skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first two categories require a job offer. The third is for people who are so freakin' awesome that their mere presence will make the US a better place.

"National Interest Waiver - Aliens seeking a national interest waiver are requesting that the Labor Certification be waived because it is in the interest of the United States. [...] Those seeking a national interest waiver may self-petition (they do not need an employer to sponsor them)"

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b...

So, it is employment based, but without any sponsorship required from a particular employer. You're self-certifying that you're really really really good at what you do, and what you can offer to the US will benefit the US as a whole.

They will, of course, want lots of evidence to support the above.

The upside to this route is that you're not tied to a particular employer.
The Django Advent also had a nice footnoting system, which I've stolen for a project of mine. (example: http://djangoadvent.com/1.2/everything-i-hate-about-mingus/ )
Remote Control: A Blind Man Goes Sailing With Help From Afar
Yes, so for tax purposes, in the us at least, it gets taxed as regular income. You can look into the hobby rules with the IRS if it is relatively small.
Indeed. You also keep your German or Austrian citizenship if you did not apply for the other citizenship (e.g. if someone was born from German parents in Australia).

In general different countries have (very) different sets of rules, see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_citizenship
Queue the Ninja Steve photos ...
Consider using amazon payments. They let you put in an arbitrary business name, I beleive, but verify. I think google checkout is the same way.

I wouldn't use paypal anyway with their propensity to steal money. They tried to steal from me years ago, and I haven't used them- to make even a payment- since.
Renunciation of U.S. Citizenship

http://travel.state.gov/law/citizenship/citizenship_776.html
Yeah, if you happen to live in a newly-wired building in a major city or suburb. But if you're talking about replacing TV or DVD/Blu-Ray, it's not about what the fastest guys have, it's about the slowest 5-10% have.

Even if you assume "everyone [and that's 1/3 the country] still on dial-up is such a late-adopter they're not even interested in HD yet", a lot of that broadband is less than 1 Mbps. And many broadband consumers have monthly bandwidth caps.

People with >1Mbps uncapped broadband is probably too small of a market to make purely digital distribution viable.
> I've been told that NDAs are mostly just a scare tactic and often don't have teeth in court, at least in-general, and in some U.S. states

Far from it -- NDAs can have big teeth. As just one example, consider Celeritas Technologies, Ltd. v. Rockwell Int’l Corp. [1]. The appeals court affirmed judgment on a jury verdict awarding Celeritas almost $58 million for breaching an NDA by using wireless-modem technology disclosed to it by Celeritas. (Disclosure: I was co-counsel at trial for Rockwell.)

[1] http://openjurist.org/150/f3d/1354/celeritas-technologies-lt...
A couple of thoughts...

1) I hate when websites play music when you load them, why would I want this?

2) I usually keep at least a dozen tabs open, and I have a feeling I'm on the low-end of the tabs-open curve. How would this work with multiple tabs and browsers being open?
Emacs and Vim are as good as the tools they can build upon, just like Eclipse is as good as available plugins. If you are going to develop in Erlang or Common Lisp, chances are Emacs is the best free IDE around (I don't know about Vim). It isn't so if you are going to develop in Java.

There is a lot of wheel reinventing in the Emacs and Vim's camps too, however. I just wanted to say that no matter how much code reuse is valued by developers, the tools they use the most are made with the less reusable pieces of software around.
Deeply different, it leverages on awesomenessreminders.com weakness, it becomes easily boring. Our message will be different every time, and not only in the way we present it to you, but also in its content.
The irony here is obvious, but I'm not exactly sure what to infer from it. I've always felt that this one of the big problems with irony in debates that merit serious discussion - they allow someone to mock an opposing point of view, but not really (really?). I suppose that this is part of the purpose of irony as well, to keep people on their toes, and make them think about things in new ways.

Irony can also be used to put a clearly stupid sentence into someone else's mouth, and then claim, when that other person objects, that they just don't get irony.

I'm not sure what the intent is here, but the way I read it, the post may have been intended to mock people who believe that large scale employment-based visa programs (like the H1B) have had some negative effects, displacing some US citizens in the tech job market and deterring other Americans from entering the field altogether. The post suggests that these people would oppose the presence (and naturalization, I guess) of extremely talented foreign nationals or immigrants.

All I can say is that even the most ardent opponents of the H1B visa (such as Norman Matloff) strongly support a substantial number of visas for talented people (I think his ideal figure was 15,000/yr). So aside from the true bozos on various discussion forms, there's pretty much nobody in this debate who would make a statement like this (oh, but nobody did, it's irony. Right? Or is it?)

Clearly, this was an extremely popular post (over 100 karma points), and I suspect that's because it goes to the heart of what has made a lot of people so frustrated with the current H1B/employment immigration system. And if you feel this way, you probably see the post as kind of brilliant, rather than a cheap shot.

