skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Supreme Court has said that making employment decisions based on citizenship status doesn't qualify as discrimination under the civil rights act because citizenship status is not the same thing as "national origin" which is what the law prohibits discrimination on.

ESPINOZA v. FARAH MFG. CO., 414 U.S. 86 (1973)

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vo...
Barkley is not a sports competition in traditional sense. It is more like an ultra-ultra running event meets performance art and the very point of the event is to make it harder. Participants understand this and they are not there to compare their performance (sic) to the previous competitors.

Also, competitors are screened by totally different criteria than their previous ultra running successes: they have to write a letter to the organizer explaining why they should participate. Reasons can be something personal, not that they won Spartathlon in Greece in 2010.

There is a short documentary about the event available https://vimeo.com/97270099, and a full-length documentary making rounds at film festivals at the moment https://barkleymovie.wordpress.com/
Reducing calorie intake for weight loss – what helped me
On both Firefox 37.0 and 41.0.2272.101 (gnu/linux x64, 3.19 yadda, yadda...)

transform: rotateY(180deg);

is the cause of the change.

I'm curious which browser stringham is using.
They only count the upward portions, not misleading at all
Introducing the New Face of Search – Google Panda
List of April Fools' Day Announcements
Instead of cluttering the front page with fake product announcements, let's just post them in here instead. One thread where each top-level comment is just a title and a link.
Awesome. I have a lot of respect for people who do this for a living - such an interesting profession, and one that, at its best, is completely unnoticeable.

In music, I always love weird samples - things that you don't get out of sample packs or drum machines. I think I got into it from IDM music, and the work of the Japanese artists Kashiwa Daisuke and World's End Girlfriend - they'd use these samples that make you feel like you're in a movie scene, yet fit beautifully in with the music. The breath sample at 4:58 in Kashiwa Daisuke's Stella is a memorable one.

Also interesting to see weird samples hit the pop consciousness - obviously the multitude of "Ha", "Uh", and "Hoo" samples in modern hip-hop come to mind, but also the weirder ones like the bed springs you hear in Jersey Club and trap music (google "trap bed springs sample" for examples).
Introducing the new face of Search — Google Panda

http://googleasiapacific.blogspot.com/2015/04/introducing-ne...
Thanks for sharing, that looks like pretty cool book to read and recently published too :)
The New Audi A8

http://www.audi.jp/gohan/
For Geekammo we went entirely open, and it was great with great contributions (https://github.com/geekammo/MicroView-Arduino-Library) from the community. With Ninja Blocks we were only open on the hardware and client software (not the server).
CERN researchers confirm the existence of the Force

http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2015/04/cern-researche...
Share a Reaction

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2015/03/chrome-selfie-share...
Saves them from washing it too.
How to Unlock LG L Bello Using Unlock Codes
You can play Pac-Man in Google Maps right now

http://www.sciencealert.com/you-can-play-pac-man-in-google-m...
Ask HN: Any good April fools jokes around today?
So, any really funny April fools jokes from startups or tech companies you'd like to share?
https://com.google - Google showing off their new gTLD in a silly manner.
Periscope will stream pre-match team talks for a massive Premier League game
See the Power of Pre-Workouts Weapon
Show HN: Tinder for Uber
Notice that the author name is "Percival Scope" and this is the only article he has ever written for the publication.
Smartbox by Inbox: the mailbox of tomorrow, today

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/smartbox-by-inbox-mai...
Good luck! Just remember: don't decide to quit while going uphill.

Hardrock has a high finishing rate because each of the 140 starters has already completed a difficult 100 mile race and likely years of lottery attempts to get in (Krupicka finally got in this year). Most other 100 mile races in the States are easier to enter and so have a smaller finishing rate.

