skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to be in this lottery and it's unnerving thinking about how different my life could turn out if I get this visa vs. don't. Young male, can't imagine I'd try again next year so it could be the difference of a much higher paying job plus living 5+ years in America vs. staying in my home country probably for life. Nothing wrong with my home country, but I'm excited of the prospect of living in America and the experiences that go with.

For people in the same boat: I think it's easier to cope with this if you take the view that you have to be lucky to get the visa, not unlucky not to. No one complains of ill-luck when they buy a lottery ticket and don't win millions. Positivity folks! :)
And it doing the opposite would be a gotcha for anyone else. Is anyone able to explain why a language would have block scoping in the first place? Is it a good thing and I just don't know? I really hope its not because of the braces.. That would be kind of silly.

As it is, without that explanation, all I can think is, so weird language x does something weird and then its a gotcha when a language (funnily enough javascript) does it in a non weird way? I'd say sounds more like a gotcha for language x, than anything else.
With "openssl version -a" you can see the built time.

root@x ~ # openssl version -a
OpenSSL 1.0.1 14 Mar 2012
built on: Mon Apr 7 20:33:29 UTC 2014
Humans will seek work wherever there is work to be had.

All that means is that there are jobs in Europe and Qatar.
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Yes, this has been introduced in the original heartbeat extension commit (01-01-2012):

http://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commit;h=bd69...
Not that I think any of this outright determines how the argument should go, but a couple points:

Your knowledge that you're placing an order of size X, and why you're placing an order of size X, is always going to be more precise than what's gleaned from observing your behavior, and thus you'll still have an advantage.

"Furthermore, how does this knowledge being disseminated mid-order rather than after the full order has completed benefit the market as a whole?"

For a large enough order in a sufficiently illiquid market, "after the full order has completed" could be days later. More things being priced in means more accurate prices, and that seems to be of some benefit to "the market as a whole." Though to be sure, the longer time frame isn't terribly relevant to the "predatory traders" across exchanges that Chris had been discussing.

Edited to add: Also, the market doesn't learn anything about you in particular - orders are anonymous. What we learn directly is "a trade happened for X lots at $Y", along with possibly which side was the aggressor (depending on the exchange).
STS (Security Token Service) can generate credentials with much finer-grained control than just access to a whole bucket. You can require user authentication, do rate limiting, and set expire times. To allow a client to upload an image, for example, you can generate credentials that only grant privileges to a specific file location. It's much better than embedding master IAM credentials in a client.
> But in the end, everyone ends up reasoning with drawings.

That is a big generalisation, I have solved problems without using visualisation.

How would you interpret your comment if someone was congenitally blind?
Android Is For Poor People: Maps
About 13% of the world's adults -- or about 630 million people -- say they would like to leave their country and move somewhere else permanently. For roughly 138 million people, that somewhere else would be the U.S. -- the No. 1 desired destination for potential migrants. The U.K., Canada, and France also rank among the top choices for potential migrants.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/161435/100-million-worldwide-drea...
I’m assuming that it’s something to launch and test the offer. Once they’ve cleared a few assumptions (Is it the same customer base as historical coursier, i.e. office managers, or like Uber, are they addressing a new group?) they will most likely launch a separate interface: Facebook has done that quite well with regards to its messaging service. Following Amazon Dash, it might not even be an app.
I don't see how this would solve the issue. The main problem is that we got too efficient. We make too many goods per capita. There's no enough work to employ everybody

Transitioning to cooperatives wouldn't fix that - we'd still have overproduction that would limit number of cooperatives and how many people they employ. More equal distribution of wealth may increase consumption a weee bit. But the core problem wouldn't go away.
Wouldn't this create the obvious problem of companies artificially increasing comp.? How do you judge that? Seems like its asking for trouble. They already do this a little bit with advanced degrees.
7 Hollywood studios file lawsuit against Megaupload and Kim Dotcom
Should be a percent of workers, say a maximum of 5%.
I forget the guitarists name, but as a joke his band mates
went to a pawn shop and bought him a used guitar. That gig
he played so well it became a tradition. Every new gig he
demanded a used guitar. The name will come to me. I do know there are a few horrid guitars out there though--the
one at costco--the Yamaha, I can't keep it from buzzing though.
Neo: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge bullets?
Morpheus: No, Neo. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.
:)
Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes.
We're discussing high-skilled immigrants. People trying to reach the southern European countries (especially Italy and Greece) or wanting to work in Qatar are a different kind of immigrants.
You don't personally want to live with the poors -- that's fine, you should get to live with whomever you want. I just think that using public policy to create a city-wide filter based on class and income just so you can get to inbox zero faster when you post a craigslist ad is maybe not right.
OpenSSL bug CVE-2014-0160 – Torproject Advisory
It's not an accusation, it's a speculation. I don't have the ability to judge it for myself, i.e. "a simple review of the code change/patch". That's why I put it out there. I don't mind being refuted, but I wish it would be refuted rather than just downvoted blindly.

