skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
E3s are temporary and must be renewed every 2 years. Can't be transferred to another employer. Can't be used to qualify for permanent residency. They are quite useful if your married (straight) partner wants to join you (and somewhat useful if you have a defacto non-US citizen gay partner due to a bizarre quirk in the law. Tough luck if you have a defacto straight partner though.)

Lots of Australians would qualify for permanent residency in the UK under an Ancestory Visa, or an equivalent in another EU country. Emigrating AU<->UK is a very well worn path that's easy to naviagte. The US isn't quite so welcoming.

(Source: i'm an Australian who live in the UK for 10 years, the US for 2 and now Canada for 5.)
Good businesses don't care about the content the same way that Michaelangelo didn't care about content: he would paint, or sculpt, or whatever. Whatever the patron would pay for.

Naively, you could say he just didn't care that much about either (painting or sculpture). If he really cared, he would have commmitted to it and not just done it because that's where the money was.

That's obviously dumb though. Business owners aren't forced to be in the business of attracting intelligent, engaged readers to great, engrossing content. They could be operating a porn video feed.

The truth is this: great content doesn't write itself, and web contents are perfectly within their bounds to try to monetize the experience or convert their visitors to a bit more.

Is there a way to do it in a more subtle, less distracting fashion? There might be.

Let's work on it. I don't mind the overlay on the economist web site's articles, at the moment, for example - do you? Is it still too much?

How do we allow customers to know that the content they are engaging wtih for minutes at a time is worth something to write, and requires a level of relationship, while still letting them read them quickly and effortlessly?

A subtle hint about this that would let people realize what is going on, while allowing them to engage without distraction, would be good for everyone.
Yes. I think the Steubenville football players should have been tried as adults, but they weren't, and were given the minimum allowable sentences in juvenile detention.

That said, there's a lot of things wrong with this story. The FBI shouldn't have sent a 12-man SWAT team to execute a search warrant on a hacking charge. The CFAA's "felony escalation" provision again proves itself to be at best unnecessary (since in this case you could get him for the attempted extortion). Finally, the existence of the sentencing guidelines undermines the application of judicial sentencing discretion to the special circumstances of the case. Unfortunately, the submitted article doesn't touch on any of these real issues.
I'm not sure I agree. If the course is interesting, I will sign up anyway, while still not completing it. That is, unless I can access the content without signing up, but that does not seem to be common.

I think the real problem is that MOOCs are not brick and mortar schools, and any attempts to mirror a brick and mortar school will only detract value from the offerings. I don't sign up to do homework or take tests, I sign up to learn something. I will then take what I learned and apply it to something practical in my own life. If successful, it proves to me that I understand the content well enough to accomplish what I set out to achieve. I don't feel the need to prove that to anyone else. A certificate of achievement hanging on my wall means nothing.

Of course, the real issue here is that the business model was based on the idea of selling graduates to interested industry partners. If I don't successfully complete the tests, I'm not valuable to them.
The old model of education is a cathedral, and DIY is the bazaar, and each approach has its weaknesses.

MOOC is about as silly as "horseless carriage". The old model of education similar to a mathematical proof, with technical lemmas built up progressively until there is a macroscopically interesting result. That has a lot of value. Linear algebra is useful in so many fields, and learning it when you have the time, because you have to, gets it out of the way so you can progress to the fields you actually care about (machine learning, signal processing, physical sciences).

I think the new model will be graph-based and open like Wikipedia, but it will have to be aggressively curated for correctness, quality, and coherence. In 10 years, one should be able to take a query like "I want to be employable as a data scientist in 3 years" and turn that into a spanning tree of the relevant subgraph.

There'll also be a need for an offline/online hybrid approach like Meetup.com and dating sites-- some interaction offline, some in person-- and that part of it won't fulfill the dream of squashing geographic inequality. Perhaps education will be the first killer app for true "Metaverse" technology (but it won't be the last or biggest).
Ask HN: Who is using Play Framework in production?
What are the reasons your team went with Play? How do you like it compared to other web frameworks? What don't you like about it?
The name of that idea was "python 2.7". Why not 2.9, 2.9.1 and so on forever until someone decides to kill python 3 outright?
> Apparently if I had denied it they would've got the police involved, but I was honest and upfront when they asked me.

The problem is that this is usually a terrible gamble to make. I'm glad it worked out for you, but my general advice for anybody else would be not to talk to the administrators, the same way you should never talk to the police.

You never know if they're going to involve the police anyway after you spill the beans, and if they do, you'd rather they do it without already having a confession from you.
Rodman molested by a raccoon, as seen on CNN
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Calling out this comment. This is true.

Inertia is a total killer. Your extant codebase is both leverage and inertia. If The New Thing requires changing course and isn't amenable to your extant leverage, most (all?) companies can not maneuver to deal with The New Thing. It simply costs a great deal for very small benefit.
> That said, being arrested for a friend-request is silly. She could just block/ban/reject the request and no harm done.

