skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Transferring the H1B to a different company is straightforward. However (and this happened to me) if the original company is sponsoring your green card, you will have to restart the green card application process with your new employer (unless you are in the final stage of the process). Bear in mind that the green card process can take several years. IMO this is an unacceptably high risk.
This was originally posted to the jQuery forum:
http://forum.jquery.com/topic/jquery-regular-expression-revi...

The changes have already been made:
http://github.com/jquery/jquery/commit/9dc6e0c572b9c809a3a4c...
They have much more interesting videos on the homepage of stringbike itself: http://stringbike.com/

The lowermost video on this page shows the real bike from an angle where you can see what happens to the wires:

http://www.stringbike.com/Internal%20symmetry%20of%20both%20...
Agilholics Anonymous
To be fair I did this in middle school even though I was not a girl.

-- OxSpaZxO
Physical exertion equals power. You can't have the same power with less physical exertion. It's a trade-off between aerobic capacity and anaerobic capacity. You can pedal in a high gear, using more strength, or you can pedal faster in a lower gear, maintaining the same speed, but using more cardiovascular capacity. In both situations, if you are going the same speed, you are putting out the same amount of power.

Non-circular gears change the gear ratio as you pedal. It effectively shifts down in that part of the pedal stroke where you have the least strength. Since the bike doesn't slow down, your feet must speed up. Then, when your feet swing around to where you have more strength, it effectively shifts up.

My argument is, if you are pedaling at the limit of your strength, you are in too high a gear. Shift down and spin your feet faster. You'll use less strength, and more aerobic capacity, enabling you to maintain an equivalently high power output, but for longer. It's easier to run a marathon at a constant speed than to sprint 100 m at a time, taking walking breaks to maintain the same average speed.
As a designer I'm tired of seeing this post(10th time now?) Which is always directly "borrowed" from this book...
http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Typefaces-Lifetime-Joshua-Be...

Which I have owned for, god I dont even remember how long. Dont defend these typefaces to deeply. They come with almost every computer today, so they are accessible to almost everyone (maybe mircosoft decided to catch up?). Which is why they are good for a lifetime.

Right now there are many contemporary type foundries putting out some really beautiful typefaces. Like these guys. http://processtypefoundry.com/

Thats all. peace.
Why WordPress theming sucks
Thanks for the link...

I like walking around the mall after a day of work and examining the typefaces used in all the store windows. I am a programmer first, so its probably pretty boring to the average designer. For me, its like there is this whole new world [typography] that I didn't know existed. I always thought it was "just words", much like how I thought cooking was "just following a recipe" (Cooking is my other personal interest outside of coding).
Some more videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/stringbike
fookyong, you're a genius! My only question, how do you transition? I feel like I have a process before I can write a line of code. I tend to think of it as loading the program into my mental RAM. However "unloading" it, and "loading" my work project is really exhausting for me. Any Tips on forgetting it all when I leave to go to work?
It wasn't clear, but I believe that shifting gears would be accomplished by moving the pulley that's attached to the triangular frame on the pedals along the axis of pedal rotation. Move it closer to the pedals, and you downshift.

This could be done continuously, rather than having discrete gears.
Promoted for putting the lisp back in Lisp. =D
Obviously looking at top landing pages and keywords is a big part of it, but the Analytics data is really the most useful when you have have another set of data to cross reference it with, e.g. if you know that you're ranking at number 11 for a keyword that gets 1,000,000 searches a month then that keyword is probably worth targeting. But you'd only get one of those 3 bits of information from GA, the rest you'd have to get elsewhere
37signals, Marvin Gaye, & Dos Equis
ask here. he'll probably respond.
Which part isn't true?

Also chip or no chip doesn't matter for online/telephone/mail order purchases which I would guess would be the only place you can use this stolen credit card info.
Rather, I want to highlight existing Minimal sub-Web through introducing the special niche Search Engine http://Mini-WWW.com! Hopefully, it can encourage webmasters to create more USABLE pages, like mobile or RSS movement. But to get to that point the project must become a really popular service!
Lucene wins
Cloud Management Platform RightScale Raises $25 Million
AT&T Not Concerned About iPhone Defections
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The added weight from a second complete drivetrains (chains, gears, derailleur) and/or extra mechanical complexity would probably negate the efficiency gained by better transmission of force.
I've been doing this for a couple of weeks now with someone in the UK and it's worked quite well for us. We're only one timezone apart which really helps.

I'd like to add using IRC next to the screen for 'talk'.

