skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technically, you can get EB-1 or EB-2 without having an H-1B. In practice, it is much more common to go H-1B -> EB-2.
EB-1 is probably doable for CS PhD but still very uncommon.
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Experience with functional programming and especially functional reactive programming is a huge plus. Our main language right now is in JavaScript, because that is what runs in the browser. However, we're still very small and use of only JavaScript isn't set in stone. We're also considering languages particularly well-suited for metaprogramming as we build out our developer tooling (e.g. Clojure & ClojureScript).

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That's great! Compliments like this are the real payoff when you open a coffee shop.
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Personally, I have to disagree with their reasoning. No, I will often not use their service from my phone, but what if I'm surfing on the bus and want to look at their pricing or features? On my iPhone, which has a relatively small screen, I'd be almost out of luck. I would either have to hope Safari Reader or Pocket could pick out the text, or deal with scrolling back and forth. Normally, I'd just leave and likely forget about their service.

Which is kind of why I decided to use responsive design completely on ThreeBar (https://threebar.net). In fact, not only are the static pages responsive, but the entire administration dashboard is responsive as well, so users of the service can actually manage their entire account on their phones if they wish. Often, I want to check analytics from my phone, and with this design I can do that. In contrast, my original prototype design was not responsive. It made the site impossible to show off on my phone to anyone who was curious, and there was no easy way to read the text.

It isn't perfect on mobile, but it does give a slightly better experience when just casually surfing, and it's worth it to me-- even if it only affects 2%.
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Rob, you beat me to the punch :)
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Wow, it just almost seems impossible that an indie game can be that successful. It's unfortunate that it's such a rarity, I'm sure there are hundreds of great games out there that languish.

If anyone wonders, the PC version is not the best seller (currently) for Mojang. The XBox version sells more than the PC version and the Pocket Edition (iOS, Android) sells more than both combined[1].

[1] http://www.mojang.com/2013/01/christmas-stat-attack/
The 2x implementation time was an loose estimate. However, we found that thinking through all of the edge cases, and getting it to work well significantly impacted speed.

In terms of growth in mobile traffic, I have no doubt you are right. However, considering the lifetime of the design - I would be surprised if this number changes significantly before we do another redesign!
I think the best thing the tech community can do in this area is continue to investigate and provide specific criticism of individual apps that are doing nasty things. Great examples include the uproars over Google's data collection, or how Path uploaded the entire address book without asking. These are the sorts of specific nasty things the popular press will cover, and the general public wants to know about.

Root access would be very helpful for the tech community in doing this, but on its own, it's probably too esoteric to make much of an impression on the press or general public.
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Great points. Also you never know who's in that 2% of visitors - they may be your most important next customers!
Path settles FTC charges that it deceived consumers
Let's figure out a way to start signing RubyGems
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"Hosting is dirt cheap." When the hardware is shared, Yes. On the metal, perhaps not so much.

"the learning curve is a bit much, and the software is not quite there yet," answers the question about how hard it is to run a server.
I’ve always questioned the sanity of the people who do something similar to the former example in d3.js; this is so much easier: http://pygm.us/IhBQwUAI.
A must read: http://www.tablexi.com/blog/2013/01/why-building-software-is...
Should What Happens at Applebee's Stay at Applebee's?
There are always at least two sides to every story.

I guess the point I am arguing is that I don't think responsive design makes you any more money than fixed design. If it did organizations such as eBay would have certainly made the move by now.

At some level --at least for me-- if it isn't going to generate more revenue it isn't worth the extra effort.

Clearly I don't have any data to back-up my claim so we'll have to leave it as conjecture at this point. I can't say either way. Just a hunch from observing what's going on with top-level sites both as a developer and a user.

