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randomname2··on Ask HN: Did anybody apply for UK Global Talent visa? How did it go?
To be clear I was saying 105k for senior, and more than that for staff/principal.

As to day rates I think it's rather about companies willing to pay a bit more to get better contractors rather than any specific stack.

randomname2··on Ask HN: Did anybody apply for UK Global Talent visa? How did it go?
London day rates I've seen for contractors are more like 700 - 900/day on average at places that pay a bit better and 1000+ for specialists. And base salaries I've seen advertised for senior developers at funded startups (e.g. Wagestream, Truelayer) are more like 105k now (more for higher levelings - i.e. Principal/Staff).
randomname2··on El Salvador Congress Approves Bitcoin As Legal Currency
Another explanation from a salvadorian: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/nt8hi6/im_from_el_...
randomname2··on Why The Intercept closed the Snowden archive
Greenwald's response: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1106195880393297920
randomname2··on A Profile of Claire Lehmann of Quillette
Claire actually mentioned on Twitter that this essay inspired her to start Quillette.
randomname2··on Did You Vote? Now Your Friends May Know (and Nag You)
Does anyone else find this creepy and Orwellian?
randomname2··on Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
Great textbook
randomname2··on Apple is removing Alex Jones and InfoWars’ podcasts from iTunes
Interestingly this only happened after pressure from CNN, after they successfully got Facebook and Youtube to punish Infowars [1]

[1] https://www.salon.com/amp/fox-news-tucker-carlson-runs-to-al...

randomname2··on Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript
The linked Twitter thread states that they do use TypeScript: https://twitter.com/TheLarkInn/status/1006861097729585154
randomname2··on U.S. To Seek Social Media Details from All Visa Applicants
https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/ does
randomname2··on Palantir worked with Cambridge Analytica on the Facebook data it acquired
Alex Karp (CEO of Palantir) was aligned with the Clintons and had discussions about working with the Clinton campaign:

[1] https://gizmodo.com/just-to-be-clear-i-totally-agree-i-like-...

[2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3907562/Joe-Klani-Ma...

randomname2··on New Leadership Has Not Changed Uber
Interestingly despite years of negative pieces on Uber from journalists who have never liked Uber, its net favorability is still very close to Apple's:

https://www.axios.com/exclusive-poll-facebook-favorability-p...

randomname2··on The Cambridge Analytica scandal isn’t a scandal: this is how Facebook works
A former Obama campaign official is claiming that Facebook knowingly allowed them to mine massive amounts of Facebook data — more than they would’ve allowed someone else to do — because they were supportive of the campaign.

In a Sunday tweet thread, Carol Davidsen, former director of integration and media analytics for Obama for America, said the 2012 campaign led Facebook to “suck out the whole social graph” and target potential voters. They would then use that data to do things like append their email lists.

When Facebook found out what they were doing, they were “surprised,” she said. But she also claimed they didn’t stop them once they found out:

https://ijr.com/2018/03/1077083-ex-obama-campaign-director-f...

randomname2··on 23andMe Granted FDA Authorization for Genetic Test on Cancer Risk
A new administration, including a new FDA Commissioner (Scott Gottlieb) is one
randomname2··on New FreeBSD Code of Conduct
Copied from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16377044

Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/7xapx2/freebsds_ne...

Comments from one of the people responsible for creating the CoC are here: https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/7xapx2/freebsds_ne...

randomname2··on With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there’s a likely culprit
Is it possible this is also in part due to EMFs from their phones (and environment) and circadian rhythm disturbances from screens?

Some studies suggest the radiation can be risky to kids:

Christ A, Gosselin MC, Christopoulou M, K’uhn S, & Kuster N. (2010 Jan.). Age dependent tissue-specific exposure of cell phone users. Physics in Medicine and Biology, 55: 1767-1783. Retrieved from http://iopscience.iop.org/0031-9155/55/7/001/pdf/0031-9155_5....

