skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Other countries with huge immigration demand include England and Spain

Spain is just wanted due to the proximity to Africa and a lot of African immigrants/refugees using this vector.

> There are simply better ways of dealing with high immigration demand than "dump everyone into a pot regardless of education/experience/viability/urgency and randomly select a few".

We Germans deal with asylum seekers by putting > 2.500 people in camps designed for 1.500 MAXIMUM occupants (Munich, "Bayernkaserne" camp), blocking them from work and giving them free food and 140€ per month as pocket money.

Needlessly to say, that ain't fucking enough for non-food expenses in bigger cities, and what happens if the only thing they do is drink, smoke and fight (as asylum seekers you must not travel around the country, you have to stay in your processing city!) is basically a fucking violation of human dignity.

Of course it also leads to vast criminality - not just the fighting between asylum seekers themselves, but also massive amounts of theft, pot dealing (hello Berlin Görlitzer Park) and other criminality. In order, Nazi-parties and other right-wing extremists gain excellent popularity with "Kick em out" messages.
I have a Dell XPS 15z which came with Windows 7. I installed Kubuntu on it dual-boot. The only time I boot into Windows is to do my tax (Aus Tax Office tool was Windows only for a long time - that might have changed now though).

Not quite everything works on the 15z. The external HDMI out will not work unless you restart (no hot plug for an external monitor). The Nvidia/Intel hybrid graphics system was also poorly supported until recently.

Otherwise everything seems to work fine. I rarely need to reboot (usually only after a kernel upgrade).

It might be a good idea to check out the Ubuntu Hardware Support Wiki before you buy, for example:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupport/Machines/Laptops/Del...
It's actually pretty cool. I've just been through all of that painful setup personally. CORS, grunt, SSL, cloudfront, S3, deploy, different stages, minifying, zzz. As others have asked, how do you plan to price such a service? A feature from Heroku I really like is the "Rollback", maybe that's something you may want to add as an added benefit.
> Do any ordinary travelers care about the type of plane they're on?

Depends on the definitions you choose. If you define an "ordinary traveler" as "one who doesn't care what type of plane they're on", then no, an ordinary traveler doesn't care what type of plane they're on.

Speaking for myself: the A380 is much quieter than any other plane I've been on. For 15-hour trans-Pacific flights, that's a big deal.
i saw nerve.com's data on intercourse duration and started to wonder which variables might cause or correlate with the same. of greatest interest to me at the time: how does in/equality affect our sex lives? income is one measure of equality. politics is a natural third dimension of general interest.

it is a somewhat ad hoc trio of variables, sure, but there's a singular underlying question: which popular psychographic dimensions affect our sex lives? given finite time, i picked these 3 and ran with it :)
Yeah I suggested it because it seemed like a rather obvious solution. Now not sure if government is just incapable running an auction or there is an obvious flaw in it that I just couldn't see.
> Maybe you think that Sergey Brin and Paul Graham stole their jobs from some hard working, native born Americans.

Straw man. Sergey Brin didn't immigrate to the US, his parents did and he came along for the ride as a child.

Nobody begrudges the success of children of immigrants to the US (which by definition is everyone but the native Americans), but middle aged, unemployed American programmers may well resent companies that claim there is a shortage of programmers whilst stuffing their IT departments with foreign visa workers who won't rock the boat or ask for a raise because their continued residency in the US depends on employer sponsorship.
Great tech. But it really just looks like a steady-cam sped up x10. I get the technical brilliance, but visually it's not terribly innovative.
> it uses the argument's conclusion as one of its premises.

His theorem doesn't assert free will. It asserts that if experimenters have free will, then particles have free will. So if it's wrong, then it's not for the reason you give.
Real time image recognization for text and local languages support for India
Thanks! I'm going to add that site to my blacklist of sites not to visit.

