skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Openness is still there in the examples of Kik, Twitter and Facebook as new 'browsers' - though less-so with Twitter and Facebook. With Twitter and Facebook you're limited to starting points of links friends post. With something like Kik, you can access any site just like you would in a traditional browser, but it improves 1) the poor retention mobile web generally has and 2) distribution (sharing links has less friction).

People are using apps instead of the web for certain services because they're easier to find (both initially, and for subsequent uses), easier to use, and more polished. The point is, this is all changing in favor of mobile web. Mobile apps can become just as easy to use and have close to the same level of polish, but more importantly, they can become easier to discover. Flappy Bird was successful because of social media, not discovery directly from the app store - the app store just added more friction.

Retention is the biggest potential point of failure for mobile web, and that's something I think Kik has solved pretty well. There are other examples of good solutions for this (eg Firefox OS), but none of them have enough traction to serve as a good proof-point.
Bullshit. Complete and utter bullshit.

I've been in this industry for nearly 20 years. There is no shortage. There IS A HUGE SHORTAGE of engineers willing to work for the pay and conditions that an H1B will work for though.
As you further investigate this, you may want to look at the UK's requirements for APR calculation for consumer loans. A few nice features:

1. All cash flows which are non-optional from the borrower's perspective are included. This includes one-time registration fees.

2. The rate in annualised to make loans of different lengths easily to compare.

3. Advertisements must include the APR that 66% of borrowers who respond to that specific advert will get. For example, if you expect that a specific advert would generate 100 customers, and the resulting loan offer APRs would be evenly split between 20%, 25%, 30% and 100%, then you would quote 30% APR on your advert.

Excluding one-time registration fees from the APR and total cost illustration is IMO misleading if an ad is mainly targeting new borrowers. The same goes for weighting the APR by loan amount, as this weighted rated can be far from the APR for new borrowers (who, because they are more risky, will get smaller loans).

I have no specific knowledge of your company, and my comments above apply equally to any consumer lending business.
Any tips on level 15? Once the player is killed what could I possibly do?
The forum thread has just been updated with this reply:

"We can confirm that load balancers using Elastic Load Balancing SSL termination are vulnerable to the Heartbleed Bug (CVE-2014-0160) reported earlier today. We are currently working to mitigate the impact of this issue and will provide further updates."
That's a serious issue. I play a stringed instrument, and purchased a "professional" model a few years ago. Among the instruments that I was trying out, some of the physical differences were sufficient that there would have been little expectation of identical sound, so the game was to discover the differences and then make a choice.

There were instruments that I rejected within seconds, but others that took me upwards of 1/2 hour to figure out how to adapt my playing to the characteristics of the instrument. There were issues that might have been unnoticeable to an audience member, but that would have affected my ability to play with good technique over the duration of a performance. Some of the instruments, including the one I ended up buying, changed my opinion of how I wanted to develop my tone and playing style.

Granted, I was always faced with a slight doubt about whether any of it was real, but without any good way of settling that issue. Also, a virtuoso might have been able to make all of the instruments sound the same with much less effort.

Oh, and don't get me started about bows.
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More than anything else, I wish simple web pages were vogue.

Complex web pages are a pain to maintain. They're a huge liability, really. And there's really no need for them to be so complex.

The only reason I can see is people who have little understanding of how web pages are constructed are usually the ones in charge of designing them.

... Maybe I should transition over to web design.
Pitch Logistics
The level filename is a hint.
Sadly, our server couldn't handle the load.

I've set up a mirror at: http://alexnisnevich.github.io/untrusted/

We're currently working on handling the AJAX responses more robustly. The level counter should no longer increment on a failed request.
I think the gp is referring to Canada's point system. As long as you have enough points, then you will be admitted into Canada.
That's bizarre. Correct behavior used to be to send "from" the original sender, with the list address in the "reply-to" field. That way everyone knows who posted it, but discussion is still directed to the list.
Because they want you to use the app, which comes along with permissions to access your data.
That's not really true; if the supply could not keep up with demand, the companies would throw more resources at the problem of meeting their labor demand -- that might be raising wages (in the most simplistic economic models, that's the obvious thing), but it might equally be putting resources into lobbying Congress to allow increased immigration. If they expect lobbying to pay of greater returns for the investment than higher wages will, then that's where you'd expect them to put the resources.
>"In the United States, nine percent of computer science graduates are unemployed, and 14.7 percent of those who hold degrees in information systems have no job. Graduates with degrees in STEM - science, technology, engineering and medicine"
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/11/surviving-p...

