skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But even freedoms in the liberal European states are slowly being eroded. Globally, society is moving further into the forest and only a few will be left to see the trees.
Highly recommend. One of the best bios I've ever read. The man had an iron will.
Stable dollars? Dude they lost half their value over 10 years.
AMD's new Boltzmann initiative includes an LLVM-based compiler which has been posted online. I'm not sure what are the plans around an OpenCL fronted, but the backend should be there, so I think an OpenCL support in LLVM for AMD GPUs could be a realistic goal.

http://gpuopen.com/compute-product/hcc-heterogeneous-compute...
https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/hcc
Its a Pew survey (a generally liberal outfit), and shows a change in response to the same question over time.
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This reminds me of Football Manager (video game series). It's a turn based moneyball-sort-of game for soccer/football. Players have stats, potentials (which need to be scouted), training, etc. But there are other relevant details like how a player is likely to get along with other players that affect game outcomes.
I personally doubt it, but that remains to be seen. I'm open to being convinced otherwise. I think more people would take a "staycation" for a while, then get bored, and go into new endeavors, like starting a new business, writing a novel, becoming seriously involved in volunteering, continue working in their degree field, etc.

If people were only motivated by the stick, no one would seek a raise or change jobs for a pay increase. But nonetheless, people still seek to move upwards.
As an aside, I have thought this same thing. The non-inverted pyramid style is horrible and pervasive. I would pay $$/month to have technology or people summarize these things for me.
Will there be a launch control disable when the vehicles are rented out?
I'm kind of surprised to hear that. It's one of my most used and favorite mobile apps. I'm sure I could make a worse one.

If you want to hear ads, you could subscribe to Soundcloud Go like I do. I can't stand ads.
We had to do this the old fashioned way with my current team: One person gets in the door at the new company, talks up the abilities of the old team members and how they would slot in nicely with new company's needs and gets another person in, then another until the old team is fully reunited in the new company. We've been a very effective unit once we removed the road blocks in the new company!
NLP is improving so that won't always be the case.
4000USD is a lot of money. That seems like an odd setup.

Not having ever wanted to buy a machine for that amount of cash, I'd expect to do better with multi-socket systems.

Anyone care to chime in? I struggled to spend over 1K GBP with my latest machine. (I think 'Extreme Edition' is basically like buying the S version of a car, mind). i7-5820K, 64GB ram.

One thing that does stick out is an odd monitor comparison. There's an expensive color repro "low" (in comparison) res monitor for the PC, against the standard iMac retina. Aren't there cheaper 4K monitors/TV's about?
And two programmers that work well together isn't equivalent to two technical co-founders that work well together.
A lot of that iMac's cost is its retina display, and you didn't bother buying a retina display for the PC. Running a speed test is silly, there are already major differences in the build.

To make this remotely more scientific, you'd either need to buy a 4k monitor for the PC, or use a Mac Pro and just take the monitor out of the equation.
> If they are important but I don't want to deal with it now, I 'star' it in gmail.

Does this eventually make your starred emails like everyone else's unread? Do you have to "declare starred email bankruptcy"?
It does matter. Monopolies are not "good for capitalism" if they prevent honest competition from battling the monopoly for business. If, as argued above, monopolies naturally "self-destruct" in favor of newer, more ferocious competitors, then regulation isn't necessary.
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If they signed a contract you might have a point.

And you didn't special order anything. Your argument here is all kinds of moving goal posts.

Bottom line: Unless you have an actual contract, don't expect to win. And even then, be prepared to demonstrate that your product worked as advertised and explain why, despite communicating by email with the customer as routine, that was not sufficient for cancellation. Pretty sure you haven't addressed this at all except to say "because I thought I could sell the things I bought!". Sorry, but no, you don't get to change the rules just because yours is an Internet service. Especially not for a month to month pre-pay authorization. That's just ridiculous. I haven't even seen pre-paid cellular networks try to pull that scam.

https://consumerist.com/2008/01/21/suing-big-companies-in-sm...
Here's betting a computer can't play poker
Keep in mind, Linux containers work since there's only one Linux kernel, and the rest of the OS is just files that can be stuck into the container. Anything that can pretend to be the Linux kernel (like a Solaris "branded zone") can run a Linux container.

But you'd actually need many different kinds of "Windows container", since Windows actually has an abundance of kernel-exposed runtimes: the DOS VMM, Win16 with cooperative threading, Win32 with COM, WinNT, WinRT, the POSIX subsystem...

You could certainly write a particular container runtime to allow a specific type of app (e.g. WinRT apps) to run, and that might be enough to enable developers going forward to target both Windows and Linux hosts for their Windows apps. But that would hardly be Windows, in the sense of being able to have your app launch arbitrary other "Windows" processes in the same container the way that Docker apps do with arbitrary Linux processes.

