skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, this article really makes Elon Musk sound pretty creepy... :O

[Which is an interesting change from the usual Elon-Musk-is-so-cool articles...]
Works on Ubuntu 12.04 64bit. Installed, watched a part of a movie.

One thing is, it starts in full screen mode just press F11 to exit it out of it.
There is a huge difference between w3schools and these web sites, you can type in stuff on one side and see it on the other. I know that seems silly but its so helpful for people learning, is there anywhere else where they have that sort of setup?
H-1B has no requirement that no US citizen can be found with the qualifications. This is a common misconception. In fact, H-1B is fairly trivial if you meet the criteria (degree or equivalent). This "no qualified US citizen" requirement is associated with EB-2 and EB-3 PERM applications, which is the first step to an employer sponsored green card process.

Also, It is not valid to start a business and pay yourself at least the prevailing wage in order to sponsor an H-1B. In fact, if you are in the ownership chain of a company you more or less can't have it apply for an H-1B on your behalf. There are other routes if you are making serious money though.
Así se hizo la Tierra: Tsunami
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Así se hizo la Tierra: Tsunami
I've often wondered what I in particular and my group in general could accomplish if we had a quiet place to think at work.
Oh noes, we have to pay a few dollars for these things.
There is a quiet car, too, but it is hardly necessary. Talking on the cell phone loudly is frowned upon everwhere

Surely you must be joking?
I have not built a successful company like yours, but I can't imagine the decision to hire employee #1, or health care options, or drama related to a bad hire, or any of the other things that can cause ulcers have been stress free for you guys.

I have unsuccessfully attempted to build an company like yours ... and it was stressful.
> Your friend was arrested in the state of Maharashtra and taken to the state of Delhi. Given these facts, you are claiming collusion among multiple state and federal agencies and judiciary, acting out on blatantly false information in an FIR.

If the crime happened within Delhi jurisdiction and FIR is with Delhi police and the court issues arrest warrant, it needs no collusion for the police to go and pick you up from Maharashtra. Also, getting an arrest warrant is trivial if the accused somehow doesn't appear in court.

> From having spent 24 years in India in a upper middle class family, I can assure you from anecdotal evidence that I never crossed paths with anyone in a position so powerful to exert such clout.

All it needs is a FIR, accused not appearing in the court(depends on the violation), and you get an arrest warrant.

> More over all information in this matter is in the public domain the moment a FIR was filed and can be obtained by anyone with a request under the auspices of right to information act.

What? Are you assuming the victim or jacquesm and friends didn't know the contents of the FIR?

> The very fact that you received help from the very people raised in the same society that you claim to be corrupt should make you reevaluate you belief in the account of events you have received.

People helping you doesn't negate people who have wronged you. There is nothing to re-valuate - the events aren't mutually exclusive.

> I request you to immediate STOP your innuendo on account of hearsay against a country I hold dear

Take a breath. Being born in India doesn't automatically grant you expertise on all things India, neither does it grant you the right to deny everything that is bad about India.
That's the pattern I've noticed as well.
>What bothers me about the OP though is that if you really dislike Metro so much on a desktop, you don't have to use it!

This is said over and over again, and everyone has to keep reminding them that it's not about what is currently happening, but the fact that Microsoft is GOING IN THIS DIRECTION. The "Desktop" is slated for execution - just because they have it now doesn't mean it's going to exist forever. It's obvious that MS (and other companies) believe that this "power user" feature is unnecessary going forward.
That is Cisco's innovation strategy for the last 10-15 years.

They "outsource" R&D/Innovation to smaller companies and then buy those.

