skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand the presentation.

Allow the user to choose nationality from a drop down box, then show a world map colored various ways:

- green no visa

- blue for easy to obtain visas

- red for difficult to obtain visas

On a side note, it should probably be "United States citizen" and not "US". Also, US -> China is a very common route that requires a visiting / mailing your passport to a Chinese embassy to obtain a visa that you should probably have listed.
When I read visa I always think of the credit card, not the document. Like what do you mean you don't know what you need a credit card for...? To buy stuff!
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Thanks, that was the story.

Prison time for falsely reporting an address for purposes of schooling? A sad commentary on this society.
I checked out the comments section for the first time on the KS page and found this parody: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/623745679/948103832?toke...

Doesn't KS have an option to stop the project when it raises the needed amount like Indiegogo? Whatever the answer to that is, she can just argue it was too hard to find that option, or that it didn't exist. It'll be forgotten in one year.
Tried Australian going to Morocco and China. "Sorry, we've no information available." Could've got more data in there before playing your "Show HN" card maybe.
You must always pay the development complexity piper.

SQL databases start off difficult but pay dividends on the back end. NoSQL databases start of easy but begin to extract their costs later.

Similarly, a well-normalised database is tuned to write-and-store performance, but the cost of joins can crush you at query time.

What's usually missing from discussions like these is highlighting the difference between OLTP and OLAP.

You favour one or the other. TANSTAAFL.
I'm sorry, but that's just hilarious, as in absurd. You might as well throw out mathematics because so much of it originated in India and China. I'm a skeptic myself, but that cuts both ways.
It can; it's just using SNI without explicitly asking you to enable anything.
So because the mother is rich, the kickstarter campaign is a scam? As discussed extensively in the earlier post, there are dozens of successful, well-received kickstarter campaigns started by millionaires.

This kind of harmful and devoid of content article should not be featured on HN.
This is really a mischaracterization. The point of the book was to address data tooling topics (and the bare essentials: IPython and NumPy and matplotlib); for most data tasks (especially Chapters 7, 9, and 10) I would challenge you to replicate all of the data work without using pandas and then come back and snark on HN about how I'm self-promoting, or whatever. The truth is, it's the only game in town for complex structured data manipulation in Python, unless you want pages and pages of spaghetti nested dicts and lists.

The sales numbers already show that the book was timely and relevant to a huge (> 10,000 so far) number of people.
Exiting the US on foot at the Mexican border involves no check of any kind of documentation-- you just walk through a couple turnstiles, and a Mexican Marine may search your bag if you look suspicious.

That, of course, makes it easy to be in Tiajuana without a passport. From what I heard when I lived in San Diego, if you bring a US drivers' license, and especially if you also bring a US birth certificate, the border agents may chew you out, but they will let you into the US.
Finland is a little larger than Oregon, and only slightly more densely populated: 16.0/km² vs 15.0/km²; countries as far north as Alaska are generally not "densely populated", but maybe you mentally pictured it to be somewhere in central/western Europe. Homogenity seem more relevant to compare than these factoids, though.
Your suggestion sounds exactly like
<Shameless_plug>
Visamapper (www.visamapper.com)
</Shameless_plug>

But DoIneedAVisaFor is a more direct way to answer the question if you already know your Destination.
Hey you're right. I didn't think of this project as an exploitation of the PyCon fiasco and feminist. Good analysis.

She can just say she'll give it to charity- she has time to turn this around. Still...what 9 year old would like for her mom to manage her stuff? When I was 9 I hated my mom managing my stuff, I would have made the video my self and wrote everything too and collected the money from my friends by sharing the project on FB.
Why comment at the top level in this sort of discussion then?

The topic isn't so much poll position but giving every comment a chance at being noticed so that the better options rise naturally to the top and create a better conversation.

I don't think this is the "I don't care about silly internet points" discussion you think it is.
Isn't that just a vote on the effectiveness of the headline?
Maybe she is teaching her sons a lesson about not being mean to their sister.
it's calculated as percentage of unintended pregnancy during one year of use.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080531095926/http://www.contrac...
My kids' school had a fundraiser auction last year where one of the items you could bid on was a ride to school on a fire truck. I'm still mad I didn't have a budget to bid on it.
All you have shown is that it is within human nature for humans to force other humans to do terrible things (i.e. to fuck up society)
You're right - that is the normal way (although not commonly seen). I'll update if I find it.
United Technologies cheated laid-off employees out of stock
...which is probably why it's illegal to ask a job candidate about their health history.
Except Barnum never said that, and was actually a pretty fucking stand up guy when you look into it.
I did something similar. I hustled to acquire the lawn mowing gigs for $30 per yard, then subcontracted the actual mowing part to my neighbor for $15 per yard. My parents were pissed when they found out. To this day I still think it was genius
It's true that MySQL is ahead on the tickbox features here.

