skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is one new statement specifically referring to start-ups:

"Second, pursuant to the "significant public benefit" parole authority under section
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212(d)(5) ofthe INA, USCIS should propose a program that will permit DHS to grant
parole status, on a case-by-case basis, to inventors, researchers, and founders ofstart-up enterprises who may not yet qualify for a national interest waiver, but who have been awarded substantial U.S. investor financing or otherwise hold the promise of innovation and job creation through the development of new technologies or the pursuit of cutting- edge research. Parole in this type of circumstance would allow theseindividuals to temporarily pursue research and development ofpromising new ideas and businesses in the United States, rather than abroad. This regulation will include income and resource thresholds to ensure that individuals eligible for parole under this program will not be eligible for federal public benefits or premium tax credits under the Health Insurance Marketplace of the Affordable Care Act."

From the linked document http://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/14_1120_...:
It is a good take on xml manipulation, but in my opinion xml must die.
If you had worked without pay you should have been able to use that as leverage to get vested - this was one of the points made in the lecture of why you should always pay the founders.
About the issue of capacitance and detecting the signal (with visible light interfering with it, unless they work in IR only) you can modulate the signal in some way then filter for that
Ask HN community: Is pretotyping just another word for "paper prototyping" or "lean startup"? I found this site and want to know what people have to say about it.
Whats wrong with the scroll on this site?
But the Wii had Manhunt 2 and Madworld and the DS had GTA: China Town Wars? Odd
> The 3G is surprisingly fast (6 MBps), but it's $60 for 4 GB

Switch to Optus prepaid. It's $2 per day for 0.5 GB per day. $2 more for 0.5 GB if you run out of you daily 0.5 GB.
It matters in the the NSA is the only agency authorised to carry out widespread signals intelligence, and the only one with the resources to do so at anything approaching that scale.

> is discussing is just Utah symbolically objecting to it.

It may just be symbolic, but sometimes symbols are important. If nothing else, if more and more parts of US society brands the NSA as un-American pariahs, it may make more insiders think twice about what they're doing (and about whistleblowing), may make it harder for Congress to keep supporting it, and may make their recruitment more difficult.
Not at all. I've also run into people who put on stage productions who are disappointed if people actually go to see them, feeling that means they "sold out".

While they're entitled to their opinions, I suspect that this is just a rationalization for being terrible artists :-) It's like people who take pride in not knowing anything about technology.
Google's wants to be your wireless carrier
I have had good luck with arpnetworks. So far only noticed one outage in three years of use. Have had good network and CPU performance. They don't do tech support for things inside your operating system, but they are always helpful when I ask them to do things on their end.
Amen to that. My other bugbear is floating menus that expand to fill the whole phone screen when you zoom in. Because they are fixed, you can't scroll away from them, hence your only choices on a phone are 'too small to read' or 'can only read a small segment of a floating menu'. Fail!
These Homework-Hating Kids Are Far Too Clever for Their Own Good
As far as Moleskine partnerships go, this doesn't top Evernote's.
Crowd Funding and IoT Go Hand-in-Hand
Done. Thanks for the suggestion.
All of what you said I reject except for the last paragraph.
And Moleskine's contribution to this "technology" are the 5 dots printed on every page. Wow.

I've seen better joined marketing campaigns.
The obnoxious part about all of this is that smaller cable ISPs have been doing this for years so now Comcast has someone to point to and say "why didn't anyone object when these companies did it?" Mediacom has a 250GB rigorously-enforced cap with very high overage rates.

Heck, smack in the middle of Seattle is a cable ISP called Wave Broadband. They have 100GB-1000GB usage tiers and even actively market that "more gigs can be proactively purchased each month." (But at least they bought out CondoInternet so the high-rise dwellers and houseboats in Eastlake can have no-quota gigabit fiber service.)
Safer for who? Probably not for Europe, certainly Eastern Europe who see what Putin is doing in Ukraine. Probably not for Japan and South Korea, both of whom rely on US military backing against undemocratic opponents who have designs on their territory.

