skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dont be crass. If there is evidence of violation, it means the immigration enforcement needs a bigger budget to go after employers. It does not mean we need to cut back on immigration because some citizens have a problem following the law.
What exactly is the incentive for the private sector to go to Mars?

For a company like spacex, the advantages are clear - if they can promote human space flight around the solar system, they stand to earn huge amounts of money providing the infrastructure/launches etc, so promoting a Mars Mission makes a lot of sense for them as a company. Even if it never happens they'd make lots of money from preparation, investigation of launch options and the renewed interest in human space flight. Of course that money has to come from somewhere, but I'm sure any such mission would attract all kinds of science missions and funding from national governments, particularly as it becomes clear they can pull it off.

No-one will make money mining down a gravity well like Mars, but there are plenty of other reasons to go there and to other bodies in the solar system, even if only for short periods for scientific investigations. Of course you can do a lot with robots, and personally were I to be investing I'd invest in orbiters and landers, not human missions. The public would disagree though and national governments are more likely to fund a first man on mars than they are another rover.

I think companies like planetary resources are also interesting as when one of them tows an asteroid back to earth orbit and starts mining and sending lumps of metal with a heat shield back to earth, or mining for reaction mass and selling it in orbit, that might be a game changer.

Going back as far as the colonization of the New World, high risk and expensive exploration has traditionally been funded by governments.

I'm not sure that is entirely true - as a counterpoint, consider the East India company, or the Hudson's Bay Company, there are lots of examples of private exploration, and many examples of private individuals simply seeking funding from governments for an enterprise they had already decided upon, so it's hardly fair to characterise exploration as uniquely government funded.

Maybe when I a see private sector company at least get a human into LEO

This is already scheduled to happen soon - they're testing human-rated capsules at spacex for example, so it's looking probable over the next few years given the pressure to remove dependence on Russia for the ISS.
Actually... it completely solves the problem of the return trip.
which other libraries would you recommend?
Does this work outside the US?
You ask the average American whether or not they'd pitch in to beat China to Mars and they'd say no. We don't have the nationalism to make that work anymore.
If he really did agree with me, then why did he point out how X and Y INTERN costs SOOO much money?

It is orthogonal to the conversation, and yet he brought it up. It is there for a reason, and that reason is to point out that it is costly to hire an engineer. Why would he bring up that point?

So what exactly where the salaries of those on H1-Bs? If you put on your job posting, that the salary range would be 250-300K, do you think you'd be digging through the bottom of the barrel for the resumes?

Lastly, what is the difference in costs to you? In house lawyer (if the company is large enough, can handle the docs). Paperwork for them is a few K. Relocation and interview process is nearly a wash for out of state candidates. Again, a few K delta.

That then is the excuse of a lower salary for the employee (by a significant amount).

So "expensive" in terms of processing seems like not a whole lot in the grand scheme of things.
You are right. If I count correctly, that's another 17 bit of information. If we make no effort to encode it efficiently. Let's say 10^6 additional states.

That brings us to an upper limit of 10^77 states the board can be in.

Still enough atoms in the observable universe to assign one to each state.
OKRs are great. If you want to use OKRs, signing up on http://signup.okrs.io/ might be a good idea.

Disclaimer: I am working on okrs.io, currently.
>Stars are not a fundamental element of human life experience, just a nice but dispensable thing

I'd have to disagree. If the sky were a black blank slate except for the Sun (and possibly the moon to make life necessary) a great deal of our technical innovation would be significantly different. Seeing and looking at the movement of stars has had a significant impact on mathematics in the world, and the understanding of our own planet. Seeing the stars themselves (and their chemical composition) tells us a very large deal about the universe we live in.
Is it really a true open source project?

I might be blind, but I thought it was only a open API to connect to their services. One couldn't run this without utilizing their servers and services. http://vimeo.com/48983878 reads like this too, and I can't find out how to setup an open tok media server, either.
Geez, oh yes. They built their platform and decided to start reselling it. That's why Netflix, Pintrest, Airbnb, Expedia, Foursquare, NASA, the MLB all use AWS.

They converted 100% in 2011 according to Jon Jenkins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxk8b9rSKOo#t=449
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Realism takes a back seat to practicality here. A CoL calculator takes two cities and a dollar amount as inputs. A QoL calculator would need a lengthy list of preferences with reasonably accurate price estimates, and a complex network of likely substitutions. That seems like an academic project for a graduate student in economics, whereas CoL calculators are just a simple HTML form with a tiny bit of script and a database of scale factors for each city.

Thus, you can't really tell me how much I'd have to earn to be equally happy in SV as I am elsewhere, but you can easily tell me how much I'd need to maintain equal consumption there.

