skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I think you're missing the point. If it's true that rival nations will attempt to hack us for whatever reason, then it benefits us all to have a better understanding of basic cybersecurity than seeing foreign hackers as the Hand of God. Instead of examining the geopolitical problems here, this article takes us through a terrifying cyberstorm whipped up by mystical superhackers when the real perpetrators might as well have been script kiddies.

The problem is that if cybersecurity continues to be framed in this fashion, then all that shit that HN continually complains about -- security theater (via homeland security) and draconian Internet laws (remember SOPA) -- will continue to be status quo.
> (not demand, need)

Wow.
Wacko Bobs Music Fest Christmas time is here.
As a recent immigrant myself -- I got my green card last week, after a 5-year application process, and I'm one of the lucky ones -- I'm a huge fan of immigration reform. However, this is not the bill to do it. The 55,000 diversity visas are an essential part of how immigration should work: there should be more of them, not less. While we need more STEM educated immigrants, it should not be at the expense of other visa types.
I don't understand what's really wrong in diverting 55,000 visas from a random, unplanned allocation scheme (diversity) to a more metrics driven allocation scheme (education). How is this not 'true reform'?
I like hiawatha for low-spec boxes. I run it on a couple of tiny VPSs I have.

http://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/
It's funny. I spent a while yesterday trying to find a free easy and secure way for anyone to publish static websites, but couldn't find anything that was like the Dropbox public folder option. And now Google comes out with this...

I guess I'll have to update my post http://www.zappable.com/2012/11/the-zappable-guide-to-findin...
A little OT : Here's a great example of a bill being written with explicit intent of making anyone who votes against it look like a terrible person:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protecting_Children_from_Intern...

Written by Lamar Smith, Mr. Privacy Invader himself -- make sure to read the Privacy issues section of the wiki page
Marissa Mayer Destroys RIM In 23 Words
My first thought was to my desktop mouse. lol.

Pretty impressive discovery.
L'application Skype se met à jour en version 4.2
If this is the case, the title of the article strikes me as poorly chosen.
Great reply!!
> White House announcement before congressional vote on STEM Jobs Act puts president in opposition to many of the Silicon Valley firms and executives who bankrolled his re-election campaign.

it's sad that this was the point cnet chose to highlight as the subheading. bankrolling a politician's campaign should not create in him a sense of obligation.
I'm unfamiliar with diversity visas- who are they for, and what "good" are they supposed to provide?
Funny I have always remembered P-Dub as the guy whom you tell to do his homework if you ever see him on reddit. I think you're thinking of the soap guy.
Sorry but there is a difference between the two out there in the real world.
Wow that second link makes for some seriously entertaining reading. Recommended for anyone who hasn't seen an industry standards body forum before.

Warning: It may shatter (or confirm) your preconceptions quite strongly
There has never been a better time to be a mouse.
The Series A crunch: one more reason to skip Venture capital
Similar concept, different design.
Milburn, after all, had built Solid Oak’s network himself. “I thought they might be able to get around some IT guy, but there’s no way they were going to get around me,” he says.

/Facepalm.

I was going to write that at least he got a bunch of free publicity from the article, but on the other hand the takeaway is that product is probably no more secure than his servers.
I think you mean 'without the overhead of a sysadmin'... but thank you, I've been looking for a curt explanation as to when App Engine is a good choice, and you've explained it better than I ever could.
As a legal immigrant who has been in the country for 12 years and still waiting for a green card, I'm willing to accept that the administration will reject this bill if and only if it makes good on its promise for comprehensive reform. I also oppose the idea of cannibalizing the diversity visas - that seems to go against the spirit of the foundation of America's origins.
IEEE-USA is for this bill? I always thought they were in the camp that this drives down tech wages and promotes ageism.
Well obviously software can violate a patent I just think it's bad policy and the law should be changed. I'm not making a philosophical distinction or saying software patents are inherently unjust. Policy by nature makes an arbitrary distinction and says one thing has good effects and the other bad, so what follows is a policy argument as to why the arbitrary legal distinction should be made.

Going from your example, in the absence of cheap programmable computers the problem of coordinating spark timing with the engine is a real engineering problem that probably required nontrivial R&D resources to get right. To the extent that distributors remained useful to the world, those sunk costs should be protected. If you didn't, there'd be a toxic second-mover advantage to just copying the other guy's R&D work.

Software just doesn't have those kind of sunk-cost discovery problem, at least not at anything like the scale other disciplines do. The fixed costs in software are different. They're almost all about execution, education, coordination, and marketing.

Imagine a software R&D guy, who discovers a new thing you can do with software. Assume the idea works, and is profitable: He's still spent a tiny fraction of bringing a product to market, even a product that is just an implementation of his invention. Patents won't fix the second-mover advantage, if any, because the first-mover costs aren't from software research.

