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> It absolutely, positively hurts local labor - naturalized citizens - etc. Without a doubt.

I think there's little question that increasing the supply of engineers reduces their price -- our salaries. We can argue about whether it's a small or a large effect, and whether it goes away in the long run due to macroeconomic effects, but it's certainly there. So you're arguing against a straw man here.

But more to the point, it's short-sighted and selfish to judge policy decisions solely based on their effects on your salary. Especially since those of us in tech are, by and large, ridiculously well-compensated.

Setting aside the benefits to the immigrants themselves, highly-skilled workers who emigrate to the US are a /fantastic deal/. We paid nothing to educate them, yet they come here and grow the economy and pay taxes. All of these new people have to buy housing, food, medical care, and so on. It's literally free economic growth.

> We also don't need any more of the divisive ethic-neuveau-ghettos we're seeing
> in the south bay, cupertino and east bay with communities insulating themselves
> rather than assimilating.

This is borderline racist. "/We/ don't need any more of /them/, especially if they choose to live apart, rather than become Real Americans." If the alternative is living near people like you, it's no wonder they tend to stick together.
That's already happening in some countries, with the exception that those countries don't have "political candidates" because they are frank one-party dictatorships. I would hate to be an organizer of a new civil-society organization in north Korea, for example, or even in China, which is still a dictatorship even though it is recently a less stark dictatorship than its client state north Korea.
I mostly do iOS development, which produces very little heat.

I do use it for gaming, however. I've played through Portal 2 on max settings. The aluminum definitely gets hot right above the keyboard near the left top corner, but it has never shut down due to heat.
Congrats, Tilt team! This is absolutely needed. The previous product I worked on was used by a lot of non-profits for crowdfunding and it just shows how necessary something like this is.
True, that is something worth looking into. We are also of course looking at setting up some Docker images for quick and speedy deployments.
You are not your resume
This year the holidays are Made with Code
Our beloved friend Aline (leeny on HN) claims that resumes are a bad way to pick good software engineers. http://blog.alinelerner.com/resumes-suck-heres-the-data/ There must be a better way - here's what we want to try.
I agree- this just reads like an ad. Wish there was a way to flag this as "reads like an ad", like they have on Wikipedia
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Renter's insurance can also cover lost items like that. Don't suppose you have that, do you?
if that took digging, you have not worked in the big corporate enterprisey space. These are the go-to bodyshop guys all the major players outsource to. These bodyshops hire talented H1Bs (from their own network) to get folks on-shore to handle knowledge acquisition, then "knowledge transfer" to the offshore folks for peanuts.
Unless that version of Git is also running on your computer, it doesn't change anything. The problem is with local files, not remote ones
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There's even a typo in the first example:

<html:a href="/cats">Cats</a>
<html:a href="/dogs">Dogs</a>
<html:a href="/rain">Rain</a>

I guess forgetting the namespace in the closing tag will happen A LOT to everyone.
It's certainly not a bad thing, generally speaking. But the point, I think, is that it is a bad thing for the purposes of using student performance to evaluate the educational quality of the school. Students with involved parents outperform the children of parents who don't care.
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Why do you think so? Virii doesn't seem that much more common than viri or viruses.
And Indian H1B workers who match those skills for the high-skill / high-paying jobs will settle for less than industry average?

Also, in the current system, even if he wants to steal people from other tech companies, there is a good chance those people are on H1B, and that it will be exceedingly hard to steal them without immigration problems (particularly if they are, as is likely, to have a green card application in process.)
> I think it's a fallacy that what's less efficient for a computer is better for a developer.

I don't think that was ever said; I claimed that trading disk space for developer hours is a good trade-off in this case.

> The npm-style dependency tree enables and encourages much more complexity, which developers then have to deal with when debugging or deploying.

I don't believe this is the case. When developing an app (as opposed to a library) it's considered a best practice to check your node modules into source control, ensuring that there's never a mismatch between installed dependencies on developer machines. If you don't want to do that, you take what comes - but even before I picked up on that, I never ran into issues even when collaborating with 5+ developers. You just need to make sure your package.json locks your versions appropriately.
...or use very simple lib like this one [1] to access to deep-nested structs using one call.

[1] https://github.com/zazab/zhash
your title is misleading. it's a chance to win 3 books and to increase your odds of winning, you have to spam 3 or more of your friends. no thank you.

had i known that from the get-go, i would not have bothered to click on the link. this kind of clickbaiting does not belong on hacker news.
Sure, the second layer would have to be very sparse. That makes sense since most multi-piece 'chunks' are not really that interesting.
What about if we build more Manhattans and put our 600 million people there? Maybe it's time to dig some subway tunnels on the Kansas prairie.
Haha they are definitely sophomores and juniors in college. CS undergrads from top 20 CS programs are getting offered that much for summers, I've witnessed these offers from a lot of my friends.
There's almost no academic pride left in British universities. There may be amongst the staff and students, but not at the top. So disappointing.
How are you getting the data from Braintree? I've tried exporting my data from them before but they don't seem to support an export API. Are you getting raw CC data from them?
Context: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_y...
Most of them are worthless; of any given intern class at a first tier technology company (e.g., Apple), only ~1-5% will actually be offered a full time job.