How does opening up more visas help this? It is not about helping the people of America. It is about corporations getting richer. There are plenty of people already here to fill tech jobs.
Unrestricted pointer arithmetic is indeed incompatible with memory safety. You set a pointer to point to one structure, then you change it and it now points to another structure or array. The compiler doesn't know the semantics of your code, so how can it tell if you meant to do that? And malloc/memcpy is way too low to check this stuff. It only sees memory addresses; it has no idea what variables are in them. Tightly coupled would mean passing information like "variable secret_key occupies address such-and-such" into the libc, which does violate POSIX standards, and will result in lots of code breaking. I don't see why we wouldn't just write in C# or Java or Rust, instead of a memory-safe subset of C (and it would have to be a subset).

Edit: here's one project for making a memory-safe C: http://www.seclab.cs.sunysb.edu/mscc/ . Interesting, but (a) it is a subset of C, (b) it doesn't remove all vulnerabilities, and (c) I still don't grok the advantage of using this over a language actually designed for modern, secure application programming.
Likewise, same question for Rackspace's Cloud LBs.
So after watching this, there are a lot of shots taken at bunch of companies and some startups (e.g. Hooli == Google, etc). I can't say if those are fair to make though.

As a show, I thought it was alright with cringe humour around the place.

What I like though, is HBO went a made a smart decision of uploading this straight to YouTube instead of the time line being something like: Upload to HBO GO -> Have it pirated to download the video -> Uploaded to several different video streaming services. They stopped losing all those views this way..
the US is reputed to have the best engineering colleges, that attract the best talent.
I don't know of any existing implementation, but I'd like to propose an alternative architecture.

Assume that users (readers) have access to much larger streams of content, from heterogeneous sources, than they have attention for. And that each user's stream is unique in content and may overlap with those of other users differently for every other user. So the editor of a personalised web site provides not multiple alternative content but a single filter which can be applied to each user's stream to surface related content from that user's own stream(s).
Yes, they would increase the compensation until they were paying the same rate they would need to to hire a citizen (which should already be the case, in theory).
I am an Eastern European living in Central Europe.

I moved because University and because of the better living/work conditions.

However, if I had the chance I would probably move to the US. Maybe CA, but I am still on the fence. The things stopping me are the super expensive health care, work-life balance and higher crime rates.
Hey, thanks for the 'disclaimer' there. That you are honest and thought that your opinions may be unduly influenced and that we should know it shows real maturity and a concern for others. Really, I do appreciate it. Keep up the good work. You are one of the people that makes HN great. Thank you.
> Stop wearing skinny jeans.

They are standard in Europe and much of the US at least. My apparently heretical pov is that the tech should be user centred, not vice versa
It's not that easy to emigrate from developing world to slightly more advanced developing world in many cases. Sometimes, it's easier to go straight to the top 20.
IBM System/360 at Fifty
That's a great point to mention. US immigration policy is heavily biased towards family reunification. If you become a US citizen, you can sponsor your parents and children (if they are under 18) immediately, there is no quota.
But that doesn't have enough points of failure!
You can find similar issues with loudspeaks (those overly enhancing basses sounds better, but perform worse) and TV displays (overly saturated colors).
Well, the simplest answer is that incomes are way higher for certain positions, even for significantly less skilled work. I mean, engineers are a dime-a-dozen in China, but the pay is lower and STEM work is not nearly as glamorized as it is in the US right now. Doctors too. All the praise goes to business and financial managers.

Of course, if you're an international trailblazing software-engineering guru, yeah, you'll get fantastic opportunities pretty much anywhere. However, even fairly low-level IT work in the US can feed a new family (depending on your geography, of course), which is not the case everywhere in the world. And with recruiters banging down peoples' doors throwing jobs in peoples' faces, it's no wonder foreigners want to stay in the US.
An article on reasons to raise venture capital would be more appropriate. The default should be bootstrapping.
There's a variable that stores the rafts direction...
Same thing for me - I uninstalled Facebook's app after hearing about how LinkedIN's new app was grabbing people's contact list without their knowledge.

Fool me once…
I would love to see a study like this done with vinyl vs. digital.

1. Put some vinyl-loving DJs in a hotel room.

2. To factor out identifying pops & scratches, pre-record a vinyl song onto digital. Record it several times and use each digital recording only once.

3. Cover their eyes and randomly switch between vinyl & digital.

See if they can tell the difference.
Yes, the vulnerable code is used by both client and server so any client using openssl is affected.
This is one of the things I proposed in a comprehensive high-skilled visa reform proposal: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_yEsHOtzN3yZ3JoYXlTdDh0R0k...

