skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should probably talk to an immigration attorney, it depends on a loooot of factors. And let me tell you first that there is no easy road.

The "obvious" answer would be to file for a H1B in April 2014, in order to hope to be allowed to get that contract signed in October 2014... but I guess you won't take that for an answer! :)

You can base a more ambitious visa strategy on stuff like:
* the outstanding stability and growth of your business (E visas, I believe)
* the outstanding career and unique skills of your guy (O visas)
* the existence of a stable branch of your company in your guy's country, if there's one. (L visas, I believe)
* ...

Whatever the road you guys take, it will cost you a lot of money, will take a loooot of lawyer time to build a convincing case, and then quite some time to get it reviewed, with no guarantee about the outcome. Who said the US immigration system was broken?

Good luck!
I knew Amazon was serious about Cloud Computing, but I didn't realize they took it so literally...
the days when the comments added value to the topic are long gone...

* i know I'm being part of that but I usually never comment, I learn from you people! (or use to)
Possibly the lack of test and coverage features that might now bring him back to Go.
there are a million people just like you. some percent of them beat the market, and think they are geniuses. others think they were just unlucky, but had a great idea/strategy. all of them are missing the point.
I think it might be a case of JIRA is the worst, except for all the others (Ever used TFS2010?)
Mostly just that Disconnect is open-source, and isn't backed by a media & analytics company (Evidon Inc.).

Some find it to be more transparent, and in many ways it is, but really you won't see much of a difference between the function of the two. I personally use Disconnect, and have yet to find it break any sites. I find setting Flash to ask before being enabled on web pages tends to break more sites than anything else.
> That the author complains about having types rather than a simple map for keys shows a misunderstanding of what they are there for - the idea is to allow the compiler to prove at run-time what is valid code and what isn't.

There's some evidence from what the author wrote he's aware of the benefits of type systems. The question he raises is whether the developers who wrote Spray modeled the problem domain well by choosing this particular set of types (his opinion is clearly no).

> the author makes a strange comment that H-M 'enabled' Monads, and the comment is written in a way that implies that Scala does not have Monads.

Given that the author immediately follows his "enabled" statement with the idea that monads can be used in a type-free language, I think it's most likely he means that H-M has been the ground where the use of monads has been largely developed/defined, not that monads can't be used in either Scala or even something with a considerably less expressive type system.
http://tour.golang.org/ - as you already mentioned.

https://gobyexample.com/ - a nice resource for beginners.

http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/go/ - quite dense but a good overview.
Is it Illumos specific or would it work on Solaris 10 as well?
Yeah. Bang on. That is how it is. Climb the ladder and then throw it away so that others can't get to where you are.

That fact of the matter is that every economy goes through this cycle (of growing up). Child labor, poor health-care, now pollution and soon patents.

While not being pertinent to this discussion, the country with the greatest patent lobbying bodies is also the country that committed the greatest IPR violations. More here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQZJ5Jl41nk
and "amazon collects over half a gigabyte of data on it's customers every single day" they must handle that much information in milliseconds at this point.
There is more to consider than merely justice. We also have to protect society from her. How could she ever possibly be trusted again to anything? Hell, I wouldn't even trust her to bag my groceries. She lied about her background once, and harmed thousands of people. Who is to say that in 20 years she won't be found under another name, in another state, running this or another scam again?

If our system was set up to rehabilitate, that would be great, but it isn't. As long as she remains un-rehabilitated, she should be kept locked up. Not out of some sense of justice or for retribution, but simply to keep her from harming others again.
"Invented" is a bit of a strong word.
From what i understand, he's not saying that it's a zero sum game. (atleast i didnt get that impression). His major point is very elegantly summarized in the Cecil and Yves story. If you're one of the early few who recognized the opportunity, then yes, you may benefit from it. Because THAT is when the price of the stock is comparatively more accurate. But if you're late (which means you're the avg case), then by the time you buy the stock, the price has already gone "up" due to people buying a lot of it. Sure, it may still go even further up, (case in point: bitcoins), but you can never be sure of that. So he just means you need to be better than the avg at predicting stuff to make some serious profit (and also to make up for your opportunity cost)
What's wrong with Britain's computer scientists?
NASA to Grow Marijuana on the Moon
It does, at least, have Stone Soup:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_soup
I think there's a significant long tail for products that may be eligible for 30-minute delivery. Pretty much the only time I go to a real store to buy something non-perishable is if I'm on a time constraint and can't wait for Amazon to ship the product.