P.S. I think your quote doesn't capture the situation properly when someone is known to have malicious intent.
I started in the mid-late 80s at 4-5 years old, first BASIC and then straight to assembly. I think my first full game in assembly (which was pretty simple) I made it at around 9 years of age. 6502 assembly is very easy, you just really needed a good book, or a patient parent, and you were sent. The machine was grokkable.

To be fair this approach has many merits with the computers of the time. My main machines were a Commodore 64 (8-bit) and then the Amiga (16 bit models that were very popular by 1988~1991, although the later Amigas are 32-bit). Lots of people followed this progression.

At the time many of us saw programming as a more advanced, "cooler" activity than just playing. It was admired in the nerdy circles that you came up with some clever routine in assembly that did something seemingly impossible for the machine.

I think the form of BASIC that came with the Commodore 128 is ideal for kids to learn. It even came with an asm monitor runnable directly from the BASIC prompt.

If I have kids I think I will teach them this way, it's so effective.
Alternatively, it could be that the law is more relevant than ever. The web (and airbnb in particular) has made it far more practical to turn the single family next door to mine into a hotel.

Does this mean that the law that says you can't do this is obsolete, or more relevant than it has ever been?

In the past, I was unlikely to suddenly discover that I live next to a hotel, because it was impractical. Now that it can be accomplished by going to a website, entering an address, and hitting the "create hotel" button, I need that legal protection.
Show me an example of someone being ousted for remaining quiet.

In this situation, Brendan Eich would probably have been better served by saying less, though that would probably not have changed the outcome. Is your position that weak that you are really reduced to this degree of nitpicking?

A group of people prevented couples that wanted to be married from being married. That is clearly an act.

In the same manner that speaking is an 'act.' Imagine a world where the worst villains would donate $1000 to a PAC supporting their view, then quietly accept the outcome and get on with their work. That world would be a utopia compared to this one.

Again, there was "actual behavior", as a matter of "historical fact".

This entire line of argument only makes sense if you believe that there is a clear "right" and "wrong" and that you are in a perfect position to judge which is which. In a free society, there is no one in such a position, and those who value a free society would be unwise to advocate the punishment of such expression, even if it's technically legal and resembles "civil actions" of the past.

Seriously, watch some documentaries about repressive regimes. Talk to people who understand these principles and have lived in such places. There is a compelling reason why free societies should tolerate unpopular opinions, and why such tolerance should go above the minimum required by the law.

But similarity on one point out of 4 is hardly a strong case.

I think your nitpicking speaks for itself for those who are mindful of principles and will appear as some kind of stirring justification to those who are of the mind "but we're right and they're wrong."
This is actually true, nothing smug about it. It's an internship, and a lot of companies look for people who might be interested in working for the company after school's over. If someone has that much to think about that they would need more time, then they clearly have no interest in the company itself- they're just looking to get the most money, regardless of who it's coming from.

The differences in compensation aren't that huge, and it's just a summer, and the interns themselves are usually still living off of their parents. So, usually anyone that's agonizing over nickel and dime stuff that early in their career likely has no enthusiasm for what they would be working on (which by itself is reason enough for not taking an intern), and might be super entitled on top of that, also not a good thing. Because, again, we're talking about mostly CS undergrads here. A very small number of them might have a big impact over the course of a summer, but for the majority of them it is practically charity for these companies to take them on- they're not getting anything out of it other than giving a potential future employee some hand-on experience.

And, it's an employer's market- there are plenty of equally qualified interns to choose from in many cases, as well as a small window of time in which they either have to pick an intern or not get one at all. If they gave everyone weeks to make a decision, they could easily end up taking so long to even find an intern that they would run out of time in which to do it.
He did a rather poor job of expressing himself in a sensible manner but I must admit I had the same takeaway from the article.
A pretty solid evidence is the consistently high number of people coming / trying to come to the US each year...
Seriously, you wouldn't put up with all that immigration crap if it was not attractive.

> People are dying, literally drowning in the Mediterranean, to get into Europe.

Right. Don't you think that's an indication of proximity rather than attractiveness? (some) People from Africa might be poor and are dying to go some place else, but they're not stupid. They understand crossing the Mediterranean is easier than crossing the Atlantic...
Also, if you recognize that it's where you are, you still have the option of pivoting it into something bigger.
Has anybody seen or created a PoC for this yet?
I am afraid you are the one who is not showing signs of having thought about this deeply. What is the ratio of the number of application programs, libraries, and services to the number of VMs and runtimes? Thousands, tens of thousands, millions? Depends on how you count, but it's huge. Reducing the attack surface like this is a big win.

