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Because I believe morally the correct thing to do is not the thing that reduces poverty quickest in the short term, but reduces it the most in the long term. I do not believe economics is a zero-sum game, which would imply that the moral thing to do is to reduce our own fortunes to increase that of others less fortunate.

I think that some countries, being extremely successful, can both help guide other countries into successful strategies (there are hundreds of large scale economic experiments going on at all times by the nature of different states), and help bolster those countries that have followed strategies that were less optimal (global aid).

I do not believe this gives a blank check to some countries to ignore the less fortunate portions of the world, there is an obligation, enforced up by the reality of the threats these places produce, to attempt to help the world as a whole advance, which it largely has done over hundreds of years. This is analogous to the differences in the populace within a country, but I think it's easier for people to see it on a world stage, even if they don't equate it to income disparity within a country.

The global system we've been using, with countries largely distinct, has yielded great gains. Altering major aspects of that system should not be taken lightly, as unforeseen implications could cause great problems (would the world be served better overall if free movement between these countries caused a depression within America, and that happened to trigger a global depression?). That's not to say it shouldn't be tried. Indeed, as others here have posted, is seems the EU is trying this very idea out, to some extent.
Great concept, but I would avoid "Ex-Apple Engineers" and go for "Former Apple Engineers" to avoid the negative wording. Sounds like you broke up with Apple and it's a sour relationship.
Valentino Mancini has been coming to your grocery store and he's offered to protect you against fire hazards. He made such a compelling offer you couldn't refuse it, and you've been paying him off for years.

Valentino protects you, he's been looking out for you. Like when they tried to build a K-Mart in the neighborhood, and the developer had an unfortunate accident.

But here's the thing, Valentino's consigliere has convinced him to let in a new grocer in the neighborhood, and business hasn't been that good since.

Is it ethical for you to go see Valentino and complain that, since you've been paying him off for years, he should kick that new grocer out of the neighborhood?
> If someone lives in India, they are likely to have a standard of living below what would be considered poverty level in the United States. If you actively prevent them from taking a job that would take them out of poverty, how else would you describe that?

And thus placing an American in poverty in the process. You've displaced their job and gave it to an Indian who is paid less (so the article suggests). Less federal income tax, less state tax and it's not unreasonable to assume that a portion of the paycheck will be returned to India.

This is why we have foreign aid budgets and charities. People do care and want to give, but what you're suggesting is not the way to go about it.

> This is my point. Why is it morally okay to exclude people from India, but not people from Detroit?

Morally it's not OK. Agreed. Even economically it's possible, but not without severely driving down US living standards. Politically though, it's a disaster.
Mini-PC Taps RPi Compute Module and Supports RPi 2
Universal copy/paste in Linux
More likely, he has no money and the UK has recently massively reduced the availability of legal aid.
> Xenophobia can't be stopped by Indians being better workers than locals

But it would. Every case I've encountered where there is a skepticism of Indian workers is due to horrific experiences with such hires. I haven't seen the same applied to, say, Russian engineers.

There may be a another reason, like just the sheer population and widespread English usage, but the result is that Indians suffer an unfair bias that other groups don't have. Things like MS shipping a major product made in IDC, with broken English in the dialogs. Or so many outsourced support and development failures. Perhaps it's because bad experiences are noticed because there was an interaction. But good experiences, say excellent code written by anonymous Google engineers, doesn't have any particular nationality associated with it (except American)? So if all tech support and dev was outsourced to Russia, then Russia would have a disproportionate bad rep?

It's not fair (or perhaps not even fixable in a fair way), but if more interactions were positive, then there'd be less resistance.

I feel bad for having an internal reaction when I start dealing with an Indian, but I try to balance that out by making an extra effort to be sure I'm concentrating on the work. And I know there's tons of far-more-talented-than-me Indians. It terrifies me that this bias might be mathematically incorrect, in addition to being individually unfair.
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Yeah, I was talking about the 3rd party pens. An artist at my company has several of the iPad pens and I was impressed with how small the tips actually are. again im not a pro artist, but they were far superior to a finger and good enough for me. (I'm curious to show Astropad to the artist on Monday and see his reaction. He'd used the pens just for sketching on the iPad til now.)
I have spoken to multiple Amazon engineers who build their production services on AWS. (Hint: I never claimed that all of Amazon retail already runs on AWS, nor is that required for my argument.) Zero Google services are built on Google Cloud Platform, and that is not likely to change. The difference shows up in the bugginess of the services. When you annoy internal customers, things get fixed. Meanwhile, there are known issues with Google Cloud Platform that are several years old with no workarounds.
>> as a cancer researcher...