And 'screen' works as well as 'TMux' and usually comes pre-installed.
Google would (probably) never have become so successful if it wasn't for SEOs and spammers
The Concert Speakers Are A Lie
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> quickly get your green card

This is easier said than done since Google first has to sponsor your green card application (it's not automatic with an H1B visa) and in my experience the government bureaucracy that handles green cards doesn't know the meaning of the word "quick".
Yep. Damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Right, last I heard it was $5k for an H1B, around $10k for a Green Card.
Adobe Earnings: Market Not Pleased with Guidance
I suppose I was thinking of selling the one physical device you own vs. manufacturing and distributing them en masse.

If you're still purchasing things from the original creator you should be able to distribute them all you want. Granted, at scale, commercial agreements and contracts would likely come into play.
Anthony Bourdain On Culinary School
Look at the number of companies the investor has made successful.

How is this relevant to whether the investor was colluding?
A possible explanation could be that the technology has gotten so much better they don't need as many stacks to create loud sound. Maybe they feel like they needs all these fake stacks to make people think a concert is loud.
The Social Network (2010)
Here's how the next Arrington/McClure interview will pan out:

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Arrington: Did you order the (code red) meeting?

McClure: I did the job I ...

Arrington: Did you order the (code red) meeting ? [shouting]

McClure: You're God damn right I did. [shouting]

-

A Few Good Men.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104257/quotes?qt0470412

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOYGbM3nK9k#t=3m59s
They always had Arial. But that is even more formal, as we're used to sans-serif fonts in signage. If you want to inform someone of the fact that there are cookies in the kitchen, you don't want to present it in the visual equivalent of a German border guard.

But never mind what's the original reason, now people are used to these bad fonts. A corner cafe using Papyrus, birthday invitations using Comic Sans… My point is that you could harness that history if you want to advertise your business on the web. Will it be good typography? Nope. Will it sell more than a golden ratio Bodoni layout? Possibly.
It will be interesting to see if this film translates to mainstream audiences. Even though there are half a billion users on Facebook, I'm not sure all of them are interested in a story about the company's history, no matter how good it might be.
I'm not the author, but it could be. As an 11 year PHP programmer, why not? Ruby certainly has some nice language features, is well respected, and has gained a lot of ground recently. Why not borrow some ideas?
A problem which will hardly exist with a readily available guard and an internal hub shifter.
Unfortunate? Keep working on it, man. I want to say "PHPooper" during an interview some day.
Diaspora Contributor Agreement Raises Questions
I like what Tom Wolfe called it, the "fuck patois." Though he was at the time parodying lax boys, etc., at elite institutions.
New Hands-on Hacking Class Launched
Watch the movie. It's a compound pulley. The string is actually a cable and it is not at all elastic.
> all the while wishing I'd gotten a CS degree rather than finance

That's interesting, the prevailing opinion here on HN seems to be that being in 'finance' is better then in CS.

Why is that different in your case?
A contrarian view on the Google/Verizon framework
Upmodded for asking an interesting question, namely "why?"

Perhaps there is some sort of ideal that Ruby's author Matz and the author are both striving for. If Ruby is closer to the ideal than PHP, an observer who examines the two languages and this work may wonder if the intention is to make PHP programming more like Ruby programming, where is actuality the author is seeking the ideal.

This trick of perspective probably explains why so many people seem to reinvent Lisp over the years. They aren't trying to turn their languages into Lisp, they're seeking what Lisp's authors have sought over the years but haven't found another path towards the ideal.

As to why... PHP and Javascript are both very interesting because they are so widely deployed by default and have a very large "market penetration" amongst programmers.

Once you get past the "uncool factor," reaching PHP programmers is probably one of the highest value activities a toolsmith can pursue.

JM2C.
Then you obviously haven't heard of Dave before this and are judging his business acumen by his writing style. Dave is an extremely smart (enough for inDinero, Twilio, and KISSmetrics to have him as an angel investor) and well-connected guy with an eccentric writing style.
Ask HN: How do I find a mentor?
Greetings-

I was a professional pilot for fifteen years then lost my job 18 months ago. The market is horrible and I decided to pursue a career in programming.

I was accepted to the IIT master's program but I can't afford it and don't know if taking four years to do it part time will help me with my current predicament.

I have completed training in C++ and Java at a community college but that doesn't say much. I don't know what I don't know and want to learn.

I am not a wizard, ninja or a gnome. I am a fairly bright guy trying to figure this out but I need help in learning best practices and how this world I have chosen to enter, operates. How do I gain practical experience? The age old question...

I have joined two user groups but to date they have proved lacking for myriad reasons.

Craigslist didn't seem like the best place to look for a mentor so if anyone has any suggestions I will be in your debt.

Kind regards.
Not all money is created equal
I like it. I wasn't aware you could have function names with the same name as a keyword.

Ninja edit: appears you can't, it has to be an undefined method caught with __call(). Neat.
Component based object oriented-ish ala Ruby?
Anyone else notice the lack of denial of the wiki that Arrington spoke of?

