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Ask HN: Finding International Work as a Canadian Junior Developer
I'm a soon to be graduating Computer Science student who is looking to work internationally if possible. I have had a few interviews with German companies, but have had very little luck with companies based in America. I am looking for some general advice about the steps that other individuals have gone through to make this happen.

Part of the reason I seem to be having difficulties is I often do not even make it past the original screening forms. One question that often comes up is "Are you eligible/authorized to work in the United States" to which I check no because I do not currently have a work Visa. However, I feel like this line of wording can be somewhat ambiguous because I am eligible to get a work Visa, I just do not currently have one. Would it be considered dishonest to say I am eligible or does that phrasing strictly refer to already possessing a work visa.

Besides that what are some of the best resources for finding positions for Junior Developers international, I find positions here and there on various job boards, but I was wondering if there is a refined method to attaining this information. Perhaps there just aren't a lot of these types of positions, but I would like to know if there are.
We infallible software engineers always underestimate that stuff, but it's usually the cause.

My former boss used to say that 90% of all problems are cabling. His percentage may be off, but the sentiment certainly isn't.
I frequently use Datomic for this and it's awesome.
While I personally don't mind Google having all my backup data, we must appreciate the fact that in this post-Snowden world some people will justifiably refuse to go with the big USA-corp players like Amazon or Google.

rsync.net just saying: "Hey, we're not Google or Amazon" is already a big selling point for some.
Not necessarily. Making extra units to replace broken ones (or spare parts to replace broken parts) is typically more expensive than simply making units or parts more durable so it makes the two year mark.

Also, insurance companies are not non-profits. They take a cut as well. The factory already makes a profit, but that's not going to increase simply because they have to lawfully offer two years of warranty. They'll have more costs but it probably wouldn't affect the profit margin as much as an insurance company would.
But there's already a free market for labor, wage floor notwithstanding. Anybody who's paying above the minimum wage for servers already has to compete on wages. And they have to compete with other industries as well. Tipping simply allows the equilibrium base wage (and even the wage floor itself, by policy) to be lower than it would otherwise be.

Plenty of study shows that generosity or level of service have very little to do with tipping on the whole. People typically tip based on personal habit relative to their interpretation of local custom. (I can try to find sources if you doubt this.) I don't think there's any reason to believe that customers don't take gratuity, and tax for that matter, into account when deciding when and where to dine out.

I'm not suggesting that the situation would be the exact same for every server if tipping went away. Some would benefit, others would suffer. On the whole, it would be less discriminatory. But I don't see why we would expect to see a macro change in waitstaff income.
There is at least one startup doing some innovation - Frameri.

https://frameri.com/
Doesn't econ 101 have something to say about Pareto Efficiency, or is that a later course?
> That is true, however if you are using the same port for a multitude of things (plugging/unplugging USB sticks, monitors, etc...) it's going to get a lot more use, and therefore increases the likelihood of something breaking.

By design it allows at least 10000 cycles of insertion/removal. Using it 8 times a day every single day you'd need about 3.5 years to end them. It's probably ok for most workloads.
Note that this telescope has sorta been in 'competition' with the Thirty Meter Telescope--they're similar technologies being used and they even use basically the same hexagonal submirrors.

It will be interesting to see who sees first light first. (I think right now, TMT is scheduled to be first, but we'll see if that holds.)
I admire your train of thought. You decided to kick the tires, which people seldom do in a straight-forward manner these days. I do this constantly for companies and it's amazing what hides in plain sight.

And in this case - still no fix? amusing
May I share how I solved this "Betty problem" for myself? I am not that old but still worry about these issues.

http://aroute.github.io/headlines/
I've noticed this phenomenon as well, and it's very frustrating. Let's add async-and-future-everything to the list as well. I honestly don't understand how to convince people to make an honest assessment of the alternatives, especially when they're unable to articulate what exactly they're purchasing with the complexity they're adding.

Will our profession ever stop being fad-driven?
Radare2 is holding its Summer of Code again
It does in America? You buy something and if you break it "by accident", you get another one for free?
A Product Journal: As a Working Manager
Couldn't agree more. Most people don't know that many critical systems e.g. banking are eventually consistent and rely on other methods.

The concepts of CQRS and Event Sourcing really need to be taught at universities.
Outages plague App Store, iTunes, and other Apple services
I have been using RethinkDB for a while now (although mostly for small side projects + maintaining the Go driver https://github.com/dancannon/gorethink) and have really enjoyed it, having a functional query language is quite refreshing. The recent introduction of change feeds are also really cool, building a realtime app with websockets was surprisingly easy.