US military strength underpins the current Western democratic system, which keeps the US wealthy through trade and commerce.
"The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."

-Hermann Göring at the Nuremberg trials
At first glance, it may seem like a startup that raised >$300m is selling itself for $15m but that's not the case at all. Earlier this year, Fab effectively pivoted from selling stuff designed and manufactured by other companies to designing, selling and manufacturing - and the other those words are in is significant - their own products (i.e. vertical-integration)[1]. That pivot was given a new brand (Hem.com) and it looks like the old Fab brand and business are being sold off, and the focus is now on Hem which, I presume, has the same shareholders that Fab had.

1: www.digitaltrends.com/home/hem-new-venture-fab-like-ikea-customizable-furniture/
Luckily there's never been any large scale violence within or around capitalism.

Everyone's freedoms - especially the freedom to get paid a fair rate for hard work - are quite safe.
rustup.sh installs both.

For other install methods see: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/16456
Fun fact time: The dialogue for all the insults and responses in MI1 was written by Orson Scott Card!
High-DPI displays and Linux
Emacs can make Vim a subset of it. You should check spacemacs: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs. It was made by Vimmers and is ambitious: it wants to replace not only the "editor" inside Emacs, but also rebind everything else to Vim's convention. Evil-mode can do everything in Practical Vim, I was told by a Vim user switched to Emacs.
You're changing the subject.

No other country has intelligence services with even a fraction of the reach of the NSA, so clearly countries can exist without an NSA class agency.

Whether a country could exist without an organization that pays attention to what the rest of the world is up to is another matter. It's a role served by diplomatic services, and where even the most low tech intelligence agency can provide substantial additional abilities without stepping all over civil liberties. I don't see anyone questioning the need for a diplomatic corps, foreign service, or even basic human intelligence agencies, or for that matter basic sigint.

But it's an entirely different issue than whether an agency like the NSA is needed - or warranted.

Arguably, while the NSA may thwart some threats, it is also part of maintaining the image of the US as the big bully of the world, and as a result it is part of creating the type of threats it is meant to protect you against. It's self-reinforcing.
For XHTML to win, we'd have to lose our history. Yes, it would have been simpler in terms of parsing, but I'm glad practicality beat purity. Everytime I see a CDATA section in some old code, something inside me dies.
Ah, my apologies. Of course there are plenty of legitimate issues, but my experience has been that there is too much misogyny in some of these communities, which is what troubles me.

It's a bit like how some of the conspiracy groups are rife with overt anti-semitism (although they'd probably not call it that). Regardless of how I feel about the conspiracies that may or may not be there, I usually bail out as soon as the theory ends up blaming the jews for everything.
not bad at all! not sure it's legal, thought
You should see my other answer to see what Emacs is capable of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8639804

Definitely not less than Sublime.
People like me who like exploring weird subreddits? I actually did find a subreddit once that mostly consisted of people looking for weird subreddits... Maybe someone should create a subreddit that indexes these subreddit-finding subreddits.
I'll stick with my leuchtturm link[1] notebook. Seems more flexible, and I don't see it as a real advantage to directly tie the image to adobe's stuff vs. dropbox/email.

[1] http://www.leuchtturm1917.com/en/content/whitelines-link-%C2...
Exactly. If I was in charge of Chinese or Russian intelligence, I'd have whole buildings full of people dedicated to how to tap the Bluffdale data centre: It'd be fantastic - get all the data without the political risk of trying to gather it yourself and possibly the ability to alter data at will.
Not the 3DS specifically, but do you mean something like https://wiiu-developers.nintendo.com ? It's a higher-level API than their "native" SDK (which is still only licensed to BigCorps) but Unity and HTML5 aren't bad options for getting something in front of people.
Both Windows and OS X have a unified management mechanism.

