skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment is one of the best deconstructions of common criticisms of the potential of MOOCs that I've read. If you pastebin it (or add it to your blog if you have one) and submit it, I think it would be worthy of its own discussion. It's certainly more informed than the parent article.
Exactly, if the Compatible is the one they recommend, then that should be the default one, hence just "jQuery 3.x".
Would love to see responses from the same users when the bizspark period is over. Seems like an idiotic choice to go vendor lock-in, small community, IMO sheltered mentality, high license fees (after bizspark), and difficult to automate operating systems. I suppose if you don't need a lot of machines it's not a problem yet, but seems like a lot of short sighted decisions.
Strictly speaking, according to Bostrom, the kind of machine-based intelligence that is heading humanity’s way wouldn’t wish its makers harm. But it would be so intent on its own goals that it could end up crushing mankind without a thought, like a human stepping carelessly on an ant.

Like corporations.

What happens when computers get good at management? A network of computers may be able to outperform human managers. Even if they're not quite as smart as the smarter humans, a network of computers can coordinate better than a meeting of people. Once computer-run companies start producing better returns than human-run ones, the computer-run ones will dominate. That's basic capitalism.

This doesn't imply that the organization is entirely automated. It just means humans aren't at the top. If it produces more profits, companies will be forced by investors to take that route.
I think a lot of podcasting apps (including the iOS app) do in fact allow streaming now.

That being said, autodownloading is still very useful and essential for me. Without podcasts, my subway commute would be infinitely more boring.
There is at least one good reason to do so. Imagine that you're installing an update and notice that your battery is so low it won't finish before it dies. Surely sleeping is better than allowing a loss of power?

In the worst case, the update is rolled back, which wastes time, but it's better than risking file system corruption due to loss of power.

Even if you don't get corruption, data loss is likely. For instance, you may have been browsing HN when power goes out. Will your browser's crash recovery carefully restore the comment you've been typing for the last 17 minutes? Maybe yes, but is every program you're running so careful?

This is not a design fault, at least in my opinion.
Essential Fatty Acids play a role. It's not productive to focus on just one causal factor normally but EFA deficiency is quite common because of:

1. maligning of dietary fats

2. high cost of fish relative to other foods

3. time and effort required to cook eggs in morning and the tremendous marketing investments in easier but ultimately unsustainable 'foods'

It's a shame that so much knowledge about human health goes to waste because of either ignorance or misplaced priorities.
>Isn't the "something else" just money?

No. Frequently it is more expensive to outsource and this is well known beforehand by management.

There are plenty of companies out there who choose the outsourcing/H1B route in spite of the higher cost, not out of sheer stupidity, but because they feel better able to control their workers and are willing to sacrifice margin for that.

Anybody who has seen incredulously watched an outsourcing project come to fruition despite knowing that it would never end up being worth it should recognize this. It happens all the time.
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website has been updated ;)
My favorite one are PK Clean [http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/pk-clean-solving-worlds-plast...] and LiquiGlide [http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2012/liquiglide-mechanical-enginee...]
Quest – From now on, this is a web browser
v2 of the website is now live..still in development
update to the website is now live...still a work in progress so it might be a big buggy, so bear with me.
Several philosophers have attended to those very thought experiments. I recently read some of Locke's "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" (Book 2), and he has some interesting thoughts on person-hood and persistence of consciousness in chapter 27.
As a shopper, I care more about the features, usability, convenience, privacy and security of a shopping app, and not at all about how much funding went into its development. I'd say focus on those aspects of your app, and market it too likewise.
Worked with one big Indian company here in Malaysia last time and I see intimidation as common means of dealing with employees. Unfortunately, it doesn't really work well here, since most of people have a lot of choices moving around.

I've been pushed to accept work that has a minimum wage in a different country, despite my experience and the fact I can't possibly survive with my family there. I've had my resume jacked up multiple times when they sent my resume to the client, up to the point that I had to deny I had never put certain things on my resume.