If I need a cable or other electronic peripheral that isn't carried by big box stores, there's exactly one vendor in my metropolitan area that is likely to have it in stock, and they'll unabashedly charge 5x-10x what you'd pay to buy it on Amazon if you had 2-5 days to wait for the package's arrival. I'm sure there are many markets like that right now.

The potential this has to decimate many traditional retailers is super intriguing. What are we going to do with all of that extra space?
Another interesting read in this vein is "Luck Versus Skill in Mutual Fund Performance" by Eugene Fama (who won the Nobel prize in economics this year).[1] He shows that even the most well-informed and intelligent investors cannot predictably outperform the market; some do very well and some do very badly, but this is exactly what you would expect from a large number of market participants pursuing different rational strategies.

[1] http://www.dimensional.com/famafrench/2009/11/luck-versus-sk...
Exactly. Computational power of a few dominates the rest.
that's awesome. I am looking for more of a brandable name however. so you think <$2k is reasonable? I'm just trying to establish a ballpark range.
Trying to Sell PVS-Studio to Google, or New Bugs in Chromium
The real line we need to explore here is why was the user banned, since it sorta hits on both points:

1) Banned for having multiple (presumably aws-free) accounts?

or

2) Running mining nodes which will definitely be 100% CPU usage

The former I can agree with completely but the latter, if that's the case, is really questionable territory for Amazon to try and manage. I have a feeling it's most likely #1 though.
Yeah I really miss the good old days when I could take some pictures and all I had to do to send them to my mom was provision a server with a static IP address I could send her along with some links to rsync tutorials. Can't believe Dropbox had to come around and make everything so much harder...
...by accepting the pull request within an hour?
Wow, people will try and draw parallels between even the most well-intentioned comment or sentence in something and link it to being gender inequality. This is what is wrong with the world, people feel as though they need to make big deals out of things like this. Seems like they accepted the pull request quite quickly.
Oh calm down, it's a Sunday night!
Speculation is a common strategy, you may win or lose, but believing that it is a 'sure thing' is a bet that markets are irrational, where risk/return models do not apply. You may be right, but this has never been proven, despite ample efforts.
You joke about toast and water but...

One of my favorite drinks, Korean in origin, is scorched rice water. When you cook rice in a stone pot (e.g. the same pot that is part of dolsot (inside stone) bibimbap), the bottom layer gets deliciously scorched and you get tasty water if you add boiling water, or you can cook it again to make a little porridge.

There's even little candies made out of that stuff, and I can only imagine toast and water is pretty much along the same lines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurungji
By and large, follow Postel’s law on this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle). As others have also said, though, make it not-too-hard to do things that your type system would otherwise restrict, because if I have to interact with a misbehaving server (including to the point where I have to send what would otherwise be invalid header data), then your strictness would make it too hard to do so.
There are two ways to present this type of criticism: lay it out and hypothesize how they are going to overcome these obstacles, or get up and say they will certainly fail because these obstacles are impossible to overcome. You can guess which one of these makes you look like a short-sighted un-imaginative cynic.
A counter argument -
http://swaminomics.org/a-climate-summit-that-matters-little/

From the perspective of India or for that matter any developing nation aspiring to free its people from the shackles of poverty the above argument is commonsensical (sic) while the Slate article is condescending and biased in favour of developed countries.

Excerpts from the above article -

Copenhagen hardly matters. If it doesn’t produce an agreement, it clearly won’t matter. But even if it yields an agreement, that will matter very little.

Why? Because reducing carbon emissions by 80% from the 1990 levels – the target for 2050 for rich countries – depends on technological breakthroughs, not political pledges at Copenhagen.

...

In the Kyoto treaty on climate change, 37 rich countries pledged to reduce their carbon emissions to 5% below their 1990 level. But most actually increased their emissions. These very treaty-breakers now propose another treaty!

...

Despite climate uncertainties, it makes sense to mitigate emissions as insurance against a disaster that may never happen. Treaties are often signed to provide mutual insurance against political and economic risks. But if the insurance premium becomes costly enough to threaten economic distress, governments will abandon the treaties (a la Maastricht). No government will create a recession today to avoid a future disaster that may not happen anyway.

