skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think most people would proceed to focus on everybody else's skeletons in a shallow judgmental fashion and continue to ignore their own flaws exactly as they do today. The net effect would be to put our rotting culture's worst aspects on steroids.

What would occur is mass ostracizing and general social chaos from imploded relationships (friends, lovers, family). There would be shocking and boring skeletons, it would become a giant cultural witch hunt, pleasure would be taken in socially mocking and assaulting people with the most outrageous or abnormal skeletons. We live in a bankrupt culture that worships tabloids, gossip and low value entertainment (low value everything in fact, including food, just so long as it distracts for a moment). I see no reason to think people would suddenly change the way they go about the world: the averages for what is considered scandalous behavior would simply shift and there would be a new unlimited supply of people to be socially assaulted. Why just look at my boring skeletons compared to that guy! My scandal is nowhere near as bad as hers!
The creator tries to pass themselves off as Facebook as well—"By FB", which links to www.facebook.com. Very uncool.
Theme Shop or Theme Marketplace?
I wouldn't mind it if it actually worked as expected. I often go through the tabs including that of facebook and people think I read the messages but decided not to respond. I also really hate the blink (name) wrote a message on the tab name. Facebook should get its shit together.
This isn't the first time I've read a sweeping generalization from yourself based on "personal experience". I have no doubt you have a lot of personal experiences and don't disagree with your viewpoint (in fact my personal experience dictates the same) however, it is still a generalization. You're talking about a cohort that you (and I for that matter) have no formal analysis to back up.

I'm American and I've immigrated to the UK. I know hundreds of Americans who have done the same. I don't know a single one of them who "has nothing to lose". So I could also conclude the exact opposite conjecture.

The reason I mention all of this is not because I think you or I are right or wrong, but because I think is disingenuous to provide arguments (from either side) without any formal analysis.

Anyway, let's get back on topic. So if it 33% of immigrants are co-founding big businesses in the US that are helping the US economy, then surely we should be letting in more right? X * Z% = Y, increase Z% and we get more Y, right? There's a couple things at work here:

- The fact that 33% are actually making it into the US and creating businesses perhaps speaks the nature of the people who "stop at nothing" to live their dreams. The US immigration system is painful, but perhaps it's this painful barrier that filters out all of the immigrants who don't create jobs for the US and does identify the people that do.

- What is the ideal % for founders? Is it 90%? Is it 50%? If it becomes 90% then why shouldn't it become 100%? Perhaps we could create an analogy to a silly american football argument and say "85% of all NFL Pro-bowl players are African-Americans. Let's get more African-Americans playing football!"

- I have yet to see a reasonable argument for a system that correctly attributes the probability of creating a successful business by an immigrant to the US. For one, it is not a specific country. The article clearly dictates this.

- I believe the massive proponents for immigration reform stems mainly from high-net worth individuals that are complaining because they want to bring highly talented people from abroad to the US so that they can personally benefit from it. Equally, potential immigrants are complaining because they don't have an opportunity to move to the US. If this is such a big problem, why not find a country that supports both? Surely there is an island in the Caribbean that could cater to this?

- I think you are right in that the mentality of the successful business creator is someone with "nothing to lose". This is how America became so prosperous and heck it was built by immigrants 200 odd years ago. But surely there are people in the US with "nothing to lose"? I think it would be beneficial to understand more about the character traits of these massively successful business founders, rather than simply the country they come from. Otherwise, we're using the same exact basis the the opposition is using - that this cohort's characteristic is simply that it was born in a country outside of the US.
Vectors, or “My Man Inf Left A VEC and a 9 At My Crib” (homebrew FPGA game)
Regarding Facebook Chat:

Does anyone know why I need to "Turn Off Chat" every time I login to Facebook. It is clearly designed to login automatically, Facebook doesn't respect the user's wishes to remain "offline". It keeps logging in, as if they think my FB web engagement is going to increase for being available to chat. As a result I use FB less. Anybody knows why FB is becoming so unusable?
How I got my A-levels at a virtual school (video)
extension is open source, it just blocks a simple connection to http://www.facebook.com/ajax/mercury/change_read_status.php
Say what you think and say it loud.
If everyone stays quiet, nothing changes.
Happy 20th birthday Debian
It's why they have to copy all of their technology from the private sector, or have it provided by the private sector. The government can't do anything well, much less software product development.