In fact, OS X's launchd was a direct inspiration for systemd because of how nicely it works there. I've wanted launchd on servers for so many years.
Given what Putin is doing in Ukraine, and given how the US and Europe appeared to be totally unprepared, it doesn't seem like the NSA is really benefiting Europe enough for it to be a viable for the necessity of the NSA.
Was there anything blasphemous about any of those games? I seem to recall as them all is fairly mundane, if a bit violent, video games
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> "Maybe those ad supported sites just have to pay the server bills."

The place where I buy pizza has to pay for the ingredients, the rent, salaries, etc. These costs and a reasonable profit add up to $18 for a pie, which I pay, because their pizza is worth at least $18. What if their pizza wasn't so good, and too few customers thought it was worth $18? Is it right for them to hand out "free" pizza in a box covered with advertising inside and out, and the advertised products get marked up $22 to cover the pizza cost as well as the advertising overhead and collateral costs[1]? Let me be clear: the customers are getting a pizza that costs $18 for "free", but $22 is added to the cost of the other goods they buy. They don't realize this and the pizza shop is taking advantage of this ignorance.

> "And what does it say about you if you want to use a product and not aren't willing to pay for it? Not even indirectly via ads?"

If you're referring to me, I'm totally willing to pay for it. If you mean people in general, they fall into three categories:

1. They are willing to pay for it. They wish there weren't ads, and switch to ad-free, for-pay products when available.

2. They are willing to pay for it, but are happy to take what appears to be free.

3. They are not willing to pay for it, but are happy to take what appears to be free.

Both #2 and #3 don't realize that instead of being free, it costs a lot more. Or they are too lazy to find a for-pay product. Or they think they don't buy advertised products and are happy to mooch off of others.

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[1] If I don't buy those products, someone else must be, in which case they are subsidizing my pizza. I'll bet the effects are regressive, in that people with lower incomes end up subsidizing people with higher. In any case, on average we all pay for the true cost of the "free" product plus the previously mentioned overhead and collateral costs.
What are the customer service hacks you've seen to make customers really happy?
why would they need that much water anyways ?
How about getting outside? The days are shorter and there is less light but we get outdoors far less than previous generations. That will be a contributor to light deprivation and S.A.D.

There's nothing inherently wrong with winter. If you're willing to make time for a lightbox in the morning, you can make time for a lunchtime stroll and get outdoors at the weekend.
Are you really extrapolating from ONE data point?

In some sense systemd is more stable in that it's fixing some longstanding bugs with sysvinit, but of course it will have some bugs of it own. If you don't want to deal with that, you could skip a release.
Aaaaaaaaaand there goes my productivity.
Classic lasers directly emit coherent beam without the need for additional optics. Output aperture of most lasers might seem to emit light into all directions, but most of the output power is concentrated into the direction of the resonant cavity. Due to manufacturing tolerances low power laser diodes tend to produce somewhat irregular output beam (both diverging and uneven) which is then compensated for using some external optics that also serve to set required width of the final output beam.

It is impractical to convert light from some arbitrary "point-like" source (ie. LED) into beam that has low divergence by lenses or similar optics.
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It's another layer of isolation - decreases range and increases cost of surveillance.

Encryption is orthogonal, can be applied to both transports.
Dear men. The book says "Barbie is a computer engineer". Please read the title again, it says "computer engineer", not "game designer". So Barbie is a computer engineer that doesn't know how to code. If that's not sexist, I don't know what is. That this submission gets flagged by HN users just makes me sad.
Sorry, that's wrong. Matter, dark or otherwise, is scattered throughout the universe, with variations in density at all scales. Ordinary and dark matter are gravitationally attracted to each other, so they clump together. Anywhere you find matter you'll find a proportional amount of dark matter, on average; naturally there are variations. There's some in between you and your computer monitor right now.

