skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Changing employers after 180 days have elapsed should not affect the underlying approved I-140.

Employers can actually withdraw the I-140 if you switch jobs BEFORE filing I-485 and letting 6 months elapse - and then you have to start all over again.

http://www.murthy.com/2008/01/18/ac21-frequently-asked-quest...

The green card has become the new "leash" for H1Bs.
http://scrumy.com/ - scrum board
Typesetting for English language ebooks is pretty dreadful too. And for older titles, they're usually littered with OCR errors too. I'd be surprised if they receive more than a couple of hours of QA.
http://www.metronomeonline.com/
> Ebooks are still far from reaching any significant share on the market […] I have never seen Japan as modern when it comes to Internet services / downloads and the like.

Cellphone novels are a full-fledged literary genre in japan. As is oft noted, the future is not evenly distributed.
The problem with BE in the Kuhnian sense is that it's still pre-paradigmatic. BE is great at lobbing bombs at rationalist economics and pointing out all the flaws but it's yet to offer a compelling, coherent framework for which positive results can be derived.

Kuhn states in the Structure of Scientific Revolutions that paradigm shifts do not occur simply when people are aware of how broken the old system, so no amount of poking holes will cause the BE revolution. Instead, BE needs to offer an alternative paradigm which useful work can be done.
Has anyone produced a long-term, economic and environmental study of solar roads yet?
My first thought was: I can't image how anyone could work for a place like that. That HR person should have been fired on the spot.

My tolerance for bullshit this is quite low and luckily I work for a start-up where I have to take very little of it. When stories like this come up, I keep shaking my head.
Hunter S. Thompson, the Art of Journalism No. 1 (2000)
They get it, they're just corrupt. What I want to know is why mozilla pushed such a proposal.
A designers look at US State flags
This looks intriguing, but as usual not enough information on the site. And I'm not willing to sign up after having seen only 2 tiny screenshots.
You said a lot of nice and true things about OpenBSD, but you didn't back up your claim against FBSD: What unnecessary and experimental technologies are you referring to?
Thanks a lot for sharing this. Its going to be a lot of fun to follow. Sorry to throw feature requests at you but it would be great if you could add email subscription for this series. Also, although I'm a big fan of plain-text, I believe that serving .txt files might not be best for readability.

If your blog / series is on github, I'd happily send PRs for above. Let me know :)

Thanks a lot!

Edit: If you prefer staying away from styling your blog then even writing the content in Markdown would do the trick
I'm always amazed at how crappy Microsoft stores are. Oh, they're pretty and welcoming and there are always happy people playing games in there (often the employees, because they have nothing to do), but nothing works. I go to actually try out a device and the games won't run because they need me to log in to some MS service, the machines aren't connected to WiFi, or stuff is just locked up....

And how much do you want to bet that they just can't figure out why the Apple Store across the corridor is packed from open to close and theirs is a relative ghost town.
I'm on Ubuntu 14.04 and had to stop to check if systemd is installed, it is. Ubuntu operates the same for me today as 12 did. I don't have any issues with it. I wrote a Java system service the other day and installed it with the usual update-rc.d command like I've done in 12 and it runs fine so for me systemd has nothing to do with my choice to stay with Linux, Ubuntu specifically. It certainly wouldn't drive me away, I wasn't aware it was even there. Like Ubuntu, and Linux overall...it just works (apparently).
Use it all the time. Great tool!
Has Netcraft confirmed it?

