skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well who are they trying to attract with this visa?

That's an excellent question. My take on this is that by being more open to start-ups Canada hopes that if the numbers are high enough that they'll have another RIM on their hands one of these days. It costs them next to nothing (the venture capitalists / angels are picking up the tab) and they get more skilled workers either way.

I think quite a few entrepreneurs will see this as a way of moving to the states without the drawbacks (it's North America, after all) and may eventually use it as a stepping stone to the US if they're successful.

Compared to London, Berlin, Prague or Hamburg I'd stay in Europe if I had to make the choice.

If you already have a life on the go in some other place $50K is peanuts when moving to another continent. I've done it and even though we were pretty well prepared for the move the first year was astoundingly expensive. (family of 3).
You imply that we can't speak ill of Marissa Mayer because she is a woman. I've had the misfortune of finding myself in several meetings with her to experience first hand that she wasn't a very good VP. Or a very nice person. Or even embodying Google values.

On the other hand, I do believe in her as a CEO. I think she is precisely the kind of CEO material Yahoo! needs. I don't think she is VP material. The day Marissa Mayer took over as CEO I sold my Amazon stock and bought Yahoo! stock. And I don't even like her.

Now, you, on the other hand, reduce Marissa Mayer to a gender. Someone weak that needs to be protected and treated with care in comment fields.

Precisely who is the sexist here?
Eggs are probably the cheapest natural form of animal protein you can find. Add a couple to your ramen. If you buy good quality eggs, eat the yolk too.

Chicken legs are also often priced under 99 cents a pound, even in the Bay Area.
I like the concept of Ask Patents but at the same time I wonder if it is possible that participation on Ask Patents could be leveraged by malicious litigants to seek treble damages.

For example, if the company I work for is being sued by a troll for infringement, could the troll see that employees have been participating on Ask Patents and therefore a reasonable assumption could be made that they're reading/reviewing/participating in discussions on patents, and therefore they knowingly are infringing? Would this something that either I or my employer should be worried about?
If you use Chome, just visit the link in a new incognito window.
If you're from another commonwealth country it's a lot easier to migrate to Canada than it is the USA. Regarding what could be more attractive than the UK: there's more open space, cheaper housing, better schools, mountains, etc.
> as the riots fueled by ethnic tensions have become much more common

You seem to imply that there are already "riots fueled by ethnic tensions", care to point to an example?
It's not so bad when you lean on Visual Studio to do your typing.

I imagine there's some sort of causal relationship between ultra-powerful IDEs and languages that are verbose. The question is: are the IDEs powerful because the languages require them to be OR did the language evolve to become more verbose due to the IDE eliminating most of the pain associated with verbosity? Both? Neither?
What it needs is a `-e` flag:

ruby -e 'puts 5 + 7'
Thank you! I've been behind the times. I'll start viewing it as a general accessibility issue, not specific to screen readers. But like Steve Klabnik commented, and from http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria.php , there are a few more steps to take to make JavaScript enabled screen readers play nice:

"WAI-ARIA addresses these accessibility challenges by defining how information about this functionality can be provided to assistive technology. With WAI-ARIA, an advanced Web application can be made accessible and usable to people with disabilities."
The poster's confused, but I'm not sure it's necessarily true that the city of Detroit should have a value that's greater than zero. If the current cost of paying pensions and the cost of maintaining (underused) infrastructure is much larger than the expected tax base, than the value of the city (not including private property) could well be negative.

That said, it's unlikely that's true, because there's still a lot of option value available if someone's willing to make hard decisions and/or shed some costs through bankruptcy. (But it's going to be really unpopular, like not paying pensions or simply shutting down city services to certain neighborhoods.)

America doesn't really have a model for shrinking city infrastructure. Detroit is the first test of what happens when a major modern city stops growing and starts shrinking in a long-term way. It's hard to scale down government and infrastructure in a smooth way.
That part's the same with the skills-based immigration visa (not specific to the startup visa). The motivation is that they want people who enter the country to have enough cash on hand to be able to pay for an apartment deposit, and their initial rent, food, etc. until they get an income stream flowing. If someone enters the country with only, say, $500 cash on hand, there's a significant chance they could end up homeless and/or needing to draw on social-welfare services almost immediately if their anticipated income stream falls through or is delayed. Requiring them to have a cash cushion means the person should be able to take care of themselves even if there are some early troubles.
Choosing the wrong chipset in VirtualBox can easily create a 50-100% performance difference.
I don't think I would like a 30" iphone/ipad interface. Would you?
Is it a good idea to build an offshore software development team in one of the baltic countries? Anyone has some perspective with that?
If you want to get an insight into that world I can really recommend when Patents attack Part Two.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/496/w...
Docker isn't really a VM...it's more of a virtual application platform.
Speed limits going up in many states
Agreed with much of the above.

