skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the article, the law intends to prevent animal rights activists, who show some intent to harm the operation, from conducting their business on private property without permission. That is a lot closer, if anything, to being a trespassing matter, not one of free speech.

I'm not sure that still justifies it, and I am not in favour of it myself, but I don't think we want to go down the road of misguided analogies like comparing copyright to theft. Surely people should have some say over what happens on their private property, and if they are being prevented from doing so for whatever reason, perhaps a law of some kind (not necessarily this one) is needed?

Granted, I haven't read the actual wording of the law yet, or have any understanding who is behind it and what their motivation is, so perhaps the article is off base.
I know that is already [supposed to be] illegal, however, there are valid complaints (such as [1]) that this is happening on large scale in a formally legal way.

My proposal should hopefully be more resistant to such manipulations.

Furthermore, if you have a genuine need to import talent, you should state that you're willing to pay not 'prevailing wage' but above that.

[1] http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215405/H_1B_pay_and_... quoting "U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a Democrat whose Congressional district includes Silicon Valley .... the average wage for computer systems analysts in her district is $92,000, but the U.S. government prevailing wage rate for H-1B workers in the same job currently stands at $52,000, or $40,000 less."
Re mass data imports - Postgres offers parallel restore of dumps since version 8.4:

(Quoting the documentation for pg_restore):

-j number-of-jobs
--jobs=number-of-jobs
Run the most time-consuming parts of pg_restore — those which load data, create indexes, or create constraints — using multiple concurrent jobs. This option can dramatically reduce the time to restore a large database to a server running on a multi-processor machine.

Each job is one process or one thread, depending on the operating system, and uses a separate connection to the server.

The optimal value for this option depends on the hardware setup of the server, of the client, and of the network. Factors include the number of CPU cores and the disk setup. A good place to start is the number of CPU cores on the server, but values larger than that can also lead to faster restore times in many cases. Of course, values that are too high will lead to decreasing performance because of thrashing.

Only the custom archive format is supported with this option. The input file must be a regular file (not, for example, a pipe). This option is ignored when emitting a script rather than connecting directly to a database server. Also, multiple jobs cannot be used together with the option --single-transaction.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/app-pgrestore.html
You're missing my larger point. The original comment was bigoted. I'm not a fan of bigotry.
I don't use a complicated .gitconfig (just user.name and user.email), so this is all new to me.

Something that leaps out to me as horribly wrong is that aliasing a builtin doesn't cause the config file to be "invalid". Doing anything else is just doing spooky things that are explained only several hundred lines into the man page by a single sentence.

Maybe better would be to choke on config lines that alias a builtin, and to print error messages before or after the output of each git command while the offending line(s) are present.

Further,

git config alias.pull "pull --ff-only"

should definitely be an error. Instead, git gladly makes the (no-op) confusing edit to your config file.
If I had to guess, the fact that HTTP and JSON are CouchDB's native tongue (removing the need for a middleman in front of the DB) was likely a factor.
That is possible, but if the exchange rate is fairly stable you get much less press coverage and much less adoption.
I think the problem there is not that those people will be unable to get their entertainment, but that they are being excluded from the Internet age. The solution is not to hold back the wheels of progress for the sake of their entertainment, it is to deploy Internet access in ways that are affordable and which are not locked down to any specific vendor. This is about more than television; people without Internet access are excluded from an increasing number of businesses, sources of education, and news (the non-entertainment kind).
To be clear, this is specifically aimed at telling Canadian startups to stay in Canada. YMMV.
As a hiring manager for a large company where I have personally hired sponsored H1B workers, I can tell you that what the employer demonstrates is a perfunctory notice in the workplace, which is worded in a precise way to fulfill all legal requirements and completely confound anyone who may have an interest in knowing a position is (not really) open. 90% of people if you showed them this piece of paper they would not even understand it relates to a job opening.

Now in my case, I was always hiring people who I considered to be very strongly skilled (relative to peers working in industry). But having also hired contractors I also know that a lot of the body shops will bring in people and charge them at rates that leave no room for doubt that they are low-skill/low-quality/under-paid.
I think the 'point' here is that as opposed to chests with 100.000.000KG of gold there are actually 'lost' wallet files with enough BTC that it would 'rock' an economy with a currency cap in the future.

I am pretty sure if someone found a stash of gold worth $400.000.000.000 that WOULD actually effect gold prices. Also: Gold has 'real life' uses (production of components etc) and real world costs etc. attached to handling (weight, transport costs etc). None of which BTC has.
RDF, RDF, RDF, RDF, RDF, RDF, RDF.

Yes. Please use RDF.

And please use a common vocabulary.

