skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a much more hard hitting article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1...

It's tempting as a space enthusiast to see criticism of Virgin Galactic and Scaled's operations as attacks against spaceflight or commercial space activities or the space tourism business in general. But people should not let their enthusiasm carry them to far into ignoring the very real problems at VG and Scaled.

They have unquestionably taken a lax attitude toward security, as demonstrated most abundantly by the previous fatal accident at Scaled/VG which took 3 lives during a test that should have not injured a single person if they had been following standard safety practices. Moreover, they've consistently turned a deaf ear on criticisms of their engine design and its safety, criticisms which now appear to have been quite well founded.

Yes sometimes rockets are tricky. Sometimes bad things happen to otherwise good designs. That's the nature of probability. But bad things happen to bad designs too, and we should be sensitive to those circumstances.
I have to disagree with your conclusion for several reasons:

1. Living longer doesn't mean your standard of living will rise. Even if you work longer, you will not necessarily accumulate significantly (or perhaps even any) more wealth. And if you are in poverty currently (ie, effectively earning nothing), multiplying that by another 300 years still leaves you with zero.

2. If there is any change to the accumulation patterns of money, I would suspect that either the rich would get (individually) richer -- or perhaps more money would be printed, thus de-valuing the existing money.

3. Being at the median global living standard does not guarantee that you will produce fewer children. For example, there are many people in Western countries who for religious reasons continue to produce large families. More time for them would presumably result in even larger families.

4. In fact, Africa is particularly interesting, because its birth rate is NOT dropping as fast as predicted due to economic development:
http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21598648-birth-rates-a...
Ember, Pixi, When, jQuery. That's pretty much it. All of them have type definitions (although some are a bit out of date/inaccurate).
I think it is terrible that companies are taking advantage of foreigners, but I also keep seeing this $20,000 number thrown around a lot. That's how much it costs for a company to apply for an H1B. The companies should not be using that to prevent people from quitting, but it is a very real, large expense to getting workers from out of the US.

The flip side of the argument isn't great either. If Softcorp or whatever pays a small fortune to get someone an H1B, that person shouldn't turn around and leave immediately either. It's just really sad that this means Softcorp, etc know they can use that as a leash and treat the worker like crap.

Someone tell me a solution to this problem given the H1B's cost so much. How do you prevent abuse? It seems like making the worker pay for the visa would fix it, but I have a feeling that is quite difficult as well. Also, it would be kind of crazy to have to pay a huge sum to take a job.
What If Everything We Know About Fixing Global Poverty Is Wrong?
Ask HN: Hackernews notification?
Does hackernews have a notification setting? It would be awesome to be notified when comments are made to a post you made or upvoted.
Similarly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurodiversity
Management can be vague but if you are looking for being a manager in a software environment:

- Peopleware by DeMarco and Lister

- The Mythical Man-Month by Brooks

Also for general management you can always go with Peter Drucker.

Are you looking for something specific?
How so?

Watts doesn't deny the differences between those affected by ADHD and those who are not. He argues that these differences are best understood as personality traits and not products of an affliction.

This isn't a matter of ignorance, but interpretation of and reaction to scientific discoveries.
Show HN: Bello – Text Miner – Analyze and visualize corpora with ease
The Myth of Enterprise StartUps
They do have an API which you can use to make such functionality.
Show HN: Cookie – An android app to keep you motivated
So the app is pretty simple. Everytime you open it, gives you a compliment. And then asks how you feel. So whenever you're feeling low or need motivation just open it and enjoy! :)

APK and Screenshots: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B0yBs8S3b4bdN3NmMWwyRko3eUk&usp=drive_web

You can send me feedback/share it with you friends from within. Hope everybody likes it.

Edit1: Ill update it with more quotes or you guys can leave quotes that you would like to read in the comments, and I can add those too.

Edit2: Permissions are so that you can send me feedback via the app, and for pushnotifications in case there's an update.
ClearTax -- cleartax.in uses the .net stack. We use F# and C#.
How does this compare to OCaml or Haskell? Most of the "benefits" you've mentioned here aren't actually benefits, but par the course for a programming language no matter what stack you choose.

Visual Studio seems to be the only real benefit I'm seeing (and I agree, it's a very major benefit).
Is penalising early exit through contractual terms illegal? If not, then isn't this just a case of who has more leverage when negotiating the employment contract? That, and the fact that Indians are so desperate to go to the US that they're willing to sign any contract.

PS: I'm an Indian working in India.
You speak with the world view of a neurotypical human. I'm happy for you.

For the perspective of the broken toys in the box, let me explain. :)

When an NT is asked to do a boring, repetitive task, he'll do it for eight hours and then get drunk afterwards to recover. Good job.

