skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. Employer should not get any protection at all. That is the whole point.
Consider the scenario.
1. You hire a person for 100k, file H1B for her. On the first day of her job she asks for 20% raise.
2. You say "you are fired" to her.
There are two cases here:
- She walks out searching for a job. She does not find a job which pays here more than 100k, she comes back to you and beg to be taken back. (Remember that she is likely to know her self worth and hence will not leave the job in first place if she knows that no one else can pay her more than 100k).

- She walks out searching for a job, she finds a job that pays 120k. This means you hired her because you found her "cheaper" than American counterparts. So you are penalized. Hence next time you wont hire a employee worth $120k for $100k. You will prefer a $120k American girl over $100k Indian girl.
It's not urgent to a lot of Americans just you.

Will the news change depending on if it's reported today, tomorrow or next way ? No ? Then it's NOT urgent.
HP, at least at the Boise, Idaho printer unit, has reliably been reported to do this, and has even been caught trying to recruit H-1Bs for these jobs Americans won't do....
It entirely depends on what was contained in the photo..... Photos can contain information.
When it comes to that I like how it is with xbox 360 games. I can just lend my friend the disk and he can play the game.

A PC game is not that easy, why is pirating a bigger problem on computers than consoles? Or is it so? I'm not entirely familiar with the numbers but since you can still swap used console games I'd imagine it's like that.

I am glad Valve is doing something to improve this.
That still mostly worked (s/ftp/git/)

> I had pushed out _most_ of my pulls today, so
> realistically I didn't lose a lot of work.

You're always going to lose the things newer than your last backup.
Want to grow your business? Stop lying to yourself.
Blurr.im
Wow. It is stunning how oblivious nearly everyone on this thread is to how douchey it is to BET YOUR BROGRAMMER PALS THEY CAN CYBERSTALK A GIRL.

Advice to woman: Run.

Advice to startups: Don't let your sales and engineering teams be giant douche canoes and if they are certainly don't publicly brag about it.
Interestingly, this post appears to have been flagged or relegated in some way. It has 141 points in one hour at 10th place, while the Steam Family Sharing post has 150 points in first place and is two hours old.

Certainly some of the discussion on other threads should be filtered. But the moderation on stories themselves appears to be heavy-handed right now. Many significant new stories aren't making it to the home page (see above).

A proposed solution: If the reason for this in fact flagging, and not moderation by admins, then perhaps showing the guidelines and possibly requiring users to give a reason for flagging might reduce the number of wayward flags.
The official guidelines for flagging are: "If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link"
You are assuming that American Arab is going to enter Arab organization as a low-level member. Surely he would not fit, would not be trusted. However, I can easily see American Arabs participating in financing or coordinating Arab organizations. I can see Israel wanting to take action against such people, discovered using American intel.
‘Help Obama start WWIII’: Mock kickstarter campaign wants your $1.6trn
Ironically, it seems that this precise submission is getting flagged a lot, seeing as it is rapidly being dragged down the first page
DRBL can do this for Linux (if you require some software to set it up for you). You can actually accomplish this with nothing more then the linux kernel if you're clever: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs...
Purchase all my games on steam. Son/daugher/parents/cousin wants to play a game I own, but I am currently playing a different game I own. Only one person can play a game at a time, even though licenses have been purchased for both.
The DOJ has gotten exceedingly good at blatantly trumping up charges against innocent people on the flimsiest of excuses. The saddest part of it all is that in many cases even if the defendant is found not guilty, their career may be over.
Well, take that Logo procedure. If all I want to do with that list of commands is execute them, then a fully imperative language (like, as best I recall, Logo) is fine. Once I want to do slightly more complicated things (say, repeat) you need to move beyond "simple list of things". Of course, for a lot of things you might want to do to a list of commands (obviously including repeat) there is built in support. But what about when you want to define new ones? "Do each thing in the following list twice"? In Haskell, if you're passing around [IO ()], you can run it through (concatMap (\ x -> [x,x])) before passing it to sequence, and bam - things are doubled.
I'm saying that the NSA sends Israel the raw data, as this document says. Israel than probably processes the data using their own systems. There's no reason and no evidence for Israel to use American spy's database applications.
I refuse, and so should you.
Maybe buy two hard disks, and back up one to the other.