The first good indication that dark matter must exist was in fact that the rotation rates of the observable galaxies were too large for the amount of visible mater they contain. Of course the first explanation was that this matter was ordinary gas, dust, rocks, planets (which are just larger dust particles, when compared with the size of even a small galaxy.), etc that wasn't emitting any light. However, there would have to be so much of it that it would occlude the distant galaxies, something that obviously isn't happening. Thus the modern theory is that dark matter is a form of matter that interacts gravitationally with ordinary matter, but has no interaction with the electromagnetic force (light).
It seems to me Adobe has been much more innovative now that they have their Creative Cloud service. I wonder if this is a result of increased revenues from Creative Cloud or part of their efforts to get everyone to upgrade to the subscription service.
It's interesting how things go back and forth in science...

A Brazilian priest studied about using light to transmit data and achieved that around 1 century ago, even before Marconi

Unfortunately his government didn't supported him, because he "was a mad priest" that wanted to send messages to other worlds, he said:

"Give me a vibratory movement as large as the distance that separates us from these other worlds that roll our heads, or below our feet, and I will make the sound of my voice reach there."

http://www.landelldemoura.com.br/lm04.htm
Notejam – unified sample app, expressjs version released
It's not much water. If you have a field of corn 700m by 700m, it needs that much water to grow.
Astral – Organize Your GitHub Stars Easily
Lasers generate coherent radiation, the frequency of the light is much more monochromatic (set by the optical cavity) than a bare LED (set by the thermally smeared band gap of the material).
Even a very cheap laser diode can have the output collimated with a single lens, resulting in a beam that diverges a fraction of a percent. Hence cheap laser pointers.
Try and do the best you can with an LED and you will end up with a torch.
But but but... that doesn't have the 5 orientation dots like the Moleskine smart book! How could you possibly snap a picture of your work and vectorize it? How? How? Imposiblu!
If they can shield neighboring wifi.
There's a couple of syntax errors, but it does eventually load. I think the whole screen is dependent on a web request completing.

Tip: try to get as much of it rendered as possible while you're waiting. Most JavaScript frameworks have the ability to manage sub-views of some sort, so you can get most of that screen in place. If you're waiting on the items to load, try greying out the search box or something?
Can you tell us why we should be using this app?
> How might they cut off the water sooner than 2021?

They won't. It's called "grandstanding". Welcome to politics.

Also, they second this is about to get real, the NSA announces the redundancy plans (easily 100s of "high tech economy jobs") and everyone runs screaming for the hills.
Ohhh yeah. Sitting in a Seminar, listening goes down the drain... ;-)
Nice JavaScript/WebGL demo. Unfortunately, it doesn't work well on the iPhone. The rendering is good, left/right works, but accelaration is broken.
If you add up Mao's and Stalin's bodycounts, that's 50-100 million people, so yes, compared to that we are quite safe. I don't know of any capitalist nation that's inflicted anything in that order of magnitude of deaths on its own citizens, and what deaths there are are usually caused by noncapitalist entities like the state police and army. Noncapitalist because they're not funded voluntarily; I suspect if the military was something we had to pay for as individuals like bread, computers, cars, etc. then it'd be a hellova lot smaller. Similarly I can't imagine many people would pay gangs of private detectives to go around locating and imprisoning drug users.
It doesn't have to be demoralizing. I oftentimes say not now, shoot me an email, Skype or ask me after lunch. It has created a culture where they interrupt me only if it is urgent enough to warrent I get out of my workflow and have to restart it.

I believe this is what the article is all about.
So now instead of syslog we have journald AND syslog - we only doubled the risk of something going boom and taking away our ability to log. I don't think that's nice.
Well, not really. You'd absolutely destroy the NSA's experience and domain knowledge, setting back its operational capabilities by a matter of decades and basically put the Russians and the Chinese in the driving seat. It's not a small organisation - these things take a lot of time to set up properly.
This Is What a 24K Gold iPad Air 2 Looks Like
If it were me I would rather be bootstrapped but take a little longer to get there. To me there's no point in swapping a boss for an investor.

