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I've made something very similar for a current project and haven't gotten around to extracting it as a separate pkg yet, but it is much more loose on the coercion, e.g. when calling String() on an int(5) you will get back "5", etc.
We've build a Git extension (git-bigstore) that helps manage large files in Git. It uses a combination of smudge/clean filters and git-notes to store upload/download history, and integrates nicely with S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Rackspace Cloud. Just plop in which filetypes you'd like to not store in your repo in .gitattributes and you're good to go. Our team has been using it for a while now to keep track of large image assets for our web development projects. Cheers!

https://github.com/lionheart/git-bigstore
The 23andme kit requires a substantial amount of spit, so it would be hard to trick someone into giving you their DNA.

In terms of doing DNA testing behind someone's back, paternity testing is DNA testing, and only requires a sample of the DNA. You can buy those kits at walmart already. Search for Identigene DNA Paternity Test Kit.
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SpaceX's approach is to reuse well understood technology but do it mostly in house instead of farming everything out. The are innovating on process and cost but nothing else (at the moment).

Those are two areas where NASA certainly could learn something.
I agree with you on these points, but think the vehicle deaths makes for a poor comparison since we're not really advancing science in the same way. I'm guessing that NASA would have its pick of qualified volunteers for a manned Mars mission because of the science involved; people who would willingly risk their lives.
How much of an issue within the tech industry, or the visa type that is being discussed in the OP?
> That\&#039;s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
In many real situations good and bad things come together. For example, upthread we were talking about Gates (a) doing some aggressive, mean, and anticompetitive things to make a lot of money which (b) he now donates to do very valuable things. In his case (b) really was dependent on (a); if Microsoft hadn't made lots of money Gates wouldn't have been able to donate so much.
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Interesting article -- not for its message but for its structure. Author writes, "Apple pay is a bust". Charts supplied don't really support the argument. A bust compared to what? Still, it's an interesting hypothesis.

Then the author(s) ask a number of payment experts what they think. They all seem to say, "it's still early days, so the numbers don't look unreasonable." Basically they completely undermine the author's position.

The message I ended up with was the opposite of the headline.
This is a nice introduction, but it looks there is a problem with the formatting: some of the math is not rendered properly (in the source, some expressions are wrapped in dollar-signs rather than script tags).
Yes. Conceptually the program is two threads. One reads from the floppy into a ring buffer and the other reads from the buffer and drives the audio and video. A few tracks are read to prime the buffer before the display thread runs in earnest.

The glitches you see are when a byte is dropped when reading a disk track. This causes the display to shift by a column and the interleaved audio data is displayed as graphics. And, conversely, one of the graphics columns is played as audio causing the screeching.

Some runs work better than others. The byte drops could be due to slight motor speed variance. Or just down to luck -- a few of the disk operations incur wait states as does writing to video memory. These times vary depending on exactly when they occur so it could just be down to luck. The code works in fixed 128 cycle steps with a few cycles reserved for wait state issues but apparently not enough to ensure correct operation.

And what about when the screen completely fills with garbage? I've no idea. Maybe the track didn't write correctly. Or maybe the drive misses a bit. Shifting the graphics and audio data stream by a bit would surely scramble the graphics. The audio should be mostly OK save for getting random noise every 8th bit.
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I was really just trying to point out that he was trivializing NASA. Maybe a private entity will beat them there, maybe not. But they're clearly far from being an incapable organization and still achieve plenty of cutting edge, "world-first" scientific data gathering, engineering research, etc..

As a side note. I'm willing to bet they will be the first (with collaboration between the other space agencies as they often do).

Edit: Plus, I don't know of any other deep space crew carrier that currently exists. It sounds to me like they have a head start since they already have one in their possession, albeit untested.
I'm sure it's not allowed, otherwise American companies could hire unlimited immigrants through an overseas subsidiary.
Humans, as a species, have a very low bus-factor in planetary terms...
Other information produced by Tice at the same time was turned into a well-researched article that ended up winning the Pulitzer: http://www.pulitzer.org/archives/7040

It doesn't get much more credible...
The average taxpayer pays NASA $55 per year.
The best programming language is the one you know best. Or the one you want to know best. Grouping you knowledge in a single language will make you more productive with it, and allow future projects to be completed faster.