The mismatch actually starts to matter when non-practicing inventors come into play. In the old world of industry, these guys were at least providing a public service by creating inventions nobody else bothered to fund, so it was reasonable that companies that found their inventions useful should pay for them. But in software the non-practicing inventor hasn't paid the cost. There is still the first-mover disadvantage out there of building the market, educating your users, etc. on top of the cost of turning the invention into a shipable product that everyone in the market has to pay.
Rep. Smith is also responsible for the STEM bill in question here.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:h.r.6429:

I've come to associate his name with being a bit of a red flag.

EDIT:

HN is mangling the hyperlink for some reason. Copy+pasting will get you to the bill.
without "cannibalizing" the diversity visas.

Well, the diversity visas were the most brutal possible attack on sanity ever passed by a legislature. "Oh, you came from XYZ wretched backwater, here's your VISA...on the basis of your wretchedness." Sad, sad, sad, to live in such dismal times.
Damn Nigga you crazy.

Maybe you got something to say.

Can't you Constrain your Cunt?!

After its all, just A-O-K.
This, exactly. If congressional republicans actually wanted the additional STEM visas, they could pass a clean bill doing only that and Obama would probably sign it, based on the statement above.
Is there a reason that we need to reallocate current visas? Why not just create 55K new STEM visas?
Given the number of articles that have been as poorly chosen it would not surprise me if this was the case.
Constant telomerase activation is one of the major steps in making cancer cells immortal and thus eventually metastatic. It's possible that controlled telomerase activation (via drugs or clever future gene therapies) might present a small enough increased cancer risk that it would be worth the increased health and longevity.

Last I heard, gene therapies currently have fairly high risks involved with them (cancer, mostly).
lottery system for immigration, focused heavily on bringing in immigrants from countries that have lower immigration rates to the US -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity_Immigrant_Visa
Thanks, I don't know how I missed that, I blame RMS's hair.

I guess the phrase "Software Patents" and the strange rules about software patentability in Europe gave me the impression that they wanted to take the non-patentable route instead of the non-infringing one.
White House economic report forecasts Mass. job losses
I can't imagine why US engineers would support a bill like this from a benefit analysis perspective. It should be obvious that if you add engineers, prices will go down. I can completely understand supporting it for moral reasons however.
Mine too -- then I thought -- I've never had an optical mouse break on me, why would I need this? :)
One of the best things about bootstrap is how it encourages responsive design and makes it easy to do. Why in the world is any website associated with bootstrap at all not responsive?
You raise an interesting concept, but as US-born software engineer, this is why I'm not too concerned:

- Unlike low-skill manufacturing jobs, most technology jobs are not commodity work. To put it another way: if the US gave out visas to 55,000 people who got an acting degree, I doubt Brad Pitt would have to take a paycut on his next movie.

- A lot of the companies sponsoring this bill are software companies, but STEM isn't just software engineering. The applicants here are in a wide variety of fields. How many of them will specifically get a computer science degree with the explicit goal of getting a job at Google? Some, sure, but not all 55,000. They'll go into other fields and other industries and I don't think the total volume of talent in each particular STEM industry will be enough to significantly impact wages.

- Whatever these people were going to do in the US in terms of entrepreneurship, if they can't get a visa they'll just go back to their home country and do it there. So it's just as possible they'd start their own companies and need to hire software engineers, which would actually have upward pressure on wages.
Larry Osterman: Read-Only and Write-Only Computer Languages
> schooling in commuter science

I think that you found the issue right there. ;-)
(I think frozenport was telling a joke.)
Right,the american economy is in danger of tanking if the country does not hire more janitors.Science and Engineering phds can look after themselves elsewhere,Canada maybe?
You do have a say. Stop using Facebook.
Thanks for weighing in with your uninformed opinion on something while also invoking the age old "when the US economy is doing very poorly" straw man which has nothing to do with the DV lottery.

Those DV lottery winners pay US taxes while having no citizenship rights, so you have literally no idea what you're talking about.
Isn't that a sensible humanitarian policy?
They are Visas available to anybody, for any reason, from any country. They are good because immigration is good.

But let me explain a bit further.

Most American visas are related to a specific job, or a family connection, or education. You can't just turn up and stay -- you have to have a reason, and a ton of documentation. But that's not how immigration has, historically, worked: the original American colonists and those that followed them through the 1700s and 1800s didn't arrive knowing where they'd live and what job they'd have. They arrived hoping to make a better life for their children, with no clear plan of how. That's what these visas are for.

The situation is complicated slightly further because these are restricted to low-immigration-rate countries. Basically, there are a billion Indians and more than a billion Chinese: even a very small percentage of them applying for a visa lottery would mean that 99% of visas went to people from those countries. Therefore, to get immigrants from a broader range of countries, visas for people from countries that send a lot of applications every year are handled separately, under their own quotas. The remaining countries are all lumped together and given a group quota: these are the "diversity" visas.

