skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I want to be able to write C#, or Ruby, or python, and reference it on a page, and for it to run.

Throwing back huge front-end stack fragmentation, insanely increased complexity of the browsers that you want to achieve with this approach? Statements like "I don't understand var scope in JS", "This prototype thing doesn't work", "JS is completely broken because [] == false" doesn't count, ok?
Is there an easy way (or introductory guide) for someone not familiar with bioinformatics tools?
You're probably using the rods in your eyes at night to look at the Milky Way and they can't see color.
Will Big Data and Hadoop Trend Catch Up with Business Intelligence
Yep. Learn statistics.
I thought paypal does recurring donations? Anyhow, for bitcoin, look into Coinbase's recurring payment options. I don't think it should be a problem.
Yes, pretty much everything visible to the naked eye is going to be the Milky Way. There are a few deep sky objects like the Andromeda Galaxy that you can see from a reasonably dark site though, if your eyesight is good and you know right where to look. (It's pretty easy to find with binoculars but with the naked eye it will just be a small, faint, diffuse glow that doesn't look particularly interesting, assuming you can see it at all.)
Unless it takes him a long time to adjust to even small changes. Or maybe his old software was faster for him or more stable until recently?
It seems to be much easier to use when dealing with very dynamic documents (variable or partially unknown structure), or when only needing a small subset of a complex document.
Im afraid that is a different debate on remote v/s local. There are both advantages and disadvantages to either. In this specific case, it is quite clear they really wanted their team to be together (i.e. on site) and went to extraordinary length to do that.

BTW there are few visa's (if any) for "limited" or occasional visits to the US.
To achieve what the poster wants, wouldn't it be better to

<html>
<body>
<h1> Keep the stuff we already have </h1>
<#calender>
<.calender-header>And just make id and class syntax better?</.calender-header>
<.month>
<.day>1</.day>
</.month>
</.calender>
</body>
</html>

I don't see them removing the way html works, but I could see adding in a way to do classes easier.
This is really interesting - to be honest I am at work and am resisting being pulled into reading this until tonight...

I have a good friend who I have had since college days. Has been an NYC public school teacher for a while. Loves to teach - onel of those folks that is constantly formulating ideas, reads voraciously, argues passionately, etc.

I see him as caught between the attempt to corporatize education and a bloated, syphillic (sp) union... My ideas not his.

On my side I had kids in public school until 2nd grade where I saw disturbing things that made me jump ship to a charter where my boys thrive.

This is anecdotal - I do not want to try and prove/ disprove anything by this.

I wish we had a viable pub school option locally but we don't at the moment. Our school survived a scummy attack on charters locally in which false claims were made about segregation. This was disproven but we were made aware of the fact that the other side has more resources and deeper legal pockets then the charter school does.

As I said I will sit down and read this later. I am interested in something that comes up when my buddy and I talk about this stuff.

Somewhere I picked up a concept from French which I will anglicize as "Deformation Professionelle" (my apologies for butchering it - I will properly google it later).

ed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9formation_professionnell...

I see this when tech and teachers discuss education.

I sit and talk to him about tech issues - 'net neutrality', privacy issue, (going back a decade) attacks on open source software, etc. And he doesn't know about these things.

And I (at times) wax enthusiastic about things like Khan Academy or charter schools without seeing possible drawbacks.

I look forward to giving this a proper read later - am glad to see this on HN.
Google Glass in Healthcare Is Not DEAD
It is an interesting idea for changing how H1Bs are limited, although it doesn't take much thinking to come up with some ways to game such a system. It would get complex, and fast.
12 SQL Queries for Web and Gaming KPI Calculation
Humanity’s Greatest Invention? Face-to-face with Edward Glaeser
What's wrong with namespaces in your opinion?
The Silicon Valley privilege bubble is on farcical display here.

The immigration that bothers the vast majority of Americans (and, indeed, the native populations in all countries) is low-skilled immigration that swamps lower-income communities and drives down wages for the middle and lower classes.

At this point I cannot help but think that the conflation of these two different types of immigration is intentional.
cickable - http://www.mrsocial.me/todo/
It looks like .Get uses the null pattern (ie, returns a Jason struct with data = `nil` if nothing is found). Your way is more idiomatic, but it looks like his point with this library is to access the data conveniently in exchange for type-safety. `exists()` can verify something was found if needed.
If one gives their DNA voluntarily (for a particular case) and they are cleared of any wrong doing, is their DNA information still kept on file by law enforcement?
>If killing you means that the pathogen can spread more rapidly, it will evolve to do so.