When an ADHD-afflicted individual is asked to do a boring, repetitive task, he'll do it for about five minutes and then spend eight hours trying to find a way to not do it again. Or stare at the wall. Or berate himself for not working. Or rack up a disabling level of anxiety because he's not working.

You present this as something everyone does, and you're right to. The disorder comes in when someone cannot do it. Not that the person will not muster some internal whatever to push on, but that the person's brain is physically incapable of doing it. The same kind of incapable as a major depressive being incapable of talking himself out of an anxiety-induced depression.

When it's a disorder, it's a disorder. The problem is that so many people see the high numbers of people being diagnosed and write it off as a fad. It's not. Maybe the numbers are high and some are being misdiagnosed, or maybe we're learning about all the edge cases. I don't know. I do know it exists and it's an impairment and it goes well beyond basic motivation.

I've had "do it or you're fired" moments where THAT wasn't enough to motivate me, and I had a very real fear of being unemployed.
It's a nice toy. I have the big bad 8gb RAM, 500gb SSD that work paid for. As a pretty much exclusively .net/visual studio dev, the experience for development, while the machine is powerful enough to handle it, is utterly abysmal. Visual Studio and SQL server (which uses the VS shell) does not support touch screens in any sensible or usable way. I'm not asking for gesture rich smart windows here, just being able to scroll a text editor with one finger. Every other MS app on there seems ok, just not the VS based ones. Nothing but text selecting when you're expecting to scroll. The physical keyboard is too flexible and cramped to use on your lap - despite all the marketing videos claims, and probably my single biggest annoyance is that when that physical typecover is installed, it still pops up the soft keyboard every time you touch a textbox, anywhere. That, and if your soft keyboard isn't set up right, many times it will take maximized or docked left/right windows and resize them, only to leave them resized once the keyboard goes away again.

So while I love to hear people say it's good for "creating content", as long as that content is a drawing, that might be true, but if that "content" is any kind of written work, spreadsheet, or coding task, it's almost useless.

Also, the version of OneNote that comes with it is so handicapped that it also borders on useless. For the price of these things and the advertisement of having Office on them, the pared down versions were a big disappointment.
I see no evidence that H-1Bs are destroying the local talent pool in SF. I can't speak to LA myself, but from what I hear it's not doing that either.

H-1Bs aren't the reason you've think you've "ruined [your] life being a coder in Los Angeles". Your profile has you down as an Android developer: I met a co-founder based in LA last week who was bemoaning the lack of good mobile app talent. I frequently get hit up from startups in LA, and I used to consult for a major firm in the OC that's vacuuming up Android devs. I can't tell you why you're having such a hard time, and I feel for you: but blaming H-1Bs isn't productive.
>>but I also keep seeing this $20,000 number thrown around a lot. That's how much it costs for a company to apply for an H1B.

To clarify, the actual application cost varies between $2500 and $5000[1]. The problem is that on most years, the visas are given only to a percentage of the applicants. For example, if someone is switching from OPT to H1B and they don't win the RNG game, the cost to the company can be enormous.

[1]http://redbus2us.com/h1b-visa-2014-filing-fees-uscis-fee-att...
I suggest allowing people guest accounts. I'm curious, but I don't want to sign up.
No API, but this explains a simple way to do offline sync; http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12340083/consolidating-ch...
The college kid presumably could also keep looking for jobs and if bullied to work 60, 70 hours per week would go look for another one. Someone wrapped up in the H1B visa paperwork will be put up with a lot more abuse. So perhaps it is "pay same amount but get more guaranteed work out of it" deal?
You have no idea what you're talking about.

Inflation is a tax on savings, but that's alright because money has no value?! But if money actually had no value, there would be no use for it.

Consumption "has to" match production?! What's that supppsed to mean? If I produce something no one wants, people "have to" consume it anyway?

You say inflation is good because it motivates people to invest (because their money loses value just sitting in a bank), but why wouldn't people want to invest even if their money was gaining in value? The purchasing power of whatever money you earn through investments is increased by deflation too, so the sooner you make a good investment, the better off you'll be.
Because where I live, the cell network is still not 100% reliable. At certain times or places, the stream would stop. Also, mobile data is not free, and volume-limited.

Personally, I do want to subscribe. I don't want Internet radio, I want podcasts.
Ask HN: What startups use Firebase in production?
I've seen Firebase used in more and more applications lately, but are there any startups that are using it in production?
Anyone else getting ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID?
Excellent take down. I'd also like to add that Mr. Selingo's paragraph here is so disingenuous that it can not be considered anything but a blatant lie:

> A second problem is that when MOOCs replace traditional courses, an extremely high number of students fail. A well-publicized experiment backed by Gov. Jerry Brown of California at San Jose State University flopped. In one of the MOOCs, just 25 percent of students passed; in another, only 50 percent passed, much lower rates than for the on-campus equivalents.

