skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A significant portion of the program is abuse. If you look at the total number of H1Bs issued (several Million), vs the the number of H1Bs working in "top 100 or 1000" companies like Apple, Google, MS, AMZN etc, what remains is the vast majority who got H1Bs through body shops or out sourcing companies.

Many H1B holders start with shady companies but eventually move to better places. Not sure if that's always a good thing.
Just for your information, on OS X 10.6 at least:

$ sysctl -a net.inet.tcp.sack

net.inet.tcp.sack: 1

It looks like somewhere after 10.4 they implemented it.
>If curators are going to do that kind of thing, they should at least sign their edits to take accountability for them. //

Yes, it's very rude to alter someone else's text without claiming 'credit' for doing so or referring the edits back to be accepted by the attributed author.

FWIW it's also an infringement of the moral rights enshrined within copyright law. You can't modify someone else's work without a license to do so (generally); I couldn't find any reference to such a license term in the YC site details. Without such a license a posted story that the moderators dislike [is it just pg?] should just be deleted, the site clearly has no duty to carry the story (by which I mean title and strap linking to the original article) but it also appears to lack any license to amend said submissions.
There are people in London who spend their Christmas Eves running around barefoot Clapham High Street from gay bar to gay bar clothed as a bottle of mustard. Just to put this in perspective.

> Do you really think that is OK

Yeah. In fact, I wouldn't only say "OK" but "highly usual" to see such a report. Why? Because 1) at least one thirteen year old killed themselves 2) telegraph, being the rag they are, obviously picked it up and made it into a tearful story, or maybe even made it up (which wouldn't be beyond their reach). Someone didn't seek help and therefore killed themselves. Who cares? Are you next going to grief us about the fact that someone drove too fast and killed themselves? That someone ate a razor and killed themselves? That someone touched a live electrical wire and killed themselves? Rest assured more people die and become crippled in traffic accidents than in effect of bullying, yet metropolitan areas in the US do not even have an investigative unit responsible for ascertaining the identity of a hit and run car driver unless the person dies. Crippled for life? Yup, fine with us, just go home. Dead? We might investigate. There's one guy in our metro area handling those. For millions of drivers.

When predicting things, sometimes you feel like there's an itch and you follow up on it and it turns out you notice a pattern which lets you reason about the nature of the world as a whole. Here's the tip: if there were a trend with people being bullied killing themselves, I might be able to agree. If it were additionally undoubtedly correlated, in that bullying meant a rise in suicide rates across people with all sorts of psychological backgrounds, and the raise is well above what happens under other conditions when mental illnesses are accounted for, i might even be compelled to agree. But posting a story of one person, out of millions in Los Angeles alone, is nothing. It's not an indicator, it's not even an itch on a fly's butt.

But to answer your question:

> Here's an example of a 13 year old girl who commited suicide after being bullied online. Do you really think that is OK

True answer? I don't give a shit, and I'm not going to start walking like on broken glass, turning my whole world upside down, and assuming inane and unnatural behaviours because of someone else's unique and unusual deficiency. Get real.
Our bill for ZenDesk would be around $300/month - we have more than 3 agents. (we actually use SalesForce for helpdesk so we pay more than that)

For a business if it saves us a support case a week it is worth the $100 a month. Anything under $100/month is essentially the same price as soon as you reach any sort of scale/revenue. (I am sure this goes up as you grow as well)
Wish they just took care of this elegantly with the already in place voting system. Let multiple links be submitted with different titles and let people vote up the one with the good title. Why let some mod with personal opinions and not enough time to know every subject and article dictate things? Let the community decide.
Note that the NewEgg's refusal is based on the original OS being missing rather than a new OS being installed according to that email. My guess is that the user formatted the HD before installing Linux. Most OEM PCs now come with a recovery partition which is used to perform a factory reset. If the user erased this partition, then NewEgg would be unable to reset the device to its initial state for testing. It would be similar to the user returning the device by not returning important CDs.
> twitter account intended to promote tourism to Sweden?

Isn't it just some personal twitter account?
I agree, I'd really be interested to see what sort of pattern he's thinking about.
I would prefer that the alternative of posting either a link or explanatory text be changed to allow both.

Often a title, original or otherwise, simply doesn't provide sufficient context to clearly explain a link. A few well-chosen words of prose could help here (more so if the text could be editied / modified while the post was sitting in queue). Gameable? Perhaps, but we can vote down / flag in that instance.

