skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article makes it sounds like he is applying a microkernel with user space modules to multi-processor systems.

New scientist article on this has better info. Data and instructions are packaged together, are passed around, and executed with a pseudo-random timer offsetting a unit of work to avoid a single thread over consuming resources. They also want to apply machine learning to have certain error conditions self repair through auto code manipulation.

Here's a much better article on the topic:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21729045.400-the-compu...
To counter your anecdote with another anecdote: I am a H1B holder, and in the process of looking for new jobs (which, yes, is quite possible) I have seen many a "no visa please" notice in job descriptions. A lot of smaller companies simply don't want to go through that process.

Where are you located? Certainly in NYC I don't know a single good developer looking for a job.
Some reforms along the lines of:

1) Decouple the work authorization from the employer. The employee gets an open work permit for X (say 5) years.

2) If you can prove you have been gainfully employed above some agreed upon salary (via tax records) for 3+ years you get temporary permanent residency without any employer interference/input. You then finish out the other formalities (health, security checks) to get the official permanent residency.

The goal of 1) is to empower the employee with work mobility that does not affect future residency. If there really is a skill shortage they can leave without additional formalities or negotiate for better compensation. If they are talented, have stayed legal in other respects, and wish to stay in the US, they are now set.
Depending on your OS, it is possible there is already something like this in place. IIRC, Ubuntu shipped with dnsmasq [1] at some point, thus maintaining a local DNS cache which in turn speeds up browsing. Otherwise, it's as easy as installing dnsmasq via your preferred package manager, and configuring dnsmasq.conf / resolv.conf

dnsmasq.conf needs to point to the DNS server you wish to use
resolv.conf needs a line "nameserver 127.0.0.1" or whatever IP dnsmasq is listening on.

Make sure dnsmasq is started at boot, and that your resolv.conf isn't overwritten by your dhcp client, and you're good to go.
Further configuration needs to done to make dnsmasq provide authoritative answers for other domains.

If you don't need caching, then use adsuck (linked it in my previous comment in this thread).

[1] http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html
I'm sorry, what's the evidence for having "lost the performance lead in CPU performance"? Atom continues to beat the A9, A15 and Krait in most benchmarks.

And the GPU point is just ridiculous on its face: the A6X in the iPad and the Clover Trail part tested here are using the same GPU. Apple is faster because it put more of them on the chip. That's not a architectural triumph, it's a transistor budget decision. Intel could do the same thing (hell, at 22nm it could do it much better -- Clover Trail is 32nm) with more or less the same cost (again, Intel probably has a cost advantage here because of its more advanced semiconductor process). That they chose not to may be a mistake, but it's an easily correctable one.
Probably you paid off a good agency in India to fix you up with jobs, then.

You're right that it's a little more complicated. A family friend is here from India on some kind of visa where she is able to switch employers, but she has to leave if a new one won't sponsor her or something. But she pays (or paid) thousands of dollars to some agency in India to fix her up with a job/jobs.

What really gets me in her case is that she has a child who has lived here for over a decade and can't get in-state tuition without special treatment despite being legal.
Mejillones al vapor (Steamed Mussels)
> The problem is that US want keep less developed countries as de facto colonies,

I don't see how this is a problem for the U.S. The U.S. should, and indeed arguably has a moral obligation, to push for policies that benefit its citizens.

> On top of this US tries to convince with Propaganda that patents are "rights" or "property", while in truth they are artificial monopolies only possible through strong state regulation.

This is no more or less true than for any kind of property right. Without strong state regulation, the only "property right" you have is to whatever you can physically defend. I'd imagine most people posting here would not be in the same place in the overall hierarchy in such a world...
I have worked for a tata company in the past. I guarantee that this is not my experience. Of course, there are bad people in every organization, including american companies, but you cannot generalize all tata employees are bad.
The more I think about it, the more I think it may have been Vista. Still doesn't bode well for Win7.
Assuming 'perfected' means you could produce power effectively for free: global politics would change a lot, as coal, oil and natural gas prices would drop.

Also, power usage would skyrocket. Obvious growth areas would be flying cars, mining other than for coal/gas/oil (for example, somebody might think of ways to locate likely locations for dinosaur skeletons a mile down and start digging for them) and space exploration.

Flying cars could lead to people living more dispersed (with cars, there is pressure to live near a road; if everybody has a heli, pressure likely would be to not live too close together, as that would make flying your car more dangerous)

Environment-wise, I guess that spread of population would negatively affect nature. On the other hand, with free energy, we would not need fracking or other mining operations might be able to stop pumping up water, recycling it instead.