Don't you think you'd mention there was no wiki if there was no wiki? There must be a wiki with something on it.
As a hiring manager, most of the time my mind is made up 30 minutes into the interview (though it's not considered polite to cut it short or notify them at that time). However, in the very rare case of a tie, a follow up email (or handwritten letter) will definitely swing it in your favor.

Actually, despite it being the common advice, they are quite rare to receive. So I tend to take notice and remember that person much later even if they are not selected. I would be likely to give the person another shot if they re-applied for another position, or pass their resume along to another position where I think they'd fit better. I'd never do that for someone who didn't follow up.
Stephen Colbert's Awkward Interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt
This article is really similar to the one in Business Insider, it almost uses some of the same phrasing.
This is just his writing style. He is actually quite normal and super-knowledgeable (especially about lean startup principles) when he presents in person though peppered with the occasional explicits and blunt talk.
Not at all. Thanks for taking a look. :-)

Yep, the intention was to implement classes in a more dynamic and hackable way. Ruby was certainly an inspiration, but I'm not really trying to copy it if that's what you mean.

Ruby is pretty good in this regard, except that classes are global. This means that any change you make to a class is permanent (it's not scoped).
Screen was mentioned as a viable alternative in the blog post :).

Also IRC would work, but if you're already using skype it also has a textual chat interface...
Statistics Editor of FT joins London startup
This is just me, but I find this response entirely unnecessary.

I think everyone in that meeting should have just kept their mouths shut. Admittedly, there are a bunch of reasons not to. A brief, to the point statement would have sufficed (Like, say a Tweet, or 2). Regardless of personality or writing style, the post seems a bit over the top.

But then again, I don't know/follow the guy, so it's probably standard fare.

Regardless, his excessive, contrived hip hop/"ghetto" attitude is quite annoying and setting your Twitter display to a bin38 logo says enough to me.

Edited cause I missed a word.
So far, it has been going the part-time, bootstrapping route versus actively trying to raise funding and go full time.
This dovetails nicely with Atul Gawande's book "The Checklist Manifesto". Certainly we can't completely automate medical diagnosis and treatment, but we could go a lot further than we have thus far.
Or you can just roll up your pant leg, wear shorts, or use a velcro strap (depending on the season). It's really not a serious problem, either way.

I usually ride singlespeed or fixed (much better on snow!). I've read about modding 3-speed internal hubs into 2-speed fixed internal hubs, but haven't tried.
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As far as I remember, the Instapaper simply saves web pages for reading later. Although it may somehow facilitate easy reading of long text content (e.g., by moving it into another reading platform like Kindle), but not too much.
Watch The Northern Lights Live
The Canadian Space Agency has launched a service to let anybody in the world watch the northern lights live online.
Assuming she is thy smart, I do wonder why she won't let go of the 1997 version of herself and evolve, at least artistically.
thats great! Hope he finds help for his patents before someone else takes advantage.. And i dont like the word poor here, what does it signify?
Innovators Target Urban Farming
But you type in all lowercase (correct?), so typing:

the quick brown fox...

would turn into

The quick brown fox...

which would not translate to the PC. It would just stay lowercase.
Incorrect ... you just have to do a H1B transfer which costs about $1500 in fees, and is very straight forward.
Yes, it was. As for skype, I find IRC to be a bit more friendly than skype, especially with people joining/leaving the conversation, reconnecting etc. Obviously we don't use voice/video and I'm fine with that, it would probably get in the way of work being done. IRC is a nice and simple way to get textual information across (links and so on) and it's nicely asynchronous.

Our 'virtual office' has between two and five people in at at any time of the day and it really does feel quite immersive.
Well, it seems	Arrington was right...
Which was inspired by the Readability experiment[1]. Not to mention that Safari has a similar feature now. Overall I like this approach better because I don't want to limit myself to a tiny subset of the web.

[1] http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
I'd guess that there are strongly diminishing returns on putting out albums frequently. And who said anything about good?

By Borges' logic, the hibernate mapping file I just wrote took me "my whole career" to write.
There are many different and more automated ways of hiding ads. I think Google was more interested in the accessibility part of the project.
Oval chainrings (like Biopace, Rotor Q-Rings, etc.) are used by some pro cyclists. The oft-touted advantage for the system is the elimination of the "dead spot" at the top of the pedal stroke, but it still seems to very much be a case of personal preference. Just like there are some pros that prefer to spin an easier gear up a climb, while some would rather mash it out in the big ring.