Honestly I would recommend RethinkDB to anybody looking to start a new (small-medium sized) project. While there are some small performance issues this is to be expected for a project at this early stage and after seeing how the RethinkDB team works I am confident that these will be sorted pretty quickly.
Let's say a merperson was raised in the absence of adult merpeople. Is there any way they could learn in one lifetime all of the different ways that a mer-society can take advantage of the sea? Genetic and cultural inheritance are both really important.

In all seriousness though, Tolkien's worldview was more medieval than colonial. The north/south, high/low dynamic is a different dimension than the relationship between Europe and North Africa. It's altitude rather than longitude. Putting everything in relationship to the heavens is a touchstone of medieval culture.

Twisted (cf the article's 'ugly') things were considered a visual metaphor for evil by Dante. Dante imagined that beings who were living out their function/purpose with excellence were rooted in the ground but pointed at the stars [ie 'straight]. Men and women who succumbed to temptation were pointed at the stars by design but through concupiscence [getting caught up/busy; becoming obsessed/addicted], such 'crooked' people were turned inward on themselves and could no longer appreciate the things above them.
There are a number of integrated strategies that can support meetings to either be more productive or not run at all (one of the big newspapers here in Australia actually called me a meeting olympian for the sheer amount I've worked with [1]). A clear Agenda at the outset is by far the biggest bang for buck - in part, because it requires a system not specialised skills (like, say, energy curve management).

Good luck to Dave and the team. Let me know if I can help with guest blogs etc.

[1] http://www.smh.com.au/small-business/managing/supercharge-yo...
A modular control system, featuring 100% plug and play elements (knobs, sliders, mini-displays, buttons) mountable in a range of simple chassis (19"rack, keyboard size, mini desktop box, mixing-console-size control center) that can be configured by a trivial to use piece of software and thereafter control any device (PC, tablet).

I've been wanting this for twenty-five years.

There are things that do some of this, but not very well, and not very cost-effectively. There is software that simulates this on a touchscreen (grr). Anyone fancy a hardware startup?
Clearly y'all have not heard the fine alternative audio commentary for Fellowship of the Ring by Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky :
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/unused-audio-commentary-b...

It's really a joke, but hysterically brilliant.

(Edit - including a snippet of the 'commentary' below):

ZINN: You’ve spoken to me before about Mordor’s lack of access to the mineral wealth that the Dwarves control.

CHOMSKY: If we’re going to get into the socio-economic reasons why certain structures develop in certain cultures… it’s mainly geographical. We have Orcs in Mordor — trapped, with no mineral resources — hemmed in by the Ash Mountains, where the “free peoples” of Middle Earth can put a city, like Osgiliath, and effectively keep the border closed.

ZINN: Don’t forget the Black Gate. The Black Gate, which, as Tolkien points out, was built by Gondor. And now we jump to the Orcs chopping down the trees in Isengard.

CHOMSKY: A terrible thing the Orcs do here, isn’t it? They destroy nature. But again, what have we seen, time and time again?

ZINN: The Orcs have no resources. They’re desperate.

CHOMSKY: Desperate people driven to do desperate things.

ZINN: Desperate to compete with the economic powerhouses of Rohan and Gondor.
If you apply the same qualifiers to a mermaid race it sounds just as ridiculous.
But the Phantom Menace stuff is terrible because it's very similar to real-world racial stereotypes.

Except for the orc problem (ie, sentient beings we are free to kill), I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with having fantasy races with very broad physical and social similarities. Humans are distinctly weird in a lot of ways if you step back and think about it.
They kept the 30-pin connector around far, far longer than most companies kept their proprietary power or data connectors. When they switched it was to something robust enough they wouldn't need to fiddle with it for a long time.

Standards change, but at least this one hasn't changed very often. I think "once" is an allowable amount of change.
Nice work, I like it.
I argued on another HN article about tipping that it's better to change the law to protect lower-income employees first, and then change the custom, as opposed to trying to fight the custom by screwing over your server and hoping the law will eventually change. Fairly sure diners and businesses would change their tipping behavior pretty quickly to accommodate any change in the law.
It's a smaller problem, but:

> Impersonation: You may not impersonate others through the Twitter service in a manner that does or is intended to mislead, confuse, or deceive others.

I hope this finally kills off those Chris Rock and Bill Murray twitter accounts too.
> Also in my opinion this game is more fun when you're working with a finite number of moves rather than time.

Great. Look at Two Dots, by the folks who made Dots.
If you get that kind of insurance, then yes, you will. Most likely the 'insurance' company, like Squaretrade, will attempt a repair, though.
Kuka robot plays music on water glasses with Timo Boll
Ask HN: What tech tools/plugins/IDEs do you think are worth buying?
Not a parent yet, but I'd probably use something like this less as something to find out if there's a choking hazard, but in case there's something I don't think of that might be a problem. Fire hazard because it shipped with a faulty power regulator the overheats? Exploding batteries? Those are things that I wouldn't be able to tell at first glance that they'd necessarily be a problem.
Think of them as Chrome OS version of "Modern apps".
I'd be curious where this is illegal in.