Chances also are that people would start terraforming on a small scale. For example, Egypt has pyramids and a few tropical beaches, but could have some closer by them. While at it, it also could have ski slopes next to them.

Additional heat production could become a problem, but that would only become problematic if energy consumption grew by huge factors. Solar irradiation in Wh currently is way higher than what is produced from burning coal, gas, etc, and we would produce way fewer greenhouse gases.

It also is fixable. For example, if we were to melt the ice caps because of unlimited energy use, we could paint the poles and, if needed, the Sahara, whiter than they have ever been, thus reflecting more of the sun's heat.

Eventually, I think we would either move mostly of the planet or change earth so much that nobody would recognize it anymore.
awesome, I haven't been using mvps.org or malwaredomainlist, I'll have to add those into mine. Thanks
>I don't know if this is a Silicon Valley thing or what, but the idea that someone would basically do a day's unpaid work on projects they know nothing about with three different people is just about the most foreign thing I can think of.

Yep. That basically amounts to an application fee.
>dudes and ladies

You mean men and women. Although I didn't see any women in the video. (Better include them just in case, so my friends don't think I'm a sexist pig!)
You have successfully slain the red wumpus. His bleeding corpse lies before your feet. Your quest continues; choose your own adventure:

* If designing and enforcing rules and policy interests you, turn to page 23.

* If deploying and managing complex technical infrastructure interests you, turn to page 12.

* If being a part of teams that ship products is what gets you up in the morning, turn to page 45.

* If being a part of teams that tear shipping or soon-to-be shipping products to shreds is more your thing, turn to page 34.

Which will you choose? I'll tell you what the page says.
With a very broad brush, I think it's pretty straightforward to split H1-Bs into two categories: body shop consultancies... and everyone else.

From the H1-Bs we employ, I know they receive comparable (and sometimes higher, since we tend to pay slightly below market and H1-B salaries are somewhat inflexible) salaries to their resident/citizen counterparts.
That's why the interviewer should ask if they are familiar with those games first.

Even Connect Four or tic-tac-toe can be a useful exercise to go over with someone.
Of course not. Unconstitutional means something more like knowingly done without the authority and against the wishes of those you supposedly represent.
You are one lucky B!!! Not everyone gets such a choice. It would be either Play or Spring and family.
"I am learning something. The article I’m lightly consuming has become bookmarked in my head, and if it comes up in casual conversation later in the day, I can vigorously nod and say, “Yes, yes, I read that”. But I haven’t really. I noted the shortest version of it; I can quote the simplest version of it. I have a facade of the story and the illusion of knowledge. I miss long thoughts."

Ok, I miss them too. But I read Rand's blog post twice and I don't get the connection. Forums were never about the long thought. Neither were BBSs. And while the current forum mess of vBulletin/phpBB/etc could definitely use an update, Discourse won't solve the "long thought" problem.

Long thoughts won't happen unless you make time for them. There's just no way around it. For me, that means I spend more time on longform.org or reading actual books, and less time on Facebook/Twitter/HackerNews.

Edit: yes, thanks for the correction, I did mean longform.org
Microsoft's Hotmail phase-out: What's a user to do?
That is true, but it still conflicts with the purpose of this file, which is to "Make the internet suck less", while it instead, in the long term, may make the internet suck more. I don't see how blocking them makes it sucks less anyhow?
Focus fusion seems to be going really well, though running on a shoestring still causes problems. Polywell is getting a lot of research beyond the Navy project, which is still not talking. Other near-term hot fusion projects:

General Fusion (D-T, well-funded, plasma compressed by molten lead/lithium impacted by steam-driven pistons, the molten mix stops neutrons and breeds tritium)

Sandia's MagLIF (D-T, uses the Z-machine. Simulations say a particular configuration could break even with their current device, and a device three times larger would have 1000x energy gain. Experiments have started and match simulations so far.)

Tri-Alpha (aneutronic, very well funded)

Helion (somewhat similar to Tri-Alpha except I think for D-T, not currently funded but does have funding from NASA for fusion rocket work with similar tech)

Petawatt picosecond laser (only theory so far, the lasers have to get a bit bigger to try it, but recent papers say it'd make aneutronic only ten times harder than D-T, give a 10,000x energy gain, and produce power ten times cheaper than coal. It only takes one laser beam, igniting fuel from the side.)

There was also MIT's levitated dipole, which looked interesting and would work well for D-D fusion but sadly their funding was cut.

Google turns up lots of information on this stuff.
Couldn't agree more. Every time I've agreed to a "programming test" I find myself wonder why I agreed to it in the first place.
Interesting - while I never said it was OK to ask unlimited questions I have generally gauged how someone is doing and then let them know it's OK to ask questions or need hints. Some people have accepted the offer, and some people have simply given up - which just astonishes me.
The Intel version of the surface tablet is more than twice as fast (more like 3-4x faster depending on benchmark and workload -- things like SIMD or L3-cache-bound tasks are well over 10x faster) as the ARM version. ARM still has a way to go.

