skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm completely guessing here (never been to Japan), but my guess is that these are ubiquitous in Japan.

In the US the trays are common in restaurants, because the transaction is asynchronous. Anywhere else (gas station, grocery store, banks, shops) cash is handed directly.

I'm guessing someone can confirm on how widespread these things are in Japan.
That's hard, but again that has nothing to do with visas or immigration. Suppose Disney had sacked all their expensive workers and hired juniors (from the US) and asked the experienced workers to train them up. Same situation for those employees.
3D-printed sofa from a minimal mesh
education is worthwhile for it's own non-vocational merits

I completely agree (despite being a college dropout) and it speaks to my thought that we've been selling secondary education the wrong way. "Go to college and get a good job!" seems to be progressively becoming "Go to college and have a lot of debt!" Perhaps we should be selling it as "Go to college and get a great education that will benefit you in countless ways no matter what vocation you find yourself in."
Keep in mind, unions were just performing a public service. They were acting badly so that people could see just how low a bar you could set for people to still prefer unions over corporations.

Honestly, though, unions missed the mark in this case, they vastly overestimated how high the input would have to be to get to get a "true" from public boolean is_more_ethical_than_corporation(int union_ethics).

EDIT: hga - I can't reply, which is probably a good thing. I got a little overly sarcastic there. It doesn't help discussion, my apologies.
I see Docker 1.6 in your [2] link, where do you see they are two versions behind Docker?
Nothing in there about turning it into a decentralized open network instead of a proprietary service, so I will continue not to care about Twitter.
The next generation Firebug will be built on top of the native dev tools, https://blog.getfirebug.com/2014/11/10/firebug-3-next-genera...
What's particularly fun if you read some of the modern guides, now that the game is thoroughly understood, is how to game the system. Buy stacks of reagents from the blind women, crashing your honesty to the bottom, then boost it back up in the most expedient way possible later. Steal everything not nailed down in the early part of your run-through (if you play honestly the whole way through, resources are actually sorta hard to come by), then use the stolen money to give to the poor for Sacrifice, then later on fix your honesty (or whatever stealing counts against, I forget) in some expedient manner.

I find something quite hilarious about the idea of a MinMaxing Avatar of Virtue. Minmaxing often breaks the mechanics of a game, but it's rare to see it break the morality of a game the way it breaks Ultima IV.

Brilliant game.
Worldwide map of regulations and uses of drones
That's our L-1 visa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-1_visa) and it too is abused.
That's what I was thinking by the end of the article as well. He definitely described a platform that I would be excited to use. And I am among the 1 billion that tried Twitter and didn't stick around.

His idea reminds me of a hackathon project I worked on a few years ago with some friends. We built an app that communicates its location to the backend. Our backend runs k-means clustering and decision forests to cluster tweets coming in realtime through the Firehose API to associate them to an event that's happening nearby. The app then uses the incoming stream of tweets to provide realtime coverage on an event that was algorithmically detected.
Remedy CEO leaves for Wargaming
I like the name GitUp for two reasons. First, it has the meaning "get up," and second, if you say "GitUp" out loud, people would reasonably hear "GitHub," then you'd have to launch into an explanation of the differences between the two.
If you dry up before you can really get rotting you will be pretty well preserved. The bottom line of that being that if your corpse is well-prepared before burial and your casket happens to be either well-sealed or otherwise escape water penetration for the period you are buried you will be in pretty good shape 300 years on.

There are a lot of ways a dead body can stay dry and a lot of dead bodies out there to discover.
This comment only makes sense if you know what "gaijin" means, it appears to mean roughly "foreigner" (or more literally "outside person").
Cool idea, and the site looks nice. That being said, I was lost by the end of the first section.
A look into Curalate's tech stack
Criminals aren't brave. They tend to flow downhill like water and find the weakest, least resistant person to target. During the occasion that someone attempted to rob me they had their gun out first and ready - yet when I went to draw my legally carried firearm they turned and fled immediately. They don't want a fight when they can just wait five minutes and find someone who won't.

I completely agree about addressing the underlying problems with crime. There's an immense spectrum of thought on how to do that, some policies are actually retrograde in practice, and in the meantime until utopia is realized I have to go about my life.