If the NSA were so brilliant, they wouldn't need to borrow from Google, it'd be the other way around:

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/07/nsa-accumulo-go...
Would be interesting to see the income distribution of the families of these VC backed founders. Most if not all of these founders will be exceptionally well-to-do. The cost of going to an elite university program outside of their home country is staggering without financial aid. In any event, not (by any means) a sample from which to extrapolate from.

That being said, more power to them for overcoming the still very large risks and challenges it takes to make it even that far. I know from personal experience how hard it is for many of these people to contribute to US society/economy after they finish their programs. The red tape is obnoxious (without institutional support or sponsorship).
The following line by OP is not an opinion, it's a material statement of fact which is wrong.

>Ars didn't mention that Microsoft didn't want to play by the rather simple rules of "put the video in a web frame"

Ars did mention it.
The reviews for 'Haribo Sugarless Gummy Bears' are pretty excellent as well. Only in massive intestinal distress can true poetry be written.

http://www.amazon.com/Haribo-Gummy-Candy-Sugarless-5-Pound/p...
NSA report on privacy violations in the first quarter of 2012
This article reads like a roadmap for the next financial bubble.

FTA: "A 2005 Wall Street Journal story by John Hechinger showed that the Department of Education was projecting it would actually make money on students who defaulted on loans, and would collect on average 100 percent of the principal, plus an additional 20 percent in fees and payments."

I'm not sure if "eating one's young" is an appropriate reference or not, but this article certainly leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Considering how ugly topics Taibbi covers, that must account for something.
Kepler: Nasa retires prolific telescope from planet-hunting duties
If you're on OS X, change the netcat command to: nc -l localhost 9000
i just reviewed the source code and it only blocks a simple connection to /ajax/messaging/typ.php, /ajax/mercury/mark_seen.php, and /ajax/mercury/change_read_status.php.

good catch to reduce permissions.
My other half's business uses Sagepay for online payments (for which we pay a flat £25 a month - or about 3p per transaction) against merchant services (where card fees are paid) through GlobalPayments into an HSBC business account.

We have just under a thousand transactions a month for totals just into five figures, both in store and online, and we pay around £140 a month in fees. As a proportion it's not gone over 1% of the total in the last year. That covers _everything_, including card fees, online fees, the instore pdq machine, support etc. Only a small proportion of transactions are credit cards, most by far is debit.

It's not a straight comparison with Stripe, because Stripe doesn't provide any of the instore stuff.

What appeal ought Stripe to have to us? Why would we pay 2.4%? Genuine questions.
- I've emigrated myself (to Canada, founded a company there)

- I know quite a few people who have done the same thing

- I'm generalizing across my personal experience because I am me. Feel free to do the same thing, this is a comment on a forum, not a peer-reviewed study on the subject matter. Funny enough, your experience seems to be the same, which strengthens my 'not being surprised' by this.

- People in the US with 'nothing to lose' don't typically decide to have nothing to lose. An immigrant is deciding to go onto a risky path in life fairly consciously which would explain the difference in outcome.
Curious what exactly includes the "seen" feature? If I have 30 tabs opened in my browser, facebook being one of them, does that mean every message would be marked as "seen" even though I haven't visited that tab for hours? How does it work on mobile? Do push notifications also count in the "seen" since I can see and read the message on the lock screen itself.
Anyone know of a Firefox equivalent?
This article is about structural paradigm shift which foresaw for a long time from Actor model, Erlang, and recently to Go and Rust.