I equate this to the whole 3D movie/3D TV fad. Yes, this is probably a bad analogy. The point is that 3D has always been a fad. It comes back every N years and everyone proclaims that "this is what it will take off". Film producers get all hot-and-bothered and jump on the 3D bandwagon and forget why people go to see movies: The story. A 1940's black and white movie with a great story will always do better than a new film with a bad story, no matter how much tech, 3D and special effects you throw at it.

I guess what I am saying is that content is far, far more significant than design gimmicks. Customers don't come to your site to be in awe of your engineering or design chops. Craigslist proved that point long ago. No, they come to your site for the value they may be able to derive from it. Good relevant content and great value are at the top of the list. Ease of use and security may be second. Beyond that, everything else is optional and, in my book, can only be justified if you can show that it can improve conversions relative to other approaches.

As I said before, one of the reasons I currently tend to reject the idea of responsive design is that it can create a situation where site optimization becomes a geometric problem. Now you have a dozen layouts per page to optimize vs maybe two. I've seen some really amazing optimization reports where things as simple as the position and size of elements have made a huge difference. I am not sure how you'd even begin to approach that with responsive design when you've introduced so many additional variables in to what --in the cased of fixed design-- was so simple.
And perhaps it was also a little bit Aaron Swartz's fault.
because i've only just upgraded, and cloning a fresh VM & installing CS6 was quicker than installing it, then removing it when weird things happen (mostly plugins/file compatibility have pained me in the past).

And sure there are lighter ways to test different browsers, but I don't trust them, been caught out before by silly differences like font rendering, testing eflyers outlook express/outlook etc, in the multi-ie-in-one-app things before, now i have a one-keystroke switch between an environment i can trust 100% to be authentic, and is easy to move around too.

basically using vm's in this way is one of the things that let me sleep at night.
LinkedIn needs to shut down endorsements next. I'm tired of people endorsing me for skills they don't actually lend any credibility to. Although I'll admit it's fun to counter their generosity by endorsing them in Alcoholism and Horse Training.
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It's basically Lego, but you can walk around in your creations, also with other people.

Basically what every kid has ever wanted.
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SFBA, NYC, Chicago

Matasano is always hiring application security people, and I'm always happy to talk to systems developers who'd like to do more appsec and software security. We're like the antistartup job: instead of sinking 1-2 years of your time into building a single product built on a single stack, you work with hundreds of firms unbuilding systems running on practically every stack.

http://www.matasano.com/careers/ goes into a lot of detail about our hiring process, which people seem to like.

I'll be out in Mountain View next week if you're interested in what we do and might want coffee.

Special offer: if you're wondering what the day-to-day of our work is and want to learn some interesting things about breaking crypto, mail "sean" at Matasano and Sean will send you a series of cryptographic exercises, 40+ in total, ranging from CS101 stuff through block cipher attacks to number theoretic crypto.
It is also a fallacy that they are giving it away. They must be deriving some non-monetary value from doing it else they would not do it since they are free to decide not to publish or select a particular outlet. The fact is that authors are paid with the prestige that comes from being published in a journal.
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New file formats of all kinds are invented every day, often with some proprietary tool attached. Writing your own parser allows you to add value and/or interoperate with the proprietary system. Even in the cases where an open source parser already exists it may have performance issues, or not support the latest version of the format. Being able to roll your own in those cases is empowering.

Of course you asked for examples... let me give that a try:

1) data from your favorite application that's been end-of-lifed and you're thinking of replacing with a competitor's tool
2) data from a later version of your favorite application that you want to use with an earlier version, because you don't want to upgrade
3) configuration information from some part of your IT infrastructure that you need to refer to as you restructure and upgrade
4) a big config file for some software, that contains an error somewhere and "grep" won't find it. Maybe it's a semantic error, for example.
5) a config file for some ancient crufty software you're replacing, but the config file is huge and contains a lot of institutional knowledge, so you want to automatically translate it to the new system's setup.

