skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And a link to volume one, if you missed it: https://leanpub.com/readevalprintlove001/read
The Golden Grad
Thanks for your feedback. We're very mindful of system gaming and proactively work to prevent it. Although it's impossible to identify these activities perfectly, we do remove users that are competing unfairly. In reality, once a user is qualified to receive payments, it's fairly easy for us to ensure unique identities.

Our game design itself also prevents a lot of issues commonly seen on other trading game platforms. For example, you can't buy 1000% of a $2mn market cap company; we aggressively force close positions that breach margin requirements; etc. These are usually the culprits behind "astronomical" and unrealistic gains.

We pride ourselves on our performance measurements. This is why many financial institutions and universities have chosen to work with us.
I'm getting downvoted because I made a comment below about how I was more interested in the statistics behind this phenomenon than the people, and apparently that's not okay. This post was at +4 before people started downvoting all of my comments on this discussion.

I'm not too worried about it. Some people need to cling to that iota of power that an inverted triangle can offer.
CSS Statistics
I'm not even joking when I say that the creator of this framework should consider going into marketing or sales. It's pretty impressive that he managed to take a framework that violates so many semantic HTML principles that it seems like it's being done on purpose, have the audacity to then call it "Semantic UI," and actually have it get some level of traction.

It's like if someone took a bunch of iron beams, claimed that they were actually 100% natural wood, and managed to get a bunch of people to buy them.
Is this for real? I can't tell if it's satire...
Hey man. Great work.
The roadmap that MAPS has produced for getting FDA approval for MDMA shows that it will cost about 20M in total. I think the salary they're paying their own staff is probably unrealistically low for a for-profit, and they also had some of the pre-clinical work done for them. But at the same time they've incurred enormous costs due to the fact that MDMA is schedule I, so all in all this probably isn't a bad estimate for the actual cost of getting a new drug approved.
Spreedly's take on Apple Pay
Look its no accident that the Top 3 H1-B Employers is on the low end of the salary scale.

http://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2014-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.aspx

If these jobs are paying the $60-70K Range, to me there is no reason why a College Graduate from an American Computer Science or Information Systems cannot perform these jobs.

IMO, end clients such as Fortune 500 are simply using the Cognizant's, Infosys etc. of the world, as a "Flexible Workforce" or "Onshoring Model" in lieu of actually hiring and training employees.

In my view, they should allow these otherwise H1-B's access to a visa that isn't tied to an employer, so they can seek competitive wages and allow them to compete openly without the prospect them being deported be a drag on their salary, or cut down the H1-B's entirely. Either way, I believe is difficult for Americans to compete.

We can talk special privileges for "startups" but as long as it takes $500 on incorporate.com to create a company, the system will be abused.
"What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven."
- Jean Chretien

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX6XMIldkRU
An interesting framework, somewhat similar to Mithril (http://lhorie.github.io/mithril/), and nearly as fast, which means its quicker than Angular / Ember / Bootstrap etc.
Architecting on AWS: Dynamic Configuration vs. Master AMIs
Lego Mindstorms are probably the best fit . . .

I coached a lego robotics team for the first time this year . . . FLL starts at age 8/9 till age 13/14. It was a great experience.

There is a Jr. FLL you might want to check in to for him.
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/jr.fll

Mindstorms will be challenging for a 5 yr old but you can help him build his ideas . . .

The retail version has everything you'd need to get started . . . and would make a good christmas present.

Our local science center has a class you can sign up and take to get some hands on time with the kit before investing in one or maybe you have a friend that has one you can borrow.

Also the next generation of mindstorm came out in the last 18 months or so . . . there are lots of FLL teams upgrading from NXT (old version) to EV3 (new version) so you might be able to get an NXT version from a team that has moved on to EV3 (every team usually have 2 to 3 kits).

Good luck with robotics . . .
Financial Hazards of a Fugitive Life
My wife works for a small pharmaceutical company and of there roughly 900 employees, about 550 are sales force. This is a profitable company that is currently valued at about $8B and does about $700m/yr revenue, but which doesn't do any consumer advertising whatsoever.
I agree that this is a great project. But, do you think it's right to call this a "scientific process of understanding"?

It seems to me that the field (as it were) is simply in a pre-scientific phase of exploration and experimentation. Once we have a concrete basis for performing repeatable, independent experiments to (dis)prove concrete hypotheses, then the field will have entered a scientific stage.
What is better about these? More "modern" maybe? What about functional improvements? What's the reasoning behind the design decisions?
Forrester: Top IT Predictions for 2015
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Ask HN: Angel “investing” in non-profits?
My wife and I want to take an angel investing approach to our giving this year by making a substantial donation to an early-stage non-profit to help them scale their impact. The only requirement is that they are local and a registered 501c3 (tax-deductible).

