skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main problem with that scheme is that it is designed to channel people to where he and the President WANT them...

as opposed to where the United States NEEDS them. I think we should give out visas to Masters and PhDs and allow those people to go where they please. That way... we would get the best people as well... not just the most desperate.
Ah. That makes quite a bit of sense given what you said. Thanks for sharing that.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that google keeps tabs that thoroughly on employees -- but it still feels disappointing to hear it.
npm, bower, gulp, shippable, webstorm, git, chrome, bitbucket.
I don't think there is one instance in the history of mankind, that great power hasn't been misused. ..I believe in unicorns too. ..But not that much.
This was the first thing that struck me as well - just fantastic level/game design. Immediately brought to mind the instructional level design from Super Mario Bros - http://www.theoryofgaming.com/gold-standard-for-game-design/
I'm not entirely sure why this is a bad thing. In lab science, the PhD process gives experience that isn't easily available in other situations.
Google would probably ban the developer for life. Not sure about iTunes AppStore.
Windbg was broken on Win 7, in that it no longer is able to walk the stack by following [EBP]. If I want to get a call stack, I have to use Windbg on Windows XP.
This may also be due to the Power Nap feature: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5394
TL;DR? This was covered on the show Red Dwarf. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxWN8AhNER0

Natural question: was the big bang a white hole?
- Webpack for building, watching, optimizing / bundling

- npm for dependency management; notable package:

- jstransform for transforming ES6/ES7 & JSX to JS

All on a heavily React-based stack.
I agree, Academia is in decline. Sort of. It's in decline the way journalism is in decline, which is to say: there's more of it than ever, and the people who are Getting It Done are thriving in new, 21st century institutions. But people who just want a job "in the industry", whether it is journalism or academics, are going to have a bad time as vast swaths of "the industry" crumble in response to competition that actually embraces the new value system the internet is forcing on all industries.

Universities will continue to exist, and will do great research, along with being an excellent babysitter for 18-30 year olds who have the means to purchase a babysitter while they focus on their academics (or not). But more and more research will happen outside of the Academy, because research is useful. And for many kinds of research, there are easier ways to get it done than getting a PhD. And that trend will increase.

And the University will lose its place as the de-facto spot for kids and researchers to go.
It's a discussion, but yes, one of the arguments is that allowing places to exclude non-Danes is undesirable from a public-policy perspective. It's currently not legal to explicitly exclude non-Danes: you cannot ask for ID cards and refuse to serve foreigners. This change would make it possible to do that de facto, with the Dankort being sort of the ID card. There is also a possibility it would violate Denmark's commitments to the EU, requiring it to ensure equal treatment of EU citizens in commerce.
From my experience (having done a similar project as an undergrad) is that the first problem is convincing people to switch and take the risk/time to use your new workflow, even if your workflow allows them to continue to use their existing infrastructure / machines.
The ones making a living are actually the consulting firms selling trainings, mobile developer certifications and doing apps alongside enterprise deployments of the main application,

In gold rush times, the ones selling shovels get the real money.
Social Media and Machine Learning tell Stores where to locate
Tools:

Browserify [1]. You have all the npm packages available, and your modules are compatible with Node. This allows you to easily test your modules, or reuse some of your modules in the browser, the CLI and a webserver for example.

Stylus [2] is great. Compared to Sass, I think it’s easier, more or equally powerful, and more future-proof. It’s basically a programming language on top of CSS, while Sass looks more like another language that produces CSS. It’s also written in JS, so you can easily write your own plugins (as npm modules).

Browserify and Stylus are also quite nice if your code is component-oriented.

This is how you import a component in Browserify:

require('my-component')

And in Stylus:

@require 'my-component'

For the build step, I always use Make because it’s everywhere except Windows, and I switch on gulp [3] if things get complicated or if I need Windows compatibility.

