skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Singapore is an expensive place to live, housing wise (though I hear food is super cheap and super plentiful with a massive "Street food"/mall-food-court culture).... though I imagine HK real estate isn't cheap either.

Housing is expensive, yes, but you can live cheaply in HK if you're willing to adjust your standards downwards: you can get a tiny flat in a low-rent area without worrying about violent crime, you can eat at cheap diners or buy groceries at cheap wet markets without worrying about food-borne diseases, etc, owning a car is logistically & socially unnecessary, etc. Not everyone needs these guarantees but it helps if you're the kind of person who worries a lot =)

What is the visa situation like in Hong Kong? I've read elsewhere that getting a visa for China is very difficult (this might be an area where HH is different from CN). Are you able to get reasonably long visas so that you can stay there indefinitely, or will you have to relocate again in 6 months or a year?

HK Immigration Department is totally separate from mainland China. Different laws, different visa types, different procedures. It's not that hard to get a real visa here. ImmD is strict about their requirements but they are not mysterious, arbitrary, or painfully slow like USCIS. There is a self-sponsored employment visa (called "investment visa", but it doesn't require big capital investment, just a business plan). It does have to demonstrate some sort of benefit to locals, but that can be in terms of using local suppliers for goods and services, rather than hiring lots of local workers. There's also the QMAS visa, a sort of points-based skilled migration visa that gives you more flexibility.

http://www.emigra.com.hk/hongkong/page76.php http://www.immd.gov.hk/ehtml/QMAS.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_Migrant_Admission_Schem...

Trying to work for your own company while on a tourist visa is a gamble. For 90 days you'll be okay. Longer term, some people have josscrowcroft's experience and go on visa runs for years without trouble. If you're low profile and don't compete with local companies the Immigration Dept. may ignore you. But others end up like this Aussie who came to HK to give a risk management seminar and got two months in prison followed by deportation for working illegally: http://news.sina.com.hk/news/2/1/1/2352180/1.html

If you decide to stay really longer term, the system is generally quite fair (at least to skilled workers and students; if you're a maid or construction worker it's a whole other kettle of fish): permanent residence takes seven years, but your "clock" doesn't reset if you change employers (e.g. if you get acquired and become an employee sponsored by your acquirer), and there's no ridiculous quota on how many PRs are approved each year. And once you have PR it's actually permanent: you can vote, you cannot be deported and there's no bullshit about "losing status" for filing a tax return as a non-resident or going back to your home country for a couple of years.
"blocks may map onto function passing in JavaScript at a high level, but they also do some things that are different in important ways."

Didn't mean to imply they're in every way analogous anymore than I meant to imply that Haskell and Prolog are virtually identical. :)

Mostly I was looking for an example of a concept where other programmers seemed to think it was likely I'd've had limited exposure to and perhaps even trouble wrapping my head around (passing code) until I'd done it the same language where they'd come to understand/use it (Ruby).

"the point of this comment is to illustrate that even in a case like functions/blocks, the mapping that people do can stick them in the idiomatic mindset of another language."

If the keyword there is can, I don't disagree, both in the specific and general case. I know that even subtle differences between semantics can be important to both expressiveness and idiomatic constructs, I think it's credible that habit often results in trying to carry idioms over, and that a programmer who is only taught the syntax of Blam could be writing Blub in it for a while.

What I don't agree with some developers on is that this is a matter of constraint instead of trajectory -- that the languages a programmer already knows necessarily indicate the difficulty they'll have with adapting to differences and wielding them effectively.

To work with your example, it may be a decent guess that it might never occur to someone who hasn't worked in a purely TCP language to return or yield from inside a passed block, but I have my doubts that it'd be any kind of reliable predictor of how quickly they could wield the concept after explaining that it's kosher and showing an example where it's advantageous.
I disagree, although I'll sign it. A petition should be created to not only stop SOPA but demand INTERNET FREEDOM laws. This will make it impossible to present any SOPA without repealing the law as there's a direct conflict.

Otherwise there'll be another attempt at SOPA after outrage fatigue. And there had been many before.
You've misunderstood. Bribery and corruption are not protected by the first amendment and I never said they were. Donations are regarded as free speech despite the popular opinion that they are bribes.

I worked in Congress and saw a lot of good people doing a lot of good things. In my three years there I never saw any of the culture of greed and corruption that is perpetuated in so many places. It's sad.
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I purposely chose "power play" over "coup d'etat" to allow for less sweeping changes. There will certainly be a push by the military for a greater share of power.
Argh! It's always the same story with most of my apps: Usually people say 'thats a great idea, i'd totally buy that', but without marketing, nobody knows about them. And so they sit, gathering virtual dust on the shelves of the app store.

