skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
H1B applications are publicly available, so you can download an excel spreadsheet of every company that's applied for them. It also includes job title and company address, so with some excel-fu you should be able to get the data you want.
Impressive how close the performance got to Nginx for large files after the buffer memory pointer problem was fixed. The API changes are going to be interesting.
I think Ebay realized at some point that marketplaces are more profitable than auctions and adjusted their model accordingly. Now they're in this limbo between an auction site and a marketplace site but not great at either. They can afford this of course because they're a monopoly, but if I really want the experience of one or the other I'll use a service with clearer focus.
Right, because if Steve has any restriction at all on his genius, he'll take his ball and glove and go home, instead of ... making a great product and making a profit.

Yours is a stupid argument that can always be whipped out to justify corporate abuse. Or any other abuse, for that matter.
Already does exist. It's not going to stop existing if this regulation/law is made.
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Out of curiosity, could someone explain why this comment was downvoted? Thanks.
The site seems to be down. Here's the google cache:

http://74.125.45.132/search?q=cache:xQAXZriYJusJ:benjamintho...
followup post, perhaps. :D
I'm not a bio geek. The main thing I'd guess is that since this feat is done on single cells in the test-tub, it's not going to have an immediate medical impact.

But it sure sounds cool.
The thing that has always troubled me about Ebert's argument is that its strength seems to depend greatly on the kinds of games you present in rebuttal.

Take board games or sports games, for example. They've been around since the earliest years of civilization. We have played them all that time, but never drew a comparison between them and art like what a painter or musician would produce.

Yet, suddenly it became a debate when we got to video games because we could start inserting all the other art mediums as desired, while still retaining the interactive, unpredictable nature of previous games. And so we go out on this mindless quest to find the most moving games we have ever played and show them to the critics.

I think that what this suggests is that we have to either expand our definition of art to include all the interactive forms(including toys, board games, and sports) or define two kinds of art - the interactive, and the authorial - and view them as complements to each other.
I think this is the kind of blogpost someone writes when they are angry, but not necessarily assertive.

He's just installing Ubuntu on his Apple laptop, that's all! And pretty soon he'll miss something from OSX and then -- dual boot. Next thing you know Apple does something nice again and the Ubuntu partition is just erased.

I experienced something similar when Apple wouldn't release Java 6 for OSX. I had a second partition with Ubuntu on it which I used for my Java 6 work and I was mad at Apple, but as soon as Apple released Java 6 I couldn't erase that partition fast enough !

Actually -- I didn't even wait for Apple to release Java 6. A smart guy (Landon Fuller) released a Java 6 openjdk port which was using X11 and it was enough for me to erase Ubuntu and use OSX instead. This is how much worse it was on Linux!

My number one gripe were the Linux fonts but there were many other issues.

I remember Ubuntu launched some nice project called "100 paper cuts" to fix those small but annoying bugs in Ubuntu. This is how using Linux feels after OSX: like bumping not into large issues but all these small points of friction that ruin your flow.
It does say "Press" and not "Click"
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Without more information, I can't really say if you're contradicting me thesis or not. I can easily imagine a small group of git users in any big company, but not so much a larger group that includes a lot of less technical users.
I think neither would qualify because both require a JavaScript component to actually work as a spotlight.

Neither of the submitted solutions are particularly novel, but I'd applaud the CSS2 version more for (if nothing else) the supported browser coverage.

IMHO, there are FAR more interesting things in HTML5/CSS3 than gradients.
Compatibility Tables for HTML5, CSS3, SVG and other upcoming web tech
he's from Denmark and it could be Dutch if "plani" was an adjective that made sense in relation to ghosts. ;)
So if you're a startup and you earn nothing for some time, that would be zero euros then. That would be great because in most countries there is a nominal minimum contribution regardless of how much you actually earn.
You might need to click on "text-only version"
From http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1273618 , too useful not to share. Thanks to nimbupani.
I don’t think Linux is at the stage where non-computer people can use it enjoyably.

I've found Linux Mint to be comparable to OS X in power and ease of use. I even used it to set up a computer for a 5-year-old, and he took right to it without any training. Perhaps the meme that Linux is for hackers only should be put to rest.
Yes, games are great, and art, and Ebert's wrong about them.