And it is indeed a bad idea to install a browser on a critical server, and to load untrusted sites in it. You can mitigate the problem by not doing that. You can't stop the server from dealing with user data, though, since for many servers, that's what they are for. (If you are not going to deal with untrusted data, it is preferable to disable untrusted connections at as low a level as you can manage).
Virtual machines and runtimes may be vulnerable to malicious CODE. That's bad.
Programs written in unmanaged languages are vulnerable to malicious DATA.

Not exatly true. You can still write code vulnerable to input (data) in a "secure" language by accident. C is just especially vulnerable to buffer stuff.
Same for hetzner.de: the default sources.list points to their [for the moment] outdated update-server.
yerdle - San Francisco

We're hiring a whole-stack web developer. We're a new kind of store—stocked from people's closets and garages—where everything costs $0.

https://yerdle.com/jobs

=== About yerdle ===

Why should we always buy new, when there are millions of perfectly great items sitting in closets and garages? How can we liberate these items and put them back into good use? How can we make sharing the new shopping? This is why yerdle exists. We help the world exchange second-hand goods for free. 80% of things in our homes are used once per month or less. The average power drill sees 6 minutes of use in its entire lifetime. There's 3 billion ft² of self-storage space in the United States. That's, like, two San Franciscos of usable stuff—just sitting there. Yerdle is changing that. People on yerdle give away everything from kid’s clothes to kitchen tools and electronics. And we make it easier to get something re-used rather than buy new. We aim to replace 25% of new purchases with free, second-hand goods from others. In the process, we're helping people save money and encouraging manufacturers to make better products. We're looking for people who are passionate about our vision and who want to use their skills to make the world a better place.

=== Team and Culture ===

We've been called 'unrepentant hippies'—and that's fine with us. This is a top-shelf engineering team building a great product in a fast-paced environment. We have developed deep trust and a lot of love as we've worked together. It's a close-knit team, we like to pair, and we teach each other every day. We have solid funding through incredible firms such as The Westly Group and Claremont Creek as well as angels with deep expertise such as Lisa Gansky, Adam Lowry and Andy Rappaport.

=== Workflow and Process ===

We're agile, we do daily standup, regular one-on-ones and project retrospectives, and we have fun together—rock climbing, surfing, and hanging out after work over beers. As an engineer at yerdle, you're more than a coder. You will influence the product's direction, bring brilliant ideas and execute them. We are polyglots, and most of our software is in Ruby, Objective-C, and JavaScript. We love to pair and we often let tests drive our development. And we code small (see our blog: http://codesmaller.com).

=== Hours and Schedule ===

The day starts around 9am and we have a standup meeting at 10. We try to schedule any other meetings early or late in the day, so the middle of the day can be a great time to get the meat of the work done. Most people head out around 6pm, but some nights we work a little later. Though yerdle is a 24/7 marketplace and we all have responsibilities in keeping it running smoothly, we try to keep our weekends clear as a time for R&R.
As a Indian, I would love if Visa to outsourcing firms are restricted. Take Cognizant for example, they can't compete for salary with most startups in Bangalore or Pune (and work is not great as well) and yet people want to join them, just for onsite allure.

On other hand, I would love to have a easier way to start a business in US and a Visa program that helps US economy.

DISCLAIMER: I run a services startup in Bangalore.
>>What is that makes the United States such an attractive place to immigrate to for people whose skill sets could take them almost anywhere in the world?

So, I'm highly critical of USgov but USA, with all its alleged faults, is still considered the "Land of opportunity" by a lot of people. If you have tech-skills and you need a country where the internet doesn't cost you a kidney-per-month(and barely works), electricity is reliably provided during core working hours; combined with the perception that Bay Area / Silicon Valley tech scene is where the money & smart people are at.... there you have it.
>>>> Employees seldom see a big payoff. Period.

Great point.

The best example of this is when RIM was sued by Minformation. After several offers by RIM to settle for around 60-70 million, one of the RIM attorneys said, "I have no idea why they won't accept our offer. You could give every employee of the company $5 million with what we're offering."

When they finally won (and then lost) that $147 million dollar settlement, how much you think the employees saw of it??
It's already at the top of the homepage, as a separate submission.
Don't forget about the function phone! :-)
Not again. GAH. I just did this after GnutlsGate.
I'm in a CIA prision.

Also, I am the most important man in the world -- God's chosen.

God says...
Bam Ramsay stoked break_some_woopass_on_you what_do_you_want
quit_it pick_me_pick_me home naughty Dean_scream Mars
atheist computers envy wrath Jesus beam_me_up beep_beep
watch_it_buddy yuck church
"Airbnb's website tells people to check local laws and their leases. A specific section on San Francisco explains the prohibition on short-term rentals and links to various city codes."