"Heat & Thunder" was pretty non-obvious to me, and until I read the comment here about the data visualization, struck me as particularly non-interesting.
Was about to mention GalCiv2 as well. Stellar AI. I once read a blog post by Brad Wardell (of Stardock) where he mentioned he only added gameplay features once he thought through how the AI can use them properly.

Also, if you're tired of the more mainstream turn based strategy games, I'd recommend something like Hearts of Iron 3 or Europa Universalis 3.
I think this app coupled together with a rugged kid-proof case would be a knockout combo.

Does anyone know what the future business model is? Pro version? OEM pre-load?
Got the ball and bat one right, and the lily pad one. I must not be as smart as I hoped :-(

I think it comes down to having a value system where you'd rather be wrong and corrected (even if you have to do it yourself), as opposed to always projecting yourself as"perfect". Once you accept you aren't perfect, its easier to work towards perfecting what you've got.
There is an option to turn off animations.
Android's Navigation app first came out a year or so ago and since them I've used it during travel in regions where a network is available. Odd that this is still considered news.
Nasa's Curiosity rover targets smaller landing zone
"Although we assume that intelligence is a buffer against bias—that’s why those with higher S.A.T. scores think they are less prone to these universal thinking mistakes..."

This fallacy is at the heart of the matter. Intelligence and resistance against bias are only loosely correlated. Such resistance comes not from intelligence but from careful study and mental exercise, e.g. looking at various important ethical and philosophical arguments and analyzing them.

This is like saying all large people are strong. There is some dependance but a smaller gym-fly can kick a slacker giant's ass. The sad thing, while it is obvious that you have to exercise your body to be healthy and strong, the fact that the same is quite through fro your brain is often overlooked.
@mnicole, I've been thinking a lot about your feedback and if you have time would really appreciate if you elaborate on your views on attracting worth sellers.
Do you think the one thing that would compel you as a designer to post is quality control? If not, what are the one or two things that would most influence your decision to upload content, in the same way that you do to Dribbble for instance?
We've been doing this since holy shit I'm old. Overages (and underages) are very rare. I'm sure I've given more days back than I've ever asked for in additional time.

The thing that normally happens is, you're attentive to your project, you see schedule problems coming a week or two away, you make it very clear to your point of contact that there's a storm brewing on the GANNT chart horizon, and then you adjust project scope to account for it; this is the consulting version of "slipping features, not the date".
The problem with a transfer is that you could "reset" the employment based green card process, putting you to the back of the queue, and adding several more years, and uncertainty to the process.
Relevant: Pachelbel rant - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM
T-mobile is good if you can find a plan that suits you. I've been with them for about 6 years now, no complaints.

http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/monthly-4g-plans

http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-plans

Just keep in mind, they have several data plans, but the only one that includes tethering and mobile wifi is their 'Unlimited' one (5GB at 4G speed, anything over that at 2G speed).

Some of their bundle plans include Unlimited, but most don't and if you want tethering/hotspot with those you have to pay $14.99 extra (unless you want to use 3rd party tethering/wifi software that masks the data source, see the Android subreddits for that).
Facebook Says the Facebook Ads It Didn’t Sell Work Great
With 1.6M Downloads, Lemon Adds $8M Series A for Digital Wallet App
I guess I wasn't feeling an optimist on the day I posted that... Good Point!
Or at least an explanation of what was changed and why. it would give a little more transparency to the site. And the same goes for link deletion, etc. It would be nice to know why such and such comment or submission was shelved (though some are guessable, others are not as much).
> Online "bullying" isn't really bullying though. It's your computer telling you that some human being apparently said something. You should take that with a huge grain of salt. It could as likely be a bot

Let me just take a second to call bullshit on that.
Well, the ball one I've heard before and the lilypad is obvious if you've been exposed to biology. Is this not more a matter of education not being applied to real-world cases and relying on theoretical teaching?
Show HN: Yet another pastebin/notepad application
The Mashable writer might just be a bit sensitive, I like the Sweden account (and follow other similar ones). Users seem to be free to talk about all sorts of sensitive topics without problem. To me, this week is just an off-week, where I am less interested in the person but will be sticking with it.
"Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end" - Spock

Anecdotally I found that the Less Wrong community tends to be decidedly more full of crap than average. In the same vein as spiritual materialism[1], many people that engage in a bias witch-hunt seem to be falling prey to "logical materialism", where the whole exercise turns into people deluding themselves into thinking they're somehow "better" than others because they're less full of crap than average.

