skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To jballanc's credit I think it really is extremly simple in theory, if you are OK with the excrucingly expensive route:

1) Barriers to work and emigration

Not if you have enough money or a high enough level of education and income. Paying a lawyer to iron out some problems can help avoiding some traps too.

2) Language barriers

These can be overcome, but not having to deal with a lot of menu details in your life (i.e "how to apply for family aid with the new flat I am trying to rent"), going to places that have english speaking staff, doing as much as you can online etc. simplifies it a lot. But it costs more overall.

3) A lot of us have family support systems

This is the most difficult point, and no amount of money will resolve some problems (adaptation, home sickness, culture etc). But others like schooling your kids in an international school (it's about 8000~10000 dollars a year at least I think), have someone speaking your language take care of them etc. eases things a lot.

I don't think this kind of money can be taken for granted, and only a smallish portion of people are at these levels of wealth[1]. It was just to bring a point about how "simple" changing a country could be depending on your means.

[1] Otherwise if you can get a company or country to pay for these expenses, it's great for you. BTW I'm far from having that kind of money, so it's just hearsay and personal research.
I think we need somebody to update the title every second or so...
I especially like it when "don't use MD5!!!1!!" cargo culting causes someone to switch off _md5crypt_ to plain, unsalted, sha256 as a password hash or kdf.
One of the judges at Startup Weekend crapped on every team. The weekend had been a lot of fun, but that ruined it for me. Other judges at least had constructive criticism. I have to admit this pulled the steam out of my sails and I'm not all that interested in the startup scene anymore. I felt slightly cheated at another event where the winners had obviously been 'playing the circuit' with their startup, but I still came away from it pretty positive.
For those looking for the source, you can manually get it:

http://npm.im/noodlejs is the NPM package

https://registry.npmjs.org/noodlejs/-/noodlejs-0.2.0.tgz is the package source

$ curl -kO https://registry.npmjs.org/noodlejs/-/noodlejs-0.2.0.tgz

The code is pure-JS (not a C++ addin)
If you don't have an artist, you need to be able to do art+code. Even if you're making as simple puzzle game, your game is going to look a hundred times better with jewels/blocks drawn by someone who knows what they are doing, compared to something you hacked up in MSPaint.

And don't go super-cheap on the artist. It might take them a few hours to do just a few simple icons/items, so pay them what you'd want per hour for a contract job. Don't pay them $10 an hour or offer $100 to do an entire replacement of your development art.

The same goes for music. Even an original theme song is going to take 10-12 hours of work. So asking for a $50 song isn't going to yield good results.
I have a hard time believing the authenticity of this, I didn't even see one insult or curse word.
http://www.government.nl/documents-and-publications/press-re...
> The last is not really practical

That's true. But applying stack ranking to small groups because applying it to large groups is impractical is kind of like looking for your lost keys under the street light because it's too dark to look where you actually lost them.

> "in a department of 500 engineers", it's likely that at least 5 are duds.

That's true too. The problem is this reasoning does not scale downwards. Its correctness DEPENDS on the number being large. What MS is doing is saying: "In 50 groups of 10 engineers, at least 2 engineers IN EACH GROUP MUST BE DUDS" and that is NOT true. But because policy dictates that the company will behave as if it were true it produces very strong pressure on people to spend their time making it appear to be true rather than doing productive work.
SBT 0.13 Released
This is one hell of an odd thing to do out of the blue. I wonder what gave the authors the thought "hey, maybe if we make a bright outline pulse in time with the person's heartbeat." Was there prior research to suggest this, or were they just taking a bit of artistic license to add some mysticism?

I honestly wouldn't be too surprised if they were trying to replicate someone's drug-induced hallucinations...
According to ComScore, Asian Twitter traffic surpassed North American Twitter traffic in 2010. So, it's possible that Twitter just has a lot more users in Asia.

http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press_Releases/2010/8/Indon...
Einstein is quoted as saying the same, adding "but don't rule out malice."

