skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not really that easy. I would say, start by looking into L-1A and EB-1C, if you want to establish a subsidiary in the US. It's the easiest route. There are two options:

* There's the EB-5. You could establish a subsidiary of your foreign parent company in the US using this visa, or even start fresh new company with it. It requires that you invest $1 million ($500k in some cases), create (or "preserve") 10 jobs for American citizens or greencard holders by the end of the first year (that you're in the US). There are probably other requirements. You can look it up. For more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EB-5_visa Unless you have $1 million+ and a solid business plan lying around, this isn't really an option.

* The other option is the L-1A and EB-1C for mutinational executives and managers. This can also be used to establish a subsidiary in the US. Assuming you are the owner/CEO of your company, I would imagine it being subject to more scrutiny (stringent requirements). Generally though, I would assume the primary test would be in terms of how "big" your company is (in terms of revenue, number of employees, etc.)

Warning: IANAL. This is just knowledge I've picked up here and there. You should really look research this though. Generally though, the US doesn't want individuals "self-immigrating" -- that's why there are so many laws and guards it. Think of it this way: if you could immigrate to the US via your startup (say you spent $300k on your startup), then how many more people (non-startuppers) would try to imitate and do that? There are millionaires who would love to move to the US but can't due to the immigration system there.

If you don't mind a slightly conservative culture, and would like to avoid paying taxes -- you can check out the various emirates of the UAE. You could move to the UAE, and not have to pay the (from what I hear) 40% taxes in Europe. If the tax is 40%, no tax means a 66% rise in actual after-tax income. :-) The UAE has laws specifically set up for foreigners to come in and start businesses in the country. It's extremely start-up (and freelance consultant) friendly. You generally apply through a "free zone authority". FWIW Dubai is probably one of the most modern cities in the world. There's a lot of fun stuff to do there. One free zone authority is the DMTFZA (based in Dubai): http://www.dtmfza.gov.ae/en/current-business-partners/regist... Another (slightly cheaper) option is the RAK Free Trade Zone: http://www.rakftz.com/en
Bug report on Zuckerberg's timeline, or: how to make one heard properly
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum collection on Google.
If you want to see generalization look no further than Category Theory. But it's all done "safely": you define what a category is, and prove things about it, and then declare how certain objects can be viewed as categories (somewhat like the typeclass pattern).
It's stronger than a Nash equilibrium. It's not even an equilibrium actually, because we keep improving humans' productivity, and bureaucracies keep eating the freed workforce.

It's really easier to make sense out of it from an ecologist's PoV than from an economist's or a game theoretician's, because the two competing agents (humans and bureaucracies) are hard to formally separate.
Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum collection on Google
I think the chart needs updating -- generators landed in Chrome, which is why they're in Node Harmony.
How hacker posted on Zuckerberg's timeline (video included)
Nah, it was in the online news.

http://lenta.ru/news/2013/08/17/pasta/

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Всего, как сообщили в полиции, задержали восемь активистов, которых доставили в отдел полиции. Пастафарианцев задерживали сотрудники ОМОН.

В задержании, как рассказал агентству пастриарх Русской пастафарианской церкви (РПЦ) Кама Паста I, принимали участие православные активисты во главе с Дмитрием Энтео, которые облили последователей Летающего макаронного монстра кетчупом.

Активисты при этом не собирались устраивать шествия, рассказал в интервью телеканалу «Дождь» епископ Домодедовский, викарий пастриарх РПЦ Макаронного пастриархата Амирджан. «Мы просто собираемся, как группа единомышленников, в сад „Эрмитаж“, пить пиво и есть макароны», — добавил он.

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Translation:

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As the police said, total of eight activists were detained, all of whom were delivered to the police station. Pastafarians were detained by OMON (police special unit)

Kama Pasta I (patriarch of Russian Pastafarian Church, RPC) told the agency that Russian orthodox activists, lead by Dmitriy Enteo, took part in detaining and also doused the Flying Macaroni Monster followers with ketchup.

