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Off the cuff:
[1]Indent icon looks visually similar to list icon, so much so that it doesn't immediately read as indent
[2]Header icons need to be more visually distinct
[3]I got to point #7 in the tutorial and couldn't figure out what the hell the breadcrumb was- I had to click random stuff to realize what you were talking about
[4]"Ctrl-O": needs to clearly read as the letter O and not the number zero
[5]If I do step 11 in the tutorial immediately after step 10 it opens while the screen is still focused on the Open menu. Need to add a step closing step 10 before doing step 11

I do dig the idea and I like how it looks almost like a written list.
Reading this interview is like watching a train wreck in slow motion.
No country is allowed to get more than 7% of the green cards each year (roughly speaking). This GC-H1B lock-in problem is very unique to Indians (~10 year wait), and to a lesser extent, Chinese (~4 year wait). The 7% quota would be illegal were it applied to US citizenship, according to civil rights legislations of the 1960s (prior to which non-whites were discriminated against in naturalized-citizenships via quotas).

However, unlike pre-civil rights citizenship quotas, the green card quota seems ok to everyone. This a moral discrepancy, IMO. Unfortunately, it won't be addressed in the near future, because though the population affected may be in the hundreds of thousands, they are not important to any political players. Even on a generally enlightened forum like HN, you routinely encounter hateful comments about H1B workers. I think H1Bs deserve some level of representation in such matters simply because these workers pay the exact same taxes as all Americans. The situation for many people is utterly hopeless and it should be of humanitarian concern, here is a moving account from Seattle: http://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/while-their-...

I think the notion that after working (and paying taxes) in the US for 6 years, a person has to wait another 10 years to reap the benefits of permanent residency simply because they were born in a particular country is morally indefensible.
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My friend and attorney just completed a two week trial on the issue. In the end the Judge viewed the company like a child in a divorce. Every decision the partners hated, but it kept the company intact. No winners at all, everyone lost. My takeaway after hearing about it was this - if the two of you can't work it out attorneys will be delighted to drain you both of cash for a result you'll both hate.
Since employment is almost always at-will, how is this any different from an employer hiring someone full time and laying them off after 3 months? It short enough so you wouldn't qualify for unemployment in most (all?) states.
Sorry about repeating myself on this subject: buy laptops from the microsoft store - no crapware installed ("signature" editions).
I generally agree with you about claims regarding full (root) access to Google's servers, but in this case it's a weaker claim about the network. One might quibble whether tapping without injection counts as full access, but that's a reasonable claim without too much hyperbole. Maybe the NSA didn't have hooks into every switch, but Google's network design also meant a lot of data was flowing beyond the boundaries of any one physical site.
There's no evidence the plotters of the Paris terrorist attacks used encrypted communications

First sentence is already wrong.

They recovered smartphones that had encrypted messaging apps.

Still no excuse for government backdoors which will be stolen by all kinds of entities within months of their creation and allow the wrong people to spy on law enforcement itself.

Government had a 10 year headstart before all this, where are all the terrorists they stopped before this?
Interesting I'll add it to https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job could be especially useful for companies that hire remote workers.

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Demonstration to explore radio waves generated by a mobile phone
Find a problem to work on in a domain you find interesting. By reading published papers and trying to attack the problem, you'll be forced to pick up a lot of other knowledge not commonly discussed like: feature extraction and selection, dimensionality reduction, dealing with sparsity, common metrics for that problem, recent work, etc.

I was forced to learn a massive amount in a short period of time for work, but I'd previously watched Andrew Ng's lectures, as well as majored in Math/CS. I can also generally recommend Hinton's NN lectures, Socher's Deep learning for NLP, Andrew Ng's Machine Learning, and a few books.
It would be significant if the statement was "There are 100x more infected Android phones than iOS phones."

Remember that Android is a lot of things - there are Nexus phones, there are OHA OEM phones (majority of them), there are Chinese no name phones that use open source Android etc. So if most Chinese people use AOSP build provided by their phone maker and they all sideload apps and get infected - that's different. Even considering all this nobody is making the above statement.

Just having malware written for an OS means nothing. It only suggest that it is targeted more due to market share. If people jailbreak their iPhones and install random apps from untrusted sources there is hardly anything Apple's security can do to prevent it. Same goes for Android. Nothing in that reflects the security of the underlying platform.
Don't forget Alien Skin's Eye Candy, still going strong for all your burning text needs! (see what I did there?)

http://www.alienskin.com/eyecandy/

I loved the hell out of those days.
> you and the company will be in trouble.

If you as an employee take action for not being paid while on H1B status, you are more or less OK. This step includes filing for a DOL complaint and adding copy of that complaint as the H1B transfer.
Submitting this because people have expressed an interest in electronics, and this simple circuit is interesting and this is a nice write up of it.