Hence, their special skills as a company are:

1. Identify future growth areas [market segments] and potential leaders.

2. Seamlessly merge the acquired company into Cisco operations.

There was a good article about this in Fortune/Forbes 6-8 years - did not keep the link.
There's a multiplicative effect. See the concept of intersectionality.
For people who can't get the quiet they need to do their work, try drowning it out. I highly recommend Rainy Mood http://www.rainymood.com/ which just plays the sound of rain continuously. In open plan offices, sometimes it's the best you can do.
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I apologize. I downvoted you by mistake.
The GGP is bizarrely lucky, I don't know of one person so insulated that they haven't seen the routine and casual abuse of power and flaunting of in this country.

Property battles are among the ugliest and most underhanded types of disputes to get involved in here. Sons using the cops and litigation to kick the mother/parents out of the house levels of ugly.
I've often said it: The twin banes of the suburban soundscape are barking dogs and gas-powered gardening implements.
What Mark Cuban Really Thinks About Facebook
"In the case of "I Have a Dream", think of the societal cost of raising two generations of students without a complete copy of the speech in their textbooks (as is generally the case)."

While I completely agree that it is a shame that Dr. King's speeches are protected by copyright I really do not think that there is a great societal cost due to textbooks without a verbatim transcript. With the exception of the Gettysburg Address I can not think of any speeches that should be included verbatim in a high school social studies textbook. Textbooks have a lot of material to cover and summarize.
So if women choose not to be included on your activity, you would cancel it, because women would feel excluded? OK....

If I never took part in anything that didn't attract females (that were not family), I would have never learned anything, or seen any movies, or eaten any food...
> Let's hope that in the long run this whole thing can be laid to rest without any chance of repercussions or repetitions.

Don't just hope. Evaluate the situation and avoid the areas where you(I mean your friend) might be in trouble. I don't know about your situation, but in general, someone used to having things his way doesn't take kindly to not having things his way.

> One of the prosecuting police officers in this case - that I've had some correspondence with - is on the record as wanting to beat me up for interfering with his case.

That sound totally out of world for you, but it sounds pretty normal to me.

> I guess a holiday in India is out for the moment ;)

Don't worry too much about it. It's not like you land in India, and they meet you at the airport. People you have pissed off have no means of knowing if you are in India. But yes, if you do come to India, avoid crossing paths. Also, even if you do cross paths, you have established that you have access to legal help and you aren't going to just roll over. That would exclude regular cops from messing with you again.
I suspect you are going to be downvoted into oblivion - So, on the faith that you aren't trolling, the issue isn't paying copyright holders for the intellectual property that they've created, and thereby incentivizing content creators to create more intellectual property. Nor, is the issue, that these people have a half-century government supported monopoly on their work.

The issues are (A) that the expiration for copyrights (government supported monopolies) keeps getting moved further and further into the future, far beyond any date required to incent content creators, and (B) perhaps even worse, content that is completely orphaned, and is serving no commercial value to anyone, also can't be distributed because it's locked up on copyrights that nobody is interested in any more.
Wow. Does anything of value get invented in an office environment?
She's an Indian Citizen.
You need more upvotes.
Cost of not native: 11MB for simple Android app
They may be quiet but I'm not sure it compares with the quiet car. On the quiet car, when all goes well, it is 100% silent. No one talks and there's just no noise at all. If your train of thought is broken for a moment and you take in the silence it's almost eerie. That's why even the slightest noise like someone typing can become so disturbing. I don't know, maybe the people on your train really are that quiet but I hope you get to experience a quiet car someday to know for sure because it really is great.
Your story about the property sounds very believable with what I've seen so far, and I wonder what happened after you sold it, if the buyer got the same treatment that you had or if this was the last of it.

Generally, the way it works is if your property is worth 20, and you can may be get 22 out of it if you try, you sell it to someone for 15 who can handle the trouble.
could cost way under $100/hr.

Way under seems like a bit of a stretch. The average developer salary is $92,000 per year, which works out to around $45/hr if we assume a standard work week. The rule of thumb is that you need double or even triple of what you are paying your employees in order to be able to afford to employ them. Even if you are the business owner and employee, you still need to recoup the costs of running the business for yourself so the math remains the same. It seems the bare minimum you could charge for the average developer is $90/hr, which is just shy of the $100/hr. quoted. Above average developers will require much more per hour.