How is this just only an introduction to a new syntactic sugar?
"Because the government has barred Lavabit from disclosing the nature of its demands, we still don't know what information the government is seeking, or why it's seeking it," said Ben Wizner, a national security lawyer for the ACLU. "It's hard to have a debate about the reasonableness of the government's actions — or Lavabit's response, for that matter — when we don't know what we're debating."

So there we have it, a modern-day Geheime Staatspolizei in the USA.

I wonder what lunacy will pop up next.
Haven't used one but they seem like a good choice. I would focus on the key mechanism (apparently the Das Keyboards are the same as the Model M) in this respect and the size. Larger, more spacious keyboards are a lot better.
Microsoft is considered evil by many tech folks. What you're saying is Google is evil as well and we shouldn't expect better from them.
Fresh Rainier and Black Cherry Berry Pie Recipe
Edward Snowden documents show NSA broke privacy rules
> perhaps it's this painful barrier that filters out all of the immigrants who don't create jobs for the US and does identify the people that do.

I don't buy it. If 'painful barriers' were a good thing, you'd see the world's best capitalists in North Korea and Cuba, no? The US has fewer painful barriers to creating companies, and a lot of good infrastructure, and so a lot of the world's largest, biggest, most important companies are there. Not all of them, of course, but I don't think that barriers really do much good.

> correctly attributes the probability of creating a successful business by an immigrant to the US.

Predicting the future is often difficult.

Don't have time for the other points, I have some barbecue to attend to:-)
Do no evil , LAWL
pointless answer
Not my experience at all. We got a merchant account with no problems whatsoever with online services. We didn't need to negotiate rates either.
Thanks for the tips. I know the german/english (uk) layouts, but want to really give Dvorak a go.

I'll give the gtypist a go. If it's something I can consistently work at I'm pretty happy with doing and committing to this daily. Spent last two weeks learning to use emacs and emacs lisp.
Great idea! There seems to be a minor flaw in the data though, the Healdsburg District Hospital appears do be doing many procedures for 1$. http://pricemed.org/hospitals/healdsburg-district-hospital
Music is too generic in app promo videos
Shameless self-promotion: http://ractivejs.org
I believe it means it would never get marked as seen to the user on the other end of the chat. That is, they would never know that you saw the chat text.

I assume it's interrupting or misleading whatever Facebook is using (focus? mouse movement?) to determine whether you've seen the text in the chat box.
I tried almost everything listed on that page. Far and away, the most effective thing was to just buy a keyboard that puts CTRL and ALT under my thumb instead. The Kinesis Advantage is the most popular and I love mine:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000LVJ9W8/linkCode=as2&tag...

(affiliate link)

I was in a training class yesterday and had to use my laptop keyboard for the whole day. Halfway through, my left hand was cramping arthritically and it renewed my faith that this was an important purchase.
I don't know why that is, but you can get around it by creating an empty list of friends and adding it to the 'Turn on chat for only some friends...' section of the advanced chat settings.
Senator Ron Wyden on NSA Surveillance and Government Transparency:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/q-a-senator-ron-wy...

When Congress wrote the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 1978, I suppose they could have found some way to keep its details a secret, so that Soviet agents wouldn't know what the FBI and NSA's authorities were. But Congress made that law public, because it's a fundamental principle of democracy that laws should be public all the time, and every American should be able to find out what their government thinks the law means.