I really doubt this number. Rehire rates are an important consideration for college students, and they talk. An offer rate below 50% would be damaging.

That said, a lot of people find better offers elsewhere, but no tech company is going to no-offer 90% of its interns and keep its reputation intact.
>There's standard, normalized ways immigrants have come to the US for a long time now.

And what are those?

If you are being honest why not just say "We don't want any more immigrants". Because H1B is the only way to immigrate to US. Its great that your parents got a shot a new life and now you want the door to closed.

PS: I am a naturalized US citizen, if it matters.
Link to the slides: http://neo900.org/stuff/ohsw2014/ohsw2014.pdf
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Also, the author of this post is running an early-stage business, where cost-cutting doesn't make any sense. It strikes me as a bit naive to extrapolate from what his business is trying to do, to Amazon or whoever. It strikes me as rather likely that businesses more mature than his absolutely are interested in cutting costs, even if he isn't.
I've thought for a long time that in the future only the most boring people who have ever lived will be able to get elected to any high office. We're talking boy or girl scouts with perfect attendance, a 4.0 GPA, never tried any sort of drug, never curse, had totally dull sex lives, and have only the most mainstream beliefs imaginable.
This is a fantastic book. I reviewed it last year: https://www.petekeen.net/book-review-the-box
Thanks for this interesting (and very entertaining) talk! The phrase "it's hard to keep a mental model of a system while consuming these actions" really sums up what's nice about using flux. With the right developer tooling, visualizing past (and even potential future) state changes becomes much more trivial.
That's not what I was saying at all, but alright. If you're interested in the topic, look up utility curves, income effect, and substitution effect in a microeconomics textbook. It'll probably have a much better explanation than I can communicate through text (unless I start making graphs, which would be a bit time consuming).

Here's a copy paste of my explanation on reddit though (where this topic also constantly comes up):

Living in the Bay Area results in a higher wage, which increases consumption (income effect), but at the same time the price of housing is much higher as well (to a greater degree than the increase in income). You substitute sq ft with other goods. If you place relatively heavy utility on housing by sq ft in comparison to all other goods, then I guess it's a bad idea to come out here, because you're going to be on a lower indifference curve. Otherwise (and I think most people fall under 'otherwise', which is why they come out here ) its not that bad of an idea, and you'll probably end up on a higher indifference curve.
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Ask HN: Activity as a Factor in Post Scoring?
I'm curious if the volatility of upvoting/downvoting is (or could be) used to rank comments. I've posted some musings that I thought were rather insightful and was surprised to see them settle on a score of 1. I suspect that they were being endorsed and denounced repeatedly because they were controversial.

But it hit me that the most relevant or thought-provoking posts may run counter to one’s worldview or deeply held beliefs, so in effect could be catalysts for moving the conversation forward and avoiding groupthink. I know that those are the sorts of pearls of wisdom that attracted me to Hacker News and Paul Graham’s essays initially (though I realize that he no longer decides these things).

Would it be possible to visually indicate the total number of +/- votes per post, or use that as a weight in the scoring formula? This would be separate from the controversy penalty (that prevents flame wars due to too many comments).
> if there is a will, there is a way

I'm not so sure about this. I'm a British citizen who's been living in the US for most of the past 7 years (as a student or doing academic jobs), but I can't see any easy way for me to get a job in the tech industry in the US. Perhaps a big company might be willing to sponsor me for an H1B. Apart from that there is just no realistic option that I'm aware of. What other visa could I realistically apply for?
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tech is full of useful idiots stoked by the idea of cutting their wages, who haven't fully absorbed how duplicitous and exploitative the industry really is. See google, apple, linkedin wage fixing agreements. And a lack of unions.
maybe I missed something but I don't see how that resolved the paradox

just because you introduce more dimensions, doesn't mean you resolve a paradox within the existing dimensions
A university-educated electrical engineer doesn't want to be an illegal immigrant and the employers that need his skills won't hire illegal immigrants either.

So this is only really true for people willing to work illegally, like migrant farm workers. Presumably the US wants a wider mix of immigrants beyond that.
For my purchases from Amazon UK to EU-not-UK (where books are charged VAT) the bill information clearly shows the total before VAT, VAT and the final total.