Activists weren't planning to march, RPC bishop Amirdjan told to the channel "Dozhd". "We gather as a group of like-minded people in the "Hermitage" garden to drink beer and eat pasta" — he added.

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> realloc(ptr, 0) is free

Not quite. POSIX states:

> If size is 0, either a null pointer or a unique pointer that can be successfully passed to free() shall be returned.

and although FreeBSD's man 3 realloc does not say anything about a 0 size, OpenBSD's man 3 realloc states:

> If size is zero and ptr is not a null pointer, the object it points to is freed and a new zero size object is returned.

And OSX's states:

> If size is zero and ptr is not NULL, a new, minimum sized object is allocated and the original object is freed.

So a minimal implementation would need realloc and free, to account for realloc(ptr, 0) allocating.
Soon, we will be able to touch virtual objects
If you're entering the EU or a Schengen-signatory, even for a transit flight, you are required to pass through security (all passengers on any flight departing within the EU must have passed through EU-legislated security, to avoid the case where their incoming security has been lax). Some places include more (the UK requires security for /all/ passengers arrival on an international flight, regardless of the EU).

What one doesn't have to do is pass through border control or customs (unless one is transferring onto a domestic flight, then quite where you clear border control and customs varies from place to place — in the UK you clear the border at the port of entry and customs upon arrival at your final destination).

Also — just to note, I can't imagine anyone ever being actually arrested under the no-right-to-silence clause (and if they did, I expect it'd just get take to the ECHR and thrown out) except potentially for UK citizens/subjects/nationals/whatever-other-categories-there-are-that-I-always-forget (for whom entry cannot be refused).

If what you mean by not being sure how it works for transit is how it works in the US — you must posses a valid visa (probably a transit visa) or not need a visa (VWP, citizenship, etc.) for entry into the US, regardless of your further destination. Sadly, for many of us from Europe, many flights to South America require pre-approval from the US, because you cross US airspace, even though you never land.
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Andy Wingo is working on generators in SpiderMonkey now that he landed them in V8. Goal is to get FF/Chrome parity. (If anyone on the IE team is reading...)
The article is misleading - this is a technique for use on human cell lines, not on humans.
Note how he didn't get the bug bounty: after attempting to tell Facebook twice and got "nobug, wontfix" answers, his third (and successful) notice got answered with "We are unfortunately not able to pay you for this vulnerability because your actions violated our Terms of Service."

Great whitehat marketing on Facebook's side there.
That looks mostly like you've added support for postgres "extras", not (inherent) "postgres goodness". Not that adding support for "extras" is a bad thing -- but in the context of "adding support for postgres sql" -- that seems somewhat orthogonal? (I'm not saying it is wrong for rails to approach postgres this way, just that the approach doesn't seem to change the way rails (afaik) approach databases: logic should be in rails, not in stored procedures and views (which is where it would make sense to place logic, if you design with "database first")).

Interesting link, either way.
so slow!

running throw some your basic tutorials and the quizez take huge amount of time to load.
"Journey to Justinia" – how I got my 5-year-old son to sit still for 5 hours
Derrida.

And I'm only sort of being facetious. Sometime in the 1980's the humanities seemed to collectively decide that 'theory' was more important than the ability to think and communicate clearly. To my mind this has always been the point at which Academia as a class abdicated it's responsibilities to society at large in favor of internal power games and obscurantism.
Designers. Get over your fear of code and on with your lives (part 1)
I think this depends on where you are, in my experience north Americans tend to work far more hours than people from northen europe.

The normal working hours where I come from is around 37 hours. I have a 36 hours work week with all overtime must be taken as time off at some other time. (of cause there are also people who work more).
Lame duck Nobel prize laureates
Just been a spot on it on Radio 4, too.
Travis CI is as free for Open Source as Github is; Notably, it also makes some of the other tools even sweeter (Like Code Climate, Sauce Labs, Github itself).

