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Ask HN: Any US Immigration Attorneys able to answer this?
Hi There

I have recently just been offered a position to work on a cruise ship and I need to apply for a C1D Visa for the U.S.

I applied for an ACPO police certificate which came back with "NO LIVE TRACE". After reading what this meant, it says that there is something on my record but the UK wouldn't pick it up on a CRB. I think its called the StepDown model. However I have read that the USA do not recognise the UK StepDown model.

The cautions were:

2 x Battery
1 x Criminal damage

All these occurred on the same day: 24th March 2008. Its now 2015. so it's 7 years ago.

I am not a violent person and have not done anything ever like that since. It was a huge drunken mess when I was in a very bad place and a messy violent relationship to which I was the victim until I finally just snapped.. I accepted the caution because I was remorseful and ashamed at myself and just wanted the fiasco over. Since then I have sorted my life out, been to university and even moved city.

I was wondering will me visa get declined because of these cautions? It's quite a fair bit of money and involves travel to London so I was wondering if its worth it to be just denied?
I don't think a drop reflects mortality, only in popularity as a baby name--the graph is showing you how many new people with that name were added to the total pool over time.
cf most 35-45 year old British people and "I used to hide behind the couch when the Daleks came on".
No longer true, HTML5 is UTF8 by default.
I read your comment and largely agreed with you. Then I watched the video. It happened so fast, everyone was basically running during the attack (including the attacker and cops). It looks highly unlikely that the cop who shot could have grabbed the attacker before his partner got bludgeoned. And I don't know what prior information they had, but with a guy moving that quickly it'd be hard to distinguish a hammer from a knife.

My point is, this was a very fast-developing dangerous situation and I believe the cops responded well. Yes, cops are trained to handle dangerous situations but I don't think we can expect them to disregard other people's safety and lives to protect a very violent attacker.
Also Red's Lounge, was fortunate enough to catch Robert Balfour there a few years ago while passing through.
you just hold the lever with one hand and use the smartphone with the other?
An admirable talent, deserving of the greatest respect. He made life better for all that were touched by his music. RIP.
I waste time on Reddit during the work day or when I know I should be doing other things. I don't necessarily consider it wasting time as I've found that diverting my attention to something unrelated to what I'm working on from time to time helps my mind to focus in the long run.

Reddit is easy to access and provides a steady stream of diversions that are just a click away. I think for some this becomes too much and they need to find a means to break the cycle of "This task I need to do is hard, I'll Reddit instead, that's easy and rewarding".

I've had to take a break from Reddit in the past because I was becoming disappointed in how I used my free-time. I never got further on any of my projects or hobbies—I just browsed Reddit on my phone.

When I'm at work I try to limit my Reddit consumption to mostly text-based or programming related subs. This way I don't endlessly fill my mind with memes, fun pictures, comics, etc and my browsing doesn't go from beneficial-diversion to procrastination-catalyst.
The flip side is that many proposals such as Basic Income proposals unconditionally rewarding people with above world-average wages simply for being Swiss citizens, or offers of free, permanent and decent housing for people who find themselves homeless in the right municipality, seem to increase the likelihood of position in life being a consequence of fortune rather than effort to take advantage of it...

There might be a lot of luck in being born rich, and usually a lot of misfortune in being homeless, but there's also a lot of work and effort that goes into being just about solvent but not able to afford granite worktops, and its actually often people in those positions that are most inclined to gripe at perceived profligacy. Whilst few of them would be keen to have to deal with the difficulties of the average [ex]homeless person, particularly for something as trivial as granite worktops, it's also a little hard to blithely dismiss them as overly privileged.
Good point, though you should also check the laws in your area because such contracts may not be enforceable.
I subscribe to various programming language subreddits, a couple that hit my current interests (at the moment r/running, r/fitness), and some where people post neat photos (such as r/abandonedporn).

I browse it probably every day, usually while sitting somewhere waiting for other people to join me, or for an appointment or something. But not for too long. Probably 30 minutes on average, with some nights where I get bored and don't want to read a book leading to a several hour binge.

I do avoid all the particularly addictive subreddits, similar to my avoidance of the youtube trap. If I'm going to get lost online for hours in endless tabs it'll be a Wikipedia binge. At least that way I come away more informed than when I started.
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I'm completely aware of the fact that SCTP isn't in the native Windows networking stack, and I'll take your word that it's not in OSX. But as long as we put up all these Frankenstein solutions of handling things up-in-the-stack because firewall admins can't be bothered up upgrade or configure their stuff correctly, we are just not putting out enough pressure that this will get changed!

And even if we now introduce this sad compromise that is HTTP/2, there also will be a lot of proxy/firewall appliances that block HTTP/2, and there will be the equivalent of the government-entity of large corporation that was stuck on IE4/WinXP until 2014 using an outdated web-browser or intranet server.