Yes it ignores a certain amount of style, and crowd following. But you'll grow as a developer, and be more productive :)
On top of that, there's extremely little mileage to be had in the idea of "keep grinding, even though the market keeps saying 'no thanks'".
Although that makes sense at first glance, I would be against it. Simply because that's where it could start and the "rules" can be adjusted for someone's benefit. Plus, most of the rules could easily be bypassed which would require more rules which are then bypassed, and so on and so on.

Well, as long as the money is still there.
> Telegram even stores plaintext copies of everyone's entire message history on the server for multi-device sync.

Really? In their FAQ [1] they state:

> ordinary chats use client-server/server-client encryption and are stored securely encrypted on our servers

What's your source?

[1] https://telegram.org/faq
> Somebody may get humans to Mars ... [but] the odds that the United States government will be behind the effort are slim at this point.

i.e. non-NASA entities have a better chance than NASA
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And what did you get out of it, then?
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What I found most interesting was how long it took to come to agreements on "standard" sizes. Lots of infighting and politics.
Some of it has to do with the mathematical realities of the solar system. Mars will be closest to Earth in 2018, but if we can't get there that quickly, after that Mars will not come nearly as close to Earth through the 20's until we get to the 30's[0]

[0]http://cseligman.com/text/planets/marsoppositions.htm
Does that mean they believe we are in a bubble? They have lots of data from the transactions, so they should perhaps be able to see if the markets begin to change?
Exactly. We've already seen Islamists try to enforce sharia in England; if we had wanted a theocracy, we would have let the Christofascists take over long ago. And before anyone goes claiming oppression of differing cultures, the secular culture that is America is precisely the root cause of why many people want to to move there. Others in this thread have already mentioned things like misogyny, homophobia, etc, that while it's not a solved problem in America, isn't nearly as bad as it is in some other countries.
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Edit, but too late to actually edit --

The expense ratio of Admiral Index 500 is .05%, not .2%. So even better than I'd remembered.
Do you have any other examples of him flaunting his wealth? The money planes was a dumb thing to do, but that's the only example I've ever heard anyone bring up.
Immigration is not only still possible, but booming.
The number of immigrants living in the US is 12.9% - which is close to an all-time high from about a hundred years ago (14% or so).

Source: http://cis.org/2012-profile-of-americas-foreign-born-populat...
Andromeda is actually larger than the full moon, but very faint.
Sure! Let's destroy another planet with our insatiable resource seeking. Anyone know of any sci-fi tomes where humans play the role of an unstoppable galactic virus? If so, whoever/whomever wrote it may be onto something :(
Because Elon Musk embarassed them when he repeatedly tells the tale of why he started his own Mars mission.

(because he went to the NASA website and they had no plans to go to Mars or to do much of anything since they got bored with the moon in the 70s)
When I was struggling with the H1B lottery and was considering the options with my Lawyer, she told me that an the company could apply for EB2 directly. You don't need to be working here to enter the process.
Of course EB delays depends on the skill (EB1, EB2, EB3...) and the country of origin. But for a European, it can be done quite quickly. Especially, the company does not need a candidate to do the first part (labor certification) if I understood correctly, so assuming that this part is done a French candidate (as mention in the article) could be hired in a matter of months.

My lawyer just told me that companies does not go this way because it is a little bit more costly, but also because if they get someone on H1B first, they can lock him inside for years while processing the EB, limiting his leverage to ask for raise or changing jobs.
It doesn't, but what other choice do they have? If you only have one button to press, you might as well keep pressing it. Maybe it'll work one of these times.
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Being lived as an H1-B for about 5 years of life then on EAD and then on GC. The initial couple of years on H1-B is exploitation (not even close to any kind of servitude), but since 2006, I was fairly compensated. May be there are horror stories out there, but you have to understand most of the H1-Bs are educated enough and have contextual nuance with regard to jobs and salary matters, very few have to be indentured servants. The talented H1-Bs that come on body-shop boats, switch their employer to a more easy to work for company. Yes, H1B means being tied to hip of a company, but there are enough firms out there that really work. The problem with smaller companies is the HR and Legal are too ignorant about the whole process and needs baby sitting from the H1B holder himself.

