skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes the B-1 would be sufficient for a director, board member, significant stockholder, etc to do such work legally. The thing is, B-1 visas expire, you can only be in the country for 3 months at a time, maximum 6 months a year.

The lady in the article is not covered by the B-1 immigration status since whatever visa or authorization (if any) she had has long since expired. By law she supposed to remove herself immediately from the country, get deported, etc.
The CPU from US companies could be hosting a backdoor itself.
This bit makes me wonder about the entropy of the nanosecond clock, for adding entropy to an PRNG:

> Given scheduling jitter and so forth, it's not clear what it means to get a timestamp with nanosecond resolution from the operating system. It probably takes thousands, if not millions, of instructions between the time the timestamp is retrieved and the time your program looks at it
The difference here was, he didn't say "it was just a joke - you don't need to be offended" - which is a definite non-apology.

He's saying "it was intended as a joke", but then goes on to deliver a sincere apology, taking responsibility and saying that there's no excuse for his behavior.
ok somehow I can't comment on your second link but I am doing here. So university use case is good but thats more of a notification use case, what we are trying to do is to predict a good time and location when a bunch of people are involved. Sure this can be used to schedule a class but generally classes are schedule based on the professor timings and students align thier calendars to it.
In an emergency I would hope that FEMA would have some say (or at least coordination with the FAA) over what aircraft is in the sky over the affected area.
These kind of FizzBuzz stuff is not an issue I believe (although, "going blank" during the phone call or in similar situation is as well legitimate).

The main problem is that interviewers (BigCo's) ask questions that require inventing Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm or K-D trees on the spot, whereas researches spent months... Of course I assume that the interviewee is not aware of these a priori (or it's been a decade since he last heard about these).
Good luck to the Bump team at Google!
More likely - Why I wish I hadn't have gotten a PhD
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But is that really ignorance of the law? Wouldn't there be a difference between knowing the law and knowing whether the content is blocked under other "normal" conditions?
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The money is just not there my friend.
$ echo "scale=7; 80000000 / (24 * 60 * 60)" | bc

925.9259259
Good article - this covers the basic OO patterns in Go. I really like the simplicity of the design - objects are just structs and you can define a method for that object. Coming from C#, it's like every method is an extension method.

The only critique I have is that there's no way to verify that object X implements methods A, B, and C. When I'm using C# or Java, I often use an interface as a test to make sure I've done my work since the code won't compile if a class that extends an interface fails to implement all the methods.
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Yes people often feel this way in their first year.

Look, I'm not saying the author shouldn't do it, I'm in a grad program now.

But things usually change and feelings usually get a lot more complicated before they get clearer.
Or that your compiler produces code equivalent to the (proven) correct C.
Nope, its full as in 100% allocated. Go ahead, try and build a house in Yellowstone park, or take over a random spot on someone's ranch and see how well it turns out.

And if you kicked all the ranchers and parks away, you'd have to find space for them outside the state.

Its a close cousin of urban sprawl vs municipal zoning designed to prevent urban sprawl.
Is there a break down of what get's worked on by whom?
Would be interesting to see what the hardware manufacturers are doing other than their own drivers. Probably fairer to if we're counting LOC...
nope. there should be two variables. one is professor's calendar, that's fine but the second one is room availability... both should match... and study rooms are also problem... people can use to book a room and organize a study room for their studies. I'm just trying to ask away by hoping that could give you some clues or ideas =)
Which Jason? (We've funded 11.)
Someone mentioned a project like this on HN several weeks ago. Someone other than me will get good karma for linking to it. (:

More importantly, it seemed like something that the Github team is very interested in as well. In the past, such as when they introduced showing maps and other data on Github, they have expressed interest in making Github a more universally useful tool.
He's human. Customers are frustrating as all get-out; you want to do the very best by them; and your best is NEVER good enough. Chances of this happening anywhere is non-zero, and there is no indication this incident has a frequency, so you can't really reduce it. Not to mention, it's pretty probable that he has learned his lesson and thus decreased the frequency of such incidents, but we won't know until, at least, the third time.
The logo's a cute idea. Nice to see an acquisition statement with some heart instead of the boilerplate examples[1].

[1]: http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com
It's pretty crazy for a Samsung filesystem to be actually good, considering their history with RFS...
Additional, perhaps complimentary, analysis:

The Real Story Behind the Decline of Detroit … And Yes, Great Things Are Happening There Too

http://www.alternet.org/economy/real-story-detroits-economy-...

TL;DR: Detroit was set up to fail.