But while a healthy reasonably-trained adult has a solid chance of completing Hardrock simply by putting one foot in front of the other and not giving up, Barkley apparently needs something more. Of the three people I know who started, including one this year, none finished. If physical ability and tenacity were enough all three would have finished. It's that hard.
Jot Script 2 Evernote Edition
Evaluating MySQL Parallel Replication Part 2: Slave Group Commit
Tinder for Uber*

http://tinderforuber.com/

*I'm praying this is a joke
Google publishes instructions on how to unlock the boot loader and install whatever you want. Apple does not.
This parody video reminded me of Chumby from back in the day:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumby
How to Deal with 12 Bad Stereotypes at Meetings?
- Game of Thrones clue

- Power Wheels Desert Drifters

- Steam-powered Gaming Cabinet

- Voltron Cat Condo

- and more...

http://www.thinkgeek.com/
The damage caused by hydro-electrical plants is always blown out of proportion.

Dams create huge reservoir of water, which flood a lot of land upstream, causing the river lines to expand.

however people forget to mention that gravity is a zero-sum game. every area that is being rendered unusable upstream results in creation of new area downstream. More often than not these areas are near large cities which are usually located downstream.

Also it opens up new fertile river bed for agriculture.

Now coming back to your question. Sometimes government do not properly compensate the people that are being displaced or take care of the animals etc. But that is a fault of the government and not the science behind hydro-electrical.
Fine.

There's a dialog for setting up resolutions and relative position of the screens to each other. Attaching a screen means that it's automatically fired up with its default settings.

Each screen has the window bar, and clicking on icons there opens the respective website/app on that screen.

When closing the laptop with an attached screen, it merely disabled the display (instead of going to sleep completely) which was confusing the first time but actually makes sense and is how other devices handle the situation as well.
It doesn't make up 47% of total water usage, it takes up 47% of water used in the production of goods and services. The definition of water footprint from your link:

The water footprint concept has been developed to estimate the amount of water consumed in the production of goods and services.
The interesting innovation (at least on the JVM) seems to be the use of _virtual_ actors. At first glance this looks similar to Microsoft's Orleans project: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/210931/Orleans-MSR-TR-201...
Use the forks, Luke!
Gravitons and gravioli.
What to do about single-word domains? Is "google", standalone, a valid domain? This is a big problem for browsers which use the same input form box for URLs and search keywords. Do you look up in DNS first, or with the search engine first? DNS no-finds are relatively expensive operations; they may have to go to the root servers to get a definitive "not found". Having a relatively small set of TLDs avoided confusion between domain names and search queries.

Then there's the relative domain problem. Although it's not used much any more, it's a feature of DNS that if you're on machine "abc.example.com", and you look up domain "xyz", it will try "xyz.example.com". The idea was that you could get at servers within your own organization without typing the fully qualified domain name. If you want the domain to be searched from the root, you're supposed to type "." after the domain, as in "example.com." Nobody knows this unless they're really into DNS. There's an adspam exploit that uses relative lookup to turn certain mistyped domains into ads on the domain "com.com", which pretends to host all subdomains of the form "*.com.com". If you're on "example.com", and you look up "nonexistentdomain.com", which doesn't exist, the domain "nonexistentdomain.com.com" is tried as a relative lookup. You get ads.

Then there's the problem of determining what's a second level domain. For that, you now need a very big list. (The list is here: https://publicsuffix.org/)

Current thinking seems to be to disallow single-word domains. There are already, though, a few two letter country code domains which host valid web sites at the TLD. (Try "http://ca.")
> Orbit is a modern Java framework that makes it easier to build and maintain distributed, secure, and scalable online services. It is inspired by a variety of existing frameworks and brings some exciting new things to the table.

