skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Claiming the "love" is unrequited rests on the assumption that policy is at least strongly correlated with the people's will.

It is, the average American doesn't like open immigration and they don't want immigrants taking their jobs especially after years of recession. Our immigration policy sucks because our people suck.
Perhaps they sold it, but I can also see how adding special exceptions to their algorithm and policy would be more expensive and error prone than just paying Mr. Lush for new marketing materials. We just don't know.

What I do know is what I get from a Google search for 'lush':

1) www.lushusa.com

2) www.lush.com

3) www.youtube.com/user/lush (this is Mr. Lush's channel)

www.youtube.com/lush was not on either the 1st or 2nd page of web results, or even the 1st page of video results. Google seems to be indexing based on the 'user' addresses.

And if the URL change is due to an algorithm, then Lush Cosmetics can't do anything about it either, which hurts their brand too as many people now believe they deliberately stole an address from someone else and refuse to give it back.

This is why it's important to have your own domain name, if for no other reason than to redirect traffic to your youtube channel.
Is there a reason why you are not eligible to sponsor your wife for an immigrant visa?

In most Anglo countries, you'd have to wait for its approval (about 6-9 months) before your wife moved to that country. Is that what you're trying to avoid?

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/sponsor/spouse.asp
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Especially when the global map of solar irradiance looks like this:

http://i.imgur.com/CIcFQYU.jpg

Which makes solar plays in the Middle East much more economically viable as compared to in the US (although to be fair, as a opportunity cost, their fuel prices are much lower..)
How about that pyramid?
Hi Ammon. I'm certain that we talked on both the 45-minute and 2-hour video conferences, so those are not blind. Do you mean that you and Harj didn't discuss applicants throughout the process?
That's the same thing though. If it's the same level of difficulty as fizzbuzz, it serves the same purpose: you can fail at it, but you can't really do well at it. All you can do is not fail.
America, America, America... You know that's a continent and not a country right?
Do you use it to text when you're surrounded by other people? The biggest drawback for me is not how noisy the environment is, it's that I literally tell other people around all that I'm doing with my phone. And as a fellow bus rider, for instance, that would annoy me to hear your text to your wife. But I found out that nobody actually does that.
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I really dislike this line of reasoning. There are always people better off and worse off than any particular one of us. Does that mean we are all wrong to feel any emotion? Of course not. The human experience is subjective.
You're right. Thanks, man.
Maybe. If they had no oil they would be a solar superpower.

But its more than just the solar plants that they need, they need transmission facilities to their customers outside the kingdom.

My prediction is simply this: The oil will run out, the cash will run out, and the kingdom will collapse.

They have no cultural understanding of saving for the future. Contrast that with Norway and the way Norway has managed their oil revenue.

http://www.rferl.org/content/what-can-norway-teach-other-oil...

By the time, Saudi Arabia discovers that the move to solar is not optional - all the other countries in the region will have moved to solar or renewable because those countries have no choice.
I'm ok with acknowledging the humanity of, but not the dignity of, a group of people who willingly, emphatically, repeatedly worked to deny others of their basic human rights.

We see words like "heritage" thrown around a lot with respect to the south. I like to remember what that heritage is:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/what-thi...
Isn't that all basic stuff SBT did for years already?
Can a city give your home to a private developer?
You should give at least some semblance of a reason why "productivity growth" prevents pensions from being pyramid schemes instead of implicitly dismissing the parent commenter's remark as irrational discussion.
If you're interested, look up Mary Beard. She is extremely knowledgeable on ancient Rome without the sexist attitude. I've spoken to her a few times, she's a lovely woman who I hold in high regard. Mary did a wonderful series on BCC called "Meet The Romans". A very insightful review. Go Mary!!
I have an anecdote that might be useful:

A few years ago I was coding at a small startup. Everybody was pretty solid. Then they brought on a new engineer who was very comfortable with a certain framework...but ONLY that framework. One day, in a product planning meeting, we were discussing a new feature we wanted to build. It fell in the new person's domain, so we asked them to give a rough estimate of how much time it would take. Their response?

"It can't be done in this framework. There's no existing module or extension for that".

We all sat back in silence. Eventually someone said what we were all thinking: "We hired you to write code, not install plugins and extensions. Do you actually know how to write any code?"

