skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While you're not exactly wrong (especially in the case presented), there are a variety of exceptions, for a loose definition of 'work' - which some future readers/searchers here might find useful. For example, if you're manning a booth at an exhibition for your foreign employer, that's work but allowed. Selling, being a service engineering, training, and some other things are also allowed with very careful restrictions. More information at http://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/BusinessVisa%20Pur...
Agreed. I think the title here is misleading and should be removed or changed, especially given the title on Bloomberg is:

> NYU Professor: Yahoo Should Be Euthanized, and Marissa Mayer Is the Most Overpaid CEO in History
Node's documentation really is terrible. The fact that it doesn't show what arguments functions take, what types are expected, etc. is pretty sad in 2015. The documentation is barely better than your typical side-project readme.md file, at best you get 1 example of an api's usage (always the most basic use-case only, of course).
Well, the question is, apart from money, what is the motivation for the movie?

For sure, Woz would like to set some things straight and tell his perspective on things. I once stumbled about a comment from Woz regarding the Steve Jobs movie. He was not very pleased with the narrative of the Jobs film.

The comment is an interesting read, and it can be found at:

https://plus.google.com/+CarmsPerez/posts/GnVTvQNgvpf
The sad part is with a few modifications this program they are cutting could be used to recruit minorities.

The big problem with minorities in engineering happens before they even apply to university.
CloudFlare strips HTTPS protection off on their machines and views all plain text. So, you get HTTPS protection on the public Internet in exchange for CloudFlare getting to see everything.

This may or may not be what you want/need.
In reality it does not matter if it is right or wrong; people will do it anyway.

In my opinion, a billboard does not make my car move slower, and I don't have to pay to pay to see it.
I think this is a slightly different, though related, point. Built-in artificial obsolescence, where an otherwise perfectly usable device is deliberately crippled at some point by some sort of unnecessary software or hardware barrier, is never in the customer's interests.

This one has an easy solution, though: manufacturers and vendors should be compelled to prominently disclose exactly what the nature of any such behaviour will be before the sale is finalised, so customers can vote with their wallets and there is awareness in the market if anyone wants to compete on the basis that they have no (or at least less customer-hostile) artificial limitations. Fail to do so and be on the hook for whatever the normal compensation would be for a device breaking at the time the limitation kicks in, up to and including a partial or full refund of the purchase price or even paying additional compensation for any consequential losses.
Or as an open-source version of enterprise tools like EDIFECS XEngine -- I think that's more exact, but which reference is more useful probably depends on who you are marketing it to.
I suppose it just depends what you look for in a password manager. I tried lots of solutions from Last Pass, KeepassX to pass but i prefer the scriptability and portability of a command line based password manager and i'm not overly bothered about mobile and browser.
Screen door doesn't depend solely on resolution. If a screen at the same resolution has a better "pixel fill factor", meaning smaller gaps between each pixel, it will have less screen dooring.

It may still look pixelated, but that's easier to ignore IMO.
My device, my rendering rules. Without adblock things are hard to read and sites load even more slowly. Plus I despise the constant attention grabs and view that as bad for my health. (Same reason I won't sit in a restaurant with a TV visible.)

Even Google is out there making it worse. On mobile I get flashing yellow ads telling me I have a virus or need to clean or speed my phone.
Dart is still very much alive and well. The original plan to integrate it into Chrome was cancelled, however the plan has changed to focus on more than just the web as well.
And while we love Dart, we don't depend on the language. We can (and have, and will continue to) write SDKs for other languages. Current ones are Dart, JavaScript, Ruby, Java, and a Python SDK is in the works. Also on our list is a C SDK.
A future web with unavoidable, ubiquitous advertising is a grotesque thing that I want no part of. Advertising and marketing represents the worst of what capitalism has to offer.

The point is that we must stop the momentum associated with the advertising-fueled web now, because it's too late.

We -- the technologists behind it -- need to stop taking it for granted what the future of the web is going to look like, and to think of other ways to obtain that revenue.

I do and will forever use adblockers (until they are circumvented) for these reasons.
DGLogik Inc is behind it. http://www.dglogik.com/
Sure, but the question is how much capital they had to put towards getting that #2 spot. I'm an SEO newb so have no idea, but my guess is a fair amount.
Maybe if we changed school, then rest of society would follow when they see the great results.

Also, conditioning yourself to wake up at a certain time... your body doesn't work that way.
The links are both to the city of St. Louis.

I do agree on the point that it is a choice for those exiting for private schools, or exercising their economically-empowered physical mobility. But to say that those students attending St. Louis Public Schools all choose their school is ludicrous. They are assigned a school, and many cannot afford to move into an area with a better school or attend a private school.

