skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about all the people who never got a chance to speak your language, don't quite share your values, or who your kids will have to take a slightly longer flight to marry?

Frankly I feel a lot closer to people on the other side of the globe than many of the people in my own neighbourhood, city, or country. I don't see why hi-fi made by mormons is any better than hi-fi made by muslums.
While I have no comment on the parent article, I have done a lot of market research over the past few years, as part of a potential product to help companies hire better people, faster.

In doing so, I've noticed that there are two primary ways that companies artificially limit themselves to a tiny pool of eligible people:

One: An interview process based on trivia and logic puzzles, not "can this person drive success". This eliminates people that have years of industry experience, but that can't quite remember the solution to Four Knights on the spot.

I have seen plenty of of "unqualified" people that work as consultants, and pull in large sums of money, solving business problems at companies where they could never get through the interview process. These people would have been great hires, but they were forced out due to bad process.

Two: Requiring that candidates permanently relocate, nominally to a city with a very high cost-of-living, without paying a correspondingly high salary. This eliminates people with families, people with elderly parents, and so on.

Money is rarely the problem if the company is otherwise flexible in terms of location. If you want, say, a parent with two kids to move to SF, you're going to need to pony up $160k+ a year. The same person in Boise would likely be happy at half that.
The effort to do so is so low that yes, if you're curious, it's worth it.
8cc: A Small C Compiler
Let’s Talk About Depression
That's what having guts means. You're probably going to lose out to stand up for something you believe in.
Most things your microwave aren't so flat though. Usually they have a bit of height which reduces the uneven heating somewhat.

But even for heating flat items (such as Naan) I haven't noticed any uneven heating with my giant Panasonic microwave.
> Are there no regulatory requirements to force VISA/master card to accept payments as long as the business is not illegal?

There are no such requirements. They are allowed to refuse processing for businesses they deem a high risk for fraud, for instance.

Given Dotcom's past, any business he is running should set off all kind of alarms in the fraud prevention department of the credit card companies.

Often they deal with such a situation by charging higher processing fees, and holding back larger amounts of your money as a reserve to cover refunds and chargebacks if you do turn out to be a fraudulent business, but at the scale Dotcom is trying to operate the credit card companies might feel that this is not enough to protect them.
To explain the point to people who have no idea what's going on:

On the recently-posted chapter 113, the author of HPMOR has offered an extra chapter (121) if the fans are able to figure out how Harry doesn't die in the situation he has ended up in. We have 60 hours, ending at "12:01AM Pacific Time (8:01AM UTC) on Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015".

The actual text of the rules has (in my opinion) spoilers, so I'm not posting them.

I don't really consider this comprehensible or even possible for anyone who hasn't read the preceding 112 chapters and isn't actively participating in the fan community's predictions already, but if this interests you, you may as well try speed-reading your way through it and coming up with a solution.
I'm mid-switch back to OpenBSD. If you have the luxury of picking supported hardware, it's actually a pretty awesome experience--just like I remember from a decade ago, but with incremental improvements and up-to-date packages that are a snap to install.
> people who are so sure that their idea will someday be worth billions that they do not want to pay cash

I think the opposite is more likely true. If you really believed your idea was worth billions you would want to keep all that equity for yourself. I don't consider equity-only offers worth the paper they're printed on.
That presumes you're using LVM partitions in the first place. I've generally found those to be a level of fussery that's sufficiently 1) advanced and 2) rarely exercised that I prefer _not_ dealing with them. Easier to either rely on a package management system which doesn't betray you (among the reasons I tend to like Debian and its derivatives -- and no, I haven't played with Arch or its PM, though the OP clearly is), or set up a specific test account for such things.
Still doesn't work on Windows. I don't care what people say ruby,node and python ,even Ipython repls work on Windows. So why can't we have a proper repl for PHP?
Show HN: ShareShoot – Event-based, cross-platform, photo syncing
I don't understand why everyone says stuff like this as though mixers don't exist. BTC is 100% private if you use mixers and multiple wallets, which are painless and easy.
Hello, this is certainly off-topic but I am curious about your username. Is it in reference to Waldorf schools? My daughter just started preschool at one and I'm wondering if "notwaldorf" is a shot at Waldorf schools. As a parent I would obviously love to know about any negative experiences.
It seems like the only thing needed to add the P is a var_dump.

Am I missing something here?
I've got the most downvoted Emacs question. It was actually even more downvoted at one point.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11706028/creating-a-elisp...

It was a pretty good question but I got into a debate with a moderator. That was my last question and I did a rage quit.

As you can see it was a simple well-defined question, and it produced two good answers.
This is the first version of our event-based, cross platfrom, photo syncing app.