I'm serious on that. I can't vote investments out of office, but I can stop using sites/services and stop promoting them when they take investments from VCs/investors with questionable ethical investments. I'm sure it's a (somewhat) financially sound investment, but that doesn't mean I will go along with it as a consumer or (bootstrapped) startup founder.

Honesty and integrity have become null and void in Silicon Valley and I'm completely fed up with the bullshit. Cut the crap already, ya know? It's the same beef I have with the founders that try to save face when a similar product or service comes out. I know they're frustrated/upset/disappointed, but the whole, "oh, they're a good service too, btw our product..." crap that I've seen on HN lately.

I'm well aware that my idealism does not make perfect business sense, but business is not the end all be all of life, and I'm completely over Silicon Valley propping up bullshit to market bullshit with more bullshit on top. One of these days there will be a VC firm that only invests in transparent and ethically-sound businesses, and I will be doing whatever I can to give my money to those start-ups.
Partially agreed. I found Vancouver very lovely (Stanley Park is quite nice) yet very expensive (cost of living) and relatively low paying. I would need a company there to "sponsor" my visa (as an American) but I don't want to take an massive pay cut.
Supermoon : The Moon at Its Biggest and Brightest All Year
Great, now do the same trick with sound pressure waves in air!
The new URL doesn't work though. Looking to find the typo.

Ah here it is: http://www.anu.edu/vision/videos/12091/

(no edu.au at the end)
And make sure to prompt to select an email address for those that have multiple ones on their accounts.
> such boondoggles as the LA-SF "high speed" rail

That thing is way beyond a "boondoggle". It makes no business sense. So there's got to be some serious graft involved.

To your point about "bigger planes", instead of spending $30B to build this train to nowhere, the govt could instead go out and lease ten A380 airplanes and dedicate them to flying between San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Sacramento. Even if they lost $1B a year subsidizing this, it would still be much much cheaper than building this train.

Although, in fairness, if high speed rail were done "right", it might be able to sort-of work (even though it never makes money anywhere in the world!). But right now this thing is being built in the middle of nowhere, presumably because acquiring right-of-way on a more direct route would be too expensive. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Statewide...
My guess is it doesn't work well with footage with cuts in it, it's probably meant for continuous shots (there are a few long ones in Hugo and Gravity for example, so this might be interesting input material). From how the climbers appear, porn would probably decompose into static images.
An interesting thing I think nobody seems to be talking about with this deal is the marriage between media platforms and venture capital [1]

There are big incentives for investors to take part in media plays. Look at some recent patterns:

- PandoDaily backed by Peter Theil, Tony Hseih, SV Angel Lerer Ventures, etc…

- BusinessInsider backed by Bezos, Marc Andreeson, RRE, and more (to the tune of $30M+!)

- Washington Post owned by Bezos

- BuzzFeed itself was co-founded by Kenneth Lerer of Lerer Ventures (same team behind HuffPo)

Even if there are firewalls and a commitment to journalistic autonomy/integrity, when you invested in a media company, your interests align with theirs from the very top.

[1] http://crewlab.net/buzzfeed
> It took the USCIS four months to let me know that my application was not selected....

Simply being curious here - didn't Apple provide you with the case ID? Typically, when you submit an Application to USCIS, you get an ID that allows you to check your status online and maybe you would have been able to know immediately that your application was not selected.
Filter all the DB by the type of documents they are most suited for.

Find out what kind of querying is available - maybe you need just access by ID or you plan to write full blown queries doing complex selects.

Indexing - what kind of indexing is available (if required)? Is it IDs only, or you can index any attribute in you document?

That's my main points.

After that: speed, scaling and replication (not int his order).
Time is supposed to be essential to video as well.

This video http://vimeo.com/13669078 has time-lapsed audio. I wonder what it would sound like using the hyperlapse effect.
Why you should turn down a job offer from Facebook
This is a complicated topic that I've been waffling on responding too.