The FISA court is arguably the most bizarre court in the United States. This is the only court I know of that is structured to hear essentially one side – it comes from the government. A group of judges operating in complete secret and issuing binding rulings based solely on the government's arguments have made possible the sweeping surveillance authorities the public only found out about [recently.] What's noteworthy is there has been nobody there to argue the other side, and that is what we want to change. This court has to be reformed to include an adversarial process where arguments for greater privacy protections can be offered alongside the government's arguments for greater surveillance powers. It should have a selection process that produces a more diverse group of judges, and a process to ensure that its important rulings are made public so that American people can understand exactly what government agencies think the laws allow them to do. It was a lack of protections like these that allowed secret law to persist for so many years.
I'm not talking about C#, but about libraries in other languages that support async behaviour
Unfortunately Facebook won't care about any of that in their determination over whether to try to punish the op.
If you're that paranoid, I don't know how you can bring yourself to look at the articles. In for a penny, in for a pound.
The Art of 3D Print Failure
There's one positive outcome of this sad story. We now know for a fact that NSA didn't (yet) break the encryption algorithms, that's why they need to perform these insane acts.
Is it really that hard to understand that people aren't going to spend millions, if not hundreds of millions, of dollars on a movie if no one is going to see it.

It's quite likely that given the reviews on this Steve Jobs movie, not many people are going to see it. Aaron Sorkin probably has a much more entertaining version in the works.
Also a large number of Sikh names are gender neutral.
I actually use the term "USian" quite frequently, but then I'm weird that way.
No, I just thought ES6 took the specific syntax they use from CoffeeScript. As other commenters helpfully pointed out, I was wrong.

"CoffeeScript programmers"? Is that a thing?
are you from Facebook ;)
Considering how much money MS makes for "licensing" of their patent in Android, this is the least they can expect.

Let's play a sad song on a tiny violin for them.
It adds an http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/webRequest.html#event... handler that prevents requests to /ajax/messaging/typ.php, /ajax/mercury/mark_seen.php, and /ajax/mercury/change_read_status.php.

Copy-pasta from some YouTube ad block extension.
It's curious to see Google pull this.

From http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/meaning-of-open.html

"At Google we believe that open systems win. They lead to more innovation, value, and freedom of choice for consumers, and a vibrant, profitable, and competitive ecosystem for businesses. Many companies will claim roughly the same thing since they know that declaring themselves to be open is both good for their brand and completely without risk. After all, in our industry there is no clear definition of what open really means. It is a Rashomon-like term: highly subjective and vitally important."

..

"To understand our position in more detail, it helps to start with the assertion that open systems win. This is counter-intuitive to the traditionally trained MBA who is taught to generate a sustainable competitive advantage by creating a closed system, making it popular, then milking it through the product life cycle. The conventional wisdom goes that companies should lock in customers to lock out competitors."

...

"To understand our position in more detail, it helps to start with the assertion that open systems win. This is counter-intuitive to the traditionally trained MBA who is taught to generate a sustainable competitive advantage by creating a closed system, making it popular, then milking it through the product life cycle. The conventional wisdom goes that companies should lock in customers to lock out competitors. There are different tactical approaches — razor companies make the razor cheap and the blades expensive, while the old IBM made the mainframes expensive and the software ... expensive too. Either way, a well-managed closed system can deliver plenty of profits. They can also deliver well-designed products in the short run — the iPod and iPhone being the obvious examples — but eventually innovation in a closed system tends towards being incremental at best (is a four blade razor really that much better than a three blade one?) because the whole point is to preserve the status quo. Complacency is the hallmark of any closed system. If you don't have to work that hard to keep your customers, you won't."

...

"In other words, Google's future depends on the Internet staying an open system, and our advocacy of open will grow the web for everyone - including Google."

The entire thing is a good read.
This is a generalized problem with insurance, tho. Ie, if you had a likely expense, you would plan for it (house, college, etc). You buy insurance precisely because you don't think you'll need it.

So, the people that need to use it are always going to be a small group. The people that don't have it, another group. The people getting screwed (on the sharp end) are the subset of those where there is overlap. This will always be a small number (by math).

That being said, for everyone is paying into the system but its more death by thousand cuts. As long as pricing is opaque and uncorrleated with out-of-pocket marginal payments, there will be a problem. The cleaner solution is simply to remove the facade of pricing a-la-carte services.