It is only the linux kernel afterall.
only the third one i havn't been able to do aswell :L
You can certainly buy SSDs now that are rated to more read/write cycles than your 7-year-old Seagate will have gone through. The ones we buy are rated for 3+ years of constant I/O at full bus speed. I don't know how much of that tech is in the sort of SSD you're likely to buy for a desktop, but they're certainly available.
I'm not sure I buy it
It's curious that the OP links to the David Carr/NYT article on Brown, but does not cite the reason why Barrett Brown is under a gag order:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/09/business/media/a-journalis...

> Last week, Mr. Brown and his lawyers agreed to an order that allows him to continue to work on articles, but not say anything about his case that is not in the public record.

I'm not sure what the alternative was, whether Mr. Brown had the option to say all he wants but only behind bars without access to a computer. But the point is that there was an agreement made and I'd be more interested in hearing the details and give-and-take behind that.
Oh, I actually tried the iFLY location in Hollywood. But I only did 2 flights of 1 minute each(!) I did not remember they offered 60-minutes blocks of time. But at a price of $975 that is very steep... http://hollywood.iflyworld.com/flight-info/experienced-flyer It sounded like Fuzzwah had cheaper access to wind tunnels.
> SSDs are getting better now, but are they as reliable as HDD? Can anyone shares his/her expertise on this?

I'm especially interested to hear from people who use many discs, and if they can share some information about the kind of use those discs get.

From what I've heard SSDs are more reliable that traditional spinning platter drives, unless you have a bad batch. This is especially true if there is more than one platter in the drive.

But I also recognise that it doesn't really matter. All drives fail, and no drive is reliable, so you assume the life is going to be 3 years and you have robust mirroring and backups and replacement policies.
I've never used it, but do you mean a Desktop with a permanently attached external drive to backup to? How does that work on a laptop?
(despite appearances uzbl is not dead, I've just been a rather bad maintainer)
Hmmm, perhaps it was less of an coincidence that the very smart Jamaican EE who I worked with in 2001 at Lucent was in QA. He was making $48K to my $80K (we all knew the former because it had to be posted).
Europe plans to end mobile phone roaming charges
NSA teachers guide for fractals?
> I personally think the idea of bringing in foreign labor is a very bad thing for the sponsoring country. [...] They can't work anywhere else, and if they quit they are deported.

It sounds like a vicious cycle:

Immigration is bad -> Limit immigrants or deport them on a hair trigger -> Employers leverage/exploit the circumstances -> Bad results -> Immigration is bad.
The idea that increased labor costs would be passed onto consumers glosses over the relevant economics. In reality, the increased labor costs will result in both increased prices and decreased corporate profits, with the precise split being determined by demand elasticity.

And even to the extent that increased labor costs are passed onto consumers, we have to ask ourselves: what does the economy need? Cheaper products or better-paying jobs?
> Please don't take hardcore fundamentalist strictly-literalist narratives as the accepted "way" of Christianity.

I called them "creationist crackpots" for a reason. What I don't get, is why what shouldn't be interpreted literally, isn't simply stricken from the canon. I mean, what is the point of writing about a world created in seven days (oops, six), if we know it wasn't? Sabbath?

> Genesis was regarded as metaphorical around ~400AD, iirc (Augustine).

That's sooner than I expected. Which leaves us around 6 centuries to amend the book.

> Judaism in particular is aggressive about doubt and questioning.

Even if they aggressively show interest in doubt and questioning, I doubt it's for actually doubting an questioning, like, to the point of having some members realizing their religion is probably wrong after all. Here's a related example, from http://lesswrong.com/lw/ib/the_proper_use_of_doubt/

"""

Once, when I was holding forth upon the Way[1], I remarked upon how most organized belief systems exist to flee from doubt. A listener replied to me that the Jesuits must be immune from this criticism, because they practice organized doubt: their novices, he said, are told to doubt Christianity; doubt the existence of God; doubt if their calling is real; doubt that they are suitable for perpetual vows of chastity and poverty. And I said: Ah, but they're supposed to overcome these doubts, right? He said: No, they are to doubt that perhaps their doubts may grow and become stronger.