It's a little bit ironic that we can't alter the blog post about open source directly through comments, and instead have been asked to use Hacker News.
Twitcher - a Javascript way to use Twitter's API
Facebook Wants Faster, Cheaper Storage
Will the Indie Web Jailbreak the Internet?
Hell I'm baffled to find there's no server tools to automatically update a server (or even set it up to run autonomously). There's a bunch of hacked script files and screen... That's about it. Given The money they've made from this, it's a bit silly.
Glenn Greenwald's partner detained at Heathrow - reactions
A Practical Utopian’s Guide to the Coming Collapse
and you should also take a look at those js errors, they might have something to do with the speed issue
Thanks for your comments. I'll update Code Climate link.

Yes, saying that Github, jClarify and Lighthouse have free for open source plans is technically incorrect. But given that they can all* be used by open source projects, for free, in ways that they could not be used by typical commercial projects I think the simplification is permissible.

* Lighthouse do have a free plan. "Create as many Open Source Projects as you wish on any plan! Even the free plan!"
" reading Objectivist literature " while on food stamps?

Clearly he is doing so from curiosity and not conviction.
A Guide To Designing Touch Keyboards
I'm expecting top comments will wind up being a bit negative because of how long it takes to modify a living language without breaking the web (spec side). But for ES6, the main thing in need right now is C++ programmers able to hack on VMs to actually implement all the features. If you are one and care about this, by all means see where you can help in V8/SM. If you're a company that cares but only has dollars, and not programmers/time, consider hiring consultants to work on landing the features you are most interested in. Just because a spec is fleshed out by committee over time doesn't mean the patches magically appear with it. (e.g. C++11)
"On the face of it higher rates of photosynthesis, more shoots, etc sound great but in practice there could be all kinds of selective pressures on wild crops that would make these adaptations undesirable."

Thank you for a very valuable comment. It's nice to see understanding of plant ecophysiology in Hacker News.

So, I went to the original article [1] and this is about how they measure fitness:

"Measurement of photosynthetic rates [...] We used glasshouse-grown GE and non-GE F3 plants"

"Seed germination experiment [...] Seeds were germinated on wet filter paper in Petri dishes."

"Field experiments [...] Common garden experiments were conducted [...] 36 plants were planted in a 6x6 grid with 20 cm between plants [...] weeds were removed by hand-weeding [...] urea (nitrogen) per 100 m2 was applied [...] Insecticides that are commonly used in rice fields were applied"

So, fitness is measured in (i) glasshouse (ii) on wet filter paper in laboratory and (iii) in garden conditions, with fertilizers and insecticides applied.

Now, the original article doesn't claim anything beyond that, and a case can be made that the natural environment of a weed is in in the rice field (with fertilizers and insecticides), but the Nature article says "effects of such modification have the potential to extend beyond farms and into the wild" and like you said, measuring fitness in glasshouse/lab/garden conditions tells pretty much nothing about fitness in the wild beyond farms.

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.12428/abstrac...
It's hard for me to believe in grand conspiracies of a ruling class that is in competition with itself. I'm more inclined to believe that bullshit jobs exist because there is bullshit work to be done, and more of it piles on when there isn't a market incentive pushing the bullshit out.
The lesson is that some celebrities need to be recruited to act as ambassadors for the cause of privacy. If Tom Cruise had been held for nine hours the whole world would have known.
I am a math professor. This phenomenon of lengthening literature reviews doesn't exist in math, nor indeed have I ever seen mathematicians assign pointless busywork to sabotage others, or to inflate our own importance, or for any other reason.

Indeed, we hate extraneous paperwork:

http://www.mathjobs.org/jobs

and are trying to change the library system:

http://thecostofknowledge.com/

Now the intrinsic value of research math as a whole may be debated, especially that of the bottom 90% of researchers (and I would not say I'm in the top 10%).