The problem there, is two fold: (1) how to control the inevitable buracracy with a huge budget making life or death decisions; and (2) how to incentivise research and science/product development without the cash cow of monopoly pricing (patents are useless if selling is illegal).

While these problems seem to be solvable, they are daunting and not simple. In a world where the NSA is spying on every electronic communication over the internet, perhaps even more so. Ie, a world where privacy and trust is being undermined by those seeking to entrench their own power. Its harder poltically to delegate more responsibility to the "government".
looks like a FB bug: http://www.facebook.com/help/326603310765065
As vim user, I found that the best keyboard for vim is Microsoft Arc keyboard in UK layout:
- It has terrible arrow keys, which basically forces you to use hjkl.
- It is small enough to be able to reach all keys w/o moving my palms.
- in UK layout '\' key is under my left pinkie, so I don't have to remap leader to anything else. '@' for macros is in a good place too.
- Esc key is big and positioned separately, easy to use.
That means u r signed in from some other place, like your Smartphone, or some IM client like Trillian etc, or u have Facebook Messenger installed on ur phone, due to which u r always online when u sign-in.
GOALKEEPER COLLAPSES - STRIKERS SCORES ANYWAYS
I have no idea, I only remember people trying to reverse it https://github.com/levskaya/jslinux-deobfuscated
Seconded. Some years ago I started having wrist problems, hand pains, seeing specialists etc. Then I bought a Unicomp keyboard and every problem disappeared. It is also very aurally satisfying (clac-clac-clac) :)
Dutch hospital uses Google Glass during jaw operation
Re-mapping caps lock is a very good idea.

I'm a Vim user and I have caps lock mapped to esc. That works surprisingly well even in other applications than vim.

Emacs guys might want to map it to ctrl.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RemapCapsLock
It would be nice!
I thought about this, but I don't have any FB app on my mobile, nor use an IM client (except HipChat for work).
>The Windows Phone YouTube app would be the first significant (1) phone OS to have a YouTube app not made by Google, there are no others to compare Google's behavior on for fairness. This is the first event of its kind.

It's also the only significant phone OS that doesn't ship with Google search as the default.
Be careful the link is tagged with an affiliate tag, so if you buy anything next they get a cut
Well patents only last about 20 years normally (compared to copyright lasting many times long), so it's less of an issue. I agree that it should apply to patents aswell.
At least Jobs had taste.

One of them gave us Apple, the other, Oracle.

Not hard to pick a winner.
Oh, it probably will get an update where it can access anything after a lot of users have installed it.
Reddit has an exceptionally low cost to scale ratio. Where are you getting the information that they're not profitable at this point (I know they weren't in the past)?
I found PowerShell quite capable as both a shell and a programming language, scaling up to larger scripts and yet remain readable.

Pash sadly isn't complete enough to be used, though.
Or: they did, but don't want to demonstrate that fact unless it absolutely necessary (memento Pearl Harbour...).

Still, yeah, I think (hope) you're right. Another indication of this is what we know of what they recommend US Government/Military do wrt. encryption/information security ...
I came to this thread to post the exact same joke.
Ask HN: What's a good cross platform alternative to C#?
C# is a relatively high level language which is exceptionally suited for games. Are there any alternatives which are as good as it on Linux? Suitable for game development of course. Or completely different languages that are good for game dev if you think that.
I, nor the person before you, weren't questioning your ability to empathize with the original story. I'm not sure why you chose to highlight facts that back that up.

Feel free to do the same thing

I don't want to. You have influence on this site and it's very likely someone will read your original comment and take your conclusion to be true because "someone influential said it on the internet". Your generalization is consistent with mine, but the conclusion is unfounded.

An immigrant is deciding to go onto a risky path in life fairly consciously which would explain the difference in outcome.

But immigration in of itself, does not constitute a risky path. Hence my example of Americans in the UK.