The lesson for Indian strategy at Copenhagen is clear. India should talk tough and not worry about being called a deal-breaker. When a deal’s value is so uncertain, it matters little whether it’s broken or not. India should keep its commitments light, and be ready to jump ship if others do. Never assume that others will actually implement climate pledges.
That's not a very good joke.
I've been a web developer my entire professional career, and for some ungodly reason I have this need to go work in the embedded sector instead. Am I nuts? ;)
Dutch Scientists Find Way to Hack Porsches, Audis and Bentleys
yea this is why I'm not eager to get working on a different TLD. I don't want to inflate my own market. Apparently Dropbox trademarked their name and filed a complaint against the dropbox.com owner so I could conceivably pursue that route but it's somewhat shady.
I may be talking out of my ass here, but I was under the impression that for weighting, the transport or container will be considered. For things like LSD, this is really idiotic, as the transport (like paper) will weight many, many, times any prohibited substance.

If the same rules are used for all drugs, then adding weight might not require any prohibited substances. Also, a record of something going up in weight may be odd, but probably is less interesting than it going down in weight.

Not that it negates your point. She may have just written down false weights on the data they sent to court.
Would like to hear more detail about how it knows exactly where to drop the package. Best case I can think of would be using your phone to set a GPS location that you want it delivered to. The cool part about that is that I could have them drop off the package in my back yard where it would not be stolen as easily.
> Running mining nodes which will definitely be 100% CPU usage

They would be mining Litecoin, which is GPU and CPU based. You can't mine this in a free instance, which rules out them abusing the free tier. Likely a lot of heat and power for Amazon, but what else would they sell GPU instances for except for heavy computation?
Concerning .org tld, here's a relevant wiki paste: "It was one of the original domains established in 1985 and operated by the Public Interest Registry since 1988. The domain extension was originally created for non-profits, but this designation no longer exists and today it is commonly used by schools, open-source projects, and communities as well as by for-profit entities, some of which may use the suffix in an attempt to misleadingly suggest their non-profit status"

I bring this up because indeed .org tld is used generally for non-profits, or the non-profit/philanthropic arms of for-profit companies (google.org, etc.), so branding .org tld for your little startup would seem like a misguided decision, and may possibly impair the professional look one is going for. I know you've just said that this is an attractive option where brandability isn't important, but I'm hoping you can discuss this just a little bit more. Is using .org for one's startup a total no-no or is there some conceivable scenario in which it would actually work out?
I almost wish a smaller entity would have become the first major player in drone delivery. This is going to draw a lot of attention from regulators, and I can't help but think they will want nothing more than to stop or slow Amazon from further disruption in the retail space.
Let's take a strategic look at this.
Its a shot across the bow at Google Shopping Express, Ebay Now, InstaCart (to an extent), TaskRabbit (meh maybe), and all the others focusing on the same day delivery business.

Its also a direct shot at Walmart, whose customers in non-dense cities all have a store within 30 min drive of their location. Walmart isn't in the big cities (in their normal fashion), walmart is suburbs. Target is suburbs. Walgreens/CVS might worry about this too, as it could kill a bunch of impulse or time sensitive shopping if amazon ran this 24/7.

Things to consider:
- what is the cost per drone?
- what is the cost to operate? Fuel? are these fully autonomous?

This paired with self-driving cars is potentially shifting the dynamics of delivery companies (imagine if the ups driver was just a guy in the truck, not driving it). Or the truck had 2 delivery guys, neither one driving...

Anyway, I see this as a fascinating experiment.

Worth looking into as well: http://matternet.us/ this has been around a while. I heard of it through singularity university people.
I think the key here is that you are "buying" stocks rather than "trading" stocks. If you invest Warren Buffet style you make a significant investment in a company you think is a good value and you never sell. Thus, your transactions costs are exactly the same as someone buying a broad market ETF and you have more fun at the expense of a little diversification for a while. But once you get to 15 stocks you're basically diversified as long as you didn't industry clump.

So, the only reason not to trade is that you should expect to do exactly as well as the market and pay a bunch of transactions costs which makes you strictly worse off, but the Buffet approach doesn't pay more than you would have anyway.

A point not mentioned is that individual investors can have planning horizons 3 to 50 years long while a lot of Wall Street money is on a 3 month put up or shut up investment time frame. Strategies that take a long time to mature are tough to do when you can get performance-fired for not having your thesis pan out fast enough. You don't have that restriction with your own money.
If you haven't sold anything yet, $15. If you have and it looks like you're going to make money this year, $1000.
If you don't think decentralization is needed then Ripple is just as good as Bitcoin but it requires no mining. So the expense is the wordwide cost of all Bitcoin mining which is estimated at over $100M/year.
Why should prosecutors ever be in direct contact or even know the people running the actual tests? Except in cases where the lab must testify, in which case there should be separate controls (perhaps someone else runs the tests).

