skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zumeta's article does a good job of citing many of the conditions I personally noticed when I considered heading more in that direction. I would be surprised if H1B's and other programs have no effect on wages and job opportunities in this field (though I know some counter that they don't).

One argument I imagine people make is, assuming H1B and other visa programs suppress wages, and this in turn retards the desire for young Americans to get into these fields, why is this a problem?

I suppose one could argue that restricting immigration will lead to higher wages, which ultimately will lead to more engineering students, but at a much higher expense. Ultimately this won't be globally competitive and is unnecessary when there are plenty of students from elsewhere in the world who will do equal caliber work at much lower cost.

I suppose one could argue that, but I wouldn't. Intellectually though, I'm hard pressed to say why our engineers really should be American born in larger quantities than they are today. I suppose we've all been witness to what happens when we push bright individuals into finance instead of engineering. It doesn't necessarily end up being advantageous innovation.
How exactly is HTML5 "proprietary", or even "more proprietary" than Flash?
This was at the corporate IT level, so they can control when the machines are powered on and off. Presumably, they could have them power on 30 minutes before staff arrived in the morning.

I think that you went off on a little too much of a green tangent there.

The question is if they are telling Office software to save and close documents, why aren't they just hibernating the machines to save the entire state? The only time I can think of them needing to restart would be for some updates, but I'm not familiar with how a machine handles file shares when hibernating..
High contrast should be reserved for important items. That way they can have higher contrast than the surrounding text and stand out more.

I've seen a few people who program with just flat green on black. No syntax highlighting. I cry a little inside.
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I think the advice about Group 2+ would be "don't partner with them either. They've got priorities other than making money, and making money is hard enough you can't do it accidentally."
I'll never do business with someone who doesn't know when enough is enough. This post is saying to do business with greedy people. Kind of sad really, but I'm glad I'm the kind of person the author doesn't want to do business with.

I look on people like this with pity. For them, money is an addiction. They'll do anything for their fix. They'll lie, cheat, steal. Those aren't the kinds of people to do business with, because eventually they'll look to get their fix from you.
I was thinking maybe something like HoloToy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lipIyMp6w8w
Many OSS contributors disappear because they're encountering satisfyingly challenging engineering problems as their day job for the first time. It takes a special discipline to actually _use_ 20% time at all (not because of team pressure, just from the ease with which one can focus on the large problems at Google). I've had that problem myself, and am considering putting said discipline in my own written goals.
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No, seriously no. They are pollution. If you read them no matter how cynical you are your subconscious will gobble up the "facts" only to spew them at you later as "truth" without the association with the source.

IMO tabloids make people dumber. So just _don't_ read them, its bad for you.
This is a direct consequence of middle management.

It works like this: marketing boss and accounting boss have to have everyone in at 9:00 for specific reasons (customers, time-specific responsibilities). Programming boss doesn't need his people in at 9 for any good reason, but his peers all need their subordinates in at that time, and he gets scared for his image among his peer group. If his people are more disheveled and work at weird times, he might look like he doesn't "have them under control".

This is also why you get in more trouble for being 20 minutes late than for "throwing a sickie". The first is taken to reflect upon your boss, while the second isn't, even though it's a much bigger hit to productivity.
I'd really like the exact opposite. The sooner every company supporting patents is hit with lawsuits and the sooner we get to the situation where noone can publish any code safely, the more chances there are for patents to be rejected. I hope that someone will emerge one day with a collection of patents for base Windows, Unix and Mac functionality, successfully enforce it and refuse to license. One can dream...
Not to mention the fact that MapQuest took years to come out with something that even comes close to the user experience of Google Maps, which suggests to me that GMaps completely broadsided them, and that they didn't have anything remotely close to that sophistication even considered/researched.

It seems to be, as an outsider anyways, that MapQuest got lazy, not just out-done by Google.
I disagree. I think that there are not enough categories.

For example, I've got a comfortable lifestyle, I earn a decent passive income (~18k a month) and it affords me time to work on the stuff that I want to work on.

I'm working on something now because I look at the industry that I'm targeting and I all I see is flaws. The products don't match the consumers wants. I want to fix that and I see a big opportunity eventually.

So I don't match the "don't want to be poor" crowd, because I'm not poor (I'm not rich either) and yet I'm still working on making more.

I don't really care if anyone knows my name. I'm not that vain.

Lastly, while I like the idea of making more money - that in itself is not the big motivator for what I'm doing. I want to build something that changes the game, not because of any external factor other than a personal goal.