If you think something is really, truly patentable you'd keep it under wraps until you did so, as far as possible.

What this encourages though is, "If you think something is maybe patentable, you can't ever tell anyone about it until the invention is complete and fully functional." Nifty side projects occasionally become a big deal. For precision hardware, development time is often 5-10 years. For young researchers, it's critical to be able to talk about whatever it is that you do.

Completely agreed that bait-and-switch is unethical and wrong.
Right, and then they (X) go ahead and dismantle all control mechanisms that prevent the self-reinforcing loops from tearing the world apart. Sure they are "enlightened". :)

(X) - By 'they' I mean libertarian politicians. They are the ones who actually matter, who can make a change. I don't care what anyone thinks in theory. All I care about is what happens where rubber meets the road, in the political arena - that's the stuff that could affect me.

> So in the end it makes it very lickly that the intervention actually has negative consequences instead of positive ones.

I'm not a big fan of folks who take their semi-religious, untested, views and use them to beat me over the head, under the pretense that they are well-informed and cultivated. The stuff you're repeating here is just the same ivory-tower circle jerk that you keep hearing in libertarian circles as if it's Gospel, yet it could not be more removed from reality.

You people live in this fantasy because reality has been kind to you. You've lived through uninterrupted plenty and now can't distinguish between what's really out there and your own narrative. Some hardship would wake you all up really quick - unfortunately, there's no way to do that without affecting everyone else. :(
Ouya developers report poor to middling sales figures for early games
What would it take to build a Pacific Rim robot?
Just having an outdoor heater that needed daily refuelling (in itself a small miracle) was an excellent way to learn how to guess the temperature by the effects on eyelids, lips, ears and nose.

-40: move (while you can), especially if there is some wind to go with it.
Sure, and I'm not trying to control what is being done. If everyone decides that they are fine with a world a few degrees warmer, ok. Nothing I can do. I just want to push for something, for politics to act on the knowledge gained.

A scientist is also a citizen - I don't see where you give away whatever marginal power you have as a member of the public. Everyone can push for the things they value, it's a democracy.
Yeah, income tax is mostly the same, but sales tax is killer. I pay nearly double sales tax in my current province compared to my home state/city... large tech purchases become a couple hundred dollars more.
Simulating Natural Systems in a Web Browser
Hello guys!
In brief: I am biologist on the paper, but I work basically 70% with computational biology and only 30% in the lab. Also I engineered certain php and c++ apps. Now I am looking for positions in that direction. I had some problems when they tested my skills. I often failed because I was nervous. Next week I am up to an interview again and this time they announced to test me on my php skills. I'm pretty sure that I'm not soo bad in that stuff, but last time I coded php 24/7 was almost three years ago. Since then I had to focus more on C++ and C#. I don't want to fail and just don't have enough time to repeat every single thing so have you any suggestions how to deal with that uncomfortable situation?
And then every patent would receive a deluge of obfuscated examples of prior art.

And the patent office would become even less effective. Perhaps a good thing, unless you believe some things actually should be patentable.
GitHub's internal talk-recording system
300ppi at 4.5in would probably be 720p - that's what the First and M4/One mini have at 4.3 in for something like 330 ppi. That would be m y guess anyway.

I'm more concerned with the promise of 4GB ram and 128GB storage. That's going to be very expensive. The highest end phones today cost more and half half or less of that. (I know, things get cheaper, but this isn't orders of 20 million, it's orders of 20,000)
Out of curiosity, why is Ottawa poised to bounce back, and KW poised to decline ?
Bear in mind that while selling food worked out well for the guy in the article, most game programmers don't need to make a move that drastic. For most game programmers, the right move is to just get out of the game industry and get a programming job in some other sector where the ratio of supply to demand is healthy enough that you can stick to reasonable working hours and have some time to spend outdoors.
Say anything to a Java programmer and you'll get a "huh?" so don't feel bad.
The last time I logged in to Youtube, it told me my channel was unnecessary as it was empty, and that I could delete it without impacting my level of service. What they didn't say was, this also deletes your playlists. And you can't create new playlists without creating a new channel, which must be created with a Google+ account.

I'm about done with Google, just starting to move my stuff off it now.
btw, go ahead and signup at http://signup.pamg.co
Canary - Smart home security device for everyone
Kind of curious what other effects you might get if you localized a change in space-time. Given that the planet and the solar system are in motion would it deflect in the direction opposite that motion? If so could you put better numbers on how much inflation occurred post big bang?
I've been using one for almost a year now. I was going to splurge on a fancy steelcase one but opted for a GeekDesk (~$1000). My setup includes 2x 27" monitors with an ErgoTron arm, two macbooks and a desktop stashed on the side.

I do a lot of Dev work as well as design. When I'm coding, standing isnt too much of an issue. Having the option of moving around helps me when I'm stuck debugging issues. When designing though, especially with a wacom tablet, I notice that I tend to slouch or lean too much on the desk, so I sit.

