skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is only true if your correspondents are all using the same service. If you use gmail then google knows the entirety of your email network. If you host your own mail then google only knows your links to your correspondents who use gmail, but not your links to those using hotmail, facebook, etc. (unless that info is revealed to google by putting multiple recipients in the to or cc entries in the message.)
nice one! now upvote the submission of the news article on HN :)
Lawyers are handy - just don't get scammed by one of the shops that specialize in this if you go that route. I'd get a referral from a good accountant to see a good immigration lawyer - those folks all play golf together.

As for the "do not enter USA ever again" stamp... they don't use that as often as we fear they do. You could very easily be questioned more frequently when you cross the boarder, but as long as customs / homeland security is sure that you're not going to be taking a penny out of their economy, they'll just use the "application denied" stamp rather then "do not import" stamp.
You should work out whether you are a better engineer or business person and search based on what's not covered.

EG: It would suck if you are a great engineer, and ended up with an ok engineer co-founder doing the engineering whilst leaving you with the business stuff (which might not be your forte). You could have had a better engineer (you) and a better business person (someone who is just business).

At a higher level, I wouldn't even look for a business orientated co-founder. Just get another developer, or if it's appropriate, someone who is more design and product focused. The business can take care of itself through advisors and just picking stuff up yourself.

Good luck!
That's probably a "Utilikilt": http://www.utilikilts.com/

They're not that unusual--I've met at least two people who have one.
> 'If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.'

That was taken out of context. What he said was that if you don't want the government to know about your google search you should not be doing them because google would be forced by law to give the government your google search if they ask for them, there is nothing google can do about this as google is not above the law. Also, Gruber is a famous anti-google pro-apple guy so it's not surprising to see him quoting schmidt out of context to make a point against google.
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Treat it as advertising income like any income.

Do you currently share advertising income with writers above their salary?
Andrew, the difference with buying normal ads (as opposed to links) is that ads don't affect search engines, while buying links that pass PageRank does affect search engines--and all search engines, for that matter. Imagine if you bought an ad in a magazine and you started to get better "rankings" from the magazine in terms of more positive coverage. Most people wouldn't want that.

To your last question, Google absolutely does have hundreds of signals that we use in our ranking; we don't rely only on links. It's a hard problem to assess quality accurately, but we try to find different ways to do it.
Thanks Peter!

And also I'm looking for help: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1662965.
Is really any USA company sponsoring H1B?
I see the percentage of companies doing it, is extremely low. And most of the H1B goes to indian community.
When people use the word "god" it's meaning is often implicitly assumed, rarely identified, almost never defined in a testable way.

How do you recognize a deity? Which observable, ideally measurable, features should one be looking for?

The concept of god used to be simple: Anything more powerful then me is a god. A very simple test and the existence of gods is obvious.

Then we started to add more and more and also expect more and more from our gods. Currently we seem to expect them to be omnipotent, omnipresent, omni-whatever… which is really pushing it beyond even internal consistency, let alone observable reality.

I wonder what would (in the 21ste century) be considered evidence of a "god"?

Would we classify an actual existing Zeus as "god" or just as a member of a more powerful intelligent species? Would we apply the term "god" to the god of the Hebrews? Or would we rather consider it to be a very advanced alien?

Imagine this speculative scenario: Next week a very powerful non-human entity will manifest itself on earth. It will claim that it is the representative of the creator of the universe and that has seen how the creator made life on earth.

What could it present as evidence which would convince you that what it was saying is actually true? What evidence would convince you that it's not just a delusional alien with more scientific and technological knowledge and very advanced technology?
I just bought one and am appalled by how bad it truly is. Connections are obscenely slow, and that's when you can actually get them. Skype is useless, maps are impossible, and it runs very hot. The only thing truly unlimited here is the disappointment.
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Full link to the passage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolph_Lundgren#Personal_life
Attorney general of Texas probing Google over search results
Use a centralized id solution, such as ldap or kerberos, or a combination of the two. Both MIT and Heimdal kerberos implementations play nicely with OpenSSH. There is also a patch available (somewhere) for OpenSSH to allow one to put their SSH public keys into an LDAP directory.
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export image, right-click, save as, send to your gmail?
Paying an extra $4 to see it at the theater in 3D with glasses seems quite different than shopping for a TV that costs hundreds to possibly thousands of dollars and adding in some $100+ glasses on top of that.
How so? I haven't used them and I wouldn't mind reading a comparison.
Very interesting points, thank you for the references. Maybe I'm not so much convinced by Wallerstein as appreciative of the expanded perspective (and willingness to question) he provides. In taking a longer view (centuries), he's at least more interesting to me than the weak attempts at forecasting that are all too common, that try to paint an inevitable future based on one narrow domain, whether economics (e.g. The World is Flat) or technology (singularity worship).