The plague/black death/Y pestis is another is a great example of this. It keeps its rat host just alive enough for just long enough for maximum use of the rats body. The rat then dies, which sends sends it plague-ridden fleas off to infect other rats.
Seriously that should be illegal.
Surely most of you money is going on rent, so the money left will be the same as other cities.
> Except that Docker and probably Rocket work really well. And the speed of development on the projects looks to have benefitted from using Go.

By this you mean that people adopted Go because it is good (in a technical sense), and because of the speed of development rather than because it was "new and shiny"? Fair point.

> I'm a language geek so I totally get the whole "Why doesn't go have {Generics,Typeclasses,Hindley-Milner Type Inference,...}" arguments.

Why do you bring this up?
24 days of Rust – slow_primes
"Our default assumption should be that the walls are down and the gates are open"

Yeah, bull. Not even.
Good read! That is an ambitious project. Very interesting to note that the implementation didn't take more than a few days.
TL:DR; He doesn't own less than 100 things and ended up replacing a bunch of stuff anyways, which kind of defeats the purpose of 'Living with 100 things' as being less materialistic.
http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Promethease
Same here. Not cool. If you click through to this link, check your Facebook immediately.
Is the requirement:

- speak Polish

- have Polish citizenship

- be a native of Poland

The first two of those aren't very strange. The last one is.
Yes, and the little gear shows the cool part.
> The problems that exist in public education are incredibly complex, and it's not clear to me that any simple, ideologically-tinged solution is going to solve them.

This is exactly why I want competition. A few experts sitting around a conference table for a year are not going to just deduce the solution, just like the best VCs invest in many companies instead of just picking only the Facebooks. These problems are far too complicated for a centrally architected solution. In the end the best solution might be one that most people never even imagined.
Speech recognition, device miniaturization, and intelligence collection
Functional Programming Patterns (BuildStuff '14)
Numbers are quite impressive: Millions of monthly active users. How do you plan to handle the operations once this is running? If I read correctly you are only two?
My Facebook Privacy Notice
I'd guess that for all but a very small subset of nonprofits there is pretty much zero interest in Bitcoin because pretty much no one would like to donate to them using it.
I don't like the logic or lack thereof in this article. There are lots of claims made on the backhand that never get followed up with any sort of quantification or citation.

Maybe this company hires for talent and not costs, but every place I've been hires for both, so to pretend costs aren't factored in seems to be an oversight.

My personal experience is that it is generally true that H-1B is used by companies to get the same level of expertise with reduced cost, and to me the issue still stands that for every immigrant that gets hired, an American is potentially out of job. The worst I saw this was at a genetics lab, and while we would fly people in from all over the country, we had a sizable percentage of H-1B's.

Perhaps there is some other math that I haven't seen that shows a H-1B worker ends up contributing to the local economy by a factor, but the primary offset I see with that is most of the time they are sending large portions of their money to their home country, because they may be able to get their wife here but the rest of the family is still OCONUS.

What it all boils down to is a disruption in the standard accepted economic model in this globalized world. Companies aren't forced to be "patriotic", and will seek to optimize profit (and if that means hiring better talent from elsewhere at a cheaper price, so be it). This outlook though, conflicts with what I understand of the history and purpose of corporations. In the days of the British East India company (on of the first "Company's"), the monarchy retained the right to revoke letters patent or royal charter, because the corporation was designed to profit the country and not just the corporation.

This idea seems to have been lost and we live in an age where neo-tech globalized fuedalism seems to be around the corner because it has been lost.
5 feet per floor?
Why you can scale agile with the right attitudes
The U.S. has a fixed capacity to absorb immigrants while integrating them into our culture. In many places in the country, immigration is already too much, resulting in insular immigrant communities and tensions between immigrants and everyone else. Those are bad things.

The unstated assumption underlying the assertion that "the U.S. has nearly unlimited room to accept immigration" is that culture, and institutions arising out of that culture, doesn't matter. That's false. Culture and institutions are what make the U.S. worth immigrating to in the first place.

And I say this as an immigrant. My parents didn't leave their lives half a world away to come here for the weather.
Write article in 2014.

Edit post date.

Instant visionary.

PS. And this article is just a bunch of generic small business advice where grocery store was replaced by web startup.
You can probably fit more people in your house, who are you to say someone shouldn't move into those rooms?
There is no shortage of talent; there's a shortage of talent that wants to earn $100 - $130k (plus 0.2% of an A-round company! Golden paper handcuffs! Whoo!) to live in sf, an area probably more expensive than Manhattan. Without being Manhattan, or having decent public services.

Do we have a shortage of talent of the type I just described? Emphatically yes. Does that mean there is in any way a shortage? Emphatically no.

