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I don't know, to me it just sounds like a gimmicky way to get more people to apply. That's what recruiters do. They try to get as many people to apply as possible, and then filter the hell out of them. So just because a recruiter "reached out" to you via linkedin or something, it doesn't mean they think highly of you. Actually, you should assume that they don't care at all about what you've achieved. You're just one of many fish they're trying to pass through their funnel.

That's why I am genuinely curious what they plan to do once they hire teams. Let's say you hire a team of a designer and a developer. It's not like they will be always working together and with no one else in the company. Chances are you won't be working as the tag team forever. That would be stupid both for the company and for these people because you are being too closed minded and won't learn much by only interacting with the other person when there are so many other talented people in the company. I presume that isn't what they plan to do. Then that leaves us with the option of just hiring them "as a team" but once they're in, there's no guarantee that they will work as the same team, just like how most acquisitions work--when they acquire a company they say stuff like "Company A's expertise will be helpful in us developing our such and such core features", but after the acquisition they all disperse and get assigned to different teams after a while.

So... what's the point? Well that's why I think it's a gimmicky way to attract attention and get more people to apply. Any counter argument?
Isn't this already how much documentation is structured implicitly?

For example if you have a technical article which references some concept there will likely be a link to another article which explains that concept.

Thus each page already acts as a node connected to other nodes by the links within it. No need for a more formalized graph.
True, but an electronic lock has lots of advantages over a mechanical one. Especially for a business, you can trivially grant and revoke keys as well as track access. I feel like in principle they could be more secure too as all but the fanciest of locks are pretty trivial to pick, though that's predicated on somebody building an electronic lock without hardware/software/cryptographic flaws (good luck).
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80 columns seems like an artificial limit nowadays, but it really helps when looking at multiple files or doing side by side diffs. Unfortunately, I have worked with Java code where there were type signatures longer than 80 characters. Thankfully, Haskell doesn't suffer this defect, so I usually stick to 80.
we're already in this regime for airline pilots and (anecdotally) the results aren't great; the french airbus that went down over the ocean a few years ago was because of pilot error after an emergency condition (icing) disabled the autopilot.

I don't know if that's the typical case for autopilot tagging in its human, but it seems difficult to motivate and train experts who will only work 0.5% of the time. Expertise comes from experience.

Unless the pilots are required to be in the simulator the whole time the autopilot is running the plane, which would be interesting and cool.

We also have no idea of how fast autonomous systems will 'evolve' (with programmer help at first) and 'learn' once authorized to roam free. For their constrained domains, I suspect they'll be up to 'expert' performance pretty quickly; plus the rules will change as reaction times go down, attention per vehicle improves, and communications improve.
The first brain-controlled drone race just took place in Florida
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> But there are other relevant details like how a player is likely to get along with other players that affect game outcomes.

Time for creating mathematical models for predictors of how people are getting along... :-)
Well yes I concede maybe as a recruiting/marketing gimmick it is a success.
We keep a list, will ask to get you added to it. No promises as this has been a request since release of the docker index.
I would use it for development.

Running Linux on Windows without a VM would be a godsend. And no, Cygwin doesn't count.
It's not about Syndicate Wars, but this guy spent years reversing the Outrun arcade ROM and blogging about it. It's a fascinating read: http://reassembler.blogspot.com/
You mean like your iPhone which is "hogtied" to "apps" only running in iOS?
Do it like any other responsible place and keep spare machines at hand.

Oh, I forgot, there's nothing as painless as a properly set up Windows Server with auto provisioning...

My primary work machine is a 2011 MBP and it's working like a fucking beast, but still, I fear the moment it will break and require 1-2 days in the IT department for reinstall.

Provisioning a Win7 machine with MSIs is PAINLESS if you know how to deal with the MS toolchain (except Java which is a PITA to get running...)

Ditto for network-backed home directories, as long as you have Cat6 networking and good networking hardware which you should have anyway if you're a serious business, it's a couple of config options set up ONCE for the entire AD and you're done.

Macs, to this day, don't speak PXE but their own Apple protocol, and something even remotely alike to assigning MSIs via Active Directory is not achievable without (paid!) 3rd party tools.
If you read my other comment on this thread, you will understand more about where I'm coming from. Sorry...I didn't want to repeat a huge wall of text.
Serial reposters have killed my soundcloud stream. Even artists I like, I offen do not like their taste. Discoverability is also a major problem. Lack of search filters, and arbitrary sorting of results in particular. Hashtag spamming and fake playlist naming to try and pump up play counts are rife.

Don't get me started on the mobile app..

I'd love to see some kind of subreddit like channels built into the platform which could encourage discussion and interaction - between artists especially .. There's so much good random music out there on the platform, but it just feels lost to the ether sometimes. To be honest, the platform which did this best while it lasted was MySpace artist pages.