The situation around h1b visas is messed up. But the mess is multisided. First off, there is a large amount of unemployment in this country in the IT sector (especially around older workers) and no apparent desire to fix it. Second, there are "sweat shops"/consulting bodies milking the system to under pay for what is often basic/menial work like CRUD development/etc. Third you have the specialists at the whim of (2) and the number of allotted slots.

I think both (1) and (3) need to be fixed at the expense of (2). Any company bringing over labor that is basic and can either be filled by outsourcing contracts or simply training local labor should pay the price. Tata, IBM, Wipro, etc are at the top of that list.

The current system has few filters.

Edits: typos from posting using phone.
if there's one word in common, it doesn't mean projects will all be the same.
Isn't the conclusion, "all particles have free will"? So, the arguments conclusion is pretty far from its premise. "All numbers are larger than 5" is very far from "some number is larger than 5".

And, whether or not you call this property "free will" is irrelevant to the proof itself; see the final paragraph.
Don’t Let Your Children Grow Up to Be Farmers
BuzzFeed, and the marriage of media platforms and venture capital.
Only because Microsoft doesn't support OpenGL in Windows, obviously.
I think fastball is talking about the value proposition. Capitalism would suggest a higher price point I'd imagine.
The HN guidelines call for using the original title except when it is misleading or linkbait. trackofalljades is right that this one was linkbait, so we changed it to a phrase from the first sentence.

You're also right—complaints about titles are tedious. It astonishes me how much time and energy they take up.

There is a way to complain about titles productively, though: suggest a better one.
wow i wanted this for a while

now to implement it open source ;)
I remember how I spent a summer going through Lenas videos tutorials (look them up). They were really good and I learned a lot. Reverse engineering is an addictive thing.
Job Interview: Currying and Partial Application of a Function
The knight's move seems to be the following:

1. Experimenters have free will
2. They're made up of particles
3. Those particles therefore have free will
4. Therefore we have free will (that's why it's called a proof of free will)

Item #1 above assumes the conclusion.
I know the US government is 100x transparent than the Chinese government on these things, which still might not be good enough, but we are talking about different worlds here.
I think he's asserting that if experimenters have free will, then particles do, which means we do as well.

This isn't a proof of particles having free will. That's an intermediary step to saying we have it as well, and therefore you can start with a step that says we do.
Interesting article. Thank you for posting.

I have a very limited understanding of physics but two questions spring to mind:

1) Why is there little doubt in the axioms, especially FIN? It requires the concepts of distance and time, either of which might not be applicable to the resulting property.

2) Why call the resulting property "free will" or "free whim"? As far as I can tell the proof is for the existence of an additional property to both the experimenter and the particle, but there is no real description of it. This is somewhat unsatisfactory addressed in the last paragraph, but really, why not just call it a "randomness" or "god" instead of "whim"?
For hobbyists like me, it is amazing.
Weird; that one worked for me. However, the other one works too, so I changed it. Thanks!
It seems the algorithm would be better optimized for humans if January and February were always considered to be the last two months of the previous year. We're already used to doing this when working out birth years for Horoscopes and the Chinese calendar. Then we wouldn't need to memorize different dates for Doomsday in Jan and Feb, and instead remember Jan 2, Feb 6, etc.
I'm surprised Microsoft never releases anything cool like that to their app store.
Woah, very cool. I would love to see this applied to a SCUBA diving video.
Yes, it requires the information from all the discarded frames, in order to reconstruct the 3D world for a smooth curve.
Thanks for taking the time to explain. Although I was critical of that aspect I thought the design itself was clean and effective, and you should keep exploring this line of activity.
http://www.splitwise.com circa 1981?
Thanks for the feedback. Pricing plan is free for indie devs/small apps, business edition to come with better team support and enhanced backend integrations.