Having all the machinery to simulate all the vagueries that have changed in the Windows OS core over time, such that one container could contain any and all Windows processes running together, would be a much harder challenge. I don't know what the combined surface area of all the runtimes the Windows kernel exposes looks like, but I can't imagine it'd be something even MS could re-implement as a Linux-kernel translation layer easily (especially considering all the compatibility shims each layer provides to make specific apps work, that would have to be carried forward into the translation layer.)
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Thanks!
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That argument assumes the probability of Bill, Mike, and Vivek being hired is independent of them applying with Jenny and Steve. Bill might do better in an interview if Jenny is present. Or if Steve gets to vouch for him during the process. And the quality of the people who apply as a team may be higher than those who apply individually.

This is basically just acqui-hiring without the acquisition. And acqui-hires are common enough -- not as common as straight up hiring, but enough to be interesting.
They should be doing this test against a Mac Pro if they want a fair comparison. And yes, the Mac Pro would likely be more expensive, but I don't think it's a surprise to anyone that building your own overclocked PC is cheaper.
I don't remember which Netscape I used, but I started with it. It was awful in the constant crashing. I tried IE, and it crashed too, but only about half as often. If Netscape crashed half as often as Netscape, I would have stuck with it.

If you produce an obviously inferior product, it's a bit unfair to blame the competition for your own failures.
Stripe doesn't have referral bonuses.
Thanks for the shout out. This is Dev from the team that just released Ranger at BSides Charm this weekend. Happy to get Chris and Jon involved if anyone has some questions.
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Id love to do this with each person working 2.5 days and splitting the salary. That way I could work part time and the company gets full time work.
It sounds like the interview process is still mostly individual (emphasis mine):

> Once you’ve applied, we’ll take you all through the hiring process together: we’ll make sure you hit the same stages of interviews at the same time, bring you all to the office on the same day, and try to design at least one interview problem that you can work on as a team.
I actually wish e-mail were used more.

I want my relatives, my spouse, my friends to use e-mail.

I'm not quite sure how to convince them, though. It generally feels like they'd rather use Facebook or WhatsApp or whatever's in fashion at the moment.

Any tips? Do I just have to sign up to all of the different chat apps and write bots to forward them to me or something?
Let's assume BMW owns the car and insures the car and puts their plates on the car. You then have no association with that car when you are not driving it.
> Microsoft would have put everyone else out of business

Nobody knows what might have happened. The point is, it didn't happen and never did. And today Microsoft finds it very difficult to compete in the phone, search, and cloud market, and none of that difficulty is due to the Justice Dept's actions.
I agree. I would also love to see an example combining both as well. It would be a very useful reference.
> I make sure I mark the most recent email as read. Then, I look back until I find the next email marked as read.

I don't have to do any of this or have a special system. I just read my email. If an email is unread, it's unread. If it's in the inbox, it hasn't been dealt with yet.

That's where the "need" comes from: it's the simplest way of achieving exactly the same result you achieve with your system.
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Isn't that Sandstorm's usecase... more or less?
Jsm – lightweight, embedded JVM stats monitor
> Ok, so that seems like the next startup right?

Sure. Any country that doesn't have the supporting infrastructure can be considered the next startup.

Cambodia doesn't have any public postal delivery workers, for example, so I think couriers or a system like Taiwan's with trusted shops could work well there and get more of an e-commerce market going.

There are some other hurdles there but I don't think it's insurmountable.

> Where is the SMS payment system equivalent? Have the courier bring the item, send the SMS payment, and when that is received the courier hands over the item.

Was that rhetorical? You seem to have answered your own question. Anyway, yeah, SMS systems exist, and a little more legwork is required to make them successful. WING is one I remember seeing advertised there. I'm not sure how much it was used but I don't remember hearing about people buying things online too often. Technology doesn't do its own PR, unfortunately =)

One of the annoying things about Cambodia is delivery of packages from outside the country is so expensive. I think only DHL and UPS deliver there, and for a small box it can be $100+ from the US. If a more competitive local delivery system were implemented first within Cambodia, then I imagine that cost could come down, marking more wins for the purchasing power of locals there.
though wasn't the chrysler attack through one of these gateways?
jsm is a lightweight, embedded JVM stats library, which we use in our Java applications. If you are looking for such tool, please give a try.
I don't like that either, but see the other responses in the thread where people admit to leaving hundreds (even thousands) of emails unread.

If it's a small number of people doing the "drop in" on you, maybe finding a way to let them know you they don't have to...that you'll answer them, would help?
> There does seem like some risk though - the team will
> likely succeed or fail as a group.

