skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could one argue that a good developer could do good things, but they would then be at the stage where they could realise the same thing could be done better in another language of their choosing?

I only say this because the story is pretty analogous to PHP's. And I'm not saying that to bitch about the language; it's just the way it's gone.
Considering, I know nobody that actually uses Twitter I think 13% is wildly overstated.
I use them. They are good.
It is not true that: "The United States enjoys net immigration with respect to almost all other countries in the world, and has throughout my lifetime."

The US is ranked just 31 in the world for net migration rate: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/imm_net_mig_rat-immigratio....
I listened to the X Minus 1 version of "Mars is Heaven" when I was 12 or something. Gave me nightmares!
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@Retric - that merely suggests they lie in the 87% of the US population who don't use Twitter, according to the parent's figures.
Thanks. Can you provide more details.
Google search plus good memory returned
an older article with a bit more information about Taylor:
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-02/boy-who-played...

He has built a Farnsworth fusor:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor

It is an example of inertial electrostatic confinement fusion. It's CoP is not above 1.0, but it does produce neutrons that can be used to create the short lived isotopes that normally need to be express delivered to hospitals because they cannot be built on site.

When the media originally broke the story I was slightly annoyed with how they focused on Taylor's ingenuity and obsession, but only briefly mentioned contributions made by his family and the associates that they helped him network with. Yes, give the young man his due credit, but for the sake of others with his potential spend some time on how important it was for him to have the opportunity to play with a crane, store radioactive isotopes in the garage, and basically think about and investigate whatever he wanted.

The Popular Science article I linked was least offensive in this way.
My suspicion was that they were bluffing. Again, this is all about 3-rd hand; never happened to me or someone I know.
Without wanting to sound too harsh: there's a reason why statistics are not based around personal anecdotes.
ShowHN: We built this so you can send a mixtape to someone you like
Dude stuff goes in and out fashion faster than anything in tech. Orms went in, Orms went out, then in again(Django, rails) then out. Just need to stop being zealots following the latest trend and get things working.

People take the immutable route, then some other guy tells you your being silly. Trust me I've been programming long enough.

Besides you don't need Mutability for ejb. The majority of ejbs are just used to access the db.
Clouds, a Documentary Shot With Kinect, Explores Beauty of Code
> I am yet to have spent $40 on any clothing.

Winter coat or rain coat?
Could you elaborate? Go feels nothing like Java to me.
Success = Self-Confidence + Humility
Have not tried - but it's on my todo list at work - turn rsyncd into a user-defined service?

See Article ID: 137890 here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/137890
fwiw, Mark Cuban seemingly forgot about the judicial branch also when examining problem recently (http://blogmaverick.com/2012/03/13/i-hope-yahoo-crushes-face...) - "Rather than originating in Congress, its going to take a consumer uprising to cause change".
Awesome -- you have great content and the pro-midwest stuff is a wonderful project.
Pretty cool. I made something similar (a site that played any song via YouTube) last year at a hackathon but I failed to think of such a creative idea, props.
WWDC 2012 Roundup: iOS 6, new Macs, iCloud updates & OS X Mountain Lion
Getting shit done is contagious. Be very careful to work out what kind of shit the people who get shit done are doing before you start hanging out with people who get shit done. A whole lot of shit might happen. You might get done. Or everyone could end up in shit.

Alternatively, cool shit might get done. I'd say hang around with people who want to do cool shit and kick their arses into getting shit done if necessary.
UBS Gets Stung by Facebook IPO
So it turns out if you want to find out what the future looks like, you should be asking women.

No, that's the wrong lesson to take home. If you want to see what the future looks like, you should be asking women AND men. It's not an either/or proposition. This comment just reverses the bias.
It's not typical. But when it's not, lack of #1 and sometimes #2 is the key missing ingredient, not an aggressive churn through new hires until the perfect combination of employees is found.
I learned about this specific issue from people selling the Hornady Z-max anti-zombie ammunition, actually.