I assume by "rollback" you mean reverting back to a previous app version. With our traffic control rules you can apportion traffic to 1 to many versions at once. So in a simple rollback scenario you would just point 100% of the traffic to a previous version (no redeployment necessary). However you can also do interesting things like direct only 5% of users to a new version or require a special preview link to see the latest version without impacting normal site traffic.
The history of the history of technology
It's hard to find a lot of hard data on either plane, but the 787 has been stated as being 20% more efficient than the 767, and the A380 has been stated as having a per passenger fuel consumption of 81 passenger miles per gallon. So, using the figures I found on wiki [1], it looks like the 787 is fairly considerably, as in using ~75% of the fuel, more efficient than the 787. The A380 may be a big plane, but it's a fairly conventional plane, all things considered. I imagine that if there were a revamp of it with more carbon fiber usage, it could get a lot more interesting.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft
> The truth alone would VERY disruptive.

This is clearly untrue. The discovery has already been made that events in the universe happen in one of two ways:

1. "deterministically", the way you think would be VERY disruptive

2. determined by chance

This isn't disruptive; people just ignore it.
Undefined Behavior in C++: What is it, and why do you care? [video]
Seems one of the easier fixes would be to rank H1B applicants by salary rather than doing a lottery. It's supposed to be used for highly skilled workers, so I don't see why people would have a problem with it.
Try nude yoga. Worked like a charm at my company.
Reminds me of The Onion's spoof of Buzzfeed called Clickhole http://www.clickhole.com/
>there is a cap and one reason is probably because opening the gates wide open will skew the job market in US.

Maybe.

One of the factors evaluated for h1b approval is whether or not the immigrant's salary is higher than the mean wages for U.S. citizens working in the same SOC category in the same area.

"Opening the floodgates" would only serve to skew the average salary upwards for citizens, which is good for skilled labor.
Sure, it's a meta ironic reference to Buzzfeed linkbait by the NYT, but the point stands. If I ironically mimic somebody screaming, I'm still screaming.
> You can't both deny the existence of free will, and castigate those whom with you disagree.

They certainly can; in fact they have no choice in that matter according to themselves.
The great Australian philosopher David Stove was of the opinion that the main function of philosophers is to save the rest of us the trouble of thinking about these sorts of things.

When a useful professional in another field such as you or I starts wondering about these sorts of issues, he can simply pick up a philosophy book, note that a bunch of smart people have already thought this issue through, put labels on every possible position, argued through the consequences of each, and still failed to come to any consensus about it. And then we can say "Whew, glad someone's already taken care of that" and get back to our useful lives without worrying our pretty little heads about it too much.

So if you do find yourself worrying about free will, I suggest reading the vast amount of pre-existing literature on the subject and unburdening yourself of feeling like you should be making progress on it.
> The lack of more vertical real state is especially frustrating.

I see the aspect ratio as the main problem with current monitors, especially on laptops. 4:3 was nice, 3:2 is pleasant, 16:10 is wide but tolerably so, 16:9 has too little vertical pace.

It is sad that current monitor are all glossy and very wide: optimized for movies instead of text and other "lean forward" applications.

BTW, Dell still produces very nice and not too expensive IPS 16:10 monitors.
Real estate is better in Montreal. Was paying 2K for small loft 700sqft in Gastown vs 1.3K for a 1600sqft loft in Old Montreal with a view of the basilica.

Startup dollars will go further here and the office will be twice as awesome. Much easier for new people to make friends and the art scene is not priced out. Montreal is undeniably more fun.

And lord, the festivals... Mind you, winter lives here but it is sunny even when it snows. Rain will tends to drive most people in BC a bit wonky.

I would say do Montreal if it is in the summer. Else BC. Or if it is about the quick plane ride to silicon valley, same deal.
Panda 4.0 Fix: Unblock CSS andJavaScript from Google Fetching
To be fair to the USPTO employees, it is quite likely that they are behaving like their fellow government employees in other departments, but they are being more closely examined because of the systemic flaws in the patent system. This would be a sort of selection bias; perhaps observer selection bias.[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias#Observer_selecti...
"The point of comfort for the U.S. is that ebola transmission currently requires direct contact with bodily fluids"

Doctors who knew they were working with Ebola still managed to get infected. So it can't be that hard to get it.