Having a motor makes it very convenient for lazy people like me, especially if it has presets. Setting up the height to make it ergonomically correct is key.

I have a friend that has a DIY setup who uses monitors which adds to the weight and makes adjusting the height on demand very inconvenient–leading to the fact that he doesnt use it to stand anymore. If you go the DIY route, make sure its setup correctly. I've seen some creative setups before including putting a height adjustable chair on their desk. I was too short for that to work for me.

In regards to long-term work, that all depends on you. Like most people on HN, my days run 8~12 hours too. When I first got my desk, I split my day up until I got used to it. One of the things that helped was the use of a GelPro mat (check the clearance section) which cushions your feet.

There are days I've stood all day and felt fine. When I'm sitting I tend to get myself into "Stuck to the chair" mode and even if all it takes is to stand up to walk around to get your blood flowing, I dont or I dont even realize I've been glued to the chair for hours on end.

Hope that helps.
But the best thing about docker is that it's not a VM. It's a containerization layer built on some linux kernel (only) features. It's not fair to compare it to a VM, or even to put it in the same class of programs.
May I hear your arguments for being skeptical of the theory?
do go on.
Combining music and mood together
We're going to do a longer blog post on this later, but if you don't want to use Massive for your sql mapper, maybe try out:

http://github.com/clotheshorse/destrier

works similarly in that you can map output to POCOs, but will also let you do more complex querying and CrUD operations.
While I'm not going to say that all screen readers don't support JS, in many cases they can: http://words.steveklabnik.com/emberjs-and-accessibility
RIP in Peace Google.
Nope, that's it. We do have experimental internal apps we build in other languages, but most of our work is Rails apps.
Just spitballing here, but couldn't you just remove the hardcoded URLs and let users paste in the Snapchat URL so they'd be breaking the TOS, not you?

Technically, it wouldn't be utilizing their API, it would just be a PHP library for accessing APIs that happen to use their exact API call structure.

I know it's a long shot, and it may not hold up, but I think it's better than just taking it down.
I wonder why they wouldn't just set up their own crowdfunding page for this project. Surely the effort would be worth $1,280,000.
ehh the language is what it is, its a good language within its constraints but if your philosophically opposed to its core tenets you arent going to like it
Salary distributions in the video game industry are starting to look a lot like salaries in the movie and TV industries. The bottom tends to pay peanuts and demand long hours, because there's an oversupply of willing applicants relative to the demand for low-level talent. (The question "Who wants to make games/movies/TV shows for a living?!" will always be exciting enough to attract entry level applicants by the boatload).

The top tiers of any of these industries, however, pay millions. I'm not talking millions because people started their own businesses and got acquired. I mean millions in salary and/or bonus per year, as employees. This is because, as you put it, the supply of extremely talented and skilled workers at the higher tiers is outpaced by demand. (And also because they're hit-driven businesses -- and, absent any real data as to a causal relationship between Superstar A's presence and Supergame B's performance, Superstar A receives the full benefit of correlation).

So you end up with a sort of pyramid structure to the business: lots of workers at the bottom, slightly fewer at the middle, very few at the top, and the compensation flows disproportionately from the top down.

A lot of industries function this way, but the various entertainment industries have especially interesting distributions because they're so inherently attractive to potential applicants.
What is the DSL used in the Ruby example?
That's not what a strawman is.
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Ask HN: Where are the NSA stories?
This is the first time I haven't seen an NSA related post on the front page since Snowden, am I right?
Coupa Cafe Now Accepting Bitcoin
My guess is that trying Amsterdam, or Berlin is a safer bet.

Apart from mature startup culture, for you as an Indian, these places also have an advantage of being relatively close, timezone-wise, to both U.S. (at least East Coast) which will be most probably your main market, and India where you will probably hire people.
The New SkyDrive Might Be the Best Cloud Storage Yet
http://gizmodo.com/the-new-skydrive-might-be-the-best-cloud-storage-yet-863771582
why does it want permission to my github account at all?
or clear your cookies. It's probably a good idea to delete your cookies on a daily basis.
That's the most discouraging requirement for me. I've completed the first 18 months of two undergraduate programmes (without actually graduating), and half a year of an MSc, before finally admitting that I simply didn't care enough about academia. I have no idea how'd I ever manage to demonstrate what I've done. I might have a sort of exam booklet somewhere back at my parents', god knows where. I cannot be the only drop-out who's not particularly plussed about storing mementos of his academic failure.

Either require a full degree or drop the requirement. This middle-of-the-road thing is just silly red tape.
A mixture. The verbosity is basically enforced documentation - you're describing more about your code, and how you expect it to work, but that gives the IDE information to help you with that description.
Show HN: Noted Code
This sort of scaling seems to be logarithmic. 16MB is 5 orders of magnitude greater than 512KB, however the logarithmic difference is 3.46. The same increase in 5 orders of magnitude beyond 16MB is 10.39 (at 524GB) which is considerably more impressive.