I see you mentioned that you already have videos & training materials for users. I would start to document how you do the onboarding in person so you can teach it to someone else. Don't underestimate the value of high-touch sales. It shows that it's working for you.

With you currently having a job, you could invest your current income into rebuilding a new (non-WordPress) version. If your current version is on WP - do you really need a team to create your new version - or just someone contracted for a few months & then on retainer.

Once the new version is up to the same feature set as the current version - migrate users over. Then pour your income into streamlining your business, hiring employees etc.
I have not watched this particular video yet, but I'm shocked at the amount of people that sound like they have not even gotten started on their idea and already thinking about 'tax havens'. What chance do we have of big corps paying taxes in the country they operate in if we're teaching people tax avoidance at the startup stage ?
I went to a unicode meeting about a decade ago, and asked one of the luminaries over beer one night. He told me that they did some practical research, including reading newspapers and talking to editors. In Japan they would ask questions like "I see that you mention Shanghai in today's paper, and you use Japanese glyphs for the city's name, not the same as Chinese newspaper use. Why?". The answer was generally "that's how we write Shanghai here" and out of that came Han unification.

I suspect that if you could find a couple of mainstream publishers in Taiwan or Japan that prefer to print the names of mainland Chinese using the same glyphs as are used on mainland China instead of the glypths used on Taiwan or in Japan, you might be able to reopen the discussion of han unification.
just wrote in twitter (https://twitter.com/0xAX/status/533858562863165440) that github must have tags for stars some days ago and i see this project. Thank you, very useful.
> “What’s noteworthy is no one on the panel said: ‘Hey, wait a minute, we can’t do this,'” he says. “They had some specific concerns about the language of the bill, but there was no outright opposition.”

That's pretty surprising given how incredibly conservative/Republican the state of Utah is. I'd be surprised if the bill passed (and if it was it would surely be caught up in litigation), but kudos to someone in such a conservative area recognizing that personal liberty is more important than security.
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So awesome, thanks a lot!
Russian webcam hackers spy on UK homes and offices
Apparently a mistake exists in Part 2 of the sculpture so it's plausible that there's more. From the Wikipedia article:

> There are also a few incorrect letters in the ciphertext which Sanborn has said were intentional, and a few letters near the beginning of the bottom half have been displaced from their normal positions, apparently intentionally... One of the lines of the tableau is one character too long, which Sanborn has indicated was accidental.

It's tough to imagine how to start such a problem when you can't even rely on the ciphertext being correct.
Maybe it's Vitamin D [0] that's important, which you'd likely won't get from the Oculus, but you do get from sunlight and fatty fish (like Salmon).

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D
You don't even need that. Publishing the number of redundancies created by closing down the data centre is more than enough.
Generally speaking, kudos to Moleskine for capitalizing on a mundane product & average quality but nothing beats japanese brands when it comes to fine paper. Also, you might give Whitelines[1] a whirl for scanning sketches.

[1](http://whitelines.se)
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Hi Hanns, aweseome! We love happy users! Wait till you see what's in the pipeline!!! -philippe
Honestly, I can understand why people are uneasy about this. "Yes, tight coupling is being introduced in many core Linux projects, but don't worry -it's only these shiny NEW features you don't have anywhere else!"

Sounds eerily like "Embrace Extend Extinguish" redux.

Don't get me wrong, I am aware systemd is a technically superior solution. But politically, it is a trainwreck.
What I meant is that it sounds like it's possible to have two entries in a map with the same key.
I have Comcast in Colorado. I signed up for Backblaze last month and it uploaded 1.3 TB of data in about 2 weeks. My "normal" bandwidth usage is around 600-800 GB per month, plus the extra terabyte on top of that.

The problem with bandwidth caps is that they effective take away the ability for people to use online services like online backup and streaming sites. My kids that stay at home probably watch a few hours of streaming media every day, which would use up most if not all of the 300GB just with that, let alone everything else.