There's no such thing as a "friend request" in G+. You can follow someone, which means you get to see their public posts. The other person will get a notification of that, but won't see anything you post.

Of course the other person can decide to follow you, and then you get to also see their non-public posts that they share with a circle you're in. And of course they get to see your posts (public and appropriate circles).

But even if people don't follow you, G+ can still suggest that you might want to follow them. And this being Google, that could probably be based on the fact that you emailed each other a lot 2 years ago.

So the big question here is: was it a notification that the restrainee followed the restrainer? Or was it Google inadvertently suggesting that the restrainer might want to follow the restrainee?
> You never know if they're going to involve the police anyway after you spill the beans, and if they do, you'd rather they do it without already having a confession from you.

I was definitely worried about this, but I figured that if anything, I've not lied to anybody, so I'd be happy with myself.
Uncovering Cicada Wiki
Betabrand's attempt at hiring a UX Designer
I think they've all but admitted that they were behind the double spending actually, they just blamed it on a rogue insider: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=318010.msg3590355#ms...
His issue here is he clearly does not have big [enough] money lawyers representing him - it's not like he is on the college hacker team receiving a helping hand for his legal troubles from his alma mater.

The US seems to have some of the craziest over-reaction sentences and has been happily exporting the insanity to legal systems around the world for quite a while. They put the gas pedal to the floor both domestically and internationally post 9/11 as, you know, some of these people are helping terrorists and stuff. Why else would a SWAT team need to go so heavy-handed on a trivial arrest like this.

As an aside, I now know more of the background from the Good Wife episode; I've been suprised how often tech stories are woven in and in surprisingly balanced detail.
Facial recognition in marketing, another privacy issue?
You touch on the one things that frameworks are actually good for: prototyping. Unfortunately they're never just used for that purpose. The prototype and all the framework cruft is then called "the product" and used as such.

And sure, then you have people who can come in and "hit the ground running" but they're little more than overpaid glue sticks. They don't understand true software engineering. They just know how to glue framework code together.
Examples:

I started reading reddit the first day it showed up on paulgraham.com. I never made an account. (I stopped visiting reddit years ago. not worth using brain cells on that stuff anymore.)

I started reading HN the first day it showed up on reddit. I made an account as fast as my fingers could type out credentials.

People will do what they want. Twitter went from 100% open to hiding everything except timelines behind login blocks (you can't view followers/following without logging in). Facebook went from 80% open to 99% blocked. expert sexchange went from 90% closed to 100% irrelevant.

why not make your product better by talking to customers if you can.

Because the CEOs view website visitors as cattle who must be pounded into shape. Haven't there been some studies showing most people, when presented with a "Enter your email address to continue" modal, just fill out the form and click okay?

It's all about propping up your asshole vanity metrics. You aren't going to get any actual permission marketing cohesion out of blanket view-and-bounce visitors whose email you "stole."
My problem is that it grows really patchy. I've got parts that is as smooth as a baby's bum, but others which is as rough as badgers arse - so I shave to hide my inability to grow a proper beard haha.
As someone who wholeheartedly disagrees with libertarian economic policies, I still find your facetious comment worthless.

Hell, even Paul Krugman doesn't label the issue as black and white. I want to remove sweat shop conditions as much as anyone, but keeping people alive through poverty takes priority.

Also, you don't fix sweat shop conditions by closing sweat shops. You just move them into the underground, where instead of shady business owners as bosses, they have shady crime bosses as bosses. The real trick, is to better sweat shop conditions.

This can even be done at Samsung/Apple's level, where they can make part of the requirement set for a contract certain workplace conditions/pay.
I really don't know what to say to that.

Imagine if the java 9 runtime came out today and 2-4% of people were downloading and installing it compared to the java 8 runtime five years later.

That's a flop.

Python 3 has not been a success.

I fail to see why python is magically exempt from the common 'no one uses it, product is DOA' wisdom.
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from the article, the image used has more than 15 seats. I counted around 25. Their website has more images: http://london.ziferblat.net/
I purchased a kinesis freestyle 2. Besides the lack of a numeric keypad(you can buy an accessory easily) it is the best keyboard I have had. Very functional with the adjustable split down the middle.
I'd love to finish that math course if I could log back in.
It's not working yet, sorry.
> Collecting data is their business model

It's right there in their mission statement "Organize the world's information". Most people didn't realize that included their own private information.
BeerGraphs introduces new style comparison stat for beers: Style+
Mechanical keyboard. Black MX Switches. It's both for gaming and writing/coding. It's a SteelSeries 6Gv2. I dream with a Topre capacitative keyboard anytime soon.
"I would also note that valproic acid is a serious drug with serious side effect, including sedation, weight gain, and foggy mentation. As an anti-seizure drug it also carries the possibility of withdrawal seizures if stopped suddenly. I doubt it would have a net cognitive benefit if taken regularly, which is another reason why I am suspicious of the findings of this study."