But I have really not observed math professors to be guilty of what you claim. Quite frankly, math itself is hard enough; there's no point in setting additional hoops for students to jump through. It would just make us look foolish, and waste our own time (in addition to that of others).

I can't speak for other disciplines.
What a terrible article - completely misunderstanding the intent of this project while hyperboling around the moon and back. Engineer humans to add a 47th chromosome? This is not about humans themselves at all.

What the actual project [1] wants to do:

HACs are used to introduce novel genes into populations of human cells, not actual humans. For example, if you want to get a green fluorescent protein into cancer cells you currently have to use BACs (bacterial artificial chromosomes) which carry that gene into the cell. HACs are relatively novel and can carry much larger genes and are also stable over mitosis (that is, all offspring carries the gene).

Currently, HACs are not very feasible due to a couple of hurdles, all of which this project tries to overcome (which is why it sounds so generic - like all good project description it tries to catch all possible outcomes).

This has great implications in gene therapy! Of course, because DARPA is involved the author has to make it sound ohh so scary. This has no place on HN.

[1] http://sbirsource.com/grantiq#/topics/88854
I've got a big moral problem with a country interrogating a non-citizen and not allowing an attorney to be present or consulted.

More than a few years ago, I had key evidence about a felony and therefore had good reason to cooperate with the investigating officers. The initial questions were simple, factual, and related to the felony. But then the questions changed. At a certain point the questions became almost accusatory, at which point I started to ask WTF. It was then - and only then - that I was told I was a suspect and read my Miranda Rights. As knowledgeable as I was about my rights in my own country, all this still left dumbfounded. (It turned out the suspect in the felony had subsequently accused me and a colleague of a different felony. For months we were still suspects, had our own rights limited and were interrogated frequently. Thankfully, evidence came to light several months later that firmly cleared me and my colleague.)

I can not imagine being in a foreign country and going through a comparable situation. Beyond the right and wrong of David Miranda being interrogated, I've got a huge moral problem with any country interrogating a non-citizen without legal counsel.
Do you have to self host? If not, how are they going to keep it around once more people start to use it? Looks nice and clean. Thank you!
CIA Admits It Was Behind Iran's Coup
If you are a little handy and know how to work an angle grinder and a circular saw it's really not that expensive. Plus you have something to do in the weekends :-)
That's why we need "pragmatic" idealists. People that realize that trying to make people go against their immediate self-interest in the game just won't work, but that the game itself can be changed to push the Nash Equilibrium up.
Printing out a biological machine
> One minor point: if your library does file IO, let me override your file operations with my own callbacks, or at least consider providing methods that operate solely on blobs in memory (that way I can populate those blobs however I see fit)--giving me a function that takes a const char* for the filename and then does -~=magic=~- is simply not okay.

Not only is that an excellent reminder, it's an excellent reminder for every API in every language out there.

Though it's not necessarily fun, having to build a shim/layer over FILE* and related functions all the time.
Why not 48?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_Six_&_2
Just reading the article I couldn't help but think of this song.
Look around, the author produced some stuff on 9/11 trutherism. Why share this drivel when it's objectivity is already circumspect from a misleading title?
" consider the requirement of ever lengthening literature reviews in PHD theses. These have come about because of the ease of access to academic documents through digitized journals making libraries and supervisors less valuable."