The new hire left the company soon after. To me, the glaring problem here wasn't that they had aligned their process with a certain framework... it was that they had then closed their mind to other options. They only thought within the framework, and so had nothing creative to actually contribute to the team.
It might make for a less clever cat, but maybe you could also have the cat respond "now?" in English.
What does beaker offer in terms of text editing?
I like databases, and can do things really awesome, but the problem with your focus is that databases do difficult things easier but easy things almost impossible. I'm very confident that I would beat any newbie with a database in most of the cases, even when the plant is totally unknown to me.

I have created a lot of databases to identify some types of organisms of my interest and often find dificult to achieve good identifications only with databases alone.
I didn't take the time to look up all 19, but the ringleaders (Mohamed Atta, et. al.) entered on nonimmigrant visas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijackers_in_the_September_11_...
The world 'largely likes' the US, says global survey
Why does NAT require a mesh of tunnels? Are you trying to separate the containers onto securely-separate networks?

Why isn't DHCP used? What does it not do that this service does?
Why Stressed?
Let me tell you why I'm stressed and since last week thinking of turning of my life.

1. It's not ok to just be a programmer who goes to office, finishes work and comes back home.
2. It's not ok to just know about few things. You need to be full-stack engineer, mediocre developers are bad as the internet says.
3. Oh what are you doing at job, real programmers leave their job and pursue your dreams.
4. Oh you don't have a dream Very bad. You need one.
5. Oh you don't have passion you must have one. Look at all the founders, genius people who have become millionaires.
6. Oh you know javascript and jquery. Yes you can learn any new framework but Do you know Angular.js? How about Node.js.
7. Oh you work only with C#. A good prgrammer needs to know python if possible haskell etc etc.
8. Oh you have worked for 5 years but do you have a blog? do you have contributions to open source, do you have github account with regular commits? No? You're not good programmer. Sorry no job for you.
9. Oh you know a bunch of things but you don't know more than those silicon valley programmers. They are genius. Why aren't you genius?
10. Oh you are approaching age 30 but you're not famous. Why aren't you. Some kid made an app, some guy created this great business...why didn't you.
11. Add the list goes on.....

I have realized even if you are good at what you do, it's not enough. You have to meet right people at right place in right time who can give publicity and credit to even your small work. That makes you look good. But people who are not at the right place at right time, they think how the hell did that guy do it. How is he now regarded as great. Then the mind goes crazy. People feel down and depressed.

I did the same. I left a perfect job. Why? Well a programmer takes risk, learns new things.
After a year? I have no job, no income, I'm unhappy, depressed. Because I was chasing a mirage.
The article seems to portray the area as insular and pretty homogenous, is that the case?

I'd hate to live and work in an area where everyone was doing pretty much the same thing with their lives. Would be weird.. and probably unstimulating.
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I said it was foreign aid, in that it benefits their home countries more than the US. But economics is not zero-sum, so just because it amounts to foreign aid doesn't mean it's a loss per se, just that the US could be getting more out of the deal than it currently is.

I think it would probably be better for everyone if we streamlined the process of transitioning from an H1B to permanent residency, and it would definitely be better for the US economy.
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"Need" means they make money without selling data directly (as described above). In fact, they probably do/would make more money through direct conversions than data sales when the data is generally available anyway.

In other words, they have access to data that is available to anyone who can make a soft inquiry. That's a lot of people. It's easy and cheap.
Some people just don't have this concept in their DNA..
Sublime doesn't interact very nicely with the terminal. There is a repl plugin, but it is slow and outdated. Is ctr-enter to send text to ipython that much to ask for?

If you use multiple platforms, you're gonna have a tough time remembering the keyboard shortcuts as some of them are totally different.

I haven't switched from sublime to Emacs, but it promises to fix all those things in exchange for more complexity.
The Big Split. And the End of Homo Sapiens
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Kids are great, but by my observation, the primary logical motivation to have them is so that one can make sense of their own existence.

It's a never ending cycle to figure out what this life is about by giving birth to life which then again must solve the same question themselves.

However, do we really understand this existential angst at its root? Or is this simply a never-ending passing of the torch?

I'm not questioning how much joy children can bring to a couple's life but I've been thinking about the non-evolutionary purpose of having children for a while and I'm not sure how to think about it.
Yes, @dreamcatcher is misinterpreting my sentiment, or I was not clear in communicating it. I absolutely do not support any racial stereotypes of Indians or anyone else - my point is that others do this because they wish to oversimplify the immigration argument.