(http://www.hornady.com/store/Z-MAX-Bullets)
"One should always start JS apps as early as possible and only delay operation until the "DOM is ready" that want to measure dimensions, etc. (Things relying on CSS)."

I guess the assumption here is that your script tags are placed at the end of the document - because if your scripts are placed in the <head> and they try to do things like getElementById (which does not "rely on CSS") before the DOM has been parsed, you'll definitely get an error.
Do you have a set order of the tshirts and wear each one exactly 160 days apart?
What virtualization did you need? Proxmox can be installed via the robot interface. Citrix Xen can be installed using a remote install.
Harvey: Add a Second Face to Your JavaScript
Oh, OK, I agree, for 2-3 machines reliability isn't an issue, I was thinking more dozens.
Interview with Steve Jobs (1985)
The Value in 30,000 Tweets
CoffeeScript, Ruby, C++: a visual comparison of language complexity
I went through the E-2 process a few years ago. IIRC you can pay an extra $1000 to make your application a "high priority" one, which cuts the guaranteed response time from something like 3 months to 30 days.

When I did it as a high-priority application, I got an initial response saying "we need more data" within 2-3 weeks (from what I remember), then the final approval 2-3 weeks after I submitted that info.
But they don't govern the same way Congress does, which is part of the beauty of the system.

They certainly play a role in governing, but where Contress is active (in theory), the Courts are reactive, waiting for a case to be brought to them. Where Congress is reaching for power and often places limitations on citizens, the Courts (in principle) ensure Congress does not claim too much power and limits Congress.
Hi this is Jason, founder of WP Engine.

1. The password is question is stored by WordPress in plaintext on disk.

2. It was transmitted to you inside our SSL-secured support system, because you requested it.

3. We maintain Pingdom reports on all our competitors, so I know for a fact that our uptime and speed is superior, in general.

HOWEVER -- I do NOT DISAGREE with your characterization that you might have seen slowdowns, poor support, etc.. With 1000s of customers, one thing we see all the time is a handful who, for whatever reason, really do have a terrible experience with us at every turn -- technical and human -- and it's just bad.

Of course there's the opposite end of that range of luck, and the huge majority who are happy and don't experience those things in those doses.

It's always frustrating to hear that you've had that experience -- all the more because I'm sure you're not exaggerating.

It's some consolation that we get praised daily on Twitter for just the opposite -- that shows we're not, in fact, just completely awful as you're implying.

But not much, because it always sucks to see even one customer have a series of bad experiences as you have.
Interesting.

How are you playing the YouTube track in there?
If your business name is trademarked, I believe this is a violation of Adwords TOS. Even if not, you might try raising a complaint with Google through http://support.google.com/adwords/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an...

(In the UK, this isn't legal - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passing_off - but I suspect the answer is murkier in the US.)
It wasn't always that easy. Integrating Office apps prior to the introduction of VSTO was ugly and fraught with incompatible types. Especially if you were using a language other than VB.NET, which generally meant a whole lot of Type.Missing argument entries in every other line of code in addition to creating marginally machine-to-machine compatible COM interop wrappers. Getting beyond the "Works on My Machine" certification wasn't always an easy thing in VS 2003/Framework 1.x.
First, those are two different metrics. I read him as saying that the United States has net-positive bilateral migration with almost all countries in the world; i.e. for any given country X, more people are emigrating X->USA than USA->X. That doesn't imply that the U.S. would necessarily be the #1 country in the world for overall immigrants-per-capita, only that it wins most pairwise comparisons of "voting with your feet".

