skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One issue I've run into (which may simply be ignorance) is the time consuming 'bundle install'. For example, I've updated some gems and run 'bundle update' on my development machine. I push that to the CI server, which must run 'bundle install' to install any new gems. But this seems to trigger the (NP-complete, last I checked [1]) dependency resolver yet again, even though I've already run it locally and my Gemfile.lock is newer than my Gemfile. Is there a way to skip it? Perhaps bundle just-blindly-install-the-gems-listed-in-Gemfile.lock?

Bundler in general is a nice tool, and Bundler + shared pile of gems is a nicer workflow than gemsets (though I am not a fan of "remembered options"; I'd rather make my own config file than forget that Bundler "remembered" my experimenting).

The more I think about Bundler, the more I wish that general purpose tools like Nix Package Manager [2] got more love. I've been playing around with using Bundler for the dependency resolution step, then Nix for the packaging and deployment steps (each app might have a separate Nix profile where it could install its particular set of gem versions), but there are missing pieces.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3soqhbnh0jY#t=35m22s
[2] http://nixos.org/nix/
Windows Phone might not be a winner, but a Microsoft .NET compatible runtime on other platforms, especially Tizen, Ubuntu, ChromeOS, and Sailfish/Mer would be a a Very Good Thing both for these new OSs and for Microsoft.

Consider, for example, a Jolla handset running Sailfish, which can run Android apps with the Myriad compatibility runtime. And add to that the ability to run Microsoft .NET apps.

Or, if Microsoft is getting serious about adopting the Android-Asha that Nokia cooked-up: Add a .NET runtime, and now you have either something very interesting, or maybe The Island of Dr. Moreau's OS mashups. But it will be interesting.
Tech ideas for startups and hackathons [humor]
After reading all this I guess for guys like me(Indian, staying in Bangalore) hopes of coming to US to do start up is impossible any way. The only real way is to build a start up(Which many of us already are working on) here, secure some millions of $'s in funding. But then if you have millions of $'s in a country like India, you are already a king. You can buy things and live a life no ordinary Indian can possibly imagine in their wildest dreams. 1 million dollars is 6,00,00,000 rupees- You can buy enough real estate to secure a rent income to never have you ever work again ever!

What pains me most is majority of the Indians getting Visa's are really the manager's pets kind of guys who find their way to US through sycophancy, then go and do the same there. There is tons of talent here which can generate all the jobs and taxes US needs who will never ever get a Visa. Unfortunately those guys will never touch US shores. At least not with Visa's to start companies there.

The Bangalore ecosystem is rich and overflowing with start up talent. A mixture of this and US start up ecosystem would just be unimaginable amazing.
Blockchain.info is down
BICEP2 finds first direct evidence of cosmic inflation
Programmers typically don't have very good intuitions regarding the pace of change in other industries.

Quoting myself (http://c1qfxugcgy0.tumblr.com/post/31187427192/the-enduring-...):

Not every technology follows the price curve of
computers— computing is the bizarre outlier. If you had
predicted in 1970 that computers would be tens of
millions of times cheaper per FLOP in the future, you
would be a visionary, but if you predicted that jet
airliners would cost $10, fit in your pocket, and fly at
Mach 100, then you would be an idiot.

Some things are just hard. Not everything gets 10X better per year for decades and decades. Most industries hit hard physical limitations long ago, and are improving either very slowly, or not at all.

3D printing is a particularly bad example of revolutionary change: it was invented by industry insiders, for decades was performed by exorbitantly expensive machines, and is mostly hyped based on the term "3D printing." Actual FDM machines are much less exciting, and aren't terribly useful, commercially.
Version pinning. I don't want a package manager, but I do want to be able to say

import (
"github.com/frio/mycoollibrary@1.2"
)

... or some such (where the tag above could be a plain old hash too).

Vendoring in every library I use is not a great solution.
1. No, IQ tests capture what a certain type of people mean by intelligence. This is especially true, given that I can consistently perform less well on, for example, the spatial portion of an IQ test than the logical portion. Unless you're willing to say that there is not any other important component (such as say, oratory intelligence) to someone's ability to perform, or be intelligent. My skepticism says it's likely that, in fact, there is a positive correlation between how good you are at manipulating objects and math and your IQ score, whereas there's little to no correlation between emotional acuity and IQ. But if, due to your social skills and emotional abilities, you're not able to cut it in the arts or humanities, you're more likely to become an engineer. Which tells you nothing of what types of majors "roundly" intelligent people (i.e. those with relatively equal IQ and non-IQ intelligence) choose.