An arms race is the answer because the people who are in the greatest need of protecting will be able to use arms - technology - to address the issue of their own relative frailty. If my 69 year old osteoarthritic mother is threatened by a criminal because he likes the shade of her Camry she isn't going to pontificate root causes, she's going to produce the Airweight revolver from her console and I guarantee you her aim is much better than a thug's.
Lots of knit picking here. In plain English, confidence intervals are about your results being bogus. You flipped 100 coins, all of them came up heads, you conclude 100% of coin tosses come up heads. By chance, you got a very unlikely sample that differed substantially from the population. You could also conclude your A/B test is a success, when it was just randomly atypical.
Here's a good rule of thumb to keep in mind:

Any time you have a "theory" about other people that implies that you have a natural superiority to them based on your belief that you have superior taste, you're almost certainly full of yourself
Right. "Some features require creating a free account." Then you wonder what it's doing. "Sharing" your Git credentials with some cloud service?

After SourceForge turned evil, we have to be very suspicious of anyone trying to cash in on open source development.
jr. iOS Developer for hire
Hey everybody!

I'm self-taught iOs developer and probably will have some spare time starting mid June. I've never worked as developer yet, but would love to try. Is anybody interested to give me a try? Here is my site: http://www.AlexanderBatalov.com/ and here is what I've done: http://postys.co/

I do appreciate your time, thank you!
I'd love to hear your take on what these skills are. We've all struggled with code bases and some are definitely easier than others. And some people tend to write code that easier to evolve than others.
I don't want to hear anything Tim Cook has to say on Public Policy matters until Apple stops dodging taxes.
These are some good observations. Note that on modern POSIX, calling anything but async-signal-safe functions after forking in a multi-threaded process results in undefined behavior. I think it's totally reasonable to consider any programs using the WinAPI (not just POSIX functions provided through midipix) as being formally multi-threaded, and to consider the WinAPI non-AS-safe. I'm not 100% sure what midipix is doing in this regard, but my advice on the project (I'm the primary author/maintainer of musl libc, which midipix is using) has been not to worry about making arbitrary functions work after fork, but only supporting the things that POSIX requires to work. My view in general is that fork should be phased out, but posix_spawn is not sufficiently powerful yet to replace all uses of fork+exec -- it can't do advanced uid changes, setsid, resource limits, etc., and posix_spawn can't be used effectively from an async signal context because the API (attributes and file actions) inherently involves allocation.
Supercomputer.io – The most efficient Supercomputer on the Planet
You don't need to make an application closed source to have in app purchases.

Look at mobaxterm [http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/license.html] It is licensed under GPL version 3.

It has a free version and a professional version which cost $69 per user. This does not break the GPL. You may already know this but it seems like a lot of developers think open source mean Free as in cost. [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html]

This is also the reason why I don't like the term Free Software since people usually think it is speaking about the cost.
Title is misleading. Should be makes Git painless for those who don't want to learn a new tool (yeah even developers).

I have been using Git cmd line and its easy to use and would not have it any other way.
I was focused more on the 'making' rather than the assembling. I've reloaded shotgun shells for a long time for example, and pistol rounds. However I've always purchased the powder, balls (bullet ends), and primers.

Of the three, primers are particularly challenging (certainly for reliability) but making a good, high performance, smokeless gunpowder is not just a simple "mix and hope its good" kind of thing.

It should not be surprising that developing the capability to make high performance weapons "off grid" as it were is fairly actively tracked (which I discovered when ordering chemicals from Aldritch one time and getting a call back from them to fill out some government paperwork before it could proceed)
I know it was called the glorious proletariat, but I was wondering if the working men, proles, brought it about. I guess they didn't, but I am wondering how it all happened.
>in-app purchase to unlock the advanced/pro feature

Preying on new git users when they need to do something "advanced" with their repository is pretty low.

>The reason for expiring builds is that [...] 3) the app is rapidly evolving, so I don't want to have people using old versions which may have bugs fixed since then

Controlling whether I can use the software just because it's an old build? You've gotta be kidding me.

No thanks.
Slack for Android 2.0
Kickstarter for Python and Data Science Screencasts
As I understand L-1 visa holders do pay taxes in US, which is not the case for business travel visa holders.
What is wrong for charging money for a product you spend time developing that people want to buy because it provides them value?
The Mac is a phenomenal platform to launch right now if you make software targeted at developers. There's huge growth in mobile development, and many mobile developers work on OS X. Not just iOS developers, I'm seeing lots of Android devlopers working on Macs too recently.

And if you make a new tool, you should go where the young (in the sense of experience, not age) developers are. Experienced developers already have their workflows all set up and don't try new tools as often.