Secondly, even by your metric, the U.S. is pretty high up. Of the 30 above it on that list, many are microstates, which makes per-capita statistics fairly wonky (some individual American cities would be that high, too, if they counted separately as microstates). And, many aren't even countries at all (e.g. French Guiana, or the Northern Mariana Islands... a 50,000-person U.S. territory). If we ignore those, then things look quite a bit different; the U.S. ends up #15 among independent non-microstates. And a lot of those are places you don't really want to move to if you have a choice, e.g. Burundi ranks highly because of regional wars and refugee camps. Among the US's peer group of non-micro developed nations, it's #6, behind Singapore, Australia, Canada, Ireland, and Portugal.
Chrome getting infected with toolbars. How secure will ChromeOS be?
If one starts with star-R to begin with, then why does one need the transference theorems?
Agreed- this is against Google's guidelines. You should contact them and they'll have the ad removed.
my personal preference - Hanes Beefy-T, black, there is none better; much thicker T than American Apparel; started printing t-shirts in high school (20+ years ago) been wearing them ever since.
Both cases still require examination of the situation to determine whether the success/failure is attributable to luck, skill, effort, etc.
Yes. It leads to a tortured headline that never should have been used.
I totally agree with you, although getting a "fairly average job" is easier said that done for those who aren't at least somewhat exceptional.
Completely agree. If you're in Ubuntu and need to get work done in a Windows app, do it in XP on VirtualBox. It's the right way.

Nlite your XP install down so it's "wather thin" for extra credit. I can be in Ubuntu one second, load up my VBox image and three seconds later I'm sitting at a usable XP desktop. Photoshop (et al) are fast but most importantly they're reliable and stable.

Wine does work for some things (games mostly) but you lose any sort of guaranteed reliability.
Can anyone explain why the star trails make concentric circles? What's at the middle of the circles?

I understand why you might see concentric circles in time elapsed photos from the North or South Poles on Earth, but why from space?
We are just hiding the Youtube chromeless player away with some CSS and hooking up to it with js to make our own player
I just learned that Java has an unsigned right shift operator >>> from an article cited as a reference in that Wikipedia section. The article has some more details on the subtleties of binary search. For instance, the 20 year old bug in an algorithm proven to be correct was down to integer ranges:

int mid = (low + high)/2;

breaks (obviously in retrospect, am I missing something?) for

low + high > Integer.MAX_INTEGER

It can be replaced by the elegant (but to me, somewhat oblique)

int mid = (low + high) >>> 1;

http://googleresearch.blogspot.de/2006/06/extra-extra-read-a...

Also from that page, here's the link to the bug in Sun's tracker, priority 2-High, evaluation: "Can't even compute average of two ints" is pretty embarrassing.

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=5045582
We are in the process of this now. We also do have a trademark that we will take steps to protect.
I know I'm getting old when I fail to find excessive profanity entertaining.
Is there a way to achieve the same effect while keeping scripts in the <head>? (Not saying that's the best idea, just wondering.)
What made them make that decision in the first place? Didn't they know it would lead to significant blowback? I bet the VS devs weren't the ones that made it.
I would classify all five items as a work, team, and personality fit. You worked well in that environment because it fit with what you expected of yourself and others. The people who left, or were fired, did not fit as well. At the end of the day, the fit is more important than any list.
Great points, except that the E2 visas ONLY apply to treaty countries, which excludes India and China.

Ironically, I + C are the biggest source of skilled tech labor, as evidenced by the 5+ year EB2/EB3 waiting period.
Of course. But profits from say a year or two aren't going to be nearly as high as selling off 25% of the company for example.

To take this way past reasonable, consider Instagram. If they could convince someone to give them 250 Million for 25% of their company instead of selling the entire company, that would be huge FU money and they could keep running their company, while evening maintaining a majority stake. I could see that as a very tempting option.

Also, it allows the founders to diversify a bit. Consider that these people are multi-millionaires on paper, you wouldn't generally recommend they put all of their money into one investment, even if it is their own company.
In a way, you pretty much begin dying as soon as you are born. That is not meant to be something morbid. But everybody sheds dead skin everyday.
I came away with the same impression--they have no idea how it happened.

