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Please do keep in mind that NDAs are a thing.
I think H1-B's should entitle someone to work in the US at any company. Personally as a US citizen I think we're really lucky to get the worlds best and brightest to move here. Even if you feel different giving workers the ability to shop around for salaries would be a very effective way of ensuring that immigration is really about talent and not ensnaring workers at artificially low wages (which I've certainly seen personally).
you've gotta build a rep as a hacker on elance. keep your bio short and to the point, talk about typical holes like cross-site scripting, sql-injection, db hardening, full stack exp etc. if you know how to crack node.js sites we might even hire you too depending on your js experience.
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Yep I can't agree more. These are just things that can be replaced. Losing something or someone you can never replace is truly sad.
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It's usually suicide when nothing criminal is suspected and there isn't a statement about natural causes.
Downvoting because this comment, restating the obvious, adds nothing but kicking somebody when they're down.
There is some evidence that we went full borg on at least some viruses and assimilated them into our cell machinery: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15310846
I am surprised each time I see this kind of casual bigotry on HN. Seriously, "school in India called, Institute of Suspiciously Obscure Technologies"? I don't think there's any other way of reading your comment other than "most Indians lie on resumes and in interviews."

It's understandable seeing this kind of stuff on reddit from 13 year-olds. But I don't understand what vantage makes you make such sweeping generalizations about a supposedly monolithic chunk of 1 billion human beings.

Haven't you heard the joke about how pretty much everything that requires a caveat "not trying to be racist here" is actually racist?
It seems like the more interesting software fight is datacenter cloud o/s which is even higher level than Docker's orchestration-of-containers focus.

I hadn't thought about it, but this makes a lot of sense as the next place of competition where value can be added. It's also where CoreOS is trying to be. It would also suggest that the level above that is abstracting datacenter's away to just manage a single global system made up of multiple DC's.

There may be something I'm missing in the Docker vs CoreOS that makes me discount this competition while others are playing it up.

Docker and CoreOS aren't strictly competing with each other, CoreOS wanted to use Docker as a commodity component (as it was designed), Docker eventually realised that becoming a commodity businesses wasn't going to be very profitable and moved into CoreOS' territory.
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I raised 11btc for my nonprofit towards developing an unpatented cancer drug...
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> Act of 1924 ... which helped condemn millions to death in Europe

That is incredibly twisted reasoning.
I did 23andme myself before the FDA came down on them and I'm happy for the things it tells me. What would you be better off not knowing?
Yes in the case of Green Card I agree you can become a captive if you're still waiting for your I-140. That being said, the DoL is currently reviewing the rules and should allow portability of the PERM in the near future as directed by Obama's announcement last Thursday, so when this finally happens there should be no longer talk of captivity even for Green Cards since PERM really doesn't take that long (unles syou get an audit...)
It is all trial and error from my perspective. I like this line of inquery. The problem I see is the technology is constantly changing, and the meaning of 'scalable' is always expanding. Ie the 'Enterprise' archticture of the past didn't scale to 'internet scale', will 'internet scale' scale to 'internet of things' scale?
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How much should a website cost? This is a loaded question. That’s like asking, how much should a car cost? Or, how much should brain surgery cost? (Do you want someone working on your brain that offers a 2-for-1 discount?) Your website is an integral part of your business; it is an investment – not an expense. A good website developer gets that and will want to build you a website that generates business. How much is that worth? Of course there are always budgetary considerations that go into any aspect of marketing. But your website is not the place to cut corners. It is your brand, your business online the line. Imagine That in Frisco Colorado suggests a number of consideration for good website design. http://imaginethatcreative.net/web-design-development/
It's reasonable to assume that Github's limits are caused by Git's limits. When Git begins supporting large files, most likely Github will be able to raise their limits as well.
> It is unlikely a robot will ever be able to do the job of entrepreneur.

Sounds like a market opportunity. DoucheBot 6000 can hook right in to algorithmic trading platforms to acquire VC without human intervention at any step! It'll disrupt the startup game!
what's the takeaway? i read the article twice and came away with yes... tradition, keeping things the way they are and have been, together with slow decision making, all good? but got to the end and thought, okay. where's the controversy? i agree with all of the above, particularly when you are building systems, oss or not, that other users have to, choose to, want to depend on. so the author's grip is with what? the newcomers??? please explain cuz i feel like i am missing something here.
Or he can get his real degree in some Patrick Korseka private university, Some street, Building 56, 5th floor, room #34. Ask Paul :)
> Pricing a scarce resource doesn't "screw over" anyone.