You can get some of your money back when reselling the house, possibly even within six months of listing it. I would not blithely make assumptions about any market when a bubble appears to be growing nearby.
Unfortunately for the OP, when it comes to game development, it's widely understood that OOP only ends up painting the developer in a corner eventually. Yes using Objects, Inheritance, and Polymorphism works well for a long time, but the more objects and deeper the inheritance tree grows, the more inflexible the system becomes. You also run into problems with reality. When the code hot path calls across multiple object types and a invokes a bunch of polymorphism every frame, the code is going to be slow and there's no obvious bottleneck. The code is slow because the CPU is constantly waiting for its cpu and data cache to catch up.

Game development today is moving quickly towards components, composition over inheritance, and Data Driven Design techniques. Check out the myriad of posts on Entity/Component systems that have sprung up over the past 10 years. It can be harder to grasp at first but has huge wins over the traditional OOP model.
I'd suggest many smaller deliveries of supplies to the surface of Mars first, topped off with human cargo. They would find tools and supplies, and already-charged power cells ready on arrival.
Thanks for the example. It seems to be the same as MS SQL Server's CROSS APPLY / OUTER APPLY?

Anyway, good that Postgres has it too, now. There are several Postgres features I'd love in SQL Server, like range types...
That sphere of diamond weighs about 3000x as much as a typical bus. So presumably we'd wind up with 1/60th of Chicxulub, rather than 50x. It'd suck (a lot) - and yeah, "we're fine" wouldn't hold - but I think we'd survive.

Edited to add: I don't know if I mis-read it or if you edited it, but the above was a response to 0.99c.
"Looting" is an entirely accurate description, and it is a fairly well-studied consequence of institutional structures that allow managers to pay themselves enormous amounts while bankrupting or otherwise destroying the organization they have been charged with taking care of: http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/projects/bpea/1993%202/1993...

The linked paper was written in 1993, and twenty years later looting is still going on, especially in the American banking industry. But it's happening in higher ed all over the place, as professional managers take over from academics in the running of universities. The change is understandable in its motivation: academics are terrible managers.

The problem is that academics have very different incentives from professional managers, and the checks and balances in university organizations have not been adapted to the new management, creating precisely the conditions of "poor accounting, lax regulation, or low penalties for abuse" that make looting inevitable.
The phrase originated from the movie Goodfellas (1990), and then was brought back into the memesphere when Mike Monteiro (co-founder of Mule Design Studio) used that phrase in a fun yet forceful presentation[1].

[1] http://vimeo.com/22053820
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... which would lead to the civilization being destroyed (EDIT: subsumed) by a more effective one, if the private sector wasn't actually effective. Therefore the private sector must be effective.
That's quite different, we are speaking of have two pathogens compete, not about triggering an immune response.

If you took someone who is already infected with smallpox and gave them cowpox it would not help.

You confused in what order the infections occur.
The world needs more critical thinking, and less judging.
To build on what you're saying, one could argue that functional programming also is a way to model the world; that is, if you're model of the world is that of a series of snapshots of instants, as opposed to mutable stateful objects. Abelson from the SICP lectures argues this in this lecture:

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
One of the first places Glass will show its impact may be the last place people think of for emerging technologies: the plant floor.

Ya know, I don't exactly claim to be a super-insightful visionary, but I've been saying this since pretty much day one. Glass could be amazingly useful in an enterprise setting, especially for maintenance, manufacturing and other "industrial" applications. I think Google kinda screwed the pooch by positioning this as a consumer play first, as opposed to pushing it as an enterprise productivity tool first and foremost.
This is a great example of deceptive marketing at work. You can check out their API here:

https://core.telegram.org/methods#working-with-messages

...where's the encryption on message histories? There is none. If the data is encrypted server-side, it's with keys that live on the servers. In other words, the encryption provides no value and the servers are "trusted." The point of end to end encryption is not to have to trust servers.
SpaceX was created to get to Mars. Elon Musk's reason is simply that he wants humans to be an interplanetary species. [1]

[1] http://www.esquire.com/features/americans-2012/elon-musk-int...
Just added a Micro plan, will add a nice cover page for it soon. Thanks again!
If this is only about talent then lets ensure that foreign workers are paid equally and have the same rights as US workers.

Let's see how many H1-B's are handed out then.
I certainly understand that Amazon's interests are different from mine, and they are going to make offerings that are good for them. But the best offers are win-win, and a 3-year RI doesn't meet that bar. It's a bad offer for the customer, but masquerades as a good offer. Not unique in the world of business, "buyer beware" and all that of course. It was my bad for not fully appreciating the lock in and avoiding it.
It's about getting bare minimum talent and paying them less than the American counterpart.