I've tried google ads, i've tried engaging on forums, but nothing seems to get anywhere. Any suggestions appreciated!
Wow, if you're going to be a wingnut, at least be an interesting one. This guy appears to have employed a lifetime of wingnuttery in order to arrive at neoliberalism. That's a lot of effort in order to be a cheerleader for the status quo.

You can say this and that about Assange, but at least he's done something more than making up interesting sounding titles for himself. This article sounds a lot like "choose your team" to me, and Vinay is very clear about who's team he's on.

If he "goes after" OWS, he will be ignored, although I would expect him to write several papers about how influential he was after the fact. If you try to apply engineering logic to politics, you don't get it.
Is there an algorithmic reason this post isn't higher on the front page? It has more upvotes and is newer than everything but 1 or 2 things ahead of it. Here's a screenshot: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/397675/Screen%20Shot%202011-12-18%20...
I wish companies purporting to publish articles by legitimate journalists would quit citing Florian Mueller. He is neither a member of the FOSS community, nor does he have any legal background whatsoever.
As someone looking for some alternate destinations to work as a developer, I'm genuinely curious about Vietnam. Where should I stay and what would be the downsides?
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I have to agree, my wife would love this. If it was on Android you would have definitely get a sale from my household.

Maybe I should add something similar on my Android todo list :)
on a law that is one step shy of banning the whole internet world-wide. since pretty much every site allows some user content and a single accusation will down that entire site, i'd hope for a better response than that.

edit: banning is too harsh. censored to the agreement of all corporate interests, all potential corporate interests and the interests of those rich and American enough to have influence
North Korean jokes/humour

First story

Jung Man Yong, a farmer at a collective farm in North Korea, catches a large fish in the river. Exalted, Jung comes back home and asks his wife to fry the fish.
“We can have fried-fish for dinner!” said Jung.
“But we don’t have oil.”
“Then, let’s have steamed fish.”
“We don’t have an iron pot either!”
“OK, then let's just grill it.”
“There is no firewood.”
Angrily Jung goes back to the river and lets the fish go free.
The fish circles around and jumps out of the water, yelling “Long live the General Kim Jong Il!”

Second story

At the museum, there is a painting in which Adam and Eve are holding an apple.
A Briton says, “They are Britons. The gentleman is sharing a delicious apple with a lady.”
A Frenchman says, “They must be French. They are walking around in the nude.”
A North Korean says, “They are North Korean. They have no clothes and little food but think of themselves as living in paradise.”

Third story

Kim Jong Il inspected a collective farm and found some cute little pigs. He decided to take a picture with those pigs. That evening, a North Korean newspaper editor was put in the awkward situation of writing a caption for that picture to go in the paper.
“Well… ‘Comrade Kim Jong Il among pigs..’”
“No, ‘The pigs are with Comrade Kim Jong Il.’”
“That doesn't work either.”
Finally, the paper was published the next day with the caption, ‘Comrade Kim Jong Il is third from the left.’

Fourth story

A Briton, a Frenchman, and a North Korean are having a conversation.
The Briton: “I feel happiest when relaxing before the fireplace on a winter night.”
Frenchman: “You guys are too old fashioned. I feel happiest when I go on vacation with a beautiful blonde and then beak up with her up on my way home.”
North Korean: “One night, somebody knocked my door. When I opened the door, he said ‘Kang Sung Mi, You are under arrest!’ I felt happiest because Kang was actually my neighbor.”

Fifth story

Kim Jong Il and Vladimir Putin are having a summit in Moscow.

During a break, both are so bored and decided to test whose bodyguard is more loyal.
Putin calls his bodyguard Ivan first and tells him to open the window and throw himself off from the twentieth floor.
Ivan cries “Your Excellency, why are you doing this to me? I have a wife and a kid.”
Putin apologizes and lets Ivan go.
Then Kim Jong Il calls his bodyguard Lee Myung-Man.
“Lee, jump off from the window.”
Without saying a word, Lee tries to leap from the window.
Surprised, Putin grabs Lee to stop him from jumping and says “Are you crazy? You will die if you jump from here!”
Lee struggles to jump, saying “Let me jump! I have a wife and a kid.”

Sixth story

In the Pyongyang Subway, two North Koreans are sitting next to each other.
“How do you do, comrade?”
“How do you do?”
“Are you a Party member?”
“No.”
“Have you ever been one?”
“No.”
“Are any of your relatives member of the Party?”
“Not one.”
“Then get your feet off from mine, now.”

source: http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk00100&n...
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Honestly, I think that's just the normal scenario for niche apps. You have a product that people react to in one of two ways: "why would I ever need that?" or "holy crap, that's exactly what I need." If the number of people in group two is small enough, you have an enormous obstacle. It's not enough to just solve a problem. You have to solve a problem that enough people have.