If you want to know how to do this? Have a look at the UK governments open data portal (which uses RDF): data.gov.uk

And their SPARQL (query) endpoint: http://data.gov.uk/sparql
I think Interlingua would be even more interesting to you then, since it was designed to be comprehensible to ordinary speakers of French, Spanish and Italian without any special knowledge. It's sort of like a modern idealized Romance language. It would probably serve your purpose better than Ido.
April '13 Windows Phone device stats - Nokia domination
Only as long as there are legal uses for it; otherwise, it is as good as laundering money by buying and selling cocaine.
Did the bankers choose to simply turn off everyone's electricity in the evening? They aren't holding anyone hostage. They're just taking all the money they can get their hands on and we're choosing to hand it over.
Chewing On Free Food In Silicon Valley — And Taxes
I can enter my credit card details in about 15 seconds (30 on mobile). "Qr code" and "simply" do not belong in the same sentence.
Nope. That's the problem. LOST bitcoin (as you cannot quantify the availability of anonymous data blocks) wouldn't effect anything. ONLY FOUND bitcoins would.
Don't know, I like Clojure and Hickey, but I've never got much out of his talks.

Seem more like a series of really obvious ideas and some platitudes thrown in for good measure.
No, a possible explanation would be 'that is unnecessary, because: ...'. Except of course tagging commits with branches is not unnecessary, because that's the only way a user might make sense of ancestors of a merge commit...

Unless you like manually tracking parents of a commit, and trying to guess which branch is which based on commit messages. Fun!

I've seen many workarounds to this clear deficiency, the simplest of which is simply putting the branch name at the start of the commit title. Of course that usually cuts the space available for the actual commit title down from ~60 characters to 20-40, depending on how verbosely you call your branches.
I'd love to choose Canada, but the last time I looked at the immigration 'points' system, they only want me if I have $500k+ USD worth of money to invest in the country (hah, as if I'd need to move if I did) or I'm a fluent French speaker...
Nah, that should be a non-issue. US Dollars are anonymous, after all.
I have a few problems with this article, namely the comparisons drawn between The Valley and Canada.

I am currently a Canadian citizen, working in San Francisco at a company that moved from Vancouver many years ago.

The author seems to be comparing the Bay Area to the entirety of Canada. Canada is not a small area, a city or a state. It is an entire 'continent' spanning multiple provinces with very different laws and dynamics. A startup in Waterloo, Ontario targeted towards engineering may fare better than one founded in Vancouver.

Secondly, he is mentioning his connections in the Bay Area that have helped him succeed in Canada. First he is arguing FOR founding a startup in Canada but then admits that most of his barriers to entry were lifted with help from the valley. There is a difference when you're starting fresh in Waterloo without any outside help.

I think what the author should have done is draw a parallel between The Valley and somewhere in Canada (Waterloo, Vancouver, Montreal, etc...). One may not be better than the other but perhaps working WITH The Valley can help get your startup off the ground elsewhere.

I would personally love to work for a startup back home in Toronto and perhaps one day found my own but I don't see the same enthusiasm towards tech and startup in Toronto that I see here in The Valley.
Have you heard of Cappuccino? It's Cocoa for the web. You don't write javascript, you write Objective-J. It's pretty awesome. As a mac developer, I was immediately able to jump in and do cool stuff with it.

I'm not sure what the current state of the framework is, since the company that made it has been acquired, but it sure was a cool idea.

http://www.cappuccino-project.org/
For better or worse, I treat economics as a science, and judge an economic theory on its ability to make accurate predictions, not retrodictions. My point about "looking out the window" is that while we've been operating on a supposedly Keynesian theory in trying to repair our economy these past six years, it has consipicuously, repeatedly, and grossly failed to correctly predict the results of its own massive interventions. You don't need fancy economic theories to see how it has failed, you need merely open your eyes and look around. (And I include newspapers and television, etc, in the looking around, so my point is that it is easy to see the failures, not that it's failing literally right outside my window.) You need fancy economic theories to explain how even though the results are awful, we're still doing the right things even so.

Keynesians cover this by claiming it would have been even worse without the near-continuous and now open-ended "stimulus". I don't believe them. Had they said in advance that the current scenario was a significant possibility, I would at least listen, but instead we've been in a world where "recovery is just around the corner" for about four years now. It isn't, it hasn't been, and it continues not to be. I find it a valid theory that Keynesianism is the reason why, rather than the thing saving us. The fact that we're talking about a "new normal" is also code for "Keynesianism is a failure of an economic theory, but rather than give up the theory because we like it too much, we're going to tell people to just get used to being poorer."