Good luck getting a germanium diode though.

The things to make page is cool too, with lots of interesting bits n bobs.

For example, on this page he recreates some 17th century demonstration experimental equipment: http://www.creative-science.org.uk/newton_main.html
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Hoverboards: Are They Douchey or Cool?
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When Fermat's Library started I really eagerly signed up. There are some usability issues with the interface, but my main disappointment is with the annotations. I would be really interested not in crowdsourced annotations, but in annotations and context given by an expert in the field (or perhaps one of the authors if possible) trying to present the paper as a story to a lay/semi-technical audience.
> but debates about whether the technology should have a "back door" for intelligence services are heating up again

What "debates"? there is absolutely nothing they can do to enforce terrorists to use backdoored encryption, any debate is just a waste of time, money, and maybe even lives. What are they thinking??
Give me a half hour and a $500 budget (cash) to go shopping at Home Depot, Canadian Tire or some other DIY shop and I can do some fairly bad things. Tools will always be dual use, the same encryption that powers your e-commerce can be used to fairly reliably communicate between two parties if the best-before-date of the communications is something on the order of a few weeks to months.

So you basically get to choose: we stop all tools from being freely available and we open up all our communications to criminals and governments alike or we will have to take the good with the bad.

The people who wrote crypto software (and the people who built TOR and who operate anonymous proxy servers, VPN services and so on, built bitcoin, the internet, your browser and your mail client) all realize their work is 'dual use' and there is absolutely nothing that you can do about it so just let it go and accept it.

That same hammer that can pound in a nail in the hands of a carpenter (skilled or not) can be used to bludgeon someone to death. Should we ban hammers? How should the person who invented the hammer feel?

A tool I invented is used by some pretty bad people. I don't like it much. But I recognize that that same tool is also used for good, and that those good uses are probably the majority of them. It used to bother me, but I got over it, now I do think longer and harder about if there is any possible bad use of the stuff I make that I can make harder by designing the stuff I build in a different way. It doesn't always work out and people are pretty clever about finding alternate uses.
There's always LeanPub / Gumroad
It is an IDE. It has debugging with breakpoints, autocompletion, and smart code navigation like navigate to source.
> I don't know what you try to frame as 'Zionist terrorism'.

Acts of terrorism, including deliberate bombings, gunning down of civilians, etc., carried out by supporters of an independent Jewish state within what was then Mandatory Palestine by groups such as Irgun (a direct linear ancestor of the modern Likud Party.)

> I am not a fan of many Israeli actions, but as far as I know there were no structural attempts of structurally terrorizing and brutalizing Palastinians by Israel

Israel was largely built by people who engaged in terrorizing and brutalizing Palestinians in the name of the goal of creating the State of Israel. (To be fair, there was terrorism on both sides and organized terrorism on the Arab side against the Jewish side started first. But if we accept that targeting innocent civilians for terror is acceptable as long as someone did it to you first, well, most terrorist groups in history could point to someone who they saw as terrorizing the population they purport to represent first, and characterize their own terrorism as retribution against the group from which those attacks came, and supporters and sympathizers.)
TN allows for 3 years per visa and unlimited visa renewals, so as long as you demonstrate that you aren't trying to gain citizenship, the US embassy shouldn't mind.

As a Canadian, I have no interest in becoming a US citizen. On a TN visa you can open bank accounts (including investment), buy cars and real estate and do everything other than start a company. It's incredibly convenient and painless compared to an H1-B.

Most people gunning for H1-Bs want to become US Citizens. Canadians have no such need, we just want to work in the US legally and be able to buy stuff and make investments, all of which you can do easily on a TN.
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Kleanapp wants to clean Homejoy's mess in LA -– same day service in only 2 hrs
I think there were more than a few backroom deals regarding the space program back then. Soyuz 1 for example:

an NSA analyst, identified in the book as Perry Fellwock, described overhearing Komarov tell ground control officials he knew he was about to die. Fellwock described how Soviet premier Alexei Kosygin called on a video phone to tell him he was a hero. Komarov's wife was also on the call to talk about what to say to their children. Kosygin was crying.

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The US was sitting upon a very embarrassing radio communication of Soyuz 1's failure and didn't act on it. You bet your ass this was traded for something valuable. The only reason we even know about this is because a non-state actor in Berlin happened to catch this conversation and told others about it.

I agree faking a moon landing is a bit much, but the argument that "Russia and the US agree" isn't really worth anything. Right now Russia and the US agree that ISIS is the biggest threat in Syria, for example, but from a casualties numbers perspective Assad is responsible for 10x to 20x the deaths. Political convenience often trumps truth.
Even more emphatically no: ISIS plotters apparently did all their comms in the clear: https://theintercept.com/2015/11/18/signs-point-to-unencrypt...