Apples to oranges. The Surface RT is an iPad competitor. The Surface Pro is a PC. You can make business arguments as to which is the more appropriate device and which makes the better tradeoffs, but there's no serious technical point to be made here.
Well, I'm not from India, so no, I didn't. I changed jobs by going out, looking for a job, applying for it, and interviewing.

The principle is absolutely simple- an H1B visa is freely transferrable to a new employer. There is absolutely nothing (legal) that your old employer can do in retribution once the transfer is complete, and it is possible to go through the transfer process without notifying your current employer.
Chinese Cyberwarfare, Explained
I think his complaint was that "2:28" would be said as "two twenty-eight" in America, as opposed to "two hours twenty-eight minutes"
I note that submarine reactors are typically on the order of 50Mw, and surface ships (CVNs -- aircraft carriers -- typically; also some Russian Arctic ice-breakers) are up to 100Mw per reactor.

Anyone smell a [Naval] market?
Really? A downvote?

Has anyone else ever heard of United States v. $124,700 in U.S. Currency http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._$124,700_in_U....

I would not doubt that if you asked DHS if they seized his property that they would say they haven't and that it is currently being held as evidence.

He'll probably get his boat back but not after a legal fight costing several thousands of dollars.
I remembered reading this ages ago - I'm not sure why submitting a nearly two year old article was necessary.
I'm pretty sure that has been proven several times.
IIRC, addresses 0/8 addresses are for multicast, so depending on your and your upstream's router configuration, that potentially sends those requests to a weird set of hosts on your class-A.
There are jobs where algorithms matter. Where someone picking the wrong data structure or algorithm can completely fuck up the problem, or where the company's secret sauce is doing something much faster than their competitors are doing it.
>> Shaking the chalice to randomize the ballots is smart, but putting the ballots in a wire cage and spinning it around would be more secure -- albeit less reverent.

I did not realise that the black / white smoke was the burning of the ballot papers
:-)
It is a per year limit. Most H1-Bs return back to India within a year and a new person will be sent to fill in the same position next year.

That's why most people never get PR. The main reason is not to short charge the client, but to give chance to other workers in India, cause most companies pay them only $5k to $14k/per year back in India(That's the market rate in India). There is a rat race where people have to fight to fly to US or other western countries so that they can earn 10X more.
The Proximity To Genius Effect
Amazon to cut affiliate fees to sites focused on free books
Starting March 1st, Amazon is going to cut affiliate fees for sites that have a heavy focus on promoting free Kindle books and fit the following criteria :

“In addition, notwithstanding the advertising fee rates described on this page or anything to the contrary contained in this Operating Agreement, if we determine you are primarily promoting free Kindle eBooks (i.e., eBooks for which the customer purchase price is $0.00), YOU WILL NOT BE ELIGIBLE TO EARN ANY ADVERTISING FEES DURING ANY MONTH IN WHICH YOU MEET THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS:

(a) 20,000 or more free Kindle eBooks are ordered and downloaded during Sessions attributed to your Special Links; and
(b) At least 80% of all Kindle eBooks ordered and downloaded during Sessions attributed to your Special Links are free Kindle eBooks.”

I run such a site and it will be interesting to see what happens next. I fully expect many of the sites that exist today will no longer exist in a months time. Or, they will look to promote other platforms (IE: Apple, Nook, etc).

What may be more interesting is what will this do to the authors and the KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) offerings? What will be the new incentives that Amazon will offer up? And will authors still promote their books for free?

(I say yes and the trend will move to "perma-free" . Books that are always free to hook a reader. IE, the first of a series, character, etc...)
Mr Fusion isn't going to go on board airliners any time soon if Mr Fusion is running on a De/T cycle reaction -- did you notice the He + n side of the equation? Fusion neutrons are not your friend, and a good chunk of the 'magic' of a working fusion reactor is going to lie in how it takes those neutral, uncharged, go-through-lead-like-it's-barely-there neutrons and turns them into heat (and thus electricity).
I somehow noticed it included stat.livejournal.com in its list, which is funny because they must've assumed it's something related to statistics when in fact that's where static resources were hosted. (A user had already grabbed "static.livejournal.com".)
I do something like that. My first test is ask to reverse a string (not using the reverse function!) in any language and/or pseudocode. Is incredible how badly the test goes with the people! I interview for myself or others more than 100 people (of any background, including university, tech schols...) and I think only 10/12 people do it correctly - barely-

To make it more fair, I always let them alone. And give internet and a computer, and remember them they can use internet and search. Not even with that amount of help the thing work well (I truly have find someone smart enough to copy-paste something and return to me in 1 minute or less).