That's some fancy math and it probably is completely off, but another explanation is NIC performance doesn't follow exponential scaling for unexplained reasons.
Cool, best possible outcome. Now if only we understood all the feedback mechanisms.. so what is your actual proposal? No change of course? Gentle change of course?
There are a lot of responses that are not hysteria. (And a very genereral term you chose there, since many of the problems are only loosely related as of now. Recycling won't really help, for example.)
I typed way more doing ruby on sublime than I ever did C# with resharper. I'm writing less than half the code now, but still typing way more.
Plenty...
just a recent one is in Pugachyovo(Russians vs Chechens)
The state media tries to suppress the news but Livejournal is full of blog posts with photos.
Is that turquoise thing sticking out of the power supply an easily-replaceable fuse?
Soylent Manufacturing & Ship Date
In Canada, it might be -40 K.
Yeah, though Idris I think will soon become the “reasonable trade-off” language that Haskell is today. We could do worse, I suppose!

What I really want is a proper Epigram with OTT (or, be still my quaking heart, HoTT).
Looks interesting.

Are you going to build an editor/generator for VS?
The Riemann hypothesis in various settings
I'm building this as a project for the Coursera Startup Engineering Course, and thought that you might find it interesting here too.
"the point of reverse proxying is not performance, it's security."

Not true. You absolutely need forking/multiple processes on rails deployments to enable even a small number of concurrent requests. If phusion wasn't forking and load balancing between those running instances, your performance would be far lower.

EDIT: See this article from the Passenger folks on tuning a passenger deployment, it should be more clear after reading that how Passenger is dealing with concurrency (by running multiple app instances and load balancing between them): http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/03/12/tuning-phusion-passengers-...
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Integrated Ruby Tutorials: Part 2
If you've got a friend who's a private pilot or working on some sort of flight certification and needs hours... you could probably talk them into taking you up for the cost of fuel and lunch.

A farmer may not feel comfortable with you trundling through their fields on foot.
You are comparing a text editor with a full-fledged IDE.

I type even less on RubyMine. Try it out, it's free for the first 30 days and then it is fairly priced.
I've become a bit of an evangelist on this recently, but ServiceStack absolutely rocks. Open source and runs on Mono as well.

http://www.servicestack.net/
Putting a GGC server at your ISP is one step closer to having you as a direct customer (like in Kansas and other Google Fiber test markets), and cutting out the middle-man entirely (in this case, your current ISP).
> there's nothing more magical in both Rubyland and Pythonistan than package management,

Could you expand on this a bit? I'm interested in your opinions, as it's hard to see from the inside. In Ruby, it's just things modifying the $LOAD_PATH, which should be basically the same as changing your $GOPATH, no?
Yes, it's in the roadmap (done through T4).
Raspberry Pi blimp?
There's no such thing as a "technical co-founder". There are founders and there are employees. Usually but not always, one or more of the founders is capable of building the first salable version of the product. A hoary cliche among startups is the company that has matured to the point where its dev team removes commit privs from the founders, which should give you an idea of what the bar is here.

Algorithms, database design, version control, and deployment are all important things (design patterns much less so), but they don't matter a whit compared to building something that someone will pay money for.

Stop procrastinating and get to work.
I read about this months ago, and it's an interesting idea. I'm not a physicist, but I spent some time trying to puzzle out how this fits in with my understanding of relativity. So please, correct any misunderstandings.

It's important to realize that the craft is never traveling faster than the speed of light through the space in front of it. But there's nothing in relativity that prevents objects from apparently traveling faster than the speed of light "after the fact". The farthest apart objects that we can see are significantly further apart in light-years than the estimated age of the universe, which is generally thought to be possible because of the expansion of space itself as objects were traveling apart at subluminal speed.

I don't think that apparent FTL travel violates causality because it doesn't allow you to actually reach anything outside of your light cone. It took me a while to understand this, but you can't really view the light cone as something that is statically determined at a given point in time, because it depends on the geometry of space as over time. So a craft capable of distorting space just ends up with a really funky-shaped light cone that's warped wider than normal out in its direction of travel and narrower in the opposite direction as it moves (if you had a way of externally viewing the curvature of spacetime, which you don't).

But one thing I could not really figure out is whether this so-called FTL travel has the potential to violate causality, because I don't fully understand how causality and FTL are related.
>it doesn't make much sense to support browsers with it disabled

But that is exactly what you are doing anyways, you are just limiting it to googlebot for no reason.
Cool! Impressive that it's even faster than Dapper, too. Personally I'm a huge fan of Dapper but I really like how this is looking. I'll definitely be giving this a shot at some point.