It all comes down to how good the motor (legs+lungs) is.
That's exactly what I was thinking. The iPad is about as powerful as the desktops of the day were when NKS was written. It wouldn't take a whole heck of a lot to have interactive simulations embedded in the pages instead of diagrams.
Then I'm sure founders wouldn't have a problem taking the next guys money instead.
Am I the only one who finds it shocking that it's apparently so cheap and easy to buy stolen credit cards?
Why are the law enforcers (or the banks, or other appropriate organizations) not going after these "re-sellers", atleast to find/track the original thieves?

Or am I missing something? Are these cards all (or mostly) deactivated? And so the buyers are not using them directly, and rather using them as leads/information to do some other nefarious activity?
I strongly agree. There's a real opportunity here to create a truly open VM, one that is designed from the beginning to support functional languages. It would need a major corporate sponsor though, because building a new platform requires a very substantial investment. Microsoft... you listening?
1) I can actually get a lot more done in a 1 hour lunch break at work than a 2 hour session at night. Other people prefer to work in the mornings before work or even work a full weekend day. There's no reason why it has to be in the evening.

2) I'm lucky enough to have a high paying job, enough so that I can afford to have house cleaners, and I also pay my brother to do our laundry every few weeks (this is a win-win, since he gets spending money). Sometimes I feel bad for not doing these things myself, BUT in reality it's working and that's what counts. To be honest, if I made less, I might consider going for funding instead of working, but since I make good money, I consider that to be my investment in my business. That being said, I still have household chores to do, but you just have to get realistic about how much you can really do, whether that means getting help, or just NOT doing chores (sad, but true)

3) Since I know have much more limited time than other people, I really really REALLY need to find ways to keep the product lean and focused. Everyone says they try to do this, but you know, necessity is the mother of invention.

4) Finally, sometimes I'll be in bed, it's midnight and I need to wake up early for work. I'll start thinking about the product and get so excited I have to get up and work on it for an hour or so. And of course, since I'm pumped, I'm much more productive. This is horrible for my sleep, but I think it's a fair trade for starting a startup, in addition to living a full life with family and work.

5) Assuming you have a supportive spouse, he can take the kids for an outing to the zoo, or whatever, on Saturday mornings and you can get a good 6 hours in. We find it to be a win-win, since they get to spend quality time then.
I think you are taking this too seriously, the post looks like a good irony which has been down-voted because most people just didn't get it.
Yeah i agree, which was one of the reasons for asking. I'm a PHP guy myself, i've not taken the time to properly learn Ruby but i am aware of some of its features and i remember thinking at the time "thats very cool, i wish PHP did that", so yeah, totally with you.
I've always been interested in the thought of a Kickstarter, but for commercial projects. In exchange for $, you get back %. Always thought the legals would be much too difficult though, as it's basically a stock market.
It's an interesting idea but it adds a lot of indirection and extra code for every method call. I'd like to see some benchmarks, but my guess is that this technique slows things down a lot.
> Also just to add to this, with your experience you'd be able to apply in the EB2 category for a Green Card and since your British, you should be able to get it in 2 years or less.

I can't second this enough, be sure to stay on top of this and nudge them to file for the Green card at the same time they file for the h1-b or very soon after. Then you can have a green card in no time at all.
Two things come to mind for me.

Flash 6 was how I learned programming. I realized I could create visual patterns and animations through code that I could never do by hand. The visuals were my goal, coding was what I had to learn on the way.

Copying and stealing is the best way to learn for me. Whatever I need to do, somebody has done something similar. So before I start, I find a code example or tutorial. First thing is to get it to run, then I make small changes until it does what I need it to.

This second approach works great for other things than coding, too. Taking apart and imitating successful designs, for example, is a great learning experience.
"People are so resistant to innovation" is one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is that sometimes innovation gets far enough ahead of expectations that it can't overcome challenges with user education and linkages to present technology.

I remember using Biopace and the part I remember the most was going up a steep hill and losing traction because of the change in torque. I was riding a bike the way I was accustomed to pedaling but the power output would surge because of the change in mechanical advantage. Maybe I could relearn how to pedal so I could take advantage of Biopace but I really just wanted to ride, not maximize every degree of the pedal arc.
This doesn't just apply to programming. You need to have a concrete goal when learning anything. That's what'll motivate you to actually spend the time learning.

That's how I learnt to speak French. It wasn't because I wanted to speak French, it was because I needed to. And you can only learn something by doing it. That applies to coding and speaking a foreign language.
The title must be an acknowledgement of the oft-mentioned "They Write the Right Stuff": http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/06/writestuff.html
When you click on a "Text" button in Instapaper you get a simple uncluttered textual representation of the page.
I guess I took that for granted. I never read things expecting it to teach me to program. I read things to figure out how to do what I currently wanted to do.

Now, I read things to see what new ideas and libraries are out there... But it when it comes time to learn them, I use them.