Maybe I'm just an edge case, but I don't think you can quite classify everyone into 3 categories.
I have absolutely no idea what this site is, or why I should care. You're asking me to give you something valuable - my email address; you should give me something of value (information, screenshots, abstract) that makes the trade worth it to me.
Right! There are two kinds of wealth: Monetary wealth and time wealth.
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This is especially a problem in Russia, where having even modest sums can draw the attention of local goons. I don't think being a famous mathematician is any protection from having Grisha the neighborhood limb breaker show up at your door.
I actually find the people in the cubicles around me to be much more distracting than anything I run into while working from home even when my kids (3 and 7) are home. When the kids are at school it's sooo much easier to focus at home then at the office. Unfortunately, for some reasons the higher ups at my workplace don't like to allow people to work from home regularly. :-(
My son has had his DS for about 2 years now, and our investment in games is far more than what the console originally costed. So, backwards compatibility is indeed an important consideration if we were to buy a new console.
Explain. Do you really think the Google founders set out to be billionaires?

I think that most of the interesting and decent rich people had no idea they'd be so successful. They put one foot in front of the other until they had something of great value.
It's still feasible to jailbreak an iPhone as long as you don't just directly apply Apple's firmware updates, right?
Not necessarily, a couple of the web's biggest properties came to be from it's founders other priorities.

Google (backrub) started as a research project.

Craigslist started out as a way for Craig Newmark to not feel so isolated.

Wikipedia... the list goes on.
That is just not how humans work.
"The presentations describe... indications that cold fusion may occur naturally in certain bacteria."

Are you serious? This boggles my mind more than anything about how bio systems work in nature in the last few years...
Are you on adderall right now?
One could argue that there is some overlap there, considering the stunts some businesses pull to make a buck... =/
It's easy to build up an expert reputation and then depend on it. It's easy to become your group/company expert on such-and-such topic, and then have people defer to you even as your skills deteriorate. What's hard is to actually retain a real level of expertise. You have to continually challenge yourself, question assumptions, and test the limits of what you know.

If you find yourself justifying your answers with "because I'm an expert" on a regular basis, it may be time to reevaluate.
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Did you test about asking the people to enter the date as ISO yyyy-mm-dd ? I'm not raised in the US and am usually confused of the meaning of some dates, however stating the year first makes it always understandable.
If you're talking about the same study I'm thinking of then its conclusion was that "money can buy happiness but usually doesn't" because you need to spend the money on experiences rather than things, and spending money on things is vastly easier.
I'm not convinced there's a significant difference between the first and third categories. Both are means to gaining status- the difference is just in the audience (the people they're trying to impress) and in the sophistication of how the status is expressed.
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I've been using Go and contributing a little to the project. It's a cool language and the guys who review your code (Rob Pike, Russ Cox) really know their shit.
If it's the Secretary of Energy, shouldn't the article be outside a paywall? Isn't the WSJ demanding payment for access to a public document?

Or is this a freelance job by the SoE? ;-)
You mean... the Issue 9 programming language blog?
Yikes. If there's anything I've learned, it's to avoid people in the third category at all costs. These are the guys who see every transaction as a zero-sum game, and the people who will stick a knife in you the moment an opportunity presents itself.
I don't think the article is the same. I think this (http://www.zikkir.com/index/181501) is closer
1, the censorship being asked by US government is less evil (or not at all, depends on your standard)
2, US market is bigger, and even if they can afford to lose the world's biggest market (no they can't), relocating headquater would be a lot more costly.

Moral has a price, it is just a lot harder to determine and even harder to admit.
Why compare with Baseline, though, and not Main or High? In e.g. the "desktop computer playing the video through Flash" scenario there's no client-side reason not to use the more advanced modes. The iPhone is limited to Baseline to be able to use accelerated decoding, but is that also the case for other embedded systems such as set-top boxes?

In the case of YouTube et al there's the server-side performance/encoding time consideration, but they should be able to encode everything in a quicker format, e.g. Baseline, and re-encode popular content in High profile as needed.
Or maybe he just isn't interested in money or fame.

Don't be so rash in passing out judgment.

I once asked a mathematician what he says he does when people ask him. He said that "I do math, teaching is my job, the way i make my living but what I do is math". Didn't quite expect that answer, and he's internationally known for his work too.
Getting profitable is easy. It's the getting big bit which is hard.

The fact is, it's often easier especially online, to solve the hard problem (get big) first. Once you've done that getting profitable is a walk in the park.
It's amazing how anti-content this group is. The man doesn't want more money and people are attacking him.

Isn't that odd?

