skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OH MY GOD A BUNCH OF PROJECTS THAT FAILED.

You act like no White anglo-saxon male has ever FUBAR'd an IT project or stolen data, or lied. This is ridiculous to single out Indian developers like this.
> Are we forgetting the data from the NYT review clearly showed Broder driving around in circles in a car park?

It didn't. It showed him driving .6mi after exiting the highway but there is no proof that he was driving around in circles in a parking lot.
> Dude, this is a service used by developers and devops.

Developers, sure. Devops? Heroku's entire purpose is so you don't have to care about ops.

> You aren't meant to trust what they say.

Evidently not! I'd rather not do business with liars.

> They acknowledge sincerely that they have a problem, with a promise that they are going to fix it.

That's an optimistic interpretation of their blog post.
Arroz con leche, (rice pudding).
What's worse is that they are not dealing with the behaviour of just one app. Random routing probably works best for a certain subset of their customers, maybe even the majority. If they switched to it it's unlikely to have happened without measuring a few different approaches and deciding this gave the best results overall. Unfortunately they have to deal with all of their customers apps, some of whom might have a huge variation in response time, which seems to trigger these issues - it's a complicated topic and one solution might not work for everyone.
And we get to enjoy the pleasant tunes of Leona Lewis.
A few of the Cambridge Python courses:

http://www.ucs.cam.ac.uk/docs/course-notes/unix-courses/Pyth...

http://www.ucs.cam.ac.uk/docs/course-notes/unix-courses/Pyth...

http://www.ucs.cam.ac.uk/docs/course-notes/unix-courses/Pyth...

http://www.ucs.cam.ac.uk/docs/course-notes/unix-courses/Nume...

http://www.ucs.cam.ac.uk/docs/course-notes/unix-courses/pyth...

Since UCS at Cambridge have been teaching Python for a long time, you could request a statement of support from them:
escience-support@ucs.cam.ac.uk
My first move in a fresh Excel workbook is Select All, Format Cells as Text.
At my last startup we looked at trying to get H1-B visas for engineers. I forget the details, but the basic answer was: impossible. Or, rather, too expensive, difficult, and slow to be a useful option in a startup context. (FWIW, E3 visas, which are limited to Australians, were supposed to be much easier.)

As others suggest, I think your best option is to find an established company, one for whom getting visas is a well-established process. Good luck!
Just pray she's not from an EU country then ..
It's a throwaway account so he can voice his opinions without having to really absorb the -20 karma he's already earned himself.

Best just to ignore the trolls, the system weeds them out.
Tesla are getting a ton of free press out of this story. Sometimes I think they pick these fights on purpose just to get all the free PR.
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Of course, that makes more sense.

I was thinking of terms of the pressure front lagging further behind the meteorite in proportion to the length of time that the meteorite is traveling at a speed greater than the speed of sound.

Thanks for the explanation.
Technically, any animal would be killed by eating too much chocolate.
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No but in real world no one expects a fuel loss of 50% on a car that is just parked and left overnight.
8:10 GMT: Oleg Malkov, an aerospace scientist at
Moscow State University, told Komsomolskaya Pravda
newspaper that the meteorite went undetected by
space scanners, likely because it was coming from
the direction of the Sun.
"We can only register stones coming from the
direction of the night sky," he explained. Malkov
confirmed that the meteor shower in the Urals
was not connected to the 2012DA14 asteroid that
will approach Earth in a few hours.

7:46 GMT: Ekaterinburg’s observatory has officially
deemed the incident a fireball meteor shower. No
evacuations were called for, and radiation levels
were determined to be normal.

Source:
http://rt.com/news/russia-meteor-meteorite-asteroid
-chelyabinsk-291/
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The part where the meteor gets brighter but isn't moving relative to the sky is pretty scary. When you look up and see a meteor and it just gets brighter instead of moving left or right that means it's headed directly toward you.
Expensive commercial appliances like the popular f5 big ip's can, and that is what a lot of large-scale websites use:

http://www.f5.com/glossary/load-balancer/

In terms of open source, HAProxy has layer 7 algorithms but they are much simpler:

http://cbonte.github.com/haproxy-dconv/configuration-1.5.htm...

If you were inclined, you could write an algorithm to implement something similar in one of the open source routers.
huh?

> TITLE 8, SECTION 1182 - INADMISSIBLE ALIENS says you are BOTH illegals and need to go home right now.

He said nothing about his citizenship. He could be a citizen for all you know.

Secondly, the fact is that immigration law provides all kinds of extensions in cases for some H1-B's. One overstay a visa when it has been legitimately extended for the relevant period.