And the team may also leave as a group.
My docker id is the same as this: cridenour
Fresh grads creating a startup before they've worked at one, or been closely mentored by another founder, leads to repeating a lot of unnecessary founder mistakes.

I think it's far better to be an early to mid-stage startup employee out of school vs. start a company directly. It's also really nice to be able to focus on things like just product or code vs. how to make the business successful, customers, legal, BD, etc.
In their situation I think processing time is the bottleneck or at least a major factor. They probably see every penny back in productivity gains.
I think the server "wall concept" is easy, the client or ease of use is the real problem. it's not hard to keep encrypting until everything is "ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt" that for example could be hi to one person and goodbye to another even though they are all the same letter, the problem is always in keys or the need for them/transferring.
They could have saved some money on the iMacs by simply buying and installing the RAM themselves. If they opted for the 8GB Apple RAM they'd take $600 off the iMac price.

And the 1TB flash storage option they chose can also be questioned. I mean, 1TB of the iMac's internal flash storage is super expensive, but it's also WAY WAY faster than the Samsung 850 EVO in terms of read/write times. (Samsung 850 EVO has the SATA bottleneck.) My point is that if you know your process is constrained by CPU speed, don't put so much of your budget into fast storage. If they had opted for the 256 GB flash storage option in the iMac they'd take $700 off the price.

OTOH, I don't see a way around the inability to overclock the iMac's cpu. Stuck with 4.0 GHz (or 4.2 in Turbo boost).
But the Mac pro hasn't been updated in years. The gpu is old, and this is mostly a gpu test.
I've been using Inbox for Gmail ( https://inbox.google.com ) since launch and it handles most of the things the author talks about. Emails are treated as tasks, and it's a single mouse click or keyboard shortcut to do any of the following: create a reminder based on a given email, pin it for easier later retrieval, or archive it. That's basically how I manage my mail, along with a simple trick from "Getting Things Done" (which I haven't read), which is that if a task is only going to take a short time, do it immediately rather than putting it off.
I'm sure. Are Xeon systems just super expensive, though? Is 8 cores the best you can do for 4K?
I think that one modern example is "The Innovator's Dilemma".
That's true. They should have gotten a 5k screen with 5120‑by‑2880 resolution for the PC like the Mac. This Dell costs 2000 which would have reduced the available for the PC components. On the other hand if you don't care for such resolution the PC may be the better choice.
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I'd love to read the blog posts describing how they disassembled and reassembled the game, those details are more interesting to me than playing the game :)
Didn't they already cover that in the article?

"... we’ll make sure you hit the same stages of interviews at
the same time, bring you all to the office on the same day..."

Or are you saying even the initial interview should be as a team rather than starting with individual ones?
I'd encourage you to keep the opt-out setting as-is. It clearly brings value to the development team, you're communicating it to users, and Homebrew users who aren't comfortable with opt-out can a) disable analytics or b) not use Homebrew. Switching to opt-in is going to greatly diminish the dataset you'd have for making improvements (selection bias).

The Homebrew developers' time is valuable, versus a subset of users making demands of a free tool. You've been conservative in how clients are identified, as well as the data collected, and people are still suggesting unreasonable alternatives. Can't make everyone happy. Thanks for an awesome tool.
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https://www.gog.com/game/syndicate_wars if you want it.
Fail? They wrote a blog post and setup an email alias. It's not like they have a real cost of failure here. Besides, they already reached #1 on HN. That's a hell of a lot more success than most recruiters achieve in a week.
My family does a great job of using mail, as well as some friends, but others are annoyingly stuck in the land of Facebook messaging. I get that it's convenient, because I have more friends on Facebook than I do friends' email addresses, but I don't like that it's such a locked-down medium. I don't even notifications on my phone about Facebook messages because I uninstalled the apps after the battery issues. Email is a way better way to reach me quickly.

The single biggest thing about getting a smartphone to me was how much more useful it made email. At the time I was still using email constantly, but a lot of other people weren't. Having easy access to it on your phone, with notifications, rather than as something you have to remember to log in to all the time and check for updates, really opened it up.
Honest question for people who are opposed to this update and think it should be opt-in: what do you see as the downsides or pitfalls of sending anonymised usage info to Homebrew / Google Analytics?
I wonder how up to date https://github.com/mefistotelis/swars/blob/master/doc/TODO is.
Lightroom has a single core CPU bottleneck, multisocket is pointless for the this use case.