Anyway, if I think of a better response/solution than "it is what it is", I will be sure to let you know. Good luck in the mean time.
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For one data point: as an employer, if someone asked me that in a job interview I'd think they were complete mercenaries and highly distrustful/cynical. Would smile, respond with something noncommittal about how the board won't let us share that kind of information, and cut short the interview as soon as possible.

Think about it from our perspective: part of the point of being a non-public company is that you can keep some things close to the vest, like profits and balance sheet. Perhaps 50% of the people we interview don't end up getting a position. What if you take that info and share it with competitors, or plaster it on TechCrunch?

This is particularly true if this was a follow up to a previous question (which is borderline) about how many months of cash were in the bank.

Should you judge the financial health of a company? Sure. Look them up on CrunchBase, observe the surroundings, do some research into market size yourself. But have some tact.
Oh yeah! That place where you can be extremely offensive without being punished for it.

I am a Colombian, quick! make a joke about drug trafficking!
"Mosaic Communications' new Netscape provides cruise control for the information superhighway," said Tim Weil, senior systems engineer at British Telecom and an early user of Netscape.

I think it is just hilarious that people used to speak about the Internet and Web in this way without being derided as cranks or utterly clueless social scientists (e.g. GEB Kivistik in Cryptonomicon)
Sadly I suspect that his son/successor may be even crazier than he was.
This takes me back. Enormous first letter caps, simple page design. Progressive GIF's that I can remember taking 10-20 seconds to load over a modem.

Makes me want to telnet into a gopher server so I can download Mac OS 6 updates via Xmodem at 1200 baud.
I bet it has many flags
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Looking at the released list of funeral mourners, this has already begun. A few surprises in the order, though it could be a ruse. Everything in NK is a ruse, tough to ever know anything for certain, even with 'educated' speculation. But its fun to try (if you are outside of NK). :-)
I just tried in Chrome and Firefox. Finally tried IE. Guess what? It worked. Sigh.
Really? This is what we've come to, people?
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Aesthetic? I haven't yet although I could see it happening assuming the better looking app had the same features and I wasn't going to lose anything by switching over.

UX however, is another story. Many well-designed apps have spent time on their user experience and it's a component of their design. Many times the "uglier" apps will have design issues that impair usability, rather than just not look as beautiful.
Me too. Probably some committee or executive idea.
Yes, many - Skype 5 comes immediately to mind.
I would be much more interested if it didn't have the turtle rocket.
This is completely false. You can read why in the comments above.
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at a guess its for market differentiation. like how I get the "international" version of US textbooks, which are exactly the same but with a different cover on the front. Or how Harry Potters and the Philosophers Stone needed a title change to sell to US. Or how you can get adult and child versions of the Harry Potter books.
I've always thought it was ridiculous how early school starts. I had to get on the bus at 7:00 when I was in high school (before I started driving).
I think someone tweeted about your page (not you). I thought, "aha cool", so went ahead and submitted to HN. :-)
One thing that's really bothered me about this narrative. My business has tried lots and lots of things. Most fail. A few succeed. Some fail because of issues getting the right people together. Some fail because the ideas aren't as viable as I thought. Some fail because I don't have the ability to position them. However, the path to success really is littered with failures. This can put stress on a marriage, etc. However, it is important for everyone in a business of any sort to recognize that there will be way more failures than successes.

Also I think every new business fails before it succeeds.

I would expect those with more life experience to get this lesson more often than the young people who have not yet experienced the intimate relationship between success and failure. If I were an angel investor and some day I might be able to be, I'd look much more at how founders saw failures than what their ages were.
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It was at the top about half an hour ago. And your post is 20 minutes old now. Something special must have happened in ten minutes.
Since you asked, http://i.imgur.com/NpexT.png

I've highlighted the sort of discussion I'd like to see more of in blue, and the ones that I'd like to see fewer of in red. The unhighlighted comments provide no value to me but I don't mind their existence. Under this scheme, my own comment would be red, because it's meta and off-topic.
I have a 26-hour circadian sleep-rhythm, and so each night I go to bed 2 hours later than the night before. It made school years absolutely insufferable, but now I have a job where I can set my own hours and I just go with it. I'm not able to do certain things like shop during my "awake during the night" phase, but it usually works out.

I'm not sure if I have much to contribute other than "me too". I can confirm though that in my experience, drugs, routines, etc just don't work for me.
The "joke" is that the petition links to copyright-infringement hosted on imgur.