I'm rather sure that it's mandatory. The thing that sucks is that the VAT-included price is visible only at the end of checkout, which is different than everything else - local stores and web-stores are required to advertise only tax-included prices. Possibly it's because the "same customer" may get different tax rates depending on where I choose to ship the item.
Actually the recordings from At The Movies weren't usable because so much of them had movies playing in the background. They used all of his DVD commentaries (mainly from criterion collection, if memory serves).
Yes, I think what you're saying in your third paragraph is what I was trying to say in my second paragraph. And I agree that the article could stand to be much clearer on its motivations.

Re: the integers mod 7, I had a brainfart; of course the integers mod 7 are a UFD, but trivially so, as they are a field. My apologies!
I recently shifted to contact lenses. The one thing I really miss is going out to a park, taking off my glasses, and seeing what my brain finds in the images my very nearsighted eyes give me when I watch the trees sway in the wind.
Nobody gets what they deserve. You only get what you negotiate.

(from my dad who is a former engineering professor and now a university administrator).
Booting up linux servers to serve unique communities
When I was very new to Rails, I heard a talk Ezra gave at a RailsConf about the work he had done setting up and configuring servers for EY when they were just starting out. He spoke about the technical details with great enthusiasm for a few minutes and then stopped, laughed, and said "Can you tell I love my job?".
UK's 50 fastest-growing tech companies generated £963m last year
> it is not part of governmental control

Isn't that a pretty dangerous assertion in itself? It's a private company running private servers that you have no control over and no ability to tell whether or not an external entity has accessed your data.
From behind paywall:

Online payments start-up Stripe on Monday closed a $70m fundraising round that has seen the company’s valuation double in less than a year to $3.5bn, as investors see promise in a group that has worked with Apple, Facebook and Twitter as part of their forays into ecommerce.
The San Francisco-based business, founded in 2010 by Irish brothers Patrick and John Collison, is the latest tech start-up to benefit from soaring valuations. It follows an $80m fundraising in January that valued the company at $1.75bn and will help with expanding into more countries and new areas of online commerce.

The company provides online retailers with technology that enables them to accept payments through their app or site. Only a fraction of retail spending happens online, however. In the US, ecommerce represents less than 6 per cent of the market.

Patrick Collison said Stripe’s goal was to improve the complex infrastructure for online payments.

"There’s commerce that could be happening and isn’t happening today," he said.
Stripe has tapped into changes in the ecommerce sector this year, driven by the rise of mobile and social network commerce.

Apple tapped the company as one of a small number of launch partners for Apple Pay, its mobile payment service. Stripe has also linked-up with Facebook and Twitter as they launched features to enable users to buy products that they see featured on the social networks.
Stripe this year worked with Alipay, the payments partner for Alibaba, the Chinese ecommerce group, to help online retailers outside of China accept payments made by Chinese consumers.

"People were previously being kind of unambitious about what was possible, and now through things like the buy buttons on Twitter and Facebook or enabling Alipay, I think people are starting to see what might be possible," Mr Collison said.
Investors in the round include Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, and Khosla Ventures, as well as Thrive Capital. The company is still sitting on much of what it raised in January, but it wanted to "err on the side of being really well-capitalised" in case markets cool down, Mr Collison said.

Stripe is far from the only tech start-up whose valuation has risen precipitously this year as investors and founders make the most of the industry’s boom times. Ride-hailing app Uber is in talks to raise $1bn at potentially double the $17bn it was valued at in a June round. Airbnb, the apartment-sharing company, was valued at $13bn last month, up from $10bn earlier this year.
Elon will beat you NASA.
My opener on Linkedin for the longest time was "Projects are the new resumes". This should come as no surprise to the HN community.
It starts to become more relevant when you start to make more ties, and realize you might suddenly be yanked away from your new friends (and possibly SO).

I'm certainly not saying it's the motivation in every case - doubtless it is often about costs and sometimes genuinely about talent.
"Meeting" is different from "working". You can, of course, get a tourist Visa and meet and talk about stuff, and maybe even work out of a US office for a couple of weeks. But I think that working for a couple of months would not be permitted...

Actually, I'm not sure of the law here. As long as you're not employed by the US division, are not paid by them and are just using the US as a place to work for their overseas subsidiary....I'm not sure how that pans out, legality wise.
Regardless of the content (which is interesting), the "discuss on HN" link at the end of the article prompts you to submit the article to HN, thereby giving it free upvotes. This is a dark pattern and not a practice we should encourage. Flagged, and I encourage other people to do the same.
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>It absolutely, positively hurts local labor - naturalized citizens - etc. Without a doubt.

So does buying hardware that's made overseas. Interesting that this argument is made now, but how many local programmers ever bought anything electronic which was a little more expensive but made in the US instead of overseas?