I’m using tape [4] and testling [5] (locally) for tests. Simple.

jspage [6] (I’m the author) is a simple tool I often use to transform some JS into a page. Useful for quick tests if you work in the CLI.

Services:

Cloudup [7] is nice for quick screenshot sharing. On OS X, I just use the built-in tool to make a screenshot, and an URL is immediately copied to the clipboard, I just have to paste it to someone. The delay between the moment when you take the screenshot and the moment when the other person loads the page is usually enough for the screenshot to be uploaded and displayed.

scri.ch [8] (I wrote this tool) is a simple drawing tool I’m using to share visual ideas, especially in GitHub issues (just add .png to an URL to get the image). I also use it to make quick interface elements that I can integrate into a web mockup.

[1] http://browserify.org/
[2] http://learnboost.github.io/stylus/
[3] http://gulpjs.com/
[4] https://github.com/substack/tape
[5] https://ci.testling.com/
[6] https://github.com/bpierre/jspage
[7] https://cloudup.com/
[8] http://scri.ch/
Tiny bug report: after clicking on the levels and going back to level 0, all of the buttons on the sides disappear.
It is basically impossible to do life sciences research outside of an academic or industry lab, and almost no academic lab will take on someone who is not a student or post-doc.

An individual outside of academia would be unable to purchase supplies due to supplier restrictions, would lack access to journals without piracy, would have no access to expensive required analytical equipment, and would be unable to front the costs associated with regulatory compliance in a lab setting.

While it's true that progress can be made from a simulation stand point, licenses to these software packages are enormously expensive. Without a university appointment or a well established track record, no one is going to be willing to share clinical data with you. Moreover, without any ability to validate the findings from your simulations in a lab / clinical setting, any results would be of questionable value.

Most importantly, it would be extremely difficult for an individual not associated with a university or industry lab to publish their results in a top tier journal.
Techcrunch vs. Reality
Electricity exports from Germany are on an all-time high though.
Few weeks ago, I've written an article about my 5 favorite front-end tools: http://thenextweb.com/dd/2014/05/29/5-great-front-end-develo...
A Humbling Experience at a Software Conference
From cancer research to venture capital: interview with Nathan Benaich
What does the fact that I can pay with Bitcoin in a very narrow selection of web shops have to do with the vast network of debit and credit card systems that I can pay with anywhere I want (web and brick-and-mortar) without any effort whatsoever? The suggestion that cryptocurrencies are competition to MasterCard's and Visa's duopoly is ridiculous. Cryptocurrencies, due to their intrinsic online nature, are a very limited payment solution.

Note that I do support cryptocurrency efforts, use them, and follow the news with interest. But cryptocurrencies are not even close to mainstream enough to have this duopoly worried.
Has anyone ever looked at how large some of these graduate STEM departments are by the number of students? When I decided to go back to grad school for maths, I realized that doing a Ph.D. would probably be fruitless. How did I determine this? I went to UC Berkeley, Stanford and UCLA, arguably the best math departments in the country based on the NRC rankings and AMS rankings, and counted up their graduate students. There were over 300 students. THREE HUNDRED. Three hundred brilliant minds with brilliant credentials with at least 300 other hundred brilliant competitors. That's not including the grad students at the other more mediocre schools in California like USC, UCSC, UCSB, UC Davis, UCI, UCR, and, god, I must be missing some. Oh yeah, UC San Diego. I was wondering, then, where are all these brilliant students going to go? Surely, there is not enough openings in academia, even at lower ranked institutions, for these guys. I went and checked for job openings in academia for math tenure tracked appts, and yes, there were only 10 jobs out there at the time. I then started piecing together things I saw in my own life's journey: brilliant mathematicians and scientists teaching and researching at second or third tier research universities. A lot teaching at teaching colleges (at my school, SJSU, there are several math professors from Stanford and Princeton teaching there).