Hanlon's Razor is a nice sounding quote and all, but where is there any evidence that it's accurate?
Metal detectors, wanding, and carding actually accomplish the purposes they were each created for -- not perfectly, but to a large degree.

The body scanners, however, are a boondoggle.
SQream Uses Nvidia GPUs to Blast Through Big Data 10-Times Faster Than CPUs
There are many international IT companies in Europe where English is the lingua franca (speaking from my experience in Catalonia and the Netherlands). Learning the language of the country is a welcome courtesy, but it is often not a requirement.
> If people opt out, it 1) ties up a TSA agent

Isn't this something that doesn't scale then? Author of this post is complaining of being "defeated" because no agent came to give him his pat down. What if it just so happens that a few people had opted out in a short window, and so their pat down guy was tied up? The more people follow this example on a given day, the longer your wait for the pat down will be.
On Hiring
First of all I think that moving to another country because you don't like the US customs might be a bit extreme, but still:

>> 2) Language barriers
> One, you'd be amazed how much you can get across non verbally

>>> So your answer here is great if you are a long-time tourist. Completely impractical in terms of career and work.

German here, I have worked in Germany and abroad, I worked with an Australian guy working in Germany that spoke about five words of German and that was completely fine ( he did HTML&CSS stuff, a little bit of PHP). Our client was American as well, but he spoke some German I think. (this was 2008ish)

My managers Manager in a big consultancy was American and stayed in Germany for a year and a half I think and did just fine with only english. The project lead at the same company was from India, didn't speak a word of German. On my last visit to Berlin I was amazed how many foreigners are there and working in tech at the moment, just the stuff you pick up on the street in Friedrichshain is amazing, people talking about databases and pointers while walking past you on the street in English with all sorts of accents you can imagine.

The same is probably true for Amsterdam or Copenhagen, the dutch and the danish are usually excellent with languages.
Great points. None of them are fixed by patdowns.

Patdowns are a couple hundred orders of magnitude more of a "fuck you, citizen." Standing still on a platform with your arms raised for a few seconds does not even begin to approach getting felt up by a government agent as a condition of getting to your destination.
You can also go to Germany to simply study the German language for up to six months. I think you need a 4yr degree (not sure) and need only study for 18hrs/week if I recall. You're not allowed to work, but should you find a job, I was told by several employers there that the Blue Card easy to get and takes about a month.

I'm strongly considering it. I know enough German now to make a fool of myself there. Oh and at least in the software scene, and maybe tech in general, I've found Germans to be completely fluent in English, and some companies even state in their job ads that English is the language that they conduct business in. I was surprised to learn that outside of tech, things got more dicey. Many non-university-educated people did not speak English or spoke it with difficulty. Even a pharmacist I met really struggled. So for interactions outside of tech, a little German would help, and that's part of what the cultural "integration" classes offer.
[edit: add ref to Blue Card]
Ask HN: A Mobile OCR App That Does Circuit Analysis & Solves Math Equations
Good Morning & Happy Monday Everyone,

How do you feel about an idea like that?
Its not a strip search. It's an x-ray. And after watching the tv series "Embarrassing Bodies", I've come to realise we're all human and who really gives a FUCK what we look like under our clothes. If someone wants to get off over my x-ray scan good on them.
Cross borders with blank drives. Re-image when you're at your destination.

Although it can be interpreted as such, it's not a sign of guilt, it's a response to the possible threat of immigration officers on a power trip. The vast majority are absolutely fine, but there are some that overstep their bounds or work within an egregious legal framework, e.g. the Brits. If they force you to decrypt your data (as they legally can in the UK), who knows what they'll do with it, especially if you've got proprietary work and confidential business stuff on there.
Logging for client side errors
Yeah, I am an Austinite. I wouldn't move for the world.

But I have a friend that has been in Houston since he went to Rice and he swears by it. His girlfriend even lives here in Austin and we can't seem to convince him to move back.

