skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure about Thailand, but this is true for USA.

My colleague's wife is on H4 (dependant) visa and prior to coming to USA, she had a job in India. We talked to a lawyer and then with USCIS and both of them confirmed that it is not a possibility that she can work remote here in USA on H4 even though she gets paid in India.
If you're interested in working in Australia and are a U.S. citizen, there are two visas of particular interest.

J1: Student work/travel visa. You can get a 12 month visa with little hassle so long as you either are a student or have graduated from a university (or recognized equivalent) in the last 12 months.

E3: Specialist worker visa, not difficult to obtain so long as you have a 4 year degree (or 3 years experience equivalent to each year of study for a degree) in a specialized industry, which might also include management, and you are offered a job that pays above the prevailing wage. Preferable conditions to many other visas, 2year renewable visa.

please note: I'm actually Australian living in the U.S.. We have reciprocal visa arrangements with the U.S. so the above is derived from the equivalent arrangement for Australians working in the U.S.
> Do you support prohibition for prostitution?

I support the Swedish model. The prostitute is not the criminal; the pimp and the john are. It has demonstrably reduced human trafficking and has helped many women and some men get out of prostitution.

http://www.government.se/sb/d/13420/a/151488
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prey_%28novel%29 - Michael Crichton's novel anticipating swarms of nanobots.
The bootcamp really does not have a time because it is free, and what they are really getting is a mentor who can help them and guide them to all the best resources. I put together the curriculum after searching for the best books and videos and it took me 9 months.
I'm reading Don Quixote and Becoming Steve Jobs.

I can't get enough of reading about the history of Apple and Jobs in particular. I read the Isaacson's Jobs biography twice. It's now more of a guilty pleasure than anything.

Don Quixote is good too. I'm listening to the audio book. While listening to it, I don't really know what to make of it. It's part comedy, part tragedy and all around captivating. Also recommend the mini-story within Don Quixote called The Ill-Advised Curiosity.
ISIS hackers cut transmission of French broadcaster
In our specific case in Thailand we never worked more than the usual 8 hours a day and on the weekends we organized trips together. So our goal was not to have people put together so that they work more, but rather have a good time and adventure together.
LinkedIn acquires online education company Lynda.com for $1.5B
Alcohol - It helps me calm down after coding in javascript (ES5), which makes me angry at times . . .
Also, while that wasn't a direct answer to your posted question, you can come over on a J1, and then find an internship once you're here.
It makes me wonder if there's any medical way (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_magnetic_stimulati... ?) to jam the fight-or-flight mechanism, and force human pilots to stay cool as a cucumber?
That's what came to mind when I read this sentence of the article:

Numerous specks of technology could be discretely placed to invisibly monitor a home, business, or personal device.

I wonder what the people working on these technologies think of pervasive surveillance, and their stance on the gradual loss of privacy trend, because that's essentially what they're enabling.
A better reset for the mobile web by Gabriel Poça
Conservative Election in Byzantine Fault Tolerant RAFT
Rant mode:

If I understand right, getting a replacement cert doesn't result in a change of the private key anyways.

It's just magically, on the expiration date, your cert is somehow insecure and we must treat it as if YOU ARE IN DANGER!! - even though it's still better than then plain HTTP that everyone uses every single goddamned day. Hell, a self signed cert is better than plain HTTP, yet for some backwards-ass reason we treat it as worse, despite the fact it makes you immune from passive eavesdropping and any injection attacks, which the average person is a lot more likely to run into than a self-signed cert being used by an attacker to MITM you.

CA's are a scam and a racket. I can't wait for Mozilla's Let's Encrypt[1] to come along and put them all out of business, hopefully before the last decade or so of training users to ignore the wolf-crying cert warnings comes to fruition.

Yeah, this is irresponsible on Manjaro's part, they know the rules of the game, but the game is broken!