So the choice is one-sided.
Yes, DGLogik is heading development. We are a community driven project however.
Ask HN: (2nd try):  – Possible solution for founders' “going full time” problem?
Hi guys, I guess a lot of people here know what it's like to want (so hard) to work full time on your new startup, but what can we do, we need to pay the bills. Usually you have a day job during the days and @ nights and weekends work on your startup. Raising seed money to go full time isn't easy, and a lot of times investors won't put money if you are not already working full time. I feel that with my own side project (RefreshBox) which I started 18 ago and didn't have enough time to work on. So I thought about an interesting solution: Companies will hire founders for temporary projects (up to a few months) which require not more (and not less) than, say 90 hours/month. We all know many founders have great skills and abilities to build projects from scratch, many of them are smart and talented, companies can only dream of having such people as employees.Companies could get these people to work on specific projects (the payment will be very appealing for companies because founders are just looking to pay the bills) and founders will be able to work the rest of the time on their startup, and not just nights and weekends. It's not a way to go full time, but it will give founders significantly more time to work on their venture. Because RefreshBox is a newsletter platform (and all I think about is newsletters (: ) I thought about starting a newsletter that sends a few positions from companies who understand this concept to founders. PLEASE NOTE: If you would feel more comfortable that I won't use my own platform I'm open to use another solution. Once we'll have reasonable number of founders I'll start approaching companies and offer them to send a relevant position. What do you think? could this work? would it help your "full time problem"? Do you think you can help with this project? Thanks!
Starting a business like Godzilla
ok so we have qualcomm, intel, google, now count this as cisco-led IoT efforts, not sure where I should place zigbee along with big-backers.
That's a great comparison because e-sports is sports, just as intellectual property is property.

I'm curious how you think the cost of IP generation should be distributed across an economy, because it sounds like you want content-creators to "suffer the negatives" for your own personal gain.
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That might be because of the load. Honestly wasn't expecting as many people to see it.
Show HN: QuickBlocker a free and full featured ad blocker for iOS 9
The menu bar seemed like a compromise to work with a 9" screen. By time 15-17" screens were common, it was of questionable utility. Now in the age of giant screens, it is absolutely a liability. There's so much room for a Windows-style bar now. Mousing all the way to the top is ridiculous nowadays. I love what Apple does usually, but they are slow to change, especially with UI quirks that are "Apple first" like the menu bar or the no-right click, etc.

Ironically, I am more able to appreciate what the Windows team brought to the GUI after a long time of believing the Apple team got it right first (and better.) There's something really logical about attached menu bars and and dumb buttons (minimize, maximize, close). The Start button and task bar combo still holds up. I don't think the NT team really got the praise they deserved from the tech community. A lot of what they did still stands up today as really good design, imo.
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honestly don't get the big deal or what the advantages are of this or what it solves.

bad marketing
Has your design been at all informed or influenced by the Industrial Internet Consortium's RAII or Plattform Industrie's RAMI 4.0?

Any thoughts on IEEE P2413?
I'm not seeking to increase my power base at the expense of others. If I would get less money doing something that would make the world a better place, I would happily choose this. Am I not human?

I see this kind of answer as a kind of explanation widely disseminated to justify our economic system as inevitable, but which have very little scientific basis. For me it's wishful thinking.

The kind of economic growth observed in capitalism and some of its characteristics like the cyclic crisis not related with natural changes like climate is something unique to our civilization. And it's a very new thing at the human history (less than 300 years). What will be the effects of these things at long scale is something still to be comprehended.
If the translation from code to program is perfect then while you're technically correct, the distinction is meaningless.

The whole point of my comment is that it's incredibly rare to have such accurate translation from the intent to the artifact and once the translation becomes good enough, they're indistinguishable at least from some perspectives. This is in great contrast to the majority of other things which are made, like machine parts, sheet metal parts, 3d printed parts, injection molded parts, extruded parts, cut and welded parts, etc.

Obviously there are also categories of things which are both the intent and artifact at once like written documents and the like, but often even with those there are various translation layers that take place. For example, an author has ideas for a book in their head, but their ideas cannot be published, only their written work. Similarly a business might agree to buy something from another business over many years and they ask their counsel to draft a contract that "prevents us from getting screwed" but the contract as written may not do so perfectly.
I'd be... surprised if it was "merely a coincidence". That's almost never how the publishing industry works.

(And I do have some info that suggests otherwise, but as I can't source it, it's anecdotal... but strong.)
Take a look at this[0] with regards to strings.