You could, perhaps, charge way less if you hired below average developers, but that seems to fall under the first category and not the one the parent is referencing. This, of course, assumes that you are operating in the USA. Numbers may differ in less costly parts of the world.
The problem here is the $1MM has to be your to begin with.

What if instead you can get people to invest that amount into your startup and then use that investment to create jobs?
As I was reading this, I couldn't help but juxtapose this article on top of the first world problems meme on everything this guy was saying.

"I had to miss a full day with my family, camping in the mountains...to raise $150 million"

Poor guy! This would be more relevant coming from someone who utterly failed.
I'm wondering what would the differences in terms of difficulty between getting citizenship by finding a start up and getting a green card by working for Microsoft be.
Recyclable electronics: just add hot water
I assume you mean using NZ as an experimental place with a view to then justifying expansion into the US on a larger scale, since you brought up Google specifically. As opposed to the EU or something.

I don't think that would work. Look at health care. There are multitude of good systems and mediocre systems, all around the developed world (and the developing, for that matter). There are plenty of example of what to do, what not to do, etc. And yet, you don't have to look too far to find people who are totally convinced that nationalized health care is a mistake, that it can't work, that it will bankrupt society, which all flies in the face not just of basic policy research and mathematics, but fucking real world examples.

And that is because American society does not give a shit what the rest of the world thinks or does, and they do not believe that the same rules apply to them, or that the experience of, say, the UK or Japan could ever apply to them. Certainly not NZ. You could have self-driving flying cars and ubiquitous networking in NZ and still Americans could give you infinite reasons why it will never work and is too expensive and also probably communism.

Now, for going NZ -> literally anywhere else, you have a good idea.
With all due respect that is one of the most ignorant things I have ever heard about intellectual property law.
Do you get much flak from others for your sensitivity to noise?

Some noises bother me a lot. Anything that's repetitive will annoy me to the point that I basically cannot function and get extremely angry, and it only takes a minute or two to get to that level. Sometimes sounds (and not necessarily loud ones) are physically uncomfortable.

I have similar issues with some textures (in food, clothing, etc.) and am very sensitive to smells (the cause nausea and headaches).

All my life I have been told I need to "get over" this, which I have certainly tried to do, but there seems to be only so much I can do about it. People who don't experience this level of sensitivity just think I'm being difficult and that I do this by choice. Frustrating.
Ok but that's kind of my point. You don't need Knockout to bind values to DOM elements so you can update the DOM in "real time", do you? There's nothing inherently special about KO or backbone or whatever, is there? It's just javascript.

Unless you mean something besides what I understand "real-time" to be, I don't think this actually happens.
In a nutshell the problem with W3Schools isn't any of the things the author points out. It's in the people learning from it. All good developers get to a point in their learning where they realize W3Schools is all the things the author points out and stops using it or very rarely uses it as a quick reference. That's fine. But then there's a whole other breed of developer who never move beyond what can be learned at W3Schools. They go on to write and share terrible code and teach others the least effective way to do things and that's where the harm in W3Schools lies. These are the same developers you find on Stackoverflow who post questions like "can you give me the code to run a Facebook clone".
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What I Really Think About Facebook
started veering into niche discussions specific to iOS developers

These discussions are exactly why I started listening to B&A in the first place.

I didn't really care for endless rehashing about how 'there's no tablet market, only an iPad market' and so on and so forth.

The coffee and cars stuff was interesting as was the specific discussions on being an iOS developer.