So, maybe we should try to get incompatible protocols out much earlier and if they turn out to have merit, we could enable them on released products and have Chrome/Firefox put up a nagging reminder: "Your web-experience would be much improved (or: this premium content could be watched at higher resolution, or security to your banking website, or...) if your network infrastructure would support SCTP/IPv6/DNSsec/, please ask your ISP or Administrator".
Thanks man!

A webgl version would have been great but as we were already targeting 360 youtube, android, google cardboard, iphone and gear VR I think another platform would have broken our dev! I would personally love to do more unity based webgl stuff- there's so much potential there for interactive animation. Like most things, In the end it just came down to money and time.

I agree though, It isn't really ideal that people are forced to use chrome and I think some people will see the undistorted version, not realise what it's meant to be and write it off. Which is a shame. It's early days for 360 video and I hope in a few months time I hope it's easier to see.

This is the first project I've done where viewing it on a phone is arguably the best experience (sorry Mr Lynch), you look silly waving your phone around but it's a bit of fun in the end of the day!
I switched to voat.co because of all the shill accounts, vote brigading, shadowbans, and corrupt mods on reddit.

Oh, not to mention the absolute insanity of the discussion that takes place in those threads.

I actually mostly browse HN now, a couple old forums, and RSS feeds via Feedly.
I just checked out your site, I don't see reddit as a source. Which icon is it?
All the jobs are fake CIA jobs where they torture you and examine how you hack so never again can man rise-up to understanding. The niggers want compiler under lock and key in the cloud and no assembly language knowlegde. They are brutal quests for control and lock down making mankind slave.
Mr Money Mustache also also comes to mind. It's too late for my 30s being 31, but this stuff has really woken me up and I'm shooting for FIRE close to 40.
I wrote a Github menu bar app for pull requests. Code is here: https://github.com/aleffert/PullRequestMenu
The actual title is "Cubes".

The 2.5 cm is mentioned in the description of the piece, but the hoisting it into the title and somewhat sloppy addition of 'unprocessed' (slaughter, bleed and butcher an animal and it is still raw, I think unprocessed is a bit off the mark) are from the HN submission.
FYI that second pic is a Photoshoped composition for a live bootleg where Jimi and King jammed together in 1968.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnA8cOahBlQ

Here is the original B.B. King photo.

http://bootlegpedia.com/imagesCache.php?site=bootlegpedia&im...
> Glyphosphate is classified as a possible carcinogen by the world health organization.

So's coffee.

Meanwhile, sunlight and estrogen are known carcinogens, but we don't hide in dark caves and cut out ovaries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erucic_acid indicates "the dietary intake of erucic acid by an individual consuming at the average level is well below the PTDI, therefore, there is no cause for concern in terms of public health and safety".

This is the sort of scientific illiteracy that lets people like Food Babe scaremonger over what's in a pumpkin spice latte.
Nice approach.

I need to get JAWS out to confirm, but based on the resulting page source, I'm pretty sure that when JS is disabled in the browser you might break the page from an accessibility perspective by using this tool.

If this did degrade in a more elegant way, i think this would be a very practical tool.
Sometimes my phone autocorrects it incorrectly on me, and I haven't noticed before I tap the "reply" button.
Can confirm, anecdotally. I've used REST over ZeroMQ REQ/REP sockets, for example.
Christian fundamentalism a Capitalist Construct
Enter: serialiser.io
>and the company has some cash lying around

Does your opinion change if they're taking on debt / shrinking their business to buyback shares?

>The company’s executives said that to help finance the plan, McDonald’s would increase refranchising (turning company-owned restaurants into franchises), take on more debt (even at the risk of lowering its bond rating), and find $300 million to cut in general and administrative expenses.

It doesn't sound like its a case of McDonalds having a pile of cash
I like the idea as obfuscation, and it's at least a very simple implementation.

Good-looking batch watermarking is such a pain today.
I believe it is very hard to judge the officer that put him down too harshly. Here are my reasons for feeling this way:

1. The circumstances of the attack. The assailant was in a crowded public place and suddenly went berserk and attacking police officers with a deadly weapon and apparent intent to kill. Does not seem to be in a frame of mind to comply with an arrest in any way. The police were looking for him because of three previous attacks against pedestrians. He was believed to be mentally unstable.

2. He saw his partner struck in the head with a hammer, and I don't believe he had cause for confidence she could support him in a physical takedown.

3. If the officer closed to take him down by hand, and the assailant struck the officer with the hammer, he could be put out of commission and then the assailant would potentially have a pistol to use in a crowded street. Police rarely approach a person still armed or still having the intent to attack. They need control of the situation before doing so.

