skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not suggesting anyone outright lie. I am simply saying that your reason for entering the US must not be to look for work, and that it helps to bring along evidence supporting the fact that it would be impossible for you to stay here anyway.

This is fairly well known in startup circles, in fact YC themselves have an internal guide for how to speak to US immigration. The important thing is to know the terms of your visa, and not say anything which could jeopardize that.

I also don't think OP's case is completely hopeless. There are plenty of companies which will sponsor you on a J1 visa, which will usually buy you enough time to apply for an H1B or O1. If he wants to come visit SF and meet/network with people here, then he definitely should do so.
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Because Bayer has never had manufacturing issues[1]? And who decides what companies are trustworthy enough to manufacture drugs?

Yes, Bayer is capable, but like many companies, they also have people in their facilities that try to cut corners to make themselves look good. Passing the FDA review is fairly straightforward.

[1] http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/EnforcementActions/WarningLetters/u...
If binary star systems were systems in which stars were moved into the system, we should see evidence of stars being moved and consumed. I have also read about stars being created (e.g., starting a fusion process with all the hydrogen and helium in Jupiter, Saturn, etc.).

There is currently no evidence which suggests stars are being moved. We should see either large gravitational tugs or engines such as Shkadov thrusters. The latter should be plainly visible. The former should be easily detected by extrasolar planet detection methods. Unless the tugs are spherical, the light curves of the tugs would definitely pique interest. In any case, moving a star seems a rather extreme and expensive measure. It is probably more effective to consume the star onsite and use the energy locally or send only the energy back.

There seems to be no evidence of stars being consumed, either. Dyson spheres (or swarms) have actually been searched for locally by comparing visible and infrared wavelengths over sections of the sky. None have been found. Intergalactic searches have also been done by looking for galaxies which glow too brightly in the far infrared. No luck.

It is not just a question of a mistaken belief that the artificial is natural. The properties of light are the same here on Earth as they are billions of light years away. Further, for all those galaxies and stars to be engineered in the same way aross billions of light years (with some points being unable to communicate with others since the Big Bang), is all but impossible. Life would have to evolve at effectively the same rate and come up with the same solutions in all those hundreds of billions of galaxies (and yet somehow be different here in the Milky Way). Given the variety of life on Earth and the variety of solutions it has evolved, that seems unlikely.
Even without any encryption, a perfectly compressed signal will be indistinguishable from random noise. Of course, it might still be distinguishably artificial depending on how it is encoded, but I believe that the SETI searches that have been done to date would not find that kind of signal.
Welcome to the discussion! This comment [1.] has discussion about how Kickstarter is handling its commitments to its investors. I think some analysis of that would be helpful.

Questions:

1. Can you discuss this more: how Kickstarter, its founders, board, and investors reached agreement?

2. Can you discuss how you did this in relation to your long term vision of the company?

3. What does this mean for Kickstarter with regard to supporting campaigns and helping creatives?

___

References:

[1.] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10250367
> everything (Gold, stocks and bonds) all go down together

That's not possible. At the very least, cash cannot "go down" along with everything else. If everything is down then, by definition, cash is up because you can now buy more of everything with the same amount of cash.
Hack your meat - Sous-vide cooking in a beer cooler
A slightly-off-topic thought related to the Fermi question.

What actually is the point of communicating at sub-luminal speed between star systems or galaxies, other than CETI projects? The delay between transmissions would make such communication impractical for day-to-day purposes.

Perhaps this is one possible explanation for the apparent lack of such signals. Either the aliens don't bother much with communicating at galactic scales, or they have developed a system of doing so at super-luminal speeds that eludes our current understanding of physics.

If this is correct then you would expect most artificial radio signals to be easy to detect and decipher, because the only plausible use for such signals is long-term communication with alien civilisations. And you might also not expect to find many of them.
Right, my bad... I think I did not made myself clear. It is not that the Talibans are angels.

I was thinking more along the lines of Ender's Game... when at the end it is reveled that it is humans, not insectoids, who are playing the role of the genocidal, invading, alien force.
Hangouts worked for us a couple of hours ago, but half an hour ago it stopped working, triggering errors. I believe a lot of people jumped on it and it's also having hiccups.

Also, Skype just recovered for us, we're having a call in 4 as I'm writing this. EDIT: Skype is still misbehaving.
To be fair, I doubt moot would have trouble finding money if he looked for it.
IMO, EPA should seize the cars till there is a legal solution. Let the consumers sue for being sold a vehicle on false pretenses. Being a car enthusiast, I already see posts on the forums from car guys stating they will refuse to allow VW to fix the problem on their cars, because they know the fix will sacrifice performance and economy.
Karunamon above, defending GG, says it started out as an harassment campaign. Is it wrong?
>I'd say they've done quite a lot of good already.

