skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a personal example, a friend of mine was looking for a web dev position in Montreal for months until he found some low paying crappy job, he then decided to move to Vancouver and found a job within 3 weeks!
Vancouver job market is burning hot and startups are having difficulties hiring, I read some even consider setting up offices in Montreal.
Wow, so uninformed...

Having lived in Mississippi and Seattle for 4+ years each (Seattle it was more like 8), windchill is much worse in Mississippi than it is in Seattle. In Seattle, you can pretty much leave your window open year round and have a nice sleep. 70 is considered hot in the summer; 40 is considered cold in the winter.

Now Mississippi: hot humid summers, cold humid winters. Life pretty much sucks outside of Fall/Spring.

Edit: in the interest of keeping people away from Seattle, I take everything back and agree with parent.
"Using straight edge and compass you can only solve equations with x to the power of 2."

Why is that?
How about the Gittip badges from http://shields.io/?
author here. a more rigorous analysis would include a co-variance matrix and a best fit line to quantify the relationships between the variables.

on the surface, there doesn't seem to be much of a correlation. not all exploration reaches a definitive conclusion or even a correlation. the alternative would be for me to shelve the visualization on the grounds of "no conclusion". and that would be the file drawer effect in action :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publication_bias#File_drawer_ef...
Earlier this year I interviewed for a research/engineering position at Apple. I was offered the job, took it, and went into the H1B lottery. It took the USCIS four months to let me know that my application was not selected, even though it was filed under 'premium processing', and the draw had been done using a computer in the first week after submissions closed. Since the job required me to be in Cupertino, the deal simply fell through.

Now imagine this, you worked your ass for for a total of nine years to get your masters and PhD, and you spent countless hours honing your skills and finally you get a dream job that merges awesome research, top-level engineering, and working on a product that millions of people use every day. And then it all goes tits up because of a lottery.

A. Fucking. Lottery.

The problem for people like me is that, if I want to work in the US, I have to go through a lottery that will keep me in uncertainty for months. Then, _maybe_, if I'm lucky enough, I can relocate only to have the same thing looming a few years down the line. I cannot build a life around such uncertainty. I cannot built a future like that.

So, I'm staying in Europe. Not having been born in the US means that a lot of jobs are just not open to me, not because it's impossible to get them, but simply because the hassle is just not worth it anymore.
For the most part, I agree. I think 3D printers have and will continue to revolutionize industrial design.

But what might come next is if industrial designers flip the script and, instead of using 3D printers to make poor prototypes of injection molded parts, they come up with products designed to 3D printers' strengths? Those are few now, but will grow in a feedback loop between manufacturers and designers.
wxPython has system native widgets in every platform. wxWidgets has system native widgets in every platform, and it is the only one I know that provides that.

May be you are thinking about some other toolkit that's not wxWidgets.
If you don't believe in dualistic free will, then responsibility lies entirely with factors beyond the control of the poor, thus there can be no personal blame.
Given that I also mentioned state and local government, it should be clear that I'm referring to more than just immigration issues.

I get your point though. I'm an evil capitalist who doesn't want to fund Americans because they are unwilling to give up 7% equity, or something like that. Maybe you think that Sergey Brin and Paul Graham stole their jobs from some hard working, native born Americans.

That's the problem with zero-sum thinking. You believe that in order for a foreigner to get ahead, an American must be pushed back.

I have the opposite view. I believe that much of America's success is rooted in having an open and inclusive culture that attracts smart, ambitious, and determined people from around the world who come here and pursue their dreams. And that when they succeed, we all benefit. To me, anti-immigrant is anti-American, both economically and ideologically.
Being at the mercy of anyone is never a great idea, although it might be a regrettable necessity sometimes. So just so you know, after your adjustment for status is filed, and pending for more than 6 months, you are supposed to be able to port the green card to a new employer. Read up more about this process, and be ready to use it if necessary at the appropriate time.

But definitely, weigh the costs and benefits, and do seriously consider Canada.
Exactly. McDonald's has never been afraid of automation. If this were really that viable, they would already be doing it.
It appears to me you don't have a particularly good grasp of the laws and legal code surrounding these circumstances beyond cursory Wikipedia articles. Often the laws are much much more complex than they appear on the surface.
hi. how would you suggest making it more informative & intuitive, aside from removing the animations?
OpenGraphiti: OpenDNS Data Visualization Framework
Well I wish you the best of luck. I'm sure there are plenty of people with whom this project will jive.