I'm not sure I understand your conspiracy theory mumbo jumbo correctly, but I cannot help but take from this that you are saying that because finding literature has become faster due to electronic access to papers, the added value of the Phd supervisor has gone down. If this is so, you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, a position for which I find additional evidence in your use of 'PHD' with all capitals which nobody in academia would do. Look, if you have something valuable to add to the discussion, please do; but if you're just going to make things up to fit your ideological predispositions, stay on Reddit.
The Biggest Crowdfunding Project Ever Is For ... A Linux Smartphone?
Understanding how elite economists influence other elite economists
Ah, but this trend was fought by another academic. Alan Sokal, NYU physicist, famously completely bullshitted an essay and got it published by Social Text, a leading postmodern sociology journal.

http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/

Scroll down to "Transgressing the Boundaries".
Scientists Create Hybrid Quantum Teleportation Technique
You do have to have an act, to avoid punishing thought crimes, but intent is where the real action tends to be. Intent can make the same act (killing a person) anything from murder to no crime at all.
Should have got himself frozen at Alcor. Hmph.
Maybe it's offtopic but Thinkpad trackpoints are really comfortable. And you can use it to scroll without removing your hands from the keyboard. They sell usb keyboards with it included.
I worked at a government agency that circa 2005 was using paper timesheets. The timesheets were required to be printed on a specific shade of blue paper.

Hilarity ensued when some admin ordered "air force blue" paper instead of "power blue". The HR director decreed that only "power blue" would be accepted, and all other hues would be rejected. They probably spent 200 hours debating it.
One peer reviewed paper a year. Regardless of quality. Wittgenstein - a philosopher with a major influence on modern life after he died published two short works in a lifetime.
umm.. I think its more to do with time. Someone sometime in your region will fund that crazy start up, waiting to explode. Others will follow suit after that.
Thus "the man" influences the people to act against their own best interest. Happens all the time.
Sure, but it's not like that's a rare occurrence (behold HN's darling Go)
This article is fear mongering with incomplete information.

There are huge problems with the current techniques we use to introduce DNA into cell lines of all kinds (human or other mammals). For instance, the virus techniques he describes for inserting DNA cannot control where the DNA lands in the genome. Thus, you may end up with a cell that seems to have the properties you are after, but it acquired those traits through disrupting or activating a normal gene, thus confounding your results. Alternatively, you may be comparing cell lines with viral insertions and would ideally like the expression of the inserted genes to be similar (so that you can fairly compare their effects).

These and other problems would be solved by having cell lines with known insertion locations. Whether this is best achieved by adding a new chromosome to these lines or engineering a precise "landing spot" in an existing chromosome is up for debate.
I recall a reading very fascinating comment on Reddit a few years ago on this subject: if you want to maximise for maximum biological diversity at the lowest cost, the best option would be to have a small all-female crew, and as much diverse frozen sperm as possible (which is the most compact form of proto-human we got).

Then upon reaching the intended planet, fertilise every female with a unique cell. Repeat every generation until you run out of frozen sperm. Hey presto, biological diversity for cheap.

Of course, if anything this shows the problems with optimising for one variable at the expense of ignoring of all others.
From anecdotal evidence I don't think you're right. Every summer I speak to an average of three strangers a week that stroll by the harbour and ask about how to get a space, how to buy a boat, and how they can go about doing it. But very few people take the plunge. When I tell people how I live most of them are envious (some think I'm crazy too).

I think what's keeping people from doing it is fear. Most people don't have the courage to break with deepheld norms such as living in a house or an apartment.
Yes - if you'd actually bring this into humans, you'd probably have to add _two_ extra chromosomes since humans are diploid.
>He attributes this to some plan by 'the man' to put people in these jobs. I'm arguing it is people putting themselves in these jobs by themselves.

Those two things are not mutually exclusive. See the last line of the article:

"Clearly, the system was never consciously designed. It emerged from almost a century of trial and error."

People in power make little daily nudges, those under the yoke follow the path of least resistance, and society wanders towards an equilibrium.
I assume you are an academic - therefore, I imagine you have heard of cases where a peer reviewer killed an article just because it contradicted the reviewer's own work?

Even if an academic is not explicitly sabotaging work, it's clear from the amount of time spent on grant applications and general bureaucracy that their useful production is being sabotaged.

To meet bureaucratic standards, researchers are often required to teach and educators are often required to publish... it's not effective production.