skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Question: How do "free market" proponents support the free flow of (financial) capital across borders but not the free flow of (human) capital across borders?

I appreciate any insight/references regarding this topic.

EDIT: I know this is a loaded question but I think it hits to the heart of this immigration issue. I trust there are many smart (and civil) members of this community from across the politecon spectrum who could provide more insight on this or related debates.
Pepperdine Private Capital Survey Q2 2014 [pdf]
Clouding the issue (on the iCloud photos scandal) – New Internationalist
Blog spam. Absolutely nothing added to the discussion or any actual connection to the video.
it started as such. lots of 3rd party clients, cool new use cases and UIs. all squashed by now. API caps, etc.

they need money, sure. but not just to operate and make a nice profit, they need to grow, they need blowout quarter after blowout quarter. impossible with this simple and clean core product. hence doom on the horizon. just look at all the bad feedback they're getting for their feed changes. core audience hates it. won't bring new users. stuck.

twitter could/should be run like craisglist or reddit. hardcore maintainence mode. neat little business. but no VC will ever allow it.
What constitutes as "exceptional" ? I'm worried I wouldn't qualify for that criteria.
Please retweet: https://twitter.com/diana_clarke/status/509016705084178432

Thanks!
The thesis of Reddit is: "we exist to make people happy." Popular posts tend to be very personal. Things like: Look at me, I knitted a cthulhu! Or: Look at this painting I did! Then the community piles on praise, jokes, memes, and feelings of being close to other people, even though it's all just strangers engaged in essentially threaded IRC.

But, problems appear when people on the fringes of society start posting. What happens when you have a subculture where happiness is derived from exploding puppies? In the Reddit Philosophy, that's still valid because it makes those subsets of people happy.

We've seen a growing disconnect with content hosting sites and mass clean-minded appeals. Tumblr was acquired while seemingly ignoring that tumblr is the largest repository of porn online. Reddit is talked about as a trend setter while ignoring the vile underbelly too. It's just the new normal.
Limechat shows image links inline, which is good enough for me anyway. In some ways it is even preferable to tying things to one particular storage solution like s3.
PayPal’s Braintree Embraces Bitcoin, One-Touch Payments
I'm pretty sure you can use first and rest in Common Lisp if you don't like car and cdr

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Common_Lisp/Basic_topics/Lists
I agree about language lock-in, but you should definitely write your embedded application in whatever language best fits the requirements, even if this means using an interpreted language. Not all embedded applications are dependent on real-time functionality or low power usage, and using a particular language may affect development time significantly.

EDIT: I also need to stress that "embedded" doesn't imply that a system is particularly limited in resources.
Indeed exploding offers for me is like: "Lets double, triple check this, this is fishy."
Employment offers tend to be exploding because a company has a single need and doesn't want to lose every candidate because they are waiting for their top choice.

Almost every offer of every kind 'explodes' at some point. It's the duration until the explosion that varies. I'm sure YC will make you reapply for future consideration, just as companies can not be expected to honor your employment offer if you defer for a year.
yes, I found this by googling "case law breach verbal contract": http://lepinelaw.com/wordpress/2013/02/06/winning-oral-contr...
Yes. There's lots of caselaw that says verbal contracts are legally binding.
But verbal contracts are a legal clusterf#¢&. Always always get your contracts signed in writing and you will save tons of $$$$ on lawyer fees.
Nice work. Out of curiosity, allowing someone to connect to a service via your servers could open you up to malicious activity. Do you rate-limit users from quickly and constantly opening and closing a connection?
This is decided in pretrial hearings. There have been entire cases based on the admissibility of evidence. If the judge rules it is or is not admissible, there is some manner of recourse or escalation for the usurped party.
IANAL YMMV BBQ
It is true that there are systems (Lisp Machines, Oberon, Smalltalk, etc.) with a more integrated approach and there are great ideas, but what I meant with the term "IDE" is classic IDEs on Windows, Linux and OSX. These OSs are heavily UNIX influenced and for those systems I consider text tools (editors, shells, command-line tools) the easier development UI.
Man, I would love to work in some other country than the US, but getting approval to work elsewhere is apparently harder than getting approval for people elsewhere to get approval to work here.
Just on the beans??
College Doesn’t Create Success
>Maybe it didn't spread because it's not a webapp ?

I think this is it. I remember checking out Tomahawk a while ago, about the time Songbird announced it was discontinuing development. I ended up just going back to iTunes because it did all I needed (even if it is bloated). If I can install Tomahawk on a computer, I can probably install my music library onto it as well, so I don't need the resolving features it has.