I don't see it. But I'm in my 40's, have no tattoos, no fedora, a normal haircut and no beard so I don't know that diversity extends far enough for me anyway. For me, hacking is not about vacation nor social engineering and never the twain shall meet. But style preferences may vary. If it works for others, by all means disregard and carry on. I'm not intending to start a community. There are already plenty of those that grew organically over the decades where I live. I generally turn up my nose at them as well, so don't take it personally. Making a better living space is a laudable goal.
In response to a question about why the Montreal Python user group was so popular, I was told (by a member) that it's because there are fewer large companies for developers, so they need to network to find jobs at smaller firms.
wxWidgets has been doing that for more than a decade.

Well, may be some very platform specific guidelines have to be added by hand, but the actual widgets used are native.
An open letter to Adam Shostack, the man who raped my wife
hacker news is anti-china or something?
PlanGrid (YC W12) is looking for awesome JavaScript hackers
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AFAIK such a system is not uncommon, e.g. Australia and NZ also have it Canada-style, but the required $ amounts in their programs are much higher.

Investing in a Canadian company is also an option to get residence.
Works for me, including in a private session (i.e. no cookies). I'm not sure what would be different between us.

http://leon.barrettnexus.com/share/becausw.png
Interesting, but not particularly surprising. Despite many people's hate for Buzzfeed they are quickly building up a powerful journalism team. I suspect they will be the biggest media/journalism/content powerhouse online within a few years (they technically already are).
Well, in some cases it's that the people coming from overseas are willing to get paid less for the same job. The 'evil capitalist' sees this as a way to get cheaper labor.

I think that this can be alleviated without being anti-immigrant though. For example, make it easier for H1Bs to move between jobs and/or start their own businesses so that they don't have to feel so tied to the employer that they don't want to risk 'rocking the boat' too much. Or make it so that switching jobs doesn't 'reset the counter' on building up towards citizenship (or is it just a green card, I forget).
On Techcrunch - http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/08/guesswork-wants-to-focus-ma...
Here it also helps to know how to design for the process. If you can avoid sharp details and features that add a bunch of actions, you can save a lot of money. Tool makers won't always tell you how some small difference will save you money. That's one reason to do things in the US, at first. You can pick their brains.

This... is all an example of how 3D printing can change the game. But it, too, will have to become an art form first.
Evgeny Morozov's oped on privacy, subjectivity and Facebook
American citizens are not entitled to work in the EU. If an American wants to plan their long-term life around working in the EU, that is far from a sure thing. Even with a masters and PhD. So why should the US be singled out for this?
That's interesting you feel that way about DataTables. I was thinking about moving from slickgrid to datatables since slickgrid's author is no longer supporting the project. I was under the impression datatables might be easier to develop with compared to slickgrid.

If someone has used both slickgrid and datatables, could you recommend one or the other?
What are the benefits to users - save the difficulty of remembering their own parent's names? At one time, younger users were avoiding Facebook to avoid having public online conversations with parents. Danah Boyd has published on this topic, she would have a more informed opinion, http://www.danah.org/itscomplicated/

Perhaps Facebook could create a location where they could receive free technical advice on new product features and whether they would be helpful to their customers and society, with public votes and feedback? This could be done for roadmap features originated within Facebook and for user-generated roadmap requests.

As for privacy, is there economic value in DNA/SNA information harvesting by Facebook bots?
Oh, cool. It just takes a little bit more Elisp for a full SLIME environment. Thanks!

I liked StumpWM when I used it, but as a Schemer, I'm inclined to use/hack guile-wm.
Indeed, my MBA has a humble 1366x768, which makes me reflect about progress in this area. The lack of more vertical real state is especially frustrating.
Managing people is absolutely, 100% for at least the last 10 years, being aggressively and successfully being reduced to low skill labor. For example, things like ordering inventory, scheduling staff, pricing products are all done at significantly lower pay rates than were done in the past. The only thing that has slowed some of the automation is simply a shorter route to developing nation outsourcing.

The reason developing countries still dig ditches by hand is because it is still cheaper. The reason for that is not access to automation but the massive wage differential that makes that labor so cheap. Its the low cost of the labor that actually protects it from automation. So therefore it follows that expensive(high and mid skill labor which is even more scalable due to lower material costs since it can typically be automated without machines) will be the most profitable segment to either automate away or reduce to low skill labor.
This guy's channel is absolutely full of amazing gems. All kinds of retrocomputers with some pretty great commentary on the design of the hardware.
That's how it was in 1994ish in the US when I was a youngin workin the griddle. It was already pretty automated back then: slap down some frozen hockey-puck burgers, lower the top griddle down which trips an automated timer. When the timer tripped, the upper griddle released, an alarm sounds letting the griddle operator know that the burgers are ready for retrieval.