4. The officer did not continue firing after the assailant went down. The man lived.
You're distracted by the money. Take that out of the equation, then answer the question—then add the money back in and see if that changes your answer (it probably shouldn't). This will force you to answer questions like: "Do I want to work for the client PM full time?" "Do I like the work at BigCo?" "Does the big company / small company divide concern me?"

If you're going to be doing the same work for the same people anyway, take the money and run. If you want to do something different, then do something different.

Remember how consulting works: your hourly cost rate to BigCo is easily 1.5x your take-home pay. Your client PM is doing simple math: he'd like to keep you around for the long term, and it's easy to cut out the middleman. He might even be coming out ahead: it's a win-win. (The loser is your current company.)

Because of this, it's unlikely you'd get 1.5x from your current company... because the client won't pay 2x. It never hurts to ask, but recognize the economics of the situation.
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Yes i agree there is an offensive undertone. Why should men work as much as they did? More women are now working thus men are resting more.
Mobile carriers in Europe will reportedly block ads in effort to bully Google
> 'Why should they have granite countertops when I don't.'

Can you explain what's dumb about a statement like this?

> People come to believe they deserve their position in life when so much of it is due to advantages/disadvantages outside their control

I read through that entire article. I don't think it's as a cut & dried as they make it out to be. For example, they do not define 'deserved' - do people say they feel they "deserved to win" because they committed to playing well even though they didn't need to, given their advantages? Is it fair to dismiss somebody's high self-esteem just because luck was a necessary component of it - thereby discounting the fact that hard work was also a necessary component? This is no different, to me, from a team winning a sports game and teasing the losers. Maybe the researchers thought of that, maybe they didn't, but the author didn't address it and it's crucial.

It also implies a false dichotomy. It seems to imply people become assholes as they become richer. Perhaps we're all naturally assholes and being poor makes us more aware of our dependence on others because the costs of being an asshole and isolating oneself is too high for poor people. It assumes that being "way more generous, way more charitable, way more likely to offer help to another person" to always be a good idea but neglects to ask why, when our brains are given the option to be less generous, less charitable, less helpful, our brains take it?

> attributing your success and their destitution to factors outside anyone's control is scary and difficult.

I don't understand this. I don't deny being fortunate. It's precisely because I'm aware of that, and the role of chance in life, that I don't follow this argument. I live in one of the most unequal societies in the world. Roughly 25-40% unemployment, depending who you ask. The number of 0-4 year olds currently is twice that of the active tax payer base. I already pay ~35% tax, aside from 14% value added tax on products and services. Am I bad because I don't want to share more of my good fortune? I couldn't be where I am without ridiculous amounts of luck - but I also do work hard. Don't I "deserve" a happy and safe life, if I have the opportunity? Why do the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few?

The economics of my society simply don't forecast very well compared to other societies. Am I a bad person because I save money and find ways to escape to countries with greater equality? I think I'm being quite rational, but it feels like the articles I'm reading here are saying I should feel bad for not wanting to help others more. Sometimes I think things are beyond help, and you need to put yourself first.
I order to 'reprogram' humans you need to expose them to huge amounts of suffering and mental manipulations to achieve the desired outcome.

With machines, assuming you could build their personality from the ground up, you wouldn't have such quagmires. In essence it would be the difference between hacking down a tree and pouring cement (or using nanomachines) to build a home. One of them is more wasteful than the other.

However things get weird if you can only train them and or clone their neural nets. If you create a mental model and cut and paste a version on your USB 11.0, you get with same problems teleporter in Star Trek do. Namely, which one is original and whether it constitutes a death/rebirth?
RSS of the monthly top 10 for niche subreddits: https://www.reddit.com/r/mechanicalkeyboards/top/.rss?sort=t...
I don't. Stopped browsing reddit years ago, when it septembered, was a user from very early days, having jumped from digg when that septembered.

I dunno. There's too much noise, not enough signal, and I don't have the time or will to get pissed off while trawling through stuff.
If you've got way too much time to spare, I've got a set of topic review videos that I made for various classes on this stuff. The quality's not great, but seeing some worked examples could be interesting. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQcPPNE9JfpiF4GpUSOGm...
I read an article about Ms. Loftus (whom this article also mentions) in Slate several years ago and it kind of got to me. Between that and various issues with forensic evidence you start to really be overwhelmed by the scope of the false conviction problem.
Right now, lobbying IS a dirty thing. How can we clean it up?
As has been argued both on HN [1] and by McDonald's itself [2], fast food worker salaries can't be raised because it'll kill jobs since the money has to come from somewhere and the businesses can't afford it. But from the article:

>"In 2014, McDonald’s expended $3.2 billion each on buybacks and dividends, equivalent to 134% of its net income... ...to help finance the plan, McDonald’s would...take on more debt...and find $300 million to cut in general and administrative expenses."