To me, this has always been the problem with bringing irony into a debate that is actually pretty complicated and nuanced.
Oh. OK, Thanks for that. I wonder how I managed to miss that little detail! And hey, bonus point, I just discovered that when people continue to downvote you, it still hits your karma, even if the visible post count stops at -4. Two things I've learned about HN today :)
> A crude and uneven ability to think from the perspective of another is a pretty good working definition of narcissism.

Sounds like a pretty good definition. Of course, the prejudice of the article's title is a loaded question* ; and the author getting his feelings off his chest instead of trying to understand Gen Y's perspective is ironic. But the definition is good, and it's something everyone could benefit from improving at. It certainly made me think.

Maybe today's incredible fees for higher ed leads students to expect some pastoral attention?

* I thought that that was a dorothy dixer; apparently not: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Dixer
What’s New in Office 2010
It seems like just yesterday when everyone was complaining about the new ribbon interface Microsoft introduced in Office 2007. Not only has it been almost four years since it was released but we now have Office 2010 which includes a ton of new features and contextual changes.
Tron - Replacing cron with centralized scheduler
Tool of the Day: Daileez: Your Life in Pictures
This interview process sounds like searching for reasons to reject a candidate
This reminds me of the recent story about the Korean woman who passed the driver's examination on the 960th try: "Knocked down four times, rising up five."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1663474
Why do we eat chilli?
And?

Sugar is what's bad for you. The "high fructose" in HFCS is "high" relative to other corn syrup; table sugar breaks down into glucose and fructose during digestion.

"Big Corn" is probably right, here; "HFCS" is a misleading term (for one thing, it doesn't mean anything --- different HFCS blends have wildly different amounts of fructose), and more importantly, the notion that it's just "the bad kind of sugar" that's hurting people is dangerous.

What is it with health reporting on the Huffington Post, anyways?
Aren't swiss people allowed to buy fully automatic rifles?
It's pretty comical that half of the responses in this thread are trying to place the blame on either Apple or Google.
Mac Freeware All-Stars: AppStorm's 10 Best-in-Category Picks
I think asking the user for credit card details before the trial is just one more barrier preventing them from signing up.

I can fill out a basic signup form in about 30 seconds, if it requires my credit card details it will take me a few extra minutes to look around and find my wallet etc.
What the heck is with the "third world" comment on France? Have you ever been there?
This article (and the related article from Nielsen) frames the results in a very strange way, given Bing is now the search engine for Yahoo.com. Is anyone at Nielsen aware of this partnership?
The scenario you describe - where you just pick a phone like a PC - is what the carriers are trying to avoid. That turns them into a commodity, a bunch of wires.

They'll obviously fight that to the death, hence the customising of phones, the exclusive models, the provision of non-transferable services, handset subsidies and doing everything they can to prevent the average user seeing the alternatives.

The problem is that so long as they keep doing handset subsidies, they'll likely keep winning. I know someone who has just bought a Dell Streak on a two year contract. He got it free but over time he's going to pay more for it than he would for an iPad. Now he's a smart guy - if he's not thinking in those terms you can bet the average consumer isn't.

Basically the networks are providing cheap credit to tie people in to overpriced telecoms services and the consumers love it because it means that for $50 a month (which you can afford) you can have a $600 phone (which you can't, at least not easily).
Android - good deeds fell in the wrong hands, nuff said. Welcome to Corporate America
I would agree that MapReduce and NoSQL are different things, but so are NoSQL and AJAX.

I've always thought of NoSQL as a class of durable, distributed lookup tables, and the style of programming which uses such tools as a primary data store. It's basically bdb scaled up with nice libraries built on top. Document databases seem to me to be api sugar.
Tips for using Priority Inbox
I consider myself to have a hell of a lot of self control, sometimes to a fault. There have been times in my life that I feel less self control would have helped me.

For instance, ive been in a few one way fights in my life, I've never hit anyone back. I remember the adrenalin rushing through my body and the fight or flight response gearing up, but my mind overcomes that and I usually end up talking myself out of it or someone else interjects.

But because I control the fight or flight I end up getting the shakes after the incident because I didn't fight back nor run away, since shaking is the physiological response to burn off the adrenalin.

Personally, I feel I'd have done a lot better in those situations if I'd acted on impulse and actually fought back. Hell even running away could've served me better aswell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_or_Girl_paradox has interesting content in the sections Second Question and Ambiguous Problem Statements.

I'll accept that I'm wrong and that the answer is 1/3 and that I just don't understand it and that I'm supporting the point that "no one understands probability, especially me", but there has been little explanation why the birth order is even a factor. Even that Wikipedia entry labels the four possibilities with "older child" and "younger child", which seems to be extra, unneeded information when the term "at least" is used to describe the number of boys independent of order.
It is indeed difficult, I had evaluated mine based on the size of my previous postgres database and had greatly overestimated the size. Sadly I don't have my numbers from back then.