We don't need to panic, but it would be unwise to be too complacent.
What would be "disruptive" about it?
Off-topic question: What geographic region are you from? I have never before heard McDonald's referred to as "Macca's", and I am wondering which dialect it is from.
> The first diagram of the proof starts with "there exists some experimenter with at least some free will". That's a problem, as it uses the argument's conclusion as one of its premises.

Did you actually read the proof? The diagram is just a visual guide on how the axioms are used in his argument. There is no point where that statement is given a priori.

> The second problem here is that he seems to be trying to illustrate that if things cannot be predicted that we have free will. This is a common fallacy in the free will debate.

Speaking of fallacies: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman
Short introduction on Express.js 4 New Features
No. The closest any of the old Borland stuff got to public domain was their "museum," which includes free downloads of some of the old packages.

http://edn.embarcadero.com/museum
I dont know, do you know of some articles that have been buried that discuss this?
It is easy to imagine a computer program that is both deterministic and wrong. Why not a person?
3 lane product development – Buster Benson
Ruby IDE
I am using codecademy to learn ruby and I am running into a problem where I can't advance to the next level because of a syntax error. The error is very nonspecific so I don't exactly know what component of my code contains an error. I would rather use an IDE and a book to learn Ruby. Are there any recommended free integrated development environments?
2. Because the property under description is qualitatively like what some people think free will is like.
Well, at the end Conway claims to believe in free will. I don't know what you make of that but it is in the article.
Times Square generates 11% of NYC's economic output? 385k jobs?
I find these numbers difficult to believe.
Other than the REALLY inadvisable name choice (good luck getting precise search results for the term IMGUI now...), this looks great.

The low # of commits and vague name might be a bad signs, but check the repo description: Developed at Media Molecule and used internally for a title they've shipped, with feedback from domain experts like Casey Muratori. Those two points alone make me pretty excited to try this out.

And a brief explanation of why this matters:
IMGUI frameworks are increasingly popular for editors, debugging tools, etc. because they eliminate the need for state synchronization between your 'engine' and the visualization/editing UI. You also avoid the need to duplicate your layout in multiple places - you have one function that is the complete description of your UI. This reduces memory usage and can actually be more performant in many cases because you can easily ensure that you're only ever running code to update visible UI. Things like virtualized infinite scrolling become quite trivial.

Among other places, IMGUI techniques are used aggressively in Unity's editor.
i dont use it, its a hassle and others might not want to be tagged
IMGUI techniques don't even require running a continuous loop... you can use them in an app that responds to mousemove/mousedown and only paints when necessary.
> This theorem states "If there exist experimenters with (some) free will, then elementary particles also have (some) free will."

How did you pull (4) out of that?
Australian company that does Business Tax Returns online?
I am looking for a high quality Australian company that does Business Tax Returns online. I have found 3 companies: www.taxspot.com.au , www.ezytaxonline.com.au& www.taxeazy.com.au .
I want to know if anybody on this forum has ever used any of these three companies to do their business tax returns online and if they are any good?
If not, what company would people recommend
Try using SnapSearch (https://snapsearch.io) It already supports all forms of URLs hashbangs and pushstate along with many others.
Tegra K1 Glass Fracture Demo [video]
try aptana; http://www.aptana.com/products/radrails
They are developing long form features and op-eds, no?
Enduring CSS: writing style sheets for rapidly changing, long-lived projects
You need to read it again. The person you're replying to has correctly stated what is shown.
Just a heads up, your blog's domain expired twelve days ago.
"a little over half of which are in that bright sliver of Midtown, while the other half are strewn across the country supporting Times Square operations from designing the content on the signs to keeping the power plants that power them on line."