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I presume "secular usage and technology trends" means "is its growth down to the fact it happens to be down to the market it plays showing strong growth trends even without hype and marketing spend associated with this particular company". Can only assume the secular trend he's thinking of there is growth in "business prospecting tools" which is the potential area for Microsoft to build revenue generating services that also integrate with their CRM and Office, and not the established and plateau-ing LinkedIn userbase, which is simply a potential strategic advantage for Microsoft products in that space.

Sure, Microsoft don't have a great record with their acquisitions, but the opportunity for them to generate more revenue directly and indirectly from this is huge.
Click the "web" link above, under the article title. Sometimes you need to use an incognito window, but not always.
http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-begins-work-to-build-...

NASA is working on this - both the sound and the fuel use.
> One problem is that on some platform or for some usage pattern, then mutex and notifying object will be two independent objects, so the OS would have no way of knowing that it should not immediately wake up the notified threads.

On all significant platforms I know, condition wait works like this:

condition_wait(locked_mutex, condition_to_wait);

For each thread in the wait list, the condition variable "knows" which mutex it is holding. When signalling a waiting thread, it's added to the wait list of the mutex (if mutex is locked), not actually woken up.

Did you have a platform in mind that works differently from this?

Additionally, when you unlock a mutex before signalling the condition, another thread may be scheduled in between that may invalidate the condition that was signalled. This may introduce a race condition.

I signal my condition variables with mutexes locked because it's easier to guarantee correctness that way.
As a borderline audiophile I have mixed feelings mostly tending towards solution in search of a problem.

The DACs in Apple products have a very good reputation going all the way back to the early iPods and supposedly they kept getting better. When I travel I bring an Objective 2 headphone amp and AKG Q701 or Beyderdynamic DT-880 600ohm and use my iPhone 6+ as a music player and DAC. I can't tell the difference between that and the Objective 2 + ODAC I have at home.

In terms of pieces of the audio chain I think DAC is one of the least important in my anecdatal experience. At least if you have a decent one like any Apple device. Onboard audio from a PC/laptop motherboard is generally awful and even dedicated sound cards are full of noise and whine. I am very glad to have HDMI audio these days. A USB sound card trivially fixes the issue though.

So yeah it's nice for high end DACs to become more common, but is it that useful over the convenience of a solid built in DAC? I don't think so. That said I suspect the market will respond with adapters and cases that resurrect the 3.5 inch jack without a huge fuss and still pass through other functionality like syncing and charging.

For myself and most of Hacker News with above average incomes this is going to be a minor speed bump in terms of cost and a larger inconvenience in terms of more kit to lug around and swap between devices.
Or you could click on the "web" link at the top of this page...
That is precisely my point.

Gerrymandering only affects Congressional districts, which only affects the House of Representatives. That's it. It does NOT affect: 1) gubernatorial races, 2) Senate races, 3) Presidential races. It is a problem, but it's not the huge problem that some people make it out to be. As we can see, our political system is totally broken at all levels: our Presidential races are a total farce, and we don't do much better electing Senators than we do House members. We elect some lousy governors too. Therefore, it's obvious that fixing gerrymandering is not going to fix our political problems, not by a long shot.
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I actually would think that could be done "safely". No sarcasm. I am expecting that if fusion ever becomes a reality we will go with electric motors which will certainly always be sub-sonic.
I don't think asking your employer to pay you for your work is going to damage your long-term reputation in the industry.

I can only think of one person in the entire world who has damaged their reputation in the programming community enough for me to care.
It's not so much the cost of fuel that is a concern, but the environmental impact. Unlike power generation and ground transport, global emissions from aviation are increasing rapidly at a time of growing concern about climate change.

While increased speed is nice if it can be done efficiently, innovation in aviation needs to remain focused on improving efficiency.
Thanks a lot! I'm going to assume I just have to wait a little bit and figure out how I'd purchase shares the regular way.
Is that something you do every year? Congratulate your friends on their job anniversaries?
I am not a physicist, but you can already read tons of crack pottery about the bump all over the internet, while most serious scientists are still waiting for the confirmation of the bump. But if it goes away unconfirmed, and odds are still high for that, it will be silently buried.
Why? Linkedin is kinda awful.
What's the etymology of that?
We updated the link from http://blogs.microsoft.com/firehose/2016/06/13/microsoft-to-..., which points to this.
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Naah, they'll just make him a default, like Tom on MySpace.
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Peter Schiff has been out there calling each of these economic bubbles every time. Not with date setting of course, but we do know The Fed's policy making creates boom and bust cycles. The 2008 bailout still has to unwind at some point.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBJ31G6FdhQ
Different people. Both of those acquisitions were in the Ballmer era.
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They don't listen to their customers because there is tremendous financial pressure to close "the analog hole".