I love Austin, but I think Houston is big enough that you can find your people.
Infinite State
I write this post because I've noticed a sort of "JUST USE BCRYPT" cargo cult (thanks Coda Hale!) This is absolutely the wrong attitude to have about cryptography.

Is it? I think, contrarily, thinking you can decide for yourself what crypto algorithms to use how -- is absolutely the wrong attitude to have about cryptography, UNLESS you have spent significant time studying crypto, which most of us developers have not.

Following the advice of those who have is absolutely the _right_ attitude to have about cryptography.

If the community is giving advice that could be better, then they should improve.

But likewise, unless cryptographers can give simple easy to follow and hard to mess up advice -- well, doing so is the only thing that's going to result in secure software. "Always use bcrypt for password hashing" is a great example there, that HAS resulted in more secure software, than when people made up their own hashing algorithms or didn't hash.
Its interesting that there are > 200 comments on how easy it is to run snd not one on stopping the bastards who threw you into fear and retreat. You are _soundly_ defeated. Im not being forced from my homeland by a despot government or a coward with a bomb. Sorry.
Words rarely have a single definition. Those definitions often have substantial history behind them.
Mr Cutts, you have a problem with your SEO
On Moot: I registered my account because I wanted to integrate Moot on my new website I'm building and when trying to integrate it to a view in Rails:

`a class="moot" href="#{request.original_url}"> Awesome Startup`

I'm getting an message on the page and no moot forums.

" (moot logo) startup does not exist."

Isn't this like Disqus where I can have commenting threads based on the page?
Not working for me too with the same error.

Noticed the issue raised ( probably by you? ) - https://github.com/dgorissen/coursera-dl/issues/81

Edit: Tried this one ( https://github.com/jplehmann/coursera ) and it too failed for login.
People used to call me a ninny all the time, I don't think it should be banned though.

I agree though, imo the word you're thinking of is probably banned and the linked list is not a complete/exhaustive one.
I wonder how many people have the US on their personal no-fly lists because of such stories?
>> Sample size has nothing (not strictly true) to do with whether a result is statistically significant.

>> I hate to rain on your parade, but sample size has everything to do with whether a result is statistically significant.

> No, almost any sample size can be sufficient, as long as the effect is big enough.

Your sentence says "no", but it agrees -- sample size has everything to do with determining statistical significance. The ratio of sample size to population is critical to deciding whether a result is significant: http://classroom.synonym.com/select-statistically-significan...

> Though in psychology, larger samples are often needed, because there's generally smaller effects.

Yes, but many of those kinds of result are insignificant and instantly forgotten regardless of the circumstances, because psychologists generally aren't testing a falsifiable theory, only measuring an "interesting" effect, like whether leaning to the left makes the Eiffel Tower look shorter (the 2012 Ig Nobel Prize winner):

Title: "Leaning to the Left Makes the Eiffel Tower Seem Smaller --
Posture-Modulated Estimation"

Link: http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/11/23/095679761142...

Ig Nobel Prize announcement: http://www.improbable.com/ig/2012/
How to get a meeting with a top VC if you don't have a warm intro?
The heart beats at a minimum of 60 BPM (except in endurance athletes where the resting frequency can drop lower).

One second of delay or more would offset the flash after the next beat, and, since the heart frequency varies slightly spontaneously, it would probably prevent the phenomenon... or maybe not :-)
This feels a lot like John Cleese's advice on creativity within teams: You need to be surrounded by people who will build on ideas with you, not people who will lead with "no". The moment you have a person in the room with you who will shoot you down on an idea, trust falters and creativity dies.

