skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a married guy in the process of getting my H-1B visa I have to say this is a relief. It's a first step towards a more open immigration policy [1].
[1] http://www.iamimmigration.org/index.html#/get-facts/
I have a feeling that my work day is going to revolve around watching this (no pun intended).
Any idea where this guy got the data? He mentions rating distributions.

I though the majority of IMDB data was not downloadable?
Anyone want to explain what this is? It's a paywall and I'm not american so there is no way I'm paying for a subscription to it.
Portable software as a general rule is written in poor languages. AutoHotkey, AutoIt and NSIS are the three main languages in use, because they allow people to moderately easily produce not enormous binaries and have a surprisingly low initial learning curve (though later on you hit plenty of walls with them; none of them is suited as a general purpose programming language).

I speak this as the developer of the PortableApps.com Launcher, which I did in NSIS as the launchers already in use were NSIS, and as size matters a lot (that killed things like Python outright, though using the RPython parts of PyPy with the garbage collector ripped out would have worked---I checked it out and was able to successfully compile <100KB executables; D was disqualified for some reason I do not recall, Go for its heavy runtime even after ripping out the Unicode tables, &c.), and as I was not at all comfortable in C or C++ at the time.

I rather suspect that a large part of the reason for the apparently poor language choice is that the people that develop and use such things are strongly predominantly young people who are having to rove from computer to computer; as they get older, they tend to end up with a machine of their own and so no longer need portable apps. I don't any more, for example (and I don't use Windows any more either). The developers of these things are in consequence similarly young and have not yet learned good sense in programming (I include myself in that category, though I reckon the PortableApps.com Launcher to contain best-of-class engineer in the portable software space---five years later, at age 22, I am surprisingly unashamed of it, though now I would write it in Rust; I should try that one of these years).
NASA's page that combines the stream with an overview of where the ISS is over the earth at any given time: http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/HDEV/

(Hint: if it is over an area of daylight you're more likely to see video. Use the white line to see where it will be in 1.5 hours.)
This was the exact same idea that I submitted for Google Cloud Developer Challenge in last November. I could not finish the app in time because of my exams and followed by my internship. I'm not sure if this is their original idea or they've read my application. Is there anything I can do about it? Even if I can't, this just boosted my confidence on my startup ideas.
Anchorman 2 and The Internship were both > 7 near their DVD release but have settled back down into the 6's and have low Metacritic scores.
That's really, really sad if it's true.
Speech Recognition, it's a hard problem to solve - but maybe with your time you can offer some interesting solutions. Text IMO is very well covered part of our field, but speech is still very much lacking. Even image recognition has more attention than speech recognition IMO.
If you look at the history of the phone, which this is very similar too, initially the phone companies charged you for everything. Long distance call, oh that will cost you. Anything at all that will cost you.

Then eventually a player comes in that disrupts the model. What free long distance on weekends and evenings. How is that even possible.

Then one day competition takes over, et I mean logic ;) and suddenly the phone prices make sense. Long distance calls are something of the past.

I believe ISP are going through the same thing. However since they can't easily start charging by the call what they are trying to do is charge not only the person who is paying to have a phone line but also the caller. Except that now the caller has to pay for their own phone line and a fee to connect to the end line, which is already being paid for by the end customer. Aka the last mile is double dipping in fees cause they can because there is no competition. Just like the long distance calls from before. Amazing how quickly the phone companies went from recovering costs to can make profits from no fee long distance calling when competition finally came...
Any crowdsourced data can be easily manipulated by a well organized or large enough group. See the results of the naming poll for the Megyeri Bridge in Budapest in 2006. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megyeri_Bridge#Naming_poll
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Before 1997, they used to be free.
IMDB only counts 'regular voters' in the top 250 movie list.
@tomasien compare the success of Stripe to Dwolla over the same period of time. Look at that as proof about how many people are happy to get 97% of 1000 transactions vs 100% of 100. Not that people won't keep that 3% if they can. But it has to be equal to the CC experience.
The worst is small projects that do one thing well. Although you can produce a stream of them to fill a niche. Most consultancy is around bloated projects.
Because Phone companies here do not advertise the models, and they rename them with their own brand line names, minus the manufacturer's name. It's probably because they don't want to make it look like these phones come from outside of Japan.
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Paywall :(

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Yeah, I'm not too sure what the expenses and finances are like. They mention that they manage ~1m domains, so that's ~$8-9m/yr revenue. Maybe a bit less if a substantial percentage of domains are doing 3-year or 5-year renewals (which are discounted 10-20%). Not a trivial amount, but it's not hard to spend a few million $ on salaries, office space, a server room, etc. It's possible the service is also sending a surplus to its owner, the nonprofit Danish Internet Forum, but I'm not sure if that's the case.
> Remember Diaspora? It was to save us from the tyranny of Facebook. Geeks rallied behind it.