The experiment in question involved a remedial algebra class offered to students at SJSU who had not only failed "elementary math placement tests", but who had previously paid for and taken a on campus "SJSU Plus math" course and failed it. These were not normal students, these were from among the 50% of entering high school graduate students who were incapable of meeting basic requirements. They paid $150 to take the remedial class, much less than normal tuition at SJSU. When you fail the remedial class at SJSU, you are kicked out of the university and made to go back to community college and reapply to SJSU later. These students were given a chance at a second chance - to try their hand at an online class.

The results[1] were that the SJSU on campus college algebra class has a 64.7% pass rate. The Summer 2013 pilot of the on line version had a 72.6% pass rate. That is a higher rate. For the remedial math class called Entry Level Math, the on campus pass rate has been 45.5%. For the on line summer 2013 pilot the pass rate was 29.8%. That is lower. However, in this case these students had already failed the on-campus one and were selected from that population. They were not the general population of students. The class was not replacing an on campus class since these students did not have the option of taking remedial class a second time, their only option was to leave the university and go to community college.

When offering the same class to the general population of students, and not students that have failed remedial classes already, results are always better. The numbers for college algebra are above and represent a tremendous tuition savings. For SJSU's Circuits and Electronics class, 40% of on campus students got C or lower. For the online version of the same class, offered for SJSU credit through the EdX platform, only 9% got a C or lower. [2]

In reporting these results, Mr. Selingo states that "when MOOCs replace traditional courses, an extremely high number of students fail". This claim is false.

1. http://blogs.sjsu.edu/today/2013/sjsu-plus-fall-2013-update-...

2. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/15/technology/california-to-g...
A straightforward approach is that legally consenting adults can use non-FDA approved drugs if they sign a consent form specifically acknowledging that a drug is not approved by the FDA. Heck, require it to be notarized.

A carrot to get FDA approval for a drug can be that the drug maker is shielded from liability for side effects of the drug. (Of course, the shield wouldn't apply if the drug maker misrepresented the drug during the approval process, or did not make the drug correctly.)
"That could work completely offline and sync transaction data periodically with the central server."

From what I've gathered you want the app to sync data when possible but still work as it should when offline? There are several solutions in the space of this.

A simple solution would be to split or abstract the logic with handling the data versus the functionality of the mobile app itself. In which case you should not be tied down to specific backends.

Anything that works for mongodb or other databases you can usually find something that converts said backend to something working for postgres or whatever for server side.

As for mobile your data backend should be something lightweight and it may be beneficial to use something that is agnostic to mobile like html5. Key players for web data usually are Indexedb and somewhat basket.js : https://addyosmani.github.io/basket.js/ . As the web is usually the way of using what mobile apps are using for storage gathered from a look at angular.js in retrospect.

Some of the other stuff you mentioned:

A more accurate terminology for what you may be looking for in the future for communicating with several distributed systems would be a CRDT key-value(for example; https://github.com/dominictarr/crdt ) if you want it to be purely distributed over many devices completely and provide the same updates to many devices. There is still a lot of on-going research in the area with Riak and Redis having somewhat successful uses in the box at the moment. A newer idea is something called SyncFree: https://github.com/SyncFree

As for resolving git transaction conflicting updates there is a solution that is being developed talked about here: http://the-paper-trail.org/blog/subverting-sinfonia/

A more json version for updates would be something along the lines of: https://github.com/Operational-Transformation
undodb gdb (a commercial product) works a lot faster than gdb (which is so slow it's unusable). We used it with success to debug programs as big as pypy
I think I found the mystery game that taunted me at the pizza place when I was a kid.

https://archive.org/details/arcade_fantasy

It ... it's not a good game.
I've been taking a real hard look at it's gaming capabilities. Technically it's sound specifications wise that indicates it shouldn't have major problems with gaming with the exception of the Intel Iris Pro GPU which in many demos has show to be a pretty capable graphics processor. Yet there are details of the GPU that simply don't make sense for example how can it score so low on general firestrike benchmarks yet run League of Legends and Assassin's creed at 90FPS. It's even been tested playing WoW at 120 FPS in some instances yet a game that wouldn't at first guess be so demanding like Diablo 3 runs at a unexplainable low 20FPS, what makes that specific game so different? My guess is Particle or general physics which the GPU doesn't handle well however Starcraft 2 seems to run just fine which in my option should be the same as Diablo 3. Also most games are designed to default to CPU processing if bullet or PhysX options are not available. Maybe someone else can unravel this mystery.
Consider yourself lucky you even got windows 8 installed. My lenovo laptop, with a big fat windows 8 sticker on it and win 8 screaming all over the purchase page, came with windows 7 preinstalled. Win 8 came with a bunch of dvds inside the packaging, the laptop does not even have a dvd-player.
Or you could right-mouse save the image of the QR code as a file and then put that file on a CD-ROM or flash memory.
Does anyone know if this situation is specific to IT/tech/computer science related companies? Does it happen to, say, petroleum engineers?
Gmail 5.0 leaked with new design and support for Outlook and Yahoo Mail
the touch screen experience itself will give you the biggest trouble; the hardware itself is pretty compatible.