Yes, this is what made me boggle when this was posted on LessWrong. l33t mindhacking with valproate without close medical supervision is a Darwinian move.
I think the real answer is "don't take advice from HN". I know someone who moved halfway across the country to avoid domestic violence. Sometimes it is an answer. It shouldn't ever need to be, but in reality, it's sometimes the only option a woman has available.
I'm struggling to see what extra this gives a user over Tor. It appears to be the Tor browser bundle, minus anonymously ty guarantees, but plus some links to filesharing sites.

I'm all for additional methods to circumvent censorship, but Tor appears to be a much better solution to this, and it doesn't carry with it the negative connotations of piracy.
Freedom As Identity
When should you strive for radical innovation?
I live quite close to Atlanta! Shoot me an email hi@josh.ml and let's chat.
How did you got pass the license warning?
I would recommend http://enyojs.com/
If you start a Coursera course and don't finish it, you usually have persistent access to the course videos.
Yep, ggplot is the one thing that I keep coming back to R for, plus the odd statistical model I can't find in statsmodels - which is rarer and rarer.

One of the many awesome features of IPython - the interactive python shell and notebook, is that you can call code blocks in R just by prefacing with %%R. So my plotting habits are usually first to try the python port of ggplot, and if that can't handle my situation I just jump into R without having to switch windows or do any complicated data transfer.

It's worth mentioning that matplotlib is designed to mimic Matlab's plotting API, so for people coming from Matlab there's very little change, plus there's all the benefits of the other plotting libraries others have mentioned.
Thanks. I had seen packer.io but then forgot about it.

I had another look at Docker in November and had issues installing what I needed via apt for some reason. It wasn't a drop-in replacement for VMs for several reasons (I wanted an alternative backend to provision with salt), but when it hits 1.0 I'll have a look again, if not before.
It doesn't seem like this was started by the school, but by the students.
Yeah, what is this § and ± key for anyway?
You sir/madam, are doing it right.
>Hell, even Paul Krugman doesn't label the issue as black and white.

As if Paul Krugman is the pinnacle of radical thought on the issue?

He is a Keynesian -- which I guess counts for something like "far left" in the US.
Yes, but it's really at the parties risk.
Ractive uses POJSOs. Each binding has a POJSO (ie, an Object, nothing magical, no new inheritance system or unrelated class-based OO system) and a template (in mustache format). That's all.

You can make the binding live specifying 'magic: true' which requires ES5 (a reasonable requirement for modern web apps).
Mascots in Product Design
The thing you're not taking into account is that, even if GHash.io are trustworthy, this still makes them a single point of failure - any attacker who compromises their systems can carry out double spends, or they can even do it themselves and then blame it on an outsider. What's more, this has already happened with GHash.io and it hasn't damaged their reputation in the slightest. (Back when they were a smaller portion of the network, someone spotted malicious double spends of coins obviously linked to GHash.io that were equally obviously done using the miners they controlled. They blamed it on rogue insiders and everyone carried on using them.)
How often do you purposefully buy a more expensive product solely because it's better for the people making it?
link to HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7030194
It's funny this comes up in an article about Samsung Electronics. They're not exactly in the business of selling essential goods. They basically try to convince you that each year you should get the N+1 TV or smartphone which has more or less the same capabilities as the one before. If you're buying the last Galaxy S4, paying a little more IS an option.
Men seek restraining orders, as well, women at a slightly higher rate...

http://www.sp2.upenn.edu/ortner/docs/sorenson_doc2.pdf

Each year, more than one million people in the United States
obtain restraining orders for intimate partner rape, physical
assault, or stalking (Tjaden & Thoennes, 2000). An estimated
18.9% of the more than 5 million U.S. women and 4.3% of the more
than 3 million U.S. men who are physically abused, raped, or
stalked by an intimate partner each year seek and are granted a
restraining order.
So you say that multinational corporations shouldn't compete on ethics? I thought you neoliberals didn't chastise anyone with respect to their choices in commerce.

Yes, this is systemic. Are you trying to convince me that the situation isn't fucked? For all the claptrap about how the economy isn't a zero-sum game and that the tide lifts all the boats and so many other platitudes, there's no denying that the quality of life of most people in the world is nothing but a point in a gradient of declining living conditions, everyone benefiting from the labor of people with fewer options who have to work and live worse than them.

Anyhow, how much do you think it would raise the cost of the things you use, just to ensure safe working conditions at factories? For jeans, it's a paltry 90 cents.

http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2013/07/10/bangladesh-factory-saf...