In their defense though, Wordpress by default lets site administrators directly edit PHP template files through a browser textarea. That means a lot of security is riding on user-set passwords.

Normally I'd say that could be mitigated by denying apache write access on the core files. But doing so would break the ability for users to initiate core updates via the web browser.

So if you can break/guess an admin password, you can upload arbitrary PHP code which has full write access to the appplication files. There's not really any way to secure that. I'm sure that's why Wordpress.com does not run individual full instances of Wordpress--it's the world's largest multisite installation of Wordpress and site owners can't touch the core files.
Actually I think (for me at least; also a web dev that does unix based stuff but also needs photoshop), the lower-friction route is to run Windows as the native OS, and virtualbox the linux install. (I'm also these days of the opinion that this is actually a better solution than cygwin)

Basically the unix bits are (far) less resource hungry than Photoshop...
This is probably the first Parse javascript app in the wild! Cool stuff guys.
What I find strange (not sure how true) is what I hear from random MS employees that customer feedback is more valuable, or weighs more, than the feedback from MS employees. To me, this shows a low level of trust from management in their own employees' ability to gauge the market.

Another thing I can't wrap my mind around is how can it be possible to have one thousand of your customers yelling at you they don't like something -- that can be easily changed -- and have the management respond with "Oh well, we're still going to do what we want. What ya gonna do about it?!"
Don't forget however that the E-2 visa is only for certain countries. Your country must be party of a treaty with the US. For people from countries like India, there is no E-2 visa.
http://travel.state.gov/visa/fees/fees_3726.html
so, is it officially the future yet?
Some things you could do would include firing off XHR's and creating an unattached hierarchy of DOM nodes which could then be attached once the main DOM is ready. This could be neat.
Reading is a skill you'll use all your life, and reading books - even, say, the World Weekly News - still sharpens that skill.

Granted, I'd rather kids read something more enlightening than the World Weekly News.
You're very correct, it depends what tools are available. For Win apps in the late 90's there wasn't much that touched some of VB's qualities... reasonable performance, full API access, rapid turn around, good dev environment. For custom software rapid turn around is a huge factor. Delphi was another option but we weren't a Pascal shop. Most of our Win apps then were VB6 sitting on top of home grown C++ DLLs as needed. And you're right, it's very analogous to PHP.
I was down voted earlier for suggesting it was going to be an order of magnitude more expensive than the R-Pi (until I argued my case):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3909113

While the difference in price between the two is negligible for any serious commercial work, this isn't nearly the game changer the R-Pi is. You're not going to put one of these in your garden powered by solar.
tltr: women yap more, today they do it using phone/skype/facebook.
You're then discussing math in terms of a set whose properties don't obviously match anything the student has dealt with. It needs to be established, one way or another, that adding infinitesimals etc. is not introducing new behavior.
How would Cloudflare help if the site is already compromised?
But they will be in for a surprise when get to that first job interview and don't get the job just for showing up. Getting a job is the real prize. And they usually don't hand those out just for showing up.
Fair enough, although I'd say the same of Spivak's book.
Apparently in 'we want to work with adults, not children', they believe that adults have no empathy for people in life stress.
There was a short window about 10 years ago where OSX was the best unix workstation, no contest. But cygwin is really good these days, so good that the Apple premium cost and batshit insane vendor make it a non-starter.
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After loving videogames for 20 years I sat down and build one.
Eventually I'd expect a "linux of 3d realtime rendering" to emerge. It will then find its way into nearly everything that gets put on a screen from the smallest phone apps to the largest multi-screen games.
Why Django Sucks, Except When It Doesn’t
Oh, thanks. Downvoted for not knowing that. Way to build community HN.

Anyway, it's too much trouble to search any time you want to post something, just to avoid setting off the blowhards around here who get annoyed.
Even if you're one in a million, on a planet of 6.8 billion that means there are nearly 7,000 people just like you.

