skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an apparently not apocryphal story about a Scottish University that was charged with helping develop a synthetic "scotch whiskey taste". The labs identified the complex molecules and started looking for ways to synthesise them. Amazingly one day they found someone able to supply just the chemicals - they ordered a large supply and it worked. The new additive gave a rich full body to poor scotch. They were about to tell the distilleries the good news when they decided to ask how fast the supplier could provide this - "oh about twenty years, you see we buy barrels from these distilleries in the Highlands and then ..."

Cannot at all remember who told me that, but it seemed apt.
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No. And here, as an example, is the breakdown of visas issued per company for 2013:

Rank H1B Visa Sponsor Number of LCA Average Salary
1 Infosys 16,397 $75,154
2 Wipro 7,178 $76,920
3 Tata Consultancy Services 6,732 $64,350
4 IBM 6,502 $83,883
5 Deloitte Consulting 4,727 $98,264
6 Microsoft 4,075 $109,546
7 Larsen & Toubro Infotech 3,793 $59,408
8 Accenture 2,653 $72,704
9 Ernst & Young 2,353 $86,380
10 Satyam Computer Services 2,310 $70,495

http://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2013-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.aspx

*updated table formatting
Doubt it, but these experiments are interesting because they let us discover the unknown unknowns in these chemical reactions.

If laboratory-aged whiskey is, to the best of our understanding, identical to normally-aged whiskey, what are the odds that it's actually identical? Pretty low, but it's how we expand our knowledge.

Also, it often trickles down and makes low-end products way better.
If I accelerate 1000 1kg masses to .99c 1ly away from your planet you can't detect them, and I've just destroyed your entire species (sterilized the planet) with a metric ton of rocks.

It doesn't matter how long I take to accelerate them, once they are going fast you are destroyed in 1 year.
What does "Solar non-orbit" mean?

What would happen, if you managed to make sure all this stuff got escape velocity, is you would wind-up with a bunch of junk (literally) in an orbit around the sun that would inherently pass through Earth's orbit - as long as it doesn't have solar escape velocity, once a thing is moving on pure momentum, it is in orbit and since the orbit fairly closely an ellipse so the object will return. As the article mentions, probably not when the earth return to the point. But if you keep throwing stuff "out there", the chances of a return are naturally going to increase.
And then you also have the fake universities giving out diplomas and OPT: http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_25410171/visa-mil...
Really? And the most recent article is some American nationalist political crap? I think you've got the wrong audience.
Seems like his story can be thought of as a data point for those who argue that info-grazing doesn't benefit the grazer as much as the grazer might like to think. Here is a fellow who oversaw MTV Online during the time it failed to capture the youth demographic online, and also he oversaw MySpace during its collapse. What exactly is the point of being well-informed if being well-informed doesn't give you the information you need to succeed?

Consider:

"Later, he was President of MySpace at a time when MySpace was still a big deal, though in rapid decline. Yet through all this, Jason always found time to send out a daily list of articles for people in the media and technology industries."

and:

"At Viacom, Jason rose through the ranks. By 2005, he was running digital media globally for MTV Networks."

This next bit seems to suggest that he was unable to succeed due to political factors:

"Since Jason was the “Internet Guy” at a non-Internet company, his opinion wasn’t always given due attention."

He attempted to combat the political factors by sending out his newsletter. However, the article doesn't suggest any breakthroughs at Viacom that derived from the articles that he sent people.

Some political situations are hopeless. Some can be fixed by building an internal coalition. Can some be fixed by sharing a bunch of articles from online? Are there success stories for this technique?
I don't think it would impact recent graduates as much as you think.
The H1-B program is mainly criticized because of these consultancies importing cheap workers to the U.S. and applying for 10,000's of visa every year.
I don't know anyone that complains about immigrants that are employed by top companies such as Google, Palantir, etc...
These companies pay top salaries even to new employees without experience. I am sure they would be granted most of the visas they would request if salary was a criteria.
> (perceived, communicated)

Oh, I just meant value as it applies to the person who actually ends up using whatever the business is making. Of course perceived and communicated value is most important to a business. After all, if you could somehow convince people to just dump money on you without doing anything for them at all, you'd be the best business of all.
Personally I thought the 'hush money' practice is horrible in the first place.
That "trick" would indeed work and is a well known orbital manoeuvre: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-elliptic_transfer (without the final circularising burn).