Citation needed!

For reference, here's a toy model where pricing a scarce resource screws someone over:

- There are two people in the model, Alice and Bob.

- Alice is very rich, Bob is very poor.

- Each of them needs a loaf of bread per day to survive (100 utility), and would also enjoy eating a second loaf (1 utility).

- Initially, each of them gets a loaf from the government for free. There are only two loaves available per day.

- Now let's price the scarce resource, and have the government sell the loaves instead! Alice buys both loaves and enjoys life. Bob doesn't get anything and dies.

Right?
> "H1B Visas exist for one reason, and one reason only" ; "it's simple reality" ; "Without a doubt" ; "It happens all-the-fucking-time" ; "There's absolutely no talent shortage in the Bay Area"

Presenting something as a fact doesn't make it one.

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.

As someone who doesn't live in the US but would like to work in this industry, I will probably have to relocate to the US (either in the Bay Area or New York). Do you mean that offers I've got in the past were because I'm "cheap labor"? (as in "Let's fly you from the other side of the world, pay for the crazy high VISA fees, pay for relocation, ... and then pay you the same as those that already live in the Bay Area")

Your remarks about "divisive ethic-neuveau-ghettos" with "communities insulating themselves rather than assimilating" just makes it worst. I'm not even going to guess who the "We" in your message refers to.
This observation likely explains my experience!
This is a great idea.

Where the text discusses the origin of the term "Milky Way", I wish they would give the Greek name γαλαξίας κύκλος (at least in transliteration) rather than only giving the translation 'milky circle'. (The text does give the original Latin "via lactea").

I remember when the term γαλαξία was referenced in an amazing conlang puzzle which led to a series of events culminating in my awareness that γαλαξίας is ancient Greek for 'galaxy' (sort of), whereas γαλαξία is ancient Greek for 'milkshake' (sort of).
I saw some posts on the mailing list where their position wasn't that it isn't a problem, but that no obviously-right solution is yet known, so it's better to let it shake out in third-party land for now, which seems reasonable. (That's all from memory, so salt appropriately.)

FWIW, I have been using godeps and it seems nice so far. I'd definitely recommend taking a look.
Hey, shykes. Thanks for creating Docker (and your enthusiasm). I think HN is being extremely critical of you, but they have some valid points. Keep a thick skin -- it's tough not to look defensive even if you are right.

(i don't know enough about rocker to make a judgement either way).
Your anecdotal experience doesn't change the fact that H1B workers are paid less than American workers for comparable positions.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/02/silicon-valley-h...
I'm really glad to see that I don't need a DNS server inside the VM in the new release.
In my anecdotal experience, specifically with charitable donations, bitcoin contributions tended to arrive in very small amounts compared to donations in the form of government currency. Also, we saw the frequency of bitcoin donations taper off from a couple per day to absolutely nothing after about two weeks of accepting it. On the upside, adding a bitcoin donation option was actually very simple, so although the bitcoin contributions haven't been very significant, it really didn't cost us anything either.
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> Several investigators have found that performers tend to stretch their intervals

Johan Sundberg has excellent examples of this "stretched" tuning in some of his talks. He claims that musicians stretch intervals intentionally in order to add excitement to particular passages. The link below contrasts equally tempered and "stretched" versions of the same musical phrases.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxFVjKMsaTc&t=50m32s

To my ears the stretched versions are far more engaging, especially the example with the tenor Jussi Bjorling around 52:50.
Works as advertised.

Edit 1: Sorry for low content comment. I took the encrypted string, and ran it though my own AES256 function. And it decrypted to my original plan text. So yeah, it works.
Nice try NSA, nice try! I use Telegram, which is not related with country I live and the USA. Also I use Babel when I'm out of internet.
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That's their terminology I believe (hence quotes). However, for fun you can have a go at imputing a full genome from these SNPs (e.g. http://genomesunzipped.org/2013/03/learning-more-from-your-2...). SNPs aren't necessarily exonic either so exome-seq isn't a superset of SNPs (I am a bioinformatics PhD student so while this isn't precisely my day job I'm not speaking from a position of ignorance).
As well as Red Hat has done, they are dwarfed by many other companies. This post about open source compressing the market size by 10x made a lot of sense, and was also a little depressing. http://kellblog.com/2014/11/18/it-aint-easy-making-money-in-...
i was thinking of offering a crowd-funded bounty to crack our #ePlug IoT stuff. the bounty starts low for the obvious cracks but gets more difficult and pays more as the crack gets tougher. i'd like to offer this to Hackers on swarm, startjoin or other crypto-friendly crowd sites. hacker.surf would be an obvious portal to the crowd sites for this. ideas?
Having worked for startups in SF/SV and non-startups in DC and San Diego, exploiting H1Bs are more common in the latter.