If this become like the film VFX industry we as programmers are doom. Life of Pi, made millions and the VFX company behind it bankrupt.

If they keep on pushing for the immigration HB Visa stuff. We should all form a Union.

VFX is screwed cause they didn't have a union from the beginning and now it's much harder.
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Please be more active on IRC. Right now it is a guy called 'markin' that is doing all the support, and he isn't even hired by you.

He says he is happy with the t-shirts and stuff that he have received, but it would be nice with a more direct route to actual employees.
So, when private sector organizations contract to other private sector organizations for certain tasks/projects that is somehow qualitatively different then when government does it?
Not being able to afford the market price of a resource is not "getting screwed" and you're just being inflammatory by making it a matter of life and death. H1B visas are not a matter of life and death; we're talking about people who want to make more money, not people seeking political asylum.

Suppose we make your exact scenario about a rare/endangered species of caviar. Bob can still buy bread for one credit but you're arguing that the government should ensure the equitable distribution of caviar because the market price isn't fair to Bob who can't afford it. Bob is not getting screwed, Bob just can't afford caviar.
> It absolutely, positively hurts local labor - naturalized citizens - etc. Without a doubt.

That is not true at all. If engineers get cheaper the result of their labor too gets cheaper and hence the entire American society benefits. American government's job is not to protect interest of Engineers but of everyone. American Medical Council for example has made it illegal for Indian doctors to practice in America and we can see the results. Doctors earn a lot but at the cost of average American.

But there is another important aspect that even the intelligent minds of HN seem to ignore. In highly skilled professions, jobs opportunities are not Zero sum games. Mr. Kumar got a job in US does not mean some Mr. John Smith lost one. On the contrary more engineers you have faster you can solve problems.

Key questions to ask is if US government completely bans H1B throws all Indian H1Bs out will that serve the interest of the American people ?
The main difference is that private enterprises may fail if they do not deliver their product or the service to customers at a cost acceptable to the latter; government projects and departments do not have this check. This is not a guarantee that the private sector will do a good or even mediocre job, as they can make mistakes, malinvestments, get bailed out, or have rich and stupid customers. The difference is that the government agency's source of revenue is not dependent on its performance, so government agencies and projects almost never get closed down or cancelled because they did a bad job, wasted money, or were plain incompetent.

It is really a question of how one views the voice vs exit question, and how good a check those are (relative to each other).[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty
Awesome! That's the number one requested thing in the support IRC channel.
Surely that's better than trying to win a grant by proving a known-false hypothesis, which isn't unheard of either.
If you are citing Interstellar as a reason to believe this, I don't know how to help you.

For anyone else:

Obama in 2010: to Mars by the mid-2030's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_policy_of_the_Barack_Obam...

Bush in 2005: to the Moon by 2020, to Mars soon after 2030 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation_program

NASA 1998: DRM 3.0 calls for first launch to Mars in 2011, human crew in 2014. http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/1998021...

Bush in 1989: 90-day report, which was a joke, but also 30 years to spend $300 billion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Exploration_Initiative
While this argument isn't untrue, I personally prefer forward-thinking positive arguments like:

- Expanding into a new environment drives evolution.

- The technological innovations that will be needed to sustain a settlement on Mars will be hugely valuable back home.

- There is presently no frontier where new political or social ideas can be attempted without interference. Again -- the results of these "experiments" can be exported back home.

The last two are huge. The main exports from a Mars colony would probably be ideas and technology. Those also have the advantage of being able to be transmitted wirelessly and having no mass.
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It's definitely safer, but it's a living hell having to define a class for each possible json structure in Java with gson.
I have the same issue here.
markin and wsmoak have both done exceptional work over the past six months or so. It would be awesome to have both of them on Stripe's payroll if that's a thing they want.
Agreed, 1 year is the sweet spot here. I didn't appreciate the opportunity cost of getting the 3-year RI, as much as the straw man "savings" against the current on-demand prices.
Not offhand, but how is that relevant?
I dunno where you're getting these claims, and by the way it's the companies not citizens, but let's read the previous comments.

> LordHumungous : h1bs often get paid less

> bduerst: no they don't, because that would be against the law

> me: mocks foolishness

it's like you're deliberately unaware of companies' very successful efforts to modify the law in self-dealing ways, and even when that fails, to route around the law by stopping enforcement. Or the various well known and widespread h1b abuses that googling for seconds would find for you. Or even seen the list of posted salaries in your office, and noted they were way below market.
Unless you count goodspaceguy here in Seattle. http://info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/candidatesonballot/pa...

/s
> Competition is good, so I say hooray for this.

