skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we both know we'll probably never see this case being opened around here

This, by itself, does not prove it is a monopoly.
So, I pay $500 and I get to be on a 1 hour conference call. I can't tell if this is a joke or not.
In many cases it is not even the configuration of the application itself, which tends to be complex in general, but getting all the third-party dependencies (libraries, gems, servers, etc.) that is the pain, specially if the latest versions of any component is required. This tends not to be an issue for well known apps like WordPress, but it is for the less mainstream ones...
presentation is unreadable on Linux Chrome btw
It's not that hard actually, there are many hacks possible with the current immigration system. I am a tech founder from India, been in US 10 years and funded by a top tier valley VC. My green card application has been in progress forever...So I simply created a LLC and transferred my H1 visa to that. Super low-cost solution, better/cheaper than getting a green card or E2 or any of these funky visas. And this isn't just a fluke, a number of people in a similar situation have applied this hack successfully....
dope. can't wait to give it a whirl. and thank you for building tools that empower designers. we need more products like webflow.
Looks and works a lot like http://workflowy.com
And the worse that I've ever used. I used to use Thunderbird instead when I had a Mac.
I think his point was just that you could hard-code your list of words into the code. It would be ugly, but it would work.
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Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. Not even once.

If I remember correctly (from reading about this, not experiencing it!), if you counter-claim they will either

> drop it

> sue you (must occur within 2 weeks of the counter claim)

I have no idea about how this would proceed, but if they do sue you you'll need all the fun that entails, which may be a whole load of work.

Frankly it does sound like complete BS, but the question is do you want to be the one to fight it, and could a good lawyer on their side make it stick? I feel like the law is still very much struggling with this whole internet thing, so if I were you I'd be apprehensive about assuming rational through would prevail.
From his history, it seems like he came over during dongle/fork-gate.

(edit: Not sure about the downvote - was just wondering myself how such a comment ends up on HN.)
You reminded me of a sort-of relevant part from Richard III that I enjoyed:

BUCKINGHAM:

And when mine oratory grew to an end

I bid them that did love their country's good

Cry 'God save Richard, England's royal king!'

RICHARD:

Ah! and did they so?

BUCKINGHAM:

No, so God help me, they spake not a word;

But, like dumb statues or breathing stones,

Gazed each on other, and look'd deadly pale.
This is Apple Mail in Linux. A good idea, but not worth this hyperbole.
> Can you travel in and out of the US as often as you want while on this visa?

Yes

> What would be the standard criteria for having the visa renewal approved? Would they need to see revenue growth? Would a stable stream of revenue be sufficient?

You provide them with a forecast and the idea is to meet the goals or show some progress on the project I guess (employees, paying taxes etc) - can tell you more in 2yrs :)

> Can you start other companies while on this visa?

Sure but the visa is connected to the company you made the investment in.

> Can you invest in other companies on this visa?

Think so, why not. If you invest in US companies as an individual the nationality does not really matter (e.g. we're raising under a convertible note from non-US investors).

> If you have existing employees from non-treaty countries, can they come?

Not sure but I guess you have to look for alternatives like H-1B.

> While on the visa, can you hire new employees from your home country and get them visas?

Not 100% sure but it should work; as far as I have heard the visa can be extended to other people employed in the company.
Real Wages Decline in the USA; Literally No One Notices
From the TOP of the Great Pyramid: Tourists secretly climb Egyptian landmark
How about "almost all first-party cookies are friendly"?
On Bullies
Well, that's one of the few "advantages" of PHP.

Though PHP allows this to happen easily, it's a fairly terrible idea for production code - the shortest isn't always the best.

In reality you'd use a macroframework like Symfony or a micro like Ham https://github.com/radiosilence/Ham
You could still use the plain old browser web cache to track users. Send a unique image to each user with a long expiry time with an id embedded in it somewhere, then on the page, simply read the image using javascript/canvas to get the id.
Ask HN: How much logic do you impose on your life and the world?
I have tried to view the world in an orderly fashion. I try to break down my life and people's actions in a logical sense. The troubling part is I seem let down by people. Am I too judgmental?

I don't have friends. I've grown accustomed to being on forums. I've grown disenchanted with most. Hacker News is the only one I like to read and participate in because it doesn't have as many trolls or rude people, and has a system I like. Am I too naive to think I can find genuine people on forums? The internet seems like a hell-hole sometimes, infested with the worst of humanity.