Under SOPA, whitehouse.gov would be taken down because someone posted this petition :)
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FWIW, when you call a Senator or Congressperson, they ask for your name and zip. Nothing else. You can theoretically grab any zipcode in their district off of Google and use it. Just saying.
In related news, Google has said they do not plan to implement Convergence, a similar SSL alternative:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/08/google_chrome_reject...
Guys, the link doesn't load properly if you have Ghostery enabled. I'm not sure what WH.gov is doing to load that petition from another domain via JS, but disabling Ghostery makes things work OK.
Oh, I do it all the time. It allows me to write a script that I can just run from the command line when I want, like 'fetch_new_images'.

I especially love it when I'm first coding, cause I like to test as I go. That allows me to run it to see what works and what doesn't.

When I'm finished, I know that I can just plop that file into a directory and use it as a library afterward. The majority of the code that I write implements that, and I find it a godsend, personally.
> FPGAs have been the next big thing for at least 15 years

It's a tough equation. They are certainly not aimed at or geared towards a commodity co-processor slot next to the CPU in a consumer PC.

What I am arguing or proposing is that if Intel acquired Xilinx and got Microsoft and Apple behind the idea of integrating an FPGA as a standard co-processor for the i-whatever chip we could see vast performance improvements for certain applications.

Per my example, I can take a $100 FPGA today and process 1.5 billion 32 bit pixels per second through an FIR pipeline. That same hardware is instantly reprogrammable to implement a myriad of other functions in hardware, not software. The possibilities are endless.

Many years ago I was involved in writing some code for DNA sequencing. We wrote the software to gain an understanding of what had to happen. Once we knew what to do, the design was converted to hardware. The performance boost was unbelievable. If I remember correctly, we were running the same data sets 1,000 times faster or more.

GPU's are great, but I've seen cases where a graphically intensive application makes use of the GPU and precludes anything else from using it. Not having done any GPU coding myself I can't really compare the two approaches (FPGA vs. GPU). The only thing I think I can say is that a GPU is denser and possibly faster because it is fixed logic rather than programmable (it doesn't have to support all the structures and layers that an FPGA has).

What I'd love to see is an FPGA grafted onto a multicore Intel chip with a pre-defined separate co-processor expansion channel via multiple MGT channels (Multi-Gigabit Transceivers). This would allow co-processor expansion beyond the resources provided on-chip. If the entire thing is encased within a published-and-supported standard we could open the doors to an amazing leap in computing for a wide range of advanced applications.

Let's see, Intel market cap is around $120 billion and Xilinx is somewhere around 8 billion. Yeah, let's do it.
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"WikiLeaks is acting as a marketplace for illicit information, literally a clearing house. This model, with its unconscious capitalist/economics language bias, is the key reason to doubt the long-term effectiveness of this strategy."

I didn't get this. Can somebody explain this to me! How and where did Assange say something that led the OP to infer this?
As in all things web, this is related to user agents (specifically IE) having a horrendous misunderstanding of what the Accept header is for. If you google "Accept header IE" you'll see a long list of hits about its particular brand of gnarly.

An example IE Accept header might look like such:

image/jpeg, application/x-ms-application, image/gif,
application/xaml+xml, image/pjpeg, application/x-ms-xbap,
application/msword, application/vnd.ms-excel,
application/x-shockwave-flash, */*

Notice the obvious missing entries like text/html, text/plain etc etc. By default, IE is saying "I prefer all these other things to HTML."

The second follow on here is that if a resource provides two content-types for the same resource, and an accept header matches both with equal priority, then the server gets to decide which representation to return. The first example the author gives is technically correct in this regard. His probing shows that Netflix is being a bit naughty, but not without just cause.

Basically, they're making the assumption, "Anyone that asks for JSON really wants it." which does violate the spec, but given the long history of user agents that have historically broken this spec I can only say that its not a question of whether the spec is broken, but how it's broken.

For instance, the spec mentions in passing that given an Accept header of:

text/html, text/*

That text/html should be preferred to text/plain even though both would end up with a quality of 1.0. Although there's no actual algorithm defined for dealing with this situation. The entire decision tree is left implicit based on the examples provided.

Anyway, getting in a huff that your browser extension breaks a website that tries to cater to developers while providing reasonable content to people that still use IE is a bit awkward. Especially if you've written a book on HTTP and haven't realized that maybe there's a certain amount of spec breakage to deal with weirdo user agents.
I wonder if the latest Firefox release contains any lines of code from Netscape 1.0? After almost 20 years and a couple rewrites, I doubt it.
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Also, he's not an isolated international pariah whose own people want to kill him, just a thorn in the side of the US.