Third, as someone married to someone of another nationality I have to say that not only are you demonstrably wrong (as I have shown above) but that also when I came to Indonesia with my wife (I am an American), I brought my job with me. International telecommuting is quite possible. Kicking the wrong people out also kicks their jobs out which isn't very productive.... (My wife was not kicked out btw. We came over here on our own initiative.)
I assume from the quoted song lyrics, "it" is "her finger." How is that not appropriate?
I am interested. My email is in my profile, so feel free to get in touch.
Some thoughts:
1. Would be good if you had a HN account before now. People are more likely to give help if you have given others help in the past. It gives them confidence that you're legit too.

2. What is your girlfriends name? What companies has she worked for? What jobs titles has she had?

3. If you're a US citizen then consider marriage if you are serious about your relationship or consider going to her country if you're not sure yet.

4. Submit her resume or her HN name so people can check out her past experience.

5. I googled your name and gmail and came up with no hits. This is one of those times when having a blog, github etc would be a good thing.

6. Ask her to talk to her old workmates and managers, they are the best source of leads for a job, especially if they know people in big companies that work with Visa issues all the time.

Good luck!
the general public doesn't expect journalists to "construct a narrative".
Most people expect journalism to be about the cold hard facts

this is a very old way of thinking about journalism and contrasts bizarrely with your assertion that building narratives is an outdated practice. in today's world of A/V/Instant communication, its becoming more and more clear that not only will people not pay attention to "cold hard fact" journalism, but what a lot of people actually want isn't merely narratives, its narratives that they agree with.
High school is too late. It should happen in 6th-8th grade, but I'm not sure what class you would bump to make that happen. Maybe let it alternate days with foreign language?
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The only real job creators are the self-employed, and many immigrants I have met have been uniquely willing to do this, as hard as self-employment is made by the government in this country (the US).
If she's European, she can likely overstay without too much of an issue and the odds of her getting asked are slim to nil at most smaller companies
Don't know of any benchmarks, but I have/had a number of projects on AppEngine and it is very good (but expensive). I would be looking to include Elastic Beanstalk in a comparison as well, as it is gaining popularity since it launched (it doesn't have the lockin and supports any environment).
But games are all different. An improvement to the engine for one kind of game may not be an improvement for another kind of game. Most games would probably only use a small part of the engine.

Will the engine become a monolith with support for pretty much everything, and all games using the engine will only need 10% of it? Or something else?

I think you need to state very clearly what the goal of the engine is (best 2d engine, best tile game engine, best ??? engine, general purpose engine, etc?), which can help define exactly what kinds of contributions are actually useful.
What the hell? It's good he owned up...I guess. But the response basically sounds like "yeah, we've been charging the same prices over the last few years for increasingly degraded performance and we would have continued to do so, but someone finally caught on so I guess we have to now do something about this, right?"
I am certainly not telling you about your car. Your car is very much irrelevant. The topic is very recent luxury cars with climate control. Even if your car would qualify for such a category, it's behaviour does not generalize to all such cars.

A great deal of people beyond yourself drive fancy cars with climate control, myself included. Your car is a single data point. My car is another. That my car, and other posters cars, behave as we say is enough to show that your generalization is wrong.

It is still all anecdote of course; to really determine truth you would need to do a study of as many cars as possible. Further, there is no theory in such a generalization.

This is where your anti-intellectualism comes in. You repeatedly make false statements about theoretical works: "theory is always wrong". It is almost as though you do not understand the definition of "theory." Additionally, your use of "egghead" when referring to engineers is classic anti-intellectualism. I mean, why not just throw out nerd, geek, or pointdexter too? Using anecdote to support your generalization is another extremely common undesirable behavior.

Please stop.
That mere 70 miles of buffer made me a little nervous, especially after I missed an exit and added a few miles to the trip. I followed Tesla's recommendations and kept the cruise control pegged to between 60 and 65 much of the way and kept the climate control at 72 degrees. And I minimized stops. But I made it

What's the point of having a car that costs north of $50K and as much as $90K if you have to worry about missing an exit? This whole thing is bad press for Tesla, they thought they had the "gotcha" moment ("he went in circles in the parking lot" for a whopping.......0.6 miles while trying to find the charging station) but it just showed a prospective buyer how fragile this very expensive car.

Let me repeat it: this car is very expensive and cannot be relied to go for a few hundred miles because it has so many variables. This is a niche car at best, a rich person maybe can brag about it while having other normal cars.

Hybrids would probably be best for me.
"Preliminary indications are that it was a meteorite rain," an emergency official told RIA-Novosti. "We have information about a blast at 10,000-meter (32,800-foot) altitude. It is being verified." http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/15/us-russia-meteorit...
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You're completely wrong. Immigrants and foreign workers are adding to the employment competition, they raise the overall quality of the workforce. There will be a major crisis if they leave, trust me.
From the videos, this was almost certainly a metallic meteorite (stony meteorites rarely survive their flight through the atmosphere). And it's very likely that part of it got to the ground intact. Get ready for stories about recovering a lot of meteorite material in the next few days.

