skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aha! These seemed comparable with the Asus Zenbooks that came out at the same time. I've only seen one z370 in the wild though - what's the battery life like under Ubuntu?
I'm skeptical of the source of this article. My guess is Zenefits spoke off the record to do damage control in Sacks' favor. I have no proof but will lay out why below.

> In a Feb. 1 meeting at its blandly luxurious Sand Hill Road offices, venture firm Andreessen Horowitz urged the chief executive officer of one of its most prized and promising companies to resign.

1) The first sentence references a meeting that very few people would know the details of. Likely only those at a16z plus a few executives around Parker/Sacks. Unlikely Parker is talking to the press, given the legal issues swirling.

> Days after Chief Operating Officer David Sacks gave that information to Lars Dalgaard, an Andreessen partner who sits on Zenefits’ board, Conrad was out, say three people familiar with the matter. At Conrad’s suggestion, they replaced him with Sacks

2) Sacks gave the information to a partner, then Conrad (basically blamed for fraud) suggested they replace him with Sacks. Which raises some questions:

a) Why trust Conrad? He's fired + off the board + likely under legal investigation.
b) As COO, no question as to whether Sacks knew anything or that they needed fresh blood? Also, he was suggested by the person who was just removed for fraud.

Lastly, we get a picture that sounds a lot less like Conrad giving a voluntary recommendation:

> At the meeting, Conrad tentatively agreed to resign, relinquish his board seat, and make Sacks CEO, say three people close to the company.
Have you heard of aquaponics? You can raise both fish and grow plants in an ecosystem.
My takeaway in the long run is in trying to narrow the list of HD manufacturers I am comfortable purchasing. Your point has truth in it, but it also seems fair to observe that companies known for producing reliable products consistently will continue to do so, all other things equal.
Sorry, you got things backwards. It's Hillary that, despite being supported financially by only a very small amount of people, has the same visibility of a candidate that is supported by many thousands. Which proves that you need just a few big donors to present yourself as a viable candidate and completely offset the balance of the elections.
I rather agree this article seemed to connect two related but definitely not connected things.

That being said, it is interesting how many visible unicorns are either flaunting the law or outright frauds (i.e. zenefits, uber, airbnb, theranos).

Happily or sadly (per your point of view) - it's seems still worth it. The Zenefits ex-CEO lost his job but he never ever needs to work again (and can afford the best of the best lawyers if needed)
This kind of bullshit is why I'm deeply scared of the TPPA. We don't want this kind of rubbish in NZ.
Ex-canberran here: you've got several issues:

1. Higher than average wages mean higher than average prices. It's not much different to Melbourne in terms of house prices. Two full time prof incomes is the norm. Cost of living is higher. Quality is lower.
2. Fed gov is pretty backward and hard to get into (I voluntarily left after 5 years and no real prospect of job progression while still effectively taking below market wages at my org, while non-technical unskilled bureaucrats at other departments got paid 10-20k more, and I was politely informed if I wanted to progress, I would have to become non-technical/non-expert). Job cuts in recent years, promotion based on whether the person above you has died/left yet, and a policy of redeployment rather than competitive rehiring means it's really hard for young people.
3. You have to live in Canberra. Don't get me wrong, you really can make a career of it, and if you and your SO want to plop down, live in suburbia, have a child, and not worry about merit/skills/culture/tech/life while carrying a mortgage for 25 years, I can think of worse places to try to pull it off.
Successful startups all, and I mean ALL, have serious compliance issues. They probably do not not realize their problems. Some actively try to avoid knowing, such as by shunning legal advice that may inform them of inconvenient obligations. Part of the going public and/or being bought out process involves measuring the rate of non-compliance.