Where would you find innovative non-profits? Is there an equivalent of AngelList for charities?

Thanks!
I thought the problem was supposed to be:

"I'm a hiring manager and all my postings get spammed by barely code-literate, unqualified people and I can't separate the wheat from the chaff efficiently."
Marketing is a pretty big part of the pie compared to R + D

http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/twr131n.htm
Current and Future of Apache Kafka
I thought the author might mention some reasons why the current designs were lacking, and give some possible solutions that would improve the license plates in some measurable way. But it seems that he simply has a preference for his own design that features transparent font on two-color "simple" pictures. Why does the public need to "wake up" and realize that we are living in a world of awful license plate design if the solution just involves making each state conform to some arbitraty template?
I find the color palate to be quite visually pleasing but unfortunately the colors selected for each plate don't provide enough contrast.

Part of what makes the current plates look so 'poor' is the need for letters and numbers to contrast with the background.
Anyone can extend UTF-16 to the UTF-8 repertoire of codepoints by using the top 2 private use planes as high and low 2nd-tier surrogates respectively. Hopefully, by the time UTF-8 (and UTF-32) need to be extended, UTF-16 will have fallen into general disuse and almost no-one will need to use those 2 levels of surrogates. Java/Android and .NET strings aren't being broken anytime soon, however, so it seems to me people should start talking about the details of such a 2nd-tier surrogate system.
Adding Multiuser to a Single-User Web App
It's note pure oxygen. It's 95%. They are using a fairly normal oxygen concentrator that uses zeolite to remove nitrogen.

Details on the machine are at the company's site, including a nice animation showing how the whole thing works: http://www.gradianhealth.org/universal-anaesthesia-machine/
Hey, I like that. Always nice to use the more obscure things messing with the stack (set/longjmp) ;-)... Haven't encountered them for a while.

http://pastebin.com/2fdwHvi8

[optiplex /home/chris/tmp/atexit_main]
$ ./testme
This is main. I will sleep a while, then try to exit.
PANIC! main() has been restarted due to a unscheduled exit!
This is main. I will sleep a while, then try to exit.
PANIC! main() has been restarted due to a unscheduled exit!
This is main. I will sleep a while, then try to exit.
PANIC! main() has been restarted due to a unscheduled exit!
This is main. I will sleep a while, then try to exit.
Sigh. Here we go again.

Look, the problem is easy to solve. Tell INS that a tech H1-B converts to a green card in a year and make it stick. No waiting 6+ years.

The H1-B quota empties out. Domestic tech folks aren't being undercut by Asian serfs. Companies get the tech workers they need.

Of course, the tech companies don't want this. There is no tech worker shortage; there is a cheap tech worker shortage. Granting green cards would make tech workers more expensive.
Haha, a fellow jonah with the same complaints as me
Joseph here, cofounder of HelloSign.

Yes, it’s true.
From sticker to sculpture: the making of the Octocat figurine
Well mathematics is also a language in a sense. At least notation. But otherwise they are very very different things.

I have recently found tools that are mostly used for learning natural languages are also useful for learning programming languages. Computer flash card programs, like Anki, are effective at memorizing a vocabulary efficiently. Just like real flash cards, you put an English word or definition on one side, and the word or phrase on the other side.

So as I've been going through a Coursera on the R programming language, every time the instructor explains a new function or way of doing something, I put it in an Anki flash card. I haven't been doing it for long enough to be certain, but so far I think it's been pretty effective. Because 90% of the work of learning a programming language is just like a natural language; the vocabulary and grammar.

You could also use this to learn mathematical notation, but that's only a small part of it. I have yet to find any use for this system in my other Coursera course on logic.
Data.table cheat sheet: Large datasets in R (+100GB)
Kuperberg’s parable: A parable about pseudo-skepticism
Has it been proven? Where?

Did you even look at your link? Looking at [1] only two H1B employees received a wage offer of less than 103k, and in 2013 only one (Database administrator) received under 100k. In every single case the prevailing wage on the application was lower than the wage offer.

[1] http://visadoor.com/h1bvisa-by-companies-2014-yourpeople#.VH...
I agree. I've been coding for decades,but it's a handful of years that made the vast majority of difference. That's not to say you don't learn some things every year, but the major progress is concentrated in a few years (and they aren't all at the start!)
Launch Hard or Go Home [pdf]
Wanted to add some other ones I did not see suggested:

Freakonomics Radio - by the authors of the book of the same name

Travel with Rick Steves - podcast by famous travel guide Rick Steves

Dinner Part Download - nice way to learn about interesting facts/random trivia/pop-culture regarding all sorts of subjects which can make for interesting conversation at your next social gathering

edit: meant to post this as a response to the question asking about other podcasts
I'm...wow. I don't even know what to say.