Absolutely, and the saddest part about all this is that entities with painfully overt agendas (The Verge/Vox, Ars Technica, etc.) were more than happy to report on all the negatives, and will still continue to, while reporting none of the good that's come out of it.

Same with people on this site for the most part: they've completely made up their mind about what Gamergate stands for and will hear nothing else about it. Which is hilariously ironic given how much this site likes to tote itself as a well-educated bunch. Groupthink/hivemind tendencies are always the same for any community of humans.
And, BTW, let me add that as a concerned parent of children who's lives have been taken over by video games, I can accept and agree with the statement that when kids play video games, they get more "aggressive". Temporarily.

The get more aggressive for a while. My kids and their friends play Super Smash Bros for a few hours, and then when they stop and go outside, they play fight for a while, they act out Super Smash Bros.

I remember playing Wipeout XL in college and feeling like I was driving around on a race track when I'd get into a real car after that. My driving record, however, is spotless and I generally drive like a grandpa.

Playing racing games made me temporarily fast & swervy. My kids playing fighting games makes them temporarily punchy. But overall, I haven't witnessed a permanent behavioral change.

My concern with this report isn't whether it is right or wrong, I can believe that "aggressive behavior" increases when playing games, especially games that require aggressive behavior to win. My concern is with how it is being used, and what it is being used to imply.

They spend a lot of time talking about violence to say they're not talking about violence directly, which just draws an implication between aggression and violence. They didn't, however, spend several paragraphs talking about how there might be a link between aggression after playing games and people becoming successful entrepreneurs, aggressive stock traders, world class athletes, or renowned scientists. Those are all occupations that require "aggressive" behavior and for which "aggressive" behavior is celebrated.
Your fault attribution is mis-informed. From an MIT interview with Valentina Ponomareva (http://web.mit.edu/slava/space/interview/interview-ponomarev...):

Q. What was the fate of the women's group after Tereshkova's flight?

A. It is well known that Korolev's attitude toward the presence of women at work and especially on the launching pad was very negative. He believed that on a launching pad, like on a ship, a woman brings misfortune.

(Korolev was the head of the Soviet space program at the time).
IntelliJ.

(OK, I wouldn't personally pay for it, because I don't do enough Java work on my own. But for a company job, I'd push my company pretty hard to get it. And if I did a startup where it would be useful, I'd buy it.)
Register of Copyrights Opinion on Novel Questions of Law in Pandora Rate Case
Any idea which bank it was? And what's the point of spoofing?

It seems like a number of people who got fired could pool funds together for a wrongful termination lawsuit.
Ruby's built-in databases – meet PStore and YAML::Store
France denies Google appeal, says right to be forgotten must be applied globally
> And who decides what companies are trustworthy enough to manufacture drugs?

You could consider them innocent until proven guilty if they have enough capitalization and/or insurance to settle any lawsuits if they screw up.
The greatest crime of Old Man's War is that it has a wonderful hook: we don't want 18 year olds, we want our recruits to be canny and wise and experienced, so we recruit 70 year olds and rejuvenate them...

And then it does basically nothing with that. The 70 year old soldiers distinguish themselves in no way from the 30ish protagonists of every other scifi story.
I suppose you also approve of his embezzling funds from the publicly traded company he ran to pay off his former hedge fund clients.
Ford & Honda were find in 2008 for doing this:
http://www2.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2014-06/documents...
My software development principles
What happens when an Internet failure hits the Internet of Things?
What made you decide to incorporate as a B corp instead of a non-profit?
I love a good hack, especially a good cooking hack. Sous-vide works by cooking for a long time in a low-temperature, controlled-temperature water bath. But A bath with a good insulator works as well as an active system, for short periods of time. I need to try this at home myself.
Network virtualization and delivering on the promise of DevOps
'mikekchar was working for a salary. The manager might have received a bonus for making 60 million sale.
Thank you once again for taking the time to critique my model. While I still have every intention of realizing my model, I will be taking each of your points into consideration. I wish you luck in your ventures and look forward to participating in future discussions with you on whatever topics we happen to encounter each other.
Headlines have been written to grab your immediate attention and want to read further since newspapers have been in print. If that makes it "clickbait", its usually only clickbait when the headline over promises or leads with some climatic note and under delivers, like "That one weird trick to losing weight" turns out its called limiting calorie consumption and exercise or "A guy was walking down the street, you won't believe what happens next", which turns out I do and what happens is only mildly interesting or the buzzfeed "12 things on a list of things on how to do something, 11 of which you already know about and the 12th not being very effective"
What's more ethically questionable: spending billions in capital developing drugs to save lives, and trying to make money off that, or spending billions of capital on endeavors like entertainment services that don't save lives at all?
Not to mention the fire hazard that they pose..
> paen to the military

I always thought Starship Troopers was meant to be a satire, not praise for war. Just like Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. isn't a patriotic song.
https://www.prometheusresearch.com/how-amazon-reminded-us-th... (2014)

In particular, Amazon's agreement included: A clause that puts all of the burden for securing data on the CE. No terms outlining how the BA would respond to breaches of unsecured PHI. Lack of specification about the BA’s level of access to PHI. A non-disclosure clause.