Even if its inconvenient for those who don't have a Mac, from a business point of view, targeting the Mac is absolutely sensible.
> It’s the bridge between childhood and adulthood, a built-in transitional time.

I wish parents would start transitioning their children sooner. There's no reason you shouldn't be able to make some big mistakes in high school with respect to driving, money, relationships, and responsibility in general. It's a lot cheaper to make a mistake when your parents are around to help you learn and recover.

...in other words, all of childhood is a built in transition time. The teenage years are supposed to be the runway for takeoff into adulthood. Delaying that process into adulthood is much riskier, IMO. This is part of the reason I'm concerned about teenage employment rates being so low these days.
just to add a little... in a grand scheme of things wealthbot.io is not very different from excel. (except we do a few more things, which relate to an RIA's daily workflow).

at the end of the day we will generate a trade file (or signal) but that's it, it's up to RIA to ensure that final decision is correct.
i would say that we encourage people to look at the rebalancer logic, adjust/modify and be aware of the flow in the system.

plus there's is a portfolio accounting system which ensures accuracy in all transactions performed by the custodian.

it's exactly the opposite of what is going on in fintech world. we offer complete transparency... and although you could think of our rebalancer as an "advice giving" tool, in reality it simply calculates and adjusts out of balance holdings. the final financial advice is on the RIA, as it is today. we simply give them tools, which they don't have today to manage their clients/portfolios free of charge (open source).

if an RIA only wants to use an on-boarding portion of the product and do their rebalancing the way they like to do it, that's completely up to the end-user.
Where have you seen this? I've lived in Berlin for six years and I have literally never encountered anything like it.
Wow, when I started coming of political age in the very late '60s and read about the murder of Joseph Yablonski, his wife and daughter, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Yablonski), I had no idea the game was so deep....

Oh, yeah, no long afterwords, this local murder of a John Galt (yep, for real) happened: http://ozarks-history.blogspot.com/2014/06/i-44-truck-explos...
> The only difference would be that after some period of time, say 6-12 months the applicant could take the visa and use it for employment at other companies.

That's the way things work currently http://www.immihelp.com/visas/h1b/h1-visa-transfer-faq.html

Legally one could start the interviewing process the day after they arrive in the US on H1. Contractually they might have signed agreements to compensate their employer for relocation and legal costs if they work for less than a year.
Twitter’s biggest problem is that Twitter increases or decreases in value along with user’s willingness to curate their feed. Many will never do that.

So Twitter tries to do the work for you, but guessing exactly who/what you’d be interested in without tons of info is virtually impossible.

The closest they can get is the current logged-out homepage: “Here are a bunch of random categories. You like the NBA? Maybe celebrity chefs? Cute animals? Country artists?” (Those are literal examples.) Total shot in the dark.
Also, it's visual in the sense that both parties can easily verify that it is the correct amount and avoids any "…but I thought I gave you five quarters…".
Could not agree with you more. This tool will enable newbies to wreak havoc and frustrate experienced ones.
I do agree with this article. We are working on a project based on a micro-services architecture and my experience matches.

First of all splinting functionality in multiple services is really hard and the first version of your architecture is probably flawed. It's also really hard to establish the responsibilities of each component, the boundaries, whereas it is really easy to take shortcuts that invalidate the modularity or the re-usability of those components.

Of course, these wouldn't be such big of a deal, except that refactoring becomes really difficult, because refactoring now often involves changes in how these services communicate and moving responsibilities around. Also, we are often talking about teams of more than two or three people, since two or three people will almost always choose to execute a monolith first - so in such teams the responsibilities are often divided between people, with people having an incomplete view of the whole system, so refactoring across the whole stack becomes a real bitch - next to impossible actually if the management or the clients are not acquainted with how software development works, as the development of new features is always preferred over dealing with technical debt (non-software folks do not understand technical debt).

Therefore I agree wholeheartedly with what is being said. It's not that micro-services don't work, however you need very senior people that know how to design such systems and you still have to throw away the first version of the entire system. And if you think you're one of those people that think they get it, but never had a failure, then have some patience, as you'll get there :-)
Graphics add more than nothing. At a minimum, they are an important part of UI, just like on a web page. Colors, affordances, etc. are all important to games. Games like ASCII roguelikes exchange obvious visible indicators for speed/flexibility/pixel size/complexity. Graphics set the tone of the game and have the ability to visually influence the player.