It was then I realized that doing a Ph.D. in STEM is a pretty piss poor proposition. I would highly discourage most people from doing it, unless you really love research, don't care about job prospects or money, and that's all you want to do in life.
Beautiful, polished, fun! Contrary to most people here, I actually like the comments between levels, and the "no instructions" policy just made it better. I wish more games were like this.

Nicely done, I have no negative comments to make. I'd totally pay for this.
Considering that the Higgs Boson was theorized about in 1964 and finally proven in an experiment in 2012: this seems to be the way of theoretical physics. ;)
Seiki 4k 39".
3850 x 2150 px
Good forma programming... bad for games.
$ 400 - 450 USD
Redis social graph implementation in Ruby (GEM)
Alex MacCaw [1] suggests that O1 requires sponsorship from a US company. My anecdotal and outdated experience matches his description.

[1] http://blog.sourcing.io/visa-guide
7 Simple Steps for a Search-Savvy Site
Why strong UK employment growth could be really bad news
That's a great question. Can anyone say something about their .NET front-end workflow? Do you use only VS built-ins ? Or perhaps you've found a way to use browserify, node, etc. efficiently whend creating UI in the MS world? So that, when your work is done, it is easy to move your stuff to project files and back (if necessary to correct something) ?
The term "bad guys" is much broader than just terrorist. Feel free to substitute "drug smugglers", "human traffickers", "members of organized crime groups", "militant extremists", or, yes, even "terrorists". Nor did I make any argument as to how to handle any of them. The point is that you don't have to be smart to cause harm. The smart ones were presumably harder to track beforehand; the not-so-smart ones are likely a lot smarter now.
Those of us who work with computers tend to think it is natural that labor productivity should always increase. Therefore, we owe to ourselves, to our integrity and intellectual honesty, to confront the possibility, now on view in the UK, that labor productivity can stagnate for a long period, or perhaps even decline.
Sometimes ... just sometimes, a fantastic product, and good lifestyle-type marketing (at least, from the videos on their site) can make all the difference. Paper is just leaps and bounds better than any other similar app ;)
Oh I don't disagree with you, life sciences are an area where things will still work as you described for a long time.
Fair enough, but look at all the duplicates out there for that piano keys game or...pretty much everything.
My question was supposed to geared more towards functionality. What advantage do you have making something in html5 when it's easily stolen. How do you prove it was yours first? I believe I read a blog post on HN about a guy who was cloned like this before he made it into the play store and google banned him instead of the copycat.
Asus PB278

2560x1440 for ~500$
> Natural question: was the big bang a white hole?

The big bang theory describes the early moments in the Universe's expansion of space, not the projection of matter from a single point in space.
In Denmark the charge for a debit card is 0.20 usd plus 0,1% of the transaction for purchases above approximately 18 usd.

It's is a smaller fixed amount for smaller purchases.
The context for these coding-challenges is they are the type for algorithm competition or white-board coding interview.

Back then when I was still looking for job, I was asked this question by a startup. I gave out this hashset solution and was quickly asked if O(1) space solution was available and then asked to implemented it.

If the space restriction is not an issue, I would definitely go with the method you suggested. Way more succinct and easier to follow.
Can't think about a specific model but a good programming screen for me is one which can rotate 90 degrees in portrait mode.
The O1 is employer-sponsored. You need a sponsor.

The filing fees will run up about 2k including expedited processing (which is usually worth it). You're gonna have to go through a quite thorough process of building up a detailed dossier making your case for the government to review. This can easily cost 5-10k, depending on your attorney and the complexity of your case.
> It does seem like natural thought - that at some point even a black hole reaches it's maximum density.

There is no compelling reason, neither theoretical nor observational, that black holes should have a maximum mass. In fact, we've observed some extraordinarily heavy black holes and so far no upper bound has become visible other than factors stemming from the amount of time active and the environment in their vicinity that allowed those holes to grow.