Being able to generate even simple parsers gives you a lot of power. It's not as uncommon as you might imagine.
Does anyone know if the mirror image of this character: “ (U+201C) exists? I'm looking for a character that is the mirror image of the left double quotation mark, where the base is on the bottom and the character tapers from bottom right to top left. I don't know if any languages use that character.
i think i registered it in ~2002 when i needed a staging site to show clients their projects. back then it was classic ASP shopping carts and PHP3(?) time flies.
Somewhat surprised to see such a random government bashing comment making the top of the list. I'm all for criticizing the FBI but 1&2 are super remote factors, that have next to nothing to do with the actual Iceland situation.

And by the way: Are the "take the guns away" arguments really that popular now? It almost seems to take forms of the "but think of the children" meme, where people try to connect on thing to a completely unrelated subject in order to support the alleged moral superiority of their argument.
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Playing devil's advocate here: if you believe the purpose of the market is to help long-term investors buy and sell at rational/efficient prices (in other words, price discovery), then why is relative volumes of HFT vs. long-term investment relavent.

I'm not saying it's the best metric, or even a good metric, but there's quantitative evidence that when new news comes out and prices move rapidly, HFT reduces the time it takes for markets to settle down after big price moves. By many measures, this makes the markets more rough, since prices move more abruptly. On the other hand, with more rapid price discovery, fewer long-term investors trade at non-consensus prices during the transition period.
"We just develop software. no big deal" might just be extreme in the opposite direction, but there's a gap between "is really useful to people" and "changing the world" though that some people don't seem to see.

Things that I would call "world changing":

1. Improving education (e.g. Kahn Academy)

2. Curing disease.

3. Reducing/eliminating poverty.

etc.

Creating a B2B app that is used globally is not what I would call "world changing." It's obviously really useful to people and has great reach, which is something to be excited about, but "We're Changing The World(tm)" is over-stating your case.
Opportunity cost is tricky. For a hypothetical masters graduate who is already working you have to factor increased spending (which definitely increases with income), probably much higher rent and other "advantages" of adult life.
He might not even live more comfortably than a PhD student if he is in a place like NYC/SF and probably will not save much money.
While that is nice, I was thinking of a more distributed model (not necessarily hosted by Google)
That would make an amazing texture pack!

Have you seen Aureylian and her (very young) daughter playing Minecraft?

(http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAA32A313F61AFBBB)

I especially like the Zoo episode (http://youtu.be/kPMq0V_6KH8)
The in-game discovery of item recipes is something that's definitely lacking for new players. There's a great mod that fixes this, Not Enough Items (NEI). It adds a nice in-game gui that lists all of the items, what their recipes are and also what recipes they're used in.
Usury that is enforced by the state is (or ought to be) a privilege, not an inalienable right. Both sides share responsibility.
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I'm interested in some cryptosystems that have been on the receiving end of any of these critiques that were ultimately shown to be sound and useful.

I'm not asking because I think I know the answer. I don't. I don't follow crypto the way you follow crypto; I am interested in it exclusively to the extent that it allows me to break software. You seem to follow the community as a whole, which is not an interest I share. So you probably have some insight into it that I lack.
What language can make every page output XML, PDF, JSON, or ASCII, without changing the business logic, data model, or spending more than a few hours developing each new format?
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Federal Gun Control Requires IT Overhaul
You may like the crafting UI in the Minecraft version: http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/images/9/2011/11/0d9d9173d1a1...
Points 2 and 3 make no reference to previous years' data, so aren't really talking about trends. Point 1 ignores the (trend that they state) that there are more post-doc positions.

Post-docs are safer jobs, because you know what will happen at the end of them (you get kicked out and find another job). Fewer people going straight into tenure-track means fewer people spending years at an institution, not getting a job (because they lost the race) and starting elsewhere. Sounds very healthy to me!
Being that this tech was funded by a European grant, are they not under obligation to publish research?
More than that, high quality academic journals provide a source of well-reviewed, thoroughly edited content. The arXiv, for example, is a great resource, but it can be overwhelming to have to filter through everything. As of yet, we don't have a freely available alternative to serious peer review in the 'prestigious' journals.
I got a quadcopter as present for Christmas but I didn't enjoy it much - it is too hard to stabilize. I can't do anything with it. By comparison, a Syma 107 helicopter was much more fun.