Never really got around finishing it and pushing it out tough, although I am curious to see what the feedback is on it.
That might make sense, if it wasn't for the fact that those "cheap doctors from overseas" can't practice medicine without a license, which requires that they complete an american residency program regardless of their existing qualifications. No matter how many immigrants you bring in, the number of residency slots is fixed (and is already smaller than the pool of qualified M.D.s). Residency exists in part to limit the supply of physicians and ensure that wages remain high. It's a nice little (100% legal) wage-fixing cabal.
You could always implement a-star, a searching algorithm.
What about when using certificates?
Nice, this could be a good way to teach to high school students the story of Apple too.

I hope there're in a near future versions of Microsoft, Google and Facebook!
You believe wrong. Also, even if they are, traveling with an instrument, especially and old finicky one (and they do get finicky when they get old) can throw it out of adjustment, a seam can pop open, a string can go false, etc.

The new ones, on the other hand, since they were actually new, were probably being maintained by their makers, who undoubtedly made sure they were in top condition when they went into competition with a strad.
I think this article is about web sites, but if you're a game developer, it feels like google and apple are actively trying to kill off the web option, or at least don't care about it. It's easy to find complaints about how audio is terrible in HTML5 on mobile devices, but its been that way for years. I still don't think you can play two sounds simultaneously on mobile safari (eg: background music and a sound effect).
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It's just a numebers game brother. Apply to 100 companies and you will have a couple of offers.
Who do we, as a world, compete with?
Apparently Red Hat, Debian, and Ubuntu weren't (from what I gather from reading mailing list posts) -- no idea who else.

That's not responsible at all, IMO. Whoever was in charge of this (NCSC-FI?) isn't very good at coordinating.
I wonder who else was notified early? I noticed Apple's ocspd was downloading an unusual amount of data back on March 31. Could be unrelated, but Apple and other big software vendors would make sense for early notification.
Once you've applied for a green card and the PERM and I-140 has been approved and your I-485 has been pending for 180 days, you do have portability. You can leave your current employer, but you must find another position that is substantially similar.

Labor certification and I-140 processing used to be painfully slow. I waited 3.5 years just for my labor certification. However, the new PERM process is much quicker, so you'd probably only have to wait 1 or 2 years to be eligible for portability.
> If you don’t know where to begin here’s a good rule: only target colleges that admit less than 30% of applicants. That will give you a head start on being selective, especially if you have limited spots available in your program.

I personally think this is silly. If you want to be selective just focus on applicants who actually build things. If you look at collegiate hackathons at places like university of michigan, UIUC, or Purdue it's clear that there is a lot of talent in the midwest. Just because someone wasn't born on a coast or with a connection to an ivy league school doesn't mean they don't make a cut for selectiveness.
We haven't received an invite to interviews yet. But coming from Australia means we had to book early or else our flights would cost $2k+ each.
Exact duplicates are auto-killed. The account is probably fine.
Sorry .. that is totally disconnected from reality. Not only have wages NOT risen, they have stagnated (and not kept up with inflation). Further, if you look at the list (link is in this thread) of the companies along with the # H1Bs allocated to them/their ranking ... you'll see a certain big blue company in that list who is in the Top 5. They have been doing layoffs by the 1000s on a regular basis for years. I know. I work for them. I have seen personally at least 10 people on actively billing customer engagements (i.e., they were billing the customer, not riding the bench or working internally, etc.) layed off. These were highly skilled professionals with good reviews that were doing great work.

Further, I've seen many dozens of "replacements" come in in the form of H1Bs. These were literally DIRECT replacements. They were inexperienced and WORSE at the job.

This is no longer anecdotal. This is happening NOW. All over this country in the IBMs, Microsofts, etc.

It does not take a genius to see what is going on.
I love the comics. They show Apple like real life, two guys playing around with computers and thinking about creating a company to have some fun.
We arrive on the 22nd. Maybe let's do Skype? I'll shoot you an email :)
This is awesome but it keeps repeating the first level! I get the solution but then it just reloads everything.
FT would also enable CO2 + H2O => Fuel. That would be the perfect solution to global warming. Instead of getting fuel in Saudi Arabia, a tanker just goes out to sea, and with solar power and ocean top layer co2 just slowly fills itself with fuel.
OK well I just updated about 40 servers. Has anyone started working with CAs to reissue SSL certificates signed with a new key? Are they willing to do the reissue for free? In particular I use RapidSSL for most things and Verisign for a few bigger clients who prefer it.
Gift Card distribution in the US
I'm done here. You clearly have no connection to reality, and this is distracting from more important matters.

If you are so assured of the rightness of your position and the wrongness of the other's position, that you are entitled to take actions of any degree of severity, then you have lost connection to reality, as have so many others in history. You would be well advised to never be that self righteous.