I don't think they are saying "we have zero policies whatsoever", but exaggerating the level of trust. For instance I am sure that new parents are given a fixed amount of paid leave.
Great idea. There are few things more frustrating in business than unproductive meetings, and so often they could easily be fixed with better preparation, focus during the meeting itself, and/or follow-up. This seems like the kind of tool that could genuinely help and could pay for itself very quickly while still generating plenty of returns for you.

I have two hopefully constructive and slightly meta suggestions:

1. Your tour page could benefit from some TLC. I looked at it on a large monitor, and it was so spaced out and the text so large and poorly rendered that it was actively unpleasant to read through. I’m happy to give more specific feedback if it would be useful. (I’ve just realised that despite being interested in your project and having reached the end of that page, in the time it took to write this comment I have already forgotten almost everything it said except for a couple of features I guessed would be there anyway.)

2. You’re writing a tool where business people are presumably going to discuss work, potentially including all kinds of sensitive information about current status and future plans. I lost track of how many deal-breakers your current privacy policy contains in that context, but it was lots.
Looks like this is the repo with more recent activity .. https://github.com/OpenHFT/HugeCollections
I've been impressed with the decisions your team has made in regards to this and other issues, such as the jailbait subs a couple years back. It's a fine line at a community like Reddit who pride free speech, but I think you've made the right choices and the community has backed you.
Fantastic visualizations! What tools did you use?
Yes, I'm absolutely not getting it. You're also not explaining it.
No database can be fast without indexes. If the queries you get are defined by your users, you can still create indexes for the common ones.
The so-called "unlimited vacation" is manipulative to the extreme. It would be illegal in most countries outside the US, because it's effectively taking worker's rights away.
Color Relationships: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary Hues – Sensational Color
Legal pitfalls in hiring an employee
It's not possible in special relativity. However in general relativity the geometry of space can change dramatically in the function of time and it still doesn't hurt causality and local Lorentz-invariance.
Unfortunately they have the data that shows that breaking up the pages increases ad impressions even with the lost users.
Show HN: Softmech – a mechanical keyboard in 30 lines of Python
Thanks. It has also been practical for me as I use it daily to quickly scroll through the front page, when I don't have enough time. But when I do have enough time, I look at the individual pages and feeds section. I would only click on any link(s) if I find them interesting enough to read further. The front page quickly gives me birds eye view of the daily news from various sources.
At least read the link that was posted? Because otherwise, you miss parts like this from the linked article:

"This is the ideal height because Air density is 1/10th of what it is at Sea level. This makes the wind at these altitudes 10 times less potent."
You can already buy a fake Apple Watch in China
UK ISPs Block Pirate Bay Proxy Sites
I agree that ethernet is valuable, which is why I keep a usb-ethernet adapter with me.
Right, thanks for catching that. 10 TB/24 hours.
I'm only speculating, and/or it could even differ per organization since in my mental model deploying Orion is only one step of many, but I would guess the two stacks you mentioned are famous for their watch-and-refresh development model. Thus, the coder presses "Save" (or perhaps "Commit", if "Save" is not atomic enough for deployment) and then either the CI system pushes out files or deploys for you or Orion pokes the development server to grab the latest files.

I am 100% positive it will take some mental and maybe even logistical reorganization to switch to a cloud-based coding environment. Almost every change I can think of in a professional capacity is evaluated in a cost-benefit analysis.

But today I am home sick, and thus have no access to my properly configured PyCharm, nor access to the local feature branches on my machine and it would be a bunch of ssh hoop jumping to deploy anything that I did write while at home. My interests are pretty much in descending order of that list. I would love a copy of cloud-PyCharm.
The Second Key Lesson from Ellen Pao vs. Kleiner Perkins
UK ISPs Quietly Block Sites That List Pirate Bay Proxies
You Can’t Be All Things to All People…
This was a great read, I'll be passing it along to anyone wanting to learn Haskell so they can get a good feel for what it's like.

You had some advantages though since you've used Racket in the past.

I feel like your Racket experience helped you draw conclusions that many wouldn't have otherwise. Great work though, I hope you write about more of your experiences.
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It's a very expensive disease. Finding a cure will save a lot of money.

http://m.alz.org/facts-and-figures.asp#Cost
The First Key Lesson from Ellen Pao vs. Kleiner Perkins
Ask any old military veteran. To old to rock'n'roll, to poor to rest. You have 10 years to earn enough money for retirement. Is that a reason to risk an adventure, that could earn that money? Also children out of school, wife divorced, thats an other reason to try a new start somewhere far away from the old shit.