My fiance and I travel, sometimes in large groups. We've emailed and texted photos, and that always sucks. Every once in a while, someone creates a dropbox. But, after the fact, people aren't as motivated to upload. And Apple has a solution, but what about the people that use Android? So, we created ShareShoot.

With ShareShoot, you create an event, invite your friends and all the photos you take, on your mobile phone camera (through our app or the native phone app) sync to your ShareShoot 'Shoot'. They self organize by shoot first, then by person in the shoot.

It's an early version, but I've been a long time HN member, so your feedback really matters.

Thanks!
I don't think you read my post carefully. I was very careful to say that I don't think the report is very reliable, much less that it is adequate justification for cutting MEGA.nz off from CC payments.

You also didn't read very far into the report; they allege finding much more direct evidence of infringement than what you say:

>For direct download cyberlockers, 78.6 percent of files were found to infringe copyright. For streaming cyberlockers, 83.7 percent of files were found to infringe copyright.

Again, I don't think these claims should be taken at face value. But the chain of events here is pretty clear: 1) report is published, 2) Senator['s staffer] reads report, gets agitated about copyright infringement (probably at the suggestion of industry groups), 3) Senator writes letter to Visa/Mastercard, accusing them of facilitating copyright infringement, 4) Visa/Mastercard freeze out MEGA.nz. Given all the pressure that we know the content lobby brings to bear on legislators, and how eager democratic legislators like Leahy have historically been to do this lobby's bidding, I find nothing farfetched about this chain of events whatsoever. And there is certainly no evidence that Visa and MasterCard cut off MEGA.nz because it uses end-to-end encryption. As others in this thread have pointed out, there are many "legitimate" services that use end-to-end encryption, that have not been targeted in this way.

As for the difference between Dropbox and MEGA.nz, I suspect it's that, allegedly MEGA.nz's content is overwhelmingly infringing. Dropbox's probably is not.
Apparently I'm getting down voted. Not sure why. Anyway, I gave MATE a try and I'm really happy. The "TraditionalOk" theme and some really simple customization gave me exactly what I was looking for. Old school Xfce style: https://i.imgur.com/IN8UN1T.png
I'm the one that hates it.

My microwave is my most visible clock in my apt (small sf sub). Whens its paused it doesnt show the time and just constantly blinks.
Node.js Algorithm Modules
Checkr (YC S14) is hiring engineers to build its background check API
I find it difficult to understand why these companies would go to such lengths to save at absolute most 15-20% on salary.

Even if there were no legal or immigration costs (which there definitely is), it seems to me they could easily do the same by getting someone from a less prosperous part of the US and moving them to, say, CA. I'm sure this happens all the time.
Free market economics is often intentionally misunderstood because it doesn't fit into anyone's ideologies.

The left ignore the benefits of the free market, and pretend that there is a better system out there. They selfishly expect workers the developing world to respect the "right" of the Western middle class to high wages, as if magically other opportunities that don't involve competing with the Western middle class will arise.

The right want people to think that capitalism is magic, because they don't even want redistribution, which mainstream economists believe is something the market cannot do itself, and must be done by the government. The right want people to believe that all government intervention in the economy is equally bad, whether it is fixing the price of rent, providing medical services, or a negative income tax.

That said, I don't think H-1Bs are best used on average paid contractors. I know people earning a lot more money who missed out on the lottery. These people could have contributed a lot more to the economy.

EDIT: Added scare quotes around "right" in response to a comment.
Don't forget the lady boys.
Funny, my wife's Asian too and I know the exact thing you mean. We like being able to tote the kettle around rather than having the bring the container to it, though. I agree it's more energy efficient.
correct, ttfb for instance on many servers is 1 second alone. A framework being rendered vs the entire load time of a website are 2 completely different metrics.
Of the ones I've tried recently, I liked manjaro a lot. It's based on Arch, so you get cutting-edge software, access to the AUR (really great) and good default configuration (with vanilla arch you have to set up everything yourself). It has the standard DE's, I used xfce. You might want to check out Korora, it also looks pretty cool.

DE-wise, KDE's Plasma5 and LXQt both look pretty cool, though not many distros have them yet.
Massive spoilers. For the uninitiated: http://hpmor.com/
100% poorly designed themes, WordPress does just fine on mobile and all of my websites pass Google's mobile testing tool which, is enough for me (and they look great.)

I do admit that there are probably way more bad themes out there than good, and that most WP 'developers' do not stick to the codex / standards and just want to make money on themes.
I don't even have a bachelor's degree, and I've been a developer since 1998.
I agree with most of the things you said, except on minor point, which I don't know is a wording issue or not: there is no "right to high wages", at best, it's a privileged.
Three: not considering good programmers who don't have experience in the language(s) the company uses. We as programmers know it's not a big deal to learn another language, but somehow this hasn't translated to the hiring process.
Wait, a decrease... That's strange!
Gnus in Emacs does support HTML! It's not the most beautiful, but it works, and is getting better.