It is especially difficult to evaluate since in Smalltalk, you don't specify the type of variables and many of the basic types like numbers will change type to best fit the represented number.

For what it is worth, numbers from a mark and sweep of the repository that happened minutes ago: "<537228> possible dead objects, occupying approximately <48350520> bytes, may be reclaimed.". I mostly store Timespans, dates floats and object references. I have little number strings.
Journalism isn't dead: they can just write ad nauseum about why kids today are narcissistic, marrying later, and staying at home longer.

Someone should apply to YC with an "old grump journalism" startup that just re-publishes books, articles, and studies like this every 5-10 years.
You don't think it is easier to find code bugs to exploit if you have the source?
Ask HN: How should I start on a social campus food website?
I want to start working on an idea I've had for a while now. It's a social food website like Urbanspoon, but based around a university setting - focusing more on walking distance and specific location, and including ratings for, say, dining halls on campus.

I don't know where to begin with this. I have a list of features and ideas laid out, am working on designing the basic site layout on paper, and have no idea which programming language to start with.

Should I use PHP and MySQL since they're so prevalent? What about Ruby? Another one that strikes me is Python, but it doesn't seem to be much of a web language.
The really unfortunate thing about the Haystack debacle is that it's going to be framed as a problem with Austin Heap and his team --- as if a better team might have been able to pull something like Haystack off --- when in fact the problem is with the fundamental economics of pitting private activist groups against foreign governments on engineering problems.
‘Nokia Is Back’ And Ballsy; ‘We’re Not Sorry We’re Not Apple’
How's this for irony...My fiancee is Filipina, and she has become more tan since living in the US (we go to the Caribbean about once every two months). When we went to the Philippines this past May, she got lots of compliments on her tan from Filipinos. It turns out that her tan skin and the fact that she's with me (a light-skinned Black American) made her look more American, so being tan was more desirable in their eyes.
Ideally the EU will allow more micro-countries.

50 years ago it was difficult to be a city-state, Monaco couldn't have it's own currency, army , foreign embassies.

Now it would be much easier for eg. Scotland/ Bavaria/ Flemish-Belgium to become a country again - they would have a euroepean central bank/currency/etc but could handle everything else locally instead of in a capital city 100mi away that is only the same 'country' because of a battle 500years ago.
That wasn't irony. THIS is irony (i.e. that the person who called out the other guy for not understanding irony, happens to not actually know the difference between irony and sarcasm himself) :P
The acquirer rarely adds any features to a startup. When you're small, adding features is relatively easier. If you haven't added the feature by acquisition, it will only take longer when you have even more customers and more stakeholders and a more complicated set of relationships.

The acquirer is mainly adding the ability to scale up, either through financial stability or other resources. In the case of Flickr and Yahoo, this is a relationship with its ups and downs, but Yahoo contributed a login system, search technology, millions of customers, data centers, and so on. Except for the search stuff, none of this is really a feature.

The acquirer also extends the startup's lifetime, so they can think about taking a year or more to add a feature.

For most startups, acquisition represents getting off the treadmill of adding features they can't sustain so their customers will continue to like them. Then they spend a year or more just catching up with their own success, while also integrating with the acquirer's infrastructure.
Government should be as local as possible because it gives the most power to individuals to govern themselves. In the US, theoretically, the feds are not really supposed to be able to do much, though obviously that's not how things have worked out.
> We set impossible goals and achieve many of them.

I suppose they keep setting impossibler and impossibler goals...
This is war. And this war will go nothing like Apple v. Microsoft. This is about who controls the experience

Quite disturbing that "the user" is not one of the plausible answers.
An average salary of $633,000 turns you into a paranoid because of job security fear.
But he was arguing against countries not against cultures. Borders of countries don't always overlap with linguistic, cultural, other borders.
I was under the impression that Ireland is/was the Celtic tiger (of Europe).
> Google offers are very competitive, some might say generous, and very thorough.

Interesting, I've always heard Google doesn't pay very well. Similar to game companies, they can take advantage of the fact people really want to work there and know candidates will accept lower pay because of it. I've heard that from several Google employees past and present. Perhaps things have changed?
Quantum Catfight
Reminds me of an old Russian saying from the post-revolution Lenin days: "Two steps forward, one step backward" (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_steps_forward_one_step_back)
Yup. And I'm starting to wonder if in the end Android isn't going to reverse the trend towards carrier openness started by the iPhone.
(A quick aside, when I say carrier openness, I mean that the carrier starts acting as just a data conduit, instead of imposing their branding everywhere on the user experience. So the iPhone introduced manufacturer-initiated updates, no operator logos stuck on the phone, apps controlled by Apple, not the operator, etc. The iPhone experience is the same regardless of which operator you find yourself on, around the world).