I'm not really sure why you'd use new String anyway - it won't always act as a string primitive. Rather than making Symbol reimplement the same quirks that other built in constructors do, isn't not allowing a Symbol constructor going to avoid a lot of confusion?

For example, if you created an object using a hypothetical symbol constructor, the symbol would be converted to a string if you tried to use it as an object key (internally, JavaScript sees your symbol object as an object, not a symbol), which is simply creating problems for a naive programmer.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
What agenda do I have ? I have none, I'm just saying using generators do not abstract async calls. The only way to do that is by using fibers. I'm not pushing for anything, i'm just saying that something like rails couldn't be written in nodejs , (and no sails , is nothing like rails in terms of complexity ).
The basis of DSA is to integrate all these protocols into a single protocol that can be spoken. This is evident by our support of existing protocols. We don't aim to become device based. We are completely distributed. DSLinks can run on any machine and can connect to the broker to communicate data.
I'm afraid I didn't express myself well; I mean just the opposite.
> When a majority of students are on financial aid ...

A bit of a tangent: It also depends on how financial aid is defined. Many schools set an arbitrary price that very few students actually pay, the equivalent of a 'manufacturers suggested retail price'. In one NY Times story on this topic, at the school they looked into around 1% (IIRC) paid the MSRP; everyone else got a 'discount', the same trick salespeople have used forever.

I've had people applying to college happily tell me, 'the school offered me $30K in financial aid'. I try to (gently) tell them that it doesn't matter how much 'discount' the school offers, it matters how much they charge you. They can arbitrarily set their 'MSRP' at $100K and give you $80K in 'aid', or set it at $20K and give you no 'aid'; the result is the same.
for me it comes up as #1 and #2 by searching for "chef" in incognito. only #2 on duckduckgo but it's almost off the page on yahoo. have to scroll down one page to see it on bing. I guess they targeted Google the most!
There's a really informative discussion about NiFi on the Flow-based Programming mailing list [1].

One thing that is discussed is how NiFi, in contrast to "proper FBP", has only one inport, to which all incoming connections connect, so incoming information packets are merged, and subsequently need to be "routed".

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/flow-based-progra...
Why should it bother him? What is the problem with Facebook having a dossier on him? Isn't just to show him more targeted ads?
Here is a video that explains more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azd2-5wCjUI
Second the dataquest post. Information without structure can be overwhelming, and its important to know what the optimal ways to learn something are. Arguably this is why formal schooling was created - to provide a framework for learning...
When people view the current law as unjust, they are more likely to break it. This has a very negative impact on society as a whole as it makes them more cynical about their institutions and leads to more rule breaking unrelated to the unjust law.

It would be in everybody's best interest to rethink how we approach digital property rights across borders.

Paul Robinson had recently discussed this in a podcast:

> One of the chapters we have is on Prohibition, American Prohibition. Which I think is really wonderful. Because that really demonstrates that dynamic on a large scale. For a lot of interesting reasons we throw it in, Prohibition. But then it's broken so often, even by public officials. Nobody takes it seriously. So, it's no surprise that you have a lot of violation of prohibition laws. What's less obvious to people but I think really telling, is that during Prohibition, crime rates generally went up. Even if it had nothing to do with Prohibition. You had crime rates going up because there was this general effect. People would look at the criminal law, see that they simply didn't see drinking alcohol as condemnable conduct and that undermined their faith that the criminal really knew what was condemnable and what wasn't; saw a lot of people breaking the criminal law and not feeling bad about it. There was, the community sense was that the criminal law was just being silly and out of step here. And that reduction in its reputation, it's moral reputation, translated into a lot of other areas. It was a very bad time for crime, until Prohibition was repealed and criminal law started trying to earn back some of its lost reputation. [0]

[0] http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/08/paul_robinson_o.htm...
It's faster than any traditional ad blocking method due to the way iOS9 "Content Blocking" has been implemented. Give this a read:
http://blog.appgrounds.com/content-blockers-beat-adblocking/
I want to love CloudFlare, I really do. We currently use them, but sadly the number of times that CloudFlare has been the cause of a service interruption is somewhere around 50% mark. They are no longer in use on any critical/important end points, I just don't need PagerDuty waking us up over an issue I have no control over.

This is not a problem I expect to improve. As they start to cover all of the web, i imagine that it'll actually only get worse. Curious about how they see this progressing.
it’s routed through a high-performance interconnect instead of the public Internet

The public internet does seem to be shrinking, more and more closed data silos and now huge chunks of traffic going through a 'trusted' man-in-the-middle. From an individual sites standpoint it's amazing (and I use it for most of my sites), but the bigger they become the more juicy a target they are.
To be fair most electronics these days are not made with fix-ability in mind but them again that takes extra effort on the engineers part which would make the unit more expensive and less people would buy it.

