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Ants was really interesting. Humbling indeed. Link to Ants AI Challenge: http://ants.aichallenge.org/ Winner's post mortem: https://web.archive.org/web/20151117155824/http://xathis…

Don’t you think some users may want this as it puts less strain on your eyes? Especially, if they spend a lot of time reading Hacker News.

I would recommend these two courses by Harvard in order: 1. CS50's Introduction to Computer Science 2. CS50's Web Programming with Python and JavaScript Even if you know programmin…

This is definitely better for employees who are on H1B than a regular lay-off. At least, they have the option to keep their job while looking for a new one. Otherwise, the 60 day c…

| I can think of few other books I’m interested to know which books …

Isn't that a good solution if the alternative is to pay $2,000 for a studio in a bad neighborhood in SF or find something else 1 hour away?

Was that app Livemocha?

Sorry but that's not how it works. $500k/year would mean roughly $250k base+bonus and $1 million of stocks vested over four years. And at most companies, the vesting starts after 1…

I wonder why they didn't just call it the "Indian Switcheroo". Why would it be named after a religion?

How does that matter? They are just stating how much value they are getting out of $10.

Couldn't you ask someone to mail it to you?

The title should be "Useful Swift Things". I assumed it would be about useful tips and tricks about using iOS on an iPhone.

Also, it is possible that employees were putting in extra effort so that they won't be one getting laid off in case their company decides to do a layoff. It was a scary environment…

How come Spanish is so short as compared to French. Even German and Dutch pages are really long.

> but in the UK we don’t even get taught the grammar of English This is interesting because in India schools do teach grammar and grammatical terms. I thought they copied it from t…

Just out of curiosity, if there was shortage of coconut harvesters, why were they poor? Can't they demand more money for the task?

Fourth quality: ability to count

What uncertainties exactly? Just interview normally and if you get an offer then you can accept the offer and they will start the H1B process. You will get the H1B approval in abou…