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I first installed FreeBSD in 1997. You had to send away for the CDs. There was something so very cool about tinkering with the OS and then typing "make world" at a shell prompt and watching as the OS rebuilt itself. FreeBSD used Beastie[1] as their mascot, cuter than a penguin :)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Daemon
So if the OEM didn't install anything aside from a completely standard (albeit old) Windows 8 install, then this is Microsoft's intended behavior of Windows? What else would cause any issues with the OS out-of-the-box aside from OS problems if the OEM didn't add anything?
This is something that really annoys me, as this kind of averse attitude to online distribution is also prevalent among Japanese indie (doujin) musicians. They release their albums only physically, first during doujin events and then to various shops. You might be able to buy the albums physically from some Japanese web stores, but then you get hit with damn expensive import fees (so better buy a lot of stuff at the same time), not to mention any potential customs fees (which are easy to get when buying a lot of stuff at the same time). And since the physical copies are also limited, trying to get older albums legitimately can be pretty much impossible.

What makes it all even more annoying is that it's not like the artists would be completely unaware of digital music services - they post samples to Soundcloud, and some might even sell an album or two on Bandcamp, but the vast majority of everything is just completely unavailable in any legitimate digital manner. Of course, most of it is available via less legitimate sources, but that has its obvious downsides, like not having any idea when new releases will actually become available. Just a week ago an album I'm really looking forward to[1] was released physically during a doujin event. If that was available on Bandcamp, I'd buy it in a heartbeat, but since it's not, I'm forced to wait for who knows how long before I even get to listen to the damn thing proper.

[1] https://soundcloud.com/nachi_tt/supernova-crossfade
For the past few years I've taken both Adderall and Vyvanse, with the past 2 years being Vyvanse. I thought I would be taking these drugs for the rest of my life if I wanted to be successful, because when I didn't take them, I could not focus on work tasks at all. However, the "cost" of these drugs for me was that I couldn't turn off. I was driven from the time I woke up to the time I went to bed. My social life definitely suffered.

So, as I started a new job this year in January, I decided to make a clean break. I quit Vyvanse cold turkey and started a new job. I've been doing exceptionally. I never thought this could happen. Thinking back on the issue just yesterday I was telling a colleague that I thought this was likely because I must have been bored with the tasks at my previous job, and I've found all the new tasks to be interesting enough to bring out what I consider great performance from myself, though not the insane amount of performance I was doing on Vyvanse.

Anecdotal at best, but I independently came to the same conclusions as this article, for whatever it's worth.
It appears to be a DRAFT! Filename: Draft_Policy_on_Open_APIs.pdf

Edited: From sec 6, point 1: A more detailed guidelines will come after public comment.

6. Implementation Mechanism
i) GoI shall formulate detailed implementation guidelines for rapid and effective adoption of the policy.
> I think it's spurious and mendacious to suggest that consumers upload amounts of data that are in any way comparable to the amount downloaded by people who stream HD video for live consumption.

How much of that is a result of the existing infrastructure? My available upload bandwidth is just 10% of my download bandwidth, which makes it pretty much useless for all but tiny amounts of data. There are many things I would love to upload, but it is just not feasible, so you learn to deal with it.
From a server standpoint? I think FBSD is top-notch, from my observations. There's a weekly podcast BSDNow that is very informative. The hosts are a bit amateur with their fluidity through topics, but they know their stuff.
Eh, I've been using vi{,m} for 15 years too and I `ftFT;,' things on a daily basis.

Remove two `a' characters of the current line:

fax;.

Note: no mode change necessary

Also, line editing in /bin/{,k,ba}sh -o vi without `ftFT;,' is a pain.
Net neutrality does not preclude metered access. Two different things.
You can stream if you want, but downloading is one of the highlights of it. I can download it at home and listen for hours at work or on a trip without dealing with poor or capped cell signal (or, like the majority of people in the US/world, without any data plan at all).
A couple of questions I have...does Japan also resist the movement towards online gaming purchases? Nintendo and Sony offer pretty robust online delivery services...are they as popular in Japan as in the U.S.?

And does this have any relation with Japan's reported affinity toward fax machines? (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/14/world/asia/in-japan-the-fa...)

> Yuichiro Sugahara learned the hard way about his country’s deep attachment to the fax machine, which the nation popularized in the 1980s. A decade ago, he tried to modernize his family-run company, which delivers traditional bento lunchboxes, by taking orders online. Sales quickly plummeted.