Iodine. Have you looked into it? The abstracts over on nih.gov are pretty interesting - google for "iodine cancer nih" without quotes. I'm curious what a cancer researcher has to say. Mostly I'm interested in weather your peer group has even looked at this.
Because the social sciences are not sciences and many (not all) of its practitioners, especially academics, have science envy.

(I say that as someone who got an undergraduate degree in the humanities, so I don't look down on them).

The sad thing is that if psychology were considered a research discipline in the way physics was 500 years ago, it could still help people! Up through the era of Newton and the Royal Society physics didn't even a specialized name -- it was still observational ("butterfly-collecting"); theories were mostly simple and non-predictive. That didn't mean the people were dumb, they were simply busy building the foundations of an edifice without any blueprints.

A few years ago I read a bunch of Sanskrit & Arabic mathematics papers from about 500-1500 BCE. None of them contained a proof; they were essays and (in particular the Baghdad ones) collections of observations. But they did eventually help lead to a field of mathematics. There is no shame in that -- there is glory.
Another great feature for local SIMs is that they are often "caller pay." So that if your family does want to call your French phone number from the USA, then they end up paying for the call, not you :-)

I'm Canadian, and my first stop when driving into the USA is to stop at the first department store I come across and buy a T-mobile SIM. If they don't have any, I just buy the cheapest "burner" phone and take the SIM out and pop it into my iPhone.
Shouldn't TLS/GPG/OTR/etc have our backs on this anyway (at least on the data-side of it)?
I mean, they can now intercept and read any mobile data traffic, but that traffic usually has layer-specific encryption as well (eg: TLS for banking). Doesn't that cover us? Am I missing something?
There's no way Blackberry could lose their market share. Even if they do fail it would be slowly or a leveling off. There's no way they could go from the leader to zero in 5 years.
This makes intuitive sense to me, but the question is why it works this way.

Let's say that there is a finite number of upvotes that any one meme can get. For example if 1,000,000 unique accounts log into a site during a week, the most upvotes a single meme could get during that time is 1,000,000 (assuming a vote scheme like Reddit or HN--one vote per account per item).

The idea in this paper is that a highly original meme is more likely to receive closer to the maximum possible number of votes, than a meme which is a variation on a known theme (like yet another Socially Awkward Penguin).

This seems to imply that readers apply a higher standard (of whether to upvote) to variations on a theme.

Why? Perhaps it is related to the "tyranny of choice". Perhaps having a million minor variations on a theme devalues the reader's opinion of the entire theme, regardless of how good the content is in any one variation.

Or perhaps the willingness to say "this is the best" declines in proportion to the processing power needed to consider all possible variations. If someone has seen hundreds of Socially Awkward Penguins, to confidently say a new variation is good, they would need to have a reliable index of all previous ones they've seen, in order to make a complete comparison. If they're not confident that they have a reliable index, then they just revert to the mean and say "meh".

Whereas if something seems totally new, they could feel more confident deciding whether to consider it good or not.
1. Being asked to code things on a white board or shared online doc that the interviewer knows are hard just so they can watch you sweat. It's just testing how well you perform under pressure, not if you know how to program well or not. Candidates should have the option to code without someone breathing down their neck if they prefer.

2. Not being up front about how many hours people actually work. In my experience, everyone lies about this. Companies claim they work 40 hour weeks but really work 60+ with time expected at home and on the weekends. And their "unlimited vacation" time really means "no vacation time". You shouldn't have to wait to start the job before finding out the answer to this question. That kind of bait and switch leads to resentment.
you should read following:

The Ray Kroc Story

“If I had a brick for every time I’ve repeated the phrase Quality, Service, Cleanliness and Value, I think I’d probably be able to bridge the Atlantic Ocean with them.” —Ray Kroc

How do you create a restaurant business and become an overnight success at the age of 52? As Ray Kroc said, “I was an overnight success alright, but 30 years is a long, long night.”

http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/our_story/our_history/the_ray...

You are never too old to dream! Jut work hard and you will get to where you want to be.
YC interviewers say yes. Some have directly told me that they use this equation when judging applications:

impressiveness = achievements / age

Now that YC has tried to tackle the race and gender concerns, I really hope that ageism is next. They can start by switching the age application question to just an "over 18?" checkbox.
RTEMS is a great open source realtime OS that's been used in some astonishing systems (I used it myself 15 years ago). It seems to fly below the radar for some reason.
> The target audience of this device is the amateur, backyard keeper, aspiring, or with little beekeeping experience. To them, the appeal of this device is immediate: honey without work.