Once data has to be transmitted wirelessly, there is a much better chance that you will do it in ways that can't be pirated, but can be controlled, monitored, and profited from.
Walgreens done messed up their due diligence big time. They have no one to blame but themselves. Greed drove them to this.
Please see my reply to "nitwit005". Basically, we're doing a terrible job electing people in all our races, but gerrymandering only affects US House races. Therefore, even if we completely fixed gerrymandering, it's not going to have much effect.
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I use Cursive, and yes it has intellisense equivalent to Cider, but still not good enough.

In Scala, Java, C#, F#, C++, I can do `myArray.` and it shows all methods available to arrays. No Clojure editor has anything like this. JetBrains editors take it a step farther and even include "code template" options that apply. So typing "myArray." will also include options for "foreach, for, for-reverse" templates. This, in addition to automatically importing any required library for the method you select.

With Clojure, there's no "dot". You're stuck hunting through documentation, trying to figure out first which namespace your function belongs to, then requiring it, then figuring out which function you want. Cursive only helps out with that last step, and even then, it displays every function in the namespace, when generally you only want to see the functions that apply to your variable.

While I'm all about immutability and structured data types, I've grown slightly away from functional-first languages in general for that reason. Even in F#, you've got to do `myList |> List.map ... |> List.filter ...` etc, requiring more lookup than C#'s `myList.Select(...).Where(...)`. The "dot" is an underappreciated aspect of OOP.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I don't expect to see any of the back-pay, but as this is blocking unemployment benefits it's currently costing me. I think I'll follow your example unless a new job is hard to come by.
I thought the 'less unethical' was the giveaway, as if you expect them to still be unethical.
In my city you can get a walk-in palm reading by a psychic for less money than a Theranos blood test.
>The GPU doesn't have DMA to the disk or RAM

The GPU does have DMA to RAM

References:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19242711/how-can-i-use-g...

http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/gpudirect-rdma/

https://developer.nvidia.com/gpudirect
An MBA provides only one thing: the opportunity to stop doing engineering.

Do you want to stop coding/building things, and instead build teams & business? Then do an MBA. There really is a lot to learn; it's not the irrelevant piece of paper it's often made out to be. The usual caveats apply (right school/program, work hard, etc.)

Do you want to be a higher-impact engineer? Don't do it. Apply to YCombinator, build more part-time projects, start a "sell stupid shit" on eBay company and learn the ins & outs of incorporation/taxes/financial tracking/etc.

Getting better at business & networking is a great idea, but an MBA for that alone is overkill.
It depends on the customer. Many executives would rather spend the extra money to save time.
The Facebook UX has something in common with their CEO's dress sense. It looks like shit.
Spyware? Really? I can understand the updates making people upset (though they should update!,) and the "suggested apps" in the start menu (which luckily you can turn off.) But calling Windows 10 spyware is total nonsense. Do you think that every other major OS, including Android and iOS, OSX don't take telemetry metrics? You're insane. You could never improve the OS, if you didn't.

Google takes telemetry data from your search results, which frankly are far more invasive than how you scroll through your start menu or how often you use the action center. It's all anonymized, I don't see the problem. I certainly wouldn't call it "spyware," that just a smear and has nothing to do with reality.

They don't track your keystrokes, unless you are using Cortana, which guess what? So does Google/Apple/Amazon when you use their assistants. So you're going to switch to a competitor of Microsofts because they started doing what their competitors already did? Fantastic logic.
Subsonic flight is cutting through cheese with a sharp knife. Supersonic flight is cutting through cheese with a hammer. There is no way it will ever be commercially economical with gas turbine engines and afterburners. Even super cruise without afterburners is incredibly inefficient and has very few uses outside of tactical aviation.
Which is tricky, actually, because real video can come in 24fps or 59.94fps (60/1.001). Your TV can handle this but your computer monitor can't, so you lose frames all the time.
Agreed, and this is why it makes sense to allow the Concorde to (noisily) zoom over the Atlantic while not necessarily subjecting flyover state Americans to sonic booms from New York to LA.

As for the longer flights, the 16 hour Los Angeles->Sydney experience is hellish. Depending on the price, I would certainly shell out to get there quicker.
Now if only I could find a remote company like that...
I know this was written by Atlassian, but I wanted to chime in to say that using BitBucket + Jira has been fantastic. BitBucket in general has just been a better UX than GitHub ever was.
Heh? Can you point to a description of the wrongness of MSVC maths.