(Of course if you want to say that our politicians are only using the name of Keynes for a cover while in fact not acting particularly Keynesian, well, I beat you to it. Keynesianism isn't, really. But nobody seems to open with that defense, only use it as a fallback when attacked. It's true enough in theory, but a useless defense of the theory's current users, which are what I'm actually critical of. The real Keynes is a great deal smarter than the psuedo-Keynes being used to drive policy today, but also a great deal less influential.)
You're seriously going to have to cite your sources (objective, peer-reviewed only, please) instead of relying on anecdotal data presumably from your experience working in the sector.
Of course everyone who doesn't like your tool is a fool. It's just not possible they'd have different but equally valid requirements!
Up for bid would be terrible news for the startup industry. It would be impossible for any startup (that desperately needs developers) to hire outside of the country.
Can you imagine miners or MtGox voting to devalue their own holdings? I don't think many people are in it for the revolution.
Nope. Since no one can ever satisfactory answer the question of the 'real' amount of BTC in circulation, this will only serve as a factor of uncertainty. Lost bitcoins affect nothing, FOUND bitcoins can affect everything.
Exactly! Sure, the Supreme Court ruled that it was fine to prohibit a vast swathe of political speech, including pro-communist and anti-draft speech, but the moment - the very moment! - they realised that ruling could also be used to shut down groups like the KKK which actually murdered and terrorised black Americans they promptly reversed their ruling, making sure that hate speech was given the full Constitutional protection it so obviously deserved.
If & when the immigration overhaul happens in Washington, I believe this is slated to get fixed -- higher ed students at US institutions would have an automatic path to permanent residence after graduating.

I haven't followed the immigration reform process since it first broke a few months ago, but as of January the proposals definitely included something addressing this.
Good luck to you in the lottery, then.
Consultoconacorp needs people with six years of Go and Raspberry Pi experience. We looked and can't find them.
If you are generating the CSV yourself, save yourself some agony and just wrap the text in =""

$ cat test.csv
="12.34567890124312341234123412341234",="1-5"
$ open -a Microsoft\ Excel test.csv
It has been corrected to be $11B over a five year period, not annually as it was originally stated.

Considering that Google almost hit $11B in profit in 2012 alone, spending $11B over 5 years on a revolutionary infrastructure project that might even start making a direct profit directly from the monthly fees after a while for itself, but most importantly could totally revolutionize what type of services and experiences Google could deliver to ~15% of American households - doesn't seem like such a bad investment after all.
I did read this article a few weeks ago but seem to have forgotten its link to my question.

Thank you for the reminder.
> a monopoly is the epitome of capitalism and Telecom is printing money.

But you said earlier:

> Instead, we take the tacit monopoly granted to early operators and extend that into the abysmal dystopia we live in today, one where carriers control all.

So you agree that what we have in the telecom industry isn't capitalism (since it is the government that grants these telecoms their monopolies), yet you also think that capitalism inevitably leads to monopolies, even though this is demonstrably not the case?
Incremental (interactive) commits are probably best done from within your editor. I use fugitive [1] for Vim, there's magit [2] for Emacs, and probably a plugin for your favorite IDE, or ST2.

[1] https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive/tpope/vim-fugitive

[2] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Magit
tay, I'm one of the developers behind hoodie.

I agree that there is no silver bullet for apps, and Hoodie does not try to be one. Our main goal is to enable as many people as possible to build real, data driven apps.

Think of it this way: if you're able today to build the frontend of an app in days, then you've all it takes. Our maxim is: if you get jQuery, you should be able to build apps with user accounts, data synchronization, emails ... the basic, boring stuff.
Would be interesting to offer this script as "ptaas" penetration testing as a service. That way instead of having the script and having the potential to abuse the script (or temptation) someone would be forced to allow tracking of the IP (presumably their own or their companies) that they are doing the testing on (and you could compile statistics for use elsewhere as a condition if they got the script for free). I know companies already offer this service (we had to go through one of those for PCI) but iirc it was rather expensive. FWIW the bank that required it never followed up after the initial "you have to do this and we suggest this particular company".
I'm not an expert on the subject, but I distinctly remember Oracle's CEO complaining about H1B visas for our graduation speech. It was a stale speech, particularly when their company never even sent a Rep to our school's career fair. It took me months (7) to get a web dev position as a physics major, often because I was perceived as a weaker candidate. My git projects were never even looked at and I was once told to my face that the company doesn't hire physics majors for developer positions. Now, two months on the job, I've fixed runaway JavaScript code that ruined UX on various pages, decreased memory overhead by at least 50% as a starting point and extended a large open source project so it does more for us. These are just the projects out of my own initiative. In the meantime my physics friends are largely unemployed (all but two, me being one of those two) and no company wants any training at all. So forgive me if I'm all out of sympathy for these companies, even if I feel for the global workers affected, but I've seen first-hand the dehumanizing dismissiveness that you are treated with as an entry level dev
Third use - transfer money easily across borders, for example a migrant worker sending money to family. No red tape, no forex hassles, no worry about future value (unless the value tanks while you're transferring, of course.)
As a long-time CodeIgniter user I'm interested to know what Silex, Laravel etc have that CodeIgniter doesn't?
Which is why there are master's degree mills for the people running bodyshops.
Amazingly some of my friends like the flash animations and called the ones without them boring eye twitch.
> And yet I have noticed that people find merging and branching much easier than in mercurial.