Cramming more graphic textures or perfecting water algorithms might be secondary (or tertiary) to the game, but they can still influence the gameplay directly. Take Team Fortress 2, where a lot of care was put into making each character class have a distinctive silhouette, so at a glance you can see who everyone is from a distance or from different angles - this isn't what most people talk about when they discuss "graphics," but it is the element of graphics that matters most.
The Order: 1886 is what I thought of while reading this. I read all of the negative reviews and whatnot, and I still enjoyed the hell out of that game. Every couple of minutes I kept stopping and just looking around and marveling at how ridiculously good the game looked, and all the cool effects I was seeing, including such mundane things as looking at my reflection in the many-paned window of a shop (where each pane had its own individual distortion).
I'm assuming you work at Ello

No, I don't. Just one of the early (Sept., 2014) adopters.

The analysis I'm presenting of Ello activity, as my earlier G+ analysis, is based entirely on publicly visible characteristics and my inferences based on them.

I did join Ello during the genderqueer rush, though that's not a community I identify with. My comments at the time were along the lines of "artists and drag queens is as good a foundation community as any". Influence of the group as a whole seems to have leveled off a bit, though Ello's currently celebrating Pride, with a post on that topic from Paul Budnitz today:

https://ello.co/budnitz/post/mnwJqqER_ieTA6qe4YzV8w

And yes, a lot of notables grabbed their Ello seats, a few spoof accounts were set up (the Zuckerberg one may still be active).

I don't have any access to user numbers and haven't looked into building those, though the Ello crew have talked of growth and a few notable spurts. As I've noted elsewhere in this thread, I've seen both a lot of attrition of early accounts and new arrivals. I noted the same trend on G+ (and did a major housecleaning at one point of long-dead profiles from my circles there).

The FB comparison has far more to do with what that group represented than how large it was. Dynamics of online community growth (and decline) are fascinating -- I've been watching online communities develop, grow, and decline for nearly 30 years. Harvard students (or grads) are an attractive social cohort, it's an easy base to grow if you play your cards right. That was FB's strength. Now it's the overall size of the social graph, but they're vulnerable to defections and evaporative cooling effects given that, by definition, most members aren't high-social-status:

http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/social-software-sundays-2-the-...

Colleges and creatives make good seeds, though they're not perfect. Balancing out traits within communities helps a lot -- e.g., geeks can be level-headed and realistic, but may lack enthusiasm or interpersonal engagement other groups can bring (I generally identify geek myself). Finding and cultivating the righ mix is an art, but it can be exceptionally powerful.
I have a very different perspective. With tools
like Heroku, building systems as microservices is no more time consuming than building a monolithic system. And it's much easier to iterate on and improve. Conversly, pulling apart a monolithic system into services is not a fun task.
The Tupac reference was appreciated.
>Some AAA studios subscribe to the idea that games can deliver the maximum emotional impact in a similar way Hollywood does: By using actors in heavily scripted sequences to tell the story of someone else that the player/viewer relates to. Instead of playing to their medium's strengths, these studios go through great pains to emulate what Hollywood gets naturally: emotive characters, good looking lighting, spectacular locations. It's a very literal attempt to imitate another established, successful medium, and because it gets some results, it's popular, despite the fact it's very expensive and brushes aside many of the benefits that games get naturally.

Games can be much more immersive than movies can. You can much more easily pretend to be the protagonist. By going down this route games lose some of the advantages of, say, arcade games, but they gain others and are generally not at a disadvantage compared to movies.
Thanks for the information, I'll look into those.

Yeah, I don't like that PGP/MIME isn't supported, but I manage.
"I am strongly in the "don't hate the player, hate the game" camp on this issue."

I am strongly in the "that is a shitty excuse perpetuated by people to excuse their crappy behavior on a wide number of things" camp.
Maybe, maybe not. Microsoft already has a patent on that.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121105/21564420943/micro...
These Polymer Drop-Downs Used by Google Are TERRIBLE UX
Do the Times and Post pay their government sources?
bundling with (unholy-ly immature) SDN is the most damning things for its adoption. It is thought to be needed for "live migration", but I don't see me needing that anytime soon because we run on virtual machines anyway?

Iaas provider is not going away,paying for the cost of SDN now for features that doesn't even exists yet, is insane.
Atari.

Atari pretty much spawned the video game industry, and the average game wasn't more than squares on a screen. Squares. Your game character is one giant pixel.

It was all about the gameplay, not the graphics, and sold millions.
"A Dark Room" on iOS is another one worth looking at for inspiration - compelling game, and not at all about the graphics..