No they didn't. Geeks resented Diaspora's funding and high profile and mocked its slow pace of development and initial security issues.

> What geeks never learn is that social media services can't survive if the only appeal of the service is some righteous motivation that only they care about.

Diaspora's somewhat overblown profile was a consequence of it being featured in the New York Times and its Kickstarter appeal being unexpectedly funded by thousands of ordinary (perhaps slightly naive) people.
I wonder why he did this, would it be a lot harder to just port unix instead?
If it's on the Internet it's downloadable. I'm not sure what the IMDB TOS says about it, but I remember watching a video about sqlite that used IMDB as its example.
Two reasons why the iPhone is so popular in Japan:

1. It's free on contract (yes, the latest version)

2. You can type Japanese easily with just 3x4 keys (which made it perfectly suited for old flip phones), and so many use this method even on smartphones. Much easier with a small screen than Korean (which typically uses a keyboard the same size as English on smartphones)

Edit: my bad, looks like there's a 10 key Hangul input method for iPhone[0]. I haven't seen it used very much though, probably because it looks like a pain in the ass to use (compared to the 3x4 setup for Japanese), sort of like how no one would use T9 to type English on a smartphone, even if the screen were small.

0: http://emscloud.tistory.com/m/post/176/slideshow?order=2
If I could upvote you multiple times I would. I see a lot of confusion on this matter, even on HN.

When authenticating, the server needs to do a hashing step to compare against the password database. Otherwise, it isn't a hashed password database - it's a plaintext password database.
That BBC article says nothing about signed int overflow. I believe the title of this link is pure conjecture by the submitter.

In any case, max signed 16-bit integer is 32767. It's unsigned 16-bit integer to get to 65536, so this title is wrong.

This topic has come up a couple of times already here on HN, including https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7691583 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7694121 . The report is that the U-2 was flying at 60K feet, not 65K which might trigger the problem.

One commenter pointed to a page which point to http://www.barryschiff.com/high_flight.htm which says "The U-2's Mode C transponder, however, can indicate no higher than FL600."

Mode C can go slightly higher, but "commercially available Mode C transponders cannot currently report an altitude greater than 62,000 feet" says https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/as... .

So of the limited information we do know, the U-2 should not have triggered an overflow, assuming that such a bug existed.

BTW, according to http://www.airsport-corp.com/modec.htm , the altitude encoder data has a higher range: -1200 to 126,700 ft. One of the reason for negative altitude is of course places below sea level, but another is that altitude when measured via barometric pressure depends on the weather. High pressure days give a lower measured altitude.
As a US citizen, I'm all for this. Why would we ever prevent the spouse of someone with an H-1B from working?
"Doctors claim that patients aren’t ready for the bad news earlier, when they are still digesting their shocking predicament: that their lives have changed irretrievably; that their priorities, their future aspirations, their promises to their loved ones—both the explicit and, more important, the implicit ones—would go unfulfilled. They cite their own hesitations too. Doctors want to be purveyors of hope rather than despair, a motive sometimes attributed to compassion, sometimes to a starker concern that patients will find a new, more optimistic second opinion."

This is something that hits home very deeply. My father just passed away from Melanoma. When we first learned the news our oncologist was very hopeful that we could treat the disease but later we met with a specialist in the area and he was very blunt about my fathers future death. I felt as if the oncologist lied to us. She didn't give us the whole story on how severe the cancer was. Maybe if she did we would of been more proactive to treating it.

I can't imagine what can go through a doctors mind when they see the scans and try to explain that to their patients day after day. How do you decide what is the best way, should you be blunt? or should you give the patient hope? Too many difficult decisions for one person to make.
I don't disagree, but you are missing my point, which is a descriptive matter of American attitudes about food.

For the most part, I accept your point that old neighbor-cheese (and eggs and slightly-wilted vegetables and over-ripe fruit) is probably completely safe. But for better or worse, Americans just don't think about food this way. We have highly sanitized attitudes and expectations about food. I suspect this is largely because we are highly disconnected from the food manufacturing and chain of supply processes. We are uneducated about food, and as a result we throw it away if we have even the slightest concern that it is unsafe.

We have no problem using the same bacteria-infested, broken-bristled toothbrush for 6 months, but we have no qualms about throwing away a $9 block of gruyere if we detect the tiniest spot of mold. It's just how we are.
That is short sighted and outright ignorant.
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Excuse the plugging of my own wares, but by coincidence I did some analysis the other day of the disparity between User/Critic ratings of movies on RottenTomatoes: http://benjaminlmoore.wordpress.com/2014/05/05/what-are-the-...