Edit:

There's so much more they could be doing to become a place for artists. Special curated playlists - pay trendsetters / djs / weirdos to create awesome playlists out of the current content. Something I can set and listen to, look forward to updates on. The fact that Youtube is a better radio than Soundcloud is depressing to me.

Also, something like the RBMA[1] could easily boost the sense of community and respect for the platform. At the moment it just feels like.. plumbing. No love whatsoever. The official soundcloud blog[2] is so sterile and detached from the music they host. If I was them I'd be going insane over Desiigner's Panda[3] becoming No. 1 on Billboard [4] after having such a meteoric rise within the platform - feels like Solja Boy - Crank Dat moment for Soundcloud, yet there's pretty much nothing officially acknowledging it.

[1] http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/

[2] https://blog.soundcloud.com/

[3] https://soundcloud.com/lifeofdesiigner/desiigner-panda

[4] http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7341870...
Nice to see this idea starting to start up: I've founded a slack group of all my Devops folks uber exactly this philosophy...

We are starting SVOPs (Silicon Valley ops) - we have built some shit... But mostly we just wanted to start a consortium. Join us if you'd like...

SVOPs.slack.com - we are all actively looking for people or help - or even jokes or learning or what not...

Silicon Valley needs much more community (not in the Facebook kind, but in the "hey lets play DnD and drink and talk shit and be like OMG I heard about that and dos you know also....") kind...

We have a culture - it's not evenly distributed but it's here and it drives a lot of shit...

Come join. Where you are physically located doesn't matter: Sam@sstave.com
I have noticed this too. I find it distracting and often low signal to noise discussion.

I keep Slack on Do Not Disturb mode anytime I'm writing code. If someone really needs to reach me in realtime, they can @ me to trigger the icon badge. Our Slack team has hundreds of messages a day, but of those maybe 2-3 require my immediate attention.
Yeah, HDCP (high-definition copy protection) makes an attempt to make content viewable, but not copyable, but it only works by certifying every single piece of the chain and it's still vulnerable to someone using a simple video camera to capture images of the displayed message.

Barring a human-computer interface that conveys messages directly into someone's brain, I don't see this as possible. If you can see it or if you can hear it, then it is copy-able.
If you believe the dogma that one poor hire is worse than several good hires, then you must hire a team without any poor performers:

P(goodhire) > P(goodhire)^teamsize
I have been an investor for decades. Of course I want stock compensation treated as a cost when companies report earnings. It is especially crazy when companies trumpet their billions spent buying stock at the same time they want to treat stock giveaways as not a cost.

You might think just avoid in investing in companies that are so crazy as to do that (in their promoted non-GAAP numbers) because that must be a sign they are not so bright and why rely on them to make wise investing decisions for your company. But you would find yourself ruling out many technology companies. It isn't that they don't know this is wrong, they just realize it is in their executives (CFO, CEO etc.) interests to promote the false earnings because many people will accept it.

My blog post from last week

http://investing.curiouscatblog.net/2016/04/21/buybacks-giveaways-to-executives-and-non-gaap-earnings/
I wonder what would be the test results if they used a 4k display in Windows as well. Moving those many pixels has an extra cost.

Other than that, I find the review centered around their use case and well explained. Well done.
Retina only good at pixels but didn't mean its color accuracy better than others, like EIZO.
anyone out there ? Thanks for feedback !
Dividends are taxed as ordinary income, which for a high income person means that they lose 25 cents on the dollar or more compared to the company retaining the value and selling their investment.
I have a mostly US based team that might be interested but we have one employee in Mexico. Would that be a disqualifier? We'd be willing to transfer the infrastructure for that (foreign subsidiary and payroll and all that which is already in place.)
No, there aren't. What year is this?

The author of this article is leaving something out.
Demo's would be great. It's hard to really see what the capabilities are without some good demos.

I recently had a project which required me to trend some data on a webpage. I ended up going with a package called JQPlot. Their website had really great demos - with example code.

One thing I really need is good support for multiple Y-Axis I can't see anything on your site about how to add additional axis or customise an existing plot axis (how would I force manual scale per axis for example).

You can see the StackOverflow post I made: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35262796/plot-multiple-sc...