[1]: http://yudkowsky.net/virtues/

"""
RAM on the C7 is a piece of cake to upgrade. Ssd on the other hand takes few more screw turns but is easy nonetheless. With a 9mm SSD the back cover doesn't fit flush but 7mm should be better.
Getting Started with DepthJS
$25/hour seems astonishingly high for an independent maid service. You should be able to find similarly high quality maids for $10-15/hr, or fixed rates that are far below $25/hr ($25-50 per cleaning).
I apologize for not RTFMing the thing, but does it allow me to:

a. ...render the contents of a window to a RGB bitmap in memory, so I can draw it on a texture with OpenGL or D3D?

b. ...directly inject input events from the mouse and keyboard?

c. ...easily bind Javascript objects to native ones and vice versa?

Without those three things, it's not super helpful.
This, 1000% this. The infection of non-NSA threads by the NSA commenters is a much bigger problem than the front page.
> It's actually only a very small minority that is concerned.

Debatable (and keep in mind that Americans themselves are a minority here), but not an interesting debate. What is undeniable is that is an an issue that gets eyeballs, and an issue that people are vocal about.

I think you are still mixing your "understand" and "agree" signals. I am talking about a sort of realpoltik attitude towards journalism. The merits of the US/Israel relationship do not matter here, what matters is how using this example drives the story.
Yeah, Dropbox doesn't play so well with Git...
in summary, these people are sharks.

watch out.

if possible, fund yourself. why should anyone else believe in you, if you don't believe in yourself?
Attn: Spotify, plz implement this too, thx
If you are doing something as important as this, why aren't you at least running some sort of RAID setup that would have been fine with losing a disk? Or at the very minimum had a decent backup setup so that you would not lose data.

For someone who created Linux in the first place, this must/should be very embarrassing.
> As I've said elsewhere, I don't think I'm being particularly grand here. Just find it curious that, though we commonly have recipes and other directions that are mixes of declarative and imperative, the current trend in programming is to be purely declarative/functional. I wish I understood why that was.

Ever read a recipe designed for concurrency and/or parallelism? Functional idioms are becoming in vogue at the same time as people are meeting walls when it comes to single threaded applications.
Are NIST Standard Elliptic Curves Back-doored with untrustworthy seed values?
Apple Time Capsule. Look it up
Yes. Both Chrome DevTools and Safari's Inspector (separate projects these days) both use CodeMirror as their editor.
Failed with music start-up.

Family runs a successful education company.

Now I'm doing a healthcare start-up.

That aside, I think most industries have significant amount of twisted incentives and resistance. The challenge to building a successful company is finding an opening with a narrow problem or stakeholders.
IPhone 5c - the first iPhone you don't want
From what I've read online, SSD now should last the same, if not more than HDD.

The nice thing about them is that you know how many writes they should handle, and get a new one before some disaster happen. Sure, you can get a faulty unit, but you could get one with HDDs as well.

Instead, for HDDs, you couldn't be really sure. Yes, there's the "broken sector" count, but this isn't always reliable. Disaster could always happen randomly, without any warning before.

If you're interested in more stat, some sites are starting to run endurance tests [1][2][3][4], to see how much on average an SSD is supposed to last, and which brand is better.

Anyway, the only real solution is to run a raid, and keep frequent backups.

[1] http://techreport.com/review/24841/introducing-the-ssd-endur... / http://techreport.com/review/25320/the-ssd-endurance-experim...

[2] http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?271063-SS...

[3] http://ssdendurancetest.com/

[4] "SSD Endurance test" on Google
The girl doesn't exist!

Edit: The girl is Lennay Kekua!
So you had a second photo of the girl, taken by a team mate, but it has only her in it?

OK then, there is something identifying about this girl, which the second photo gave you

* Tattoo

* Glasses

* Hair

* Amputee

* Scar/burn, etc.

