taking a few good years, the employer has an indentured servant. Indian born CEO or American born, money is money to them.

Immigration reform is essential. If someone on a temporary visa asks "for more" like you did, they might just get fired and replaced with another temporary visa worker. So, they don't end up asking for raises, which means that the labor rate is artificially depressed. If H1Bs were not tied to employers, then this would not happen. BUT this is not in the employer's interest, so I don't think this has a chance of changing.
Psst! Try out other stuff Odeo makes: odeo/play, Hellodeo, Twttr (2006)
In a way this seems like just another example corporate culture seep into our government. The prosecutors are gaming the system HARD and completely against the spirit of the system, but it's legal so it's OKAY. Meta justice.

I know somebody who had some charges brought against them about 10 years ago. It was a he-said/she-said and the state had no real evidence. From the get go they were trying to get a plea bargain. The accuser even recanted, signing a witnessed statement to the effect that they lied about the whole thing. Still, they pressed forward. Delaying meetings, pushing out dates, and generally drawing the whole thing out. They waited until the very day the statute of limitation ran out to close the case. I've seen first hand how much leverage they have over people. These types of charges, even pending, can completely wreck your life. And the stress. I remember everyone saying he should take the plea bargain, but I agreed that if he was innocent he had a duty to tell them to stuff it and hold out. Justice, pride; I GOT it. We were young. Now though, at 30.. If I were in a similar situation I'm just not sure what I would do.
Thanks! Excellent read. Perhaps submit that paper directly to HN?
What actually happened in the story is Wipro Indian overpaid their employee and when they discovered the error the employee refused to return the money.

There are some bad actors here but I found that particular anecdote unconvincing.
Just today I was at a Microsoft Store and played with a Surface Pro 3 for the first time. I was quite impressed and almost bought it but when I looked up on the internet about running Ubuntu on it, there are few un-resolved issues. Such as the bluetooth doesn't work or wifi only works for the 2.4GHz networks. Overall I was impressed with the hardware, and would totally get one in the future when it's possible to run Ubuntu on it.
> Did they quit their job and start their own startup?

They forget to shave and flush the toilet, so no. When I mean full-blown clinical ADHD I don't mean interrupting people and being unable to finish a coding project on time. I mean "gets fired from Mickey D's for randomly staring at the walls". Inattentiveness on a scale that's not being discussed in this article or this thread.

Perhaps I feel so strongly about all of this because I've attended group sessions with non-tech people that are truly suffering because of this thing and I don't have any way of bridging the understanding gap with mere comments on a website. This is a difficult malady for those in tech. Outside of tech? It's sink or doggy paddle, and when you sink there's a whole ocean under you, not a swimming pool.
Ask HN: Node.js memory optimization
Never noticed this before but I recently stated running multiple node processes on my server and each process is eating up bunch of memory. 100+ mb. Is this because node processes do not share resources? What is the best way to combat this? Is the only option to combine all processes into one?

Another question is in regards to modules and memory. If your single node process loads a module that is also loaded inside another module, is the module loaded multiple times? Or is it shared inside a single process?
If I still ran Windows as my OS, I'd use a Surface 3 as my primary device. It really does strike a great balance of power user features, but that makes it hard to market unfortunately.
Most of the H1B's I've worked with shouldn't even be in the positions they are. Some of them migMost of the H1B's I've worked with shouldn't even be in theMost of the H1B's I've worked with shouldn't even be in the positions they are. Some of them might have a "college education" in some area of technology, but are.. ah.. Useless and waste of company money and the US economy. positions they are. Some of them might have a "college education" in some area of technology, but are.. ah.. Useless and waste of company money and the US economy.ht have a "college education" in some area of technology, but are.. ah.. Useless and waste of company money and the US economy.
The title of this post is "Alan Watts on Mental Illness". However, this guy is named Alan Watt, not to be confused with the more famous Alan Watts[1] (who died in 1973).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Watts
Yeah that's true. I have a lot of remappings and shortcuts in my vimrc file, and I struggle a bit when I'm using vanilla vim on another server. Thankfully, I'm usually able to snyc my ~/.vim/ and ~/.vimrc files to that machine if I'll be using it for more than just a one-off.

But it is frustrating otherwise.
I am quite impressed with the surface pro 3. But because of their awful marketing I'm actually embarrassed to admit I own a surface pro 3. When those terrible commercials come on when I'm around friends I feel compelled to explain the merits of the device.
> wonder if there's also a case for reducing our need for more stimuli (e.g. with mindfulness or meditation)

A study was done in Australia ten years ago on a type of meditation that encourages you to be more mindful to see what effect it can have on ADHD. Children were able to reduce or even cut out their medication completely after completing the meditation program.

http://ccp.sagepub.com/content/9/4/479.abstract

http://www.m.sahajayogaportal.org/papers/manocha.pdf (non-paywall link)
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