Today, his company, Tamagoya, is thriving with the hiss and beep of thousands of orders pouring in every morning, most by fax, many with minutely detailed handwritten requests like “go light on the batter in the fried chicken” or “add an extra hard-boiled egg.”

“There is still something in Japanese culture that demands the warm, personal feelings that you get with a handwritten fax,” said Mr. Sugahara, 43.
> local friends describe their reason for buying CDs as "something to collect"

Also japanese CDs generally bundle lots of extras, it's not just a plastic disc and a 1-ply cover art, they tend to get extensive liner notes, DVD extras, event tickets (e.g. "hand shake" tickets in jpop CDs), etc… And really neat collector boxsets tend to be much more common and normal than in the west e.g. this: http://aap.blackaris2001.org/AlienHead/Alien25thAnniversaryC... was their Alien 25th Anniversary Collection boxset
http://www.leandomainsearch.com
It's Microsoft's fault that this is all it means. "Signature" could (and IMO should) mean that they've worked with the OEM to ensure everything works well and stuff is up to date. If Microsoft decided that Signature just means "slightly less crappy than usual" then that's their own fault.
http://www.sharedcount.com/

According to their Twitter, their API serves more than 1 billion requests per month.
I'm not sure that's a good indicator. Linux shows a similar decline (try it yourself). I'd wager it's more a result of the rise of the general population coming online, including smartphones. Us geeks searches became miniscule in comparison. That's my theory, at least, and I'm sticking to it :)
For the Indian government it’s very remarkable that (1) they are thinking about open APIs and (2) they’ve published a draft, presumably for feedback although there is no information on how one might provide it.

The title of this post is misleading though. It should be "…input on upcoming policy for Open Data and E-Governance APIs". There is no specific API here, just a rather broad set of guidelines for each government department to build their own APIs.

Most of the actual guidelines seem to be on the three documents linked from this one. Unfortunately two of them are on a domain with certificate errors, and one leads to a 404. Here are the two that work (at least if you accept a certificate issued to egovstandards.gov.in by "Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers Company Ltd."):

https://egovstandards.gov.in/sites/default/files/Published_S...

http://ogpl.gov.in/NDSAP/NDSAP-30Jan2012.pdf

Edit: These documents are only tangentially related to the Open API project. The first one is a broad catalogue of acceptable data formats in “e-governance”, the second are guidelines for how government departments must upload data sets to data.gov.in.
Persistence is more important than intensity: Nir Eyal, Author of “Hooked”
Can you provide a reference about Facebook using Cognizant? I can't find one in my search.
They did you a solid.
http://feedbin.me

As with Pinboard, it became popular in the vacuum following the implosion of a large, centralized service.
So in this model, you are saying we should have companies that are responsible for just laying literal wires to connect houses to some type of neighborhood switch and then from the switch side on is "ISP" territory and they are responsible to connect to the "greater internet"?

I'm just wondering how the physical roles would be split and literally where.
I think you are misunderstanding here.

BitLocker is a full disk encryption system. Under the "device encryption" scheme discussed here, the recovery key is stored on Microsoft servers, but the content remains on the physical device.

I assume if a user was to backup their data using one of Microsoft's other services (e.g. OneDrive), that data would be encrypted under a different regime.

The BitLocker arrangement does provide users with some degree of security, in that an adversary would need access both to the physical device and the recovery keys on Microsoft servers to retrieve a user's data.
This is a wonderful example of NSA meddling. With one hand, Microsoft gives everyone out-of-box encryption, which it can use to demonstrate how well it's protecting consumers. With the other hand, by virtue of a 'feature' to assist consumers, it's providing access to the NSA via SkyDrive copies of encryption keys. Everyone's happy!

Best of all, enterprise customers don't have a reason to complain, because the SkyDrive backup 'feature' shouldn't apply to their deployment scenarios. The only people with a complain are those that use the default option.