That right there is probably the best summary of all.
"But surely (undeniably) each year the United States already enjoys large numbers of immigrants"

Agreed. I do not think that is the point of argument here. US overall has huge number of immigrants every year. The problem however is how they determine the eligibility. Family based permanent residency is much easier to get if your spouse is a US citizen no matter what your qualifications are. That is understood considering families need to be united. But why are the programs such as EB-5 investor visa so poorly designed ? If majority of those visas are going unused every year, why dont we instead try and correct it so that it makes it a little easier for aspiring foreign entrepreneurs to apply. Do we really need $1M to start a business these days ?
It's probably a Sandy Bridge i3, which is basically current gen (the full line of Ivy is not out yet).
The Pakistan/US relationship is a fascinating example of this.
p.s.

I should have said, "delivered over internet protocol such that I could get the service through my choice of internet provider". Decouplable, in other words.
I really appreciate all of the responses and have already put many of the recommended texts on my wishlist. (And I just bought Game Engine Architecture as well, too bad you didn't post an Amazon affiliate link for yourself!) But I just wanted to point out that since this tutorial is free, I immediately checked it out, and I am absolutely blown away. This will certainly keep me busy until GEA arrives! Thanks so much, it looks to be a great starting point for learning more.

Edit: I also wanted to point out that in the author's preface, he discusses what he considers the downside to most introductory texts and tutorials in 3D graphics programming - presenting "fixed functionality" that allows newcomers to more quickly use the tools at hand by abstracting much of the foundational information away.

While this is certainly useful for experienced developers learning a new derivative technology on top of what they already know, I have always found this approach for introductory stuff frustrating. At the end of the day I may come away pseudo-understanding a "higher level" concept, but ultimately much has been abstracted away and I am left ignorant and, as the author says, "Programming thus becomes akin to magical rituals: you put certain bits of code before other bits, and everything seems to work."

I wish I knew of more texts like this for other fields where over or premature abstraction could endanger comprehension. (For example, I know I would like to see a similar approach taken to other complex topics, like networking.)
You could have your scripts just define functions, then call all those functions from the bottom of your <body>.

Or, using jQuery, you could probably define a custom event on the <body>, that you trigger manually from the bottom of your <body>, and have your scripts in the <head> listen for that event. I've never actually tried this, though.
Look into California labor laws. Even though old link, I found this:
http://www.labor.ca.gov/pdf/lwdalaborlaw99-03.pdf

It states "It provides that salary
may be not be used as an excuse for employment termination decisions if it disparately affects
older workers."
The Gates Foundation has arguably had more impact on human welfare than any other private organization in history, and yet is still in its early stages. So when you say you know nothing of this work, it suggests a lack of awareness of, and lack of curiosity in, global matters.

And after some brief research am still not quite sure what the money is going towards and if it is accomplishing much.

When you follow up with this, it suggests that either your "brief research" was too brief or your research skills are poor.

Now perhaps you've said all this to make a point, but that's not how it comes across.
The least US could do is to - Get rid of country based quotas for employment based GC immigration, Provide instant GCs for immigrations who get advanced degrees in STEM from top institutes in US

I know a ton of entrepreneurial Indian, Chinese immigrants with advanced degrees (MS/PhDs) from MIT, Stanford, UW etc who are sick and tired of waiting years for their GC (average of 5-7 years wait), so they are not tied to the fate of the employer for their stay in US. Imagine, freeing them for these visa shackles, so they are free to pursue their own ventures, without have to worry about getting kicked out of this country
It is actually a pretty clear list. It's listing a number of things clearly. It's also saying that the list is not closed, because anything can happen and you can't predict everything.

What if an employee decides to splash paint on all the cars in the car park? Unlikely, but possible, and it's stupid to try and come up with every such possibility, because you'll never hit them all. The list hits the most common issues and lays them out clearly.