Then generally they were placed in warming bins unless it was rush when they were immediately needed for burgers.

It was a horrible job, mostly because I am a diligent employee even at a McDonald's, my fellow employees were not, and the assistant manager was dealing meth to many of them. He was the franchise owner's son.
I started using stumpwm but I have a small problem that's been annoying me.

I'm used to emacs, where if I kill a buffer while split, the killed buffer will be replace by a hidden buffer, or the frame will unsplit.

However, in stumpwm, sometimes I'll end a program while split, and I will be left with an ugly blank space where the program's window used to be. Then I have to manually unsplit and resplit to restore the layout I had before.

Am I doing something wrong? I'm looking up how to get around this. I think it'll involve

*destroy-window-hook*

I just want stumpwm to take advantage of the whole screen at all times.

Thanks.
FWIW, here's Chris Dixon's blog post on the subject, which includes additional context on BuzzFeed's technological chops:

http://cdixon.org/2014/08/10/buzzfeed/

> BuzzFeed has technology at its core. Its 100+ person tech team has created world-class systems for analytics, advertising, and content management. Engineers are 1st class citizens. Everything is built for mobile devices from the outset. Internet native formats like lists, tweets, pins, animated GIFs, etc. are treated as equals to older formats like photos, videos, and long form essays. BuzzFeed takes the internet and computer science seriously.

The last line, about taking "computer science seriously"...maybe BF doesn't have a dev team of the likes of Google and Facebook, but it must certainly be one of the best in the media business. I've looked through their job postings from time to time, and unlike most major media companies, the job descriptions treat engineering/dev positions as the complex, specialized fields that they often are...what I mean is that at a news company, a dev is expected to do many different things...not because the news company really wants a "full stack" developer or will pay the salary for what that entails, but because there are so many legacy technologies to juggle, and since the traditional news company has only so much money to spend on tech...a Java developer could be expected to crank on the CMS and also figure out video delivery solutions for the media company's bespoke legacy system...and maybe also do some front-end design. At BuzzFeed, even though it seems the organization is relatively flat, with not many layers/walls between tech and editorial, when they want a MySQL developer, they just want someone who can do some serious administration and performance hacking...not a MySQL dev who also might also be expected to hack on some animal quiz code.

I think besides the quality of their CMS (which is pretty damn good, no matter what you think of the editorial content)...one of their most impressive feats was rebuilding the entire site, basically from scratch, during the week that Hurricane Sandy flooded their servers in lower Manhattan. In fact, I believe Gawker had their servers in the same area, but was reduced to creating a Tumblr and posting to it for some time after the hurricane.

edit: Also, another thing I admire: despite their technological chops, they tend to be fairly conservative about how they push the constraints of the web. Their lists are simply lists that work in any browser, any device...because text and static images work perfectly fine in conveying a message. Even their gigantic longform stories don't do crazy shit...for being a "gimmicky" tabloidesque site, BuzzFeed seems to have great confidence in the power of plaintext and big photos...compare this to major news organizations trying to parallax-scroll everything for every occasion.
You are mistaken.

One could always modify StumpWM at runtime, via SLIME, which
is far superior to geiser. Common Lisp is also superior
to Scheme (as a language) and SBCL/CCL are miles better than Guile in particular, Guile being one of the worst Scheme implementations out there.
The psychophysics reference (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychophysics) was educational. What hardware was used by modern psychophysics researchers before Oculus?
For understanding the stack frame layout on x86-64, I found this post to be quite useful:

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2011/09/06/stack-frame-layout-o...
Those are poppy-seeds. A weird bun for burgers, to be sure though...
I'm in AU where prostitution is legal and regulated, but laws vary from state to state.

As far as I can tell trafficking is not a huge problem. There is certainly no incentive for the majority of clients to seek out trafficked workers when the legal options are very easily available.