For fresh grad though, if they quit earlier than 18 months, they have to pay almost a year of their salary, which seems reasonable when there are trainings when they joined the company. Except for the fact that the first year salary of said fresh grad are being paid in full by the Malaysian government (in exchange of hiring certain number of locals per year). Some of the trainings are subsidized by the government too.

Which explained how they can force employees to take a much less pay than what they are getting in other countries, where the cost of living is higher, because they can intimidate.

Malaysia job market is much smaller than India, and such tactic didn't bode well, since there are not much replacement to come by when people are quitting, and smaller market means once you had bad reputation, new hires slowed to trickle.

Now, I am not generalizing all Indian companies, there bad apples around the world, but I am just sharing my experience on how intimidation come about. I just find it disgusting that such practices are being practice somewhere in the world.
If a prosecutor's chief career metric is his conviction rate, then he doesn't have much incentive to reelease exonerating evidence.

I wonder if changing the rules would help. Releasing such evidence and causing the case to collapse would not reduce the conviction percentage. Perhaps it could even be counted as a win, increasing the metric, because justice was done.
> If H1Bs were not tied to employers

I'm sick and tired of hearing this bullshit repeated over and over again. Let me say this once: H1B workers are not tied down to a particular employer.

It used to be the case that the were, but in 2000, Congress passed a law (known as "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.
The country next to Germany, Austria, has to pay to both the allied forces and soviets (russia) for WW 1 & WW 2: much of the former land mass that formed Austria (it's now tiny), a lot of money, gold, natural ressources (like rare earth and food to the soviets) and as usual after wars they captured and removed all valuable technology. The allied bombed many cities and railway stations and 10% didn't exploded and many are still in the ground (the chemical ignotion mechanism is still active and several bombs detonate each year).
> The prescribing physician can be on-board for the use of non-FDA approved meds, it's just uncommon.

This seems to be essentially false. I can find some evidence that unapproved drugs are prescribed in the US, but this is usually because A) the drug is grandfathered in or B) the doctor is breaking the law (intentionally or unintentionally).

http://www.fda.gov/drugs/guidancecomplianceregulatoryinforma...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Drug_Application

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigational_New_Drug

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kefauver_Harris_Amendment

Also, the FDA approved 4-Aminopyridine in 2010.

http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/uc...
At least there's one good thing about it: it's a great motivator to work hard and get rich if one is planning on having kids, in order to avoid sending them to public school.
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My interest is not really the existence of borderline-recognizable inputs, but how you would reach them. It's trivial to make any system classify wrong if you can add arbitrary amounts of noise. But how often can you trick a human by taking a full-frame broad daylight image and perturbing each pixel up to some limit? I expect the number to be pretty low, even if you're depriving them of the ability to perform more examinations of the object.
A harder question:

If ADHD isn't real but the drugs do something with utility what should be societies stance? If somebody wants to, or needs to do work that requires more concentration, how do we justify denying them the opportunity to better themselves?

Much like giving welfare under the guise of disability, this discussion reflects yesterday s ethics on today's questions.
EDIT: AC21 is for those who are applying for a green card (I-485 pending). How the heck is AC21 even connected to H1B? Source/link please?

EDIT2: H1B transfer does not seem to involve AC21. All that happens is that the new employer will need to apply for a H1B petition all over again. So you are simply tied to the new employer, instead of your old employer.

http://www.immihelp.com/visas/h1b/h1-transfer.html

AC21 is not free, there are legal fees and processing times involved. There is a non-zero cost involved. If this cost did not exist, if an employee could just switch jobs WITHOUT needing the receiving company to do anything, then obviously there would be no wage suppression. Employee can ask for a raise, and simply leave if refused.
How is it utilitarian? Utilitarianism is about maximizing the usefulness for the most people. The latter is the key. A system that is great for some, but really bad on average is as from utilitarian you can get.
If this position is actually for a full-time employee in San Francisco and the travel is required of the employee, which it sounds like it is ("every year we take the company overseas for a month (on your own dime, sorry) and work incredibly hard..."), Expensify might want to speak with a competent employment attorney about California Labor Code section 2802 sooner than later.
Does vanilla neovim offer anything that a vanilla vim user might like? I imagine I will make the switch at some point, I just wonder if there's any compelling reason to do so sooner rather than later.
So there's a high initial cost involved, but then the company can wage suppress the employee over the next 5-6 years, and in the end turn a profit? Wow.
I noted two things:

1. "Shackling workers to their jobs is such an entrenched business practice that it has even spread to US nationals" - such US arrogance.