So, with Android proving itself to be a decent competitor to the iPhone, it has reduced Apple's bargaining power with operators. That, added to the fact that the "openness" of Android ironically allows the operators to lock it down, means that we may very well be seeing the end of a very short era where handset manufacturers could dictate a decent amount of the user experience. If the difference between the iPhone and all previous phones is an indicator, this is a great shame.
Being a mile wide and an inch deep in too many functional areas.
Ah, I think I see the problem. We call that "sarcasm". Quite a lot of us get that just fine, though of course the internet can always turn up at least one person who doesn't. "Irony" is reserved for events that are only ironic in the light of other events; death by drowning isn't "ironic" until it happens to a swimming instructor, for instance. You can't really say something ironic, it has to happen. (And if you say something ironic it is a description of a thing that happened.)
Don't take that description too literally. I really doubt you get to be a trader at GS without having a good brain in your head. Sales is more about working and building relationships than sheer intelligence, but to do it well still requires a lot of work and talent in that direction.
Yes! Glad someone spotted it....
Use whatever language you are most familiar with.

If you have all the features laid out you should start building a prototype of the service. Seeing the basic features start to come together is great inspiration to keep building and improving the site.
Keep build and deployment scripts separate
This reminds me of the trouble I have with "African-American". I often have no idea where someone's cultural, racial, or national background is, and I believe it would be rude of me to presuppose a particular country. Anyway, the problem usually comes up when I'm trying to describe someone to someone else (physically, I mean). I mean, if I work with three people who are black and 50 who are not, there is an obvious way to narrow down the description. Same as of they had another distinguishing characteristic. If I (a rather white guy) were the odd skin tone out I'd fully expect to be described by it.

I understand the idea that a person is not defined by their skin color. But, really, I'm generally not talking about someone else's background as much as I'm asking a third party if they know them.

More on topic, it would seem that a good artist specifies a particular cultural background for a character if it enhances a story. Otherwise, it is often the case that any cultural baggage is brought by the viewer/reader.
Sorry, didn't mean to imply that NoSQL and AJAX had any relation. I was just using it as an example of an overly broad term that came to mean more than it possibly should have (ie, any advanced Javascript was/is called AJAX, whether it uses XHR and xml or not).

This article seems to take NoSQL down that path, by putting MapReduce under its umbrella.
Sorry - can't link to the replies.

It was 'irony' - France is notorious for obeying only those EU laws which benefit it. In particular there are lots of unofficial barriers to other EU individuals/companies working in France - even though they are legally allowed to. Is't common for various levels of government to delay required licencing for years.

It's an issue even with international collaborations - the European Space agency is in the Netherlands and CERN is officially HQed in Switzerland - there was a lot of concern over ITER before it was built in France, the French 'promised' to play nicely with people working there.
Google didn't pay well in 2007. A friend and me went very far in the recruitment process and it stopped as soon as we explained we expected more money.
The load time with my old Sony Blu-Ray player was the same -- horribly slow. Unusable, IMHO.

Then I got a PlayStation 3. It made the kids happy and is radically faster playing Blu-Ray discs. If you're not a gamer be sure to get the optional "normal" bluetooth remote and you'll be all set.
To me all those problems with carriers dictating anything looks like a US-only problem.

You can fix this! Just buy more unlocked phones. Since 1994 I never bought a net locked phone. Subsidizing does not have to be linked to a net lock. Subsidizing was never (AFAIR) linked to a net lock in Germany. The iPhone was a first for us (here in Europe). From here it looks like the iPhone brought this consumer-unfriendly practice to us. Thank goodness no Android phone is net locked here in Germany at least no net locked only.
The US has tax treaties with most developed countries, including Finland.
They are very clear that they feel it is better to have false negatives rather than false positives, I don't think this should be a surprise.
Fructose has proven to be particularly harmful - your liver shuts down while it's being processed, leading to all sorts of fun side effects.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructose#Liver_disease
While I agree with you about HFCS, it does strike me as slimy to rename a product in order to trick people specifically trying to avoid that product into continuing to consume it.
He's qualified because he has deep domain expertise in data storage. It's interesting and valuable to hear opinionated points of view from people who have clearly demonstrated skill and ability in a field, even (especially) if they disagree with the consensus view.
Location. I thought they'd be perfect for it, but I think their implementation shows that they just don't quite get it. It doesn't matter to me that someone was at Wawa 15 hours ago.
If you're paying for a data plan it shouldn't matter how you use the data. Especially if they are charging you for a set amount say 5GB, what does it matter if that data is coming from tethering or streaming Netflix on an iPhone?
Given that the final hire rate is less than one half of one percent of received resumes, they can probably afford to.
luck matters more than skill in who's successful.

penicilin, facebook, etc.