I also use several Gmail-backed custom domains, and that works just fine as well -- no one knows I'm using Gnus (unless they look at the User-Agent header, of course).
Yeah, Boris downloads did spike quite a bit when Laravel 4 included it.
People often conflate H-1B visas lowering wages, with H-1B holders earning less than market wages.

Actually it is possible (and probably) that H-1B holders earn the same wages as their equivalents. The presence of the H-1B workers increases the supply of labor, and lowers wages for everyone. But it happens simultaneously so that at no time are the H-1B holders earning less.

It's interesting to me that in order to deal with this inconsistency, people have basically invented the myth that it's hard to shift jobs while on an H-1B, and thus H-1B holders are like "indentured servants". The reality is for most H-1B holders the job market is no different, as long as they have the visa, which depends on the government, not their company.
I meant that the left considered it a right, but I added scare quotes (which I use too much anyway) to be clearer
Don't forget about ethical veganism, whose reasoning doesn't involve health.

Almost every vegan I know is so for ethical, not health reasons.
> Now reply to someone with the appropriate From/Reply-To addresses from that mashed up gmail account. Thunderbird does this seamlessly, figuring it out from who the email was To if possible.

The Gmail web app can do the exact same thing: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22377?hl=en
I'm very excited! Can't wait to see this in official Arch repos ^_^ I've been using XFCE as my main DE since 2011 Thank you everyone in linux community who made this release possible. This release has tons of bug fixes and features according to changelog here; http://xfce.org/download/changelogs/4.12
Many microwaves do something similar - they have a spinning "fan" that's designed to perturb the standing wave pattern.
> If any of that were true, wages would be going up, wouldn't they? Is there any company that couldn't hire someone by paying higher wages? Why are developer wages absolutely flat?

This is an excellent point, and to add injury to this obvious insult to the IT developer class is the fact that corporate profits are through the roof [1] these days and have, in fact, been growing for years.

Any free, non-manipulated labor market will always reward the workers with needed skills a higher wage to attract talent needed to keep the companies products competitive and the management looking good.

It seems to me, at least, beyond obvious that corporations are using programs like the H-1B, the elimination of positions for developers over the age of 40, and pressure on managers to keep IT workers fearful of losing their jobs to artificially keep wages down.

[1] http://qz.com/192725/what-another-record-year-of-corporate-p...
Dunno - Kim Dotcom is a convicted fraudster with a long track record of enabling illegal copying. Paypal are a private company. Why shouldn't they be able to chose not to work with unsavoury clients?
Wow no.
Yes this was pretty big news in the inbound marketing community. I was pretty shocked about this news as well, because it seemed to be moving in the dirction Google was going in, esp with their recent patents.
True, that is one way to look at it, but another is that they are a family providing for each other. It really depends on the agency. As with all things in life, there are good and bad examples. Again, I have had one set of experiences and you another.
leptin is for fullness, ghrelin is for hunger.

Please no - you're someone who knows a bit but thinks they know the full picture. You're way overreactding.
A View from Inside the Welfare System
Why would any C# developer switch to Swift for iOS development when they can already use C# for iOS, Android and Windows development? Especially considering the fact that C# is actually a nicer language and environment to work with than both Swift and Java.

Your suggestion makes no sense to me.
I clicked down into the bug report.

> Is there a reason this isn't indented properly? Also, the formatting wrt spaces is inconsistent. Did you intend to reuse "i" as the loop variable for the inner loop? Could you add comments as to what the test is doing?

... Let me guess. This is manager input. (I know nothing about your structure, this is just so... manager-flavored. Who the fuck cares about the indentation and spacing for a test case, maybe that's part of the input causing the failure? Or perhaps the forum software ate it. Regardless, dumb.)
Yeah, perhaps that's why I wrote: "Sure, you can be a great developer with just a Bachelor degree or even no degree.".
Is it really a blue and black dress?
Awesome story thank you so much for sharing!
Sorry, my sentence was a bit ambiguous. Before Laravel 5 shipped, there had only been 15k Packagist installs total. After Laravel 5, it increased to almost half that every day.
> The right want people to think that capitalism is magic, because they don't even want redistribution, which mainstream economists believe is something the market cannot do itself, and must be done by the government.

The "government" is nothing but a collection of people who have used political acumen, and not technical or business skills, to gain control of a system.

They are really no different from the executives whom control various Fortune 500 companies, so in the long run, it seems unlikely that they will behave in a different matter, or ever put your wants and desires above theirs.