But I think you're unfairly judging (and berating) Ebert about much of the other stuff. He's actually remarkably on top of things considering both his age (67) and his status (can't talk, eat, or drink due to cancer surgery and the loss of his fucking jaw!). He has an active blog with some of the best writing out there, he's hyper-active on twitter, he knows about newspapers going down and is not living in the past there, he's starting a new online presence for himself and his readers, and he doesn't "hold a grudge against video games"; he just doesn't seem them as art.

Your angry rant only hurts your (mostly) valid points.
No question about that. It's one of those "do it if we can" features.

One could have a "light" version that just scraped the target page for header tags alone though. That might be a good compromise.
No, You're Not Crazy--The Cities on Google Maps Keep Changing
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This is something I'm struggling with right now. Setting aside iPad and iPhone for a second...

Counterpoint in favor of Apple:

Contributions to an open web:
Open source development of Webkit and now Webkit2,
HTML5 Canvas,
Adverserial stance towards Flash in favor of HTML5 [iPad, iPhone]

Contributions to open-source tools:
LLVM and CLang,
MacRuby support,
launchd,
Cocoa bindings from other languages [possibly phased out?]

Contributions to open-source operating systems:
OpenDarwin http://www.opensource.apple.com/

Developer ease:
Nice set of installed developer applications,
Development environment based on standard opensource toolchain,
Compiling command-line tools from Linux/BSDs is sane and easy,
Compiling X11 dependent apps is possible

Multi-platform support:
BootCamp,
The only system capable of running the three major desktop operating systems easily and legally.

High quality, hackable GUI environment and applications:
Cocoa applications are generally built to a far higher standard than Linux GUI applications IMO,
Cocoa applications are imminently hackable (see SIMBL)

Hardware innovation and quality:
Forward thinking innovation in hardware: Mac Air, for example, gets rid of even ethernet!,
MacBook Pro line widely acknowledged as top-tier development machine

[Disclosure: I have no stake in Apple.]
Totally understand. I pasted it because in the past I've found that people are more likely to leave comments here than on a foreign blog.

Link is http://startupsrule.com
The GPL has absolutely no restrictions on how you can use the code. You can take the code and write any application you want. You insert or delete any combination of characters anywhere in any of the files and share these changes with anyone in the world. No restrictions.

What the GPL "restricts" is your ability to restrict others' use of the code. The only thing it stops you from doing is changing the code and distributing that changed code with license that restricts others' use of that code. That's it - this is a restriction on a person or corporation's legal ability to create a license. But it has nothing whatsoever to do with their ability change the code.

This is pretty much paraphrasing the GPL itself, I know, but still..
Seem to be lots of NOSQL companies popping up. There's quite a few companies working in the networking space (like 29West)
There's a theory that since telomeres decrease in size every mitosis that they are the reason for the Hayflick limit (the max number of times a cell can divide). The theory then says that as cells reach the limit you 'age'.

The article says they figured out a way to increase telomeres in the lab, this is not very new though there are known telomerase inducers out there.

I'm not sure how revolutionary it is though the article has very little info and I've read about this topic since more than 10 years ago.

EDIT: Found this from 2007:

"Since 2007, several compounds have been discovered that cause somatic cells to express higher levels of telomerase than usual. In April 2007, Geron Corporation licensed New York-based company TA Sciences to conduct human trials on a molecule called TA-65, a derivative of Astragalus propinquus, that acts as telomerase activator"

-- http://www.lef.org/news/LefDailyNews.htm?NewsID=5216&Sec...
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matplotlib is my best friend, matlab is my second best friend

excel? are you kidding me
Readers who liked that selection of books would probably get on well with Peter Norvig's "Paradigms of artificial intelligence programming: case studies in Common Lisp", which I consider a good candidate for Best Programming Book Ever.
I, too, hate the decisions Apple has made regarding the iPhone platform. I've already made up my mind that I won't buy an(other) iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad until there's a way for developers to distribute their apps directly to me without the need to be approved by Apple. Granted, this likely means that I won't ever buy one of those devices, but I want to leave at least the possibility of them changing their software and/or policies.

Still, when I needed a new laptop, I purchased a recently-refreshed MacBook Pro. Though boycotting the company completely might have been more effective, I still think that my decision to get the MacBook over the iPad (or over nothing at all) sends a message that customers still appreciate the openness of the Mac platform.

And it is open - the author of the article talks about installing Linux on his MacBook. If the Mac line were not open, this wouldn't even be possible - just look at how little progress has been made on getting Linux/Android on the iPhone hardware. And on Mac OS X there's also a complete lack of an app review process - I can install any app no matter if it's interpreted or compiled, written in Objective-C or not, and whether or not Apple personally approves of it.

