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The US has a very low population density. There's tons of room for new housing.
I am aware of <picture>, but it's a bit too narrow I think. The srcset functionality is really what I want, but there's also the other aspect of this: the ability to specify content-type.
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We'll have a lot more Eliot Spitzer's no doubt. Piss off the wrong person and suddenly you get singled out for using prostitutes. Even if the same prostitutes that are known to be popular with lots of other politicians. Only one gets annihilated.
And while you're roughing it with a temporary passport and a cheap windows laptop, count your blessings:

I'd bet >10% of the readers here have had any of the following: Cancer or similar shitty disease or disability in self or family, lost >50.000$ in natural disaster, accident or financial turmoil and/or are in a permanent state of stress due to job, relationships, legal battles or similar.

Perspective!
a group of people who was hunted to the brink of extinction by the ancestors of the people who now live here

Human history in a nutshell, really. Just about every country's founding has a history of blood and conquest. They're just pieces of land, after all. Their ownership always has and always will change.
nope.

If you want to see the code, its all one the client side for now - do have a look :-)

when this grows, it will come from a db and I will have to move it server side
That kind of gives out the wrong picture. Their contribution to the actual scientific process is small, and purely based on their preexisting reputation. It's because scientists in the first place submit their papers there that they hold that position. They do pick out good reviewers, for the same reason. Since they dont really have a say in peer review, their contribution ends in typesetting and printing (do people actually ever use those printed volumes?). And to be honest that's even changing, i spot many great articles (granted, most of them reviews or 'companion' papers) in many different journals.

For scientists, the value of the journals is the reviewer's comments, who spot errors, make useful suggestions etc. Correct me if i m wrong, but we've gotten excellent and extensive reviews from mid-range IF journals. Nature seems rather elitist in the bad sense (cliquish). Elsevier's top journals and Science are rather more strict. In general, the value of the journal for science is the rigorousness of reviews. There have been quite a few retractions from Nature and the misuse of statistics has been a consistent finding in studies by the Ioannides team.

As people (esp. young scientists) learn about these and about open access journals, Nature is definitely becoming less and less "THE journal", and the stranglehold you claim that it has on careers is really not that strong. Good science often speaks by itself.
nice. I see how this is similar
Totally bogus. TextSecure-enabled WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted using a widely-respected cryptographic messaging scheme. Telegram isn't. The point of serious end-to-end encryption is that it doesn't matter who runs the servers.

TextSecure-enabled WhatsApp beats Telegram on a pure engineering level; we don't even need to reach politics to prefer it.
>I disagree with this statement

Most studies find that you are wrong though. I am sure that you and the people you know are very skilled, and worked hard to get to your current position for that reason. But overall, H1 employees are paid significantly less, and many, many firms specifically refuse to hire local talent in order to fill positions through this program.

If the visa was given to the employee, not the company, then it would be a good program. But your paragraph about how difficult / chancy it can be to switch companies is exactly why it is a failed, exploitative program.
This kind of nonsense isn't making Telegram look any better.
Three years ago, he was looking for an assistant. http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/29/2668408/stephen-hawking-t... states that, at the time, his computer was running Windows XP, so he definitely wasn't on the bleeding edge. However, that has changed a bit; he upgraded to Windows 7 (http://www.hawking.org.uk/the-computer.html)
You forgot your closing tag :)
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As much as I like Fred Wilson, he occasionally does these native ad blog posts about companies in USV's portfolio and I have to admit it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I don't doubt his sincerity; when it comes down to it, I think he's trying to help startups and entrepreneurs, and the best way he can do that is reference his portfolio companies...but ultimately "an experience that a company I'm intimately familiar with" winds up feeling like "I have a large audience of highly networked people reading my blog and I should leverage this to promote my investments."
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The shortage of talent in the bay area probably has more to do with the ridiculous concentration of startups there. Maybe if people chose not to live in one of the most expensive areas in the country, with the most competitive labor markets, they wouldn't need to leave. There are oodles upon oodles of skilled CS graduates (yes, in the US!) that aren't moving to the bay area....
Submitted a few pull requests, hopefully they get accepted!

Definitely a very cool tool.
Here are the problems I have with your claims.

1) Of all the companies I know and have worked for I don't know a single company that got H1B for cheap indian labour. They got H1B because thats what they could get for people they wanted. You will find plenty on H1B/O1(my visa) etc. from Europe.