This manoeuvre would be preferable to the article's alternative (a Hohmann transfer reducing periapsis to the sun's radius without the final circularising burn) in all cases where the initial semi-major axis (relative to the sun) is roughly greater than 11.94 solar radii (ignoring minor factors that make this case slightly different to the wikipedia example).

edit: to make it clear, I'm talking about a heliocentric bi-elliptic transfer after Earth escape, where the initial orbit is equivalent to Earth's orbit, and the final inner orbit can be imagined as one scraping the surface of the sun, but since the sun would destroy the craft, the final circularising burn is not required (in sloppy terms: hitting the sun on the edge would be easier than hitting it straight on).
Video conferencing is a huge improvement over conference calls. There is something humanizing about seeing the people you're talking to. It's easier to see and hear who is talking, too. (Conference calls have terrible fidelity and user interface.)
I suspect inherited sockets across forks don't exhibit this, if a test done by Nicholas Grilly described on the haproxy mailing list [0] is to be believed (no code though, but shouldn't be hard to reproduce).

One thing that makes doing this in haproxy difficult is that there is not really any shared state between the parent and child processes, so the child doesn't have a good way to know which file descriptor maps to which listening endpoint in the configuration, since the child pretty much throws its entire state away and reads the config file anew. It's not that there can't be any shared state, but that's not how it's been architected. Finding out the endpoint via something like getsockname(2) might be doable, but the mapping of listening endpoints to listen configuration blocks isn't one-to-one, so it's actually "safer" (from an amount of code standpoint) to use SO_REUSEPORT and let the OS handling the shared listening.

[0] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.haproxy/14143
>Besides, nuclear waste is still mostly unburned fuel which could be reprocessed and burned for power in special reactors.

That was my reaction. Future generations will want to use that stuff for fuel. There's no reason to launch it into space.
Why do I feel that this is the 5th time scientists have found the first evidence for liquid water on Mars?
I just tried running some jjencode'd js through your closure compiler and it didn't clean it up much at all.

http://utf-8.jp/public/jjencode.html
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[1] http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presid...
This article just ruined every Star Trek episode for me where they fly a ship into a star.
It also requires that the engineer be within an organization where they have a reasonable expectations that their attempt will be well-received. I know I have spent time in organizations where attempting to go above and beyond your "place" as an engineer is punished harshly.
Ah, I'm aware of the research triangle, but "RTP" is new for me. Thanks!
The mods haven't touched these posts, other than to unkill https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9369299 (and move one comment from there to here).

When you see "[flagged]" on a post it means either that users flagged it or that it was moderated automatically by software (usually because of restrictions on noob accounts). We review and unflag the latter category of posts when they aren't spam or trolling. Soon everyone will be able to participate in the unflagging, but that isn't rolled out yet.
You do not need 850 lines of code to output "hello world" unless you actually include a header. You could just stub printf instead of including and get it done with like 10 lines of code.
The downside, of course, is that your nuclear waste spends an awfully long time in an orbit that crosses, or at least passes very close to, Earth's. Better not lose control of your rocket, or you'll have a politically inconvenient situation on your hands.
Totally agree with this. I've interview several people for remote work and some people love the idea, some people are highly skeptical. Of the two people I know who got hired who came into the job skeptical of WFH, both ended up quitting and going back to office jobs. Obviously this is a small dataset, but I do get the impression people generally have a gut feeling on whether they can do it or not. Personally even working at home I'm extremely regimented, ex: get up, change, coffee, breakfast, etc (pretend I'm going to an office) so I think it helps.
Cabin, which if I'm reading the CSS properly is what he's using, isn't a bad typeface. (Humanist sans serif related to Gill which I rather like.) But the spacing and weight--combined with the white on black--are really awful.
There is a difference though between shutting down as in 'no more money' and shutting down as in 'I just got a boatload of cash, bu-bye!'.

(Shutting down a serious service zero-day is of course inexcusable no matter the circumstance.)
Where do you see me arguing that smaller companies should be allowed to circumvent any immigration laws?

I simply argued that OP's proposal - which is a not a law - would put companies with scarcer funds in disadvantage against bigger companies with more money to burn. I'm all for a free market, but what the OP is proposing is a market distortion since there are a limited number of visas.