It's important to let Apple know what they're doing right in addition to admonishing them for what they're doing wrong.
Shadow of the Colossus was indeed very artsy, but I think its prequel Ico was better by miles and miles. Also the perfect argument against Ebert's take on video games.
A trailer of some sort: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FQ-0vqHAro

Really just a gesamtkunstwerk. The soundtrack, the choreography and the storyline really work well together. The game falls under a puzzle genre I believe.
Obviously a useful anecdote for anyone in the UK wondering why skies are clear and planes are on the ground...
why, because it's pretty?
Thanks for taking a look. Working with XML isn't that hard, true, but even just using jQuery to replace my normal XPath looping-and-plucking was really nice. This just takes things one step further by letting you express collections and recursive structures directly in JSON. Instead of writing a function per XML structure you'd like to parse, you can write a single JSON expression. This project is barely 50 lines of code I think, so it isn't really too much of an abomination yet.
Any HN'ers stuck in any of these places?

EDIT: Adding related article - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/world/europe/18ash.html
They weren't responsible for monitoring 100 different sources before?

There is still the same number of things for them to track. They just have to track them in a different place.

I think it would be fun to see the SEC require a specific URL for the location of investment information. Or create a simple API to be followed.
I guess the path to Trajan would be too simple.

Start -> I'm making a movie poster -> Trajan.
Yep, I use matplotlib pretty much exclusively for this kind of thing. I have my eye on clojure's Incanter, though.
sorry, was being a bit facetious, but I don't think Lisp is too hard. Takes a bit getting used to, but once you do I don't feel its any harder than C, certainly.
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No, but I have coworkers that do. They're nice machines, but they're still a collection of plastic components, and don't have the tight tolerances and clever case design that one sees in recent MacBooks.
ya I didn't think the computer would be the expensive part. It was getting the fully open connection with decent symmetric bandwidth. Although I believe some places where they have fiber to the home, the ISP's will allow you to do so.
CUTE- reminds me of the early Flash 3 stuff - A spotlight!!
No artist has a free hand. Just as the architect cannot create something unsound, the sculptor cannot create something that moves or speaks. The musician cannot include visuals, and cannot use sounds that are outside the range of human hearing. The painter cannot use motion.

I would argue that limitations are part of what creates truly great art. Specifically, transcending the limitations to create something altogether other, evoking an unexpected reaction. For example, a painting that evokes the feeling of motion is far more impressive than a short clip of an object in motion. We want things that are more than the sum of their parts.
Seriously? I suppose if one has a lot of time to waste, he can obsess about Google's label-placement algorithm, and how it seems to change from time-to-time. If one is really obsessed, he can even take screenshots every day, and put up a web page about it, expecting others to be equally obsessed. Or, one might consider getting out once in a while.
I'm not at all opposed to a bounty on awesome ideas. But I think the nature of the bounty needs to change to something that still encourages innovation. The whole, "no one can do anything with this cool idea but me" thing really stifles the spread of technology.
This is just a guess, but could they be using some algorithm based on analytics data (say, which cities are zoomed in on and searched for the most and/or A/B testing) to determine which cities should show up on zoomed-out maps? They can't show every town and city at once without things getting very cluttered, and it seem very Google-like to relentlessly optimize based on user data.
As much as I love video games, I agree with him. I don't think games can technically be art. Though, they are meaningful.

You have to draw the distinction somewhere. Art isn't a plastic definition, and it is at least generally understood to describe things that translate into our minds, and expand into something more.

The thing that makes a game a game are game mechanics. I don't call game mechanics art in the same way I don't call reality art. Now, I do believe the music in a game can be artful and the story too... but not the thing that makes a game a game. A game is like an enclosure for a lot of wonderful experiences, but I don't see why people are so personally caught up trying to see the enclosure for more than it is. A simulation.

That being said, I do believe that video games are a valid medium to spend your time with. A game functions best when the environment plays a large role, something like an archaeological dig. Exploration games like Myst or Shadow of the Colossus use the medium to it's best potential. There is an awe that those games animate through something like osmosis. You absorb the things in games in a way you simply cannot in any other medium. This has value.
Pretty useful. My mother is stuck here in Bay Area till at least Wednesday, as her flight to Moscow through Munich is postponed.