Honestly, I've thought a lot lately about how I argue, and I find I get a lot more accomplished when I lead with "Yes, and". I feel like I should have taken drama instead of band when I was younger and I'd have reached this point sooner.
Maybe that will keep moderators busy enough so that they won't have time to break^H^H^H^H^Hedit titles of other submissions. </sarcasm>
That looks like a good place to use the arrow macro http://clojuredocs.org/clojure_core/clojure.core/-%3E
Which reminds me of this article:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/why-you-shouldnt-fall-fo...

and the most important advice: "Ask yourself why you're upgrading"
It is particularly amusing because most times the people complaining about this strongly advocate the freedom to do what you like on your own property, without which there would be no CCTV cameras.
Two words: white noise.

My favourite is the linux SoX (Sound eXchange). sudo apt-get install sox with this command (which varies the sound, rain-like):

play -t sl -r48000 -c2 - synth -1 pinknoise tremolo .1 40 < /dev/zero
>It doesn't seem to have much more impact than when anyone else does it.

Not sure how one would measure that specifically, but any sort of public education on the issue by any influencer with a significant network is additive.
I've used Calibre over 5 years. It's being with me from Windows, then Linux, and now OS X, and always one of the first software installed when I setup a new computer. Thanks for your very hard work, Kovid Goyal and other contributors.

Despite its first 1.0 hit, for a long time, the project has been developing too actively for me to update every minor release (every week less or more).
Is getting up during a TV commercial break and making a sandwich illegal and stealing?
Hey ho! That ending was unnecessarily rude. I don't think he planned his post as a personal attack on you or your values, so I don't think the hostility is necessary.

For some people it's easier than for others. I work with a ton of people who've migrated to Sweden. I think they find 1 and 2 fairly easy -- not trivial, mind you, but not hard enough that they can't be overcome. The third problem varies from person to person and what stage in life they're at. We have many people who have moved here with kids, and it seems to work out well. So it's certainly not unsurmountable, but yes, not easy either.
> Then clients would voluntarily unsubscribe.

Or write nasty blog posts about you that pollute Google results forever.
What kind of enterprises use this solution? I would think Dropbox/Google Drive are much more easier to setup and use by employees?
fascinating to look at the beginning of something that has become so huge. millions of phones run on a linux kernel, as well as all those tablets, pcs, and other random devices. i wonder if that email will ever go into a historic museum one day.
> I guess the reason is that gamers can be a fickle lot and there's a large risk that the game will be written off as crappy if you release a poor prototype.

You only need feedback from 15-20 people to get the gist of where you stand with the game. For that you don't need to release anything, just post a link on a forum and be sure to engage with the comments that follow.
If Bing closes, Google will find it much harder to fight anti-trust suits.
Slightly tounge-in-cheek but I really hope that I'm not the guy behind you in line when I next visit the US.
I'm traveling around the world (5 continents) for 1 year and I couldn't never have done that properly without Numbeo's figures, really. Actually I'm surprised it has been "discovered" only now. Most people miss the point here as they tend to think of it as some "big data" or whatever, but it's right on spot for daily expenses at least in the almost-100-cities list I'm visiting (including my own, in Brazil). It's very useful to get an idea of what to expect budget-wise when you have no idea whatsoever about costs in random countries. But you have to use your brain as well and not trust the numbers blindly :-)
This is it: https://class.coursera.org/modelthinking-003/lecture/16
StarCraft is the title of a work, and as such should probably be either italicized or put in quotes cf. the WSJ style manual.

Italicization is obviously not possible in plain text, so their style manual would prescribe that the title of the work is set in quotes.
Note that in the US, we have strict stop everyone controls at the border (with Canada no less, this isn't just a Mexican border thing), at which you need to show your passport, and we have mobile border controls up to 100 miles within the border.

I used to live near a place where they frequently put the "mobile" control on an interstate in Vermont about 80 miles from the border, so I got stopped by it a lot.