The contrails, and the videos, show that the meteorite (or pair of meteorites) grew very hot, but survived at least in part and probably fell to the surface. I would love to see the recovery effort.

Notice the long delay between recording the image of the contrail and the sonic boom. This reveals how high the meteorite's path was at the location of the recording.
Don't marry for a visa. As an American with an English wife and having lived as an expat for the past 8 years in expat communities - marring for a visa is a likely to ruin the relationship. One person will always think it is for love and the other for the visa, and this imbalance is hard to overcome.
What the hell? I hope you're not an American -- if civics and government class has so failed our students i would be extremely disappointed.

The government of the united States is exactly that, ranging from the lowest town council member to the President. You do understand the concept of sets and subsets, right? The federal government is a subset of the government. That's why it has that additional qualifier.
Yup, they do, one just did. Based on some guesses I'd estimate that this particular meteor is a rock that might be a few hundred kg or so and maybe a meter or less in diameter. Rocks this size are very hard to spot, they are about 10,000x dimmer than the 2012 DA14 asteroid, and that much more difficult to detect. Also, the meteor struck during the day, which may be an indication that it originated as an object orbiting the Sun just inside the Earth's orbit, a class of objects that are the most difficult to detect with our current equipment.
As a UK resident, I had no idea prostitution was legal. Wikipedia says:
In the United Kingdom, prostitution itself (the exchange of sexual services for money) is not a crime,[2] but a number of related activities, including soliciting in a public place, kerb crawling, owning or managing a brothel, pimping and pandering, are crimes.

So how exactly does prostitution work? It seems like it is effectively illegal.
Perhaps the joke is that people actually seriously replied to this? It highlights how many drones crawl around eLance-like sites and just reply to everything without much thoughts.
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>>They aren't great for long distrance driving.

Sorry to be giving a negative opinion on electric cars. But hours together of charging, unpredictable battery performance, high prices of cars.

This just doesn't seem right.

Electric cars just aren't ready yet.
A true gem is hidden down at the end of the first page:

https://github.com/fabiensanglard/chocolate_duke3D

[...] a port of the Vanilla source code with two goals in mind:

Education: Easy to read/understand and very portable.
Fidelity: The gaming experience should be similar to what ran in 1996 on our 486s.

And from the README:

Aimed at education: A lot of comments and documentation has been added in order to help programmers to understand and learn.
> 7. Save as CSV, then reopen the CSV in Excel. Lots of magical things happen there.

Indeed. My favorite one is accounting spreadsheets tending to export accounting numbers as text columns with trailing whitespace. That was off a recent version of excel for the Mac. I understand it's a cute convention for currency formatting but it makes data transformation in a database very, very annoying.
>To assume that your customer must be intelligent is the biggest mistake you can ever make.

It's not about customers being less intelligent than you; that's an arrogant stance to take in these kinds of situations. Lots of people are intelligent enough to understand how batteries work -- or how computer programs work -- if they should choose to spend the time and effort it would take to do so.

But they're not choosing to do so. They're not your R&D team. They're your customers, and they're paying you big money for something that will make their lives easier.

In this case, they're paying for a car that's going to get them from point A to point B with no hassles, so they can focus their intelligence on problems of their choosing, not on problems with your product.
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we have to do cleanup of CSV imports in some areas of LedgerSMB and it isn't pretty.

Additionally the fact that it is even required makes you wonder what sort of monsters are lurking in the shadowy corners only to leap out later when you least expect it.
You've got only 1 life, and even among a pool of the most bright, hardworking people (take a sample that works as many hours as you like), there's only so many Bill Gateses. I'm thinking just one.

Even after all his success, I wouldn't be surprised if a guy like that now regrets some of how he spent his youth. I'm sure he could have done it just as well and been a little less crazy, had some more time outside the office. I'd be surprised if a rational person wouldn't admit that.

Passion and determination are fine, but your idea (or my reading of it, anyway) that places outside the Bay Area are less worthy because they've got fewer kids willing to waste their life away ... it seems pretty low.
>>Or are Tesla spokespeople and product gurus totally clueless (which would seem to be very hard on the imagination)?

No, its not hard to imagine this and might even be true. Middle managers know little apart from running daily affairs.

Its very much possible that when faced with questions they have no answers to they might have imagined a analogous set up(ordinary fuel car) and apply the question to such a thing and seek answers.