A unicorn wants to go public, but that means first getting your compliance ducks in nice rows. The growing realization that unicorns are in fact very non-compliant pushes them towards the easier route of being acquired/merged. So there is a direct link between compliance and the very existence of unicorns.
What's going on with this 128GB number? What's the actual limit here? I thought we had 40 bits of physical memory to work with.
They'll have to go to the Supreme Court in order to to appear not to be volunteering.
Do you remember the time that Marissa Mayer said, referring to Adobe Illustrator, "I’m not a pro, but I know enough to be dangerous" and then "helped" designing the new Yahoo logo? by that time, Mayer's (micro)management style had already resulted in the Lead Yahoo Mail Designer quitting the company[1].

This time it seems that, because of Kalanick's micromanagement of the Uber logo design, Uber's Head of Design has left the company[2].

A non-technical co-founder shouldn't write code, right? So I don't understand why a non-designer co-founder should design a logo.

[1] http://www.inc.com/cody-steve/yahoo-logo-redesign-marissa-ma...
[2] http://www.fastcodesign.com/3056457/fast-feed/ubers-head-of-...
Dell XPS 13/15
>ahead of the Xeon E5 V3 series
I'm confused (probably because I don't understand Intel Xeon). Isn't that Haswell, and thus now two generation back?
understood. though, there are different rules of engagement for potential friends and a bunch of mostly random people with whom you're playing a game. Still, agreed, there may be place for offense. And offense can enter even without an invitation.
We really need to get rid of the Federal Circuit. On first blush it seems like a good idea to have a court that specializes on technical patent issues. But it turns out that most lawyers interested and experienced in patent law are corporate lawyers who spent their whole careers creating and defending patents without ever thinking from the consumer point of view at all. So the patent court ends up packed with a bunch of over the top, maximal patent rights judges.
Pressing the Help button usually recovers, asks if everything is ok, and if not asks about each item.

But given the choice between using 3 remotes (or 3 screens on a device like in the article), plus having to remember things (eg which inputs on receivers and TVs are correct), versus the occasional Harmony fail, the Harmony wins every time.

Admittedly I've also tended towards the lower end less complex models.
The contrast between what the money wants and what the people want will only become even more obvious, so its not like there is even a time limit on progressive action in relation to Citizens United like Sanders suggests when he says "we may already be too late". To late looks a lot different than what I'm seeing in the political scene these past 12 months
I hate this argument, even though I prefer to buy as well. Buy food rather than grow your own? You're building someone else's wealth.

Also, mortgage interest is no joke and is never accounted for in these rationalizations.
Indoor offices also use artificial lights despite the workers usually only being there during the day. It's probably because the sun is unreliable and expensive to direct into all the spaces that aren't on the roof directly exposed to the sky.
for me, aspect ratio is huge - if you want something better than 16:9 in a pure laptop (not a tablet or convertible) your options are really limited

http://blog.nqzero.com/2016/01/1610-or-better-32-43-laptops-...

i don't understand how there can be so little differentiation in this market
OP doesn't mention Dell Precision line?

Recently released 5510[1] is looking absolutely awesome, will be picking one up when return to States in April to replace current Precision M4700.

2 X SSD + 32GB memory, high end CPU, decent GPU with 3840 X 2160 screen...will be sorted for next few years. If you NewEgg a couple of 480GB SSDs you're around $2,500 for a beastly machine that weighs under 4 lbs (M4700 is nice but hefty, nearly 7 lbs).

[1] http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=0...
Amazon has global shipping that might deliver from US to your door. Not all products on their site are included.

http://www.amazon.com/International-Shipping-Direct/b?node=2...
If you have $1000's to spend on airfare you can afford to have a good desktop machine and a good laptop.
In Portland, Uber acted directly in defiance of city hall. City hall told them not to operate their service in Portland, and they did. I'm not so sure they're as different as you say. Differences in degree, sure.
Oh, and if you aren't in bed with one of the parties or politically savvy, I would advise you against every speaking out on any issue ever. Especially on social media. That's not to say you can't, and many do, but you're taking your employment/job into your own hands if you do...
Sure, but there's still a difference between large numbers of people in semi-public, and a single company in private. If Zenefits asked even their own customers if they agreed that these federal regulations were stupid, I doubt they'd get many yes answers (partly because, at least in theory, the intent of the regulation is to protect those customers).