Then i do the puzzle question, but know I retire it some years ago and some more question about real stuff...
Plenty of the gigs I've had have been mostly trying to unscramble really confusing code that mostly-works. If my codebase has a bunch of strange crap in it that I need fixed, I certainly will bring examples of it to the interview.
Not many people remember, but the Clinton admin offered $200 billion in credits and tax cuts for US telcos to roll out fiber nationwide in 1996:

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070810_0026...

http://www.cringely.com/2009/10/29/what-goes-around-teledesi...

TDLR: through mergers and good lawyers, the telcos were able to get the $200 billion of Clinton tax credits in return for nothing. Obama is trying again with a $100 billion plan
And only 999,999 more steps to go.
Maybe you should focus on finding smart people (if you actually pay decently and are located somewhere somebody in their right mind would want to live) and then consider training them in your 'high-specialized' whatever you need.
A good point.

But the more I think about this issue, the murkier it gets. You say "more likely to be representative", but I must ask: representative of what? What is the "community", anyway? Is it anyone who takes 30 seconds to make an account and 10 seconds to read & vote? Or is it only the commenters? The former seems awfully broad. The latter is probably weighted toward people with a lot of time on their hands and a serious net addiction. It might also have a hint of elitism.

Another issue: comments can be deleted, but votes cannot be taken back. I thought a couple of the comments were quite convincing -- in both directions. I imagine reading and then commenting is the most common order. What if someone wants to change a vote?
... we'll even poke at startup apps pro-bono ...

Is this any start-up or just the YC companies?
And when asked about your hobby, don't say "shoot hoops."

(referring to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5255227 )
I think in order to create good software that fits the industry's current best practices then you do need a really in-depth domain-specific knowledge. If that's the goal then learn everything possible about that industry.

To create good solutions that are also innovative, I think that programmers only really need enough knowledge in that domain to be dangerous - to know more or less what happens but with enough gaps to not really know what's doable and what isn't. But, this knowledge is only useful if you can combine it with bits and pieces from several completely separate domains.

If innovation is the goal then I think there is a point where domain knowledge actually hurts you.

Of course there still needs to be at least one specialist to keep everything on track though - and I completely agree with you about having someone with deep knowledge on board. I think it should be someone who has been in that industry and will stay in that industry.

I can't see the point in programmers trying to become experts in areas that they're not interested in working in for the long haul. It's easier to learn (and actually apply) a little about a lot than a lot about a little.
Ph.D. Bust, Pt. 2: How Bad Is the Job Market For Young American-Born Scientists?
I would imagine it could put a significant dent in the already very small percentage of people using linux. Thus under representing it even further. Not that I'm too worried about it though.

edit: Looking through the current version of the host file, it appears google analytics and some other "non-nefarious" tracking sites are commented out.
The first part, and associated discussion, is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5253747 .
Be competitive, rather than eliminate competition. If an H1B can do the same job for a cheaper price, he should be hired. What's so wrong about it?
It's impossible to get real insight from them, because you can't differentiate between those who worked it out, and those who have read about it.

The fact that they're involved enough in the industry to know about fizzbuzz is still a strong signal. It will only come up if participate in some sort of developer community, which, I suspect, is something that the completely incompetent don't do, as a rule.

Once again, it's not designed to find the top talent. It's merely a high pass filter that removes the hopeless from the set of people to consider.

But even if fizzbuzz is something that the hopeless start learning by rote, switching it out for any other trivial problem will still work. "Count the number of 'a's that come after 'g's in a string", "print the lyrics to 99 bottles of beer", or hundreds of other problems like that are just fine for the task.
Interesting, thanks for pointing out the updated version of what "straightforward" means. Last time I looked at Markdown you couldn't do a lot of things I needed in it, such as figures, footnotes, and references, so I didn't give it very serious consideration. But it looks like pandoc has extended the original Markdown into some kind of Markdown++, which covers just about everything I usually need.
Just a heads up, you can buy a pair of frequency-neutral earplugs for about $10-$15. They reduce the volume without giving the sound that "underwater" quality. The only downside is that they aren't disposable, so you might need to wash them with a damp paper towel between uses.
Exactly this.

I have been creating master zones on my named.conf and pointing them to a blocked.txt file. My method is more cumbersome, the one you linked is very streamlined. Excellent, and thanks!
Naw. /etc/hosts can be explained to a government.

But this kind of thing doesn't give your average government nearly enough power. So: not interested.