2. Your source doesn't even support your assertion, at least if you're claiming non-engineers, in the same companies as engineers, are on average less intelligent. Mathematicians, Philosophers and Economists are overwhelmingly non-engineers. CIS gets the same IQ as "Other Humanities and Art".
WTH! I am addicted to every 2048, 1048 and now this!
Coderpad is amazing. Three thumbs up for it. Have had zero issues from either side of it, and it's been a great experience on both.
YouTube is reportedly building a version for kids under 10 years old
Yes, the intention is 1.0 this year.
Has worked out extraordinarily well for Samsung. They're making $30 billion a year in profit now, a drastic increase from five years ago. They have as much clout as Apple does these days, if not more given their position in manufacturing components.
Nice site. I agree, I'd love to be able to use some of your data points in my algorithm.
The Urban Dictionary entry was about bad kerning...
Re:2

The power balance between a startup and a VC is unequal compared to universities, big companies etc. The type of visa ascribed to each class is consequently different as well

For instance student visas under F-1 can have OPT extensions based on their course of study (i.e if you graduate with a CS degree, you don't need a visa to work in a CS field in USA) and this extension allows additional 6-months providence if in STEM studies

Companies are allowed only H1-B visas, in which if terminated for whatsoever reason, are only allowed 3 months grace to get another visa (NOT find another job). That means that they have to re-do all the paperwork and find a second sponsor willing to pay upfront as well. (that's why it's a big company thing, the company has to show a need for this worker that a US citizen doesn't provide)

People who give out Oscars don't give visas, you're mistaken on that. The class of visas you're alluding to (O-1 visas) are for special achievement in a recognized field particularly in sports, entertainment or academia. The individual sponsors their own visa, and makes a case of it through letters of recommendation and appeal. It's not enough to be a "founder of X company", there's a minimum about of press, articles published, conferences attended and awards/prizes INCLUDING awards from the applicant's home country (so they must have international level achievement)

What class of visas would investors be allowed to have sway over? The govt. could make a case that a startup visa is a loophole around HI-B1 because it doesn't nessescarily demonstrate a skillset not already owned by an American. In effect, for your case to work, YC would have to prove that entrepreneurship is not an American quality.

The other option is O-1 visas, but that assumes that your founders have existing press/awardship already given in their home country.
> Quite a few over-the-counter drugs can kill you, or at least severely cripple you, if used improperly. Do you think outlawing them is a good idea?

No, of course I don't: making something illegal because it is dangerous when misused or used contrary to its intended purpose is silly. I'm not arguing that.

What I am arguing is that a substance that is created to be used in a specific manner, and causes known substantial harm when used in that manner should not be tolerated by society.

That's what a cigarette is: it's this thing that is made to be used in a way that has been shown without a shadow of a doubt to contribute to many fatal ailments in a major way.

I put heroin and meth in that category: dangerously addictive substances that are known to cause substantial harm when used as intended.
As an O1 status holder, this does make sense, especially for PhD founders (PhDs are supposed to be the top of their own field). O1 approval is fast (premium processing is about two weeks). In my experience, document preparation is depending on two major factors:
1. applicant's records such as media coverage, publications/citations, reference letters, and awards. I fortunately accumulated some evidences for each of these when doing my PhD. I only have less than half of reference letters compared to my friends who got their EB1, so I think media and awards could be equally important.
2. experienced attorney who can put together a 2-inch-thick document in a short time (of course, it depends on the applicant to gather the materials).
I wrote a sheet-music rendering engine in JavaScript. It's all our own stuff.
Not exactly what you're asking for but Unity ( https://unity3d.com/ ) already allows you to write code in C# and publish to Windows/Mac/Linux but also iOS, Android and Windows Phone.

It uses Mono and is intended for making games however.
One-sided assaults included, yes. The "boys will be boys" mentality is not big on the details.
If it knows you are human why are you still forced to solve it?
The general public has short memory. The 'analysis industry' take advantage of that.
There's no 'beta testing' of laws. There's only lobbying to get laws enacted. Might wanna work on that ;)
Yep. My point is that criminal libel no longer exists in the United States, so you can't be "guilty of libel."

You can held liable for libel, but that's an awkward phrasing, so "liable for defamation" is broader and better.
The system is so screwy. We have 50,000 visas a year given out in a lottery system to any high school graduate without a criminal record from any country except the 19 that send the most immigrants annually. 65,000 visas for brothers and sisters of US Citizens. No limit at all on spouse, minor children, and parents of US citizens 21 or older.

But only 41,000 professionals holding advanced degrees with job offers and labor certifications, of which no more than 2900 can be from any one country.

I'm all for more total immigration, but if we are going to have the status quo totals I'd much rather more EB-2s and fewer FB-4s, DVs, or even FB-IRs.
If they announced this at the Microsoft Build conference in April, along with some sort of license giveaway for attendees, there would be an uproar of applause and cheering. Satya (if he was the one to announce it) would in one fell swoop be absolutely adored by the remaining faithful MS stack developers.
> the time consuming 'bundle install'.