I'd like to do some beekeeping. This device piques my interest not because it's "honey without work" but because it's honey with possibly less work and less killing. Even if it's honey with more work but less disturbance of bees, I'd be interested. Traditional harvesting of honey is one way. That's not to say it's the proper way. That's not to say new ways like Flow are good either. You might be right. However, new ways are worth exploring.

> Comb on the other hand, is an epidermis for bees. It has it's own biota, a bacterial/fungal/viral ecosystem that provides a living layer on which the bees work and live. When given plastic, bees will cover it in comb and propolis like they will with wood or rock. They never put their honey in anything but comb. The Flow device replaces much of the natural foundation of a bees honey store system, with more plastic.

How is anything in the human-driven beekeeping process natural either: cut wood, wire, frames, boxes, glass, disrupting, crushing? I avoid certain types of plastics but it doesn't seem that invasive here. Bees appear to be making most of the comb like usual: http://www.honeyflow.com/gallery/p/23 Unless I'm misunderstanding the few images they have, Flow appears as unnatural as other common, unnatural methods, and less destructive. According to the FAQ: [There is no reason why you cant have traditional wax combs and honey Flow™ frames in the same hive, this allows you to have honey on tap and honeycomb/wax from the one hive.]

You might be right about it as a whole. I appreciate your words. Its utility remains to be seen.
I recently went to Mexico and was pleasantly surprised to get a text message telling me that roaming data and text was just fine and that calls would be billed at 10c per minute. The hotel I stayed at had wifi, so whenever I needed to make a call, I made sure my phone was connected to wifi. When it was, the carrier changed from Movistar to T-Mobile, and calls were unlimited just like I was in the US.

The only way I would go back is if T-Mobile suddenly ceased to exist.
> Which previous war with a genocide chaser primed the put-upon citizens of Crimea to form an army, gov't., etc?

why wait for the genocide to actually happen? The new government in Kiev was completely clear with their very first action being the outlawing of Russian language. The international law, UN, recognize the right for self-determination without requirement of a genocide happening beforehand. Crimea used that right. They were just lucky that Putin's interests were aligned with theirs. The people of Donetsk weren't that lucky - the Kiev's "pacifier" operation (manned by the volunteers from Western Ukraine hating the ethnic Russians with their gut) in Donetsk region had gone into full swing and been really succeeding by the August of 2014 and would definitely succeeded if not for the direct Russia's intervention back then when finally Putin recognized that letting the ethnic cleansing happen in Donbass wouldn't be good for his regime.

Or lets try it from other side - how many ethnic Russians should have been killed by the Kiev pacifiers before you'd recognize right for self-determination for Donetsk (or Crimea if Russia did let the pacification to happen in Crimea) ?
Wow! Being an Indian (assuming you really are) doesn't make it any less inappropriate to make such sweeping generalizations!
It's easy to see gauge your skill at penetration testing. Just try to collect some security bounties. Certifications don't matter much at good companies.
Thank you for the input. While Pen Testing has always been my goal, I have started looking at things like Database Development or Full-stack web dev training. Problem is, my financial situation doesn't always allow for me to get access to structured learning.
Thanks buddy great advice!
> Mount the filesystems and copy the files to a known trustworthy device.

At this point, can we even be certain that that's safe? If the hard drives themselves have been compromised, what's to prevent them from copying out arbitrary data?
that is what was done by open source movement in software, and i hope the same "open information" thing will happen too.
Israel's Police Sexual Harassment Problem
The fake history – and the real one – behind the inventing of ‘Monopoly’
I lead design across a similar product (with iOS, Android & web). We have a web API & that's what our native apps pull their data from (we report on things like sales etc, so this ensures we're consistent across all platforms).

Re design - I'd literally do a design for each platform (iOS, Android, Web). There are huge differences between iOS & Android - they have completely different user experience/functionality so you can't just port 1 exact design across multiple platforms.

I'd highly recommend creating a UI style guide if you don't have one already. It's really quick for me to do 10+ screens as I'm using the same colors, fonts, etc in each file & then I generally just have to move blocks around for each platform.

Also, I recommend Sketch for design work. It's a lifesaver for designing between multiple platforms & everything is vector so it's scalable between different resolutions. A million times better than Photoshop for UI design.
I feel like I should say this.
Saying things like:
> I always bluffed my way in to jobs I was completely unqualified for and pulled it off quite well
are usually red flags for me, personality-wise.