I am pretty okay with even large numbers of companies, with different motivations and financial incentives, all deciding that the same law is stupid. (One case seems to be the export regulations on non-open-source crypto-using software, for instance.) Even if they're all companies, that is much more defensible on democracy and not plutocracy.
"For me, I’m using our recent successes as a chance to take time off to rest, reflect, and recharge. I miss being there for my kids and I’m making a decision that enables that. Soon, I’ll be ready to take up the next challenge and it’s going to be great."

What part of that implies that he left because of the redesign ?.
I see an OSM map and that makes me happy... however then I attempt to zoom scroll (in or out) and, instead, it pans up and down (!?!?!?). First instinct is "this non-sensical UX has to be an ESRI map". Of course, I was right.
The Dribbblisation of design
I read lots of novels for the sheer pleasure of it. But reading the news is different. I don't read it for the same reason I read novels; I read it because I want to find out what's going, and because learning interesting things is fun. I too find writing styles that don't optimize for those purposes in the news to be infuriating, and I agree with baddox that I would much rather read Wikipedia articles (of which I have read many, for hours on end) than meandering news stories.
I don't remember exactly which, but I think it was this one:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sleep-cycle-alarm-clock/id32...
> Rage score 9/10.

LOL. Yes, that's fair. I was frustrated with Lenovo's website for all the reasons I described.

> Bonus points for calling apple website an icon of web design when it weights almost 100mb.

Apple's website is an icon of web design. It's 100MB not because of needless JS & ad tracker bloat, but because of high res images.

Just look at it. It's gorgeous: http://www.apple.com/macbook/
2-year old issue proof:

• https://github.com/justinmayer/tackle/issues/3

Tackle support for "modules" and "function" snippets in Fisherman proof:

• https://github.com/fisherman/fisherman/blob/master/functions...

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I exhort you to demonstrate my comment was false.

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Bonus Points
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PRs are ignored for months:

• https://github.com/justinmayer/tackle/pull/16

Issues are left unanswered for months:

• https://github.com/justinmayer/tackle/issues/14

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All I am saying is, if you need first-class support for your fisheries, Fisherman is the man for the job, not Tackle. But hey, Fish is great out of the box and you don't really need anything to get up and running :)
Mute sounds great. It also aligns interests: if you want to be heard, you won't want to act like too big a jerk. Be interesting to see how the mutes are manifested: is it quiet -- you know you've muted me but I don't -- or more-widely communicated? Be great if the mute action was broadcast to appropriate players. "riffraff has muted smcnally." Then others would have less tolerance for my nonsense if they had affinity for you, or they might view you as overly-sensitive if otherwise. The latter would govern abusive or reasonless muting.
In an ideal world, this is where HDMI-CEC would come in. A device can broadcast requests up and down the chain based on remote inputs, so it can request different links be turned on (TV and/or AVR, for instance), handle switching inputs, and handle other elements like menu navigation and volume.

Sadly, the spec sucks and most OEMs don't ship fully-compatible equipment (for example, the PS3 reliably will not turn off my TV, but will turn off my AVR).
Yeah, they wrote a big shitty thing about it recently.
So the dates are randomized? In one place, you rent from the 11th to the 11th of every month, in another 17th to 17th ...
I've been in the industry a while and if a company/recruiter uses tools like HackerRank for recruitment, I simply ignore them and decide not to move forward. I think we as a software industry have been following a bad hiring practice. If you can't tell your fellow colleague is smart enough by having a tech-talk or giving something that's not a test-format, there is something wrong with the process or people doing the hiring. Also, it is hilarious how many times an engineer has to prove himself/herself, and after being hired at these places I've also seen that the people who do the hiring are not that good/competent themselves, although this may vary in some other place.
Do not follow this link
Ya, I don't think "EHM" is a real acronym that people actually use
The new logo is also far too busy to be clearly seen in an outdoors setting. People interacting with this logo will be looking for it on cars, not letterheads.
A non start up would pay a law firm to do more investigation and then settle with the government for a pound of flesh but nothing crazy. In the scheme of things skipping a video won't kill a company.