We should keep vigilant for these security 'features' that are undermined by implementation. The NSA has years of practice at this, and we're playing catchup.
I have zero issues with Linux drivers? If anything I've had a better experience with Linux drivers than Windows. I could go through a laundry list of devices I buy, plug in and they just work on Linux (Ubuntu). My experience wasn't that way back when I ran Windows more. I'd buy a new printer and couldn't use it until I'd ran the installation software. On Linux just plug and play. Same with my headsets, Bluetooth, phones, etc. etc.
Ask HN: A startup that specializes in helping other businesses start or grow
The startup would create a client's company identity along with the logo and the website/landing page. And would offer free CV customization for unemployed users as a way to help the community. The products we'll provide will be top notch graphically and technologically and also for a fair price.
This is a basic idea and we are working on it. We'd love to know what HN think about it though. Leave your input and suggestions, and i'll personally make sure to read them all
Text editing is certainly a small part of development, but if you're in a dev role where your job involves writing a lot of code, you actually are spending a lot of time in editing mode. I spend quite a lot of time in Vim now because I'm doing a lot of programming, and that's why it's worth spending the time to both learn Vim and configure it to taste. Most of the time what I need to get the job done is a great text editor, and Vim scratches that itch. If, for instance, I was doing massive code refactoring instead I can see why an IDE would be the right tool to use.
Not life changing, but in a recent post on HN entitled "How do you get to write so well?" I found many usefull suggestions for getting better at writing, becomming good at communication is one of the most important skills to aim for, specially if English is not your mother language.
> it does start with a pixel accurate input

Not really. Eye doesn't operate exact number values, not discrete, not even analogous electric signal. Even if we imagine that "image" is what is projected on retina (which isn't exactly true in our case), it couldn't be described as an array of pixels, because, as mentioned earlier (and as everyone should know already anyway) real neuron isn't even close to some "single number value storage", but entity much more complex. So, no, even then it wouldn't be pixel accurate input.

In our case, however, "pixel accurate input" is that digital image of yours, array of numbers, that is, which is processed directly by ANN, but not by you. To be processed by your brain it goes through some pre-processing in the computer, is projected onto your not-so-perfect display, mixed with light from all the sources around you and only then is it projected on your retina, which also isn't perfect pixel matrix. So it is actually very much possible that these two images with very close, but different pixel values (which are objectively different for computer) indeed do innervate your retina in exactly the same way, and thus are objectively exactly the same image for your eye, which passes signal further to your brain. It just isn't fair to compare it to some ANN, because your eye isn't sensitive to pixel forging of that sort, but is sensitive to some others, which are treated easier by the NN instead.

You may just think of it like having several filters of some sort on the way of the visual signal to your internal "cat classifier".
Hey, thanks for reading. I agree that I definitely need to improve the presentation — plain-text is a stopgap, really, so I could get something up there before I talked myself out of the whole thing :)

I'm not a regular writer and don't have a blog, so it's not as easy as hitting 'new post' but I'll be sure to get something a bit more usable up soon.

Edit: Converted to Markdown-generated HTML for now.
In other words, it is possible to make life miserable, not jailed. And the only way to be protected against it is to not be know. Security by obscurity. This sounds like an incorrect approach, especially from member of "hacker" community.
Or because the BSDs have been making a lot of milestones lately?

That said, I'd honestly be very interested in any numbers confirming increased interest in the BSDs as a result of systemd integration into GNU/Linux. It's widely speculated, but is there anything concrete to suggest it?
I'm 99% sure you can be on the payrole of 2 companies at the same time.

http://www.h1base.com/visa/work/holding%20multiple%20h1b%20v...
My post was sarcastic :)
Sp3000 made a relevant comment in response to this but he may be hellbanned as it came up dead.

The article cites research into dopamine receptor issues in those with ADHD and I believe adderall works to inhibit reuptake so you have more dopamine in circulation than you would normally.