I have been racially harassed, subject to hate speech, in a situation where the police got involved. There's simply no equating Brendan Eich and his political donation with a situation and actions like that. If you can't deal with others thinking the actions taken against him are out of proportion and have the feeling of a witch-hunt because your position is so evidently right and his is so evidently wrong then you are again the one who has lost connection to reality, as well as having lost track of the meaning of a pluralistic society. A just, pluralistic society will treat even its dissenting members with justice and tolerance.

If past political donations are an acceptable justification for "open season" on others, six years after the fact, we have no hope as an open democratic society.
If you have sold 50% of your business to the VC, then you no longer have control of the business. (Seed-round investors may have stock; employees and/or cofounders certainly will.) You won't be able to close a deal that the investors don't like.

My understanding is that even if you take less, so that investors don't have outright controll, VCs will have incentive and substantial power to push small wins toward becoming either big wins or big failures. And they begin that push early, so that it's easy for VC-funded startups to end up in a grow-or-die situation, even if they theoretically might have taken a different path.

Note that there's some selection bias involved. If a VC thinks that the business is only going to be a $20m business, they won't invest. They also won't invest if the founders seem like the kind of people who will stop early. They're in the business of finding 10:1 odds on 100:1 money.

As an aside, it's a little dangerous to do valuation math like that. The valuations at A-round levels are highly speculative. If you take your $10m company and add $5m in cash, in theory it's a $15m company. But it's mainly fantasy. It's very different than a $15m operating business whose valuation is based on revenues and profits.
I can't help seeing this as a higher level in some grotesque cultural fractal that, somewhere along the line, also involves ticket middlemen monopolizing admittance to most concerts and shows.

I don't know if they're part of the same problem or the same problem expressing itself in different ways, but I have a hard time calling this coincidence.
>If the novelty truly never wore off, every gif would still turn into cheetus after the first frame, and every link to youtube would still be Rick Astley.

These examples aren't actually gone, you know? Less common, certainly, but these trolling-memes don't really die out until there's something new to replace their exact use-case.
Being an immigrant does not mean that you aren't allowed to work in the US. In fact, there are a ton of immigration visas built around the idea that you will in fact work in the US.

If you are on a student visa (which clearly a full time employ isn't), then there are some hoops to jump through in order to work, but I am not familiar with the necessary steps.
For me the experience fall apart at the "press the down arrow" part.

I took a screenshot of a typical google search session [1] with the search suggestion appearing below the system's native dropdown. For any field where I use the IME, it's the IME that wins, and the dropdown in the background is just distraction [2].

This is the easiest case to reproduce on a blank site, but it's the same for search box where I have autocomplete values (which is a more common problem I think ?); the autocomplete popup will take precedence on any element displayed in reaction to the keyboard, and a "press down arrow" will go to the autocomplete, and not the site's dynamic dropdown.

[1] http://imgur.com/YikLtdi

[2] The other "best" case is when a result is actually relevant, but I can't see it because it's hidden, or it changes/disappears when I dismiss the native popover because the action counted as a focus change or a keyboard event.
I checked my admin and you appear to be correct.
This does not square with my perception but that's anecdotal. Nonetheless I work at a very large financial firm and the rates paid for consulting are 70-80% higher than salaries at the same level. Even accounting for 30-50% add-ons for benefits/vacations, etc, consulting firms are still paid higher than employees, at least here.
I have a green card, so no visa necessary.
Yes. Im sure this is why she herself uses 200 year old violin instead of the modern one.

> for the last five years, a mid-1800s Italian.

Whole article is a result of authors cognitive dissonance.

I dont see much difference between her and people arguing for $1K speaker cables and later failing to distinguish them from coat hangars.
What kind of argument is this? You can't argue fate. You could also say that without the level of immigration we have, the world trade center would never have been attacked, we would have never invaded Afghanistan and Iraq. Millions of lives would be saved.

One could say that Einstein changed fate such that a certain person was never even born who would have surpassed his achievements. This is nonsense and illogical.

In the United States, nine percent of computer science graduates are unemployed, and 14.7 percent of those who hold degrees in information systems have no job. Graduates with degrees in STEM - science, technology, engineering and medicine - are facing record joblessness, with unemployment at more than twice pre-recession levels. The job market for law degree holders continues to erode, with only 55 percent of 2011 law graduates in full-time jobs.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/11/surviving-p...
The game was broken for a bit, and it's possible that your saved state got corrupted.

Try restarting the game by running localStorage.clear() in the JavaScript console, then refreshing the page. Does that fix it?