Would have been nice to have some more photography discussion as well as I got the feeling that both Dan Benjamin and Marco Arment really geek out on photography.
IPad Application Development
The application development market is widely spreading and you can witness large number of applications arrive the market each day. But, do you think all such applications are useful or can offer benefits to the users? No, off-course not, the most negative fact about iPhone applications is that most of the apps created for iPhone are just useless or can be said disasters in other words.
Judge approves FTC's $22.5m fine of Google
Plenty of people have made the connection. I've frequently seen people refer to it as "W3C Schools" and complain to the W3C Validator's mailing list about the Validator rejecting code from "your site http://w3schools.com.
If you use Google, you can add w3schools.com to your list of sites blocked in search results. I did this and it makes MDN my top result almost 100% of the time when searching for spec-related information.

link: http://www.google.com/reviews/t
screenshot: http://cl.ly/image/2l2r3f3y1a3x
I can only speak for myself but I like to listen to music because when I don't my mind starts blaring its own music at me from within. On repeat. All day. It can actually get really distracting (I'll start singing instead of programming) and I have to start up some music to distract that part of my brain and let the rest of it work on whatever I'm supposed to be doing. I find that certain music (psytrance and goa, the louder the better) distract just the smallest part of the brain, maximizing the part that that can work on whatever problem I need it to.

Similarly, I watch TV at night to dull the inner monologue in my head so I can fall asleep. If I don't my stupid mind fixates on the most negative aspects of my life (even when things are going well) and I stay awake for hours feeling horrible. TV, music, and reading can distract me and let me fall asleep peacefully.
Many first-generation games were fantastic. Take Super Mario 64 for N64 for example, or Super Mario Sunshine for GC.
4 > 1 > 3 > 2 > 5

At least, that's how I remember feeling after watching them. I will probably rewatch the whole thing and re-evaluate that order.
Did you know a fashion model can easily get a O1 if she has appeared in a few print magazines, but an entrepreneur has to basically have won a noble prize? I could write a book about the issues each of the above visa’s have, but I want to keep this post light as it’s a complicated subject.

Let me quote from the regulations. You need either a Nobel Prize or any three of the following:

Receipt of nationally or internationally recognized prizes or awards for excellence in the field of endeavor

Membership in associations in the field for which classification is sought which require outstanding achievements, as judged by recognized national or international experts in the field

Published material in professional or major trade publications, newspapers or other major media about the beneficiary and the beneficiary’s work in the field for which classification is sought

Original scientific, scholarly, or business-related contributions of major significance in the field

Authorship of scholarly articles in professional journals or other major media in the field for which classification is sought

A high salary or other remuneration for services as evidenced by contracts or other reliable evidence

Participation on a panel, or individually, as a judge of the work of others in the same or in a field of specialization allied to that field for which classification is sought

Employment in a critical or essential capacity for organizations and establishments that have a distinguished reputation

Now comes the hacking bit: can you map any three of those broadly written requirements to three specific achievements a 23 year old programmer could have within two months of setting out to have them? Empirically, more than a few people can. (I'm constrained about what I can tell you about individual folks.)

e.g. While I'm an American citizen and thus wouldn't have to worry about it (the relevant criteria for my Japanese visa are, obviously, different), I could present a fairly strong case for an O1 visa on the basis of:

1) I have been published in a major CS journal. (ACM reprinted a blog post of mine. Totally counts. I'm pretty sure you can make "Guest posted for Smashing Magazine" into one of your three points, if that seems unlikely.)

2) My salary is high (i.e. "at least as high as a starting grad at Google"), as evidenced by copious paper I could produce on that topic. Not a high bar for any engineer to hit.

3) I judged a hackathon once ("participated on a panel as the judge of work of others..."). (So not kidding. Bureaucracies are state machines. You give them exactly what they ask for and get the published transition.)

etc, etc, etc
There are many sites like that. The one I use most frequently is http://jsfiddle.net/
> The problem is that if you don't like it, you really don't like it. Meanwhile, if you don't mind it, people who do seem like jerks.

It's more like how you say it. "Hey Buddy, if you don't stop slurping, I am going to chew and then open my mouth wide to show you my handiwork." is very different from "I am leaving. You are so rude."