I have an Indian guy on my team going through the visa process just like me, so slandering of Indian workers hits especially close to home. He's the only other person in my entire office who knows for sure that cricket is the superior sport … without him I'd be alone and defenseless amongst baseball nerds!!
Yes, it can. We have used the same OpenBCI board and software in other experiments, and it does show changes — for example, I ran OpenViBE’s demo SSVEP scenario on the same subject, and the spectrogram showed a pattern of increased amplitude that correlated with the target frequencies.

Even if the effect was too small to see in the spectrogram, we should have seen some affect in the FFT plot at the target frequency; instead, the amplitude of the trials at the target frequency were very slightly below the amplitude of the control segments.
Of course it isn't wrong to feel emotion. I'm the same age as the OP, I'm also well-off, I also get disillusioned and unsatisfied.

But a large part of that emotion is misplaced. You can change how you feel simply by changing your perspective. You can look at a situation like that and feel like you are doing unsatisfying work, or you can also realize the benefits that come from that and turn it into a positive. And based on what they are saying, there's a lot of good that can come out of it. Good that most people don't have any chance at. You've got to feel a little thankful or lucky to even have that opportunity.
It's a feudal, authoritarian immigration system. I suggest a return to pre-1914 policies: any peaceful, healthy, productive individual is welcome. (Footnote: this means abolishing the Welfare State. Ready?)
As a general rule, no, unless I'm doing so to make a point / be heard. For example, I'll often verbally take a note of book recommendations that people give me, both to preserve the note for myself (as book recommendations are serious business) and to affirm to them that I am taking their recommendation seriously without having to explain that I am taking their recommendation seriously.

Beyond that, I agree that verbal commands on a bus would be inconsiderate both to the other passengers as well as the recipient of the message, whose privacy I just (slightly) violated. That said, if I'm sitting on a bus, I don't really have a good excuse for not typing the message myself, and typing is still slightly preferred except for when my hands are occupied or my phone is not conveniently accessible.
I'd be open to hearing your criticism of policies that allow Disney to have [American] workers train their foreign replacements that don't invoke any sort of xenophobia or racism.

The whole idea that it would be wrong or humiliating to have to train someone who had the gall to be born in a different (and generally poorer) country is based on the notion that Americans should be treated with more regard than people born elsewhere. If Disney had fired 200 Americans and replaced them with 200 other Americans, would there have been an uproar? Almost certainly not. Since they only difference is the new workers' nation of origin, how is this not a xenophobic or racist reaction?

Lots of issues are complex but complexity is not an excuse for xenophobia.
Right, exactly. That's what I'm saying, I don't know what you're disagreeing with. Having a CS degree does not guarantee programming competence. Some people get CS degrees who shouldn't get CS degrees. Some students probably should get flunked out who don't flunk out. Some students graduate from perfectly fine colleges with good grades but zero ability. It happens, hence fizzbuzz. Some people are just naturally good at marketing themselves, and show up with multiple degrees from top-tier schools, vast lists of publications, with years (if not decades) of industry experience on their resumes in important-sounding positions doing impressive and difficult-sounding tasks, and can't code their way out of a paper bag. Hence fizzbuzz.
Correct. Outsourcing company sends workers to the job site to document the job responsibilities so that the position can be transferred overseas. Usually it takes about six months to a year.
Most of this map makes sense, but why is that area of China so low?
Creativity can be automated? Yes, you could automate parts of it if you wanted.

However, you're missing a couple of points. Firstly, creativity is enjoyable. Not because of some grand need to push culture forward and/or keep people entertained, just because it's fun to create.

Secondly, you're implying that culture will move in a unified direction, or that we'll all consume the same culture. We won't. There's too much of it to take it all in, and there's no reason to suggest that all tastes will align. Culture will grow chaotically just like it always has, the main difference is that we'll have more time to explore it.
Could you elaborate on Denmark? I always thought they were really tough on immigration.
And the stock hardware is certified, why must it prevent me from working on my own machine.
How does that play out with increased consolidation and automation?
I have a coral reef to sell you.
" a lot of pontificating and observation and doesn't really interest modern readers"

Can you be clear about what DOES interest modern readers if it's not to understand human nature and the world around us? Or are you second guessing because of the prevalence of Twitter and Facebook?
On the other hand, Lush has had a long-running campaign against animal cruelty, among other proudly advertised ethical achievements.
Any idea why this shows equatorial regions as having lower irradiance than other areas? It seems unintuitive to me.
Physics depends on metaphysics.
So basically everything that's been available on the JVM for more than ten years.