2. Almost all names of people affected seem to be from the state of Tamil Nadu in India.
The project I work on isn't a startup per se but it's not completely dissimilar. We use:

* ASP.NET for web with SQL Server + EF for the database and data access

* Xamarin for mobile and OData for data access (back to our ASP.NET sites)

The CLR is great because it's always been fast enough for our applications and every so often you get something for nothing. For example, CLR 4.5 brought better GC and RyuJIT is bringing better code generation. NET Native might give us even better performance.

LINQ is amazing if you know your IQueryables from your IEnumerables and the difference between an Expression<Func<T, bool>> and a Func<T, bool>.

Hosted in a private datacentre, not using Azure but we've got our eye on it (provisioning resources in the Azure Portal seems to get easier and easier than doing it ourselves).

New Relic for monitoring the web sites.

My biggest gripe (and it's not that big) is that within the Microsoft ecosystem/community everything works great but once you go outside it things are less well supported. Some less-popular-but-wow-that's-useful Javascript libraries don't come as NuGet packages. New Relic's .NET monitoring seems good but second fiddle to their other stuff.

After that I'd say Xamarin is letting the team down. Every second or so release of theirs fixes two bugs but adds another one.

Keeping an eye on Application Insights. It looks like it integrates nicely with Visual Studio Online, and VSO/TFS actually looks quite nice in parts (e.g. Bamboo for CI is largely geared towards Java apps not .NET but TFS' Release Management looks promising). I have my eye on VSO/TFS too but right now it looks like pros do not outweight the cons vs. our Atlassian applications.

If you've got enough processing power and memory and a fast SSD to run Visual Studio + ReSharper it's coding heaven.
Would love to put that in when I'm less swamped. ;)

Would've taken more than the ~30 seconds of the above, though. :P
Penalizing early exit with loss of immigration status could be illegal...penalizing with money is probably not.
The Dating Agency model discussed by the author is interesting, and I'm impressed that he went to the effort of discussing the idea with ethicists, lawyers and entrepreneurs (and of course, scientists).

> Every year, an untold number of potential new drugs or interventions, any one of which might go on to improve thousands of lives, are thrown away without being tested in humans. It is a matter of funding, not science: there is not enough money in the public or private sector to run clinical trials on every exciting proposal that comes out of research labs.

Thinkable.org is a recently-launched crowdfunding platform for cutting-edge scientific research: http://thinkable.org/discover

Similar to the article's Dating Agency model, Thinkable does review the campaigns before listing them publicly: "Dr McNeil said Thinkable would only allowed researchers affiliated with accredited research organisations to use the site and any funds donated would be managed by the organisation to ensure they were used for research." [1]

Thinkable doesn't appear to allow you to buy early spots in the clinical trial queue, but it certainly seems that they want to ensure that important science research won't be lost between the cracks due to a lack of funding. A more democratic approach to funding scientific research, in contrast to the plutocratic approach discussed in the article.

[1] http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/young-scientists-u...

Edit: I temporarily removed my point about Thinkable being a democratic approach, because in retrospect it seemed a trivial & obvious observation, until I saw that wyager had just replied to that point specifically!
It just has 4 lines of text and some pictures. I don't even know what it is.
Ask HN: Is the subject matter of my GitHub projects (as résumé) important?
I’m debating applying for a job at a software company as a front-end developer, and like many companies out there, they are interested in seeing any work on GitHub.