A balancing rule is, that older characters earn less experience, and therefor younger learn faster by adventure.
Do you have any links to Reid Barton's 2010 Google code jam code? I briefly looked and couldn't find it. I'm guessing someone more familiar with code jam would know right where it was or if it existed.
> likely won't result in the customer getting their money back

Likewise, a good fraction of credit card disputes end up being resolved in favor of the merchant, not the customer.

> involves a lot more work on their part

I already told you submitting an FTC or BBB complaint is no more work than submitting a credit card chargeback.

> It also requires that the company screw up repeatedly

True if you go to the FTC. Not true if you go to small-claims court: it will be investigated even if only 1 screw-up occur. Yes going to small-claims court is more work than filing a credit card dispute, but then if it is not worth your time given the transaction amount, it kind of proves that being refunded isn't THAT important to you. In this case you would complain to the FTC, and write off the small amount lost.

> You dismiss completely the possibility that this is because of the existence of chargebacks?

I acknowledge chargebacks incentivize merchants to act honestly. But I will repeat for the third time: this is not the only thing that incentivize merchants. FTC, BBB, legal actions, etc.

> Google tiger direct bitcoin refund

I did and I found 2 stories, both resolved in favor of the customer:

- "Edit: The situation is resolved" from http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1wesnv/beware_of_ti...

- "He personally verified my address again for the shipment as well as a "care package"" from http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1wi95l/another_tige...

This proves my point that most merchants act honestly and that most disputes get resolved without chargebacks :)

> having the funds available again in a few minutes

No. When credit card issuers refund you instantly, it is always a TEMPORARY refund (check the fine print of your credit card agreement) - you still need to submit a full package usually within 60 days with evidence of the dispute (tracking numbers, product descriptions, pictures of what was received, etc) for the credit card issuer to investigate and either make the refund permanent, or resolve in favor of the merchant. That's why I keep explaining t you that submitting this evidence of the dispute is similar in complexity to submitting a complaint to the FTC as they ask the same things a credit card issuer would ask.

Out of curiosity: how many credit card disputes have you ever filed? What proportion were resolved in your favor, and in the merchant's favor?
Duke Energy fined $25M for huge coal ash spill. But what about this bigger one?
Alexis. We love you. Title changed from "Twitter follows reddit's lead, combats stolen nudes and revenge porn".
How a Poster of a Sexy Dude Helped One Game Developer Make a Point (2013) (NSFW)
I don't want to say my idea is 100% unique but I did start this back in the fall initially, before thedrop.club launched. I will say that the drop.club did inspire me to polish, finish and actually try and launch it.
As is always the case when the media writes about a scientific paper it seems.
Y Combinator Turns 10 Today – How It Started (2012)
I got one when Lenovo refused to replace my thinkpad despite obviously defective hinge engineering. If I'm going to have to buy a new laptop every two years, it may as well be a cheap one. I installed crouton and have been using it as a development machine.
Should we be concerned that ultrasound is capable of effecting changes in the brain? Ultrasound is one of those "safe" medical operations that you don't think too much about because it's not chemical, radioactive, or built out of superconductors.

For example, 3D fetal ultrasounds bombard a baby but they are really only done out of pure vanity for parents. They don't tell doctor's anything they don't already know from the boring standard ultrasound.
"We have MORE than doubled productivity since 1970. That means that HALF the jobs since then have vaporized. Gone. Kaput. Never to be replaced."

There are lots of jobs that can't even be filled right now. Many jobs have vaporized, but there are also plenty of new positions.

With all of the support here for open source, do people even care that jobs have been lost as a result? As an example, my last company probably should have hired 5 developers. Instead, they just hired me and used a free open source product.

So you push for open source and new technology, which reduces jobs, and now expect a bailout from the middle class? Maybe we should have a tax paid for by technology and open source companies that have reduced jobs.

"If you were not "talented" enough to be born into a family that was college educated prior to 1980, you were in for a very hard time in the future--through no fault of your own"

People can still get into a trade..and make good money without going to college..yet all of the stats I've seen show this is not happening. Why?

"The biggest predictor of whether you will be poor is whether you were born to poor parents."

It really is a parenting problem. My parents never taught me about saving, compound interest, and long-term investments (not just thinking about what I am emotionally feeling now).

This doesn't mean I can't learn about these things later in life.

I would rather invest in more education (which can teach someone the skills to be successful in many aspects of life) than a basic income, which will potentially make a person dependent on it for their entire life.
On Ambition and Contentment
How does the context make it better?
She's already on an iPad why not use the built-in "Reader View" in Safari? This is exactly why it was built, to simplify web pages for reading. No need to build a custom solution to reformat websites.