EDIT: Google Cache for this page... http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:tzvzlVG...
Thing is, it's hard to not to get the wrong idea. All the people complaining the loudest about Gamergate have serious media connections.

Unchallenged falsehoods in multiple media outlets -> Sourced by Wikipedia per their usual secondary source rules -> Shows up on the front page of Google where most normal people will see it.

You actually have to have an interest in this stuff and actually dig to see that the narrative is false/misleading.

igreulich is correct - the name has been very successfully tarnished. Problem is, moving on to something else is a move that has zero benefit (because the same problems would just happen again under any new name), so the hivemind wisely decided to stay put.
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Blue Screen of Death for the Web – BSOD.js
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For the Internet of Things to work we must get serious about privacy and FOSS
Mods/janitors ruined /cgl/ (cosplay board) well before gamergate existed and it definitely had a (so-called, I dislike the term) "SJW" flavor.
Kickstarter reincorporating as a "public benefit corporation"
From the overview on Bitbucket (https://bitbucket.org/dfrank/tneokernel):

TNeo: a real-time kernel (RTOS)

TNeo is a compact and fast real-time kernel for embedded 32/16 bits microprocessors. It performs a preemptive priority-based scheduling and a round-robin scheduling for the tasks with identical priority.

TNeo was born as a thorough review and re-implementation of TNKernel v2.7. The new kernel has well-formed code, inherited bugs are fixed as well as new features being added, it is well documented and tested carefully with unit-tests.

Currently it is available for the following architectures:

ARM Cortex-M cores: Cortex-M0/M0+/M1/M3/M4/M4F (supported toolchains: GCC, Keil RealView, clang, IAR)

Microchip: PIC32/PIC24/dsPIC

Like TNKernel, it has a custom but very simple FOSS license:

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software in source and binary
forms and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted,
provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that
copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation.

Plus the usual all caps disclaimer boilerplate.
Incredible resume, but it doesn't necessarily mean companies will be lining up to hire moot.

What I mean is: 4chan was a singular achievement. You couldn't exactly just slot moot in at Imgur or Reddit or Hacker News or some other community; his talents wouldn't necessarily be transferable/applicable.

I say that with a great deal of respect for moot and what he built, even if some really horrible stuff came out of that place.
Ask HN: Do companies need commercial support for open source software?
Millions of open source projects don’t have a vendor that provides commercial support (i.e. RedHat). The best support comes from developers who built the software (project maintainers), and many of them need funding.

What is the best way of connecting them? Would companies pay for support from project maintainers to improve quality and speed of their development? Would they prefer support contracts or on-demand support based on developer’s hourly rate?

I’d like to get a deeper understanding of requirements that businesses have. Any insight is very appreciated!
IBM wants to “change the internet” with new Blockchain
>a brazenly cynical protagonist whose thoughts of war mostly involve hoping to find a way out of it...

Catch-22?
The time derivative of that expression is indeed zero.
By directly invoking Godwin himself, are you saying that Godwin created something so influential, that shaped internet culture for better and for worse, that Godwin's Law itself is an achievement to be proud of, even if he never made much money from it?
Jailbreak+iOS+9+for+Apple+and+Android+versions
How do you accidentally 'start getting expensive'? Why are they giving you raises in the first place if they don't think you're worth the money?

Edit: furthermore, why shouldn't you be fired if you're not performing to the level they expect at the price they're paying for you?
Still having issues connecting - a few hours ago I couldn't sign in, now I'm having trouble loading my contact list.
I'm sure there are a few civil rights movements that had some nasty issues when they started out. Do we judge based on where one came from or who one is now?
The comments you are replying to were not complaining that wired chose to make the news only available via apple news.

They were complaining that they still posted the article, sans content, on the web, and suggested that should be punished for diluting web content. (they appear to have since removed that web-based article)
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I think US Presidential debates are actually trending towards streaming. As I remember the last presidential debate in 2012 was on YouTube streaming and CNN recently streamed their Republican Primary debates to anyone in the US. I hope other networks follow this trend for the upcoming election season.
He raised money in the past. The company failed. He was living with his parents for a while, trying to figure out what to do.