Anyhow, you do realize that H1B filling requires a certified LCA, don't you?
I think that's more than fair, and I don't understand why anyone would have any problem with building better organizations. The response to "women are having a shitty time in the tech industry" should be "let's fix this and its root causes, because it will make our companies better," not a lot of the sexist knee-jerk reactions we've seen.
August 17, assuming Bernard would have said something different if he knew Albert's first comment was impossible.
Reminds me of Peter Norvig's whiskey story:

http://www.norvig.com/speech.html

"Before I answer that, let me return for the moment to Dewey Decimal 663: beverage technology. It turns out that in my very first professional job, as an intern thirty years ago, I had a colleague, a chemist, who had worked in beverage technology. The summer before he had been an intern and was given the task of figuring out if there was a particular chemical that gave whisky the distinctive taste of being aged in an oak cask. The company figured if they could isolate the chemical maybe they could just mix it in, and skip five or ten years of aging. So my friend went into the lab and isolated what he thought might be the right compound. He ordered a small vial from a chemical supply company (remember, this was before online shopping and email, so they had to actually write words on paper) and mixed up a batch. It tasted pretty good. (Why can't we computer scientists get research projects that involve consuming alcohol?) My friend was duly congratulated, and he wrote to the chemical supply company and asked for a 55 gallon drum of the stuff. They wrote back, saying "we regret that we can not fill your order because we are currently low on stock and, as I'm sure you know, to produce this chemical we need to age it in oak casks for five years."
If you were to not-quite-spend all the fuel, you could use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_thermal_rocket, which coincidentally would be your best chance at getting to the Sun.
Considering that's something we can't do at the moment with http I hardly think it's important. If nothing else, using https means purely passive attacks aren't possible. Active attacks are much easier for devices to spot by looking for key changes, too.
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Anecdotally, I have three different friend groups I talk to about Game of Thrones. Everyone is always caught up, the line for book spoilers is obvious, and as a result its a common conversation topic anyone can join in on. Conversely, no one talks about House of Cards. We've tried a few times, but after a bunch of "I've watched it all," "I'm on episode 8," "Oh, I'm only on episode 5," etc. we just stopped bringing it up.

At the end of the day, television is just entertainment. And I get a lot more entertainment from being able to discuss drip-rate shows with friends.
That is a ridiculous and insulting characterization of the audience and the answer.

This is a question that I've actually wondered about on and off over the years, and whatever you think of me for not knowing the answer flat-out, or for never having cared deeply enough about the topic to actually research the answer myself, I did very much appreciate an answer that looked at the actual physics involved, and that led to interesting follow-up questions about orbital slingshots and alternate destinations.

One of the college discussions I remember the most fondly was a night spent scribbling on napkins with physics majors over whether you got more wet if you walked more quickly through the rain, and why.

Not all questions have to be earth-shakingly brilliant to yield interesting and intellectually stimulating discussions.
> Basically, it's like flying into a banked curve... as long as you're pointed at the Sun when you exit the curve you're going to hit the sun with out needing to bleed 30km/s.

That's not how it works. You're in the planet's reference frame so you inherit its orbital velocity. Exiting a slingshot in the direction of planet's retrograde (not in the direction to the Sun) you can kill off some velocity, but nowhere near enough to just drop yourself into the sun. You do need to bleed out that 30km/s to actually hit the sun.
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It's a tragedy of the commons. In order to have a chance against 233k other petitions, if people can get multiple petitions filed on their behalf, they would be stupid not to. Which then inflates the overall number even further.

The people it really hurts are highly qualified individuals sponsored by a single well known tech company ... like I was two years ago. Luckily I got my H1-B then and am now well on the way to a green card.
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How would you even know if it were paranoia or not?

The fact that you're not even willing to admit it could have possibly been on your end and not theirs is evidence to your inability to introspect...
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This may sound crazy, but i was talking about a transmitter and i was thinking about it being pointed outward, not inward. I am of the opinion that crafted radio signals are the easiest and most efficient way to tell 'whoever' that someone is here and they know math. The constellation would serve two purposes: let asteroid miners listen to NPR outside of the control of NASA or Weyland-Yutani and broadcast a signal to the universe that we are here. I will not be offended by the wave of chortles. Also, i imagine a radio telescope that stretches 300,000 miles might be able to pick up a lot we cannot see.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9369883.
I found this article after getting a very similar spam to the one the author got, so here are the two files from the page the spammer linked to me:

https://gist.github.com/nafai/32f656a3338dcc792545
https://gist.github.com/nafai/c41de60168b12f8614de
Couldn't an engineer go slumming into the world of office politics and social manipulation in order to get into the good graces of management? Might that not be a possible approach? I realize how odious it sounds and I don't know how well I could do it.
Let me guess: the wonderful experience of putting a satellite orbiting in the precisely opposite direction to the one required by contract, noticing that your orbital velocity at apoapsis is like ~200m/s and realizing that you have enough delta-v to just turn around and reverse the orbit on the spot?
Not necessity.