I know of some companies reporting a fair wage to IRS/Labor Department but actually paying the employees a lot less.
A lot of the comments assume that there are only two choices: hire a local American worker or hire an immigrant. But, as the article shows, there is a third choice: hire outside of the US.

Giving this third choice, I don't think that restricting H1B visas in some fashion (either through cost or availability) will necessarily have the effect of increasing domestic wages. It may have the opposite effect and drive companies to open up shop outside of the US - Microsoft opened up a development shop in Canada for just this reason [1] and my understanding is that Microsoft would strongly prefer that all of its employees be in one location.

The biggest risk would be that American companies start choosing non-US locations as their engineering center-of-gravities because they want to avoid the coordination costs of distributed development without losing the ability to hire non-American workers [2].

[1] http://thetyee.ca/News/2007/11/07/MSWord/

[2] This already happens at a small scale already. I know of a SF-based startup that moved their engineering organization to Europe because they couldn't get visas for key team members.
100% agree. Though a lot of the churn here could be reduced with the right education and mentorship. There is a mathematics to good architectures -- a mathematics that can be taught. But currently the initiative of us are left to find the way ourselves. We need to find a way to formulate and teach this mathematics to the next generation/s so they can get there faster.
I'd love to see a Windows version for sure.
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> The fact that we need containers at all stems from the difficulty of managing software installations, configuration, etc on the actual operating system.

Great post. However, containers are an easy concept to grasp. Even if the actual OS could be fixed, you'd still want some similar concepts even if the names were different.
You say that like it is a bad thing. But that is exactly how a lottery works. If you don't have a Powerball ticket, you can't sit at home and watch the drawing on TV and then complain you didn't win.

Parents should be involved in the education of their children. If they take the (tiny, tiny) extra effort to fill out the application to a charter school in addition to enrolling in their designated neighborhood school then those are the ones that have a chance to win. You can't blame the school for the parents not involved enough to make an effort. (and really... the effort is not that great)
Last year I had pending offers from a couple big SV companies, all of them at around $200k/year. Same goes for many of my friends (I have just graduated). Did not get any job due to H1B shortage. I will stay in Europe for now, as I am not interested in being humiliated by such an absurd system. America, fix your immigration.
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Forgive my ignorance, but do we pay VAT on anything in the U.S.? Hell, we don't even have sales tax in my state. Why do Europeans put up with it?
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In my country (turkey) such thieves are quite common. In my whole life I 've had things stolen from my car for 3 times. The last one happened, even though there was nothing to steal from the car no backpack, anything. The thief stole the CD Deck! And yet another theft we had on our basement last year. The thief took my (about $60 worth) socket wrench set. I observe there's a certain pattern on thiefs actions and deeds: They seem to know if there's something worthy in any area and when they find one they steal without anyone seeing.
You sure about that? Github is a SCM company, not a bulk storage company. When your business is not storage, arbitrarily large storage requests aren't interesting...
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> many common <programs notoriously available in binary form only> are becoming reasonably hard targets to fuzz and find interesting crashes. There are two solutions to this: write a better fuzzer (<link to source-level fuzzer>)

If you are writing a blog post and have no ideas for the introduction, please just skip it rather than crowbarring in an awkward reference to other items in the news.
That's not helpful without comparable salaries for naturalized citizens at the same companies.
I have had stuff stolen out of my trunk while parking for an Event and using a valet service,didn't notice the theft until days later.
Certainly Yuri simplified his argument - he may have hired for talent first, then maybe "fit", but he also had to consider costs. After all, he probably couldn't justify paying a hire 1 billion USD per year. So cost is a constraint, even if in Yuri's mind it's somewhat trivial.

And while Yuri's story is well-told and has a happy - if not completely triumphant - ending, it's not that instructive regarding immigration policy. Doubling H1s probably wouldn't have helped, maybe something like 5x would have. How would THAT affect salaries? You don't need a Nobel in economics to figure it out.

But let's talk about Yuri's solution - is it really that bad a deal for Yuri, AeroFS, or the US? Not really.

Yuri might wish for his hire to be closer - we are social animals, always looking for butts to sniff - but we live in the 2010s, not the 1950s.

AeroFS has a new office, congrats! It's now an international company!