I actually just tried installing Tomahawk because of your comment, and it does work very well, and looks pretty while doing it. It was able to find several obscure artists with perfect accuracy. (Though it did grab most of them from Soundcloud at 128kb/s, when a few of them are on Spotify with higher bitrates). But unless I can access it anywhere, with a moment's notice, I don't really have a purpose for it being installed on a machine.

I rarely even listen to music on my computer anymore. I use my phone for Spotify on the go and even at work. It's nice to not have another program running while I'm working. But a lot of artists I like aren't on Spotify, and my phone doesn't have enough storage to fit my entire library.

That's why this interests me so much. I would love to set up a server where I can open the URL on my phone, laptop, friend's laptop, etc, be able to play most of my music through web services, and the artists that aren't on those services would play from my server directly, or my DropBox, or whatever, and hopefully it can all be a seamless experience.
I disagree. Reviewing should never have been part of software culture but sadly is becoming a norm.

Just because some extensions are bad, don't make everyone suffer and provide a bad experience. Maybe provide a proper review system where people can downvote and moderators can ban such extensions. They are so many choices available instead of a highly dramatized review process.
"A dear friend and excellent negotiator told me that when he gets any kind of short-term exploding offer, the first thing he does"

As someone who considers himself an excellent negotiator (and gets paid to do negotiating) [1] I'd really caution someone from employing a technique that someone else uses that you don't have experience with. Negotiating is all nuance it's not engineering or an exact science. Go try and read a book on it if you want. (I can always tell someone who is fresh from reading a book.)

Actually exactly for this reasons:

"I don't want to be responsible for anyone losing a deal"

Of course, it's easy when someone else is taking all the risk.

"when someone offers you an exploding offer, it's because they really, really want you to take it."

Could be. But there are cases where this is not true. How lucky do you feel in interpreting all the signals based on a limited time as a negotiator?

And getting back to what Sam has said:

"Sometimes they say they have a fixed amount of desk space, but in practice, if a good company wants to join late, they always make room."

Things are never always clear cut. Very possible your company is borderline and you don't fall into a "must have" category. By even YC's own thoughts there are many more qualified companies than they can accept. Not everyone is a superstar that can write their own terms.

"Any deadline claim has to be concrete and believable."

How so? You ask them? You investigate? You poke around? General advice the specifics are much harder.

In any case the last thing you want to do (according to at least my method which might differ from another negotiators method) when you are negotiating is tip your hand. And if someone is bluffing the last thing you want to do is let them know or that you think that they are bluffing. As such saying anything that sounds like "prove it" is certainly a way to do that.

In negotiating often people claim something that isn't true and bluff. It's part of the game. The idea is not to make them prove it. The idea is to figure it out on your own and use it to your advantage.

[1] It's a game.
This was made in 2011. http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/07/google-fails-to-hire-the-go...

Spoiler alert: He was not hired by Google.
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Are you concerned at all about copyright issues, scraping content off sites and reposting it as your own?
That's a loaded question :) most of what I read by libertarians is supportive of free immigration, e.g. http://bleedingheartlibertarians.com/tag/immigration/
> As the cars become more attentive it seems we get less attentive.

This was found the be the case with aircraft pilots as well.

http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/hazards-aut...
"in case they don't get into the (obviously) best one, YC."

How exactly did you determine that may I ask?
This is costing me $79.99 each version and I dont feel like the product has really changed. They just keep wanting me to pay for new OS and processor support it feels like. I'd pay, but not $79.99.
Hobby vs. business. Avoid common startup mistakes
This article is amazing! I work in the SSL industry and this is a huge help in summarizing exactly whats going on.

@konklone, have you followed the CAB Forum's mailing on this topic? Its the most I've seen them argue in well over a year.
Most exploding offers don't represent credible threats. That being said, if someone jumped at one of my exploding offers, I'd definitely try to negotiate a better price ex post facto given my read that the counterparty is so jumpy.
There's a difference between using a reference as a one-off joke (as a parody, a la Saturday Night Live) and using a reference as the core branding of your money-making business.
> Email and Oral acceptance of terms can be legally binding in contractual agreements.

It looks like (from basic research) that verbal acceptance IS legally binding (in the US anyway).

The trouble with verbal agreements is they can be problematic to enforce.
Btw, help with the Dockerfile would be appreciated:

https://github.com/jakubroztocil/cloudtunes/issues/2
I accepted an exploding offer. It was a harbinger to a larger detonation.

There's a simple way of looking at this type of behavior: If someone is willing to go negative on you at the beginning (evidenced by 'denying' you an investment because you didn't take it when they wanted you to take it) then you should assume they will be willing to go negative on something else of a similar or greater magnitude at a later date.
Not to mention that it's carrier exclusive. That only worked once, for the iPhone, and will likely never work that way again. Besides, AT&T has good coverage where I live, but I've heard that they are pretty bad in some metro areas, so they locked out a lot of potential customers from the start.
How the Patent Bar Captured a Court and Shrank the Intellectual Commons
Nonsense. Also, I find your dismissive attitude appalling.