Except both bioware and EA have dismal track record of massive online services. Origin barely works, SWTOR was barely loaded, Sim City - you know the story, Battlefield launches are terrible and so on.
Maybe hardware manufacturers should do like car companies do and use a model year. "Yea, I have a MacBook Pro 2015 but its about the same as my Surface Pro 2017".
They shouldn't do that. OTOH, anybody with a security clearance ought to be able to have the agency assign a disinterested person to do that ASAP. Without this, a foreign government can trivially send agents to date people who might know interesting secrets.
Off to AWS for me.
Kash is hiring Director of Experience/Design
There's also the sport of rogaining, which is like orienteering but much longer (6-24 hours):http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogaining
Because why have a golf course at all if there's no grass? How many golfers do you see practicing their chip shots on asphalt? Golf courses aren't the issue, as they pay the market price for water and often have very maintained irrigation systems as they have to keep their water bill low enough to remain profitable.
Consistent with university policy and applicable law, entrepreneurs in
the program will be free to work on their existing entrepreneurial ventures or
start a new company in one of the best entrepreneurial communities in the world.

Isn't the requirement for a H1B visa that the "non-immigrant alien" not work for any other company/institution other than the one that sponsored the visa? How does the program get around that?
Clicktofriend: click a button, make a friend in real life
hi how can i get in touch to help this grow?
Is this April fools day prank? If not, well...
Show HN: Conservative News, an anti-HN
I've been playing Bloodborne every evening for the last week or so, and it is tremendous. It's the only game that minor spoiler has ever gotten Lovecraftian horror correct in a really convincing way. The tone is pretty much one hundred percent on target.

I'd love a couple of my cosmic-horror-loving friends to play it, but it is fucking hard. I'm not sure they'd make it to the first boss, to say nothing of past it and the next however many there are.

As someone else points out, it may unfeasible for you to get a copy of your own (it's a PS4 exclusive), so you can of course watch others play - but seriously, it's not the same thing. Creeping around corners waiting for an ambush, inspecting hideous statues, hearing the slither of some nearby yet hidden hostile creature - the mindset you enter while playing is important to the consumption of the content. Watching another play, you don't quite have that. If at all possible, don't watch, just wait for your chance to play it - outside of Dark Souls and to some extent its prequel and sequel, it's pretty much a one-of-a-kind experience.
However fish that needs to travel upstream have a hard time. It can be solved to some extent.
Why do you say that? Shouldn't the burden go on the consumer?
Especially since GADTs don't do too well with type inference. My take on "premature optimization is the root of all evil" is that I will take any "cheap" premature optimization which doesn't impact readability, but I'd like to be sure there is an actual performance improvement first.
I was responding specifically to "Quit subsidizing. Internalize the externalities. Let the market figure it out."

"Water is a necessity" is woefully insufficient to justify current policy, but it does help explain why just letting the market sort it out may not be the best choice.
As opposed to the awesome planning California has done so far? Could it be much worse? For all the crisis talk, we water our lawn without restriction. Prices haven't changed, rules haven't changed, and we are years into the drought. The restaurant water rule is the first apparent effect for most California city dwellers.
Hi Everyone,

I'm one of the founders of Taaalk and also the person interviewing my knowledgable friend Robert Heaton on this one.

We'd love anyone who might be interested in being talked with or talking to someone else (either someone we'd set you up with, or someone you know) to reach out to us. Please email hi@taaalk.co or hit us up on twitter at https://twitter.com/gotaaalk.

Please don't be too modest in terms of getting in touch! We've found that when someone starts asking you questions you become more interesting than you realise!

Thanks very much for the chess discussion. Great to learn even more.

Josh
Yes, people, especially Scandinavian journalists, tend to forget that when they copy-paste stories on the internet, that this is nothing new.
Hardrock has a high finisher rate because of the exhausting lottery system. You have to run a specific mountain 100 mile race in preparation. Also, Most of those people are returning runners.
Actually, there are 4 sizes of iPhone currently on the Apple store; 6, 6+, 5s, 5c. That gives you 3 different screen sizes and quite a few color and storage options. I find the current state of the Apple catalog to be depressingly complex and look forward to when there are 4 models to choose from; Business/Consumer, Portable/Desktop. But that's just me.
> “Very impressive, this result is,” said a diminutive green spokesperson for the laboratory.