It's good to know thyself, but it's no use if your knowledge isn't tempered by wisdom, and you're not going to get that by reading blog posts about cognitive biases online, no matter how good the posts.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual_materialism
Ha, thanks Alan. Email me directly on devbook[at]somefantastic[dot]co[dot]uk so I can spot you in the sign-up list and I'll make sure you get a coupon for a free copy! :o)
105 Conversations asks for Introduction to Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg
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+1 Agreed! Javascript has been in the bath too long, and it's looking pruny.
Ah, that's the author flattering the reader. If the author had picked a genuinely tricky example for the first one it would have turned many readers off.

Of course a question like the old bat and ball one is ridiculously simple, after you've been warned that many people get it wrong and hence that you should probably stop and think for a few seconds before blurting out the first answer that pops into your head. Do it without that warning and it's easier to get it wrong.
It is very possible though that doing this will result in blacklisting of your name/address/card from their systems. You generally don't want to do a chargeback on a merchant you ever want to deal with again at some time in the future.
New York to London in an hour - by train
I've got both an Android phone (Galaxy Nexus) and a Garmin in my car. The Android has a smaller screen and more up to date maps. The Garmin shows the maps better (spatial awareness) and its instructions are better, plus more complete when roads do things like fork. Additionally I can actually read the Garmin in sunshine while wearing sunglasses - something that is considerably harder for the Android.

But another generation or two of displays and they'll no longer be an issue. I don't hold out much hope for the friendliness of Google's map display and instructions, but suspect most people won't care, and certainly won't care enough to fork our for a PND.

It is interesting to see how companies are responding. Garmin are now letting their devices cooperate with your phone with SmartLink: http://gpstracklog.com/2012/06/garmin-smartphone-link-review...

Also interesting is the Parrot Asteroid. The concept is great - a head unit running Android - but the implementation is truly awful. http://www.parrot.com/usa/products/bluetooth-hands-free-car-...
The graph showing the chords following E minor was created after all songs were transposed to the key of C major.
no drm , you can do that anyway.
Anonymous makes no sense to me.
Oh, we have it here too. It's called Family Guy.
It's hard out here for a chimp
Ask HN: how do you start high-tech consulting?
Let's say you have half a decade in the industry, you have done startups, and you want to keep fueling that addiction (and putting food on the table) by doing consulting on the side. Just enough to pay the bills, get good ideas from customers, refine one's chops and learn new tricks.

Where do you start? Are there perhaps good guides / resources /books for this?

How do you scope the technologies you'll be working with? Let's say you're familiar with Ruby and its ecosystem and you get a .NET potential contract, do you take it and very quickly learn on someone else's dime, even though you could have done the same 10x faster in your main stack/ecosystem?
Yes, it's aggravating. In an ideal world there would be a comment and explanation, but since this would often end up derailing the subject of the pos into a discussion about moderation, I suggest mods just abstain from doing it or else send a note to the poster. When I rewrite the title of an article I do so with a view to making it more accessible to HN readers.
Agreed. Thinking intelligent people can better resist biases makes as much sense as saying that handsome people can. In both cases the halo effect is at work.
iPhone is chicken and rice to me.
I agree with this, your examples should not have been changed. I would like to see the converse -- if the title is the same as an article's but the article's title is linkbait or sensationalized I would like it to be changed to something that tells me what it's really about.
Yeah, that sucks, but I don't think that you should need a special anti-bullying law to find out who the dicks are. It's just identity theft.
Actually, no, it can work when only one person has the app installed, albeit without end-to-end encryption.

> If only one person has the app, the connection will be scrambled only to Silent Circle's servers, which could still be valuable for overseas users worried less about the FBI and more about their own government eavesdroppers.
Linus Torvalds: Windows 8 Secure Boot Doesn’t Destroy Linux
It depends on the specifics and complexity of what I'm trying to track. For simple things Google Analytics works pretty well. You can just do some simple searching or reports to show you the averages of user usage.

For more complex situations (often within the application itself) I've actually built some APIs which allow me to store generalized data about any page interactions and relate it back to a particular page load instance. Once I have this data I can slice and dice it to figure out exactly what users in general are doing and also allows me to drill in and follow a particular page load and what that user did specifically. I can be as complex as simulating sitting behind the user and watching them use the app. It's surprising what you sometimes learn about how a particular user or group navigates a page and how different it is from what you initially expected when you designed the app.
Much like your billing rate, your billing increment is not a discussion, it is an announcement. Most of your customers are going to agree to it automatically, and the ones who don't are giving you fair notice that they're going to call you and need precisely 89 minutes of your time ("rounds to 1 hour, right?").