But the PostgreSQL team are doing their usual slow, stepwise refinement approach to implementing these features from the primitives and moving up. I expect that in a few versions they'll be at sufficient feature parity with MySQL on this front that anyone who cares enough is the sort of person who decides between Oracle RAC and Teradata.

While that will be good and I look forward to it, I will miss seeing you turn up in these threads like a bad penny.
I like the idea, but the entries in the citizenship dropdown seem to be "not quite" sorted. Some examples of out-of-order entries:

Ivorian (between Costa Rican and Croatian),
Salvadorian (between Egyptian and Equatorial Guinean),
Burmese (between Mozambiquan and Namibian)
etc.

[ edit ] Ah are they ordered by country name, not the adjective that's being shown? Unexpected and confusing.
It will be hard at times. That's just the way things are. But there are definitely ways to make things work. I think the odds of getting a decent job with strangers are pretty low, but the more time passes, the easier it is for them to consider it a "youthful indiscretion". I've tried really hard to just suck it up and explain everything as how I made a mistake but took full responsibility and did everything I could to make it right.

I've mentioned on other threads that every single time I bring up my background, people have stories about other people they know or coworkers with criminal records. I have two friends with vehicular manslaughter convictions (one a DUI) and both hold decent jobs in the IT field. It hasn't been easy for them either, but they've fought their way back into the field with help from friends.
The kickstarter concept is incredibly naive.
The attached Learn Backbone.js Completely article is also very good.

Angular has _huge_ obstacles for dev usability when Backbone's source is so accessible you can use it to help learn js.
I frequent some online meditation communities, and I've seen people reporting adverse effects, ranging from extreme detachment in everyday life to odd physical reactions.

If it's not too personal... What's the harmfulness your wife has experienced?
It's the python plugins and the multiple carets... mostly.
How to predict the future marketshare of a brand
There's the TOS violations:

"fund my life" - buying her daughter a laptop (camp provides IT resources"
"fund tuition" - educational camp, pretty self-explanatory

And then the rest of the tastelessness - I'm fairly certain a nine year old isn't at all involved in beer cozies saying "I drink like a girl, keep up!" etc.
You know, that would be a totally fair, level-headed comment in a discussion about pricing 101, not kids' lemonade stands. You're paying more because it's a damn kid in a lemonade stand, as personal charity, not because there is extraordinary value in that squeezed lemon juice.
The problem is that Kickstarter gets a 5% fee, so it is to their business interests to raise as much money as possible
Too Much Tea Causes Unusual Bone Disease
And you're wasting it here. :)
PostgreSQL handles UUIDs, IP addresses and booleans quite intelligently. Where appropriate they include specialised functions that you can use in queries, and the formats for input are generous so long as your input is unambiguous.

For example, the boolean type in PostgreSQL will accept TRUE, 'true', 't', '1', 'on', 'y' and 'yes' (case insensitive) for truthful values and the equivalents for false values. It's hard to state how much better this is than Oracle, to take my work environment as an example.

My point is that I imagine that when the PostgreSQL team get around to these types, they will address them with the same care and forethought as they have for everything else. I trust them because their feature plans are not based on maximising shininess.
Finding an actual authoritative source on Chinese visa requirements has been difficult - there's a lot of second hand information around, but nothing official that I can find.
I don't argue with that logic. But it isn't that I believe they will close down email/calendar, they have just made me re-consider how much of my critical online services I have invested in them, and I no longer trust them with something I believe is very valuable, my time and my data. With Reader, now I need to re-invest my time into finding another service. That sounds entitled, but there has been an exchange between me and Google all this time, I have used their services, of which they had many historically, and they have thrown ads at me and harvested my data. They still make money out of me despite me not being the one paying them. Now, they have decided that they want to cut out all the periphery services which they deem unprofitable. Ironically, the periphery 'unprofitable' services they are cutting were the only things that kept me using them, getting rid of Reader is essentially the last straw, I want a healthier relationship when it comes to my critical online services going forward, Google now offers me very little incentive to stay so invested in them. They will still get my money from Play Store, I will still use YouTube, but I no longer will be using them for essential services.
Perhaps too many foxes, but a nice selection.
>>>>> I want to find out what (if anything) lies beyond our ordinary perception of the world. Is what we normally take to be the "real world" (or "objective reality", "external reality", etc) actually an illusion like Buddhism and Hinduism claim? If so, can the techniques of Buddhist or Hindu meditation really reveal the "true reality" beyond the illusion of the ordinary world? I would like to find out.

I've studied Native American religion and Shamanism for about 10 years now (I have a degree in it) and I think you might be referring to ASC or altered states of consciousness. It's hard to describe to people what shamanic meditation and journeying are since most are dismissive of things they do not understand. Trust me though, it is fascinating and is eye opening once you've experienced it.