Why do software jobs deserve protection but hardware jobs do not? The amount of hypocrisy here is nauseating.
Then that makes you an exceptional case, and implies that you work for a good company. But neither of those points represent how this program is more widely (ab)used.
I built this slowly over the years, originally just for the enjoyment of our relatives (we're spread all over Europe and North America). Then they started to say they wanted to make their own advent calendars.

It takes just a few minutes to make a custom online calendar with your own selection of photos, or pick a prepared calendar from a catalog. People you invite to your calendar are your private guests. They can signal their love of your photos, and add personal notes. It's a private way to highlight and share pictures with a seasonal purpose.
To late now, But I have Cisco Meraki MDM setup on all of my devices. It is free, and While your average thief might know about turning off iCloud and the consumer grade find my pc apps, but might not know exactly what Meraki System Manager is . and at least on OSX and Windows once you install it, you really have to look for it.
> "Twenty years ago the time to Aids was 10 years, but in the last 10 years in Botswana that might have increased to 12.5 years, a sort of incremental change, but in the big picture that is a rapid change."

20 years ago, the ARV's and mixes weren't what they were 10 years ago and awareness + access to therapy also changed. Therapy initiation guidelines changed - which would directly impact time to AIDS.

Throw that statement away in relation to the meaning of the study results - except if this statement is there, it raises a concern about bias or mistakes in the study due to an insufficiently rigorous handling of the data and contexts/meaning.
Git stores whole objects, not diffs, in case you were confused.
similar to tilde.club
>Nor would I want to hire someone who was desperate.

If you won't, someone else will, and they'll outcompete you.
>You're basically saying that American tech companies should only hire Americans. That the facebook, Google, Mozilla, ... shouldn't hire smart people from other countries.

No, the system just needs to be reformed. And I've seen the right reform proposal often enough to be circulating it myself:

* The government can give out N visas in an auction. Firms bid via legally-binding salary offers. The N highest salaries bid get the visas, and the government takes a small additional payroll tax as the only fee.

* The visas adhere to the workers, not the companies.

That will greatly improve the current system for the workers while enabling everyone genuinely in need of high-skilled labor to get it.

Of course, it's worth noting that some degree of so-called "nativism" is just part of the social contract. It's the price we pay for having a society that enforces cooperative coordination among citizens instead of letting everything be run by uncoordinated, law-of-the-jungle free-for-alls.
Thanks! Feel free to give us feedback by creating github issues or directly emailing: contact@kitematic.com

We read all the emails coming in. It gets forwarded to all of us.
Yeah, I don't know whether France has a similar exemption, but in the UK currently I do not have to track or even charge VAT until the company has £81k in revenue. I don't even have to register for it. This is really handy for turning a side-project into a small company, as I can just try out various revenue streams without too much bureaucracy.

Once I hit £81k of course, I can probably afford to throw money at accountants to take care of it for me! But that critical first bootstrapping stage has become just that little bit more difficult. It's either block the rest of the EU, or get ready to do some paperwork. Or I guess I could become a zero-revenue startup! ;)
You could always compare them using prevailing wage data from

Department of Labor

http://www.flcdatacenter.com/
Sweet sweetness!
free healtcare, maintained infrastructure, cheap internet and cops that do not murder people help a lot
The reason why companies like doing this is because the H1-B worker is bonded to the company for a long... long time. They can continue to keep underpaying the worker. They can even choose to not follow-through with sponsoring the H1-B worker's green-card application.
Thanks a lot for the offer! Really appreciate it. But, I've already filed a report and I just got back to Boston.
Completely stock. The floppy drives can crank out a byte every 32 microseconds giving a theoretical maximum of 30.5 KB/second. Then you lose some to seeking and other overhead. A full screen is 1 KB so 30 FPS is within reach (I'm only doing 25). Actually, a graphics screen of 128 x 48 can be encoded in 768 bytes. Finding time to do the unpacking is the tricky part.

The floppy reading and and video/audio display are completely interleaved. The program works in 32 microsecond steps with 13.5 microseconds dedicated to reading the disk and 18.5 microseconds spent on graphics and audio update. These two conceptional threads communicate via a 32 KB ring buffer.

You can hear the disk seek a few times before the display starts as it builds up some buffer. I imagine a graphics display could be managed at a coarser level of interleaving at the expense of floppy bandwidth. Audio, however, needs constant servicing to work at all.
It's planned for Kitematic, but we need to make sure the Mac versions works well first.
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You're entire post is based on a strawman argument. OP didn't say that companies shouldn't hire non-American talent. He said companies should hire non-American talent through traditional immigration proceedings, and that the H1B program lends itself to an exploitative employer-laborer relationship, that ultimately serves to unfairly lower industry pay rates.
Neo is doing the same thing: http://careers.neo.com/

There is hope for a better tomorrow :)

Resume's stink!
Super excited for these really talented teams to work together!
Ok, I had a feeling this was an edge case.
Or to do a streaming parse with json.Decoder.