This is not for mass production, or for productization. This is for playing "Jingle Bells" and then sending a tweet whenever someone rings your doorbell.

It enables people who happen to be comfortable in JS most to do some accessible electro hacking. Seriously, how is that awful?

Are you also going to complain that Lego Mindstorms is awful because people shouldn't make industrial robots with it?
http://blog.coinbase.com/post/96987622472/braintree-partners...
Some kind of review or moderation in the Chrome webstore would be pretty useful.

A couple of months ago I noticed that the Unfriend Notify for Facebook extension
(https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unfriend-notify-fo...) with 200,000 users is doing the same thing (a good clue is that it asks for access to all sites but doesn't do anything useful outside of facebook.com).

I wrote a note via the webstore's "Report Abuse" that I am pretty sure referenced the bad code but the extension is still in the store.
I'm an MD for Techstars and I completely agree. This is the approach we've always taken for the programs that I've run, (Techstars Cloud and the Austin TS program).

In several cases, just as a consequence of the calendar, the timing of when we've given offers out can create tension for a company, particularly if it lands in between the YC interview notification and the actual YC interview. When it's come up in the past I've aways encouraged founders to notify YC and see if they can either take the interview early or if our timeline permits, to let them take their YC interview knowing that they have a standing offer from me regardless.

I've had some people mention to me that this is merely bolstering these companies' applications to YC, but I don't view it that way and regardless of which program they end up in, it's the right thing to do imo. It's actually worked out quite well and I'm happy with the companies that chose Techstars in those scenarios over YC, and also completely happy for the companies that chose YC.
I didn't see any mobile screenshots, or much code that seemed responsive, so I assumed it wasn't mobile friendly and wanted to try fixing that. And the comments below about it supporting Dropbox, but not music stored on the local server (and the tips from OP about how to implement it), is another goal I'd like to tackle. I don't know if I can implement these, but I'm certainly going to try, and I'll learn a lot in the process.

Also I've had this idea a million times before, but never committed to doing it, it's the kind of product I've always wanted. So seeing it on GitHub (and written in a language I'm good at) makes me really happy, and I'd love to tear into this thing.

Edit: Also it's very pretty, and I'm a sucker for anything with a pleasant UI like that.
Well, my idea when I started this project: A self-hosted and password protected IRC client that runs in your browser.

However, I added "public" mode, where anyone is allowed to connect. And the demo server is currently running in this mode.

So right now? Nope. I'm not limiting anything. I guess this will be up to the person running the server to decide.

Thanks!
Smaller nations sounds nice but in the intermediate term reality Scotland would become a minor province of the EU nation. It'd be trading Britain for something much bigger.
I don't have much direct experience with lidar, but with my background in in situ sensing I could probably land a job working with/on it. If I may be so bold as to presume that I just barely qualify as an "expert" here:

The lidar in your vacuum (presumably a neato-XV series; if so, you have fine taste sir/madam) is no more than a spinning laser range finder. These work by offsetting a laser from a linear image sensor (imagine a camera with a crazy wide aspect ratio, maybe 256x6 resolution) and calculating distance by simple trigonometry or a pre-calibrated look-up table. These are called spinning parallax lidar. Their output is two dimensional in polar coordinates (angle, distance).

More expensive lidar systems use carrier wave phase measurements (modulate the laser to a known signal, look for its reflection and calculate phase difference), direct time of flight measurements (like narrow beam sonic range finding, but with light, requires very expensive timing circuitry), doppler shift, and/or various structured light transformation/interference effects. Some units only use one of these techniques, some use a combination of these techniques. Most of these units operate using a number of lasers simultaneously to spit out 3 dimensional data, either as planar depth maps, or as 3D polar coordinates (angle-x, angle-y, radius). Either way, all of these are expensive because they require very fast and very precise complex analog circuitry, tight controls on noise sources (RF interference, temperature dependence, very good power isolation), tight controls on spurious emissions (GHz oscillators), careful calibration, and most importantly, very complicated software.

To me, time of flight is the most interesting, but the least practical/likely to be made inexpensive. For a DIY example of the kind of timing circuitry involved, check out [1].

That said, there's room to make it cheaper. One such way may be to use a structured light transformation technique similar to Kinect, but speed up the camera a bit and modulate the output to a known signal (gives better interference rejection).