* particular purse/hat/watch/accessory

* etc.
Ask HN: Should I sign an NDA?
Here's the situation. A very early startup contacted me recently to see if I'd be interested in working for them. Right now, both the startup and I are operating in a pretty niche space, though they have a product and I'm a freelancer who's building a product on the side.

I told them that I couldn't really express interest in working for them until I saw a demo of what they had, so they asked if I'd be OK with signing an NDA.

I'm not opposed in principle (though the need for an NDA is a bit suspect because so much of a product is execution vs. idea), but I worry that there may be enough intersection between what they're working on and what I've started working on recently such that it might bite me in the ass one day.

I would still like to see what they're doing and be able to make an informed decision about whether it's worth continuing the conversation with them.

What's the best course of action?
I don't yet "get" functional programming, but the reason I am reading this thread is that for years I have read about Lisp being a good thing (a language I have always intended to learn when I get the time). I think there was some (famous?) essay that talked about an enlightenment when you finally "get it" as a language.

Clojure seems to be a modern Lisp implementation. Runs on the JVM, has lots of libraries available.

How else will you "get it" without learning a functional language?

That's why I want to learn Clojure without "getting functional programming" yet.
But it had _something else_ in it...

A credit card slip with her name on it perhaps?
Until there's somewhere else to be I probably won't leave. I am trying to wait it out.
I agree, mathematics is still the best tool we have for actually understanding these things.
Why can't an Arab American make it? This Egyptian-born Israeli Jew did it.

> He is best known for his espionage work in 1961 - 1965 in Syria, where he developed close relationships with the political and military hierarchy and became the Chief Adviser to the Minister of Defense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Cohen
First thing I thought, Linus should evaluate a MacBook. If I remember correctly he once stated that the MacBook Air was the perfect machine for him, so it's not that far-fetched.
Your facebook link contains a list of 73 persons going to the event, so maybe one of them had a picture that matched the one the team had of the girl...
Surprisingly readable, both human and machine. Thanks, that's enlightening :)
I ha(ve/d) a small external hard drive enclosure which holds/held two 2 TB drives in RAID-1 mode (recently tested that it’s indeed RAID 1: The enclosure left out smoke and one of the drives now works happily in a single-drive enclosure), attache(s/d) via eSATA and is used every hour by an rsync backup run using hard links. Every evening, I run another script that cleans up most of the older backups of the last week, keeping one per day.

So, yes, while at home, I also lose at most one hour of stuff, provided that nothing catastrophic happens that damages both the drive and the notebook – unfortunately until very recently, the internet connection to backup offsite was simply not there, and even with 50/10 MBit/s it will be annoying.
At least being an indie developer beats this?:p
My SSD died. Much like a USB drive, when it died, I could still read from it. Just made a direct ghost of it onto another SSD. Was up and running in less than 15 minutes.
+1 for things elance, odesk and pointing about the noise in them. HN Freelancer thread is great for this stuff, but I guess that works only when you have an established portfolio and handful of stuff done outside of your regular job. I did get some contacts from this thread, ultimately to zero leads. The possible way is to have good portfolio so these contacts can be turned to some leads.
If the subject is not technical, it should be removed/flagged.

There is a ton of content here that is non-technical and relevant. Steve Jobs death covered the entire front page, there is policy and regulation, general startup stories, stories of developers in need, etc. Those all get an equal opportunity - so why is there a technical requirement now and only within the context of stories that are related to, dare I say it, the NSA?

The thing is - the very foundational components of everything posted here, technical or not, can/could be impacted by news around this topic. Like I've stated before, it's not that I want more, but I don't want the stories to be buried. I want the good stories with good content and relevancy to have a fair shot.

Your comment around people talking out of their wheelhouses is highly subjective and seems to me, personally, to be rather ignorant. If you constantly stated things about iPhone hardware, but were not a hardware engineer for Apple then you shouldn't be able to comment with that line of thinking. People can talk about whatever they want and people who don't have foundational expertise on a topic can, and do, contribute positively to topics outside their wheelhouse. In some cases those people bring new and interesting perspectives.