I liked the World-Systems Analysis book - compared to most social science, it was at least readable and truly interesting in many parts. He's not so cagey, hedged, and recalcitrant a writer that one can't filter out his opinions, like the "burnt-out-hippie wishful thinking" parts. :)

Thanks again for the references. The future will be interesting.
what about a simple standard navigator control emitting headers or maybe a kind of cookies stating that you don't want to be tracked ? i don't see the need for any ID
Kanye West to Taylor Swift...
> the US is a good example of ... a government and country better than the rest

> Instead of being an anomaly, we are the goal.

:-D

As a non-American I think this is just hilarious. But as an American you probably think that all non-Americans are anti-Americans and, therefore, you don't give a shit.
Just using the date alone (along with page views or traffic) would be a pretty good start.
Completely agreed. Why would there be either an elimination or explosion of either sex-trafficing or child sex exploitation if prostitution is brought into the fold of legitimate commerce? Sewing shirts is legal, yet we still have sweatshops in America full of immigrants with limited communication skills and limited options forced into labor with illegally low compensation and dangerous working conditions. The more secure and more knowledgeable will always be in a position to exploit the less secure and the less knowledgeable. This is the basic operation of capitalism.

I think the question is do we ban manufacturing or agriculture because of the exploitation rife in both industries? Or do we set minimum standards as a society for the treatment and compensation of labor and the ability of minors to consent to labor, and treat violations of those standards as criminal behavior to be punished? Why is sex so special that we can't find a standard to apply?
I love the fact the unstable branch is called Sid :)
So, did you get published?
Look up NHaml.
It probably does hurt your eyes. You're perceiving an object at a certain distance away, but your eyes have to focus on a fixed plane against all their training,
I can't speak for Japan, a total lack of experience in that department, but Germany is still licking some of its wounds 55 years later.

Don't forget that East and West Germany got reunited in fairly recent times and the shockwaves of the reunion have not yet subsided.
Contrast this with http://freestylemind.com/how-much-do-you-value-your-time , where Oscar contends that the internet is filled with mediocre content already, so traffic-wise you are better off to write less often but spend more time on each post than attempt to be prolific.
Thanks for the heads up. I've never heard of Foxytunes. Looks like an interesting concept to incorporate into Like.fm's browser extensions.
This is a false dichotomy. There are many people you could love.
>economics (e.g. The World is Flat)

Don't get me started on Thomas Friedman. As a TA, when I have to teach Friedman, I usually just instruct my students to go into it realizing that everything he says will be so wildly overstated, baselessly enthusiastic, or anecdotal that it will invariably be wrong. I really hate that people feel smarter when they read him.
Do you friends actually make more, or do you just think they do based on an opulent lifestyle? People see the trappings of wealth, but not the debt. They assume everyone else is at least as responsible with money, because no one ever mentions the crippling credit card debt, student loans, and mortgage that are eating their friends alive.
Keep in mind that a lot of people came to America fleeing religious persecution [0]. Many of our ancestors chose to cross the globe and start brand new lives rather than give up their religious beliefs.

Take a nation made up of very religious people with a constitutional guarantee of religious freedom, add in huge supplies of natural resources and a legal/property system designed to encourage development and investment, and after a few centuries you get a prosperous and religious nation. In light of history, it's not that surprising that the US would be an outlier.

[0] A few select groups: Puritans from England (1630), Quakers (1680), Anabaptists from Europe (late 1600s-1700s), Catholics from Ireland (late 1800s), Christians from Russia (1917), Jews from Germany (1939).
Hmm - strange, this was submitted a while ago with an identical (minus the ending #) URL: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1595614
The problem is that one has to be convinced that multiple universes (which by definition can't be observed) exist. Which means rejecting the idea of one (potentially empirically observable) unknown entity [a creator or "god"] only to replace it with the idea of an infinite number of universes which however can never be observed…

So I think that this has nothing to do with empirical science?
Yes, but do they _work_? That's why I became disillusioned with Perl, even though it was heavily used at my last company. I got the "oh, yeah, just go to CPAN and grab the module." I usually ended up using Java (how perverse is that?). I now prefer Python and C# because I find more stuff that works (but still plenty of broken old stuff).
Regarding the consolidation of universities, I wouldn't take Zuma too seriously (I have to wonder he was motivated to say that by individuals who lost power through the consolidations, and in any case Zuma was in Cabinet and didn't voice any objections at the time). There was a lot amount of duplication between racially segregated institutions, and cutting administration costs is a good idea. The merging of teacher training colleges into universities may be more problematic, but overall, in South Africa, the less institutions, the less chance for waste and looting. I also have to wonder how good the teachers produced by those colleges really were.

>Bantu education was inferior, that is a fact. But it is a >question of resources. ...
>White people almost exclusively pay taxation (as is still >more or less true today).