If you would like a more fundamental answer to why immigration is good, I'm happy to oblige, just ask :-)
It's not quite as convenient as copying a public link in Dropbox, but you can just copy and paste the unique id string from the share link, like:

https://docs.google.com/folder/d/{id}/edit

To:

https://googledrive.com/host/{id}/

And it works.
From an app idea to being featured on Cult of Mac
Spot on. If you want privacy, don't use Facebook. I don't.

My worry is that the whole world is getting so tangled into The Social Web that soon, you won't be able to buy an ice cream cone without alerting every advertiser and government agency in the world.
The telomeres are one of the cell's natural defenses against cancer. Telomerase makes it easier for a cell to divide uncontrollably, and most cancers have activated telomerases. Despite the claims that these mice don't have increased cancer, it would be wise to exercise much caution before pursuing this kind of treatment in a human.
And yet, Google's Objective-C style guide (adopted by many) is uncompromising in its 80-character line length:

http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/objcguide....
Telcos charge more to send a text next door than cost of sending data from Mars
To me this doesn't sound very exciting. To publish static website/contents programatically , why would i bother use this and not Github pages? It's easier and more programmers friendly too, since it's git.
> couldn't find anything that was like the Dropbox public folder option

With http://www.site44.com/ you can use Dropbox for webhosting.
If you kicked out all of the undocumented workers currently working in the US tomorrow, I can absolutely guarantee you that the American economy would immediately collapse.

You need more of both.
Just use github pages, it's free, secure and easy to use.
>> Not using Facebook is not a realistic possibility.

Funny, my life still seems pretty realistic since I deleted my account. Maybe more so.
Ugh, I think someone just hacked my keyboard...the timing is just too convenient
Edgar Mitchell:A global consciouness
Hopefully that teaches him to rely on windows.
Thanks. I should've known that, really. Was looking for the civil equivalent of a finding for a party that would tend to go against the apparent legal facts of a case.

I'm not sure how much faith I put in juries, but sometimes they do the right thing.
The title of the article strikes me as one written by a Republican. This is a terrible bill, that's why it's not being signed.
The assumption that the DV lottery only brings in low skill labor is both insulting and wrong.
It is, of course, totally insane to let people voluntarily choose to work here and make voluntary economic transactions with other adults who voluntarily want to pay them money to provide goods and services for Americans to voluntarily purchase.
The only requirement for a diversity visa is a high school equivalent. Considering how poor the job market is for HS only graduates, limiting visas to people with marketable skills makes a lot of sense.
There is a method called `showModalDialog` in modern browsers that was supposed to be used for exactly that, blocking interaction. Unfortunately it doesn't actually work consistently.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/window.showModa...
This happened at Melbourne Uni this year with a slight twist - the student support team emailed all-students@unimelb.edu.au (or some variation) letting them know about the support services the uni had on offer for students in distress.

Some poor soul (or a skilled troll) replied to the list with an email intended for the support team itself requesting help with coping with the stress of exams and uni life, starting a "please remove me from this list" conversation that went on for a day or two before they closed the list.

Honestly I've never felt so bad for someone in my whole life, although some of the replies were hilarious.
California's -- in particular -- argicultural economy is highly reliant on unskilled, migrant workers. Producing food for people to eat is somewhat important.
“Stripe.com”.equals(“landmine”) as of now
This is 100% accurate. My point was that S3 is good at being scalable infinitely, but you can use low-end hardware to scale up to point x for storage. This will be small and fail quickly when it comes to media companies, but for most web apps who need an image host or cdn, it'll go a long way at a fraction of what aws charges. My problem I guess is that I see younger companies looking at aws, linode and rackspace as the _only_ solution and I think that's unwise.

I realize I'm slowly going offtopic, sorry! AWS still rocks and I wish I could use my amazon gift cards there.
If I was worth the skins and meat and seed I came into town with and I didn't spend half of it getting wasted with the local loser and I didn't brush and pop and settle well. I might have to run for president instead of ending my career framing what I should have... fuck it. Petraeus should be given . a role. He's kind of a good leader. Even if he can't entomologyze with the rest of US.
What is the argument the mice were living a percentage longer instead of a roughly fixed amount of time longer?
Thank you for putting into words something I've wanted to say for a long time. "You're being sold!!!1" is the belabored rallying cry of the social media hater (and often the tinfoil worthy privacy nutter on a level that would make even rms reconsider).

I'd take it a step further though and say the entire "you're being sold!!!eleven" isn't contingent on the level of information an advertiser gets about you (of which, like you said, they simply don't have), it's a pithy saying with zero basis in reality used by those with a hipster mindset, who feel somehow superior for not using that damn money grubbing Zuck's advertising site.