Yes, the poorest in my country would probably have to think twice before spending even 90 cents, hell tell that to the homeless. The vast majority of the poor here probably wouldn't mind, given that it's a mere drop in the sea of debt they are drowning in, and that's a problem with many facets, on its own.

But there's quite a lot of room for diminishing the unfairness of this scheme, even if the solution feels even cosmetic at times given the broader problem of exploitation and inequality.
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This:

set xrange [0:2*pi]
plot sin(x)

EDIT: Yes, this is gnuplot, not R.
Good programmers don't choose, but follow heart
Didn't read that part... they sent a 12-man SWAT team to arrest somebody who had never been accused or even suspected of any kind of violent crime? Groan.
REITs are different from normal stocks in that they get a tax break if they distribute at least 90% of their taxable income to shareholders each year, so their yields are much higher. REIT yeilds (and stock prices) should continue to rise now that housing prices are rising, and the overall improvement in the economy is creating growth in commercial real estate.
It looks like this is blogspam. Here is the original article: http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/09/hacker-faces-more-jail-time...
Nah, I'm sure ten square feet of delicate electronics crammed with millions of transistors costs pennies to manufacture....
That seems to be the case to me. Quoting Google: "Users complete survey questions in order to access high quality content around the web, and publishers get paid as their users answer." I never noticed that they were "powered by google". That is very disappointing and somewhat evil-like. A nice double standard at the very least.

https://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/home
Pakistani teenager killed when he stopped a suicide bomber
Because reinventing the wheel is the best way to learn about wheels
Benchmarking business buzzwords
I agree!

It is a shame that the law doesn't distinguish between people maliciously breaking the order and people who because of stress and distress forget to remove all old. Ontacts from all old lists and accidentally sends, via an automated service, a boiler plate message.
A Typographic Dating Game
In this scenario, B didn't get the papers to let them know about the restraining order until after the "clicky clicky".
Yes, but that's my point. Using only what's easy to include in calculations biases the outcome to what improves (easily measurable) conversion rate and not what improves the (difficult to measure) viral coefficient. This would be fine if the viral coefficient were independent of the variables they are adjusting to improve conversion, but I'm saying that they're not.
>JavaScript is horrible.
>> [5, 10, 1].sort();
>> [ 1, 10, 5 ]

Treat .sort() without a sorting function as undefined behavior. Voilà.
A slight simplification, but I think this question is like asking "What level of physics is playing basketball analagous to?"
>help the worst off in the economy

The problem with this is, the "factory owners" of the world run a political machine which they use to prevent that from happening, claiming it prevents them from building more factories. They use the same political machine to establish the moral goodness of continued factory building as axiomatic.

This makes everything rather complicated.
The Most In-Demand Tech Skills in 2013
As a JavaScript developer who spent much of his early career writing framework-less JavaScript (as many of us did in the not too distant past), the sentiment behind this post really rings true to the way I feel about programming for a client like the browser. Modern frameworks are all young and imperfect in their own ways, every byte counts and JavaScript is certainly powerful and expressive enough to get you by without a framework.

On the other hand, now that I have had the experience of leading teams of JavaScript developers, I know first hand the value of building a project on top of a common base that is readily familiar, well documented and easy to pick up by outsiders. The reality I have experienced is this: as your project and team grow, not everyone you work with will hit the ground with the architectural ambition to contribute to or absorb a new paradigm. Many developers will come to the table with useful domain experience related to a specific framework, or a desire to learn a tool that will be useful to them in a future job.

Asking developers to learn your company's proprietary paradigm is asking them to invest time and effort developing a skill that they often can't even use in a side project if they wanted to; putting aside questions of commoditization of the profession, I think that this can be a potential enthusiasm killer for your team mates.

The ability to think beyond the framework and self-solve problems with code is a great skill to engender in a team. That said, the pursuit of that skill often must be balanced with the business need of crafting a product.
Nope. In the scandinavian countries you get decent service even in remote areas. And remote in Finland or Sweden means about as remote as you can get .

I heared that in Sweden, if you drive far enough to the north, there will just be a network called "Sweden" and you can connect to that, no matter what your provider is.
"Haven't there been some studies showing most people, when presented with a "Enter your email address to continue" modal, just fill out the form and click okay?"

Perhaps. I do it too if I really want the content BUT like many of us, my email address is "wont@tellu.com". Heck, if they make me enter my first/last name (some even do that), then my first name = wont, last name = tellu. So the point is, most of those are garbage bogus data anyway. Why bother collecting ? Now if the study shows that the % of garbage data entered is much lower than correct, then we are on to something
Man they are a glutton for punishment.
It doesn't commoditize the entire profession, only the 50% of it that is common to every web site or app you ever build. The other 50% is where the artistic license, craftsmanship, business sense, empiricism, and other value-adds of your team comes in.