1: http://piotr.nikiel.info/?page_id=95
I met Nick by this way, and my project got published in Docker blog.
HN Mods: Could you change the url to https://github.com/erming/shout instead?
…which is why the add-on review process is time consuming, and why AMO shows you half a dozen warnings before letting you install an unreviewed add-on.
less than eight days of the US's current daily deficit spending covers NASA's budget for the year. Still I have to agree about going back to the moon, manufacturing wise wouldn't zero G be more important than being on the moon?
Any you can recall? I'm curious, and tired of having it pointed out to me that almost anything but solar is just a fancy way of boiling water.
It does seem like disarray is creeping into Firefox. The little things like reviews, docs, Aurora PPA[1] (ok, I'm squeezing my personal problem in here a bit) are falling behind.

To be fair, they also have a mobile operating system and LGBT advocacy to tend to.

[1] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-daily/+archive/ubuntu/...
Straw – Realtime processing framework for Node.js
> There are exactly zero times I wished I could buy something from a Tweet with a button.

But there are a huge number of times when a corporation has wished it could make it super easy for you to make a snap purchasing decision.
Linus Torvalds aces both programming and people skills, and in most senses Steve Jobs did too: They are(were) both dictators, but they mobilize(d) and co-ordinate(d) thousands of people into creating impressive bodies of work.

I hold Torvalds in much, much higher regard than Jobs in this respect, because -- unlike Jobs who got co-operation and loyalty mostly in return for money, Torvalds has been able to do so without being the benefactor of the contributors he co-ordinates.

Torvalds can and does write the occasional scathing email, and that's what makes the news and creates the impression - but he actually does that when it's needed to drive a point (and when asked about it he explained more than once - being subtle in a mailing list read by thousands simply does not work). Most of the time, he is a nice, considerate and appreciative.

Torvalds has amazing people skills, even if occasionally he rubs some people the wrong way. I would say the same about Jobs, even if I disagree with his way. You just can't get thousands of people to do stuff, money or not, unless you have people skills.

Drepper in his capacity as libc maintainer was none of this.
But how is the general user supposed to be able to evaluate technical questions like whether their new extension is spying on them? If it appears to be doing what it said it would do, they aren't going to pop the hood and see if it's doing anything else. All you'll get is 10,000 variations of "I downloaded the More Smilies extension and got a bunch of smilies! 5 stars."
Deliberately waiting until the offer ostensibly expires seems like an advanced technique, but simply disregarding the time frame seems pretty safe. Exploding offers are incredibly weak; they're a way of slapping your negotiating floor on the table before your counterparty says a word.

There's something to be said for the idea that losing a seed funding deal to term explosion is a dodged bullet, too.
If you list the 10 best fields to put our resources in, we can invest so heavily there that we reach diminishing returns and still fund space exploration and many other wonderful things. Resources are still limited, but we don't need to worry if we spend some on good, but sub-optimal things.
Interview: Wyatt Jozwowski, Founder of Cloud PBN
Java Optimizations and the JMM
We've already got that something (the EU). It's relatively benign. (Meanwhile, we've got an extra tier of government that insists on spending tax revenue raised in Scotland on stuff the Scottish people really don't want.)
Moving OT a little - it seems that signing things should be a [more] central part of all major OS nowadays. Our OS should be signing the docs we send for us, signing our emails for us, signing pics we send to family so they can see they haven't had any changes made in transit, etc., etc..

I can see problems with peoples systems being hacked and made to sign stuff, but surely having the signing system in the first place leads to enough gains overall - provided it can be made simple, clear and useful for the common user.

/uninformed rant
Maybe it will. However, I would remain hopeful, but not bank on it too much, as it may not happen for now.

Society needs to do what they can to increase energy independence and sustainability with whatever they can use now, as time is limited.
Yes, we switched over to Slack from IRC/Google+ at elementary (elementaryos.org) in the early summer. It's been a massive improvement. We're starting to feel the limitations of the free tier though, so we do wish it were a lot cheaper.
By having a review process for extensions just a few suffer (the extension developers) and many (the users) benefit, because they can trust the browser.

By not having a review process a few don't suffer (the extension developers) and many (the users) suffer, because they can't trust their browser.

I'm firmly in the "I want to be able to trust my browser" camp but perhaps a balance can be found where the benefit of the many can be only slightly reduced while the pain of the few can be greatly reduced. Here's to that!
If it helps, this screenshot shows letter-spacing being pretty funky.

http://screencast.com/t/bzzdsUol9CnZ

It must be due to something specific to this machine, as I don't see the issue elsewhere when using the same version of chrome.
I'm on H1B too with H4 spouse. My alternative is just to go back to Europe, and live there - and considering several factors, it may not be that different from the US (in terms of overall better vs. worse).
Right -- which is (part of) why interest in extensions is declining. It's a self-reinforcing pattern: platform vendors tighten security on extensions; extensions can now do less and are harder to get, so fewer people try them; which makes it easier to tighten the security screws on extensions the next time around.