I would start here: (this was the first book recommended to me by my freshman professor when I first became curious about ASC and Shamanism)

The Way of the Shaman - Michael Harner
http://www.amazon.com/The-Way-Shaman-Michael-Harner/dp/00625...

p.s. there are a ton of ways to elicit an ASC, some use drugs, but the vast majority use drumming instead.
From a timeline perspective, let's see how the rule of 3 startups would work out to become King.

Ages 22-25: Fresh out of college, work for a startup as an employee and learn the ropes, build connections, and level up with the right skills.

Ages 25-30: Strike out on your own with Startup #1. Work at it for 5 years (because the VCs totally own you) and then bail.

Age 30-33: Start another startup with VC funds, but negotiate better terms. Work at it for 3 years to get the 7 figure exit.

Age 33+: A full 13 years after you began your career, you're finally ready to bootstrap a business with no VC at all. Maybe now you can actually slow down enough to get married, have a family, and put down some roots. Well hmm, now with all those responsibilities on the line, it seems foolhardy to risk your own cash from the previous ventures when VCs are willing to give you money again...
A freely available charting library with the same capabilities as highcharts would be a welcome thing for many people.
"and others want to teach their kids the value of a dollar"

In this case, the value of a dollar being "I'll overproduce a PowerPoint, spam some celebrities and women's groups on Twitter, we'll include a few pictures of you being all cute and smiling, and people will just throw money at you!"

"They worked together" - BS. Their merchandise includes beer coolers with adult slogans. Their marketing includes spamming of women's rights groups, and celebrities. You don't honestly believe that this was driven by the nine year old, and not her multimillionaire debt collecting mom, who made her initial fortune squatting on kinkos.com, do you?
The extra money's not going directly to the daughter.
You are getting a lot of hate in this thread. Just wanted to say that I work in an ad agency, and we have a number of these spaces, and everyone (or at least, the most ambitious people among us) loves them - creatives and technologists alike.

Here's a description of some of them: 1) a small quiet room with a couple couches, soft fengshui-safe decorations, iPad hooked up to overhead speakers playing music, and a guitar. 2) A room filled with magazines, craft supplies, and meditative collages that people have pasted all over the walls. 3) A huge, white room with bare floors, long wooden tables. The walls are white, can be written on with markers and are magnetic for posting up whatever ideas, paper, etc you are banging around, by yourself or with others. There are big screen TVs, and also speakers, scattered that you can hook up your computer to if you need. And of course wifi everywhere (should go without saying)

I use 1 and 3 quite a bit, for collaboration and sometimes just meditation.
"However, posting up pictures of many men, with one of them clearly staring at the camera, and saying "he jokes about dongles" is wrong when the guy that is at the center of the photo and is staring at the camera is not the guy that joked about dongles."

The tweet said "right behind me", which is the right guy according to you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5434005
https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/313417655879102464

Edit: I added "according to you" and link to comment since it was pointed out below that this might also be the wrong guy, which would make the comment even worse of course.
And I will definitely miss the weekly "PostgreSQL is all you need and you're stupid to use anything else" threads.

My position is that there a lot of different products out there that cater for different needs and there is no "one size fits all" solution. I can scale Cassandra out to a hundred nodes in minutes on EC2 with no configuration changes. I also have queries in MongoDB that are literally 50x faster than on a SQL database.
You mean an apocryphal quote about the ease of fooling people is itself false? Say it ain't so! I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.
I disagree this exploit is like a buffer overflow. It is more like uploading code to a buffer within its bounds (no overflow), and then triggering a jump to that buffer. The only corruption part is getting Yoshi to wrongly think he has something in his mouth, which wasn't the novel part.
This is awesome.

I'll get links to this from http://wikioverland.org shortly.
Time on Sandberg: parking, pregnancy & crying at work
“The Most Bountiful Food in Human History?”
Nice story. Pushkin, the author of "The Queen of Spades" actually gave an initial idea of "Dead Souls" to Gogol. Without knowing that (which the author didn't know) it is really very interesting how the first story reminded of another novel. The only thing they have in common is an author of the ideas for their plots. So no surprise Nabokov got really curious at first and then disappointed with the answer.
This is awesome. Very useful. Also would be useful is a full list of countries that don't need a visa for, based on my citizenship.
I would go with Technical Product Manager.

There are a number of cloud services companies (Amazon, Rackspace) that have folks onboard with this title. I believe they are usually former engineers who work closely with technical teams to define requirements, in some cases work out Proof of Concepts, and make architecture decisions.