I am not denying exploitation of H1B but certain companies but I think you have a skewed view, it does not apply to majority of the situations.
What exactly does "destroy another planet" mean, in this context?
He was a great source for an excellent piece of reporting in 2005.
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You wouldn't see much. Andromeda is the closest galaxy and even that is very faint.
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A combo of Backbone.Marionette (composite app architecture) and Backbone.Stickit (data binding) has served me well for the past 2 years. Also, while Marionette is under active development, the core team has a policy of breaking deprecated features out into separate libraries that can be mixed into your existing project if you want to stay current with updates.
I think you do if it comes across as a fundamental breach of logic.
I maintain a similar tool to manage large files in Git [1], but went the clean/smudge filter route. I think git-media gets into states where it can process files twice even though it shouldn't. From the Git docs:

> For best results, clean should not alter its output further if it is run twice ("clean→clean" should be equivalent to "clean"), and multiple smudge commands should not alter clean's output ("smudge→smudge→clean" should be equivalent to "clean").

So this isn't the fault of clean/smudge filters, just the way they were used with git-media.

[1]: https://github.com/lionheart/git-bigstore
I'm not a particularly big proponent of this or anything, but I've heard people in the know claim that humans would do a vastly, vastly better job than robots. I don't remember enough detail and it's too far outside of my area of expertise, but I think if you look you should be able to find some interesting information on the subject.
Is it typical to interface to Newton's method via a function that computes the inverse Hessian? I've never seen that. Typically, people claim it is numerically unstable to explicitly invert the Hessian, and that it would be better for the interface to take the Hessian itself, and then call a subroutine to do a linear solve.
Nothing is free, at all, in the sense you apparently mean. The costs may be hidden, but they always exist.

So what people are using here is a colloquial sense of the word free. When you walk into the doctor's office to have something checked out, you don't run the risk of having a large bill just for the privilege of seeing a doctor. If you get hospitalized, you don't run the risk of being bankrupted just because your job is too shitty to provide you with health insurance. Free in the sense of not a huge amount out of pocket at time of service and not going to financially cripple you to make extensive use of.
As this site is built with Meteor, how about adding a meteor job list?
I'm definitely expecting the private sector to do it at least a decade before NASA does it.
>This would be doomed to fail. Professional services firms can outbid basically everyone because they can turn around and bill that person out at 5x their salary.

So what? The purpose of skilled-worker immigration in public policy is to maximize productivity, not to cater to the industry to which people on Hacker News happen to belong.
Only if you define the market rate as "That paid by those with the deepest pockets", in which case, you may find the price of a gallon of milk to be somewhat different than what you expect.
Please don't submit articles which are behind paywalls. Usually ft.com, wsj.com can be accessed freely by using Google Webcache. Here is the link to the cached article :

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3i5Cv6t...

Edit : You can use cachedpages.com to get links to Google Webcache et al.
I think it would be nice to return a bool, rather than an error. It really is just a binary condition and this pattern fits nicely with accessing values in maps. That said, I haven't really found a need for a .Get method in my own code, and will probably just stick with encoding/json for the time being.
Strongly disagree. My team puts images in comments to document visual design changes. Occasionally, we'll even drop in an animated gif to illustrate a workflow/process. These can be extremely helpful in code review.
Source code doesn't really matter as much as you'd think. In fact, it can be deceptive in some cases. I would call source code a nice-to-have.

In contrast, observing the network traffic, debugging the application, and examining the decompiled binary will tell you exactly what's going on.
I think we're fine if a bus hits the planet.
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I'm not the OP, but 'Bzzt, wrong' is rude, and not how people communicate on HN.

A default namespace of 'html', and explicit namespaces for is reasonable. But <html:a> instead of <a> is ridiculous and few people who currently create content for the web will ever use it.
Pessimism has little to do with the actions of politicians.

If Senators and Congressmen believe that a $5B mission to study lunar cheese via sub-orbital flight would drive that money into their constituents' areas, they'll support it.

It has nothing to do with what the public at large thinks about NASA; it's merely a bullet point they can trot out at the next election: see, through my work in Congress I brought jobs to your area, re-elect me.

And THAT is why I doubt NASA can pull this off, because it's clowns like that who control the purse-strings. It's why we junked Apollo capsules for the Shuttle. It's why we have an Orion capsule in development now to replace the Shuttle. It's why the target for HSF went from the Moon to low Earth orbit, languished there for decades, paused briefly on the absurd notion of an asteroid interception mission as being viable, and is now back at Mars.

My pessimism in NASA's manned program is well-founded.