I noticed that they were a bit slow to support infinities and NaN, but that is not the same thing a being wrong.
They just purchased a verified email address and complete contact address list (with phone numbers) for nearly every white collar worker in the western world.

If managed right, over the lifetime of the investment, this could easily make back 10x what they paid.
>I can't really think of any other major paradigm shifts over the last 10-15 in game graphics engines.

Deferred shading is a pretty major paradigm shift compared to forward rendering and it's within ~10-15 year range (it wasn't practical on pre MRT hardware which was shader model 3 ?) along with plenty of screen space effects like SSAO.
Used to be all over reddit, but now I only check r/boardgames with any regularity. As the other person who replied to you said, the niche subreddits aren't too bad, but the main subreddits attract no end of stupid comments.
You are forgetting that Enterprise WAS C++ before Java.

Amazon went from C++ (to Perl) to Java.

Google went from C++ to C++/Java (and now Python and then Go)

Microsoft went from C++ to C++/C# , C# is Microsoft flavor of Java.
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Banning a particular form of transportation seems a poor method for reducing emissions. Just tax the fuel properly and it will sort itself out. Flying is currently much too cheap compared to its environmental impact imho. How can it be cheaper to fly from Berlin to Munich than taking the car (or the train)?
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The article does touch on how newer designs could reduce sonic booms by making lighter aircraft. If a new supersonic jet is manufactured that is a fraction of the weight of a Concorde, it could be much more fuel efficient as well.
> If you saw a LinkedIn profile that you thought would make a good addition to your team, would you not reach out to that person just because you found them on LinkedIn?

There's a good reason for me not to have a linkedin profile. Recruiters somehow still manage to find me but this is fortunately less of a problem than it would be otherwise (judging by my colleagues and friends).

It's a bit like not being visible in google: if you can't google it, it doesn't exist. And if you're not on linkedin the laziest contingent of the recruiting profession will be unable to locate you. Fine by me.
Well, the issue with coding is that in theory a good CTO makes way more money.

I am dealing with the same problem, though I am not sure what makes me happy exactly. I think sometimes we get into this carrier path thing and just move forward through inertia. Things are good on paper, but in reality you feel like crap.

I don't know, I am slowly trying to move away from my current job. I am planning to use savings to buy websites, the idea kind of excites me, which is a great feeling to have.
"It would be bigger than the detection of the Higgs boson, which was just confirmation of what was already known."

This is so wrong. Finding the Higgs where it was expected was very important because otherwise "what was already known" would have been false.
In real life it is often more to extremes. Either nothing or details that do not add value at that particular case. One of many examples I saw was, when one small feature was described on 10 pages going deep into every single corner case and as a result - less than 1% of those was used. In such cases it just makes more sense to run it in short experiment cycles.
The problem is that explicit customer feedback doesn't line up with reality.

Many companies have tried making slightly thicker phones with bigger batteries (which many people claim is what they want), no-one buys them. Companies make thinner phones, lots of them get sold.

These companies (mostly) aren't idiots, they do huge amounts of measurements on what people say they want to buy, and what they actually buy.
I will backpedal a bit and say though: it is never OK to arbitrarily reboot a system. Never. I'll also say that I would not use windows 10 for anything important.

The idea behind their update system is generally sound, but their execution is not good.
Livelihood encompasses more than just financial. If it were just money most people could get by. The stress on a person and their family while job hunting, especially at the CTO level, can be pretty huge. I would much rather have some runway to find the gig I want rather worry about my reputation.
I don't disagree with the lack of convenience, but that doesn't mean choosing convenience over what's right for the company is a good decision.

From a legal and HR standpoint, those types of policies need to be documented for all employees. Senior managers may also have fiduciary responsibility and the reminder is generally a good idea.
There is a Concorde that is being returned to service, although not in the US. So I guess we'll be able to see with first hand evidence whether or not business will actually "boom".

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/18/supersonic-bre...
LinkedIn just cancelled its WWDC watch party post-Microsoft acquisition
I can't tell if you agree or disagree with anything that I said, because you don't address any of my points in any meaningful way.

I would like to point out, however, that clearly the authors of the constitution did not think they had written a final document once-and-for-all, as evidenced by two things: 1) including three different means of amending the document, and 2) the very authors of the document proposed a package of 12 amendments as one of their first priorities during the first congress.

I would argue that there are only two ways to view the constitution: 1) it means what it says and if you don't like that, do what the authors did, amend it, or 2) make shit up as we go along. I'm for #1.
Great, until I use my Playstation Vita to play a game on my commute home. Then open my computer at home to watch a video. Or maybe plug my headphones into the PS4 pad. I’ve got 5 different systems I regularly plug my headphones into.
Bye bye LinkedIn!
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This could be totally unrelated, but damn this is a pretty stupid bad signal.

