skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Antarctic deep-sea vents a trove of new species.
I came here to post this because most people don't know about it.

It has some key differences to the H1B however:

- It is a 2 year visa (H1B is 3 year) and renewable indefinitely (typically H1Bs allow one renewal);

- The E3 by default is a multiple-entry visa;

- Renewing the visa inside the US is a huge pain. It takes months from USCIS and it's more expensive than obtaining a new visa (which can only be done outside the US);

- You don't renew your visa, you renew your status. This means if you leave the US after the visa expires but your status has been renewed you have to get a new visa anyway;

- The H1B visa requires a labor certification for the position and "proof" that you were unable to find a domestically qualified candidate. The E3 visa only requires the labor certification so has a much lower barrier to entry.
did you know that Google pays the developers who submit security bugs on Chrome?
If you find this interesting, you might like Pandoc (see http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/try ). That's a "try it online" page, not quite meant for online authoring but could be made to be. Also available as a standalone utility app and a (haskell) library. I've found this works well, and I love the selection of input/output formats.
so basically, people are getting dumber and lazier. writing a thoughtful weblog post took too much time and effort, so twitter dumbed it down to 140 characters. that is apparently still too much effort, so pinterest wants to enable people to use "push button content generation" to just duplicate stuff they see ("generate content") onto a stream that others can see and duplicate themselves.

maybe they could make a browser plugin that lets users grunt at things to "generate content".
Howling Banshees or Striking Scorpions (Simulations to pick Warhammer units.)
"The Zen of Steve Jobs" - a graphic novel from JESS3 and Forbes
However, by the standard of the novels appearing nowadays this is a book worth reading.

It's good to think that in 1945, just as now, people felt that the golden age of literature was behind us.
that eliminates the need for 10$ editors from the Mac App Store.
Haven't read Sartre's book in question, but I do know that Orwell was quite antisemitic himself, so this looks like his prejudice showing through.
There are a number of small Emacs clones (I wrote one for the 6502-based Atari 800 back in the day). They are certainly better than nothing. None of them existed until the mid 80s.

Ironically, 130K is tiny todya, but more than half the address space of a PDP-10 :-)
Mobile phone gaming kills casual gaming handhelds
I have no opinions either way on Scott Thompson.

But a "consensus-builder" is not something that Yahoo needs right now. They are in deep trouble, and they need someone that is willing to drag them, kicking-and-screaming if need be, into a better position. This requires vision and balls, and the willingness to gut the layers and layers of middle management that diluted every single good idea Yahoo had. They also need to completely eradicate the board they have at Yahoo and get some real tech people, not fat cats with no vision, suckling off the teats of Yahoo shareholders.

I liked Carol Bartz because they needed someone to cut through the BS within Yahoo, but unfortunately she just wasn't right in her vision. I personally would have given her another couple more years.
There are going to be a lot of vans parked on that corner before long.

If I'm these guys, I realize that my moat is weak and do these things:

1. Do not interview with NPR. It isn't like you are driving business. You are only attracting competitors.

2. Park 6 vans outside, each with a different dba so that the market looks saturated.

3. Make a retail space, see if it does better than the vans.

4. Look nation wide for similar geographic anomalies that would create this same pain point. Park a van at one of them and send one of the owners to sit in it. See if money can be made. Repeat.

There are many unemployed people in America right now, it sounds like several dozen can go rent a van and fix the glitch. :-)
Legally, you cannot seek employment while you're in US (B1 Visa). Hell, you're not even supposed to work and be paid while in the US. You can be reimbursed for travel, accommodation, food, etc. You can work if you're work is in agreement while you were in your country (outside US) but came to US to talk to your client, blah blah.

Yes, April 1 is the day H1 Applications are officially opened for filing for worker coming in from October 1. However, with the recent lack of demands, blame the US economy and a much more strict Immigration rules, you're likely to be able to apply till end of year or even more. Last year's quota was available till late November if I can remember correctly (2010's quota was available till Feb of 2011).