Example: "Spy Kids" got a 93% fresh rating from critics, but 45% from audience ratings.

Code attached should you want to investigate for yourself.
There's no "rise of engineers" becoming interested in management. FTA: "In fact, engineering long has ranked as the most common undergraduate degree among Fortune 500 CEOs."

Out of the top-20 MBA programs, STEM undergraduate degrees are about as common as business/economics undergraduate degrees: http://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2009/11/20/which-undergrad-ma....
"...a Bangladeshi nationalist movement called Gonojagoron Moncho, or National Awakening Stage. Gonojagoron Moncho was founded in response to the trial of Abdul Quader Molla, a Bangladeshi Islamist leader who last year was found guilty of killing hundreds of civilians as part of a paramilitary wing during Bangladesh’s liberation war from Pakistan in 1971. "

That, uh, seems like plenty of context to me? Throughout history, seriously bad dude plus nationalistic fervor equals lynch mob pretty darn often. The seriously bad dude part is usually even optional!
What about people who are behind a proxy cluster, so each separate HTTP request may originate from a different IP address?

Assume nothing.
I found it odd that the article makes note that 36,000 ratings come from outside the U.S. Maybe I am missing something but wouldn't it be expected that many of a Bollywood movie's ratings would come from outside the U.S.?
What will happen when Google stops giving a shit in a year?
Landline phones generally have a fixed rate. You can use it 24/7 to call at a fixed price.
Don’t name your input elements ‘action’ or ‘submit’
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I worked for a registry a few years ago and the uptime the ICANN mandate are very very tough full redundancy on 4 separate continents.
> I am on the side for proper dependency management.

Vendoring is one of several proper dependency management options. It's also the option most suited to the Go ecosystem at this time.
Google has been adding services for schools for a few years. They announced Google Play for schools at an IO a year it two ago.
Well, as another data point, I used big-ass android and switched to 4S and found it to be much more appropriate size.

Ordered in 5S not 10 minutes ago, and I'm afraid it's not really gonna be better form factor.

I do find your "toylike" adjective appropriate. But I don't think that's neccesarily a critique.
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> 2. You can type Japanese easily with just 3x4 keys (which made it perfectly suited for old flip phones), and so many use this method even on smartphones. Much easier with a small screen than Korean (which typically uses a keyboard the same size as English on smartphones)

Nope, I saw koreans using a very similar input method for korean with a 3*4 layout and they all seemed to be using that, making it very fast for them. On Android devices.

Btw I have an android phone in Japan and you can do the exact same thing on Android for Japanese. No difference with the iPhone, really, at least on that aspect.
While there's certainly a culture common to my compatriots and me, it's hardly a great indicator viz-a-viz preferences in films. At least in that area, I probably have more in common with many people here than with the average citizen of my country.

Besides, for us in small countries, we would probably have almost no ratings in any film besides blockbusters.
I can sympathize with a doctor who's told the whole truth, then seen people spiral off into depression, or get a divorce, or run off to Buenos Aires and join a maraca band. Its hard to watch patients do things the doctor may think are sad or wrong or disruptive.

If they were a life coach, or a minister, or a spouse, then sure they should be managing hope, keeping the patient positive, working to keep the family functioning.

But they're not any of those things. Its not their responsibility nor right to decide how a patient should react, or to manipulate the patient to get a reaction they approve of. Its their responsibility to diagnose, treat and inform. Anything else is hubris.

If I'm going to die soon, its my right to make a crappy decision to run off with a prostitute and get blind drunk. Or stay with my family in hospice and pray. Or whatever. My right. No one elses.
San Juan, while a slightly different dynamic, is also a fun Puerto Rico-like game that works well with two players.
In terms of costs, keeping a few kb for the domain and associated contacts is almost nothing. Providing an API for resellers that is up 24h/24 is a bit more expensive but still doesn't justify the 8$/m. What's probably the biggest costs is the DNS servers. Verisign does have to have to maintain beefy DNS servers to reply to all .com subdomains queries.
Devil's Advocate: most dialup internet services are not metered as well.
Given the long wait times for Green Cards. Wouldn't that effectively double the h1b quota ?

H1B's have to go though long process of LCA's, ads in the newpapers, notices etc before their visa is approved. Would H4's have to go though this also? If not I can see this being abused by offshoring companies as loophole in the system.