When you make uninformed guesses in the wild especially about new things, you generally make colossal mistakes- that is what seems to have happened here.
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Git (> 1.7.10)
Node.js (> 0.8)
Java —Will auto-install on OSX.
Chrome

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I Feel icky about running java.
And
Chrome does not support Java 7. Java 7 runs only on 64-bit browsers and Chrome is a 32-bit browser.

If you download Java 7, you will not be able to run Java content in Chrome and will need to use a 64-bit browser (such as Safari or Firefox) to run Java content within a browser. Additionally, installing Java 7 will disable the ability to use Apple Java 6 on your system.
http://java.com/en/download/installed.jsp?detect=jre&try...
"I say this because Tumblr is influential and powerful."

* snort*

Wait, he was serious?
Well, if this is the case that would be a pretty deep architectural problem, I'd say, for a PaaS like Heroku.

I think it's pretty obvious that you need at least two layers of hierarchy for the routing here: One (or more) router forwarding requests to virtualized routers (per Heroku customer 'instance' or whatever that's called), which in turn provide the functionality I described in software. I'd probably use VMs running a specialized minimal linux distro for the per-instance-routers.
Google Wave was supposed to be that "IRC on crack" product.
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Depending on the cancer type, oncologists let you off the hook after some years. As far as I know that more or less means that if you got cancer after that set period, this new cancer is considered unrelated to the first one. Don't know how much statistics are behind that, so.

And yes, I guess you have to be a very special peronality type to become an oncologist. Nothing to say of becoming a child oncologist.

Completly agree with the last sentence, only that most people consider cancer a special cause of early death that scares the hell out of them. At the same time nobody worries of comuting 30 miles one-way day to work, all around the year and don't give a shit if there's black ice half the time in winter.

Interessting how far human self deception goes.
I doubt anyone remembers Mathias Rust's famous and uninterrupted flight to Red Square. :)
Also, take a look at Ken's voxlap engine. He is so bright!! I wonder, why he is not so active in the industry :(
I wouldn't think they are contrails. One would expect them to mainly be smoke and dust from the disintegration/combustion/ablation during the descent.
Same happened to me. But in my case I was the non US citizen boyfriend. You know what happened? I'm back to my country, shes got a new guy, I'm still alone. Move on. Life is hard. Nevertheless, I'm still looking for a H1-B job for myself. Good luck anyway, marry her!
Well, I can't think of anything so popular but neither influential nor powerful. I'll give him that.
AFAIK it is legal as long as the prostitute is effectively self employed (so not working for a pimp or brothel) and not selling services on the street, and of course over 18. This is where the internet comes in.

There is a certain website known for this which I will not link to here.
Agreed - i call it Inches vs seven league boots - it's easy to tell the difference between someone who makes regular marginal improvements (inches forwards) and someone who adds nothing, but impossible to tell the difference between a loser and a game changed until they change the game.
> Do meteorites really do this? I've never heard of another like this event before ...

In that case, it's time for you to read about Tunguska in 1908:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
Wait, what does being anti-facebook have to do with being anti-tech?

People dislike facebook for many reasons, and I can't say I've ever noticed an anti-tech vibe to them. Mostly it seems to be disgust with FB actions (privacy etc), with the shallowness of interactions there, or simply with the amount of time and mental energy it takes to "be involved" in FB.
> I suspect the meteorite and earthquake are not related.

It wasn't an earthquake -- it was a very powerful sonic boom, and yes, it was caused by the meteorite's passing. A similar sonic boom flattened hundreds of square miles in Tunguska in 1908, after a much larger space object fell there:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
lol... are you kidding ?? This is not freelancer.com
> Maybe the sound that we heard traveled faster than the acoustic waves that broke the glass due to having different frequencies.

Unlikely. A powerful sonic boom could cause all that damage, and collapse an aging brick structure, and yet travel at or near the speed of sound.
Agree! I left the US years ago and I ain't never going back. Just get out of there.
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Why not run outside? I haven't heard anyone killed by meteorites, so I wouldn't consider them very threatening. If it's not threatening then why not go out and enjoy the show?
Don't necessarily have to go back to her country.
No it's not. Regardless of how well you establish the ground rules, it's socially unacceptable which puts huge pressure on both people to lie about their relationship every time they're asked in the new country. If you split up, even if its as friends, undoing a marriage is a lot more difficult than undoing a regular unmarked relationship.
Agree on India, but SAP? Nahh, the time they want to do that the guy that put the Excel file in place in the late ninties already had his job shipped to india a couple of years ago. And now there's nobody left who understands what this excel file is doing.

And putting that into SAP is way to expensive, as long as you can still port the Excel file to Office 2010, that is. If you can't, you'd have to ship the company to India...