But, do not wait for April 1, get your lawyer (or the company's lawyer) to start the paperworks and be ready before April 1. That way, you're likely to know the result earlier.

Of course, founders (executive roles) can look at L1 for a better alternative Visa than the H1.

Note: Your lawyer will also advised you to leave US soil before applying for your H1 else you're complicating yourself. Translation, you're soliciting yourself (being interviewed, meeting prospective employer) and that is not allowed.
>One commenter said, "It's an algorithm. Get over yourself." Typical, orthodox devotion to the Almighty Google Algorithm and its Infallible Wisdom.

That's a pretty disingenuous take on his comment. He's actually suggesting that algorithms are not perfect and that it's silly to infer intention from an arbitrary search result.
Sears appliances and extended warranties actually seem like a good deal. I've certainly come out ahead fairly consistently on them, and the service is excellent.

I actually think it is one of the rare cases where the extended warranty may be a loss leader. I only by major appliances from Sears due to their service, and tell my family to do the same.

In fact, I once thought I hadn't renewed a warranty on my fridge, when it went bad. After the repair guy was done fixing it and gave me my quote, I handed him my credit card to pay for it. After 30s he hands it back and says, "You have almost a year left on warranty." I had gotten the years mixed up.
So if you go to the doctor for a regular check up and they take biological waste from your visit and send it to a company who uses your DNA to make multiple clones of you to be given to adoptive parents who can't have children, you're good with that?
Compensation, rationality and the project/person fit
Searching Google for "chrome" no longer brings up www.google.com/chrome first
According to another article Comet did charge for these CDs

"There was a number of disks made, on which there was a cost and Comet charged this to the customer."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/04/us-microsoft-idUST...
Let's do the math:

Gas + Truck Rental = 100$/day.
Parking/tickets in front of embassy: Free? Costly?

3 people (or 4? The article says they have 2 mandarin speakers on tap) in said truck for 8 hours + back and forth time splitting the remainder and you have a bit under 12.5/hour.

That said, they're not being up front about how much they make, and given its probably largely a cash business ...
It's true. I'm much more likely to read a black of text that's already loaded inline with the thread I'm reading, than I am to click over to another page to read the same thing.
I'm curious about the author's opinion of the puzzles he had to answer while interviewing. I know most of us in the US are used to this style of interview, so it would be interesting to hear more about Pau's experience.

I've been reading up about hiring and interviewing, and shockingly enough there isn't any good research I can find on effective hiring practices. I worry that asking puzzles and brain teasers is just a fad that isn't doing anything to pick out the best candidates. There's no real evidence that we're doing it right...
Can I use this with my Twitter account ?
Never create Ruby strings longer than 23 characters
So our social organization tends to place stupid people into customer service positions. This is why a company like Zappos that puts non-stupid and caring people into such positions distinguishes itself.
CorrWhy New Jersey and New York Have The Highest Property Taxes
Just what do you mean by ’scale’?
Agreed. While it's harder to do, the goal should always be to measure output rather than input-lines of code is better than hours in the office, features built is better than lines of code, and dollars added to the bottom line trumps everything. Utilization is about as close to input as you can get.
Some feedback:
1) Didn't know what to do. Was hard to find the call-to-action, which turns out to be an image (with no affordances; not button or link like at all), in the top-right corner.

2) Unusual process. Hmm, ok. Created a device nickname. Then it gave me a PIN. Wasn't sure what to do. Got stuck, left.

I suggest that you make all of the calls-to-action, along the process, very clear. Tell the user what to do.
I have to admit that I thought this was something akin to Instagram until I looked closer. To be honest I felt a bit confused and overwhelmed looking at the 'most popular' page - I know these are boards and as such curated collections of content but they look random; I just can't see the theme of each board. Would it have killed them to put a title to tie them together?
I'm almost in the exact place, but my friends on FB use it for invitations and I would totally be left out of events if I closed my account.