Yup. This has gotten way faster, recent versions of Bundler include a -j. Also, the bundler-api project has been steadily working on making this faster. Without getting into the details, let's say the gems format and API does not make doing this efficiently easy.

> But this seems to trigger the (NP-complete, last I checked [1]) dependency resolver yet again,

It does not. It _does_ check to ensure that what's in the Gemfile matches what's in the Gemfile.lock, though.
I wonder how many of the negative commenters on this thread are either citizens or permanent residents. I don't see why a techie who is not yet a citizen or permanent resident of US, and wants to be one, would be so negative about this proposal.

At worst this can lead to a few lucky immigrant founders who get free visas, but at best, this can do a lot of good to the country in terms of creating new jobs, and to the startup ecosystem (and to YC -- so what!).
I'd like to see an open source node-webkit app, like Light Table or Popcorn Time take over this market. Time to move away from proprietary chat networks. It could hook into IRC and let people chat as God intended.
> #2 isn't viable because it breaks the primary design goal and the entire purpose of Keynote '13--that every presentation opens the same way across desktop, web, and mobile.

Except, right now, it doesn't. If that was their primary design goal, than it has not been achieved, because their web version still lacks features that are front and center on the desktop. So, you can't use that as an excuse.
True but I bet some people are better at predicting than others. Would be interesting to collect and analyze peoples predictions. Example stock market.
Things have changed quite a bit in the last two years. Especially around speed. So things are a lot better now in Bundler land, and should be better with Cargo, too. Cool.

> I much prefer how npm handles things.

Can you elaborate on how npm handles things in a better way?
Misleading title, Mt. Gox is offering to accept login credentials and display pre-bankcruptcy balances.
And seriously, make it so I can see more than just your enormous tagline on mobile. I have a 1080p screen; that oughta be plenty. But literally everything I know about this app was learned from reading derisive comments in this thread.
I have low hopes for retrieving my 0.00770912 BTC that were in there (I really don't know why I even had that much in there, but upon logging on... it seems I may have).

But at the same time, I didn't see this page coming. I wonder why its there? What would one do with this knowledge except feel uncomfortable?
I'm having a hard time determining if you comments are meant to be trolling or not. You see to be adamantly against an opinion the people you're replying to don't exactly hold. You're doing the equivalent of yelling out a boilerplate rant anytime a keyword you've been waiting for pops up.
Be careful. It's entirely possible Mt Gox has been hacked -- it wouldn't be the first time.

EDIT: No 2FA, no https, and all data shown has already been stolen by hackers. I'm assuming it's probably real, but still -- be careful.
Your lawyer chose the wrong visa for you

O-1 visas were specifically created for entertainers and athletes at first. It wasn't meant for business. It was later extended to include Nobel prize winners and other academics during Cold War to compete with Russia's science program (and collect refugees from those able to escape) aka. O-2.

And then finally, it was opened to include business and finance individuals aka. O-3. However, the original intent of the visa was never for that case.
That's what made it intolerable when I started getting into Ruby years ago. Perhaps this can also be attributed to Ruby being slow, but it was (and still is) too slow to install anything or run commands. This isn't bundler's fault, though, as gem and many ruby CLIs also run super slowly.
I didn't make the above comment, but a sworn declaration would be good ammunition on the part of the plaintiff. Also given the difficulty of prevailing, it could help force an early settlement.
Well, the iTunes store came online in 2003. Not much of a stretch to foresee a marketplace for apps much like the marketplace for music. Whether it would be successful or not is another thing.
This is actually a very interesting topic worth noting.
I'm losing my faith on HN as more and more of these things fail to gather more attetion.
>And srsly?

English, do you speak it?

>And complaining about getting hit on in work situations

The grandparent was talking about at social events. Not work situations.
If they don't have a zero day browser exploit, is there any reason I need to be worried? (Assuming I use different passwords for everything)
Still a lot more "back" than a blank page.
The author subsequently scored a gig at the WSJ with multiple columns.[1] Funny how the ability to accurately comment on industry is not a useful qualification for being employed to comment on industry. :) (Written somewhat tongue-in-cheek obviously, I'm sure he has gotten lucky before with predictions before too.)

[1] https://twitter.com/mattlynnwriter
Lost Jet’s Path Seen as Altered via Computer
Aw, they gave out the best swag at conferences.
You can get something like this already with gopkg.in: http://godoc.org/gopkg.in/v1/docs#hdr-Supported_URLs (it uses tags or branch names).

It should work with any GitHub repo that's using tags/branches with names conforming to semantic versioning.
I'm not a physicist, but I would think the answer has to be yes, since everything we know of with wave nature also has particle nature on some scale. But I can't even imagine what kind of experiment would detect one.