Of course, I've always wondered about how useful the mobile controls are, other than for getting people used to a police state. They are not allowed to ask any US citizens for passports or proof of US citizenship; so they always ask "is everyone in this car a US citizen" and then wave you on if you say yes. When my friend, who is Malaysian, answered "no, I'm not a US citizen", they thought based on his excellent American English accent that he was joking and waved him on anyhow.
Linus was good tempered back in those days. He still is, but he used to too.
Not everybody cares about sundays or holidays. I hate it when shops close early.
The Long Tail of Longform
'improve' is the word you are looking for.
See, all I'm trying to point out is that there's a flaw in your argument that can easily be exploited to undermine your line of reasoning. I'm all on your side and agree with your assertion, but the argument cannot be "There is no balance between security and liberty" since the most secure state would be where every one of us is locked in a high security cell. No more murders, no theft, no rape, no crime, perfect security. What a beautiful world.

The right question to ask is "How should the world we want to live in look like?" and I'm certain that most people would prefer to security budgets to go down, to see the TSA disappear, see elemental rights reinstated. It's a hard argument to make since people cling to security, but you can't substitute it by denying that security and liberty are at least partially on a trade-off scale.
Before this comment forum devolves into the usual level of strife trying to grapple with what race "is," I'd like to offer two articles.

What We Mean When We Say 'Race Is a Social Construct' - http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/what-we-...

The Point Is Not To Interpret Whiteness But To To Abolish It by Noel Ignatiev - http://racetraitor.org/abolishthepoint.html (the stuff about "White Studies" (obviously contextual) and Marxist tie-ins are totally optional to understanding the central points, I believe)
Don't need the heart monitor you could do something like this -> http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/amplifying-invisible-vide...
It depends -- if you are in a hurry, it's going to hurt you more than it hurts TSA, but otherwise, it probably bothers them more. I've never had more than a very brief delay, though.

There's extra lulz for me because if I check a bag on a domestic flight it is essentially always because the bag contains a firearm. The red-tagged bags must fly with the passenger, and TSA has already had extended contact with me by that point (they search the bag containing the weapon in your presence, usually in a private room, etc.), so I think making me miss my flight at that point would cause them a lot of trouble without me even needing to prod.
> For instance, as a white guy, I could never be treated as an African American, no matter how much I wanted to be or tried.

This hasn't stopped a great many white guys from trying!
I like how uncomfortable the TSA guy feels about grabbing my junk, because that's how uncomfortable I feel about my constitutional rights being violated. It's a constant reminder to TSA staff that what they are doing is wrong.
"This sentence would be equally true without the word "black." Political correctness indeed."

Sorry, but the phenomenon of being accused of betraying your cultural identity by peers if you succeed in school and get a job is mainly a phenomenon found in a sub-culture of black America. Anyone who has been immersed in an African-American community for any length of time can tell you this. The typical insult among school-children is "acting white" or "Oreo" and it is widespread enough to warrant heavy discussion within the mainstream black community. My best friend growing up was harassed and bullied constantly in this way. It was a particularly vicious kind of bullying that I've never seen Asian, Hispanic or white children ever have to deal with.
Water is not mandatory at all. Grass with a healthy, deep root system will survive extended droughts just fine. It just turns brown and people don't like that.
Scheduling, tracking and reminders for Gmail
Btw, I'm in Nepal right now about to start trekking in the mountains, thanks Holy Engineers for wifi in the Himalayas! You can google translate it if you want: http://alfanumerico.net
I said political lines, not party lines.

My point is that people IME who are more likely to see liberty as the winning interest in abortion are more likely to see life as the winning interest in gun control and vice versa.
http://simplynoise.com/
> at which you need to show your passport

And if you're a dirty foreigner you have to have your Iris scanned, a picture taken and your fingerprints taken.

I've lived on the US/Canadian border and if they make a flip-book of all the pictures they took of me over the years it would make for a neat animated study in aging.
What? I never knew that Linux & I were both born on August 26! (I'm older by a few years, though :)
I'm also pretty sure that in most countries you actually have to agree to the ToS and ensure the user has read it. Just having a T&Cs page on your website somewhere does not count. Most websites don't force me to agree to anything before viewing their content... if that's part of the ToS then they need to make sure I agree to it.