At least market-based systems, as described by Hayek, have some built in incentives to reward those in power to keep those without it happy.
H-1B is intended to be temporary, 3-6 years. That means no need for pensions and no time to accumulate a great deal of raises or benefits.

I would also imagine it's a lot easier to convince an employee to "go the extra mile" when you're dangling their ability to remain in the country over their head, especially if they're also applying for citizenship.
I think you should try 4.12 release for your self. As Morpheus has said "Unfortunately, no one can be told what the XFCE is. You have to see it for yourself." Because I'm not sure what you mean about "bulkier". Its defiantly faster and more light weight then Gnome and KDE. I've tried using Gnome and KDE many times and still where coming back to XFCE. So spin up new VM and see if this new release will work any better for you.
>It's strange how action which has apparently helped to lift tens of thousands of poor Indian workers out of poverty is portrayed as a "scandal".

Maybe because it was not intended to "lift tens of thousands of poor Indian workers out of poverty" but to "lower or keep the same american developer wages"?

As if those US business owners give a rats arse about getting "poor Indian workers out of poverty".

If those guys are so concerned about "poor Indians developers" how about paying them exactly the same as any American developer? It's not like they have a lower cost of living when they come to the US. So, do they consider them sub-human or something?

Or maybe they are more concerned for the "I can exploit their poorness relative to our domestic wage demands and screw me fellow country-men".

Oh, and it works both ways: next time some other country with cheaper wages than India developers a decent-ish IT education, those "poor Indian developers" would be dropped like dead weights in a race to the bottom...

>If Californians dislike foreign workers so much, why are they still allowing people from the midwest to work there? Shouldn't they be throttled too to keep wages high in silicon valley?

Perhaps because of this thing called patriotism, a.k.a. "do not piss where you live"...
Silicon Valley Shuttle Drivers Vote to Join Union
Screenshooter integration with Imgur? Is this the beginning of making Xfce a cloud-syncing desktop like Mac?
A good analogy is the so-called "pilot shortage" among US-based airlines.

There are plenty of pilots around; there just aren't enough pilots anymore who are willing to work for the wages and conditions that exist at the entry level of those airlines. A common figure I've seen quoted is that the education, training and certification required to become an airline pilot comes in around $250,000 total, while the starting salary is often $20,000 or less.

In an ironic inversion of the H-1B debate, apparently foreign airlines in rapidly-expanding markets are quite happy to pay significantly higher wages to snag US-trained pilots.
Now the pricing page states "(p/message)". Was this a typo, or is it really $5 per message?

Edit: lower down in the fine print it states "per month", but the table heading states "p/message".
For further reading / enlightenment:

Jerry Mander, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

Niel Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death and Technopoly.

Gill Scott-Heron: "The Revolution Will Not be Televised"
Or you could just use Ubuntu, and install the Cinnamon desktop.
> soy products may cause harmful reductions in testosterone in men. I wouldn't say the data is overwhelming at present, but there is concern.

Not so much. The most comprehensive study of the issue (that I'm aware of):

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19524224
While you mention freelancing, I have found this sentiment very true of consulting as well. You have multiple clients, all likely without knowledge or consideration of the others.It becomes very difficult to manage deadlines and expectations. It becomes an art of estimation and project management as well as consulting, which makes the work in my opinion very interesting.
Ask HN: Best primer on the physics of the universe?
There has been a lot of buzz lately about research suggesting that there may not have been a 'Big Bang' at all. I realized upon hearing this that the only reason I assert the Big Bang to be true is because my teachers told me so and it has a catchy name.

I'd like to read a book (or books) about the physics of the universe. My goal would be to understand how we arrived at the theory of the big bang, what we have learned since then, and maybe get some insight into what new knowledge we have that makes a universe without a big bang a possibility. Textbooks are cool, as long as they are well written enough to read without falling asleep.

I have a decent grasp of college-level mathematics (just graduated with a math minor) but not much Physics. I took AP in high school and two semesters of physics in college.
I think you're wrong about the government. It has many caring and dedicated people, who want to make the nation, and the world, better. And I think most politicians truly believe in what they claim to stand for. So stating what the government should do is productive and important, because ultimately it guides what politicians do.

The ideology I support is free market economics with generous redistribution and government services. This has been put into practice in Australia, NZ, Canada, the UK and Scandinavia. The only serious deviation is in the concessions made to the labour union movement, but these have been lessening with time.
> Perhaps because of this thing called patriotism, a.k.a. "do not piss where you live"...

Serious question - why patriotism for their country in preference to their state, country, city, continent, or planet? I've heard that Texas people don't like the rest of the USA. Perhaps they'd be more inclined to disallow out of state workers because their patriotism is applied at a different level than other Americans?