I can't speak for everyone but personally it is never a matter of "this feels rewarding and this doesn't". It's more being able to function vs. not being able to function. Without medication "I know I need to do these things, man I should really do these things, look at this list I made of things I need to do" which can spiral into what may be depression when the things don't get done, people get let down, etc... Whereas with medication you are just able to do what you need/want to do.

With unmanaged ADHD I have many ideas and desires that would be rewarding to complete but I am frequently just unable to perform.
> ISPs have generally rejected the first solution

I think ISPs like segmented pricing models. Segmented pricing models let them extract more profits from sections of the market that can afford more. But segmentation by bandwidth cap doesn't seem to be very successful.

> Charging someone who streams 100 GB/month from Netflix more than someone who streams 100 GB/month from Redbox or Hulu is not.

Just to get some reality into these figures; on a 5Mbit line, 300G/month was typical for our house. Now that we have an 80Mbit line, I would expect our home usage is now well in excess of 1T/month. (I live in the UK.) This should tell you that I have no self-interest in bandwidth caps, especially joke 2-figure ones.

Given that, I agree that there shouldn't, in principle, be a distinction between packets from company A vs company B. But without being able to efficiently price the scarce resource via bandwidth caps and segmented pricing models on the consumer side, the ISP is reduced to negotiating with the upstream providers of packets that are consuming the scarce resource on behalf of their customers. It then becomes a business negotiation problem, with contracts, leverage and relative power. So naturally there will be variance in which company pays what.

Somebody has got to pay for the scarce resources being exhasuted. That person will be the consumer who downloads more. The only question is how the payment will be routed.
Another thing about Rideshare in LA is that being a driver is the almost perfectly complementary job for a struggling actor. You need a car anyway to get to auditions and you get to set your own hours and make a decent enough wage to survive in LA.
For those commentators deriding Linux attempting to make FreeBSD sound better; you're doing your chosen OS a disservice. Instead, you should highlight why you like your OS and not try to denigrate Linux.
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http://universalscrobbler.invitationstation.org, a manual scrobbler for last.fm
Desktop users won't notice or care.

Those of us in the trenches doing sysadmin work will definitely notice.
Margins explain why Amazon is worth 10x warranted
The problem with Wikipedia as the data source is that there's some goof who goes around deleting articles on programming languages which aren't prolific enough (e.g. Kernel by John Shutt). Some pages don't exist to begin with (or can't exist, because the only source of information is on the language author's own page, and doesn't meet the criteria needed to be listed).

Shame, because some of the languages not listed tend to be the most interesting ones.
It's less about systemd and more about GPLv3 being rejected by companies -- startups included. The BSD ecosystem is much friendlier to businesses.
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Only the petition fees, which are a small portion ($1500?). The lawyers fees aren't refundable.

Some lawyers do charge up to $15,000 for H1Bs, and I've heard of people reasonably paying $8000. (Good lawyers are definitely in the $4000 range, though you can bring thing down considerably by using inhouse lawyers, which is probably what big companies do).

So if we assume that lawyers cost $2000 per petition for large companies, and that there's a 33% success rate in the lottery (it was 50% last year), we're still talking only a cost of $6000 per hire.
http://www.ranksignals.com

Used by over 50,000 internet marketers every month.
> He also notes that Rust is new and still needs to prove itself

That's true, but I don't think making a new language avoids that problem.
The reason for the split is that you don't want to have a bunch of companies trying to lay wire everywhere. It's very easy to build 10 power plants to connect to the grid vs. trying to run 10 sets of power lines everywhere.

The problem is that internet wire technology moves so much faster than power wire tech. Even in just the last 20 years we've gone from copper phone lines to cable to fiber. As long as the last-mile tech continues to improve it will be hard to work this scenario because what incentive does the "wires" company have to re-do all their infrastructure from fiber to the next big thing?