I don't see how this is 'first step' towards a better immigration policy. Current H1B system is not used in the way it is intended for the most part. Its modern day serfdom used to attract desperate educated people from poor countries. Why not give them green cards and let them actually take advantage of american system and create jobs instead of treating them like 2nd class citizens with no rights, no voice, no dreams.
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Air currents are not 'what sound looks like'.
This is extremely useful for people with CS backgrounds who want to get into CS. My first dive into VHDL was disasterous, I feel like it would have went much better if I had used something like this with a familiar syntax.
I feel like that must have been mentioned in an Ia(i)n Banks Culture novel somewhere...
So they are offering an average of 4, 8, or 16 kb/s?

Dialup is faster than that!
There is.

Given the dynamics of Bangladeshi politics, a life sentence from the current government is actually a jailing until the opposition comes to power and pardons everyone convicted by its predecessor.

I'm against capital punishment, but I understand where the protesters are coming from: they want real justice for the atrocities in 1971, and see the death penalty as the only way to obtain lasting closure.

Politics in a democracy of 180MM people is really, really messy.
It is amazing - or very, very ironic - that you're able to justify your argument with an excerpt from the book entitled "$200 Billion Broadband Scandal," which appears to be aimed towards educating the reader about the large amount of wool pulled over their eyes re: the NII.
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It struck just the right tone with me. These systems are supposed to save time, but they usually don't.

If it'll just get out of the way and let people work, I think Google might have a winner.
You're probably talking about something like Moakey[0], but this is nowhere near universal. More importantly, it's not available on iOS[1]. This may be fine for younger people, but it wouldn't be so easy to use for older folks.

0: http://lovingkorean.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/moakey-keybo...

1: http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg168/owbee/Mylinguistics...
"...not that hard."

For a business major to do the vice versa would be virtually impossible (programmer is possible, but not 'engineer' in the traditional sense).
This cached version has the pictures, apparently: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hfW8Cm...
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google the headline. WSJ paywall has been discussed here as well for further information.
I meant with the naked eye. With an appropriate telescope one can of course see a lot of detail (see Google Maps). And given how low the orbit of the ISS is I guess it's easier to see things from there than from an orbit where there isn't a rest of atmosphere that slows you down (yes, the ISS has to be regularly pushed by space farriers).
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> markdown files for each expense

Not sure where you got that. It's a single file with many transactions laid out in a straightforward double-entry accounting format.

I'm a developer, so the draw for me is that that I can write a few scripts to translate my various online accounts' downloadable formats into the simple text format while automatically adding in expense categories based on regex. I can't do that with any other apps I've seen.
As I said, anyone polite asks, and many don't do it at all.
You should note that Rotten Tomatoes' main score is just the percentages of yay vs nay, meaning, the "percentage of critics who have given the movie a positive score".

If you look below that, you can see the actual "Average Score", which in the case of "Neighbors" is actually lower than IMdB's, at 7.1/10.
Would Google have been able to get there if Linux and most open source software was licensed as GPLv3?
if using Google Chrome, prepend link with "cache:" and here you go. But you are right - there are other news sources with this information.
538 is using the wrong metrics. For a movie to be truly, truly, sublimely bad, that badness needs to be recognized - people in some cases will want to watch it for its incredible badness. This means that there are going to be a disproportionate number of both 1 and 10 votes. And the winner based on this is - The Room. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368226/ratings?ref_=tt_ov_rt
How is contacting a server, unnecessarily and without user's informed consent or even knowledge, considered asking?
Spouses of people who are working in America on a H1-B visa (the most common visa that tech people work on) are now allowed to work themselves.
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The DHS press release[1] has more details. Link to the proposed rule on reginfo.gov[2].

In short, this rule allows spouses of H1B holders to work, provided the H1B holder has an approved I-140 or has their H1B extended beyond 6 year limit under AC21. Notice that this rule is very specific and does not cover all H1B holders.

[1]http://www.dhs.gov/news/2014/05/06/dhs-announces-proposals-a...
[2]http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaViewRule?pubId=20131...

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Internet should be paid in bytes delivered. Then all the incentives will be aligned for all parties.

That sounds like the interests will greatly favor the ISP. They can leave prices the same, institute a monthly data cap then gouge users on their overages. Yes, I can definitely see how this would be a huge win for customers...

Unlike water and electricity, the internet isn't a finite resource in the sense that the data will 'run out' if we use it too much. The people generating content are paying on their end and the users consuming content are paying on their end. We don't need to be careful not to overuse the internet, lest we leave future generations without the ability to use it.
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Nope, it was not this one. It was a 3*4 layout and the top row were the "vowels" (I know that's not the right word for it, but well...) you combine with the other letters to make full korean signs. This is apparently standard on Korean phones. At least Samsung ones.