The problem is that FB just makes invitations so easy. I suppose it could be done still over email, but I don't know what the solution is.
Woo, I love it. I wondered if something was up ever since they collaborated on a video about scale: http://www.khanacademy.org/video/vi-and-sal-explore-how-we-t...

In hindsight, it looks suspiciously like the practical problem-solving part of an interview.

Vi seems like a well-rounded addition to Khan Academy: She makes videos and also does great hands-on educational inspiration with her artist-in-residence stints and all (update: http://vihart.com/blog/tags/Harvard.html).

Sal Khan wants to run a real school, and Vi will be a world-class camp counselor.
The fundamental principal behind common law contracts is the "bargain principal".

Principle. (JSYK)
I second this process! The pen and paper get the creative juices flowing quickly..
I would also add that I found Smashing Magazine a great resource.
Even if he didn't know, would his not knowing that Google tailors results per-user somehow make his other points worthless? That seems like a form of poisoning the well.
> I don't think author's children are inherently more deserving of social protections than anyone else. Jk Rowling's kids would be just fine if copyright lasted only twenty years. If they want a secure income after that, they should be able to do some productive work of their own.

You could say the same about any kid who inherits wealth, and while you might be right, this just encourages people to focus on short term wealth creation, which also has implications for society.
First world problems. I read it all scrolling sideways back and forth on my phone... To find out a transcript after the image
Point taken.

I think Jon's post was a troll post, with some personal opinions (which are totally valid), a few technical criticisms (totally valid), but mostly "user error" and "nothing new."

The internet makes it easy to unintentionally plagiarize, the internet makes it easy to intentionally plagiarize. Jon makes the valid point that linking is better on the internet than quoting with attribution. He makes the invalid point that plagiarism of any form is Google+'s fault.

Specific ranking is a matter of opinion. Really what Google (the search engine) has to go off of is people's behaviors. If people legitimately like Google+ posts more than anything else on the internet, how would you have them behave?

Google (the company) is forcing you to use your Google+ profile to identify yourself to people who use Google Search, and Google News. Facebook is forcing you to use your Facebook profile to identify yourself when you post on Facebook. Yahoo! is forcing you to use your Yahoo! ID to use Yahoo mail.

Summary) Google+ is as valuable to you as you choose to make it.

Jon's post was designed to attract attention, not to lead to positive discussion. I responded in kind.
Thought it was going to be about BangBus.
PIPA is the new SOPA
It is a valid disagreement. It's not a valid argument, which is fine since I wasn't trying to make one from it, just calling the hypocrisy out.
UK university applications drop by 23,000.
This is a case in which the hypocrisy isn't just ad hominem, though. It's not just "you've done things you're now accusing others of!" The hypocrisy makes the author's argument apply to the author himself. That is, the argument the author is using to call Google into question applies to the author, thereby calling the author's authority and trustworthiness into question.

It's not just that the author is a hypocrite (which he is). It's that his argument sort of invalidates or at least incites suspicion of itself.

This is all aside from the point that the "you are the product" argument is a reductive, partisan talking point: http://blog.byjoemoon.com/post/9910020865/you-are-the-produc...
The graphic at the top of the article is interesting; it suggests a trend of creating real articles to just short one-liners to just linking to others. What comes after this? Perhaps this is a reaction to the growth in mobile where creating content is more tiresome in favour of just clicking share on someone else's picture or article. It's empowering to those who create - their content will be shared more and there will be more curating than producing.
How many non-US customers use GoDaddy? I wonder how many people outside the US know or care about SOPA.
Microsoft is probably hoping for corporate customers, who might be turned off by an Xbox phone.
I've tried rest-client, em-http-request, and mechanize. I don't recall their specific failings except for mechanize, which seemed to work awesome in 95% of cases and produce cryptic errors with the latter 5%. I will take a look at httparty, though, thanks.
For anyone who doesn't want to wait for an invite via email signup, the WSJ recently offered this code in a review of the service:

pinterest.com/invited/?invite=wsj
Use a phased array of mics. Classic technology (well, 1960s).