An example:

"One dramatic example of the cost of racism born by Detroit is this: Detroit has an income tax on those who work within the city limits. The two-tier tax is lower for those who work in the city but live in the suburbs. In enacting the tax, the state legislature required employers based in the city to collect the tax via payroll deduction as they do with federal and other taxes. Suburban based employers are not required by the law to collect the tax. Most of them don’t. The revenue lost to Detroit per year is estimated to be as much as $142 million."
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One thing that bothers me about this is that they have the concept of "retiree costs" but track those at the time they became due, when instead they should be blaming earlier administrations who promised higher benefits at the time but didn't put money aside to cover these future costs.

Retiree benefits are essentially "loans" and should be (but aren't) included in all the debt graphs.
If you were doing that, you'd likely either be a professor (of some kind), or on that track post-doc, etc... or the national laboratory equivalent. I don't know how many PhD-level "staff" positions there are on the big physics experiments.

It's probably more accurate to say "unless you want to be an academic" as opposed to "unless you want to be a professor", but since becoming a professor is usually the goal of an academic career, it's a fair statement to make.
I wish you the best of luck.

I went into my PhD with totally the wrong reasoning and eventually left after 3 years. All I can say is: the PhD is about the process not the end results; and it's a qualification to conduct research and nothing more

This was my collected rant: http://jamie.ideasasylum.com/2008/07/things-i-learnt-during-...
It's not for everyone, and maybe it's not for you, but my PhD was definitely worth it, and I was never going to be a professor.

I'm sorry that it didn't work out for you, and that you feel you wasted your time, but don't presume to speak for everyone.

You don't speak for me.
For something like an opposite perspective, there's "Why I'm leaving [my job as a CS professor at] Harvard [to join Google]":

http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2010/11/why-im-leaving-harvar...

Shorter version of both posts: "Working at (university/big tech co.) frees me from all the distractions of working at (big tech co./university) so I can spend all my time hacking on the problems I find most interesting."
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You've seen the National Guard around right? They run ~$1 million a day to operate. Not really something the local government or even the state can afford to utilize for the time needed to help with evacuation and cleanup efforts.

I'm glad to see FEMA step in, if only for the funding.
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I know many people have conflicting opinions about PhDs, but I think this is a pretty good explanation of what a PhD is: http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

Disclaimer: I don't have a PhD :)
I'm pretty sure the commuter trains are a completely separate system from the subway and have quite different control systems since they operate over longer distances.
My company uses the French version of MS Office and after upgrading, I can't quite get it to generate CSV files in the right encoding needed to work with the company's proprietary software. So I need to go through the hassle of manually generating the CSV files in the correct format. An easy way to work with different encodings and formats will be especially useful for collaboration.

One thing that would be simple and useful is the ability to generate or convert between different CSV file formats. For example, French CSV files use semicolons instead of commas to separate values, and use commas as decimal points.
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Why would it only work half the time?
> and now I know not to trust you.

Was that part really necessary?
1. There are other exchanges that don't have this restriction.

2. Exchanges should only be used to buy and sell so if you deposit money, buy your coins quickly and get them to a safe place and you don't to worry.

3. By the time further regulation exists and bitcoin infrastructure is fully developed (these are certainties) you will have missed the differential in profits.
Why is it UAV when it is politically palatable, and drone when it isn't?

In the wake of Glenn Beck, can you imagine the furor over "FEMA drones"?
"FEMA surveillance drones"?
"FEMA domestic surveillance drones"?
"Obama's FEMA domestic surveillance drones"?
At this point, it's clear that Apple won't include NFC after declaring it dead at their iPhone keynote: http://gigaom.com/2013/09/10/with-ibeacon-apple-is-going-to-....
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> For that matter, if I travel, and happen to do work while in another country that would also be in violation of immigration laws?

Usually yes. The clincher that it's basically unenforceable and undetectable is why it practically possible in the first place. I'm pretty sure enforcement starts happening when: you stay there longer than a typical tourist visa, money starts landing in their countries bank accounts. You'll still have to file income tax returns somewhere too.

>By that argument, everyone visiting open source conference "sprints" should be deported?

Usually that is covered by the B-1 visa they are entering. The B-1 visa is very expansive. The concept behind many US immigration laws is basically "Are you doing work a US person could do and getting money from a US source, be it corporation, person, etc? If your not, then we are far more OK with that than the opposite." If it's a conference hackathon where nobody usually gets paid anyway, then it should be ok.
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I agree, that is a killer feature. Except the additional charge on top of it. :(
>TL;DR: Detroit was set up to fail.