This accomplishes Node in the enterprise, I guess?

Where can we find rockstar mainframe programmers?
The ability to solve NP-complete problems seems to be dependent on the concept of information overhead. It's explained a bit in the theory paper here: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1405.0931.pdf

One concern I have is in section VI-A. The author refers to the ability to read out of a collection of memory elements the sum of their contents. Since the sums are totally defined by the other numbers it doesn't seem that you can count those bits as additional information. Maybe I'm missing something, though. The bit after on Exponential Information Overhead seems more robust.
> "Mr. Srini said the American visa restrictions had also crimped his ability to hire talented engineers. Because the primary visas used to hire software workers, known as H-1B visas, run out in a few days when the lottery is opened every April, he really has one chance a year to hire foreigners. And if they don’t win the lottery, they have to wait another year, often forcing Zenefits to find someone else."

I don't disagree with the article in regards to easing the ability for entrepreneurs to come to the States and open a business but it has been proven time and again that most of the "we lack talented engineers, we need more H1-B's" is in fact "we don't want to pay the going rate in the States, we need more H1-B's"
Awesome idea. I like the concept of balancing the qualities you want and do not want in a position. It's a great step up from simple keywords.

Thus, I was bummed after I signed up and discovered it is basically for matching developers with web startups. :(
iOS game teaching you math without you knowing it
I"d ask how they felt after sinking billions into OculusVR only for Google to slap them with Google Cardboard (and the DodoCase et al), then made another slap with Magic Leap.
I helped launch a product 2 weeks ago aiming to tackle this problem. We've seen some positive results while we are testing the concept with a small number of trials.
http://cureclick.com/
Currently, Google. Not necessarily because they are world-leading trendsetters in all things internetty, but because they have acted as the ultimate facilitators in internet-related development over the past decade. Whether you like Google or not, the online world wouldn't be what it is without their contributions (and investments, and acquisitions).
The alternative you seem to propose is potentially dangerous legislation that will effectively be permanent and the model for a lot of other countries.

And you are not taking into account that any large-scale legislation will not take affect immediately and will likely be a ramp-up style similar to the Healthcare Laws spread out over 5-8 years.

In that same timespan, a lot can be done to help foster new players in the ISP market and spur a lot of fierce competition. I think option 2 is the better option to really get better service with lower prices.

Nothing that has been regulated has ever been done better than the free market. USPS (that is changing now that they are privatish), DMV, POTS lines, Utility companies (power, water, gas), etc. We have seen time over time over time that when a market gets heavily regulated, innovation almost completely stops and things settle to a "just barely good enough". Do most US citizens have a choice of power companies? Nope. Land Line telephone providers? Nope. etc. Whens the last time your power company called you and said we're going to slash prices on all power because company X is slashing prices and we really value your business? Never.
FYI, See Below – The Atlantic
The author is here! Thank you, awesome slides and content!
Perspectives on Docker
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I suspect that the community values people more who started coding earlier, even if that isn't of actual value, and they want to clear that credential.

The use of proxies (instead of actual skill) should make any professional nervous. You might be perfectly suited for all the proxies now, but in 5 years maybe all the proxies will change. You'll go to interviews and find out that the metagame changed on you. That can be interesting in Pokémon, but it's a hell of a way to earn a living.
You'll have to spend a great deal of time to beat the presets already used by Handbrake/x264, and you'll only be able to do it on a particular clip. There's a good article[1] on the presets and how they impact quality, which lead me to using slow or slower for pretty much everything.

[1] http://www.videoquality.pl/preset-settings-x264-quality-comp...
sadly, i use this same technique on the toilet.
I don't really understand why these would be better. Looking at his proposed New York one and the real New York one, the real one is clearly easier to read. Adding a background image that overlays the text makes it harder to read the text, I don't think it is an improvement. I don't really care how pretty the plates are, I care that if someone hits me and tries to drive off as many people as possible have a chance of reading the plate. This whole post kind of sounds like someone redesigning road signs to look pretty instead of meeting the key requirements like being able to read them at speed.
Great drugs don't sell themselves only because the game as in game theory is set this way. If the incentives/punishment structure setup would be different, drug marketing in the US could be much more beneficial for the end user.
If I were to start Chris's Italian American bakery I'm likely taking some business away from Patel's Pure Ghee Sweets and possibly reducing the number of jobs he creates. So while I've generated 5 gross jobs, it's unclear that I generated any net jobs.

(For the record I think "new jobs" is a moronic reason to do anything. A job is a cost, delicious rainbow cookies are the benefit.)
No, though I don't think you're alone in drawing the line of science around deduction. I think of science as a cycle:

Phenomenon > observation > Induced hypothesis > Method choice > Deduction via metrics > Phenomenon ...