My loneliness is due to my disapproval of how people treat each other. I find so many people to be inconsiderate and I would rather surround myself with positive people, yet I can't seem to find any. Since I was a child, I spent my time going through phases, hoping from groups to groups; I guess trying to "find" myself, as many try to do. I get along best with people that are into computers and are introverts. But due to their nature, we become friendless. I’d love to talk to people about my other interests, such as music or literature, but most, especially on an internet forum, seem so hostile and unlike me. So much that I interpret these people as being as such in real life, as well, and so I've pretty much become a recluse, only going to work, reading, listening to music, and writing. Sometimes I think I am dehumanizing rational thought, if that even makes sense. Sometimes I think it’s just the city I live in. Some people have said I am too much of a reductionist and others insult me by saying I only read Fast Company. Yes, that last part is funny, but how do I become a better person?

How logically do you try to live your life? Is it irrational to live a life based on the best data? Does it become a burden to oneself or to others when dealing in human interaction?

I feel being a third culture kid had a negative effect on me, too.

I appreciate your feedback.
Here's how I pitched Dave McClure:
Me:"hey aren't you the famous incubator investor?"
Dave:"oh gosh I don't know about famous.."
Me:"yeah you're Paul Graham right?"
It was hilarious. You should have been there cause you would have laughed too. Oh and I didn't pitch him cause I was too busy laughing.
It strikes me as very unlikely that Google is getting government pressure to restrict the advertising of assisted opening knives. These knives are exceedingly popular; Walmart and Amazon sell them.

I can't actually think of any reason that passes a basic sanity check that Google would have an issue with them at all. This situation seems a little bizarre.
As a guy, I think it is my duty to fight sexism, because I have benefited from it.

But even given what you say, it doesn't match with your earlier point. Saying that sexism isn't news is to suggest that not only do you not want to talk about it, but that we shouldn't either.
The fact that this great question hasn't been answered yet is a bad sign.
That video also seems to be a pretty good way to demonstrate the limits of lossy video encoding.
Reading this makes me question why people are begging to work with Dave McClure.
You're assuming a proportional font, and English language keywords.

What about?...

我品 品= 我品做厂.受做().必要产("the value").别重要产(42).特别Thingy提交(任何变量).做()

...and...

饼干s= 响应品.首s.找都{首→ 首.钥匙 ≡ "Set-Cookie"}.收集{饼干首→ 新 饼干(饼干首)}

They're on one line and more people can read it than your English version.
Ah yes. Again, you conclude that the only possible outcomes are ones where you are in the right.
It is not completely idiotic to resort to violence, it can be completely effective in many situations, but it is unwise if you aren't comfortable with it. You might end up with your own ass kicked and facing criminal charges if you don't succeed.

Intimidation would work much better here.

You have to create a convincing impression that you are willing to go way farther than he is. You have to look them in the eyes and let them know you mean business. The threat doesn't even have to be real, just make vague allusions to bad shit that's going to happen to them if they don't back off.

You have to dig deep down into that primal part of your brain and draw out dark feelings, then harness and direct them directly at your adversary. Get in his face. It's best to practice in a mirror. Helps if you've had any performing experience or even taken classes, they teach you how to be convincing. If it feels stupid, it will come off stupid, keep practicing until you can fool yourself. Think about various ways he'll respond and prepare for them.
Good info!! Thanks

Do you have a blog / another way to reach you?
Social Media-Based Public Shaming Has Gotten Out of Control
On the ammunition point --

The shells and propellant for the 16" guns are leftovers from World War II. The Navy had been operating a 27-battleship Navy during the War, so they had a huge quantity of supplies remaining after the battleship fleet was decommissioned.

When all four ships in the Iowa class were reactivated in the 1980s, the Navy calculated that the stockpiled supplies were enough to last for the remaining life of all four ships. It was this World War II-era propellant that ignited in 1989 and killed an entire turret crew on the USS Iowa.

The cause is believed to have been identified, and the Iowa-class battleships subsequently fired the 16" guns without incident. But that was back when the ammunition was 40-50 years old. Today, the ammunition is 70 years old!
Because PHP is a framework disguised as a language.
Oops, thanks for the fix
Will Passenger just serve up ERB files just like PHP? Now I'm curious.
Don't take money from friends, the potential problems there are countless. For one thing, your chances of success are low and your friends can't properly estimate that. They hear too many startup success stories in the news. A professional investor knows what he's getting into, your friends have no idea.
Great, thanks. Do you know of a more formal way of expressing this "flip"? (Don't get any good Google hits).
Because sometimes I just want to get shit done and don't care what it looks like.
I think you're just making a different argument. The parent seemed to be implying that people are afraid to criticize Google aggressively because Google have too much power and may retaliate. I don't think that's true -- in particular, if they did start retaliating, it would invoke a backlash and push people to start actively seeking out competitors or advocating new regulations.