... The nation's 10th largest city was set up to fail? Did the Illuminati do this, or was it an inside job?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit
I don't agree with all of what they espouse, but at least they make me laugh until it hurts. If we're all going to hell in a handbasket anyway, I'd rather have a ringleader who's at least damn funny (IMHO) on the bus-ride down.
Yes, but. The Federal government has many monetary tools available to it that Detroit doesn't. It's not clear to me that making the analogy between the way the Federal government and a non-soverign entity like Detroit work does anything but confuse the issues.
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I made an Android library project equivalent to Stripe's PaymentKit for iOS. Try it out. Would be stoked if other devs found it helpful and used in their projects :p
I won't say we can't use the money but along with that money comes the requirement to do things the Feds' way which as this case points out isn't really ideal.
It's a von neumann cache. The code is data. These people aren't idiots.
Is anyone else doing their PhD (or did their PhD) just because they thought it was a lot of fun and a great way to learn a lot in a short time period? Not that it's the only way to do any of those things, but I've found the lifestyle of a graduate student in CS to be extremely appealing.

My mentor once suggested that a PhD is only worthwhile if you plan on doing research after you graduate. But as he got to know me better, he noticed that I was actually enjoying the act of obtaining a PhD. Isn't that enough?
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Career Path

...

Unfortunately, the problems I gravitate towards are not normally assigned to engineers and attempts to marry my interests with my domain of expertise [1,2] have met with understandably tepid responses. ,,, All of that makes perfect sense but it means I can't focus on the problems that I'm interested in.

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What Interests Me

The things that keep me up past midnight working and learning are technical. Problems both large and small that remain unsolved or problems where the solution seems unsatisfactory to me. A short and incomplete list in no particular order:

...

A few of these might align with a job posting somewhere but most don't. More importantly, I'm not as interested in the implementation as I am in conceiving a solution and understanding its value.
...

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I guess you could say I'm taking The Fourth Path™.

While I may be new to the academic environment, I have taken efforts to ensure that my impressions are not naive.

===

I think what is Naive here is that even with a phd you will be working for someone. to do something. So, not having a functional goal for your work is Naive. Even if its research it has a "market". There are people who value it or they don't. The trade may be "in kind", be it social favours or prestige/ego polishing, if not in discrete financial incentives (grants, etc).

Its illusory to think your "career" is independent. At best, you are captive to customer if nor directly to your employer.

This all might be formalistic oversights for a blog post, but still...your a mid-career executive...this stuff shouldn't be off the radar entirely.

Good luck.
Reading this comment made me feel uneasy, and I couldn't tell why. After giving it some thought, I found the reason.

There is nothing wrong with the argument, it is sound logic, and reasonable. In fact, I agree with it.
No, this comment made me recoil because for a second, it made me envision a reality where our political influence, as people, can only be exercised through corporations.

And, (maybe, I confess, because I am so deep into the lecture of cloud atlas) I can't help but sense that it is a dangerous road to be embarked on. But these are just my two cents...
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> A modern Python/Ruby replacement, built for speed and with a large-ish community would be nice to see.

Both Python and Ruby have performance as main areas of focus for improvement, having largely met their goals in terms of expressiveness. So, to a large extent, that's what each new version of Python and Ruby already is.

If you mean "built for speed first", then there are plenty of those (though they aren't really expressly aimed as Python/Ruby replacements, because "built for speed first" isn't Python or Ruby's focus, so something built that way isn't really targetting Python or Ruby, even though it may be targeting some subset of the places where Python and Ruby are currently applied.)

Many new languages fit this niche (langauges designed with performance as a key focus that target some subset of the use cases of Python/Ruby.) But for the most part, they aren't very Python/Ruby-like, because the difference in goals leads to much bigger changes than slicing off features of Python/Ruby.

> It's not like we can't have new languages anymore.

No, its like we have lots of new languages, as well as lots of existing languages, and lots of use for improved versions of existing languages, so it doesn't make a lot of sense for people who aren't the people involved to say that people currently working on new Ruby implementations should stop working on them and instead work on new "Ruby-like" languages with reduced features that fit niches that aren't what Ruby is targetted at, but are what other existing and new languages are already targetted at.

Both because there are plenty of people already working on what you want, and because "people should stop working on what is important to them on spend their time working on what is important to me" is a generally silly when you aren't paying the people in question for their time/effort.