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/4chans-overlord...
41MPG is the rated highway MPG that is shown on the sticker for the VW Jetta in the year range from the article. I have a 2011 and I would average between 40-45 on the highway and 30-35 in town. 50-55 is not typical for these specific cars.
I won't speak for others, but at a previous company, I almost singlehandedly carried a single project to completion that brought in over a million dollars in a single calendar year. Some of that obviously goes to company overhead (offices, administrative roles, etc), but let's be extremely generous and say HALF of that is overhead. $150k/year is peanuts compared to the cost of having a valuable person leave your company during a large project.
> so you're saying you studied CS so that you can be better than people

That's pretty much why anyone does anything, don't be fooled into thinking otherwise. It's in our DNA.
That headline seems to downplay it a lot. It was totally down for at least 6 hours.

I introduced Slack to the team today...
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I see that you request access to 'view and manage' the spreadsheets and files in my Google Drive? Is this for each spreadsheet/file or just the one I've linked to the in URL?
It is a moving gif, and regardless of the era that shouldn't have been a valid entry point into windows in the first place. Hence why I am amazed that it works.
So how does that asterisk stop someone from dropping in, taking their shots, and fleeing without any way to identify them?
Very perceptive. Introducing a third data point helps to clarify that there is more to the story of how we went from Bond to Bourne than just millennial job anxiety. There was quiet desperation back in the Bond era too.
"On lookup, compress the key and do a binary search"

That binary search will be hampered a bit by the fact that your keys have variable length. So, you either need to use a separator and search for the word start in each iteration, or you have to pad your words to equal lengths.

Also, space-efficient designs will not chase pointers. The dawg will store relative offsets (20 bits will often be more than enough there) not pointers.

Also, i expect that a N-ary trie (with N=26 or even larger) will be more cache-friendly than a binary search because its depth is smaller by a factor 4 to 5.

I doubt this will beat a dawg, space-wise, either. The big advantage of a dawg is that it collapses the tails of words with similar variants into one. All those nouns ending in "tion", with plural "tions", and adverbial form "tional" will share their tail nodes.
Postgres users might find Teodor Sigaev's smlar [1] extension useful for this kind of thing. It implements cosine and other similarity metrics.

[1] http://sigaev.ru/git/gitweb.cgi?p=smlar.git;a=summary
for their wrongdoing that did not result in anyone's death

It's well-established that fossil fuel emissions actually do cause many deaths due to increased cancer rates and other respiratory illnesses. Burning diesel without proper emission control systems will also create larger particulate pollution which is especially detrimental to the public health.

Unlike the GM case, it will be impossible to trace exactly how many premature deaths VW has contributed to, but that doesn't mean they should be punished any less harshly.
Planned Parenthood is close to 100 years old so in that sense it's not comparable to something like GamerGate that's barely a year old.
Given Heinlein's history and politics, I don't think so.

Now the movie, that was definitely meant to be satire. Which is why so many fans of the book hate it.
Not familiar with the industry, but I don't think the problem can be solved this way (at least in the short term). Simply by the distribution of drugs/prices, there seems to be a very large number of low cost drugs susceptible to this tactic. There's ample space for them to pick a drug now and then and put abusive prices all of a sudden, while lowering the price as soon as competition threatens to move in. Additionally, the costs of reverse engineering a drug are high enough to make this kind of competition very hard. I see no other way than some regulation to at least force some hysteresis or stability on the prices.
Probably a great time to buy some VLKAY:

http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=VLKAY
Did you read the article? They'd need to type somewhere in the region of 160,000 characters to get past the lock screen. If you're not intending to do so (via copying and pasting repeatedly), it seems unlikely you'd manage.
Which brings up the question, where does the military stop and police begin?
Heavens no. Skype used to be extremely unreliable back when it was P2P-based. Calls or voice used to drop for minutes at a time. Text messages would get lost to the aether, or come in doubles or triples.

Skype peers were unreliable, so they identified good peers, which they tagged as SuperNodes, or SNs. Large amounts of these SuperNodes could go down in an instant due to network outages out of their control, buggy software, bad computers, and more. The Skype blog is full of "whoops, too many supernodes went down!" from 2008-2011.

http://web.archive.org/web/20110829025128/http://blogs.skype...

They then added dedicated "mega-supernodes" which they just shoved in an EC2 cloud, and after non-mega SN population declined as mobile took off, they just turned off the P2P-based SN feature.
>spending billions in capital developing drugs to save lives

Loaded question. This assumes they are doing it to save lives instead of doing it to make money.

And doing it to make money, given the patent system, is the less ethical option when others would do it to save lives but are now forbidden to do such.