[1] http://letsencrypt.org
This is the problem along with the parent's comments. They literally are a different class of citizen. Does anybody actually think another cop would see this and write the state trooper a ticket? That the state trooper would have to go to his courthouse and pay a fine? It doesn't happen.

At most, he'd be asked to move it. But until then he gets privileges us lower citizens don't have.
Not OP but having worked on Facebook apps in the past I get the feeling that people honestly don't want to be 'fans' of brands on Facebook. There's so much irrelevant stuff appearing on your timeline spamming your friends.

Seeing the odd product from a brand you follow on Instagram (here's our new dress) and Twitter (new cocktail ingredients) is more relevant.
While absolutely adorable, French Bulldogs are among the most expensive dogs to care for, health-wise. They're also more expensive to purchase because of their more complicated birth.
I think this is exactly right. If you look at what's going on at education in general right now, "credentialing" is one of the top challenges for education startups. Particularly for MOOCs but also for bootcamps. How are hiring managers supposed to know which certificates mean something or which classes actually teach people something? LinkedIn's revenue right now is all about services to make recruiting easier.
The same way a human would.

As a pilot myself I can tell you that in EP there are really only a handful of criteria you look for when determining a place to land:

1. Minimize risk of ground personnel
2. Minimize obstructions between air and ground (ie. poles, trees and wires are bad)
3. Maximize straight and flat ground
4. Maximize featureless ground
etc...

Given where Newark is, and Sully's flight condition, there was really only one place that would show maximum differentiation in human density and allow for landing: Hudson. The trick is knowing how to land on water with *a passenger jet - something remarkably simple to compute given environmental parameters (CG, load, wind, etc...) and a few simulations.

As was rightly pointed out, the key to success here was calm - something Sully learned starting at the USAF Academy (I'm a fellow grad as well, shout out where you can take it!) and was what let him do computer level calculations so quickly.
Why don't you let the students choose their own framework? Maybe I'm fluent in Python, It'd be pretty annoying having to learn Ruby/PHP/Java first instead of focusing on my SaaS project.

The best framework for any job is the framework you know the best. I don't know Java, but I can accomplish the same with Laravel than with Rails, but with Laravel it will take a fraction of the time. Not because it's somehow 'better' than Rails, but because I know it better.

I can't think of any benefit for you or your students that a restriction on language/framework would offer.
He wrote the original Markdown. Barely anyone uses the original Markdown. They just use semi-compatible formats (e.g. Github-Flavored Markdown) using software that calls them "Markdown".

There is no spec for Markdown other than his buggy Perl implementation. He also didn't exactly appreciate the fact that other people tried to standardize "his" language.

I'm not even sure Markdown in general can rightfully be called an invention (in the same sense as JSON is not considered such by its "inventor"). It's just one of several plain-text formatting conventions that happened to become popular (though, again, not really his exact implementation).

In fact, because of the limited scope Gruber's original Markdown addressed and the redundancies he implemented (such as the different "bullets" for unordered lists) are biting implementers now that the format is used for other things than originally envisioned (by making extensions difficulty or unintuitive).
Ask HN: Data efficient protocol for mobile app?
We are designing an information sharing app (news and Q&A) targeting a developing country. One of the major turning off for the users is the cell phone data expense. Which protocol do you recommend for this scenario?
Microadventures: A tonic for fast paced 21st Century lives
They're not running again next year? :(
The Best Employers in the U.S. Tech Sector [Infographic]
What you can do though is travel to the US for business purposes.
I'm in CH as well. I was talking to a VC guy who moved here from the US, and he has a similar story. People here are very conservative. The whole IP protections thing sounds like a business school teaching.

Anyway, would be interesting to chat if you're near ZH.
Egregious, perhaps, but not unheard of.

https://www.startssl.com/?app=42
I'm glad the article touched on experience, as there is compelling evidence that it is a critical factor in safety:

http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/foreign-airline-safety
Daphne Koller must be happy today, this is a huge validation for Coursera business model.
iOS, OS X Updates Introduce Diverse Emojis, Desktop Photos and More
>I was under the impression that people can decide for themselves the times when they want to go to bed and wake up.