Good clients will occasionally have an oh-cripes moment and need an hour from you in the middle of the day. Good clients in an oh-cripes moment will think your day rate is a perfectly reasonable price to pay to get out of an oh-cripes moment. [Edit: On reflection, my actual practice for this is exactly equivalent to Thomas' as described in his comment. Do that.]
Didn't stop reading, just stopped taking it seriously.

I agree with the conclusion that the wisdom of the crowd doesn't apply to creative endeavors, and the reasoning why. The framing of the vote as a veto was stating the idea in a nice way.

But that means that all it is is a conclusion I already agree with prefaced by bad logic.
Creative Thinking Questions
Great question Andrew! I'd love to hear him explain:

why one way flights are often as expensive as round trips, his thoughts on couchsourced flight searching (flightfox.com, current YC batch), their monetization plans, while it is so hard to get the best priced tickets
Reminds me a bit of Methuselah's Children.

Also this article seems to support the theory of Lamarckian Inheritance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamarckism

I'm 47 years old with a 3 year old son. When my boy is my age, I will be 91, older than his only living great grand-father. Or, more likely, I'll be dead.

It makes sense to have more than one kid if you are an old first-time parent so your kids have family around after you are dead or very elderly.
Google’s e-book deal could slow rise of Amazon Kindle in Europe
IOS 6 brings fragmentation to the iPhone
So because I'm suffering from a deep case of the derp today, how are the first guess answers to those questions wrong?
Design details I found interesting from yesterday’s WWDC keynote
I can't imagine that navigation will work offline. Currently the directions and rerouting are calculated by Google's servers, not on the client device. Obviously trivial routing can be done on the device, but proper routing would need a lot more data to be present, and cover the whole route.
I've traced it down to font selection. When I change the font to a larger size (Monaco or Menlo) then the top of the contents of the frame is off the screen, "above" the Mac menu bar. Strangely, Courier New works correctly with larger font sizes.

I tried the suggestion elsewhere on this page about setting font and fontset together, but that didn't fix the problem.
Sorry in advance for the pedantry. ;) Dissonance is when notes "clash" with each other and in traditional voice leading dissonance always resolves to consonance.

Atonality, on the other hand, is a more recent development in Western music and is defined as the lack of a tonal center. Atonality can be an extremely interesting way to write music. Some of the first atonal music (note how it's not markedly "dissonant") can be found in Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune[1] and the prelude to act I of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde [2].

I don't listen to a huge amount of pop music, but is there anyone out there that is at least experimenting with atonality?

[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_7loz-HWUM
[2]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bwl3GYBM3E
also most employers have no idea how to accomodate transfers. They're scared by any prospect of extra paperwork or even worse, consulting a lawyer. If the H1B holder was free to move about from job to job as easy as a greencard holder, then all indentured servitude and low wage abuse would cease overnight.
I made it because no one else had and I knew I'd get upvoted. Don't think I don't realize it's trite. It's just fodder for the masses.
This happened to a story[1] I submitted yesterday. The title that I submitted was something essentially:

Analyzing the MD5 collision in Flame (Alexander Sotirov's Summercon Slides)

I thought it was useful/informative to include Sotirov's name in order to lend credibility to the analysis. I did not link directly to the pdf, however in the spirit of the submission guidelines I thought it would be appropriate to include that the main body of the link were slides from Summercon. It was changed to:

Analyzing the MD5 collision in Flame

It is not apparent to me why the title was changed. In my opinion the changed title was less informative to the reader and the original title did not include any spin/hyperbole/offensive material. Mainly I am just curious as to why the title was changed. I think it would be helpful if the moderators would post a comment when a title was changed. This would help inform the community about when a title is changed and educate us about what is and what is not proper. In the long run I think this would help make the moderators job easier...

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4098713
Do you have an ETA on when you will be able to provide support again? It seems a bit crazy to allow new account registrations when you have no ability to actually support those customers, and there is zero mention of the application status anywhere on the site.

It's a shame, because the product seems great and it fits my needs perfectly, but if support isn't there then I have to move on.
I think that's the point. neither of these is hard to work out from first principles with nothing but very basic math. Memorising the answer is all well and good, but that's just another rule of thumb.
What version of Android, I wonder?

Having a large existing set of users with old versions of Android is one thing, but the fact that a ton of new users are still getting 2.x devices... baffling.
All of this is covered (much better)in Kahneman's 'Thinking, Fast and Slow'.
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