> However, I do seem to recall (some) black holes shoot a stream of particles from either pole

That happens whenever a lot of matter accretes around a source of gravity - a hot disk is formed and matter is accelerated out of the poles. It happens with heavy objects other than black holes as well. The ejected matter comes from the accreted stuff, not from the black hole itself.

> In that case, it's plausible that it doesn't take on additional mass and thus never reaches a maximum stress point, thus doesn't explode

No, only a small part of the accreted matter is ejected.

> Of course there's another theory that they're dumping that matter elsewhere..

There is no plausible theory at this point that suggests anything of that nature. Matter as we know it ceases to exist in a black hole, it becomes compressed in a way that its usual properties are lost - so much so that in fact, how and if information loss happens in a black hole is still a matter of debate and has led to some credible theories on how information and entropy might be preserved at the border to ordinary space.

There is also nothing to suggest that black holes are losing mass at any appreciable rate, other than possibly through Hawking radiation. Combined with the fact that the known cosmos does not exhibit any regions where measurable amounts of matter simply come into existence, the idea that opposite of every black hole is a white hole spewing out the stuff both ignores the fact that black holes get bigger by ingestion and the lack of any evidence for matter spewers.

Of course that does not prove it's not happening, but there is zero reason at the moment to believe this is going on. And that pertains to this article as well, the content being presented here is not supported by any evidence or current theoretical modeling.
Current preferred setup is:

- npm for javascript dependencies

- vendor dir for sass deps (I've had problems with Bower don't run enough deps to put up with it)

- Webpack [1] and some shell scripts for builds. Webpack does all the hard/coordinated stuff and the scripts copy files. I've used Rake, Grunt, and Gulp with Browserify to do the same things and find my current setup works better.

[1] https://github.com/petehunt/webpack-howto

- Sass. I strongly dislike Less.

- React with Bacon

- Jest for testing. I'm not completely thrilled with this. It's awesome when it works but I've also spent half a day tracking down a bug that turned out to not be a bug and instead an artifact of the Jest module loader.

- Vim with my own set of javascript + library UltiSnips snippets. Tip: when you're writing library snippets, write them as e.g. 'react.snippets' and NOT 'javascript_react.snippets'. This prevents the various library snippets from interfering with each other. Vim supports a file having multiple simultaneous filetypes using a dotted notation `:set ft=javascript.react` and you can use ftdetect to automate the setting.
and that's exactly why we need the debate: so businesses can't buy themselves a self-serving change
If the "bounce" is perfectly "elastic" then the explosion should not eject matter fast enough to reach escape velocity from the local system. The explosion would then collapses back onto itself into a black hole, and the whole thing would repeat over and over. Kind of like the old theories of the eternally recurring Big Crunch --> Big Bang.
This may be a stupid question, but are Visa/MasterCard/etc essential? Can't banks work things out among each other?
I think the problem is the implicit assumption that configuration has to be all the way one way or the other. In my experience you want configuration to be mostly declarative, but you also want to augment that configuration with limited amounts of actual code.
Yes, on paper the requirements are pretty much the same. But, O1s and EB-1s are processed by different offices within the USCIS. I've found that whomever processes the EB-1s tends to be much more strict than for O-1s. I've had an identical case get approved for O-1 and rejected for EB-1.
Qt.

I know that's probably not what you meant, I just wanted to remind people that there's a world outside of the browser.
MuPDF claims to support forms and JavaScript as of version 1.2.
You sure really do know a lot about cryptocurrencies.

I'm particularly interested in their "intrinsic on line nature", care to elaborate a little bit further?
So will the universe eventually just have black holes?
Oh hey it's another claustrophobic fixed header covering up content. Horrible.
This is obviously and objectively true for a sufficiently high level of "media/computer use", and I think many of us will say, anecdotally, that we have bumped up against this limit. What's so offensive about it?
Total scare-bait. People do drugs?!?! People with money do drugs?!?! Nothing unique here, not even any real statistics to say that it's increasing with tech people
>While it's true that progress can be made from a simulation stand point, licenses to these software packages are enormously expensive.