Wikipedia has some interesting things to say about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graviton#Experimental_observati...
You're missing the point. Once you have a subsistence diet (i.e. the cabbage, egg and rice), better and/or more food isn't strictly necessary. It's just desirable.

So your tablet argument becomes: "if I can't afford the foie gras, I shouldn't bother with a decent cheese plate either", which is obviously wrong for a variety of reasons (including that some people just don't like foie gras).
Hey Guys!

I just saw this today and got pretty interested. I was interested in implementing a 'weighted' scoring function, but needed a way to save state somehow. I ended up finding a pretty fun solution using the console. It's really fun to play with the weights and see how the bracket changes!

https://github.com/hstove/Coderbracket-Weighted-Scorer
Good taste – On aesthetic empathy
They can do it using O-3 visa, its the same classification as an O-1 but of a different type. Assuming they incorporated the startup, and then immediately received funding and started visa process (in that order) they can use percentage points (from zero to +++ whatever investment they received) as part of their case. USCIS is more interested in profit/revenue than any other metric.
If the rules of the game seem rigged against you, there is a great incentive to either stop playing or to cheat. Some people don't seem to realize that a gigantic portion of everybody's wealth in developed nations is the ability to go out in public without fearing for the loss of your life, liberty, or property.

When you intentionally cultivate a class of people with little to lose and much to gain by brutal and violent action practically on your own doorstep, you are very likely to be hoist by your own petard. If I were a billionaire, I would be quite certain to conspicuously make myself an obvious asset to the whole community, particularly with respect to the folks that might be thinking of me as they rescue mostly-edible food from garbage containers. Public relations are important, if you wish to be a man that is not an island unto himself.
At the time they may have been right, but the truth involves a time element. At closer look, it shows how immensely popular and desired what Apple was bringing to market was to overcome opinions like that. Back then that was the reality.

I think when you go back and look at changes, many time it focuses on mainstream people who were wrong. But it was really everyone in the industry was wrong at that time, and shows how amazingly time and innovation through research and development can unseat the current reality.

I know I realized how big it was the moment I read OpenGL ES and the announcement of the SDK at the Keynote in that it was a new handheld gaming market. However I thought it would be a smaller market like the current social/casual game market at the time. It turned into engulf and change the entire thing and has the biggest player population of all now while putting the other companies in defensive positions (Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft).
not to mention film directors, theatre directors, and speaking roles in television and film.
I have an interesting question. Currently my AUD$ balance is displaying as $0. However in December and Febrary I had asked to withdraw $1,000 and ~$400 to my Australian bank account. Those transfers were taken from my balance, but merely sat as 'confirmed' rather than 'processed'. What happened to my money?
That jumped out at me too. I have no idea why they are included in this. Are they going to start trawling access records looking for "animal cruelty how to"?
I haven't ever visited US. So I can't give a answer from your perspective.

>>1. Why do we need to bring in immigrants to found companies? Do we have a shortage of Americans already here who also want to start companies?

This is the equivalent of asking why large companies acquire start ups and don't in house innovate their way out to compete in the market.

The answer is, the existing inertia is difficult to change in big companies/countries. Plus people don't realize the importance of the opportunity they have in hand. Imagine if people are that desperate to come to US to just start a company, its obvious the thing called 'citizenship of the US' is a very prized opportunity which most US citizens don't realize.

>>2. Or, is Start-up Founder one of those jobs, like picking cabbage, that Americans "just won't do"?

Starting up is difficult every where, but the US ecosystem is better in terms of the overall equation.

First world country, VC's, Infrastructure etc etc
Microsoft have been purchasing cross platform applications and tools and shutting them down forever.

In general it is what they do.

If they do not do that for Xamarin, it would be a departure.

So, I will wait and see. it does sound hopeful though.
What's nice is that you often don't realize you need a document from several years ago until you've already upgraded through two or three computers, none of which have the (non-app-store) older versions of the software. You thought backing up your data was enough when upgrading computers and installed apps as needed to avoid bloat and clutter.

It doesn't even degrade gracefully. Pages tosses out a lot of formatting and embedded media from earlier documents, which has pushed us to eliminate iWork from our 'productivity' apps.
I don't know how their infrastructure works, but if they use your password to unlock your wallet this could be a phishing attack. Either way, the money is probably as good as gone anyway.
loan denied!
Did MH370 disappear by shadowing SIA68?
Yep.

And for the love of all that's holy I wish they'd stop using characters that are impossible to distinguish in the mangled font. Is that 0? O? 1? I? l?.

Also, if they're going to make it case-sensitive, they shouldn't use ANY characters that look almost the same in upper and lower-case (especially when there's no baseline). Is that p? P? w? W?