Probably much harder with random mic placement.
Free as in Freedom : Richard Stallman
JQuery Ketchup Plugin - A Validation Framework
Google.com has a high page rank. Thus plus.google.com has a high pagerank, it's not gaming the system. It's just inheriting the pagerank.
Are you thinking of a site for this instance alone? If I were to try something to serve this market I would create a site aiding with forms of all sorts.
"But my main goal in writing to you is to prevent PayPal from ordering the destruction of violins" - sorry but that type of "moral superiority" is done (in my experience) by people who know they are morally wrong, but are trying to claim the high ground.

How many instances of "moral superiority" have you witnessed, and how firm is your proof of their "wrongness"? Can you list at least 3?

Is there a mechanism preventing people who are genuinely entitled to the moral high ground from taking it, especially if they have been egregiously wronged? Your post doesn't make sense unless this exists.
This is really good too! I was just looking for an interactive solution, since Markdown is really simple for the lay user to use.
Curating sets is not creating content, it's organising content - just like re-tweeting, or link-sharing. That people think they've genuinely created something at the end of this process is kind of sad, though I bet it makes for some interesting data sets if you're doing a bit of mining.
Is that a contract requirement to using Ebay? I understand that the system allows them to pay via Pay-Pal, but can you not stipulate that payment's via Pay-Pal will be refunded and the purchase will be canceled?
Hey I've got a green card and I'm having major problems, not really sure why. Just today I was rejected from a job where I absolutely aced the interview process. No feedback as to why but I'm thinking there is something lost in translation. I'm from the UK, been coding C++ for over 10 years and love it, even coding in my spare time. When I meet people at interviews I get good feedback, answer 99% of the questions no problems and generally do well.
Yet still, for some reason and despite the massive demand for software engineers, I'm just not getting anything. Never had this problem in the UK... but just wanted to let you know that it seems you're not alone.
A Hummer in Every Driveway
How Facebook Handled the New Year's Eve Onslaught
To me thats like saying corporate customers would be turned off by the iPhone. I get where you are coming from, but I think it could be handled in a way that would make both consumers/professionals love the phone. Apple is clearly the example to follow. Microsoft has leverage with the 360 its just crazy to me they don't use it.
Some mistakes that i remember :

* Buzz

* Code Search

* University resarch program for google search.

* Jaiku

* Dodgeball

That services either acquired or created by Google. They were valuable but now closed . For example : Buzz has fascinating technology behing it, but still failed. Google didn't understand users ( there was not so much people because of the invitation thing and mass was important ), user wasn't able to understand "What the heck is the Google Buzz" ( communication error by google ? ).

As for G+, Eric Schmidt's response wasn't the nicest response to give the users who complains about real name policy. And again "elite g+ club" enthusiasm was a mistake, like buzz, because a social network means nothing without your friends ( this time they realised their mistake and act before it's too late ).
It also says "in our sole discretion", though. I think it would be a difficult case to win.
Plus the spouse of an E3 holder is allowed to work.
Looking for feedback on an article I wrote.
Hey everyone. I wrote an article for InformationWeek and I was hoping to get some feedback from y'all. The target audience is CIOs, Technology VPs, etc., so a little bit less savvy than the HN audience.

I am looking for feedback specifically on high level topics I might have missed that I should cover next time, things that I didn't explain well, or any other feedback you might have to make this better.

Basically, I'm looking for the answer to, "If you worked in a big company, would you use this article to explain to your CIO what Big Data is? Why or why not?"

Thanks!