Answer your question, that does?
Seconded! Had to restart my browser :(
Yes, you would use that doc to implement it and then the Shen distribution to test if it works as expected. Unlike Shen, K lambda is quite a simple Lisp implementation, if you know a bit of Lisp it should all look pretty straight forward. It doesn't have any advanced stuff built in; that's all done on top.
gravioli gravioli give me the formuoli!
There's some chance it comes on PC later on. Maybe. Just like Dark Souls did.
> "Right now, to be honest, I don't really care how it works. The theory department have some crackpot idea about life forms called midi-chlorians, but frankly I think that poorly thought out explanations like that just detract from how cool the Force really is."

Eheh
See: http://style.org/unladenswallow/
MS-DOS comes to Lumia smartphones
Turn your phone off, close your email, get off IM and dont check hacker news.

Remember, like you said, its only one day in the year.
We're only 10 minutes in....

Get flagging, people.
If you're fortunate to have a ton of renewables and petros, the renewables typically don't travel well so you use those domestically and sell the petros on the global market.
What opportunities are there to get into long-distance orienteering races in the SF Bay Area? I'm already randonneuring and this seems like another sport worth exploring.
Why no Skype? Because the owner of Skype doesn't feel like supporting that. That may make these devices unsuitable for you, but consider that this same owner may want to consider dropping service for you on your other devices, too.

(The ubiquitous presence of an ISA/OS pair is a historical anomaly, and I believe it's on the way out)

You can't log in to a Chromebook for the first time while on a plane.
After initialization, for example the Google Docs suite works pretty well with no connection - and so could any other web app that doesn't rely on connectivity for its base operation: eg. Skype on Windows on a plane will work just as bad as Hangouts on Chrome OS on a plane.
No, placing the burden on the individual consumers doesn't work. "Tragedy of the commons" type problems are generally solvable only by organized collective decisionmaking.

Irrespective of that, discounting oil production from "share of renewables in energy production" is just nonsensical.
With cannons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kICS32kady4
I can just imagine a similar post in a few months titled 'There is no Spoon'.
no, it's 375hours/month just like the new free heroku plan.
For anyone else struggling to work out what "AAA" stands for, apparently it's just "triple A" (like batteries): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAA_%28game_industry%29
I don't think many ultra runners would consider Leadville extreme. It's mostly fire roads. Ever since the buy-out from Lifetime Fitness, the top runners seem to skip the event.
Spark 2.0: Rearchitecting Spark for Mobile Platforms

https://databricks.com/blog/2015/04/01/spark-2-rearchitectin...

This is probably among the most technical, nerdy April fool's.
Regardless, what is the motivation to want to discriminate? The only thing I can see is that having someone in the US under H1B gives them power over that person.
They have forgot to think about deployment. Creating a package for Meteor, for a Linux distro, is a major pain in the ass and discouraged by the Meteor developers.
No one can know what you got served.
Full-time employment is also a requirement (and I believe 20h per week is not considered full-time in the visa context) so either they've found a way around the law or the USCIS is going to bust them.
Great quote from Miyazaki, who rose from programmer to president of the company.

“Now I’m president,” he says, “I get to meet a lot of other company presidents. They’re such weird people. I’m fascinated by them.” With a smile, he adds: “I use some of them as enemy characters in our games.”
The article described the type of situation this arises in: when you want to use arbitrary data as keys of a map, for example when grouping a collection of objects by one of their properties. Any implementation of a hash/map/dictionary should support this process, whether or not it coerces the types of its keys.

The problem with the engine in question is that it makes a hash change its behavior when all keys are integers.
Wait, 'chicken intestines'?
The Pelican Depth-Sensing Array will let us Capture 3D images from Smartphone
Walk off and find a different school.