Block, R. (12 July 2012). American Academy of Pediatrics letter to the FCC. Retrieved from http://www.scribd.com/doc/104230961/American-Academy-of-Pedi...

Hardell L, Carlberg M, Hansson Mild K. (2009) Epidemiological evidence for an association between use of wireless phones an tumor diseases. Pathophysiology 16 (2-3): 113-122.]

Hardell L, Hansson Mild K, Carlberg M, Hallquist A. (2004) Cellular and cordless telephones and the association with brain tumours in different age group. Archives of Environmental Health 59 (3): 132-137.

Divan HA, Kheifets L, Obel C, Olsen J. (2008) Prenatal and Postnatal Exposure to Cell Phone Use and Behavioral Problems in Children. Epidemiology 19(4): 523-529.

Byun, YH, Ha, M, Kwon, HJ et al (2013 Mar 21). Mobile phone use, blood lead levels, and attention deficit hyperactivity symptoms in children: a longitudinal study. PLoS One. 2013;8(3):e59742. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059742.

Morgan, L, Kesari, S, Davis, D (2014). Why children absorb more microwave radiation than adults: The consequences. Journal of Microscopy and Ultrastructure 2(4): 197-204. doi:10.1016/j.jmau.2014.06.005

Environmental Health Trust (2015). Wireless and Children. Retrieved from: http://ehtrust.org/cell-phones-radiation-3/wireless-and-chil...

Exposure to radio-frequency electromagnetic fields and behavioural problems in Bavarian children and adolescents. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19960235

randomname2··on Chickens Prefer Attractive People
It can be politically incorrect to state that some people are more physically attractive than others, but in the “is beauty objective” debate, this seems to be at least a sign that beauty is not totally subjective?
randomname2··on Cell phone use may affect health: California health department
Interesting tidbits: they advise to never carry cellphones in your pocket, and that cell phones can lead to increased risk for brain cancer, low sperm count, headaches, impaired memory.
randomname2··on An Open Letter to Patreon
Hatreon has also extended an open invite to these content creators: https://twitter.com/Radomysisky/status/922833371075620866
randomname2··on Edward Snowden Interview: 'There Is Still Hope - Even for Me'
Also see http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/09/05/deep-state... for a backgrounder on the term
randomname2··on BasicAttentionToken Roadmap 1.0
Is BAT traded anywhere other than Bittrex and liqui.io yet?
randomname2··on Drupal project imploding, core developers ejected for S&M hobbies
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13972307 which has more neutral reporting
randomname2··on Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 2017
Surprisingly a full 2.6% of Stack Overflow visitors identify as non male/female, of which a 0.5% transgender. Both numbers much higher than those for the general population.

It would be interesting to see more information about this, looking forward to the follow-up article: "We will publish additional analysis related to respondents’ gender identities in the coming weeks."

randomname2··on Reddit Is Being Manipulated by Professional Shills [video]
This probably refers to Uber and Peter Thiel and companies associated to him?

If they're manipulating HN they're not very good at it. Lately I'm seeing smear pieces against them appear on the front page on almost a daily basis and the tone in these threads is overwhelmingly toxic rather than positive.

randomname2··on Naval Ravikant on Reading, Happiness, Decision Making, Habits [audio]
I heard this episode last month and this was such a fantastic interview. Naval is a gem, one of the best genuinely independent thinkers out there!
randomname2··on CIA malware and hacking tools
One of the findings: Notepad++ has a DLL hijack [1]

[1] https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_26968090.html

randomname2··on How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authorities Worldwide
"Greyball-as-a-service" would make for a startup with interesting applications (think protecting sex workers etc.)
randomname2··on USCIS Will Temporarily Suspend Premium Processing for All H-1B Petitions
Summary of why it's temporarily suspended:

"This temporary suspension will help us to reduce overall H-1B processing times. By temporarily suspending premium processing, we will be able to:

Process long-pending petitions, which we have currently been unable to process due to the high volume of incoming petitions and the significant surge in premium processing requests over the past few years; and

Prioritize adjudication of H-1B extension of status cases that are nearing the 240 day mark. "

randomname2··on White House Bars NYT, CNN, and Politico from Briefing
Just for some perspective, the previous administration was also not great in this regard:

"Obama shuts Fox out of press briefings related to Benghazi" [1]

"The Obama White House went to war against Fox News": Jake Tapper. [2]

"Fishbowl DC has been keeping tabs of which media outlets have been allowed to ask a question at President-elect Barack Obama’s five press conferences so far. They report Fox News is 0–5. “Questions instead went to such outlets as ABC, New York Times, CBS, Reuters and the Associated Press.”" [3]

"In 2010, President Obama said that Fox News had a point of view which was “ultimately destructive” for America...The University of Minnesota’s Eric Ostermeier tallied up the number of questions each member of the White House press corp had been able to ask during all of Obama’s first term press conferences. ABC, CBS, the Associated Press and NBC led the pack, with ABC having been selected for questioning 29 times over 36 solo press conferences. (Overall, reporters have had fewer chances to ask questions than any White House press corps since Ronald Reagan’s.)...Fox News, though it has a reach that far outstrips its competitors and sometimes rivals the broadcast networks, was in ninth place on the list, having been called on 14 times...NBC’s Chuck Todd and ABC’s Jake Tapper (now at CNN) were called on the most of any reporters — they each got 23 chances to question Obama." [4]

"Mr. Axelrod said it was the view of the White House that Fox News had blurred the line between news and anti-Obama advocacy...By the following weekend, officials at the White House had decided that if anything, it was time to take the relationship to an even more confrontational level. The spur: Executives at other news organizations, including The New York Times, had publicly said that their newsrooms had not been fast enough in following stories that Fox News, to the administration’s chagrin, had been heavily covering through the summer and early fall — namely, past statements and affiliations of the White House adviser Van Jones that ultimately led to his resignation and questions surrounding the community activist group Acorn...Those reports included a critical segment on the schools safety official Kevin Jennings, with the on-screen headline “School Czar’s Past May Be Too Radical”; urgent news coverage of a video showing schoolchildren “singing the praises, quite literally, of the president,” which the Fox News contributor Tucker Carlson later called “pure Khmer Rouge stuff”...There followed, beginning in earnest more than two weeks ago, an intensified volley of White House comments describing Fox as “not a news network.”...Then, in an interview with NBC News on Wednesday, the president went public. “What our advisers have simply said is that we are going to take media as it comes,” he said. “And if media is operating, basically, as a talk radio format, then that’s one thing. And if it’s operating as a news outlet, then that’s another.”...“We simply decided to stop abiding by the fiction, which is aided and abetted by the mainstream press, that Fox is a traditional news organization,” said Dan Pfeiffer, the deputy White House communications director." [5]

December 2012: Several journalists reported that MSNBC hosts were meeting privately with President Obama to discuss the impending “fiscal cliff” fight. [6]

March 2015: Politico’s media reporter, Hadas Gold, reported that “a group of journalists and columnists,” all on the left, met privately with President Obama, but the White House refused to say “who else was at the meeting or what was discussed.” [7]

[1] http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/fox-anchor-team-obama-threatened-...

[2] http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kristine-marsh/2017/01/1...

[3] https://thinkprogress.org/fox-news-shut-out-again-at-obama-p...

[4] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/17/obama-fox-news-pres...

[5] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/us/politics/23fox.html

[6] http://www.mediaite.com/tv/msnbc-hosts-spotted-visiting-obam...

[7] http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/03/obama-holds-off-...

randomname2··on As Leaks Multiply, Fears of a ‘Deep State’ in America
Yesterday, a UK police chief also alleged former PM Heath was a pedophile [1], and that his crimes have been covered up.

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4238188/Sir-Edward-H...

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