LinkedIn's iOS Developer Community cancels WWDC watch party after Microsoft purchase:
http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/06/13/linkedins-ios-deve...
Ask HN: Best Fiction
One of my new years resolutions this year is to read more fiction, so to that end, I would like to hear what good fiction books the HN community is reading.

My interests tend to align most with these attributes: thought-provoking, comedy, or science-fiction; however, even if it doesn't fit these criteria, please post your best recent fiction reads below!
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For those wondering why this was done - "to prevent copycats from taking similar actions" is my guess.

There is evidence to suggest such events can "inspire" others to do the same.

I don't know why the mods have not clarified this as the reason, maybe admins sent the message and told them to keep silent, maybe it's even higher.
Unfortunately, this sort of linkbait headline has become typical for Scientific American (which is one of the reasons I haven't subscribed for years). As has already been pointed out in these comments, the Standard Model is already believed to be incomplete by particle physicists, and discovering a new particle in this general energy regime is exactly what everyone has been hoping for for a couple of decades now. Yes, such a new particle is not included in the Standard Model--because there hasn't been any experimental evidence for one. If this discovery pans out, particle physicists will finally be able to start model building again the way it was done when the SM itself was built: based on good experimental data.
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Definitely. But, it wouldn't be a problem if people understood the implications of using external services in the first place (or were unable to do so via technical means).
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> I'm always blown away out how little cell phone manufacturers seem to listen to customer feedback. I don't care about my phone being paper thin. I'd guess most people don't either.

We can only guess based on what we hear. Cell phone manufacturers have a lot more data than we do and they keep going for thinness, so I have to imagine there's a demand for it.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that most consumers prefer battery life to thinness in surveys and polls but actually wind up buying the thinner phone when presented with actual hardware. Thinness is easy to see. If you're comparing phones in a Best Buy, the thinner one might feel more modern and impressive. Battery life is a hard feature to demo in that environment.

In other words, maybe the average person only wants battery life in the abstract, but opts for thinness when making a purchase.
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I use the 3.5mm jack to send audio out to my car stereo (which is up to date enough to have a 3.5mm input but not up to date enough to have Bluetooth input), and it's a pain in the rear, and I go through five or six cables a year. I'm not sure 3.5mm audio is the hill we all need to die on in the war against the march of technology.
I have a notebook that I keep various important thoughts in. It's only semi-organized, and it's not dedicated to a specific project, but many project notes are kept in it. I think this is a habit that I retained from my time in the Marine Corps. Pen and paper just has a certain feel to it - when I'm completely focused on my thoughts, it's much less distracting to dump right into the notebook rather than into a phone or a computer. One time I misplaced my notebook for about a week and it was a rough time.
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More seriously, could one of Theranos' large minority shareholders (successfully) sue to freeze their assets, keeping any cash liquid? How bad of shape does a company need to be in before that becomes viable?
The main reason I bought my Galaxy S7 is because they made it thicker and with a bigger battery than the S6.
Nothing. I don't know a single programmer that works for free in Spain. Graphical designers, on the other hand, I've heard dozen of stories of them working for nothing "to assemble a portfolio" for big advertisement agencies, the kind that put ads in tv or in giant billboards.

Also anything art related: rich family fine arts graduates that work for peanuts in semi-public institutions to "make a name".
From the article: "For LinkedIn, it was to connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful, and for Microsoft it was to empower every individual and organization in the world to achieve more. "

Microsoft's mission statement sounds like the same meaningless fluff they've been going on about since Nadella took charge.

$26 billion is a nice amount, even for MS, it gives me pause to think about what they really intend to do and how they could abuse LinkedIn user information, a veritable treasure trove of deeply personal and real information and people networks.
The cost of speed rises exponentially while the returns are linear. This is true even in subsonic flight, but above mach 1 the penalties are prohibitive. No gas turbine, jet fuel powered aircraft will ever make this commercially viable without being subsidized.
Your rant may be justified but I'm getting really tired of clicking on HN threads I'm interested in and finding the top comment plus a screenful or two of replies addressing some nit somebody wants to pick with the implementation of the site in the article instead of addressing the content of the article.

Leave the asides aside please.
Disable all FB notifications, and Facebook will stop using the battery. I use the mobile web version of Facebook, but it's impossible to share a link to a web page from there, so I keep the FB app for sharing, and I use Messenger as well.
Please don't. Think about the environment. Let the industry focus on fuel efficiency rather than speed. If the ban is lifted, a lot of R&D money will go into speed.