What amazes me is how poorly Lufthansa (and possibly other airlines) are handling this. There is no way on their website to check for e.g. status of the itinerary given the original confirmation code, and their call centers simply cannot handle the load.
And what if I don't agree with your definition of "stupid"? Or, "hopeless"? Or "definition", for that matter!

All words are ambiguous. What we interpret them to mean is not some hard concept, but the sum of a range of lifetime experiences with that word, giving it subtle nuance between people that nominally agree, and often more significant differences that lead people to disagree. One of the easier examples are, for example, the words "geek", "nerd", and "dork". Another one is "hacker", which is part of the title of the very site we're talking on.
WebOS or something else?
Consider also the wider moral questions. Apple sources their components more carefully than other vendors when it comes to child labor, fair trade, and environmental degradation. Not as well as one might like, but certainly much better than their competitors.

I was originally thinking of not buying Apple products because of the iPad announcement and the broad moral qualms I have about open systems. But then I realized that the moral importance of abusing other human beings, animals and ecosystems outweighed the moral importance of open/closed technology platforms.
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The point of arbitration is that it's biased in favor of one party. We have a system to arbitrate disputes between parties with a minimum of bias - it's called the civil court system. If you could 'fix' arbitration, it would be indistinguishable from a court of law.
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Logically, the only alternatives to that are people who want the govt to intervene in all areas (totalitarians) and people who want the government to intervene in nothing at all, even violent crime (anarchists). If your definition of "modest libertarian" is "neither totalitarian nor anarchist", I have to say you picked a rather confusing term for it.
With regard to "I am not "damning the consequences". The consequences are unavoidable."

This is not a zero-sum game within the US. Some courses of action have much larger consequences overall than others, and the one you are advocating seems likely to have had a relatively high overall cost to the system of the economy compared to the one the govt. chose, at least in the short term.

The government has been trying to keep the ship sailing as smoothly as possible, as is their general responsibility, despite the unsavory nature of bailing out some of those responsible. I believe that was viewed as a necessary evil.
I'm probably clueless, but can't find any edit handle for this. Little help?
Any suggestions as to how else it could work?

I suppose you could have a bureaucratic body which tries to determine the value of that idea and then pays a bounty in cash, but that sounds like a terrible idea in all sorts of ways.
I am so glad this is impossible here in Germany. But good to know and look out for if I happen to get a job in the USA.
This only affects the netcat-openbsd package, not netcat-traditional. As stated in a comment on that page, this is also a problem in the netcat-openbsd package in Jaunty and Karmic. I'm surprised this bug wasn't caught earlier.
I agree. I actually prefer Toughbooks for that reason. The biggest thing I dislike about Apple's hardware is that you have to treat it like a family heirloom.

It is more durable than cheap PC hardware though, which is why I called it middle-of-the-road in terms of durability.

But I still massively prefer the aesthetics and designs of Apple's hardware. I do not see why you couldn't design a Toughbook-type machine with sparse Apple-like aesthetics. In fact, it almost seems like it would make it easier... fewer connectors and buttons means less points for liquid entry, eliminating extra drives means fewer moving parts, etc.

If I ditched Apple for Linux, I'd probably take a look at the Sony Vaios... they're pretty sparse and seem well made.
Great things are often created out of obsession--e.g., Google's search engine, the iPad, the light bulb.
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I've heard of that anecdote but I still am not sure why it applies to the whole of Europe, let alone England.

Is there even a standard for how much volcanic dust there can be before airports are closed? How do they know we're currently over the limit? If they answer is that they don't really know, how will they know when it's over?
Define "significant". Because in a sense I agree: these restriction have profound implications. In the other sense, however, I disagree: the restrictions you speak of don't unreasonably limit your freedom.

Remember the four freedom free software gives you: (0) running it for any purpose, (1) modifying it, (2) re-distributing it as is, and (3) re-distributing it modified.

With GPL, freedoms (2) and (3) can only be enjoyed at one condition: giving to those who receive the software the exact same freedoms you enjoyed. In other words, you shall not make your users less free than you are already. This is a long standing principle: one's freedom shall stop at others'.

I argue that the GPL merely forces you to respect that principle (it will be very hard to convince me otherwise). If you don't like that, I will be forced to question your morality.
Maybe Google did it to know who is reading their quarterly results, what portion they read exactly and what they do with the information.

They would have no way of knowing that if they just send it out as an press release.