That's correct, and most people choose times that are roughly in sync with the people around them. Waking up an hour earlier is less useful if the gym isn't open an hour earlier, or your favourite breakfast stall isn't open an hour earlier etc.
I am a developer in SF and work in finance. We are all in the office before 6am PT to be ready for the market-open at 6:30am. No one leaves for lunch as the market is still open. These things change quite a bit industry to industry, shop to shop. It's not necessarily a developer thing, just a business culture thing.
It's absolutely about preserving their ability to resell the games later. Maybe slightly upscaling them so they can charge full-price, but, even if not, think about how many times Nintendo's sold, say, Super Mario Brothers. No coincidence that they've been one of the most aggressive pursuers of people distributing ROMs.
Development of Ternary Computers at Moscow State University
> Proof, yet again, that computers should be flying planes.

If the computer piloting the plane was designed by the same criteria -- economics -- as the plane was, it'd have pretty much the same crash rate per passenger * mile. It has everything to do with managing costs and acceptable risks, and not some inherent insafety of flight. An airplane can be made just about as reliable and reliable against pilot errors as you want. The technology is there, has been for decades, it's only matter of costs and performance.

The crashed plane was a two-engine model, designed so in case of one engine failure it could still fly safely. However, the margin of safety was small enough that once the wrong engine was throttled back, the plane became uncontrollable before the engine regained enough power. Spinning up engines takes certain, well-known, time.
It'd be entirely possible to design and build a plane that would handle such accidental throttling gracefully. All you need is one more engine, or larger wings giving more lift at slow speed and thus allowing it to remain in the air long enough to recover.

The crux is the airlines choose not to go for either option simply to cut costs, accepting lower safety margin.

Now consider fully automatic plane flown by computer -- designing and debugging a robust hardware/software solution is very costly.
Especially when it comes to handling tricky, rarely-occuring cases, like unexpected failures. Throw in both cost of handling of multiple versions of planes -- different engines, different avionics, and handling of flightworthiness reduced by wear and tear. Also attach the risk of mismatched configuration, with no experienced pilot inside to spot the problem.

In the end, the amount of money spent on development, and the level of redundancy of software/hardware autopilot would be dicated by cost-cutting and going for what the airline deems acceptable risks.

The computer pilot would be just as (un-)safe as human pilot, for the reasons of economics. Safety is calculated and kept per passenger * mile, not dictated by current technology.
My framework http://natuive.net has class-less grid, just put anything in a .row div.
What would be different here to the way that Goofy does it? Goofy handles notifications through it's wrapper and sends them over to the notification center, thus being native notifications. The rest is all a webview, for both of these projects.
I've got an electric toothbrush that already has a really simple form of 'gamification'. You're supposed to brush each of the four 'quadrants' of your teeth for 30 seconds, after 30 seconds the brush starts to buzz a little bit, reminding you to switch quadrants.

It sounds pretty stupid, but i was surprised how well it actually works. When i'm brushing my teeth with an 'ordinary' brush i tend to miss the automatic buzzing :)
Already done many years ago: https://github.com/rubyworks/platypus
No, the problem is that it isn't only a button, it's a tracker and it breaks EU-law. Right now it is "meh - other people's, other countries privacy laws" from FB, we'll see if the EU stands up for European people against US data collection without permission.

I honestly hope this damages FBs reputation and leads to a decline in user numbers if only for other (better, I hope) service to emerge. Something that has a moral/ethical compass.
Selling people is very different from allowing people to sell their services. Don't conflate the two activities.