Hendrik Verwoerd's comments about Bantu education clearly indicate, that it was about more than resource constraints http://africanhistory.about.com/od/apartheid/qt/ApartheidQts... Per capita spending on education for black children was 10% of that on white children. I do agree the Outcomes Based Education (introduced by Asmal's predecessor, if I recall correctly), has been a tragic waste.

The idea that blacks didn't contribute to the tax base, and were not therefore entitled to its benefits is absurd. They were systematically excluded from economic opportunity, so they couldn't contribute, even if they wanted to (and they have always payed sales taxes).

>Migration is a natural cause of South Africa’s >industrialization. The population is still rural and >development is in the cities.

Migration and the migrant labour system are two very different things. The Apartheid ideal was black men in hostels, black women and children in Bantustans.

The rural industrial development was worthy, and it is regrettable that it has been abandoned, but one has to question the sustainability of those developments. Their motive, like much development in apartheid South Africa, was to further racial segregation by keeping the races apart. If they had provided job opportunities close to major economic centres, those jobs might have proved to be sustainable.
If you're starting with complex axioms like

> "sex should only be allowed between partners in long term monandrous relationships"

then what you've got is a moral justification, not an ethical one.
You could very easily be questioned more frequently when you cross the boarder, but as long as customs / homeland security is sure that you're not going to be taking a penny out of their economy, they'll just use the "application denied" stamp rather then "do not import" stamp.

When you apply for a TN you do so in secondary checking (ie the interrogation room out the back), where the questions are more firmer and saying something like "I'm looking to move to the US" (a no-no on a non-immigrant visa like TN) may get you that do not import stamp. It's worth being briefed on what to say and what not to say, esp as they will try to trip you up (they do when I go, I've renewed my TN many times).

You could get questioned very frequently every time you cross the border but it's done so at the regular check point (they don't issue "do not import" stamps on the spot at the regular check point/CBP desks). Secondary checking is very different experience.

I agree with your point on getting a good lawyer - there are many lawyers that will take your case on even if they know you have no chance of getting a visa - especially as so few foreign employees are being employed now.

I can recommend mine to the OP/anyone else... he is based in SF and medium-tiered price. My email is in my profile.
any similar tool but free?
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As an attorney, I’m always concerned that my writing will not be my best work and people will think that I suck. Or that something I write will come back and bite me in the ass when I run for office or get vetted for some high powered job.
However, fear or perfectionism can be paralyzing. Even as an attorney, you have to produce a lot of crap to produce good stuff.
Judge Posner comes to mind. He blogs, writes about everything under the sun, and is brutally honest about his opinions regardless of the cost. Some of it is probably not the best and some of his opinions are off the wall. He also happens to be the most cited American appellate judge.
Ben Casnocha touched on this here: http://ben.casnocha.com/2010/05/career-lessons-from-elena-ka...
Why I don’t use TDD or BDD
we have systems running k3 in maintenance mode and all new development is in kdb+/q
"Was this ever a problem, or was it overcome?"

The problems Schneier is talking about have very different characteristics than the ones in this article. So the problems Schneier is talking about are still very real. But solving little pieces of the problem is definitely possible, especially with a good amount of human mediation.
Can also use delicious for further info: http://www.delicious.com/help/api#posts_get
-- could also use it to get hashtags for placement into the share snippet

edit: also has an others element, eg: others="55" to obtain number of bookmarks for a given url
You get something similar to this with the bit.ly sidebar bookmarklet. When you shorten a URL, it tells you how many clicks there have been on all bit.ly-shortened links for that URL. I always check out this number, and if a link has over a certain amount of clicks, I usually won't tweet.
Finally. Can't tell you how long I've been waiting for the Wheezy release.
What are "divine powers"?

Imagine someone was able to calculate where the ball will fall with only a glance of the roulette wheel…

Or someone who is able to go from casino to casino every hour of his life? Without requiring a full night of sleep and somehow always have enough cash with him to travel from casino to casino and always play 3 times at roulette?
I'm blind in one eye, so I agree. There is no way I'd pay extra for a 3D TV when I can't make use of the functionality.
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Ah thanks for linking it, that is what I meant. :)

Btw., your link was broken. Here is the correct one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_Elses_Problem
Hardware support on Linux is a red herring. There are some few devices that don't work all that great, like some horrible sound chipsets and softmodems, plus the very latest in WiFi used to have problems (I think that's less of an issue nowadays).

Some years ago there was a project set up to fix those Linux hardware issues, and they effectively didn't do any work, because they couldn't find reasonable hardware that wasn't supported by Linux.

I have a (crappy) scanner that has no working drivers for any Windows beyond 98 and Mac OS beyond version 9, but it works just fine under Ubuntu/Linux. I haven't seen any mainstream, reasonable hardware that doesn't work under Linux for a long time. Really, from my perspective, hardware support under Linux is significantly better than under any other operating system.