The rest is on the GPU
Just tried 5.0.18, still broken.
At the rate of 0.036/GB, I'm just paying Backblaze USD50/year. Meaning if I store more than 115.74GB per month, Backblaze is losing money? And this is the cost only for storage, it could be 80GB to break even the cost and revenue. How do you guys make sure you can sustain in the long run? (I don't want to face another 'Copy case' T.T)
What if it is still 1-on-1 communication; so, imagine this: I use an app to write the email, select a group or set of contacts, and the system sends out a 1-on-1 style email to each one of those contacts?
I'd love to be fast tracked! ID is ssgelm
Certainly true here in Portland, OR. The oldest sections of the regional light rail system were constructed ca. 1980. There's a project starting next month to replace the track (along SW 1st Ave) which has caused many delays and considered a major hazard to reliability.

Rail/streetcar public transportation is quite popular in the region and well-used, though it doesn't stop auto traffic from being a nightmare with increasing frequency.

Edit: spelling.
Nobody hates what you can do with Javascript, they -- and I -- hate Javascript itself, a programming language that had to die the day it was born, but survived because it conquered the platform it was placed so spontaneously that nobody had the chance to replace it with something better, and then it became irremovible with a standard, which nowadays is as stable as a ball on a tilted surface. Still, if you manage to tame the beast to make something useful like say Gmail and Pocket, nobody will, well, most people won't nag you.
Thanks for the changes!
Thanks for the invite!
As far as I know acqui-hires hire the whole team. Here they may pick only some team members.
Also note with SES, you have to write some code to handle bounces and complaints programmatically. Unlike Mandrill and Sendgrid, there is no UI dashboard to manage any e-mails.
>It's worth repeating: this person received horrific threats because she's good at her job and out teaching others how to use an up-and-coming programming technology.

That's just not believable. There has to be more to the story than that. Nobody gets harassed because they're good at their job and go out teaching others etc, etc.
2007 Patriots went 16-0

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That's the purpose of /usr/local.

/nix/store? Really? You can't just make up new root level directories. That's so wrong.
I'd also love to chat about this, when you add your email to your profile. :-)
Not sure what you mean by clever baiting, but yeah, I guess I mean going back to the olden email days, at least for close friends
Care to explain what the relevant differences are?
I was really looking forward to checkout out the knowledge graph but zooming works horrible on using the touchpad. Did anybody else have that issue? It either zooms too much or way too little.
from the article:

If we make an offer, we’ll make it to all of you, at the same time; you’d all be free to accept or decline individually, but of course we’d hope you’d all accept — and if you do, we’d work with all of you to find a place at Stripe where you can all start off working together.
I suspected that, but what's with the monstrous 8 core thing then? Couldn't you equally overclock a 4 core CPU and save hundreds of dollars?

Basically, is the whole article just nonsense? :)
There are already groups that function this way, they are called consultants. If you are a high functioning team and want to keep working together, then form a consultancy together. You will probably get paid more over time.

The idea that all will be hired or none will be hired is kinda odd as well. You are ceeding your career to bunch of other people in a non-entrepreneurial way. You are doing more work, giving more to Stripe than you are getting back. You are lowering their risk and not being compensated for that. Neither as a team nor as individuals.

It'd be interesting if you could collaborate and bid for your salaries as a group and/or make sure everyone got at least a minimum. It would be a failure if everyone in the group got the same amount.

The collective bargaining that would go on would be force multiplied in either direction. Either people wouldn't negotiate and companies like Stripe would get a great bargain of a team that already works together or they would get reamed as the team realizes that together they are more valuable than what they could bargain for individually.

Lastly, it's probably a risky move in that if a group leaves one company together successfully, they are more likely to move on from the second company together as well. If they are all working on the same project, you could have a disastrous and instantaneous brain-drain.

It's like building in a massive artificial bus factor into your company.

If people took an adversarial or merely valued their small in-group more than the company, they could get hired as a group, build an important system for Stripe and then en-masse, quit to create a consultancy and have Stripe as their first (reluctant) customer because they have knowledge of an important subsystem. In fact, this would be an excellent way to launch a consultancy.

Stripe, you may have opened a can of worms with this move. Teams hopping from startup to startup like individual employees do now would make startups even more chaotic.

Maybe they are banking on the downturn and think they can get high quality teams on the cheap. Seems like a way to open the business to alot of risk.
This is so often the flaw with business upgrades. Its much easier to blame it on old kit than to struggle through improving workflow.
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I was there. Great tool and presentation!
I was thinking primarily for close friends, but for broader contacts, I agree with you, so I was thinking of a system that would allow them to unsubscribe from certain topics (e.g. politics)
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when i'm on skype for work i feel like there's a giant eye hovering to my left, watching me. i drop out of skype early in the day because i don't like it.
Pretty close to how I feel. It's not about the money - it's about personal progression and impact for me.
Same. If there was an app that could send FB messages, whatsapp, and SMS to my email where I could respond from, I'd pay for it.
Yes please! My Docker ID is dustinosity. Thanks!
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