Can you specify which software you're referring to? For many life science sub-disciplines, there are an increasing number of either open source or low-cost competitors.
FreeOTP – 2FA open source Google Authenticator
Nope. At least in Germany, it's 0.3% and a minimum of 8 cents per transaction, plus the monthly infrastructure fee.
The "bounce" is not a classical one, so the conceptual idea of a ball bouncing or similar intuition could be very misleading.
If short term companies will kill their long term competitors in short term, i.e. now, long term may never come and global trend won't care about the future. Isn't that a danger?
Companies that sacrifice long term for short term profits will, assuredly, do poorly long term. Their stock price will decline. Investors will see this and will short the stock. The stock will have low P/E ratios.

We see this play out right now. Facebook and Google offer faster return on investment than Merck and Pfizer, and that's why stock prices are where they are.

But when you shut down a research facility you instantly lose decades of institutional knowledge, something that you can't buy for all the money in the world. At some point society has to ask what it wants: more targeted advertising, or antibiotics that actually work.
Show HN: Simple spreadsheet-backed membership management
App store links:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.fedorahost...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/freeotp/id872559395
That's precisely the place where I think the description can be improved. With complex assignments, there are two parts: compute the place to store a value, and store the value there. In my mental model, the latter is better called assignment than evaluation.
Using Python to get sold out concert tickets off of Craigslist
Depending on your end-goal, I would also suggest:

Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja [0]

The Principles of Object-Oriented JavaScript [1]

[0] http://amzn.to/1xl6Huq

[1] http://amzn.to/1nLAVa0
Every Bitcoin-derived cryptocurrency has to keep in sync with the blockchain in order to participate in payments. That is what I mean with "online in nature".
I would recommend reading[0] instead.

[0] http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2008/10/execution-sequence-for-b...
I wonder what is the admixture between

- hobbyist apps getting better

- vc funded businesses willing to lose piles of money for a shot at winning the app lottery introducing apps/services far below cost

- deliberate deception on the part of app store owners about true prices of apps leading to very heavy use of iap and deceptive business practices
On paper, yeah. In practice, the Kazarian test changes the EB-1A a bit. I'm unhappy to hear that in practice the difference is that significant.

Link: http://shusterman.com/extraordinaryabilityimmigration.html
It would be great then if you would take the time to explain why it is invaluable to you. Thanks.
Would you recommend this? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00B1IAL7W
Not strictly speaking. Black holes are just ordinary gravity wells. They're strong, and stuff falls into them, but they don't actively suck stuff in anymore than planets or stars do. However, over very long time spans, orbiting systems should lose energy by radiating gravitational waves. That means after an inordinately long period of time, and after ejecting a lot of its mass, each galaxy will likely end up just one big black hole. But there is always stuff traveling through the universe that is not gravitationally bound to anything, and since space itself is expanding, a lot of the matter in the universe will just keep on drifting without ever colliding with anything ever again.

Not that it matters from a practical perspective. Once the last stars have gone cold, that's pretty much as good a definition of "the end" as any other, and that will happen long before maximum entropy is reached.

There might not be a definite end state to the universe itself, but there are certainly some thresholds past which everything will become so boring that we may just as well consider them to be final.
I've gotten to 31 without the need for pen & paper - but yes, your right, the difficulty balancing is great. It's had me scratching my head a couple of times, but not so much to cause me to quit.

Sign of a good game.
Two 27" Planar displays ( http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/planar-pxl2790mw-review,... ). I bought mine from Tiger Direct for about $450 each in March or April, but I can't find them there anymore.
People in denial (in this case about the health of endless computer usage) tend to react violently when you confront the issue.
I use one 22 or 24 inch monitor, and I usually dock my window at half width in an editor or similar, fullscreen for IDE and Browser only.