Imagine a spacecraft using a standard inertial propulsion system. It shoots mass one way and it goes in the opposite direction. If it had something like a thrust signature, it would be in exactly the wrong direction for the intended target to see, add in a shroud and it would impossible to detect unless the target had sensors in other systems perpendicular and in between the launch site and target site.

Even if detected, what could be done? A planet is not going to change it's trajectory, and even if they fry it with some sort of energy weapon, it would still maintain it's velocity and the associated energy.

Truly, in a universe with advanced and aggressive space faring species, a planet would be about the most unsafe place you could be, it would be ridiculous easy for said advanced space faring species to destroy/make uninhabitable a planet. And you would hardly even need a RKV to do it.
1) don't make it personal, 2) don't blame your users, blame yourself.

Put yourself in their perspective. When you visit a random website, do you think about the webmaster or people behind it? Or do you treat it like a tool to get something done? If your users aren't buying what you're selling, it's because it's not relevant or you're presenting it poorly.
Specifically: Rail gun. Powered by nuclear power :-)
Because this is far from the first evidence. There is plenty of evidence for liquid water on Mars both past and present. In fairness, the article mentions this. In spite of the headline, it only claims the first direct evidence. Personally, I think even that is a bit of an overstatement. To me, this is simply one more bit of evidence that supports the current scientific consensus.
First, you simply asserted -- without any evidence whatsoever -- that the US lacks sufficient stem professionals.

Two points:

1 - plenty of stem surveys (lumping all of stem together, as you did) show plenty of available candidates as calculated by the percentage of domestic stem graduates working in stem post graduation. see, eg,

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2014/09/15/stem-gradu...

2 - if you wish to limit the discussion to sf/valley type jobs, a honest claim is there aren't sufficient already trained engineers who wish to live in sf/valley at the prices employers wish to offer who already have the desired skills. There are lots of ways to address it: pay enough so that living here isn't a financial disaster (compare housing prices in sf/nyc (much cheaper than sf!), seattle, chicago, boston, etc), solve transport problems making san jose and sf essentially separate cities, figure out remote employees, hire women (and even retain them!), train engineers, etc.

2b - even a smidge of economics will tell you it's very hard for an actual shortage to exist; there's a clear lack of evidence of wage increases (over cost of living increases) that would accompany an actual tightening of the labor market
that is an astounding mischaracterization of the article. I hope nobody takes your summary seriously.
I read the article hoping to find the name of that card. Gargle Blaster is perfect. Thanks.
So can Jebediah Kerman.
You would need some pretty killer orbital prediction to do this. I would assume you'd start a bit closer.
Also an extremely pretentious way to refer to the users of this forum. I have no reason to believe HN users are more cultured than the rest of society.
tldr; a surprising 2000 peak in white collar jobs is the reason for high unemployment today + complex mathematical models of questionable importance bury unclear economic assumptions.
He said he doesn't want a github repo. A local git repo is one "git init" away. That's easier to do than getting a remote file system mounted. Pushing and pulling from local computers is also dead simple (do people really not have ssh set up?).
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I've had three Kindles and while I like the convenience of them, there is something about a regular book that absorbs me into the page better. The strange grey/blue tint and any sort of lighting whether front or back, for me, is irritating enough that I don't absorb information or get lost in a story as well.

I like the Voyage alright, but I want the ability to turn the light ALL the way off, not just to a minimum.
I still have one and use it, they just really need improve on these things so it feels less like just another screen, and more like a book.
I don't see that the question of that algorithm's existence is any different from cheatsheet's original connection to a question that might have no or many answers.
It is also referred to in 'The Algebraist' by Ian M. Banks.

It is mentioned that the Dweller species have a habit of taking a very long revenge against any other species stupid enough to wipe a community of them out. So a few generations after a species has completely forgotten about the load of strange jellyfish they killed off in their local gas giant, a shit-ton of sand and gravel comes through their system at a significant fraction of the speed of light.
You're right about changing. Credit is very big deal for those who worked on it...

But in this wide world there are fans who painstakingly go through the credit and put the text online. Sometimes even special thanks. So a fake name could be detected, and once the m.o. is detected, in this networked age, everyone would know it and people will start looking for it.