> The disgust is visceral, and hard to rationalize away.

The keyword is "friend" - someone who you can talk to; asking him not to do that as it is making you uncomfortable should be pretty easy.
Cisco Acquires Meraki
Their PHP+MySQL tutorial has an SQL injection vulnerability in every example that takes user input. It never mentions SQL injection as a possible problem and it never covers any of the techniques needed to defend against it.

In my book, that's unforgivable and they won't get any slack from me until they fix it.
TL;DR ad-lib with "custom software" would be:

Custom Software can cost a variable of extreme prices, depending on who's building it and exactly what is wanted out of the custom software.

What's so ludicrous about that?

Maybe read the article and not just the title?
I haven't tried out Joyent, but I've tested out Linode and Storm-on-Demand and they easily beat Amazon EC2. My benchmark was running our production image processing algorithm that utilizes OpenCV via python on Ubuntu Server (definitely CPU-limited).

FWIW, here are my benchmarks, along with pricing for Northern California regions:

Linode 512: 15.2 seconds, 65 cents per day

Storm-on-demand 1 GB: 13.05 seconds, 5 cents per hour

EC2-micro: 168 seconds, 2.5 cents per hour

EC2-small: 63 seconds, 9 cents per hour

EC2-medium (high CPU): 12.13 seconds, 18.6 cents per hour
I am in Canada, and I can confirm this. A few years back my family was involved in an ordeal which made our already difficult life so much more difficult and stressful.

In fact, my mother suffered major depression, unable to believe that even in a country like Canada corruption is present. Even to this day she is having troubles getting over it, but life goes on.

I'm glad your friend is safe now. The world really needs more people like you and Daniel.
"In 2010, DTCC settled nearly US$1.66 quadrillion in securities transactions."

If you are interested in how financial markets operate and have not heard of DTCC I highly recommend you take a look at their "about us" page.[1]

[1] http://www.dtcc.com/about/business/index.php
I have yet to find one regular (i.e. not tech-savvy) Windows user who knows how to open and use task manager.
Thanks swannodette, both for your work on ClojureScript and for the link to Conrad Barski's webfui. I had noted the dates for Clojure Conj 2012 and Conrad's talk but obviously time passed by swiftly. I look forward to the videos of Clojure Conj 2012 going up soon.
The Problem with a Slate of White, Male Speakers
If that was the case you could run Mono/.NET code without pre-JITting it. And that is not the case.
Summary: junk food is more appealing than healthy food, ignoring the fact that it isn't filling so isn't actualy cheaper; and dad is addicted to sports television, so they buy Sky TV instead of fruit.

Does frozen fruit and vegetables not exist in the UK?
Show HN: Cheergram
http://cheergram.com

Hey there everyone. I have been reading HN a bit here sans there but haven't ever submitted/commented before. (I am a stay at home mom)

Anyway I had this idea a while back and had my husband help me build it. I tried to do most of the designs, though some are stock vectors.

Anyway I'd love your feedback on anything that will help this business grow.

Thanks so much.
Does coding style affect the bug rate? Yes. So it matters.

For example, in the world before compiled had warnings for this sort of thing, putting the constant to the left side of the equality operator in a conditional reduced the chances of accidentally making it an assignment operator.

Also, the bug rate is reduced the more code you can fit onto a screen without having to scroll. Coding styles that waste fewer lines probably reduce the bug rate.
Pythonista looks nice, thanks for the tip. Some simple touch-based codes are part of the app, ready to tinker with.
Typo, too late to edit: s/coffeescript/clojurescript/
I've been 'struggling' with this lately. I have app dev experience but not really anything to show in public so I have been offering to do apps at $2k-ish as a portfolio building exercise. Maybe I anchored it too low or this is just how it is, but I received a fair few messages asking if I'd go sub $1000 or work on a pay-if-we-like-it/if we make money basis.
http://cheergram.com