But start ups are all about momentum and PR.

Plus they'll need money for investigations and settlements. VC capital is expensive.
"All in all, it is remarkable that the Uber team produced what they did given the circumstances–truly a testimonial to the patience of Uber's Design Director Shalin Amin and former Head of Design, Andrew Crow, who not so inconspicuously departed the company immediately after the redesign."

Is there a difference between "head of design" and "design director"? They seem to have been at the company at the same time - correct? Just can't understand what the difference between these two positions would be...?
Using them for what? These are not new pipes. They've been using these pipes for decades.
> See, for instance, the multi-decade long campaign to decriminalize marijuana.

You're confounding tyranny of the majority with corruption; the reason marijuana is still criminalized in most places is because a large enough percentage of the population thinks it should be, for whatever reason.
I have been working remotely for over ten years. I agree with most of what OP Mark says.

There is one big caveat, however. Without specific measures to address the issue, working remotely is experienced as very isolating. Therefore, it requires local co-working spaces, such as work cafés, where people can still socialize once in a while with others.

It also requires the remote workers to have some kind of minimum social hygiene. People who at least have a significant other, or possibly even children, and good relations with other family members and/or friends, will do fine.

There are other people, however, who are such rampant individualists that they have absolutely nobody else in their social lives than their colleagues at work. If they start working remotely, they will really see nobody at all during the day. That is not feasible, year in year out.

Therefore, in absence of specific measures to address the issue, remote working may reinforce the dangerous contemporary trend to extreme individualization.
When I'm hiring I break off some small slice of my project. Its something like 4-12 hours of work. We negotiate what there wage would be if hourly and I pay that, with a cap. Then I eval their work, code review (if necessary), pay for the work. The process tells me much more than any interview ever would and costs the same (or less). For the final 4|5 candidates it works well for me
The author appears to be using Windows. What a tool!
Rook, the world's First control-from-anywhere indoor drone, launches on Indiegogo
Yet Netflix migrated to Amazon and I think that it has way more than 150 machines.
Yes, since last week. Discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11060232
The first time I followed this link, I was hit with a spam site. Seconds later, after following the link a second time, a server generated error page appeared. I wonder if its a trick to evade detection!?
"Leaks" say its going to have a 3.6GHz boost clock.
[ http://wccftech.com/intel-broadwellep-xeon-e52600-v4-skus-le... ]
Do you know what this is about?
Giphy would have to exit for around 80 million for all investors to get their money back, seems unlikely they would be able to get that much for an acquihire even half of that amount especially if they are forced into a position where they can't raise anymore, are running out of money and need to sell so they are betting that advertising will make them into a viable business
How to restore the deleted notes on iPhone
I have to think they're getting a deal.
Anchoring is real.
> They're just facing a bubble, for the time being, that will produce lots of bargain prices when it pops.

All those 'old people' who we complain about are going to start dropping off the perch sooner or later. That's when the bubble will really burst.
>I work on a large system written entirely in Python -we've considered introducing Go to speed up certain processes, but Python will remain the foundation for the foreseeable future.

Consider doing what Dropbox does, use PyPy for those few processes that need more CPU performance. They run 2.7 for most things and PyPy where they need to.
I agree, but it is not fair to compare D3 and highcharts because they are not in the same league.

There are many higher level libraries leveraging on D3 that could be compared to highcharts. There are also many lower level libraries that have the same scope as D3, and compared to most of them D3 is pretty concise - the parent comment has a point.
Total 213,355 Terabytes or 213 Petabytes, that's quite a bit.
Yes, but a huge reason to go with Amazon is to be able to take money back off the table. Sure, if you have predictably 24/7 load, then you may be better off racking your own at 150 machines. BUT, if you're not sure how much you'll need, and your app is built to scale up and down with demand, then that 150 number starts to slide upwards.