It has nothing to do with exploitation although that of course happens but with these are the easiest (and hardest) visas to get

2) The irony of the tech world is that for the right talent there is always work but finding that right talent is actually pretty hard as it's a multitude of factors that are involved in the right hire.

3) The process of getting H1B is trivial but cumbersome and I have yet to meet any organisation that take people in on H1Bs just because it's cheap labour.

Of course it hurts local labour but not because of the wages, because talent is hard to find.
i hope it will become a trend. i don't know how to create a good resume and i don't really want to know
In short term immigrants definitely have negative impact on wages.

However, in long term brain drain helps Silicon Valley to maintain its software capital of the world status.

Nokia mainly depended on local workforce. From Poland it is much closer to Finland than to US. But it was Google US which hired my brightest school mates.
scottefein12, why Google and not AWS? It would be great to know what where the factors considered when deciding.
NASA's budget is the highest of all government run space agencies and is three times that of Russia, which is number two.
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Also, if you are seen putting valuables in it, the trunk is also fairly easy to break into.
Entire story of what happened:

I paid $10 for a parking space somewhere near Union Square thinking my car would be safe from towing and what not. I left my backpack in the trunk because it was too heavy (big mistake). Went back 3 hours later and the rear window was smashed and they got to the trunk from the reclining passenger seat. Filed a police report and they told me chances of me getting my stuff back is slim. Went to Apple Store and tried to get a discount for the second purchase but they only offered me the usual student discount. Called my credit card company but apparently I don't have any coverage for my purchase.
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The server error on this page is a great example of how to build negative brand recognition. Hint to hosting companies: your error pages aren't a good place from which to link to your sign up page.
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NASA pessimism is one of the reasons the politicians have little incentive to change their minds.
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I'm working for a startup that's willing to sponsor me for H1B, EB-1 and even O1 (I'm employee #1, so if we're doing any good, we might try to wiggle an O1 somehow, although that's unlikely).

But yes, you'd need a cooperative employer to get a visa of any sort. Most of the big company in tech (ie Google, FB etc..) are all willing to sponsor for H1B, and a lot of startups are too. But as for the questions of "how to get a job there", that's out of my ability to answer.

One thing about immigration law is that just like tax law, it's too convoluted and specific that it almost depend on your exact situation. You might just qualify for some visas just because of the area you're working on (there is something for academic for H1b that's exempt from the cap). You will need to take a very close look at the law, preferably with an experience lawyer that have done this before, and see if anything that can apply to you by the wording of the law (see the O1? It's not just Nobel winner that can get it).

The whole process will takes something like 10-15 years though ... so don't be discouraged. I've been in the US for 4-5 years, and just like you, I can say that I've no idea if I will still be here in 3 years. And I wouldn't expect for things to "settle down" (immigration-wise) for me for another 10 years-ish either.
I think the key point he's driving at is this: If you feel inspired, sit down and work. If you don't feel inspired sit down and work.

Inspiration can sometimes show you which path to take, but in the absence of inspiration, simply brute forcing will keep you moving forward as well.
Not sure it helps, but an observation is that Oracle's relational database occupied a somewhat similar role, in that it tied together data from different sources, and enabled cross-platform interoperation. This was very important at the time, because there were several different hardware vendors, and companies didn't want to get locked in. And of course, a whole ecosystem of third-party tools grew up around Oracle - esp reporting tools, BI, warehousing, and everything had bindings for relational databases.

Not sure how that translates as a business model, as no one owns git (like Oracle owned oracle). However, although Sun didn't make money from java, everyone else did - so there is a business model, just as a user of git, not an owner. e.g. reporting tools based on git; CI tools, code quality tools.

So maybe the answer is to just to treat git as infrastructure, for the app you sell, as opposed to trying to make money from the infrastructure itself. Linux is a similar product.
what could be more jarring the yc's color scheme and yet i never sense, much less experience, a lag nor do i quit the site in frustration cuz i'm waiting too long for it to load. just the opposite in fact. there is so much good stuff here that i can always count on having my paradigms shifted. i can only imagine how much more time i would be spending here if they were decked in soothing shades of blue.

i rather agree with radware, in that, "[a] combination of page bloat, missed opportunities, and site owners struggling with web performance best practices" might have more to do with manipulating user perceptions.

but hey, color me skeptic.
Isn't that kind-of like saying "My water is WAY cleaner than yours!" when we both live in a swamp? My point being, sure, we spend more than the other guy on space but compared to just about everything else we spend pitifully little on it.
Do you think the secondary scrollbar (which is not even vertically centered), the Times New Roman and the cut off text is fine?
What you're saying, in a nutshell, is that you based your expressed views solely on your own experience and use cases. That, I think, is what made the Plan9 community tank over the years -- I'll grant that a touchpad is different, but then again I will cheerily admit that my view is that it is vastly more powerful than a three-button mouse.
So your point is that russia's space program and the ESA (etc) are also underfunded then, yes?
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> Most studies find that you are wrong though.