Has an example screenshot of type of graph I was trying to produce.
I would love it if someone could do something like this for modern GPUs, complete with pipeline stalls as a costumed CPU waits to hear back from a costumed GPU. It seems like there's an unreasonable amount of mystery around how GPUs work, at least in popular understanding, compared to our knowledge of arcane corners of obsolete computers.
If forming a team massively benefits the hirer, the bar of hiring will go down thusly, meaning that people being hired also get compensated indirectly.
This definitely happens all the time formally and informally in SV. Sometimes a manager is poached and brings a bunch of old employees along...sometimes a small acquihire happens. Or after an acquisition event some portion of the company decides they would rather be elsewhere and talk to execs at a larger company.
I have major objections to this talk. The speaker claims that choice itself is the issue. I disagree - choice is not the issue. The issue is an inability to make decisions when presented with hundreds of possibilities & to not be upset over poor outcomes that our choices create, and our ability to make these choices is a recent phenomenon that has finally caused this issue to surface.

Consider his point on salad dressing (paraphrased):

> If you buy one of the 100 available salad dressings & you don't like it,

> it's easy to imagine what things would have been like if you had chosen a

> better one & suddenly you're disappointed.

Well sure, I'll be disappointed. But then I'll just try a different one next time and repeat until I find some dressings that I do like, and now I'm happy. If there wasn't choice here, I would be perpetually unsatisfied.

Regarding paralysis when confronted with too many choices, I think this is just a temporary artifact as we're making the transition to having more options. The first few times I went shopping for shoes at a shoe store, I tried on tens of pairs and debated the pros and cons of various shoes for over an hour under the assumption that of all the shoes in the store, only one would be the best one for me. Now I know that this isn't the case. There are several shoes that I'll be completely satisfied with, and now there are enough of them that the store has specific sections where probably a good 20% of them will meet all the requirements I have. So I find the first one that meets all my goals, and then I buy it. The process takes < 10 minutes.

This is actually less time than it previously would have taken, as the candidate shoes would previously have been spread over different sections and not one of them would match all my requirements, leading me to have to make a conscious decision on what to sacrifice. And now that my decision carries more weight, I would spend more time deliberating and hence the trip to the shoe store would take longer & I'd be disappointed at the time I lost.

No, the author cherry-picks his points & confuses his own limitations as being indicative of a problem with the existence of choice rather than a personal limitation because - guess what? - he doesn't want to blame himself for his own lack of satisfaction.
You could easily extrapolate from those textures to a Wang tileset, as explained in this old paper from Microsoft Research "Wang Tiles for Image and Texture Generation": https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8d96/c38065ddee67daac5390cf...
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I wouldn't mind understanding why, I'm assuming at the time ceph wasn't mature enough (and still somewhat is due to btrfs, yes I know it's optional).
The Mac Pro can dissipate way more heat than an iMac, so between the two GPUs it can have almost twice the FLOPS of the iMac's GPU, even though it's several years older.
Didn't facebook used to offer email?

EDIT: http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/24/5443454/facebook-retires-i...
Different project but similar principle: starcraft on arm
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Storing massive small files in Dropbox folders is horrible! It burns my SSD & CPU on each restart.
Another way to do this is based on a paper by Fader & Hardie [0] that uses a probabilistic model, instead of a regression-based one. It's highly readable, and very intuitive. The technique workss particularly well when there's only limited cohort data (e.g. early days of a startup) and you can't just blend years of prior cohort data. A former colleague and I made a web-based implementation as a little weekend project if anyone wants to try it out: http://retentionizer.herokuapp.com

[0] https://marketing.wharton.upenn.edu/files/?whdmsaction=publi...
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No, acquihires require the consent of management. Stripe makes it clear this is primarily for software engineers, not "managers".*

This is for "group defectors" i.e. engineering coworkers who are unhappy at their current company, complain about it together, and can coordinate their migration. This (potentially) gives them a way to move together as a team.

*(Granted, some startups are 100% engineers, but they could make much more money via an acquihire than this route.)
What is the random io like? If it's high why not cache with some ssds, it would help probably run with less power as well as faster and with less wear on the drives due to turning random io into sequential io.
see Amber Cottle.
I use basically the system described above, because I have tons of emails that I never intend to read (e.g., from mailing lists). The system of leaving them all in my inbox is simpler than having to explicitly archive them all.
What are either of those statements based on?
Isn't there a lot of mystery because the GPU companies keep things very secret? It's been my understanding that GPUs are very much black boxes.
Nobody is "making demands"
That was awkwardly phrased, I guess. I live in the Gulf Islands in British Columbia.
The 1972 Dolphins went 14-0 and also won the Super Bowl [1].
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Just had an idea: Publish claims of a massive leak of banking credentials and then provide a tool to check whether your account was hacked. Allow (suggest) readers to search affected accounts by searching their account name, password, or other information.

Toss me a bitcoin when you use it.
Unencrypted communication (flag A5/0) is also supported on GSM systems.