Manufacturers like this sort of argument, but often don't seem to have a lot of actual evidence to support their position. If using a certain kind of custom screw is necessary to save a few mm of thickness and 0.5lb of weight in a new laptop, there's a concrete benefit to the customer. If using a certain kind of custom screw really makes no detectable difference at all to the spec, but the only global supplier of such screws has an exclusive contract with the original manufacturer to supply them so no-one else can get hold of replacement screws without a silly amount of effort, that's just artificially limiting third party repair options. At some point that sort of behaviour justifies regulatory intervention to keep the market competitive.
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> project out there to redo the IP system in a decentralized fashion

https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns
Why wouldn't you?
I agree with this. I've recently tried using cucumber for a couple side projects and have decided it's complete overkill for my needs. I see the major benefit would be communication amongst your teams (especially to translate the detailed technical stuff), but if it's a small team who are all devs I'm not finding it very useful.
> That could still make it not error when called the same was as other constructors.

What do you mean? That new Symbol() should just ignore the 'new'?
And have the time to build the appropriate constructs for the learning to take place within. The knowledge that minecraft could be a useful learning environment hardly means that it is a practical one.
There was a Forbes article too:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/adrianbridgwater/2015/07/21/nsa-...
One thing that will set us aside is we want to integrate ALL of these protocols (provided we are able to) with DSA. DSA will be able to interact with them seamlessly. DSLinks allow you to write a sort of 'protocol translator' into our protocol. We aren't device based, we are service based.
> That sort of thing doesn't bother you?
He just said that this doesn't bother _him_. The key element here is _the choice_. The choice to be tracked, or not to.

The systematic tacking and profiling of all users of the web is disturbing and I am against it, but honestly, I still prefer Google at the commands rather that any government I can think of. Not that it justify in any way the tracking. It's a dangerous weapon.
IANAL either, but as far as I know it does not.

The page does state that it "is for educational use only", which arguably makes it OK vis-à-vis fair use [0], but I'm not sure about the specifics of U.S. copyright law regarding these exceptions.

I imagine, though, that there are some restrictions on what constitutes "educational use" in a legal sense – an open access internet page being available for any use by anyone and all.

To me, it does bear a superficial resemblance to "no copyright infringement intended" [1], though the latter makes no sense at all.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

[1]: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=No+copyright+...
Given what we learned from the NSA sniffing inter-datacenter communications within Google, do we really want wide scale solutions that rely on removing the SSL layer?
This "reads" more like a video, rather than a traditional book with graphics. I wonder what a good compromise would look like.
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Once, years ago, I did not see a bug on the site of the company I worked for, because the ad blocker I was using with my browser masked the bug. Further, I reasoned that since we made part of our money from ads, I should not use an ad blocker and I stopped. Plus I thought I should see the web "as it really is".

Now I think those are really dumb ideas, plus I don't work for a company that makes money from ads. It's basically an arms race now, websites do insane things because their stupid fucking A/B tests ticked up .001 percent. Then the rest of them throw up modals (and whatever other garbage) because everyone else is doing it.

The real, actual web, as it really is, it's a disaster now. Sometimes I open a web page and forget about it, then minutes later it just begins blaring audio for some video ad that I can't even see because it's been scrolled offscreen. Toilet world.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#safari
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Men aren't men anymore. If I owned Microsoft I would dissolve it and blow its ashes to the four winds quicker than the Feds could wonder whether their holsters are fastened. After all it's my company and I'm still free to pulverize my own company in this country if I so choose, right?

I would not choose to continue making money and pleasing shareholders if it meant abetting the government in what they're demonstrating they're intent on pursuing.

It would be the end of Microsoft within 5 minutes. I'd be out of the country along with the Men (and Women of principles) that helped me pulverize it within 5 minutes.

There's always a way to do it. They could do it and put the government in its place. But no one thinks they are man enough to do it, and so it doesn't get done.
I'm not sure what the preferred approach is, but since it seems to have a REST API with full query and update ability on the flow graph, it seems like you should be able to do a workflow where you make an update on a dev server (updates are immediately live), run a process that captures that via the REST API, serializes it, and pushes the serialization to version control, and have another process that takes a serialized version and pushes it to other servers (prod, etc.) via the REST API.

Why visual programming tools don't (at least in documentation) address version control is an interesting question, given how important that is in programming generally, and the fact that those tools are often focused on enterprise audiences.
The problem with building arguments around human nature is that just about everything is human nature. Greed... Altruism...

* Edit for clarity *

So it can be invoked to justify almost any argument involving human behavior.