Unfortunately the political perspective has irrevocably been tied to the technical one for now. Take what you can from it instead of touting on a soap box that you know better what other people should be talking about and what content should be on HN than the next guy.
A(nother) problem with this discussion, is that Wadhwa and others seem to create a dichotomy where you either:

1. Graduate from a University with a B.S

or

2. Are an uneducated bum with no career prospects.

But there's a huge continuum between those poles. What about people with Associate degrees? Or people who start their Bachelors program, almost finish, and then drop out? Or people who start their Bachelors program, after having earned one Associate degree, then drop out, then go on to earn 2 more Associate degrees? (Yeah, that one happens, that was my story).

Of course, while I disagree with Wadhwa on a number of things, I don't entirely disagree with his notion that finishing school is important for most people, in most situations. But I think you have to be willing to accept that it's not the right path for everybody, in every situation.

I dropped out while still a junior, and my career has worked out pretty well. But I also somehow collected 3 Associate degrees over the years as well, and I went into a field (software development) that is known for being less focused on "paper credentials". So my point certainly isn't that everybody should do what I did, but just to say that these things are always judgment calls and that some people are well served by dropping out.

As for the entrepreneurship part... I've founded a startup, but it's undetermined as of yet if we'll be one of the successes or not. But I think it's interesting that some people[1] are mentioning us in the same breath as companies like Asana now, even though they were started by Facebook alums and people from Google and Microsoft, while we were founded by a college dropout with no connections or money to speak of. We may not succeed, but we've at least managed to fight out way into the game to some extent.

[1]: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/09/04/companies...
HN has had a long-thread penalty (since well before the NSA scandal) to prevent flamewars from taking over. That's probably what's happening here.
> BTW, if people haven't tried PXE booting before, it's pretty easy with dnsmasq. You can basically read the sample config file and uncomment a few lines.

You don't even need a config file. Here's a command line snippet I have saved for testing PXE installs:

$ sudo dnsmasq -hdq -i en0 -p0 --enable-tftp --tftp-root=`pwd` -Mpxelinux.0 -F10.10.10.100,10.10.10.199
So a VC presenting at a startup media event says that the vast majority of other VCs don't add value, but his does.

In other news...
The real reasons Apple's 64-bit A7 chip makes sense
I've been working on something like this for creating HTML/CSS/JS GUIs for Python applications using QT's web browser.
IPhone 5c uses unique design, precision manufacturing to avoid 'plastic' stigma
And even if there are safeguards in place to prevent this from happening (and I'm sure there are) with 99.99999repeating% accuracy, you still want something in place to mitigate or control risk if the safeguards fail. Which is no doubt what this clause is supposed to do.
"Just right"?
> show what processes caused the io

pidstat (part of Sysstat, "apt-get install sysstat" on Debian/Ubuntu) does this pretty well.

# sudo pidstat -d 1

11:21:54 PM PID kB_rd/s kB_wr/s kB_ccwr/s Command
11:21:55 PM 855 0.00 7.92 0.00 kjournald
11:21:55 PM 8134 0.00 79.21 0.00 rsyslogd

11:21:55 PM PID kB_rd/s kB_wr/s kB_ccwr/s Command
11:21:56 PM 829 0.00 28.00 0.00 kjournald
11:21:56 PM 8134 0.00 60.00 0.00 rsyslogd

11:21:56 PM PID kB_rd/s kB_wr/s kB_ccwr/s Command
11:21:57 PM 8134 0.00 104.00 0.00 rsyslogd

11:21:57 PM PID kB_rd/s kB_wr/s kB_ccwr/s Command
11:21:58 PM 8134 0.00 56.00 0.00 rsyslogd

Since 2.6.something, the kernel has had per-process I/O counters.

Still, it's pretty far from DTrace's iosnoop script (on OS X, do "sudo iosnoop" to see it). Something I dearly miss on Linux, but I don't know what the situation is with SystemTap or DTrace these days.
Ah! But then I'd have another Apple specific gizmo in my life :-). But it looks interesting nevertheless. Thanks.
Could it be that "creationist crackpots" is what triggered the downvotes above?

If not, feedback about I did wrong would be most welcome.
Feminism liberated women to become wage-slaves[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do5zrdTb-yI&feature=youtube_...