The content in my GitHub account are things I’ve done in my spare time, things that are fun, much of which turns out to be computer game-related. Don’t get me wrong — it’s all front-end, web stuff, but I am curious, is it smart to have more dry/serious kind of content? Are companies/hiring managers quick-to-judge GitHub portfolios?
It's a mobile web browser it's free you should test it out.
We use C# and F# extensively at Kaggle: kaggle.com is an ASP.NET MVC app on Azure, and a good portion of our data processing is in C# or F#.
I use this: http://hnnotify.com/
The reason for this broad applicability is because it holds for any queueing system. The beauty of the law is that it holds for any distribution of arrival, occupancy, and latency. Just multiplying the averages gets the job done!
Yikes - if Microsoft would just focus on what they are doing right, and perfecting that (Windows, MSDN, etc) they might have a chance at avoiding these constant and public "fails." I understand every enterprise level business needs to try new things, but it really just seems as thought they need to leave mobile / tablets alone as hard as it may be for them to hear until they have an MVP that murders it and people can't wait for.
> Do you consider all of north-america uniting under one federal government as non-absurd?

It would be difficult to govern any entity that large effectively.

> how about north and south america?

Ditto, only worse.

> how about all the rest of the world?

Worse still.

> How about if you didn't have borders and didn't need to spend money on militaries to defend those borders, like California doesn't spend much money on the military to defend its border against oregon?

Tell that to the people fighting ISIS.
I don't understand the link name or what's going on with the page. "From now on"? What? Like, before today Quest wasn't a browser? What's so special about a web browser? The page doesn't have any answers.

The good news is the woman's smile is great.
This actually happened to one of the people I know. That person had to go through a lot just to get out of the stranglehold of those people. Literally screwed. They were paying half of market and also not even paying it on time. Unfortunately its difficult to pursue a legal route against these people because of the cost to pay lawyers and also the fact that they do it in such a way that its borderline legal/illegal. The only thing you can do is to save other people who may fall into the same trap.
But WHY? You're just describing what happens when a medium takes off.

Why are all of these pros suddenly starting their own? Why is it becoming mainstream now instead of in 2004? Certainly there are some trailblazers in there that through luck or foresight were doing it early, but a lot are doing it because they've seen that the audience is there and it won't be a waste of time.

I agree with the article because it fits my personal experience. I bought a car a year ago with a Bluetooth enabled sound system and almost immediately starting devouring podcasts because of how easy it was.
I'm glad the article spoke to specific regional recruitment issues in the brain and evolutionary advantages. As someone who was diagnosed at a young age and retain the condition through adulthood, it wasn't until I understood the evolutionary advantages to not being able to quiet regions of the brain not involved in the specific activity - that I learned how to self-learn.

Long story short, it's not just the testing conditions in which it's beneficial to not be in a class-room setting, but the learning phase too. Essentially, I'm completely worthless trying to absorb new information in a room full of people. It's nearly impossible to not be conscious of those around me. However, at home - where I can control environmental factors - everything changes. I am not forced to be reactive and can happily concentrate - even with other portions of the brain remaining active (listening, wondering, whatever).
Not getting the exact error, but the cert that https://www.moneysoft.com.au is using is not actually for https://www.moneysoft.com.au.
From Wikipedia article on H-1B visa:

>The American Competitiveness in the Twenty-First Century Act of 2000 (AC21) and the U.S. Department of Labor's PERM system for labor certification erased most of the earlier claimed arguments for H-1Bs as indentured servants during the green card process. With PERM, labor certification processing time is now approximately 9 months (as of Mar 2010).[33]

>Because of AC21, the H-1B employee is free to change jobs if they have an I-485 application pending for six months and an approved I-140, and if the position they move to is substantially comparable to their current position. In some cases, if those labor certifications are withdrawn and replaced with PERM applications, processing times improve, but the person also loses their favorable priority date. In those cases, employers' incentive to attempt to lock in H-1B employees to a job by offering a green card is reduced, because the employer bears the high legal costs and fees associated with labor certification and I-140 processing, but the H-1B employee is still free to change jobs.

>However, many people are ineligible to file I-485 at the current time due to the widespread retrogression in priority dates. Thus, they may well still be stuck with their sponsoring employer for many years. There are also many old labor certification cases pending under pre-PERM rules.