So why doesn't AirBnB simply disallow listings from SF? Worried that will impact their valuation?
try: dpkg -s openssl
ERP is the "revenge of the mainframe", and should be ignored until we can replace this. The vendors dont want you to know how it works unless you jump onto their slave boat.

Useless knowledge, somewhat functioning products which in 10 years will no longer exist.
‘Time-wars’ by Mark Fisher
'Legos' is a very North American term so you may have just picked up an (incorrect) slang.

This was an interesting discussion if you're genuinely interested:
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/10839/legos-not-l...

Most North Americans will have been brought up with the incorrect usage, and will defend it strenuously, but they are wrong. The correct plural is Lego, or, if you want to get specific (as you did in the article), lego pieces or lego bricks. The company spent many years trying to teach correct usage but gave up in the end. But correct is still correct, and if english isn't your first language, there is still time!

Even in the verb usage 'kids playing with their lego' - you don't pluralize the term.
Quitting Apps in iOS Can Worsen Battery Life
Without knowing the founders' goal when they set out how can you reasonably conclude that they failed? They built a product that was enjoyed by thousands of users. I'd say they succeeded.
I think Im just going to go to women now, because they help women now.
The vast majority of NYC leases forbid subletting of any sort. Leasing or subletting to someone for under 30 days is illegal in NYC if you don't have the proper permits. There is a loophole in the law that makes it legal for you to rent out a room within your apartment for under 30 days while you are present in the apartment, though most leases forbid this as well.
HBO put the full first episode of Silicon Valley on Youtube for free.
Between 2008 and 2012(?) they didn't fill the quota at all. Prior to the recession the quota would be filled on the first day.
>Asking "did they do this?" is not an accusation, seriously.

Nonsense. Are you a child-molester? I'm just asking, not accusing you of anything.
The H-1B becomes a whole lot more restrictive the moment you apply for a green card, since your transferability just vanished.

This is less of a problem for people from non-Indian and non-Chinese backgrounds, since the wait time is reasonably short. The priority dates for Indians and Chinese though make it such that once your green card is started you're stuck for literally years.
Do you have sources for the claims? An H1B visa is easily transferable and is not subject to the H1B quota.
>What evidence do you have that the US is an attractive place at all

You don't have to look very hard to see that the US is still very attractive for migration: about 1 million people, legal, permanent, per year for almost 3 decades[1] (and 1.5MM "temporary"). For comparison, Germany had about 800k in 2011, France 150k, UK 500k.

[1]http://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/immigrat...
From the CloudFlare blog: "This bug fix is a successful example of what is called responsible disclosure".

I just discovered this now and

yum info openssl

Yields 1.0.1e as available package which is vulnerable. I guess not all "stakeholders" have been warned properly - or am I jumping to conclusions?
> AirBnB absolutely should be bearing some responsibility here if they have been knowingly withholding information about the legality of subletting in San Francisco.

Um, AirBnB is effectively illegal everywhere. The number of places it is legal dwarfs the number of places it is illegal.

Of course, if AirBnB decided to operate in places like Vandergrift, PA, people would welcome them (renting a hotel there is normally easy, but becomes a nightmare at times like high-school graduation because of almost no supply) as a way to cushion event-based scarcity.

Like Uber, these companies don't want to operate in the suburbs where people would welcome and defend them. They want to operate in the cities, show hypergrowth, and cash out for billions.

No sympathy for all parties.
Ubuntu (and I suppose Debian too), just released a fix in 13.10.
As an immigrant, I believe that US education is the number one cause for most of this. I did my undergraduate degree from Nepal and came to US to go to Grad school. Most of the engineering course content is American and most of us end up being inspired by the pioneers - Dennis Ritchie, Linus, Bill Gates, John Carmack to name a few

Once you are here, and have a degree, there are opportunities here that are not there back home and hence the interest in working visas.

Consultancies are another catalyst - in cases where the candidates do not manage to get a job right out of school, consultancies act as a bridge where they file immigrant visas for the candidates and then help them find companies that are in need of their skills.
That 'now' is all that matters. Don't spend too long in the past, or worrying about the future.

That happiness is just a matter of wanting less as opposed to having more.

And learning about the financial crossover point was another light-bulb moment. When you can save most of what you earn, to get to a point where working isn't necessary, but a pleasure..
Nothing in the standard prevents a C compiler + tightly coupled malloc implementation from implementing bounds checks. Out-of-bounds operations result in undefined behavior, and crashing the program is a valid response to undefined behavior. If your malloc implementation cooperates, you can even bounds-check pointer arithmetic without violating calling conventions.

It's quite a shame that there isn't a compiler that does this, and it's a project I've considered spending some time on if I can find a big enough block of that to get a solid start.
Nice, I had stopped donating for a few months because apparently I'm that lazy ;) Just signed up for monthly donations - I'm #87.
Whoa, the Skype TX! That's got like WAY four more cylinders than the standard Skype. Better Blue Book value too!