Where it indeed gets spotty is the software to use the features of the hardware. E.g. Xsane rhymes a lot with insane, the various photo organiser tools are of varying quality, to say the least, and so on. Ubuntu is making progress, but there still are a lot of use cases where the GNU/Linux/Ubuntu desktop doesn't provide good alternatives.
Twitter's founding story - The not so famous version.
This is fantastic. Thanks for the link.
US medical schools are now going around $70k/year including the costs of living. sigh/lol.
Re: Shutting down Windows 7, the process is now: mouse to the bottom left hand corner of the screen; mouse down; move mouse over shut down button; mouse up. About as few clicks as possible (including a Fitzz corner!), bested only by pressing the power button on the front of your PC - which I have mine set up to initiate shutdown directly.
Human mediatiation is key. Skilled intelligence analysis made by well versed operators. even then it is very hard.

As one intelligence analyst once told me " it is looking for a needle in stack of needles"
That looks interesting; how are you going to beat Mint?
Ask PG: can you invite Alexis Ohanian to speak at Startup School?
I don't think I need to provide objective reasons for why it would be awesome to have him, those are obvious enough -- so I'll just stick to my personal reasons: I think he can deliver a witty inspiring talk, like what DHH did 2 years ago. The kind of speech that can literally push you and "force" you to do stuff.
I should also mention, if your specialty is machine learning, that's a super bonus.
Instead of rate-limiting, there are two other options that solve the GP's concerns:
the high water mark which controls the maximum queue length and the swap size,
which saves messages to disk when the queue is full.

http://api.zeromq.org/zmq_setsockopt.html
Check out the old Fairtunes plugin: http://www.oddsock.org/tools/gen_fairtunes
http://www.mockflow.com and http://gomockingbird.com

http://www.fluidia.org is a fantastic open-source project
Datasphere - Drupal UI Developer:
http://datasphere.com/content/drupal-ui-developer

Must be located in the Seattle area, or willing to move.

We are looking for people who know Drupal. The dev team is a small and passionate group. Drupal is only part of what we do; we have a lot of talent. Scrum based development. We are backed by Ignition Partners and rapidly expanding. http://www.ignitionpartners.com/portfolio/business_it/?#entr...
Sure, but the company behind this (Microsoft, surprise!) isn't exactly smelling of roses either.

The pot is calling the kettle black here.
Similar, maybe - but spending evenings on couch with polarization glasses on my nose, enduring headaches really seems way more unpleasant to me :)

If you're after an analogy - people have been trying to build various 3D mouses for quite some time now and this one (http://www.ecal.ch/ra&d_mandats.php?id=521&lang=en) seems in the same league as 3D TV - regarding inconvenience to the user.

I have a similar opinion about speech recognition as interface. Why would I want to talk to a computer ("Turn on the Lights!") - when it ought to just "recognize" that I'd like more lighting - so I'm just gonna wait for Brain-Computer Interfaces and Holo-TV :)
Ahh, so difference in data mining is that it implies there's no human in the loop.

Whereas palantir situates itself as a tool for intelligence, rather than as an oracle.
Thanks. I'll get on that.
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You can say that the Puritans fled religious tolerance in England. But the first groups went to the Netherlands. There, they eventually couldn't stand how their neighbors were socially influencing their kids to be more tolerant. They felt they were blending in and losing their identity. When they then went to America, in a sense what they were fleeing was religious _tolerance_. (There were other groups that went directly to America, of course).
I think spotify is also pretty close to Ping.
ASP.NET is finally getting the idea of alternative template engines. That is one great point about Python, Ruby, PHP etc is there are many template alternatives for all levels of simplifying templates so that they aren't so glued to the controller or renderer.

This makes it easy to swap out basic html/javascript templates and use them in complex systems without mounds of work.
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There's Lavabit.com -- a nice little place with a strong stance supporting end user privacy. Not the most full-featured web interface, but it's a nice service if you like to access with IMAP or POP.
Why does the government care about defending "the family unit?" That's not its job.
Ok, I didn't realize they make that much money, but looking into it they still seem to make $0 from personals, so why would they hire a hundred lobbyists to protect their $0 source of income?
Trolling does not entitle you to intelligent responses.

"The future of Lisp, if it has one, is Clojure."

It's not the Clojure part that got you downvoted, as that would have been a valid argument, seeing how sweet clojure is. I think it's the "if it has a future" part. Anyone even remotely aware of programming languages will tell you Lisp has a future, in the same way Algebra does. It's the simplest representation of computable functions, and it has existed, on paper, at least since 1930, and as an implementation since 1958. It's a gateway drug to lambda calculus ,combinatory logic, complexity theory, computable functions and CT, the entire FP field, symbolic logic, formal semantics, compiler construction, and a host of other non-sexy, but essential fields of study.