Seriously, the existence of problems related to legal prostitution in any particular location doesn't necessarily indict the entire practice. Also, in close analogy with drug prohibition, the state gives criminals space to thrive whenever it limits the free movement of people.
Netflix algorithm tells you when your best employee is about to leave you
Show HN: SoundCloudify stream music from YouTube, SoundCloud, last.fm scrobbling
I think the conclusion warrants repeating:

"The moral of the story? Confusing APIs are a security problem. If many users of your API get it wrong in a way that introduces a security bug, that’s a bug in your API, not their code."
Banning marketing is one step, but there is more.

Add prohibiting taxes. With the added taxes, direct a large portion to projects which is intended to prevent new users and educate the population.

Ban the use in public areas. Make it social unacceptable behavior and shunned during day light.

Create regulations and complex bureaucracy for those who want to sell the product. Create state controlled monopolies if possible, which then can advertise against purchases.

For tobacco, you can have warning labels that covers most or the whole package.

(Examples are taken from Sweden).
I believe that some of the most popular celebrity ones bring in seven figures at least, and some of the get-rich-quick scam ones also do very well. You also have marginal cases like Gawker; is it a blog network, or a media site?
As an outsider looking in, LinkedIn's purchase of Lynda.com looks like an odd duck in comparison to their previous acquisitions[1].

As far as I can tell, the Lynda.com brand name isn't that well known outside of tech circles. (Virtually all of their courses are Adobe, Microsoft Office, and web development, etc) I'm guessing those computer courses are relevant to less than 5% of LinkedIn's user base. It was very recently (last year or so) that Lynda started doing more business courses[2] (how to calculate ROI, how to write a business plan, etc) Since those business courses are probably their thinnest and weakest offerings, I can only speculate that it was a partly a "proof-of-concept" to show a prospective acquirer (such as LinkedIn) the breadth of topics the content platform could deliver.

In that case, LinkedIn is really buying Lynda's content delivery platform (the technology) as opposed to seeing value in the existing portfolio of courses (the copyrights).

It will be interesting to see how it plays out. I'm somewhat saddened that a controversial company like LinkedIn (UI dark patterns, creepy privacy invasions) was the one who bought them. I would have preferred a company like github (synergy with code sharing) or Apple (enhance iTunesU) to do it. Unfortunately, github doesn't have the cash/stock and Apple is busy with more grandiose plans.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkedIn#Acquisitions

[2]http://www.lynda.com/Business-Skills-training-tutorials/484-...
History of Ternary Computers
Are current Linux distributions as good as this yet?
1984, George Orwell. I'm enjoying it. It's bleak and scary and messes with your mind. The only think I dislike is that the overall mood is "look at how wrong this is". I was expecting a more detached and unemotional description of the setting, where all the "wrongness" would be creeping up in back of the reader's mind.

Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy, Simon Blackburn. Not enjoying it. It is a well written book, and reads easilly, but it's way of explaining the themes is just not good. It's long-winded, goes back and forth between the philosophers and the analogies are not very good. Maybe I'm too used to technical books, but I was expecting something like "Theme X. This is what philosopher A thinks of it. This is what philosopher B thinks of it. This is how these theories clash". Probably gonna drop it.

Programming in Lua, Roberto Ierusalimschy. The first programming language book I bought since college. IMO, Lua is the most well-designed and beautiful language yet (from the one I know). The book is clear, concise, full of examples and it is simply a treat to read.
Self-signed can be worse because by the same token it can be MITM'd by another self-signed cert. It would create the false illusion of security, which could lead people to provide information they otherwise would not have.
> I am looking forward to what _they_ can do

I also think these are incredibly cool! I want to be able to play with these and pick them up at the store like an arduino. The internet of things is hardly internet connected Nest home systems, though of course those count. There are a lot of hackers (in the maker sense) who would eat these things up and come up with amazing uses that academia simply doesn't have the manpower to supply. I wish hardware wasn't so hard to bootstrap, so we could get these things out en masse quickly.
Related: The best study I'm aware of that attempts to estimate the distribution of fund manager skills is this one by Fama and French (of 3 factor model fame) from 2009: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1356021
Uhh...so what did you learn?
Did they get the work done? If so, why do you care how long they took for lunch and when they got out of bed?
Processor description is here: http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~mgseok/pdfs/phoenix_isscc_dac_de...