In short, highly technical work that can't happen without significant experience shipping production code earlier in their careers.
Target ties purchases to your credit card, without needing a store discount card.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.h...;
Some friends of mine turned a 1963 firetruck into a 2:1 scale VW bus: http://walterthebus.org. The suspension was a key reason they went with a firetruck. A bus foundation would not have supported the 330 gallon water tank used in the onboard misting system.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5420283

See? I already thought this was suspicious.

and to think I've spent twenty years doing just the R&D for my MMORTSFPSRPG
Very well written. However, I believe he takes the conclusion one step too far. As he says, the issue is complex. The problem can be _both_ sexism and narcissism. The issues can co-exist. Clearly, a lot of women have to deal with a plenty of vile crap. One can be active against rape threats and also _at the same time_ speak out against those that misuse important issues to brew stormy cups of tea.
I meditate 2-3 times a week for about 20 minutes. My experience level is that of an advanced beginner.

I sometimes struggle to reconcile meditation's message of "just observe" with my discomfort at my level of achievement in life.

I realize that being too judgmental can be a sign of an unhealthy perpective on life. But I worry that being too content can dampen my desire to succeed.

That being said, I think meditation is one of my most important practices.
The US to India has a spelling error. Visa is spelled vist.
"Still...what 9 year old would like for her mom to manage her stuff?"

She's 9. The mom has orchestrated every inch of this and the child likely has no clue what mommy is planning.
Lesson or not, it is still a scam.
Hey completely agree.. Don't understand why people down voted you... Starbucks makes a pretty fine business off of beverages.. And probably charges more for sub par lemonade... I've had some great sidewalk lemonade lol

Also on the case of this whole thing... I don't see why people are making a huge deal out of this... Someone paid.. They weren't tricked... She is planning to make a game... The mother probably helped alot but she had to have put some effort into this.. I say probs to her
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Is that how you want to teach your daughter how to make money? Throwing your own kin and women you see as lesser than you under the bus? Spamming people over Twitter and Facebook with those same hateful messages for attention? Guilt-tripping a young girl that she'll become some nameless plastic woman on an old guy's arm if she doesn't learn enough? It's shameful; putting one type of person above another is the exact opposite of appealing to gender issues. There's nothing wrong with being one of the women in the presentation if both parties agree to those terms; there are dating sites specific to it and some men (and women) honestly enjoy that role. Who are we to judge them? That whole part of her campaign is distasteful and doesn't do anything but emphasize discrimination. It has nothing to do with why that little girl should enjoy education and yet it was the most emphasized part of the video.

The rewards are continued proof that she has the means to fund the course herself. Having greater incentives means more people will pitch into her grand scheme of profiting off of above "gender issues".

There's no feel-goodery in helping a rich mom sell her daughter out when there are plenty of girls out there who want to do this without the money or mothers to exploit them.
I wish somebody would write a post like this for Ruby. Trying to craft a personal study plan of the best, most current resources from the large number of apparently high-quality offerings is difficult for a newcomer to the language. I'm operating on the assumption that success is mostly path-independent (just start doing stuff and going through resources, and you'll learn), but it still feels like a random walk approach to learning sometimes.

I'd also like a list of critical tools for programmers new to the Ruby langauage. These things don't always get highlighted in beginner resources because of the need to hand-hold on fundamental concepts for people who've never programmed. For instance, I wish when I'd learned Python that somebody would have told me right at the beginning to install ipython, virtualenv, pip, etc.

Edit: Wow. Thanks, guys, for all the good recommendations.
Not on every pokemon species. It depends of their growth rate[1], which need to be "medium slow".

It has been corrected starting from the gen 3 (and it explains why your starters & eggs starts at level 5 instead of 1).

[1] http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Experience#Relation_t...
why isn't this more discussed?
I have never noticed the arrow!
it's creative writing.
Alexander J. Smola's teaching the 10-701 Machine Learning class at CMU in the spring of 2013. All slides and video will be available online at the course website.
and I had the same problem - New Zealander going to France. The answer, btw, is No visa required for New Zealanders in the Shengen agreement area.
White House API on Github
You should put the US as the first choice in the drop down box, since that's where most of your traffic will come from. Later when you have more data, you could put the top 15 in the first choices.
> And I will definitely miss the weekly "PostgreSQL is all you need and you're stupid to use anything else" threads.

I think that for any case where you might be building a new system based on a relational backend, it's basically true (modulo local constraints like "we're an Oracle shop"). The chances that you will need to run a website that needs 100 Cassandra servers any time soon is ... well it's unlikely.

PostgreSQL is a stable, proven workhorse. That's why I like it. My point of view is that you should start with high safety and features and relax those constraints as circumstances demand.
That's fantastic. I'd love to see something like this for Metroid: ZM and Super Metroid. Be especially interesting if they also managed to sync up areas at some point.
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I wonder if that's unique to Shark Tank. I never heard of it wrt Dragon's Den.

That said, I think if you were really going to go through with that plan you'd probably want to try to find out how often the option has actually been exercised. It may not even be entirely enforceable.