So, quadcopter designers out there - please make them less fragile, less crash prone. Can you mount sensors in all directions to keep it from bumping into walls and hovering at the designated location without human intervention? That would be useful.
I'm currently an undergrad senior getting degrees in CS and Physics. I just finished applying to CS PhD grad programs, but I've really been leaning towards dropping out after completing my masters and going to work in industry.

I'm just interested in your experience of doing just that. I've found very little reference material on it, except some comments by professors and people currently working in industry that people are courted by companies once they finish their qualifying exams.

This may be off topic, but what's your experience with this? Were you courted before you decided to leave? How far did you get? What affected your decision? What was the salary difference? What do you do now? Was it worth it to even go for a little?
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Couldn't get it to recognize my drawing of a castle/rook in chess, but it did find my bishop. Great site.
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>> the web is the least free of all platforms from the users point of view

You're confusing "the web" with "networked software".

When you use the web, you have no control of the server but full control of your client (if your browser is open source). When you use a networked app, you have no control of the server AND no control of the client.

"Do I want control of the software I run on my machine?" is a separate question from "do I want that software communicating with other computers that I don't control?"
If you decided to use an algorithm for real-world investing, what brokers would you recommend that have good APIs?
Sometimes yes they are greasing, sometimes no, they aren't.
It varies depending on the type of firm.

Loser pays has its ups and downs. For example, you don't want loser pays when you are trying to fight small guy vs large guy, which is the case for most consumers.
Is Nokia still an European company? Didn't they close down the Finnish HQ and opened one in US? I hope they don't intend to use any of that money to prop their mobile business, and that they intend to open the results from that research at least to other European companies.
A smartphone with a local data sim.
Two days with the BlackBerry Z10: Some likes, some dislikes
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Did antibiotics spur the sexual revolution?
I agree that the example website is light and it wont take very long (not double the time) to make it scale. For the bigger sites with much content especcially built several years ago it might be a challenge to build a nice readable RWD.
Myself I often read on mobile and I appreciate when the site displays well. As a designer I almost always implement a responsive grid. For an app that is targeting mobile users I would not rely on resposive web but build a native app of cause. I do believe that users deserve a great experience on mobile and tablet devices.
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It's fine that you don't like Minecraft.

> Perhaps I'm just evil, but I take more joy in destroying my opponents and their castles

This is possible on the right server! Some of them welcome PVP and griefing.
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I would suggest a revival of DigiCash, Chaum's original attempt at deploying a digital cash infrastructure in the 90s. Digital cash is not some anarchist fantasy, it is a way to secure electronic payments and to enable electronic payments to replace physical cash (in ways that are currently impossible). A digital cash system that uses a central currency issuing party can still solve the problems that digital cash is supposed to solve: privacy-preserving payments, protections against fraud, secure offline payments, etc. Bitcoin does not even solve that last one: there are no secure offline payments with Bitcoin, nor can there be, and we knew there could not be such payments before Bitcoin was deployed:

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1754992

In a sense, Bitcoin has ruined digital cash, by stealing the attention of people who might have been early adopters of a DigiCash revival. Now everyone thinks the digital cash is Bitcoin, and so any other system would be forced to either compete with Bitcoin or to reassure everyone that digital cash is possible after Bitcoin's potential (i.e. near certain) failure.
> Mobile visitors often have a very different set of objectives for visiting your site.

In my experience, this is not true anymore and continues to be less and less the case. I thought this was the case before I started really using a smartphone. Now I want to do exactly the same things than on a desktop computer and the best mobile sites are the ones that let me do everything I do on a larger screen and make me forget that I’m using a different device with less comfort.
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