Maybe there is something to the cognitive dissonance argument, but that's a very different dynamic. Resigning yourself to having to deal with someone in the future and then convincing yourself that you like them because they're the option you've chosen for yourself is not at all the same thing as that party having some kind of sovereign power over you. Look at what people do with their local sports teams -- people love the local team because it's "their team," that doesn't prove anything about whether the Mets have any excess of economic power over the citizens of New York.
I suggest you try posting minus variations of "bullshit" or "shit". It might be tough, but it will be worth it in the end.

You have clearly never used one of these knives

You refute me by making claims directly contrary to the video in the story being discussed. You know, the company making the product being discussed, where a protruding trigger is, with obviously little force via an index finger, actuated causing the blade to immediately swing 180 degrees at a high rate of speed.

But your personal experience is fascinating nonetheless, however completely irrelevant.

* If you are somehow accidentally doing this with a table edge*

The context of my comment on it is that people who actually use knives as tools don't use knives made for 14 year old boys, emblazoned with names like "SWAT" by gun makers. I stand by that.
I get plenty of joy out of solving Project Euler problems.
"If, conversely, a candidate asked me the questions edw519 listed above, you'd pretty much be guaranteed a job."

I'm confused. Is it normal for an interviewee to ask the interviewer a tricky technical question at some point of a job interview now? Am I reading this correctly?
He actually knew who I am (at least a little bit), but you're right, that's a necessary start.
"Going through the process of putting up the Kickstarter project creates accountability and motivation for Mackenzie to actually build and finish the game because she now has a group of people cheering her on from the sidelines."

Guess you missed the part that originally, there was absolutely no mention of a game or result in the rewards - that was only added after the tornado touched down.
The lectures really only showed how to accomplish it with eclipse.
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What does this mean? That Hans (in this case) needs to be investing his personal assets in order to get a E2?
I'm biased, but I think Ting Ni is great (she's in Mountain View if you're in Silicon Valley, but I think remote is fine too). Usually very responsive on email as well: ting@tingnilaw.com. http://tingnilaw.com/profile.html
Martin Odersky. FWIW, you can also just go back and read it again.
99 Bottles of Beer, written in pretty much every language available to mankind
Fun little use I noticed: you can upload video to framebase from the command line with a single curl command:

curl -F "file=@full-path-to-file-here" -F "token=your-app-token-here" http://api.framebase.io/video/

This technique will work for plenty of other services as well.
+1

My first development job was at an Architecture studio funded by the LA Community College District. The Architecture interns there were allowed a lot of artistic license as they used the renderings in their portfolios.

Usually the renderings mimic "magic hour"[1] lighting conditions and are taken from the best vantage point. Being a talented bunch, sometimes their embellishments ended up in the final work and looked great... and somethings not. Sometimes their renderings ignored the actual position of the sun in order to make it look better at the vantage point the picture was "taken", since the CAD software would add lens flare and glare. Sometimes a rendering has one time of plant or another simply due to the whims of the intern or because of what was available in the asset library (i.e. Coconut or Palm Trees instead of Magnolia tress).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_hour_(photography)
Yeah, I felt like a bit of an asshole for pointing it out too. I hope Geary can be successful, an can learn lessons from the chandler project about how not to do it.
Check out Javascript: http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-javascript-1948.html
The Basics – CVSS
Even if the dead load isn't a problem, the space taken up by a one- to two-meter-deep soil level is going to be significant. (Oh, you were planning on occupying the floor under the tree? Tough.) Also, even if draining the water isn't a problem, pumping all that water up there in the first place doesn't sound cheap.
These are examples of economic war (Sun Tsu) tactics rather than "things of real worth".

For example, I can't think of many notable inventions that came out of any of the associations you mentioned. Your examples are simply examples of amassing a centrally controlled industrial and economic army in order to capture territory. It's war without bullets.

What I am talking about are things like finding the cure for cancer. That is not going to be centrally planned. You can throw all the money you want at the problem, government or private. There might very well be a kid who is still pooping in his diapers today who will stumble upon the solution in another twenty years. No amount of money is going to dig-up that solution until it, well, just happens. Will it happen? Sure. Eventually. But you are not going to centrally plan it. Even if you setup a government laboratory to hire every single cancer researcher coming out of every university on the planet central planning might very well fail. For all we know it will be a marine biologist with a unique view of cell biology who will discover the solution.

If you've read a few of my posts over time it should not come as a surprise that I am a huge proponent of the private free enterprise approach. I think governments, with the passing of time, are becoming less and less relevant and are horrible blunt instruments that try to micro-manage our lives and do a really bad job of it. In the past few decades, regardless of political party affiliation, the US government has given us a perfect living example of how badly things can degenerate when politicians are solely driven by their need and desire to remain in power. Years go by and nothing happens. Or, even worst, the things that do happen are driven purely by the need to manipulate the population for votes.