Here is the article: http://informationweek.com/news/global-cio/interviews/232301236
Paypal has a "Crack of Doom?" Actually, I'm more amused than surprised.
I think TripAdvisor experimented with this back in the day. E.g. they changed the size of the text entry box and saw that: (a) smaller text boxes got them a larger number of lower quality reviews. (b) larger text entry boxes got them a smaller number of high quality reviews. Even the size of the text entry box changes user perception of how hard it is to contribute, and how much to actually write. So I am guessing there is still lots of interesting UI innovation in these areas...
Wait ten more years, you'll also be able to use obscure references.
I believe a lot of the tech-entrepreneur community knows and cares about it.
Would you say that museums are not original content? Can the sum not be greater than the parts?
Given that they're always in the van, they can pretend they're not parked, but simply stationed. No idea how would that fly though.
How to Save the Global Economy: Write Off the World's Debt
As far as iteration goes, there is no difference between

for line in open(somepath):
# stuff

and

f = open(somepath)
for line in f:
# stuff

and the second case would be outright broken if the file just decided to close itself when it stops iterating (as others noted, the developer may now want to append new content, or use file.seek and fly around the file's content).

Not to mention a major issue: `break`. The iterator gets no mention of breaks and the iteration is not terminated at this point (as far as the iterator is concerned, that is) so adding a `break` to your iteration (to stop it early because you've found the data/line you needed in a linear search) would suddenly start leaking file handlers where those were collected beforehand... not good.
Ask HN: Good places to find startup announcements?
Been busy with a few proprietary products/projects past few months so a bit out of touch with the HN/Startup scenario.

One of my general interests is finding/tracking good startups. One place I remember where such announcements are routinely posted is KillerStartups. What are some other good ones?

Please share your favs.
Communication materials were: Preparation of equipment in conducting interviews
On satellite there are also the dozens or hundreds of local market broadcast channels. They lobbied hard against a de facto national ABC, CBS, etc.

One of the channels in my area is now encouraging people to pester Dish to pay them per-subscriber money. Meanwhile, Dish has audio dropouts and video artifacts aplenty.

(My impression is that many of the channels you label "Public Interest" are getting a free ride because they don't charge the carrier anything but allow the carrier to increase their advertised channel count.)
Thanks for the pointer!

I've updated the post with this and several other simplifications sent in by readers.
Very interesting idea I hadn't heard of yet; does anyone know how they deal with services that do not have APIs conducive to this type of application? Or are all of the recipes pre-constructed by the IFTTT team to be sure the data in/data out constitutes a valid use of the service APIs in question?
Depending upon the type of material, the tone will change when you strike it. I still think it's a mistake to say that this turns a surface in to a "multitouch" surface, because of the vast differences between this and what has commonly been referred to as multitouch.

Again, extremely cool technology, but you couldn't for example, attach a microphone to a wall and couple this with a projector to control the OS. That's the inference that gets drawn when you say "multitouch".
Agreed, this sort of thing harms any sort of boycott by making things look ineffective or perhaps less effective.

I know that for the 40 or so domains I transferred off of Godaddy none of them used Godaddy's nameservers. Indeed it's ill advised to use your registrars nameservers.

I would encourage you to take this analysis down less it get picked up by conventional media.
Clickable:
http://informationweek.com/news/global-cio/interviews/232301...
This is the direction ecommerce sites need to go down. Think of how much more fun pinterest is to browse compared to something like zappos.
I think Pinterest is a game changer because of the physical social interactions it creates outside of the site. My wife has been to multiple Pinterest "parties", where they pick a craft or recipe and make it together. If someone comes over and sees something she created from a Pinterest finding, a conversation starts and all of a sudden, Pinterest has a new user. This physical interaction to me is what makes Pinterest stand out.
DSLRs are a dying breed
"Zombie" Fly Parasite Killing Honeybees
Poor analogy. Unless there are other mechanisms in place, a link doesn't serve an advertising purpose any more or less than a purely informational one. I would like for a newspaper engage in activities like exposing fences or street prostitution. I believe that's called "reporting."
Cool. I already do something similar with encrypted sparseimages, I will give this a try.
Rethinking Virtual Desktops
Can some of that money goes towards building an API for Daytum.com? :)

Anyway, glad to see that this service will grow, it's really useful.