I'm not sure how the overwhelmingly dominant player in retail and hosting moving to become the overwhelmingly dominant player in source hosting can count as "competition", except in a Gatesian sense.
People concerned with patents strike me as a rather niche group who are more likely than average to be interested in BTC.
> Surely this process means that HIV is just as capable of evolving into something even more lethal over time, given the right environment?

It's unlikely. HIV doesn't "want" to kill the host because that also kills the HIV, so it's the opposite of what it wants.

You would need an environment that favored killing the host over keeping it alive, and considering how HIV is transmitted that is unlikely. (Unlike Ebola where it can happen because Ebola is best transmitted from a corpse.)
Sadly a bunch of modems have the admin panel accesible from the WAN side, probably with the factory password or something the ISP sets to all same devices.

You still need to known your neighbors' public ip address, but the problem may be significantly reduced: "hey want to check my cool app?" Boom!
Ask HN: Facebook Data Download broken?
Facebook has a function download all the data they have about you: https://www.facebook.com/help/405183566203254

Unfortunately this one is broken for months and Facebook doesn't reply / help.

Error Message:
We're sorry. Something went wrong and we weren't able to put together a copy of your Facebook data. Please start the process again by visiting your account settings and clicking "Download a copy of your Facebook data."

Could you please upvote this privacy feature, to finally give Facebook Devs a hint?
How do you think this guy feels? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Weary

Hint: Not the be confused with ...
Seems to me that only those who are in the start up culture echo chamber could hold this view.

Its just not realistic that the vast majority of talents people are not joining your start up because they have their own start up. The numbers do not make sense.

Also the graphic that shows the paypal talent diaspora also is off, early employees who make a couple million in a start up are not going to want to WORK for a salary cause they have a couple million. They may want to join as founders if you can sell them the dream I guess.
"Incarceration is much more highly correlated to your parents income level than their genetics."

Nothing requires any stipulation that these minds be genetically inferior.
This "huge win" depends heavily on what you're making. If you're making simple games where performance is not that much of a problem (like most indie games) then moving to entity/component systems makes no sense and tends to make everything more complex than it needs to be. A good middle ground in those cases is to just stick with normal OOP with shallow trees (no more than 2-3 levels) and favor simpler types of composition like mixins whenever needed.
Ask HN: Will Peak Employment happen?
I'd like to coin "Peak Employment" for the following:

I think that within the next N (15-30?) years, we'll reach a point in time when more people will be employed than will ever be employed after that time.

Do you think this will happen (globally, or in the US, etc.), and when do you think it will occur?
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How does this relate to WITH RECURSIVE (CTEs)?

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/queries-with.html
The Hadoop community has been making huge strides on integrating with existing technologies and developers thanks to the various SQL-like query engines.

Based on the home page it appears that Drill currently supports queries on Hadoop, but has not yet started supporting non-Hadoop DBs.

I'm interested to see how well Drill integrates with existing BI tools vs. Impala, and how well it queries non-Hadoop data stores vs. Presto.
Apart from his wife who was working as well ,he didn't have anyone anyone who depended on him . They found out they where going to have a baby until after the tumour.
> Really, we need to point to a specific private sector organization.

SpaceX. I agree that NASA has done more for space exploration than the private sector and that SpaceX would not be where it is today without NASA funding, but SpaceX is doing more per dollar than NASA is by a wide margin. I would guess that NASA will be the first to land a human on Mars, but I would also guess that they will lift off in a SpaceX rocket.
Proposing some possible Reasons:

1. technological advancements and automation (i.e., "Tractored Out" - see http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/machines_02...)

2. population decrease (e.g., less people needed to support the wealthy, due to reason 1, causing long-term famine and eventual decrease in population)

3. wealth distribution and socialism, due to reason 1 (resulting in equalized output without increasing labor requirements)
Yeah, some, although I think that with 30 year t-bills at ~3% some of it should be financed by debt, as we're likely to develop multiple growth- (and thus revenue-) enhancing technologies over a 30 year period.

For perspective, Medicare and social security outlays over the same period are likely to exceed $50 trillion.
Also the mention of an inquest seems to suggest something unusual suspected of causing the death. (Your average death from natural causes doesn't lead to an inquest.)
Wow that was a content-free video. No mention of how they plan to address the fundamental reason elevators have not changed in 160 years: foolproof safety. Elevators have a flexible locking bar that deploys if the rope breaks.

How does their independent cabin ensure its impossible to drop in an uncontrolled manner? Not just pretty sure; impossible. Because that's where we are now.
It's not artificial scarcity. The US doesn't have an unlimited capacity for immigration. We can argue around the edges of what the correct number is, but whatever number we pick, there are still going to be more people than that who want to be US citizens and we still need to choose between them somehow.