I admire him.
I'm not hopping on the text ads are evil bandwagon, I'm hopping on the "Optimizing text advertisements is a rather surprising way to employ the talent of a generation of smart people" bandwagon.
I don't think it's taken as a swipe at the iPhone, more that I think doing it locally would remove any performance/speed gains that it provides. Granted, you could still cache a certain amount of data locally, but browsers do that anyway.
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One in six are on some form of psychiatric drug
What's wrong with it? Apple (and many others) are using federal criminal laws to enforce their business model. It is very possibly a criminal act to unlock your iPhone. Why should the FBI and our criminal judicial system be used to protect a business model?

The gated community you refer are not using criminal laws; just civil contracts to enforce the position.
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He Hacking Google G-mail e-mail accounts at will.
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Email: reynhardtvb.photography@yahoo.com

Contact Number: Fax: +27 44 696 6364 Tel: +27 82 798 6268

This author made many complaints with no response.
thanks; that makes more sense. i need to go back + read it again, i think. [edit: hmm; that's not completely right either. need to get back to work.]
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Mr. Reynhardt van Blommenstein - Klein Brakriver - Garden Route
South Africa

Email: reynhardtvb.photography@yahoo.com

Contact Number: Fax: +27 44 696 6364 Tel: +27 82 798 6268

Many complaints to Gumtree.co.za but with no response.
In a way, they were -- they're just now called 'virtual gifts' and 'wall posts' and 'app notifications'.
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It's the same graphs, just with the "real life" one being new.

But it does include an important piece of wisdom: people want their lives to have greater ups and downs, just like in the stories, and that's why some make drama for nothing.
I've yet to hear a good reason for Apple's strict restrictions on what can/can't run on the iPhone.

Initially a lot of people said the App store restrictions were to ensure the safety of the cell phone network from viruses, misbehaved apps, etc. But clearly that's hogwash. Phone's running Symbian, WinMo, BB-OS, Palm, etc. have been allowing the user to run apps without a nanny/gatekeeper for ages with no ill effects. I won't even mention the lack of problems with the Android Market to date..

Then there are folks who claim its "to control the user experience". That's also clearly hogwash. Is it O.K. if the RIAA decides that "to control the user experience" you're not allowed to rip CD's to your iPod? And of course, there is the easy counterexample that allowing users to freely choose their applications (that whole free market thing) hasn't seemed to have hurt the legendary user experience of OSX.

What particularly bothers me is the combination of the strict restrictions in the iPhone App store and the App store being the only way to load an app on the phone. To say nothing of the vigor with which Apple has attempted to thwart users with "jailbroken" iPhones. It's almost pathological.
A close friend growing up had 6-7 million in trust fund + a lot more on the way and it was a lot harder than you might think. You don't have enough to "change the world" but working is almost pointless etc.

I'm sorry to hear about your friend, but if you ask me, the "almost pointless" excuse is pretty pathetic.

All else equal, being rich gives you strictly more options, and therefore the means to make work more meaningful. At $6m net worth, you own your own time and can work or play at will, in pretty much any industry you desire. Also, your career is going to be much better if you're rich because 1) upper management assumes you work hard because you actually want to do so rather than have to, 2) you get better jobs and projects because people want to buy your family's connections, and 3) most importantly, you don't have the "fear of the boss" that middle-class people do, so upper management sees you as more independent and confident. I've worked on Wall Street at desks that send more money across the table every day than most rich kids' trust funds, and even there, rich kids advance faster, primarily for reason #3.

In the for-profit sector, working is actually pointless for 90+% of people in it, who will never appreciably advance and only go to work because they have to. Being unusually talented or wealthy gives one a chance to not be caught in that trap and to do "pointful" work. So I don't buy into the bullshit excuse that his trust fund made working "almost pointless". Not in the least.
He means the iPad.
Take a second look - it says Nature Made cod liver oil and odorless fish oil.

If only they said which ones DON'T have pcbs.
Hmmm, what's cause and effect?

I.e. how much have the kids entering the armed forces today been wrapped in cotton batting and therefore not had much of an active outdoor life?

I mean, I read about them being escorted to and from school bus stops, how it's actionable if they aren't under supervision until they're quite old (> 10), etc.

I'm an old fart who was born in 1960 when Eisenhower was still president, and their lives, in terms of activities, style of competition, etc. sound radically different.

(In general, of course, there will be exceptions.)

As far as that poor Roman General mentioned by run4yourlives, this sort of thing has been going on for a long time. E.g. the NRA was established after the Civil War to try to address the lack of marksmanship skills that Northern recruits brought with them compared to previous generations.
1. Spreadsheet shared through Dropbox
2. No, no problems
I'm not saying that people asking work-related questions is a Bad Thing(TM)--I'm saying the assertion that you can easily get into a distraction-free groove in the office is not necessarily true. It might be true in the case of a small start-up, but I've never found it to be the case in my experience (and I've never worked in an office with more than 40 or 50 people).