Starting at "a concrete basis for performing repeatable, independent experiments" is a skyhook. Scientists have a hand in generating that "basis" and it's called inductive logic.

I think we agree on the fact that the production of knowledge involves the testing of hypotheses but not whether the generation of hypotheses via observation of phenomena is part of science. Semantic, I suppose, but I think it's crucial to take the rudder so to speak by developing hypotheses deliberately.
I'm rather surprised each key can be lid and unlit.
I'd expected it to be 2 circuit.
I don't think its a big deal. I use ClojureScirpt and Om, but often read React sample code (sepecially the React-bootstrap snippets). JSX doesn't map to what my ClojureScript code looks like at all, and neither does the pure JS React code, but I don't find it hard to read or understand at all and its fairly easy to learn what I need from it.
Every time this issue is brought up on HN there's a ton of people hijacking the conversation with talk about tech-worker shortage [1,2]. You even fail to note that two of the people- Dutch and Swiss, mentioned in the article aren't even 'tech' folks.

This is an important moral issue even if you disregard the STEM-worker shortage. There are plenty of foreign nationals working in the US, who are here because of specific skills that are important for their company. These folks do not all belong to the nebulous pool of 'STEM-shortage'-fillers.

I have friends who were PhDs in very specific fields with very specific talents who have had to go back because of losing out in the H1B lottery (O1 visa/EB1 is often too arbitrary or restrictive to be a reliable option). Another example on HN is the top rated comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8160860

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8637756
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7372574
WTF. I am glad you are calling them out. I hope the tech press picks it up ...
Well, to answer your question, they have all the funding but no ability to innovate, so like every other large company, they chose to copy what already works. Their money is better spent on getting big clients with deep pockets, then to worry about UX. Clearly, this is not a good reason on your end, but they can, so they do.
Is there a way for a user to know if their conversations are being logged for compliance?
Declaring that "government is the problem, just privatize it" without bothing to think through or research anything about the actual issue is the political equivalent of "just use node.js and mongodb, it's web scale".
I think this is related to an implicit assumption that startups are for twentysomethings, where you have to have started early in order to have much experience at all.

Maybe it's just me, but I think the startup culture has an emphasis on youth that leads people to wish they "started younger", instead of "finishing older" -- not that you're ever really finished. Perhaps people feel like 35 or 40 is too old to start work at a startup. I wonder if this pressure is particularly noticeable for women, since it seems like most other pressures of aging are exacerbated for them.

Maybe the only difference between a 25 year old with 10 years coding experience and a 35 year old with the same, is that the former is more likely to be accepted into the startup community.
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Yet another company that is opting out of complying with any legal system by forcing an arbitration clause on its customers. I switched from Hipchat when it changed its TOS to include mandatory arbitration and now it looks like I'll have to ditch Slack, too.

Pity. It's a good service.

(kind of hilariously, the arbitration provisions are not well drafted and are almost certainly unenforceable.)
>Right now, the law is so Kafkaesque that Mr. Srini, who is from India, had to get his American co-founder, Parker Conrad, to officially hire him as Zenefits’ database administrator simply to transfer his visa from his previous employer so they could create the company

If it is so easy, imagine all the intelliteks, computeks, etc abusing this to suppress wages.
If all you want is to call into C code, without needing to really expose that code as Python objects, CFFI[0] is probably a simpler path.

[0] https://cffi.readthedocs.org/en/release-0.8/
No five eyes in that list.
Building a Job Board Venture Using WordPress
Experimental Ground-to-Satellite Communication with Twisted Light
It seems like the author is conflating the accuracy of the language of a proof with the accuracy of the proof itself, which may be the same thing to some extent, but overall to try and refute something like this:

> In particular, they believe proofs are fundamentally and exclusively about truth, and that they are either right or wrong.

...is just semantics. Arguing that a Euclidean proof is wrong because it makes contextual assumptions about the reader's frame of reference is just pedantry. Mathematics is much more rigorous in 2014 because the value of the time of the average mathematician is worth much less.
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In what world is the prevailing wage for a software developer in SF $74k/year?

http://visadoor.com/h1bvisa-2014-I-200-14065-134617/software...
You are right in stating that what he is saying is false.

There are a lot of proofs written with assistance of Coq or Isabelle/HOL that can easily be extended to include each and every logical step.

That he said what he said saddens me a lot. Machine-checked mathematical proofs are the future of mathematics and most mathematicians I know are totally ignorant about them.
FAA proposes drone operators to have pilot license
There's an important implication in Thomas' reply that I want to make very very explicit: The process of getting someone to sign a check is one of those things that has a tendency to drag on forever. Even if you can get an investor interested, there is no number x where the time to seal the deal is less than or equal to x days. Throw in business interruptions for the holidays, and allow room for Murphy's Law.