Or not, apparently.
Here's a wonderful old Jam Handy documentary about radio sound effects.

Back of the Mike: https://archive.org/details/Backofth1938
Octopart's Co-Founder on Dropping Out (2007)
To be honest, I think the Samsung Chromebook (~$249 model) has the best keyboard/touchpad of any laptop I've used < $800. That doesn't mean it's fantastic, but it is surprisingly good and much better than most at any price point.
They call him Flyin' Brian Robinson for a reason.
Love the use of the K-ON! chrome theme for the screenshot.
So do we have to tally Saudi oil pollution on the exporting country instead of those that actually use it?
I'm surprised there's nothing more extreme in Australia. I'm in Adelaide, and we have road cycling events with 4000m climbing in 140km. You don't need high mountains to get the total elevation, just lots of steep climbs.
So... Scientific threories from Muslim clerics and opinions on open source by Microsoft?
That figure (98%) is about electricity production, not total energy used by the country.
Sounds like a great idea, for those without pets, kids, or mischievous/curious visitors.
Fill your favorite places with a special sense for you
Actually Norway is a big exporter of hydro electricity too.
Got me :)
I don't think full-time employment is a strict requirement of the H1B visa. It's just that most companies wouldn't go through the hassle of H1B sponsorship (and it's a huuuuge hassle for both the employer and the employee) for a part time employee.
I'd disagree on your assessment that a reasonably-trained adult can finish hardrock. I've done it twice. It's an almost full-time commitment to get in the training, and also you have to get out there a month in advance just to acclimate. I've done a lot of those type of races, and hardrock is the hardest.
>however people forget to mention that gravity is a zero-sum game. every area that is being rendered unusable upstream results in creation of new area downstream.

That's not right. Once the lake is created, nearly the same amount of water will be flowing downstream.
Aren't most pre-IPO shares restricted though (company has ROFR, company board can block sale of shares to a third party they don't like etc.)?
It accomplishes many things that other frameworks don't, the most important of which are ease of use and dramatic productivity gains. I recommend reading meteor.com/about for a high level overview and then diving into the description of projects at meteor.com/projects to understand how the various components of Meteor function. The original screencast at meteor.com/screencast is also a very useful introduction, and if you want to spend about half an hour building an app to get the basics down, meteor.com/try will do just that.

Using phantomjs to index your site has not caused any problems for most of us building apps in production for the past two years. From an engineering standpoint there are better alternatives such as server-side rendering (btw, there is a Meteor package that does this: https://github.com/meteorhacks/meteor-ssr), so outside of performance considerations this isn't a super big deal. A lot of Meteor apps also aren't Google-facing but instead apps that you use after log in, where Meteor's advantages have the biggest effect on one's productivity.

Meteor works in every evergreen browser and quite a few older ones. It will fall back to polling if there is no support for websockets and the Blaze view library works in IE8+.

I recommend just trying it out. It takes no time to install and get your first app started (<1 min) and you will immediately start to see the benefits. Come tell us more about your situation at forums.meteor.com and maybe we can help!
This game is just phenomenal, I find myself thinking about the game and it's creatures late at night while trying to sleep. It has a quality to it that requires your undivided attention and I think that's why it permeates so easily into your psyche.

If you haven't tried it out yet, do yourself a favor and at least rent it. It's one of the best game to come out in the past decade. You'll hear people whine about it being hard, but it's not like that. It's fair. You mess up you will be hit. If you're patient and time your movements you'll glide through the areas and make the game seem like a typical hack n slash. You will make it look easy.
Google Maps Includes Pacman on Aprils Fool
Always? Sounds as if there's a nasty conspiracy around. Any data to backup your proclamation?
"having someone in the US under H1B gives them power over that person."

Wow... way to not only completely misinterpret the intent but to completely reverse it. Before this program there were exactly zero legal avenues for a not-already-rich aspiring startup founder from another country to come here with the express purpose of starting a business. Now there is one.