So the only sense in which there is a shortage is the same sense in which those jerks at bwm don't wish to sell me an m3 coupe for $15k. ie no shortage at all.
From a simple, static economic perspective cost and availability the number of qualified candidates available to you are inversely correlated. Any influx of candidates brings down salaries. Theoretically, there is no such thing as a shortage. It is always true that you can find more programmers by paying more. Beat all those internship offers and you will get plenty of quality interns. Both of these positions are true but dishonest.

That's a static and simple perspective though. In the real world ceterus is not parabus. Widening your search net to include people educated and experienced elsewhere has value. "Production" is not limited by a simple demand-price function, but by ideas and execution. There are also a lot of "impossible to measure but undeniably there" effects brought on by trade in goods, migration of people and such. Hubs have a vibrancy to them that have been obvious to observers since ancient times. People are not commodities like coal or lead. Price dynamics are real, but the don't capture everything. There is a rising tide element that is almost certainly substantial. The industry's success, creates opportunities for employees.

I'm not American, so I don't have a dog in this. But, it seems to me that the US got to where it has gotten to by being a dynamic hub sucking up the vibrant and ambitious of the world.
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Because it has nothing at all to do with the article.
Neat. Anything to reduce friction; a lot of people in the nonprofit world don't seem to grasp the importance of making it easy to donate the way that for-profits seem to grasp it.
How 4 Mexican Immigrant Kids and Their Cheap Robot Beat MIT (2005)
Thanks for the info, those two will be very helpful.
Show HN: The Ultimate Source of Swahili Music Sheet (Notes)
The Perfect Static Website Generator Is the One You Write Yourself
I expect that webdev shops have lower skill bars than OS development shops.
They mention large binaries on the product page enough times to make me think that they're rewriting Git.
Thanks! Note that it's just a prototype implementation. We wouldn't want to put it like that in the hands of users, but it's definitely good enough to play with and get a sense of the final result.
Why Docker and CoreOS’ split was predictable
I think you want <picture>.

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/responsive/picture-el...
J-1 visas can come with a requirement to spend time away from the US after they expire. One of the motivations is to avoid keeping specialty workers away from their home country if their work is in demand. (How a {country,occupation} pair gets classified as in-demand is an entirely different question.)

http://www.yale.edu/oiss/immigration/common/j1scholars/home....
That would unfairly target small specialist businesses unless you also take into account the revenue/workforce size.

When I came to the US on H1B I made up 25% of the company, at the time the cost was already significant enough to prevent any "abuse".
Not sure if this is a really bad joke or... Nah, it's gotta be a joke. Right?
Why would anyone want this in the cloud? Self hosted, absolutely. I wouldn't want any service to store credentials that can remotely bounce my VMs or login and restart services.

edit: If I wanted to run my own instance what things are missing? That doesn't seem very clear.
> My experience: you kinda have to rethink what an IDE is.

An IDE is an integrated development environment; emphasis on integrated. Having to, by yourself, put together a mixed assortment of tools for your development environment doesn't seem to qualify as being integrated. Though of course someone could come and make a program that bundles a lot of tools together and present them as a coherent, integrated package.

(Personally I'm sceptical of IDEs myself and tend to believe more in being able to make your own work-flow and programming environment, which a lot of loosely coupled (ideally not coupled at all) tools makes simpler.)
The current US population is 7 billion, US population is 300 million. How many of the 6.5 billion non-Americans do you think could be rapidly absorbed, both terms of infrastructure (roads, water, sewers) as well as housing, culture, and government subsidies?

Your answer MUST be expressed a NUMBER, not some vapid BS platitude.
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Everybody talks about PCI compliance as if it's some huge obstacle impossible for startups to overcome. It's actually extremely simple. See the requirements on the last page of this doc. [0]

Basically, what you need is:

- Firewall (default on almost any cloud host)

- No vendor-supplied default passwords (not audited, and you should do this anyway)

- Encrypt the credit card number IF YOU STORE IT AT ALL

- Put a privacy policy on your homepage

That's it. Super easy. Takes an hour. The hardest part is writing (or copying) a privacy policy. If you aren't storing credit cards, it's even easier to be PCI compliant.

[0] https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/PCI_DSS_v3_AO...
It seems like companies would rather go across an ocean for talent than across the country.