At home, I can close to the door to our "office" and everyone knows that I am not to be disturbed. At the office, I'm in an open cube plan, so short of doing some sort of jwz-style camo netting, it's harder to convey "leave me alone."
If you are referring to my point 3, there are plenty of problems (cancer, biotech, AI, energy) that are both interesting, and have the possibility of a large pay-off, while NOT suffering ridicule from the mainstream - in fact, while enjoying some respect. Most researchers will (quite rationally) choose career options that are interesting, potentially valuable, and safe.

Sure, cold fusion is interesting, and has the chance of a big pay-off, but it also presents enormous problems to a would-be researcher, including lack of funding, dismissive colleagues, and ignorant pseudo-skepticism from the public. For a professional scientist to pursue it in the face of such problems require more than faith and courage; it probably requires at least some evidence they've seen with their own eyes. If you're interested, lookup Francesco Scaramuzzi and Julian Schwinger along with keywords of "cold fusion."
More readable, certainly.
That all depends on what your goals are though, doesn't it?

If you are a VC or investor, this advice is true. If you however are an entrepreneur and share their interests and passion, this advice is horribly inaccurate.
Seconded. The same thing also applies to folds in vim, and sometimes to gutters and things like NERDTree or ctags scripts. It's really frustrating to have a great theme that in certain edge cases applies black text on a black background or (more commonly) white text on a light gray background.
I think the GP was referring to the countdown timer, not the entire Opera Mini for iPhone project.
For the record, they also didn't set out to compete with any of the existing search engines, rather their interest was to prove the viability of their linux cluster and an internet of data was a good theater for that.
Adults aren't all identical.

My biological clock is about 3 hours behind, in relation to the light-dark cycle. I become tremendously productive just before noon.
The post from a litle over a month ago is worth a re-read in light of this:

http://blog.cubeofm.com/programming-is-a-way-to-procrastinat...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1124953
How is that different from flat white on black with no syntax highlighting?
You should read "Enough" by John Bogle, founder and former CEO of the Vanguard Group.
For most people, an 18K monthly income ($216K annualized) that is passive is most definitely considered "being rich".
How has nobody thought of this already, exactly?
If these are the only dangers from working from home, I would take that over the dangers from working in an office. I haven't even given those dangers much thought, but I'll start with a few.

1) Commute - wasted time and energy sitting in traffic, plus added stress depending on amount of traffic. (not to mention all that gasoline!)

2) The walk-by - trying to get work done when anyone can just saunter over and ask you a question, or just shoot the sh*t.

3) Noise and smells - people playing music randomly, loud conversations, YouTube videos, someone eating a smelly burrito, chinese food

4) The cold starter - someone has a cold but feels fine or wants to show they got guts, spreads the cold to 50% of the office.

5) Constant trivialities - walkby hellos, lunch anyone?, who's driving?, peeing next to someone in the bathroom stall

Anything else to add?
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Natural language generation is a fun topic. I'm currently building automated overviews of web stats at http://overlytics.com. Its a much smaller data domain to report over.
Inflammatory title, but it rang true with me.

One of the dangers that first time founders living outside of the Valley (like me) face is that our minds get poisoned and our ambitions shrunk by the parochial leaders

I think there's a healthy balance. In Scotland, things needed to be scaled back, explained/analogies made to things people already did or understood, conservative was the watchword. Here (the Valley) it's all 'wow, you can change the world, ask for $1M not £50k'. Neither is healthy.

Strike a midpoint: get an informed perspective with a realistic idea of an achievable v1 launch, don't raise millions and inflate beyond belief, and listen to the negatives. Get perspectives from an international viewpoint as well as the echo chamber -- but don't let others squash your dreams.
That's rather my point. If the phone was sufficiently powerful, you wouldn't lose any performance gains. I'm implicitly defining sufficiently powerful to be however powerful the iPhone would need to be to see no performance drop.

Once we assume the CPU and memory of the iPhone can handle it, doing it that way would be faster since there would be less latency involved.
Well, Rome didn't just wake up one day and find Vandals at the gates either.

My point is the observance of a trend that is pretty much the same now as it was then; I'm not saying that America is going to be gone tomorrow.
There is Vanity for Rails: http://vanity.labnotes.org/ It does not support funnel analysis like Mixpanel tho.
CF was one of the nicer programming languages I've ever worked with. Circa 2002-2005 there wasn't anything close to a better alternative.

The down-fall of CF was Rails since Rails is open-source, huge community, is free, and powered by Ruby. CF was closed sourced, small community, and powered by Java. Yuck.
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I'll take the contrarian stance and say I'm not really impressed with the list. There are some that may be good, but there's not much new. Mostly me too products.

Perhaps my expectations are too high.