Allowing prosecutors to "do their job" and try to be polite or have any influence at all on what's supposed to be a purely factual system is completely and utterly wrong.
I think optimism is the most important requirement for adaptation to any major technological change. How long has big media been kicking against the pricks of online distribution for purely political reasons, and how far has it gotten them? What could have been today if the MPAA, RIAA, and affiliated groups accepted the technological change and thought about how to best leverage it instead of sitting around sulking and suing because new strategies were required to successfully collect royalties?

The problem you're describing is purely psychological. New technologies open up many new opportunities. There's no reason the employees of the delivery apparatus obsoleted by Prime Air can't learn something new and seize the opportunity.
Timed on the eve of Cyber Monday. Yathink?

Pretty damned obvious.
Some investors may outperform the market, but it has never been proven this is because of skill rather than simple luck.

This is similar to a situation where thousands of 'investors' bet on a pseudo-random outcome such as flips of the coin or rolls of dice; an observer would expect that some will win big, and some will lose their entire 'investment', but it is not due to ability or strategy.
The main difference is whether the database runs in memory (mysql and sql), or it's file based (nosql and sqlite).

Wham downvoted. Is this information incorrect?
You mean Cool wHip?
Patents are morally reprehensible in principle, the result in practice is therefore inevitable. There is no middle road or way around this: patents must be abolished.
It's always April 1 somewhere.

Though I can't help but think Cyber Monday eve has a lot more to do with it.
Designers aren't the only ones with work to do.

CDNs appear to be messing with performance in ways that aren't really transparent to users or content providers.[1]

We need better tools than speedtest sites. We need a way to see an ISP's provision of popular sites over time.[2]

Or just encrypt everything and bounce it through proxies or route anonymizers, make that standard. Either way.

[1] http://mitchribar.com/2013/02/how-to-stop-youtube-sucking-wi... ; http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/13kmvd/have_time...

[2] http://www.youtube.com/my_speed may be an example worth following for Netflix, Vimeo.
the way I see it, my side projects are my career. My paid work is just what I do to keep the lights on.
Without full details, we can only speculate which ends up with drama here on HN.
And what is the intent of sharing this to the Internet community?
I was looking at an analysis of id Tech's Doom3:BFG engine yesterday, and it's best described as this. The author described it as "C, with classes". Quite interesting, so I went and asked some game devs I know, apparently this is pretty standard!
‘Record IQ is just another talent’ (2010)
Sell the shovels to the gold-diggers.
Well, I did say index fund, not ETF. I assume the article was talking about stock index funds.

I'd add that if you're not smart enough to pick a stock, you're maybe not smart enough to pick a different asset class.
There is no content on URL.
So, I attach web archive link
http://web.archive.org/web/20131127041019/http://juanluisgar...
Entirely anecdotal, but I once had a professor invite a person from our University's patent office to come and explain some things about intellectual property to us. I was disgusted by how he bragged about the number of law suits the university had prosecuted, rather than the number of successful innovations that had been brought to the industry. I think it's great for university's to drive innovation and adoption, but I must question the motives of some of the individuals.
Yes I thought it was obvious from the last sentence (i.e. selling on to the greater fool).
I live in a high rise with a balcony can I just leave the door open and have it come inside.
If rail was great at moving people cheaply farebox recovery ratios would be > 1 in most places.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio
I would compare the stock market to a race track; not every betting man (or woman) is familiar with the horses and track, but if there are a few gamblers who have a reasonably good idea of the odds, they can 'correct' the odds by strategically betting for horses that are under-valued. This works for race tracks, and has never been disproved (or proved) in the stock market.
I'd take it a step further and say the advice in the first paragraph to put most of your money into equity index funds is also a bad idea. Going over a third in equities is questionable from a risk perspective.
Rich type system? Can Scala express {x|x is integer, x >= 3} as a type? ATS can. We can even transform this set into unsigned types in C/C++, but in JVM there's no primitive simple way.
Good article, only issue I have with it is Downtown Los Angeles is definitely not a success story. From dusk to dawn skid row is a total tent city. Thats not an exaggeration, people set up tents up and down the sidewalk. I was seriously shocked when I first saw it.
My research about 12months ago didn't give much, sadly.
Real life performance generally favors Scala over Clojure, but by a relatively small factor (2x). This is mostly due to the clojure implementation's use of reflection to achieve dynamism. Dynamism? You know what I mean. You can make this up with some really clever tools for parallelism though, if your problem fits.
In Haskell, and I assume Scala, you can name types of the same form, so I might say a TimeSeries is a list of floating point values. If I use that data type, you can't accidentally pass a different kind of list of floating points even though they're the same type.
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