I have worked with people like the person you probably think I am because of how that came across. I was just trying to honestly express one of the few things that I do have going for me as opposed to just listing things that I don't.
> Learning new languages is pretty simple if they're in a family I know.

Does your list of languages include fairly disparate examples, such as languages that do not have a Latin base or share a portion of their vocabulary with ones you know?

I think the point being made was the type of language learned. Shared concepts reduce learning time. Knowing Perl, Ruby, Assembly, etc may not help too much learning something like Haskell or Clojure. Knowing Lisp might help quite a bit. Prolog would be another thing entirely.
> He exploited similar types of vulnerabilities in sites that used ColdFusion, the Web application software whose full source code was recently found on a server operated by hackers.

I have no idea why, but I always assumed that the ColdFusion source was as freely available as Apache's or PHP's.
I did the same, it was a neat solution. I recently saw the writing on the wall and dropped the 32-bit support.

Had one or two complaints from existing 32 bit users but not much really.

It is nice to have a single complication target now.
It's more than a leap because it implicitly states that the only way a citizen of India can avoid poverty is to come to the US, and I'm pretty sure there are no shortage of wealthy Indians who became so without immigrating.
I like this idea, but if you decide to go ahead and make it a regular thing you should indicate that it's a repost somehow, or maybe have an "Editors Pick" tab with the chosen stories.
This is something I will look in to. Thanks for the comment!
Ask HN: What kind of jobs only work 40 hours a week?
I'm looking for a job that has a good work life balance. So that I can work on side projects and pursue my hobbies. I also need time off to recharge and travel and I have found that companies that offer "unlimited" vacation really offer no vacation, because everyone is too afraid to take time off.

So my question is what kind of jobs/companies in a major city like SF only expect you to work 40 hours a week with guaranteed vacation time? And how do I present this question while interviewing without sounding lazy or not "passionate"?
Oh right, because the government is like the Mafia. Yeah that whole anarchy thing totally works.
I did for about 9 months; it may have been better/faster/more stable, but I ultimately went back to VB: There are way more vb boxes readily available, it's far easier to share boxes with colleagues, and using > 1 computer it became too costly. I try not to leave boxes in vb running as long since that seems to be where stability issues occur, but otherwise i don't really notice a difference.
Garbage collectors don't solve the problem of "resource" management, but of memory management. Languages like Java have mechanisms such as try with resources (not available in Android) or try finally blocks which seem error prone to me, since the programmer has to know that that particular resource should be released explicitly.
They also make developers lazy, they get used to not thinking about object lifetimes and the costs of allocation. YMMV of course.
Actually I wasn't being sarcastic -- our smartphones really are more insidious than Telescreens, from a technical standpoint.
Good suggestion. We actually still have many friends at Apple and left in great terms.
It was free voting by the majority of people on that territory. Can you explain why such a thing can be called a farce? As the only reason i see to call such thing a farce is because one doesn't like the results.
How about the library? You'd have to whisper, or maybe have them read the instructions, but you'd probably have wifi. Maybe even make a couple code changes during downtime.
If i may ask, what is your strategy for long term airbnbn rental? My wife and I are thinking of doing the very exact same thing that you and your wife are doing, and would appreciate the info.
Germany also has its own typeface: “BundesSerif” and “BundesSans” (see http://styleguide.bundesregierung.de/Webs/SG/DE/PrintMedien/...). Designed by http://supertype.de – if anyone cares. :)
To echo lots of comments here: it comes down to your value per unit of time, which is largely dictated by a combination of your own talent or outside market forces/good fortune.

I'm very fortunate to have reached a productivity/income level requiring me to work only 4-6 hours/week. I enjoy working more, but also love the free time to pursue outside hobbies, business ideas, pro-bono, etc. Once you reach a point where you set the price/terms, the sky's the limit!
This is one avenue I have never tried.... and will begin doing this evening. Thanks guys!
None of the victims came across as happy about the situation. Nor should they have. The things Adria suffered were despicable, deplorable and unimaginably distressing for most of us, I'm sure.

But she did come across badly. Both relative to the other victims and generally. I've no idea if that was her or Jon's writing of her, but it was disappointing.

My acknowledgement of my gender, race and religious privilege was intended as an invite for anyone to disagree, tbh. I'd like to know if someone who isn't male, white and non-Jewish reads the piece, whether they read her as being more sympathetic.
For those who are wondering, you can still use an embedded webview, which does end up doing just-in-time compilation of javascript.