Ha ha ha! I wonder what twisted definitions and logic people like Michael Hayden on the "Today" show yesterday morning use when denouncing Snowden and advocating for backdoors.
Visual Studio Code does not yet support JSX, nor properly supports ES6, so it's currently unusable to modern Javascript devs. Which is a shame, because it has a lot of potential! I'll be watching this closely to see when it becomes usable in my workflow.
I did that the other day, on beta8 or whatever. In that case, I could run a console app. Then I tried the Yeoman setup [1] for a simple website without auth. It failed to run.

Today, I uninstalled mono, previous dmx stuff, and ran the package linked in this story. Same result. Yeoman website failed.

It's failing to resolve the fx dependencies.

Also, it's difficult for me to understand if I need mono or not. I have it.

[1] https://docs.asp.net/en/latest/tutorials/your-first-mac-aspn...
This conversation shouldn't happen without first talking about "parallel construction".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

We know they've tapped every fiber there is, in closets and undersea. It would be simple to use timing attacks at that point.

Given that they had the means, and the lack of principles to use those means, why would we believe it was anything else? We don't have to invent absurd scenarios, nor should we believe anyone else's inventions.
Telegram blocks 78 ISIS-related channels
Can't people commute? I mean, certainly not everyone in the bay area makes > 70K a year.
I followed the steps here. Do you happen to know how to build the command-line app in to an executable?

I was able to run it with 'dnx run', but not sure how to build it
Nice metric to see if a language is going to be mainstream. I think this should work. Do you think of any way to validate your theory?
The description of night owls seems to be in agreement with my experiences.

It's also fucking hard to be a night owl. For me, this is the single biggest issue my bosses had with me in every job - because they can tolerate someone coming at 12:00 to work only for so long. I tried everything I could think of - sleeping longer, not sleeping, drinking shitton of coffee, not drinking any coffee, melatonin before sleep, adrafinil in the morning, winding down early with alcohol, winding down early with sedatives, etc. and none of it works - I can maintain the "early bird" schedule for at most few days, any longer and I'll be feeling miserable and sleeping on the keyboard - and then my body will force me back to night schedule anyway, by means of sleeping through even loudest of alarm clocks, or suddenly crashing in the late afternoon and waking up at 1 AM, or something.

BTW. it's 04:17 for me right now, and I'm supposed to be at work in 5 hours. Wish me luck.

#HNTherapy
+1 for Deezer: http://Deezer.com. Excellent service, and the downloads are fast (unlike Rdio).
This article has been posted enough now:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=What%20ISIS%20Really%20Wants&s...

Indeed, by HN's criteria the current thread is a dupe. But we won't kill it, since discussion is ongoing.
This is a very interesting topic, but the article is fluff: smoking, red hair, some diseases.

I am 2.5% Neanderthal.

Pffff. If you are < 3% are you even european? ;)
But magic powers at 30.
I agree. Everything is so much simpler when you use UTF-8 everywhere. Being effectively forced to use the ASCII/UCS2/UCS4 unicode type in Python3 is the only thing that has kept me from switching to it.
Feels like a nicely responsive and down-to-earth editor. It'd be great with a color scheme that emphasized your own variables and fields. It's not that helpful to draw attention to constants, keywords and arbitrary non-reserved identifiers like `document`.
This probably helps to explain why aircraft design has flirted with full escape capsules https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_crew_capsule in the past.
Not always straight forward in Python 3. Try explaining to your class how to ignore case in string comparisons.
How do we keep "impossible for a revolution to occur" from turning in to "impossible to dislodge an incumbent from a market"? Or even further devolving into "protecting all corporate entities from market threats"? I see that devolution as almost inevitable, given how we've seen the US DoD used to protect corporate interests as well as societal interests.
I haven't tried in plain JavaScript, but I know you can if you use TypeScript. This has been working for me for awhile now.
Peter Collier wrote his beautiful "A Most Incomprehensible Thing: Notes Towards a Very Gentle Introduction to the Mathematics of Relativity" out of a similar desire... in the introduction he mentions that as a kid he always thought relativity was easy to understand but later came to realize you really can't fully appreciate it without the necessary math. So he sat down, took a year off (if I remember correctly) and wrote this book. It's beautiful and enlightening.
This may actually work for their benefit this time; college is the single time besides pre-school when a person is basically free to arrange the time however they feel like. Before college you have to be at 0800 in school, after it you have to be at 0900 at work.
What are some opportunities in residential and commercial real estate?
I have been looking at technology in residential and CRE, but it seems very antiquated. Obviously, Zillow and Redfin are modern, but besides those I see many legacy software (argus, costar, and realpage) in the space.
Check out http://desktopgenetics.com - web based crispr design app
Wondering if it actually uses CoreCLR on Linux/Mac.. it definitely did not for quite a long time.
It doesn't distribute them to different employers, it distributes them to different countries. Not the same thing at all.