And the US - we can cry about losing another taxpayer, but the additional contribution of one or even thousands of decent-earning workers doesn't really add much to the economy, especially when they require the services of a government that has been in serious fiscal trouble for as long as I can remember.
I would contend being under the apple tree is how it's done. Even for JC. Easy for him to say the contrary, when his business was always largely handled by others as a byproduct of him also being at the right-place at the right-time. This is why he's known to shut the door and hide. He didn't have to be a busy-body handling the day to day operations of id Software. It's the reason he was able to sit thinking about 2-3 shadow volume techniques, and the time to implement and test them all.

If that's not the 'apple tree' of software development, I don't know what is.

I'd bet my life that if you have no time to sit and think, just a busy-body answering phone calls, emails, you're not coming up ideas. At one point JC did sit and think, hard. Then he implemented hard.

Through the whole process he had isolation, so he really was 'under the apple tree'. Irregardless if his process involved building prototypes of his various ideas.
Agreed. I am fast, but refactor constantly, so there really is no "final" code or "finished" result. The current form is continously honed and refined. My cycles are very quick, however the design is not rushed but rather well thought out over many iterations.
It’s still far too early to tell whether Rocket’s container technology will catch fire the way Docker’s did. Regardless, the pressure is on Docker to distinguish itself now that it has a competitor that seems to be coming out guns blazing.
I still don't get it. The article only points out that, in determining whether a Charter School provides a superior education to ordinary public schools (which is the claim made by the Economist and many other sources in the media) we need to know more than raw test scores. We need to control for a number of variables, such as the resources of attendees, etc.

If Charter Schools are attended by (e.g.) wealthier students than public schools, or students with more involved parents, then a charter school's superior aggregate performance on a standardized test tells us precisely zero about the educational quality of the school unless one can somehow compensate for this confounding variable. Yet this is routinely overlooked in the media.

You seem to be saying that we shouldn't care about controlling for variables like this and should, instead, look at other ones. OK. But you don't tell us why, or what statistics would be preferable, or give any evidence to suggest that publications like the Economist actually consider your preferred measures in lieu of those suggested by the article (remember: the article is about how to evaluate the claims made in the media about charter schools, not about the merits of charter schools themselves -- though I readily grant that the author clearly has a view on the latter topic as well).
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The communication with the server is encrypted, if you use the official apps. If you use secret chat they are not stored as plain text on the servers and you can make them auto destroy. Also you can delete your chat history. But it is better than WhatsApp because it is not part of governmental control.
Once you're on an H1-B visa, transferring it to another company is quite a bit easier, and NOT subject to the quotas.

It's completely doable. The only downside is that processing the visa transfer takes time. Nowhere near the amount of time it takes to get a new visa, of course, but it's still longer than a two week notice.
For my SaaS (https://www.wisecashhq.com) I plan to handle it as well as I can (I'm based in France). The plan is first to get to fully understand what needs to be done from my country, then try to sign for a "MOSS" (mini one stop shop).

I agree this looks like a major PITA, but luckily Recurly (which I picked for my billing code) seems to have this supported (did not test yet, though).

That said I do feel your pain. I feel a bit of fatigue with regards to the increasing challenges that bootstrappers (amongst others) face (eg: cookie law, vat).
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Around the age of 15, I acquired something an awful lot like perfect pitch: I can identify and (conversely) produce seven particular notes. n=1.
Hey jprince, I'd have to look at the "Not Idle" monitors for dynos that don't exist. The way that monitor works is it looks at the monitor status to see if any are idle, if there are no dynos then there would be none idle.

The UI is also something that we are working on, in fact it is our next big project. We are a growing app so some things aren't exactly perfect but were working towards it.
The memory controller is not a great place for this in general - for instance, imagine memcpying to a 8kB region whose 2nd page has been flushed to disk. Now the memory controller needs to be able to resolve page faults...
Yes, there are - though credit card giving is the preferred online giving method (by far), PayPal, ACH, and bitcoin will be implemented (probably in that order) soon.

Tilt.com is still where we spend about 90% of our resources, but our suite of enterprise tools for professional crowdfunding and fundraising (open.tilt.com) has been a big area of growth since we started launching the tools this year -- and additional payment methods have been a frequent request on all products there.
Shipping books from UK warehouses to UK customers means that they're paying the 0% VAT that UK is currently requiring for physical books.

The only question is about e-books, which are sent to UK customers by a USA company from datacenters most likely in Ireland or Germany. You could argue that UK VAT should be paid whenever an UK customer buys a digital item from abroad, but it's a bit different argument than your post is making now.