I would say it's pretty clear there that workers are being directly affected, and previous studies of minimum wage [3] have shown that public assistance (including welfare and health benefits) act as a public subsidy of low wage workers.

Stock buybacks are valuable to executives whose compensation packages are largely tied to stock, and short-term stock holders. It is less clear that they provide long-term value; especially when they're financed through aggressive value extraction as these appear to be. The money does have to come from somewhere -- and in this case it appears to be at the expense of long-term investment, squeezing the franchises & workers, and by taking on new debt.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9459625
[2] http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/08/22/2509161/mcdonald...
[3] http://democrats.edworkforce.house.gov/sites/democrats.edwor...
They are in the Netherlands, after all. They don't use inches for anything.
> Basically the only reason most people struggle financially in the US is due to their own financial illiteracy and living above their means. If you manage not to fall victim to either of those then you can save a substantial portion of your income towards a very early retirement should you choose to do so.

That is really only true for households above the median income.

So "most" is not a factual statement. About half of the country can save [at most] a few thousand dollars a year unless they want to ruin their health and take other risks that are essentially gambling.

That is part of what pisses me off about /r/financialindependence. Alot of the "suggestions" those people make are essentially gambling. [e.g. going without proper insurance coverage, high risk investments if you cannot save much due to income, eat unhealthy to save money which will cost you later] Or they assume you are making $60k a year so you can save $20k/year. You can't save $20k/year if you are making $30k.
What is terrible about the subreddit? Your following paragraph ("Basically...") sounds very reasonable.
What are your experiences using Github issues?

I can only imagine so given that tools like this exist, and that Github continue to maintain Issues that people like it, but I personally don't love them. I honestly cannot put my finger on what I don't like but i've never been able to stick to it. In /real life/ I am using Jira or Redmine on a regular basis, maybe I'm just broken from their heavy and complex UI's.
Which means systemd
The only good lobbyist is one that doesn't profit from his lobbying.

This is the real issue here -- by making it financially beneficial to peddle rhetoric that reduces the quality of life for hundreds of millions of people, we are selling out.

We're morally bankrupt in every sense.

Only fools argue that "lobbying should be outlawed because it's bribery" because they lack the foresight to realize that such levers are necessary for a healthy political process, but it is more foolish to delude yourself into thinking that it's beneficial to peddle garbage legislative proposals.

Trust, but verify. We're trusting lobbyists but not verifying whether that trust is warranted.
As I recall (of course the premise of this article is that you shouldn't trust my recollection), it was discussed, but all the discussion I can remember was extremely dismissive, claiming this was just a lame excuse.
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As others noted, they're excluded from the study.

But if you're shocked at 1%, 2.9% are in jail or on probation or parole. They are mostly non-violent offenders. Laws are unequally applied toward African Americans at a ratio of about 10 to 1 (when accounting for incidences of the illegal behavior in each population) with African Americans receiving 60% longer sentences than whites for the same crime.

Prisoners are then put to work in industrial manufacturing for as little as 18c/hr and as much (ha) as $1.50/hr. The prison manufactures are guaranteed to win any government bid, regardless of whether their bid is higher than competitors.

Sorry for the tangent, pet peeve.
Reddit is Usenet 2.0. Usenet never had a "just browse all the most popular groups" though, mercifully. Same rules apply; the more narrow the group and the more connected to something real, the more likely it is to be useful. Reddit should be viewed as raw material from which to construct a personalized experience of value, and all of its default affordances (/r/all, default subreddits, etc) should be shunned if you're worried about this sort of thing, because they're all terrible, compared to what you can find if you try.

I've got the language communities for all the computer languages I'm currently interested in, a couple of things I'm sorta hobbiest-level interested in (SpaceX, for instance) and want more in-depth news, a couple of weird off-the-wall subs that have a low post rate (/r/scp, /r/cellular_automata) for a more, ah, "refined" sort of entertainment (and perhaps more importantly, simply less entertainment), and a couple of subreddits being used as "more intelligent comments & discussion" for some internet shows hosted on YouTube. The upshot is a stream of news that isn't dropping 100 links an hour on me, is generally interesting, and mostly full of real people having real conversations about things I find interesting and not merely 50-level deep pun competitions.

Reddit's what you make of it.
Our dev wrote a script that exported cube maps out of unity 30 frames a second. I then stitched those together in using the spherical projection node in nuke. We have the resolution up to 12k (6x 2k maps). Ideally in the future we'll have ~8k 360 so that you have a HD image wherever you look but 4k is the max for youtube and is really pushing what an average machine can decode without stutter.
Thanks!