There's no reason at all to think that anything would change in terms of the H1B Vs. employer relationship if that legislation would pass. We'd just have different nationalities in the same situation we do now.
There's effectively no difference, but the general understanding (with some exceptions, e.g., Netflix) is that hiring someone full-time involves a commitment on behalf of both sides to do what's possible to make it work. If there are issues, the employer and employee will try to fix them. With a probationary period that explicitly involves a determination on a longer-term relationship, that's not a given. At least, that's my understanding, and others may correct me.
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This is extraordinarily silly. In modern systems security, real security boundaries aren't enforced at the language level. No amount of ObjC message-sending trickery is going to change your UID.
> There is no tech labor shortage.

"Tech labor shortage" is not a clear-cut black-and-white issue. The market is not fully elastic to easily use terms such as 'shortage', etc.

Say, you need to build a team of 5 machine learning scientist with specific experience in image recognition, there may be 100 people in the country specializing in this field, and perhaps 10 of them are the job market, and 7 are international citizens. Then you have a serious case of shortage, and face the possibility of losing the project/business/market to a company in Israel, India, or China that has the requisite staff or to a company in Canada or Australia, where immigration laws are more sensible.

At the same time, there may be no shortage for generally skilled engineers fresh out of college.
Religious flamewars are not ok on Hacker News. Please don't.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10588101 and marked it off-topic.
Girls Aloud need to see this It's so funny =D
No peak pricing & strictly $25/Hour. All workers are US citizens, fluent in English, have had extensive background checks, and are fully bonded and insured.
I don't understand this comment. The hash method changed under different releases of Python 2.x, enough that was had to change our doctests to ensure a consistent order. So as far as I'm aware, the only guarantee is that calling .keys() and calling .values() will give you the terms in the same order, so long as there hasn't been a modification in the middle.
I'm extremely skeptical that ONT's sequencing will become cost effective. Library preps for long range correlation + Illumina will likely dominate; why not get high fidelity + long range off the same instrument and reagents? Dovetail and 10X are two companies doing this right now.

That or a different nanopore tech. After all the time they've spent and the missed promises of ONT's CEO it doesn't look like the current generation will deliver.
What technology is used for conversation?
I wonder if many of our security issues are not due to poorly written software, and a big part of that is accumulating layers of cruft in exactly this sort of way.

I would certainly write my own crypto (but not design my own encryption scheme!) before using such a heavyweight solution. Implementing crypto might be hard, but common, not harder than building a compiler.
But he explicitly states that he is talking about fundamentalists and Isis, not mainstream Muslims
I'm not sure about the branding angle. For the longest time, MS was its own worst enemy brand-wise. They appear to be doing the necessary changes to win about people who like good tools, though. I'm not complaining.
Hmm, odd; I pulled up a random Java source file and it was a plain, single color. Not a biggie worth digging into because I don't see using VSC much in it's current state (20-some year vi/vim user here), and I (thankfully <g>) don't do much with Java. Thanks for hanging out and listening to our issues, though. :-)
When X is illegal, only the criminals will have X.

Replace X with basically anything.
Applied machine learning without understanding of the fundamental mathematical assumptions can be a recipe for failure

That said, there are some graphical examples to help understand of how learning algorithms work in 2 dimensions.
I liked "Space boats", I bet kids do too.
For applications in physics and other sciences the Lebesgue integral is not critical. Even if you care about making sure your calculations are mathematically sound then the theory of the Riemann integral (much older than Lebesgue's) is sufficient.

However in mathematics, it did change how people think about integration. "Integral" now usually means "Lebesgue integral" outside of specialized applications. One of its advantages is that a lot of theorems involving integration become simpler to state, since with the Riemann integral you need to add more conditions to make sure it is defined.
Wow. So was this whole fiasco a false flag to accelerate the police state?

And what's up with the "fiber cuts" in SF, anyone?
Just another instance of dunning-kruger. When he's older and had more interactions with lower IQ people, he may come to terms with his gifts...
This was impressive indeed. It was written entirely in assembly(not using the DC katana library or directX) to get the most out of the Dreamcast.
Also it was years and years before they were able to crack it to be able to copy the discs and by which time both the Dreamcast and Bleem were long dead. The author has a post on a gaming forums about a few years back.
Pretty cool stuff given the tiny size of the team that worked on this and the financial resources available to them. Sony eventually sued them into the ground.
StackOverflow is a well known big-example of a full server-side Microsoft-stack.
Which chart? And the person above was talking about how few employers will go through the green card process, that page appears to be about H1B approvals, which is outside the scope of what they said.
I've worked in both residential and commercial real estate a couple years back, and I agree. The software that people use on a daily basis truly sucks.
"H-1B households are restricted to a single income"

This isn't true anymore http://www.immihelp.com/h4-visa-ead/