Could you paste a link to those studies (unbiased or bipartisan) to support my wrongness. I've read opinions and emotional outbursts but am yet to find concrete evidence to support it. Until then I go by my own experience.

Yes, there are firms that get blanket visas. Yes, there are some people who deliberately abuse this sytem. But that is a generalization of few examples.Yes, giving visas to the employee rather than employer is better (Canadian, Australian systems is are an example). DOL's PERM process is what makes it more exploitative than not and is rampant with abuse. That needs to change, the H1 on its own is not indentured servitude.
Research, development, and construction will all take place in, y'know, areas.
I have said this before here and I will do that again. What hurts the market is L1 visa. H1 visa holders are almost in the same boat as local talent. Why? Because there is a government dictated minimum prevailaing wage that companies have to adhere to. I am yet to meet an H1B who is earning less than his/her peers (within an area, experience, skillset and education).

However, I have met a lot of L1 visa holders (primarily from India) who come here from companies like Wipro, TCS, Cognizant, IBM, Microsoft etc. who are paid lower wages because there is no such scrutiny with L1 visas. Lumping both visas in the same category is a huge mistake.
Time and time again, this type of article pops up.
Time and time again, it's about economics, and the solution has ALWAYS been about economics. It's just that the companies that the political machines don't want to talk about it.

Like I've said in the past, and it is a simple solution that would make people like AeroFS happy is to have an economic one: Your H1-B employee must be paid in the >95% (or more) percentile in the field, or in your company, no which ever is greater. All salaries must be compared to that of senior engineers or higher.

That's when the real "need" shows up and that will weed out the bogus H1-B gamers and get real value from it. Now, if we are still capping out on H1-Bs even with this rule, then we can then agree that there is a "tech workers shortage".

Before then, we all know it's either using improper induction (one brown cow) or examples to try and prove a contradiction (has always been invalid), or they are flat out lying.
You look at role models as competitors. Which ultimately while they may one day become. The purpose of a role model is not to compete with you but to give you a different lens which you may view a problem.

The ultimate failure of these people is irrelevant, nor implies a glass ceiling. Since as with most error checking models. The more agreement between yourself and your role models, the greater the chance you'll execute that decision.

What I'm saying is who you set up as a role model, should be somebody who academically and morally challenges your opinions. Makes you question your own convictions and yourself. Ultimately a role model doesn't have to exist in this role.

The role model, simply exists as a unit test on your decisions. To check if your reasoning is sound enough. Your emotional relation to a unit test is irrelevant.
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No way, this is such a common sentiment among my friends and coworkers that it needed to be said. This guy was straight up lazy and he got caught with his pants down.
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Yeah. http://blog.frama-c.com/index.php?post/2014/02/23/CVE-2013-5...
A shortage is a lack of supply, a company unwilling to pay above $X is not a shortage of supply, it is a shortage of demand.

If we have a shortage of carrots, we dont have enough carrots at ANY price.
If people are unwilling to pay 5$/LB for carrots but thats what they cost in the store, that is not a shortage.

What this discussion is about is substitute goods[1] replacing standard goods. In this case US workers are the standard goods, and they are being replaced by foreign workers, or substitute goods at lower cost.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitute_good
Why would you expect them to be paid the same. Should something that ships from Alaska cost the same as something shipped from your next door neighbor?
We have a similar threshold (I believe it is when you reach 15k€ of VAT, to be verified).

The bad thing is that I will already roughly reach the threshold because of my main income which is coming from consulting.