I'm not sure it's an ARM..
Scalable employee liquidity
Is it possible to give 100%, 100% of the time?
Wonder how they will be able to compete with free online courses, there are plenty of them and they're just as quality. I also wonder how Linked-in itself can compete with other social networks.
Yep, the outdated Chinese version :)
I'm not sure about the intricacies of Austrian law, but I remember quite a few cases in consumer law where after an initial court case, thousands of other people used it precedent to get similar compensation. Not sure if that would include all Facebook users in this case, or only people who deleted their account as this plaintiff did.

It's also part of a larger effort to get a ruling on Facebook's use of the 'safe harbour' provision. If that is successful, FB does have quite the problem.
Wall Street Fees Wipe Out $2.5B in New York City Pension Gains
This, to me, is terrible news. I am a big fan of Lynda.com. They've always had a great library (both for tech' stuff but are also one of few sites that offer non-tech video training (business courses, photography, etc) and their prices were always very reasonable.

LinkedIn can only make the site worse as far as I am concerned, and I already avoid LinkedIn due to the fact that they've essentially become spammers who work to allow other spammers to spam you. That's all they are, a giant spam platform at this point.

So too bad about Lynda. It will be greatly missed (by me).
Sorry, I was being a little fast and loose with my terminology. If you really lose all power in a jet you're simply screwed. But that never ever happens, unless you have the kind of catastrophic failure that makes power loss the least of your worries. Losing all power means losing all engine power. You still have many layers of backups that keep the flight control surfaces and avionics working even if all the engines quit.
Maybe something along the lines of a beta-blocker?
You'll have to dig through the site, but there's a ton of information on computer related flight incidents here:

http://www.rvs.uni-bielefeld.de/publications/compendium/inde...
I'm currently reading The Design of Everyday Things. I'm not sure if anyone else does this but I recently created a Github repo to log all of the books I read [1]. I could use Goodreads but I like the visibility of Github for any future employers.

[1] https://github.com/atom-morgan/read-it
I'm pretty sure what the companies selling reviews are doing is unlawful in the EU under the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive - the reviews would need to state they were done for a consideration and by a business in order to meet with legal requirements from what I understand.

There's a guide to the directive based on UK law at http://www.out-law.com/page-9050:

>'A practice is unfair if it fails to meet the standard of "professional diligence" (the standard of skill and care that would reasonably be expected of a trader in its field of activity) and it materially impairs an average consumer's ability to make an informed decision, causing him to make a decision he would not otherwise have made.' (Out-Law.com, ibid) //
Here's the original story: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/nyregion/wall-street-fe...
Expensify take the whole company somewhere every year. Big picture about it http://blog.expensify.com/2013/10/25/ceo-friday-how-to-take-... http://we.are.expensify.com/offshoring/

There are reports in the archives http://blog.expensify.com/category/company-life/ including Portugal, Croatia, Thailand, Vietnam ...
Actually, you can see that scene in another brilliant SF novel: David Marusek's "Counting Heads" (even better that "A Deepness in the Sky" in my opinion)
Reverberations: How SETUN Was Perceived by the Western Scientific Community [pdf]
Useful (and confirms that it makes the cert locally), but we shouldn't have to read through the source code to get the overview of how the cert is created and signed.
I think the author is missing the point of what Cucumber tries to accomplish -- to allow non-technical, non-coder business analysts (for example) to write tests in an English like syntax, and then a developer can go behind the scenes and make them pass.

Sure, anything can be done to excess. Writing unit tests closer to the metal in Ruby is one thing, but trying to find a common language that everyone involved in a project can speak is another.

So Cucumber is not a bad thing. Just don't use it incorrectly.
ReSharper C++ finally reaches 1.0