Humankind has moved from feudal slavery to the kind of freedom we have today for a reason. That did not work. This works better. I think our future has far less government in the context of an educated, responsible and self-reliant citizenry using private resources to make everyone's lives better.

Of course, these things happen slowly, and they should. Too many corner cases to deal with.
If you want to know a lot more about this, take MIT's 3.091x (Introduction to Solid State Chemistry) from edx.org. It's quite a fun course.
Not to be too harsh on Ted, but in all the above scenarios, isn't he still responsible for not bringing the issues to discussion some time before the deadlines passed? That lack of communication on his part is a pretty big liability, assuming the deadlines are at all important.
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Ah ha, so that must be the issue. I am relieved, now that I know the reason for the problem.
Thanks, sp332.
Using Cloudfront should improve your availability (if using Cloudfront URLs).
Constitutionality of law indicates otherwise.
I wasn't surprised to see PHP do well as having the shortest path to a responsive site (in the most minimal sense) is PHP's greatest feature.
New York Times closes another loophole in its digital paywall
The APC opcode cache extension also has a user cache which has an API similar to memcache but a bit faster since it's using shared memory and not going over the network. It's shared between all visitors across all requests.

http://php.net/manual/en/book.apc.php
It's entirely possible the claims were somehow automated or involved some drone in an office blindly filing DMCAs with links to the site (just a step above automated). A counter-claim is enough of a red flag that they'll stop to take notice of what exactly is going on and who they're filing against. If this is the case, they're more likely to drop it since pursuing Tweets isn't as effective as going after the actual site itself.

Either way, if you do decide to fight it, you need some legal counseling unfortunately, hence the effort bit.

If you prefix your Tweets with "Job Listing: " or just "Listing: ", that may deflect responsibility more in the future. Also on the Twitter description maybe an added disclaimer is warranted.
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... And that is something exclusive to PHP?
Isn't that the same as loading them from file on each request?
I'm going to keep worrying.

I agree that those people don't represent the tech community. On the other hand, their behavior has caused legitimate fear among women in tech about speaking up. And it's not like the tech community rose up as one against the hatemongers: there was a lot of quiet and not-so-quiet support for how things turned out. There was plenty of aggressive examination of what Adria Richards did, with a lot less focus on anybody else, or on anything that led up to what she did.

So I believe that Ryan McGreal is right in saying the misogynists had a victory. A partial one, though; good things have come out of it as well.
I'm sorry, but I fundamentally disagree with your core premise.
A trivial speed optimisation for the python example would be to use sets instead of lists for e.g. change line 8 to:

NOUNS = {l.strip().lower() for l in f}
Google+, the Play Store and many other services are not open. In some cases, they may have APIs, but they are not open APIs. They have closed down more open platforms, such as Reader, in favor of the more closed platforms, like Google+.

That doesn't mean they are a closed company today, but I believe they've turned the corner. Just like Facebook has a lot of OSS projects but isn't an "open company", I think Google has shifted the balance away from openness, even though they have a lot of OSS projects. I see them as qualitatively the same, but significantly different in degree. I wouldn't have said that three years ago.

EDIT: I realized I answered how Google is closing, but not how they are closing the web.

I think that has to do with two things: preferential treatment of their services in search results and hiding information behind Google logins. The former makes it harder to find anything Google hasn't sanctioned; the latter makes it harder to go elsewhere to get your search results.

I see it as exactly the same thing as Facebook pages for businesses instead of web sites. Sure, http is fine and intact, but now we are beholden to Facebook for information.
That was an extremely rare tax deduction that few had every even heard of before an article about it came out in January.

It was struck down by courts as unconstitutional, so the deduction had to be disqualified retroactively.
Which agency?

The Feds are mostly responsible for the love of hybrids that US agencies have. The extra fed funding that agencies get for hybrid buses make it worth it for them, and the fuel savings is the cherry on top.
Have you looked at the book "Learning OpenCV", by Bradski and Kaehler, published by O'Reilly? I haven't done much work with OpenCV, but I have read the entire book and it seemed to be a good introduction. A companion collection of examples is available online, consisting of a set of programs that can be compiled and used as a starting point for further hacking. A Google search on the title, happens to yield a link to the full text.
The only difference between my assisted opening knife and my paring knife is that the former is safe to put into my pocket. Same size, same blade shape, one lives in my kitchen cabinet and the other lives in my toolbag. I don't use the later for food because I don't want it to get sticky. How exactly does that make the later "designed to hurt people"?
I appreciate the answers, this visa is looking very promising.
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