So bootstrapping based on consulting is becoming a bit harder, paperwork-wise :P
I'm imagining large companies spawning multiple smaller entities to game the system and get around this.
>He said companies should hire non-American talent through traditional immigration proceedings,

What traditional immigration proceedings are you people talking about? Get a company employee to marry him/her and bring them here on a green card?
I've been involved in that ticket since the dark ages. There's a philosophical disconnect between how (some) people want to use Docker and how the maintainers want it to be used, and it comes to a head in that thread.
Oh my, I would be curious to know what kind of company offers you such a high living standard in Easter Europe for you to throw any opportunity under the insane amount of 250k...
If I agree that you need more in the SV to live comfortable than probably anywhere else in the world, 250k$/year is an insane amount of money.
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>For anyone wondering why this is necessary, as some others in this thread have mentioned, the standard go way to deserialize json is to pass a pointer to a struct

I sometimes have trouble understanding Go. It kind of seems to retain a lot of the bad parts of C in terms of developer-friendliness, while still being relatively slower than C and garbage-collected.
I guess it's a question of what the company is selling. Google for example uses huge stacks of open source to run their business. And even though they are far from being pure open source, they do contribute back to the community in multiple ways, for example with contributions to the Linux kernel and open source projects like Chromium and Go. And then there are projects like Qt, that mix open source tools with enterprise support.

But I think that the field of IT is still extremely young and that in the future larger companies will discover that collaborating on open source platform and infrastructure projects will give them much better synergy effects and lower IT costs by removing the license cost and at the same time lowering the support cost. Compared to history, the 20-30 years that mainstream computing has is really just a spark and there is so much change coming that will be directed by market and competition.
Advertised prices include VAT for all goods and services aimed at people. The price without VAT isn't usually shown. Goods and services aimed at businesses show prices excluding VAT (since the business doesn't pay it), but they make this clear. International shoppers might see the no-VAT prices on websites, I'm not sure.

This applies to websites and shops. Europeans will often be surprised in American shops that the tax is added on afterwards — I've had the exact change ready and been caught by this.

The line before "Total" on a receipt shows the amount of VAT paid. Many shops will "*" any items had different rates (things like basic food).
SpaceX is more likely to get humans to Mars than NASA.
> There's absolutely no talent shortage in the Bay Area, provided you can pay (and your ideas are interesting)

There actually is a talent shortage in the Bay Area. If there was no talent shortage, prices for local labor would be lower. If there wasn't a talent shortage, it wouldn't be possible for me to hire a developer from India, pay to fly him out here, put him up in a hotel in Mountain View for 6 months - all for significantly less than it would cost to hire a local developer.

H1Bs are just the tip of the iceberg. The companies that are pros at this use L1 visas. H1Bs require you to pay a similar wage to the local wage, but L1s have no such requirement. So you can take a developer working in India for $20k/yr and ship him to the US. The consulting company charges them out at the local market rate and pockets the difference. I've seen projects with margins approaching 80% due to this.

The visa system is completely broken, this much is true. But it's really a symptom of the fact that the labor market in the US is not training the types of workers it needs. We train a lot of developers and many of them think they're rock stars. But the reality is that we need a deep bench of competent developers willing to work for substantially less than $100k a year. Those developers exist in other countries, and so the work is going there.
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> - The entire business model of cloud computing is maximizing tenants-per-server

this is not exactly true. the business model is to maximize the revenue per server, not the number of tenants. this can be done in a number of ways.
Hey @Gankro, your blah/ dir doesn't have an index of all files. Unless you know the links for these Rust posts, you can't really navigate to them. Especially if you keep posting, which you should, I'd keep in mind the navigation to and from these rust-lang posts.
This is great. I actually agree with the 3.5bn valuation.
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That's great that AeroFS is hiring worldwide based solely on talent, but I can tell you from experience working at Ford, that is not the case among massive corporations. They are purely trying to exploit the wage differential between the US and India, Pakistan and others.
I don't think the point you take issue with is really debatable. The only way it could not be true if there is actually no one in the local labor market who can do the job, and that's a very difficult argument to make. Outside of that, every H1 is a job a citizen isn't getting.

You didn't touch on this at all, so I'm not really sure what your point is. I think you're debating a strawman.
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Perhaps, but I wouldn't underestimate them! They have a lot of ground-breaking projects happening even though you don't see them in the media very often. They do a lot with what they get.
> The unstated premise behind your comment, and indeed this entire debate, is that there is only so much "room" for immigration in the US. This leads us to arguments about how large the quota should be, how it should be divided, etc.

No, the actual assumption is that the US wants to bias its flow of immigrants towards high-skilled, high-value people working in high-value-add positions. If human brains are a valuable resource, he is proposing that the government should issue visas to the best and brightest resources it can get.
H1B is about bigotry, not costs, and especially talent. It's about a lack of young, practically white, males.
If the answer is "Yes" then they should put it in the fucking headline.
Also a good follow-up regarding "Flux" here:

"Flux for stupid people"
http://blog.andrewray.me/flux-for-stupid-people/