They have the ideas and the know-how, but their plans are at the mercy of self-serving, science-ignorant politicians.
Yes, there are a few people: I could not do it myself but I've worked with one or two who definitely could. You very probably cannot afford them, or their labs. And I doubt they would want to post or share their results openly, so though I am curious, I do not think I shall ask.

Why would someone? Perhaps a competitor wants to know if their design is being ripped off, or if a patent is being violated? Perhaps it is for other reasons sometimes. One simply does not ask about clientèle, you understand.

I gather it is mostly incremental work: as vendors seldom do from-scratch redesigns, most of the reversing is not from-scratch either.
upvoted, for well written, detailed and thoughtful post. as others have mentioned, i don't completely agree with your critique of positivism here. i've always seen positivism as a philosophical movement to try and ground philosophy in verifiable propositions, which is to say, to make it more like physical science.
I'm a software engineer and green card holder from Brazil and there is nothing I want more than to see many of my friends who work in Brazil have the opportunity to come here to work in a great industry. That being said, both you and the anon person you replied to are right about the situation.

The position you came to fill is a relatively rare skill here in the US and it helps the US to bring in talent from abroad, but the person you replied to isn't wrong. It's not like compiler engineers don't exist in the US. They most certainly do and they most certainly would make more money if you couldn't get compiler people from abroad.

Personally, I would love it if we were far more liberal with giving out H1-B visas, but also required companies to pay those H1-B visa holders a premium over local talent. i.e. if the market rate is foo, then you need to pay 1.5x foo salary to bring that person from abroad. This would ensure that companies actually can get access to all the talent they need irrespective of origin, but that the talent that comes from abroad doesn't depress salaries.

1.5x foo is friggin' cheap if the alternatively is not having the talent at all. It also forces you to always consider domestic labor first if it exists instead of abusing the H1-B visa program to get cheap labor like many companies do.

Such a system would also serve to help salaries rise to the levels enjoyed by doctors and lawyers (which is really where salaries should be for any solid engineer). If this means certain business models are no longer viable, then c'est la vie. There's nothing that says that you have a right to a business model that wouldn't exist if salaries were not depressed.

Alternatively, I would be okay with eliminating the lottery and giving visas out on the basis of the premium companies are willing to pay over the salary a domestic worker would be paid. If your company is willing to pay 2.0x foo for a position, then you will get the H1-B visa ahead of a company only willing to pay 1.5x foo. The floor would be set at something like 1.1x foo.
> Is it worth risking a human's life for science

I'd volunteer, even if it was a one-way mission with a 10% chance of success.
The closest Mars approaches (in a reasonable time frame) occur on a roughly 15-year period. The next one is in 2018, with the one after that being 2033. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars#mediaviewer/File:Mars_oppo... and the associated article for a bit more detail.

That said, I agree that the plan is pretty pointless: when I was in high school, I was super-psyched that we were going to Mars in 2018. Couldn't wait. Then we got to ~2008, and we had to go from dreaming to doing. Perhaps unsurprisingly, we also decided to go to Mars in 2033. This time I'm less excited.
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First some background. I live in the Washington DC area and my Sundays involve going to church and helping many of the financial poor in my congregation. Having attended the same church for ten years, many of the same people are still struggling financially.

Living in the USA, we are lucky to have thousands and thousands of jobs we could apply for. Indeed.com shows 105,000 jobs when you search for "SQL". My idea is to have a map of the USA that flashes the number of recent craigslist job posts in real time by city. The intent is NOT to scrap data from craigslist and display it in one place. The intent is to show a visitor that 300+ jobs have been posted near you and one of them might be yours.

There are a lot of hopeless people, a job gives people hope. My question now is what is a good and simple way to create this? Has something like this already been done?

Sample links

http://denver.craigslist.org/search/jjj

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/search/jjj
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Ah Jeff! I love how this guy actually write and simplifies the technologies.

This is one easy way for non-cloud users to pickup EC2 and use it as hosting services and demystify the price VS usage behind it.
In practice no one cares about intent of the law, it's about exact wording, jurisprudence and cost/benefit of the penalties.
re: your Google example, that's why I said open source "pure play". Of course, we wouldn't be where we are without all open source projects that sprang up in the last few decades.

And yea, it's too soon to tell. Software & software business are evolving rapidly under our feet. I am curious to see what will happen next.