use of a touch-screen centric DE/WM (unity) would be advised, but other than that it should be OK.
maybe that's the plan, forced word-of-mouth through the use of corny advertising!
An introduction to the stack data structure
"In short, people with A.D.H.D. may not have a disease, so much as a set of behavioral traits that don’t match the expectations of our contemporary culture."
I stand partially corrected. The visa perhaps costs between your stated numbers, but I've heard the lawyer fees push that number far higher. I worked at a company where the application was rejected at first, and the fee basically doubled to $40,000 dollars because you pay to apply, not to be accepted.

My point remains though, it is really expensive to get these visas in your hand, and the company usually fronts this cost.
When you're factually wrong, there's not much to say other than "you're wrong and this is why." When you get saucy about being wrong...
I'm sure I could learn but I'll never be at a level to be really productive, so I find it better to use my time on doing customer development, product management (which I can do), sales and finding ways to make money to pay the rent and the contractors I hire to design and code. This model, while often considered 'bad' by the experts, works for me- so just running with it. In case you are curious we're live at http://www.oncontracting.com. A website that makes it easy to find onsite contract jobs at Fortune 1000 companies.
You can have two or more security keys associated with your account on Google.
>If I produce something no one wants, people "have to" consume it anyway?

You go out of business and stop producing.
That does not affect immigration at all. All it does is criminalize certain actions for Indians and foreigners alike.
Is not about vision, is about emerging patters that arise from noise. If just one piece (deemed important) piece of the pattern differs from the expectation, then the classification fails. Therefore surface blurring does fix the issue, because the number of patterns is reduced (when applied in both the source samples and the user input).

Here is a diff of the borders of the pictures (instead of pixels, which is less useful), the one in the left with surface blur and the one in the right without: http://i.imgur.com/3bihGVA.png (The parts marked as completely different are the white ones)
There's no lease. An H1B worker can switch companies freely with little hassle. It's the L-1 visa that has a lease. Congress passed a law in 2000 called 'AC21' which brought job portability for H1B workers. I don't know why I keep hearing people on HN and elsewhere talk as though AC21 never happened over and over again. Please have the sense to do some basic research before forming your opinions. Lastly the cost to the company is actually around $4-5k.
PowerPoint Does Rocket Science (2006)
Could work, but its playing with fire.
This professor is Putin's favourite German
What are you doing with this list?
It's unfortunate that this kind of innovative idea seems to elicit a knee-jerk negative response in terms of ethics. (To the extent where even the person having the idea initially assumes it must be unethical!) Certainly it shares characteristics with unethical scenarios - a rich person buying a spot on a donor list, forcing others to wait longer for instance. But this particular idea seems to leave no one worse off, and many people considerably better off.

Of course, it would be ideal if resources were simply abundant and all these trials could be funded without giving special treatment to wealthy donors. But given that we don't live in that world, I would certainly rather see one wealthy donor and nine other individuals (for example) get access to a potentially life-saving therapy than to have them all die in the name of equality.
That's exactly what I do and I find it to be a great improvement over the stock bindings. I also bind "q;" to behave like "q:".

Unlike others in this thread, though, I do find the original behavior of ";" useful occasionally. I bind that behavior to ";;", which is still quite fast to type whenever I do need it.
The difficulty with enterprise startups is that large companies that invest in software generally want to use that software for mission-critical applications (real money - and reputations - are at stake). They'll want reliability and security. They'll also want support: they'll expect serious bugs go get fixed promptly and want someone who they can reach on the phone when they have problems. They'll have much higher expectations of what a minimum viable product is than some consumer who's getting an app for free. They'll want software that integrates nicely into their existing systems. They'll want stability (i.e., things that work today should still work in later releases). And they'll also want a vendor that will be around in a few years.

Selling to enterprises is also somewhat difficult, since you have to get the attention of somebody high enough up on the food chain who has the power to spend money.
> I think it's absurd that people are legally prevented from purchasing drugs that haven't been FDA approved.

They aren't. In the U.S. they are prevented from purchasing certain drugs without the advice and consent of a prescribing physician. The prescribing physician can be on-board for the use of non-FDA approved meds, it's just uncommon.

source : personal anecdote. I used 4-Aminopyridine[0] with the consent of my doctor within the US before clinical trials began as a 'research tool' for insights into a medical condition. It was dispensed by a medical chemistry lab under the consent of my physician, and paid for out of pocket.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-Aminopyridine