Yeah, there's that too. I know of one fairly prominent company that refuses to hire outside of New York. What do you think that idiocy is about? Ageism? Stinginess with respect to relocation?
I pronounce JSON as "jay-sawn" to avoid the confusion with the name. I've heard "jiss-on" and various other mutations used as well.
I'm pretty sure such visas exist, as my team has employees in four countries and we try to meet in person every quarter.
Arun Mehta wrote an essay called "When a Button Is All That Connects You to the World" for the book Beautiful Code (2007) about speech software designed for Stephen Hawking. I don't think the system described in Mehta's article is this one, though.
You can always adjust your consumption bundle. If I'm living in a high rent city, I'm more likely to find a friend to share an apartment with or settle for something not that great. This is a drop in utility (though I'd argue living with a friend is a positive for myself), but I also have a lot more money to use on other things, which increases my utility. Spending most of your money on rent when you're pulling something like 5,000 after tax a month is a choice, not a given, and is reflective on how much utility you perceive a better apartment to give you. In reality, we're probably terrible at accurately estimating utility of a good, but I personally have lived in a variety of places, and I was most happiest living in my tiny dorm room, so I personally don't care much about having a big place.
A better job should have been done for the modal that is trying to sell you the product itself, I guess.
Giving away 3 of my favorite books on creativity
I grew up in a rural area, and still live in what most would consider a rural area. So I grew up with being able to look up at the stars at night. I don't look at the stars often. But I can not imagine living somewhere that I can't because of the light pollution. But I very much prefer the sound of crickets, and owls at night to the dull roar of cars, sirens, horns, etc.
I think #10 comes with business experience of knowing what to focus on when, and why. Until then the bleary eyed all out approach substitutes trying to cover all possibilities. Great article either way.
Look HNers, let's be honest with each other.

There's a lot of H1B's on here. You have friends overseas who you want to see succeed in the Bay Area.

In my experience at many tech companies in the Bay Area, H1B Visas exist for one reason, and one reason only - to get skilled engineering/STEM labor -- and to exploit connections (primarily Indian/Pakistani) among these workers to continue to get cheap labor.

It absolutely, positively hurts local labor - naturalized citizens - etc. Without a doubt.

This is not a Xenophobic reaction, it's simply reality.

I've worked at multiple companies (managed their websites) -- where we would temporarily post a job description to appear that it was a fair playing field for local workers -- when in reality that position was definitely, absolutely going to be filled by a cheaper, exploitable H1B visa position.

It happens all-the-fucking-time.

There's standard, normalized ways immigrants have come to the US for a long time now. There's absolutely no talent shortage in the Bay Area, provided you can pay (and your ideas are interesting)

We also don't need any more of the divisive ethic-neuveau-ghettos we're seeing in the south bay, cupertino and east bay with communities insulating themselves rather than assimilating.
I would prefer something like Jason, even though it sounds like JSON, over something crazy like Unicorn Milk. I'm not saying you were suggesting something crazy, but just adding my two cents.
> There is no easy way to sort of "parse" json piece by piece

You mean like this? http://play.golang.org/p/mMh7HGuTbe
pretty bad summary if you have read the whole article.

the conclusion of the article is, that owning less is never an end to itself, but a means to an end and that I experienced over the last 1,5 years, that actually the biggest benefit for me became to get reminded every day, why I did it in the first place.

I did it to to fully focus on what is important for me.

1. family
2. building things myself instead of just owning and collecting them

If you live with 100 or 200 things defeats in no way the purpose of this whole exercise.
Those are pretty important use-cases. If I'm evaluating this vs. Braintree at an early stage, I want to avoid writing my own dashboard software. The only dashboard functionality I care about in the immediate term is refunds, credits, cancellations, and adjustments. If you have this functionality, you should definitely be showing it off. I agree with the grandfather comment that it's unclear you have it. I looked for it and didn't see.
You are judging it by Western standards. They may have nothing on him and don't actually mean to arrest him etc., it's just intimidation tactics
XFS is not as bad as it once was, but I don't use either of those anyway.
The people hacking the Intel engineers' computers.
Thanks for the comment - my wife and I submitted 23andme kits for fun and learned some of our history, but I was disappointed we weren't able to get any health information from it. I didn't know you could get your genome info from 23andme and get it interpreted by someone else!
<html:html>
Seriously?
Yes, it's a possibility, and I based the rest of my argumentation on a human brain model scenario.
I think it's not only the interactive elements, but also the way information is displayed. I actually think he (and others) might benefit from a really responsive desktop environment, especially compared to the Windows floating window manager.

The videos you linked to show this very well in my opinion:

- In the longer one with Hawking and the System he's using it to type and read Wikipedia, all the while quite some screen estate is wasted with (for him probably unusable) title bars, partially hidden desktop icons in the background and the browser partially behind his input software.

- The "data entry" video shows Notepad being opened and being partially hidden by the input UI.

That does not seem useful. I would rather use apps that automatically fit themselves to available space and predefined layouts for multiple apps or a dynamic tiling approach.
Yes, but it is tedious. It takes about two years (this October you applied for 2016) and your winning chances are between 1 and 2%.