That's the first time I've heard this opinion - do you know what kind of complaints people have?

In my experience, it's much easier to say 'When you start work on an issue, start a branch called 'issue-XXX', then once you're done we will merge it into the default branch'. I've never seen much confusion in response to that.
the problem with the "extremely expensive" claim is that you do get a worker who is somewhat captive in a tight labor market. It is inaccurate to claim, as some people do, that H1B holders can't switch jobs, but they do face much greater barriers (they can't just quit, enter a new field, start up their own business or consultancy... even changing to a nearly identical job in the same field requires new sponsorship).

If the visa were awarded directly to the immigrant in such a way that an H1B holder had essentially the same job mobility as a green card holder, I'd be more inclined to agree that the process is expensive. After all, you'd be paying big $$ to hire someone who has the right to quit the first day on the job.
Same way I'd pay for it if you gave me a Euro. Except that I know where I can turn gold into cash.
It would be very interesting to see the relation between people uploading to porn sites and uploading torrents (movies etc. I wonder if they follow the same pattern.

Also some geographical studies about what countries like what tags would be very interesting as well.
How to search super-quickly in all the remote Gentoo overlays with eix-remote
I'd like to see you prove the existence of an objective source, first.
Five reasons I really love the Chromebook Pixel
| Do people really believe there is a such thing as FREE milk?

No. The milk was good systems thinking. In the post-war period it was cheaper to provide milk to help reduce the incidence of childhood malnutrition than pay for the resulting health problems.

People were happy to pay for it because it was cheaper than not paying for it. The miracle of the post-war government was that they managed to explain this to people. Perhaps wartime had trained people to believe in top-down authority and expect a decent outcome.

By the 1970s wealth and diets had improved and malnutrition was a smaller problem. Only children of the poorest and poorest educated had the problem. Thus it didn't make financial sense any more and the government cut it. But this really did hurt the poorest, most vulnerable people in the country. Political nightmare.

A similar argument applies for the mining and other industries. It was worth running unprofitable mines for a while since the cost to society of thousands of unemployed men would be too high. At some point this would change, as the employment opportunities widened with new technology. But holy hell this was a difficult period in British history.

Opinion is polarized: either Thatcher did a hard job with firmness and saved Britain, or she put economics (some say incorrect economics) over compassion and screwed the poorest to the benefit of rich and upper-middle class. Both of these things _could_ be true at the same time.

It's hard to explain now how passionately hated Thatcher was in popular culture back then. Imagine if the George Bush hating of the 2000's magnified until people rioted in the street and burned their own downtown area in their fury.
It's not that your point was off-topic or that humor doesn't necessarily belong on HN, but the brand of humor Archer employs is not appropriate for HN, nor is the use of gifs to illustrate your point.
I think the interesting part about the BBC is that I agree they transmit at IQ average 100, but the upper standard deviation is quite high too :)
Game Developers Are Flocking to Sony and Fleeing From Microsoft
Is this what you're talking about?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework

I'm interested in knowing a little more about why you like it so much.
You can specify the field types when opening the file.
Creative condoms! Cool concept, clean creation.
WhatsApp. I don't know about the acquisition rumour, but the topic about it here on HN showed that its use is dominating the markets all over the globe.
"Lo- lo- lo- look at you hacker.."

I've beaten this game at least 4 times, including co-op a couple times. Such a great piece of gaming history.
at first, Hoodie is just a Store for data. So instead of Backbone, Angular etc storing their data via AJAX on a server, or in LocalStorage, we can very simply build adapters for all of the MV* frameworks to use Hoodie as their store.

This way, you get accounts and data synchronization for free. And offline ;-)

Emails and other future modules like payments are just extensions of the available JavaScript API in the browser.
Ron Johnson Is Out at JC Penney
Uh?
It's not necessarily bad or good for a company or person to leave.
It all depends on whose perspective you are using (and i'm not talking about either the company or the project).
Sometimes things are bad for one project, but good for an ecosystem. Or the reverse.

Folks who started EGCS, including a company worth of folks, left GCC to do so.
Was this bad for GCC?
Most people with gut reactions thought it was "bad".

It certainly ended up improving the state of the world, and in fact, later turned out very good for the GCC project because it got a much better GCC out of it.

Basically, I think you may need a little perspective here.
Exactly. There's uncountable number of stories easily google-able across the country where intersections with red light cameras magically coincidentally have their yellow light interval dropped by 1/4 to 1/3 vs intersections without red light cameras, to increase revenue.