> After all both Ruby/Python came out of nowhere around 1992-4

If you are talking first public release, that's "1991-1995", if you are talking 1.0 release that's "1994-1996" (in both cases, Python and then Ruby.)
This article is:
1. Useful
2. Interesting
3. Actually has comments from people on the internet trying to get information in a polite and well explained manner. (WHAT?!)
Interestingly when Johny Ive was saying "It's not just rampant technology for technology's sake. Every single component, every process has been considered and measured to make sure that its truly useful and it actually enhances the user experience" in the new 5s introduction videos, it reminded me of NFC specifically. For many reasons that you listed this otherwise cool technology is not yet ready.

Source: http://www.apple.com/iphone-5s/videos/#video-touch
|if MtGox wanted to underwrite a bitcoin community and then reap the future benefits as a major exchange, this is an efficient way to do it.

wrong, the most efficient way would have been to offer discounts on their rates. That's the main clue that MtGox are not partaking in price manipulation.
Ok now I got it. This was actually a problem when I was in ASU that has a huge issue with scheduling. I wonder if the schools have an automated process to do this or they do it manually. I am tilting towards it being manual. But you are right, I think schools can be a good market for this :)
"it's completely, insanely over-the-top retaliation."

I fail to see that as a problem. Lets say you're an Iraqi and you don't much like the Iranians. So you load up a truck with a special package, drive across the border to a local Iranian post office, and then wait for the insanely over the top retaliation directed at your enemy.

Note that we never fight back against the people who attack us, at least not since Pearl Harbor or so. Bunch of Saudis knock down some skyscrapers, well, lets hit Afghanistan, after all the Soviets were so successful there I'm sure we'll do better. So if some Iraqis used the Iranian postal service to mail a care package to the US, we'd probably respond by invading Syria, or Venezuela. I'm not sure thats entirely a bad idea as a policy... being unpredictable means you're hard to manipulate.
I'd love to be proved wrong, but I don't think there are any (at least that aren't just research prototypes)
How basic, and what qualifies as research?

http://thinkinghard.com/blog/AmateurTheoreticalScience.html

>In recent times, science has become very professionalised. Many of the steps in the list above serve specifically to maintain high professional standards. For example, step 5 – complete a Ph.D. – is a way of measuring an individual's likelihood of making significant contributions to scientific knowledge.
Sure. But instead of estimation, one can take a risk-management approach to that.

For example, I'll get people to talk about everything they want. I'll put each thing on an index card. I'll have them lay the index cards out in order of importance (or ROI) on a big table. Then I'll ask: "Draw a line where, if you didn't get that far, you'd just bow out of the conference."

Typically, that line is pretty early, 10-30% of what people would really like to have by the date. So then you take the backlog, make sure it isn't too lumpy, and start working. Just by measuring cards/week, you can pretty quickly know whether you'll hit the date. And typically, the team will have something shippable well before the date.

The question then becomes: when is the ROI for the next week's work going to be lower than the ROI for something else we might do? And that question ends up being pretty easy, because you've pushed the decision off until you have a lot more data.
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That could have been said for Dropbox too. There's pros and cons to each approach. If Bump was built into a single OS, it'd limit its interoperability.
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Ever seen a web developer rant about how his client insists on a project's price, because his third-removed nephew could implement it in a weekend? Or a web designer having to use some gaudy color-palette, comic sans, animated gif, or feature like an on-page pageview-counter or marquee? I see it every day, and there is never some voice of opinion telling them to not vent.

The developer, designer, and this CEO can very well want the job or position. They want to make the client happy, but they are going to have to vent, at some point. Perhaps there are better ways of doing it, but in a sense, the vents are "a joke" and don't negate the fact the customer is still in good hands.
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This disaster is well beyond the planning and action efforts of the state government, let alone local. Federal assistance in the form of FEMA ect was really the only way to keep things rolling.
I would just like to point out that NFC is doing well in China, and in Hong Kong it's used brilliantly (public transportation, payments).

I think the reason it hasn't caught on here is because municipalities, malls, theme parks, etc., haven't embraced the technology, so there's no need for it to be in our phones.
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Did you employ any other practical/teachable techniques to "manage your state of mind"?
So, how does this square with the "fire your customers" dictum that seems to be pretty common in SV?
It reminds me a lot of learning why it's a good idea to not use profanity in code comments, even if you're pretty sure it'll never end up in production code.

The basic idea is, even if it'll never end up in production code, if you're in the habit of writing profanity in comments, odds are, over enough time, at some point that code will be seen by someone you'd rather not have to see it.
i know this doesnt help everyone out. but if you have verizon, you can pay $5 a month for mobile streaming most of (if not all) the games. plus if you have an appleTV you can airplay them over to your actual TV. this works well enough for me.