My understanding is that many countries that wanted GSM systems (and ham communications) think encryption is tantamount to devil worship.
What if some members of the team are more senior than others? What if members specialize in areas with differing market rates? It just feels somewhat clumsy.
Can't seem to edit on iPhone client, but here's the link I meant to post. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Miami_Dolphins_season
Can we bring our own CTO & CEO :)?
my docker is: jrhea

Thanks!
long story short, different companies have different economic circumstances - different assets, different risks, different cashflow, supplier and customer arrangements, different operating structure, different expenses, etc that will all influence the nature of GAAP statements, being a common set of standards applied to ALL companies. It's like measuring all people with a single score like IQ.

Experienced investors never take GAAP at face value - most of them will work with both the GAAP and pro forma (as well as any other public releases) and try to reverse engineer the individual lines in order to tease out more pertinent (in their opinion) factors that affect the value of the business. different investors value risks differently but the pro forma is created by management for a general set of investors in order to bridge the gap between GAAP and exact economic reality.
Not to mention: If you believe you have the skills necessary to pass an interview at Stripe individually, there's only down-side risk to doing a team interview. Therefore only people who do not believe they are lock-ins individually will choose this option. End result: Only teams of mediocre or less-confident employees will use it.
That seems like the same author who wrote about Alexander Hamilton from which a lot of the research for the Broadway play "Hamilton" came from...
This is the sort of defeatist and way-too-easy attitude that turns things to garbage all around. In many ways, bringing up issues that affect many opinionated people's core values is how things get fixed. If this was said for everything that was free, then we wouldn't have anything.

For example:
"Linux has issues" "It's free. Nobody's forcing you to use it."

or

"FreeBSD has issues.." "It's Free. Nobody's forcing you to use it."

or

"I had a hard time installing Gentoo because of bad documentation. Somebody should fix that. No, seriously, metaland." "It's Free. Nobody's forcing you to use it."

I'm all for "beggars can't be choosers", but when there's nothing else to choose, of course people are going to complain.
> The idea that all will be hired or none will be hired is kinda odd as well.

It mentions on the page "you’d all be free to accept or decline individually".

Yes this is a risky move by Stripe, but as they say, it's an experiment and i'm sure a lot of people would be interested to see how this pans out. Kudos to Stripe for taking the initiative to open this up.
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But why not make it "opt out" by default and then ease the ability to "opt in?"
I mostly meant the fact that if you can decode a message that you have with a key and algorithm that you have, you can do it later again, with the same result. Of course, HDCP is an also example of this, since you still have the message and you still have the key, even after some time (as long as you still have both).
31 :-)

I miss the pen-pal days of emails between friends.
If I were to read all of these - where will I end up mentally? In awe or in prison?
Hey, I don't see you on the beta list as having signed up. You'll need to have signed up at https://beta.docker.com/ first.
Nice, but why force a conversion to a lossy audio format?
> it must be

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11568404
Apple probably doesn't 'get out of bed' for a profit margin smaller than X%.

That number is probably an order of magnitude higher than the profit margin of component makers.
No. Salaries are relatively inelastic while profit is wildly elastic.

Per engineer, Google, Facebook, Apple make multiple millions of dollars in profit per fiscal year and yet very, very few engineers make $1m+. Even $500k is out of reach of most non-managerial engineers.

So, no if Google made 2x or 4x the profit with the same engineers, they company would pay them the same exact rate if they could. Often times they do.

The only way to really gain serious income is ownership of a technology that you can sell either directly to the market or to another company.

No matter how much you make, as an employee you are always trading lower risk for lower or linear rewards. The company compensates you for your years of experience at a market rate but, retains the fullest share of the profits that they can. They also own the code of your labor after you leave the company so there's that. You work (especially as a developer) makes the company money even after you've left.

If code wasn't so complex and hard to maintain, there would be even lower salaries (compared to profits) at software-based companies.
same as here, dchuk. Thanks!
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I've been looking at the same type of projects, but someone pointed out that 1080p @ 30fps is 1TB in 24hrs!
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> Lending does not necessarily encourage spending.

And we're back to the old spending vs saving & investment view of economic growth. I'm squarely in the Austrian camp on this, so I don't really care about spending, especially if it's fueled by government intervention to "spur aggregate demand".

I disagree that you have to have inflation, especially when we talking about gold & bitcoin. The past 100 years of economics has been tuned to a fiat money + fractional reserve banking + debt + inflation paradigm. Considering bitcoin within this framework doesn't even make sense, as it will (probably) not be the currency of a whole economy.

Also, there is more to the story concerning the Fed's balance sheet [1] and the link to inflation.

[1] file:///C:/Users/Clark/Downloads/market-outlook-2014-03-why-the-feds-4-trillion-balance-sheet-isnt-creating-inflation.pdf
That $480 gaming motherboard does seem rather excessive too ...