If you (the general you, not you you) don't want to use Facebook because it's a timesink, or because you don't have friends on it, or because it could cause you negative real life consequences, or whatever else fine - just do me a huge favor and spare me the breathless moralizing and predictions of dystopian "papers please" futures. You don't have to justify yourself to some random on the internet, and I kind of wish you wouldn't besides.
Much better than the science daily article. Thank you!
Fair enough. It's maybe not such a problem in the U.S. where the logo isn't in the media much, but to me the blue hexagon immediately triggered recognition. I'm only passing on the info.
Lamar Smith also authored the existing immigration law (IIRIRA) which is widely considered to be an abject failure. One provision had esteemed Judge Richard Posner exclaiming 'the law can't be that ridiculous!' before setting it aside in a recent case.

The law had a provision for granting advance parole to people whose immigration proceedings were incomplete so they could leave the country for things like weddings, funerals and so on and get back in to pick up where they left off. However, leaving the country also caused the immigration application to be considered abandoned, and the advance parole could be rejected. It even says on the advance parole application form that if granted, the parole may or may not be worth the paper it's written on - it depends on how the immigration officer at the port of entry is feeling on that particular day.

That should tell you all you need to know about Rep. Lamar Smith.
MBA's are different than people with degrees in Sociology. They tend to hire other MBA's, and stuff organizations with fellow MBA buddies. They damage things.

IMO, the problem is that these degrees give you the technical tools needed to function as a manager, but fall short in developing leadership skills -- which is bad news when companies automatically place McKinsey alums with top X MBA's in influential positions.
Ask HN: Do you check work email at home or forward it to your personal email?
If so, are you working for a startup or a larger company?
What'll be fun is when one or more of those roughly 10 awesome companies don't need to get funded at all in the traditional sense, thanks to the JOBS act coming online soon.

My previous startup pursued a Series A last year (and failed), and I'm completely forgoing VC for my current startup. Instead, it'll be JOBS act and then straight into Second Market.

Ironically, we're raising almost twice as much money this time for a product my last venture already included amongst a panoply of other tech developed over a 10+ year period.

Sometimes, it feels like the market is almost completely irrational in the small, and only seems to approach rationality over huge numbers of ventures.

All in all, I'm very happy with the JOBS act. Instead of making a bunch of already wealthy people on Sand Hill Road I just met even richer, I'll be able to spread that wealth around far, far more than I could have otherwise.
Could you tell me why you claim immigration is fundamentally good? Interested in hearing more.
Declan McCullough's reporting on legal issues frequently seems completely off base to me.
Bing Attacks Google Shopping, Forgets It’s Guilty Of Same Problems
Visa != citizenship

And there are already plenty of routes for rich people to obtain visas, just by proving that they have a lot of money. These visas are for workers.
Just to clarify:

The previous link I posted was not the one referenced in the Science Daily. That would be here:

http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/emmm.201200245

Unfortunately, all of these original articles are behind a paywall. Most of us here have some University access, I believe, but not all. Science Daily at leasts gets you the gist.
I am not certain how to read the comment other than "it isn't possible for it to be reactionary as it happened first", which I believe I corrected (but maybe, as I demonstrated a stronger conjecture in addition, that doesn't count?).
Chrome != the web.

I'll take webapps that works in ANY browser over "webapps" that works with Chrome ONLY any day of the 2013 year.

Embrace extend extinguish the web Google? Thanks but no thanks!
Create folded 3D figures
I should retract the last line of my previous comment.

While the site does indeed has flash, it's just because the standard YouTube's player respecting previous selections (or lack thereof). I used to have YouTube as HTML5, but recently re-installed Chrome recently and I guess it went back to Flash as a default player.

So, kudos to the developers. No more "but"..
I believe DV winners have citizenship rights after residing in the US for 5 years.
Remember the house likes to do the opposite of what he wants.

Too bad he didn't want single payer.
That's what clinical trials and FDA approval is for (at least in theory).
The US has been in recession 9 of the last 10 years.

This is not true as recession is defined by the NBER. If the author means to imply that we should change our definition of recession: I don't believe he produces a convincing argument that (US GDP) / (World GDP) is more indicative of a protracted economic slump than our current definition. When this ratio is declining for a particular nation, it simply means that the worlds economy is becoming relatively larger.
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It was a really poor showing, and not at all productive. Keep in mind, though, that the mailing lists for the SVG and CSS working groups are open to the public, so while it was bound to get contentious, the completely unhelpful flaming was not coming from an actual member of those groups (at least not at the start). If anyone is interested in participating in these kinds of discussions, please keep in mind that reenacting your own take on Eternal September is not helpful in any way. Acclimatize. Entrenchment and flame wars only gets us html5 <video> and EcmaScript 4.