I understand your excitement to finally have that if you didn't beforehand, but this is pretty old stuff.
I shouldn't have to buy special hardware when I have perfectly fine hardware at my house. Vendor lock in is dangerous and nonsensical.

How is their excuse valid? A certified stock machine ceases to be certified when unverified hardware is used. However all WiFi cards must pass FCC certification separately, that is not Lenovo's responsibility.
Ask HN: Tech scene in Raleigh, NC?
I'm contemplating leaving the bay area in about a year for reasons deserving its own post. I keep reading about a tech scene in Raleigh, but I'm curious to hear from HNers who live there about what Raleigh is really like. Do you enjoy living there? How are the people? Is it hard to find a tech job that pays a decent salary? Is there much of a startup scene? How's the weather? How's the food? Is the cost of living reasonable?

If it helps, I'm a full stack web dev with some iOS experience and technical project management skills (see my profile for more info).

I appreciate your insights!
Sure, but even that is temporary. You can't play video games forever.
I want a minimal list of what I should read from the ancient Greeks to get a reasonable understanding of the most important things. Any greek geeks care to comment on what the absolute must-not-be-missed works are? Im trying to learn too many things at once to be comprehensive.
> It is a hell of a secret weapon for startups.

So secret that hardly any startups use it and hardly anyone has open positions for Haskell jobs...

You have your work cut out for you :-)
> Every landlord nowadays requires a minimum credit score

Not accurate, though it may be true for a typical apartment complex.
can you not get them with an antenna?
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> Which would be fine, except that you can buy a $50 antenna from Amazon and get channels with much, MUCH better quality than what you can get with cable.

Which is funny, because back in The Day, the selling point for cable was that it was better quality than broadcast (plus a few extra channels).
Just go for a European style social security net. Problem solved.
Lighter is more.
LA TWC I get 300mbit for $70. No TV etc.
This is not the kind of comment HN needs more of. A better version would (a) drop the snarky putdown, and (b) actually say what Google's conclusions are. Then readers could decide for themselves to what degree those findings contradict these, instead of being told what to think.
We have mountains in Australia, too.
I always have trouble with pricing models like this... how is it 2.5X as expensive to have 3x as many "bookable rooms"? Once you write the software, it's trivial to add more "bookable rooms". Why do you charge so much more for the difference, which really just amounts to a little extra disk space/CPU (not that this is an intensive application to run in either regard anyway).

I guess the reason our industry has gone this way is simply because we know we can get more money from larger companies. That's why you always see these arbitrary limits that correspond in no way whatsoever to the actual cost or value of the product being sold.
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If anyone is interested, go to tvfool.com and plug in your address and get a TV Fool report. It will tell you what broadcast (over-the-air or OTA) TV stations are possible to receive at your location. If you live near any metro area you should be able to get most of the major networks; ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, PBS, CW, ION and many independent stations. I am getting 80+ stations in the SF Bay Area with an antenna system that costs less than $200 to feed the whole house with 4 TVs. The quality of OTA digital is BETTER than what you get via cable for local stations. That plus streaming is all I need unless someone wants to pay me to be a content consumer.
RS6000 processor! Wow.... I remember doing work on one of these back when I was in college. Turned out I became the only person in my state to be able to maintain the old RS6000 machines.

...haven't touched or heard of one in over a decade.
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Social features are the primary thing I miss from rdio.com, but they have explicit "friending", otherwise you'd see nothing. I assume Google would use all their data to show you everything everyone is listening too and provide little control.

Google doesn't get social. I can't even share a photo from Google Photos onto Facebook that shows the actual photo; at best they'll share a link with a small thumbnail – at worst it prompts people to login to see it and shows nothing of value on FB. I get it...they're competitors...but the effort required to share an "Google Awesome" photo drives me away from sharing the good stuff they do do.
That's not an ethical achievement, that's a calculated marketing strategy.
Your long comment is kind of a mess (e.g., the CEO of OkCupid never gave to a pro-Prop-8 charity; he gave to a Republican candidate [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Cannon] who was against SSM -- see http://perezhilton.com/2014-04-08-okcupid-ceo-is-guilty-of-d...).

Obviously some "public perception" was against me, but some was for me, and it then raged against Mozilla (see #nozilla twitter hash-tag). The net effect was probably a wash. You should ask why PR was not good while I was exiting Mozilla. Think it through.
Ah, yes. Good point.
The key with option #1 is get everything in writing and have the filing of the GC start on day one of employment.

I know plenty of people who screwed themselves out of a GC because they didn't do both of those things.