Risk mitigation is part of the cost of infrastructure that needs to be factored in, and if your business has a downturn, or your compute needs turn out to be lower, then you can scale down your OPEX pretty quickly. If you had bought them, you'd be stuck with them. (See Zynga)

The operating cost of doing it yourself is always hard to pin down, and include many many things. OS/Hypervisor licenses, staff, hardware, cooling, redundancy, disaster recovery, power, or Colo fees etc. The advantage with AWS, is that this just a few numbers on a few various services and it is very predictable.
> I think the OP has missed the Microsoft "Signature" edition products. They're a clean Windows 10 image

Yeah that sounds interesting. Looks like they have Lenovo hardware too. I'll check them out.
I would like to know the reason for the downvotes as well.
It would not be cubic though (a plane is defined by a linear rather than a cubic equation).

(p.s. I was not the downvoter)
Ruby adds code of conduct
Why can't I cancel a local notification in my iOS app? (in Swift)
It seems to me that a lot of the issues people are bringing up in relation to this story were handled in the age of vellum's primacy by orders of monks or the like?

It would seem to me that the place to look for knowledge about digital archiving is those who have taken up that call in modern times, such as the American examples of ibiblio.org and archive.org. I'm fairly confident that there exist European equivalents, as well. Why not look to the research, as opposed to breathless naysaying?

It's certainly not a solved problem, but it's definitely not one that's being handwaved away, either.
> Apple ... will probably have little time to debug or test it overall, meaning that this feature it is being ordered to build will almost certainly put more users at risk.

Eh? They are not being asked to install it to the public at large, just one phone.

Of all reasons to object, this reason makes little sense.
Not to be difficult but I'll not say. It would be fairly easy to figure out who if someone sleuths my comment history.
So, one thing these gen-Y-complains-about-the-boomers screeds always miss is how life was for the boomers at the same age. Home ownership also wasn't huge when the boomers were 20something. I'm a gen-Xer myself, and I always find it amusing when someone just out of tertiary education is complaining that they don't have the accumulated wealth of someone in their 50s, who has been working for the past few decades; that people somehow find it wrong that someone who has barely started their working life somehow doesn't own a string of properties.

Keep in mind also that negative gearing was brought in to try and stimulate house-building. It has overstayed it's purpose, but it wasn't brought in as a 'fuck the young' measure.
> "and garbage collection is just a way to overcome the lack of proper memory management in many languages. "

In many others, however, GC isn't simply a band-aid for hunting down leaks; the semantics of what is going on in a typical program written in those languages makes it intractable for the program itself to compute the correct lifetime of every object, and GC is built into the design of the language from the beginning.

Not all entities which occupy storage are always reified as explicit objects that can be disposed. For example, lexical variable binding environments usually do not themselves appear as values anywhere in the program. They become heap allocated objects if captured in closures. Closures themselves are visible values, but disposing a closure doesn't mean that its environment can be disposed, since multiple closures can capture the same environment. Moreover, an environment can lead to a circular reference back to a closure which captures that environment, so refcounting isn't a proper solution.
Google Ideas Becomes Jigsaw
>> In 1879, a Canadian medical journal recommended hemlock. Presumably, no repeating was required.

That hemlock was almost certainly not THAT hemlock.

"Tsuga [...]is a genus of conifers in the pine family Pinaceae. The common name hemlock" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsuga

"Conium maculatum (hemlock or poison hemlock) is a highly poisonous perennial herbaceous flowering plant in the carrot family Apiaceae, native to Europe and North Africa." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conium_maculatum

I seriously doubt that the Canadian journal was suggesting the same hemlock used on Copernicus.
Ok, now scale down that image about 25 times to icon size. This one is about 4 times larger than the used icon.
Popular media: "Y and probably Z!!"

Social media: "You'll never believe that W leads to this one weird thing!"