I've also heard a couple of stories where there have been violent clients or clients refusing to pay, and they worker just went to the police to help sort it out. So at least here the system is ok.
If the Internet had to ensure housing, food, and transportation would be available for every participant, we would be a lot more selective about granting access. Open borders made sense in the age of unsettled land, and they make sense when the marginal cost of delivering everything (i.e., only information) is nearly zero.
I walked around Boston once with some friends for 7 hours. When I remember it I see it as the hyperlapse, not moment for moment or sped up. Super interesting work.
Wow, that really sucks (there's no other word for it). Makes me realise how lucky I was to get an H1B during the recession when no lottery was needed. Since then I've moved back to Europe though, in some small part for the insecurity of the whole situation. I wish you could have had my "spot", seems like you were a lot more deserving.
Just a reminder, you're on HN, so expect some downvotes and angry people when you point out the inherent non-value of many VC-backed startups, similarly experienced when advocating for privacy (I'm looking at you free-to-use startups that rely on user-data to sell/exploit).
Reminds me of Soulver. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/soulver/id413965349?mt=12
No need to have CMS for simple websites. Use grunt, jekyll and GitHub pages
James Patterson: If I were Amazon's Jeff Bezos
Does anyone have any data for which plane is more fuel efficient per passenger? Probably the 787?
I hope you at least let your friend know that you weren't going to make it...?

Anyway, your vacation sounds awesome to me :).
Apart from political propaganda it's also just a function of the stuff people buy. I buy a lot of cheap consumer-grade merchandise and it's largely made in China. But I never buy an airliner.
Nobody in the US can be denied emergency medical care, regardless of ability to pay. Poor people already know this, which is why inner-city emergency rooms are overwhelmed with things like "my baby has a cough", making a $50 office visit a $400 bill that will get written off.
For me the benefit is obvious - Since I never call my parents by their names and only address them as dad\mom it's much more natural for me to @dad when I'd like him to see something. In fact, that's how I've stumbled upon this feature. Using FB when very tired and just accidently wrote @dad instead of @<his name>.
Indeed it would be awesome if Facebook crowdsourced their road map, that's a great idea.
If anyone is interested in a similar basic crossfilters written in d3, you can check out dc.js - https://github.com/dc-js/dc.js/wiki (edit: i have no relation to the project, but it's pretty neat)

Here is a list of community contributed examples:
https://github.com/dc-js/dc.js/wiki#examples-contributed-by-... including some geographic visualizations.
Overall I would say devs aren't keen on either OpenGL or DirectX 11, but between the two DX11 seems to be more well regarded. DirectX 12 looks like a good step forward, but many eyes are following Mantle[1] and Metal[2] to see if they can bring new innovations to market.

1. http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/software-technologies/m...

2. https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...
That's nice, mate. Be sure to get back to us when you've actually done something instead of blogging grandiosely about it.
It is obvious the gov is going after foreigners with a different standard that isn't applied to Chinese companies. I can't read the article however, since nytimes is blocked in China.
You don't need to be a jerk. He complained about a lottery - that hardly makes him sound feeling entitled about the job. A lottery, to him and to me, sounds like a joke in the grand scheme of things. To put all your formative years into the grinding regime of grad school only to see the next step taken away by a lottery sounds unfair and he has a right to complain about it.
How bad could it get

Not very, barring unexpected mutation: http://www.vox.com/2014/7/30/5948995/why-ebola-would-never-g...
This one of the many reasons why I ignore Windows Phone as a viable development platform.
I attempted to install on Windows - it doesn't work due to the lack of os.geteuid(), which is called in the setup.py file to check for root. With a little bit of finagling I could get around that and make it install, but not work due to undefined SIGPIPE in the signal module. It makes sense that this could be UNIX only, but that wasn't stated anywhere on the webpage. Perhaps that should be mentioned somewhere.
I've had both Scots and Canadians complain about how cold Melbourne gets. The problem isn't so much that the temperature drop doesn't get below freezing very often, it's that we don't build for the cold. Another friend says that he knows a German who, when she visits someone's house, shakes an inner wall with her fingertips and says "you guys can't build houses for shit". The ironic thing is that we have some of the most expensive housing in the world, in terms of cost vs average annual income.

This all being said, the current winter we're in has been particularly weak - lots of warm, sunny days. It's not the usual dreary, rainy Melbourne winter.
Startup offers payday advances without the pesky loan-sharking
The processing is quite cheap for a company with its own datacenters and computation clusters. Not so cheap for an individual though. So a user could pay a dollar while Microsoft is only spending pennies.
>Overall acceptance of the change by the public wasn't the main driver in stopping this effort. Corporate lobbying was however, as usual.

That simply isn't true. I remember those days - I was there.
Those are a lot of claims to throw out there in one sentence. Can you elaborate a bit (although I'll give you SLIME over Geiser)?