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> I wouldn't personally hire someone via recruiters or LinkedIn

Why? I don't care how someone got the interview, it's the person and their skills and abilities that I am going to assess (also recruiters get lots of work off my head, which is good, especially when our HR dept. isn't able to do it)
Hawaii Five 0 has cring worthy Microsoft ads throughout the entire show.

At this point, it's more like Microsoft's ad ground where shitty ads that didn't make it to youtube go to die.
This appear simply to be utter nonsense. But there is hope. If you really believe you have an integer factorization method, simply factor a few large numbers that are currently believed to be hard: RSA-230, RSA-232, RSA-240 and RSA-250 should do:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_numbers#RSA-230

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_numbers#RSA-232

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_numbers#RSA-240

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_numbers#RSA-250

People really will listen then. Until you do something like that, everyone will simply dismiss you as a crank.
This reminds me of the story of how Target were able to quite precisely figure out whether their female customers were pregnant, and even when the due dates were: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.h...
That filter should consider every review that looks like it was written by PR as a 1 star. Adjust accordingly. Theranos appears to have about a 1.1 star average with that adjustment.
Wired keyboard can be read from meters away[1], your memory is transparent on shared hosting apparently, lots of installed software had multiple vulnerabilities a year... and yet we are not all compromised already.

Somehow I wonder about that. Spear phishing is very effective and the software itself isn't exactly perfect either. Either very few people are even trying, or something does not add up.

[1] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/sec09/tech/full_papers/... "We implemented these side-channel attacks and our best practical attack fully recovered 95% of the keystrokes of a PS/2 keyboard at a distance up to 20 meters, even through walls. We tested 12 different keyboard models bought between 2001 and 2008 (PS/2, USB, wireless and laptop)."
If you're a programmer, your primary task isn't churning out code; at least for me, an important part is to first understand the customer or user's wishes, and second to make sure my colleagues are up to speed and aren't blocked by, for example, missing some knowledge that I possess. Mind you, most of that is done in person, not via e-mail; the Knuth comment (which I'm probably extending to your statement) seems to be about any kind of external influence, including emails, PRs, slack messages, people, or whatever.

That's fine to isolate yourself from that if you define your own problem and solution for it and work alone, but really, how many people do that? That's a thing reserved for idk, university researchers and people with their own projects.
Like he said, vacuoles.
You have been eaten by a true.
With a tiny chance you might answer, I'm curious.. how did Shopify come about? Did you start an eCommerce store yourself, have bad luck, but then say "hey we could take all this tech we just built and sell that instead"? Or was shopify always the goal?
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Forced updates of minor versions, sure. Upgrading the OS to a whole new major version, breaking lots of things in the process is on a new level.
s/Googled/Bing'ed/
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WOW, well-played, sir, very well played indeed. I may have to steal your snark.
good. disliked LinkedIn anyway
On a related note, the team who built the best backgammon engine a while back (Snowie) has also released a poker version.
1. People
2. Machine Learning
3. ????
4. Profit!

That's one hell of a 26 billion dollar bet with Microsoft fronting all the risks, because I'm sure MS could build a better LinkedIn from scratch if they created a department with a 26 billion dollar budget.
Ah, gotcha. Does the Google app allow more custom integration?

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-app-search-made-just/...
they purchased probably the most useful enterprise social graph in the world, except for maybe fb
For someone who hasn't been following it, what makes you say they are?
Yeah, its spammy, but spam from a single source is pretty easy to manage. As a consultant and writer it would be much more difficult to do my job without the ubiquitous ability to contact people at other companies easily.

I'm not saying its the best, but when the alternative is nothing at all, I can't really fault it for doing what it needs to to make money.

Also of note, a 25% reduction in sales and marketing expense would have made it profitable this last quarter, so evidently there are plenty of ways it is adding value to others.
Well both of those are underwhelming in terms of both content and user experience.
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I have a very difficult time understanding how Twilio can justify such a high flying IPO ($1B+ mkt cap). This is a classic business (Enterprise PBX and Services) with lipstick on it. Look at Polycom, Mitel and Alcatel-Lucent as their comps and try to justify these multiples.

That said, I respect Twilio a lot. They've been a great innovator.
I think first thing to happen is lot of linked in employees getting fired. Since linked in employs a lot of people.
It will be virtually impossible for you to be involved in their IPO. You can contact your brokerage and see if you can be involved but usually there is either a restriction based on how much money you have in your brokerage account or how many transactions you have participated in. As a new investor they are likely just going to say no.

That said, if you can wait until just past the IPO you will be able to purchase shares just like any other symbol.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11883279
Let's not leave out the option of simply not using fixed, always-on lighting in many locations. The evidence for safety benefits from it is generally mixed:

* There's definitely a benefit to lighting pedestrian crosswalks, though that benefit might be increased if the lighting is triggered by a pedestrian pressing a button before crossing.

* There is a benefit where vehicles are prone to hit fixed objects or drive off the side of a curve, but reflectors or low-output marker lights can provide that benefit in many cases.

* There does not appear to be a reduction in crime from installing fixed lighting in public places. Criminals require light to select victims and break in to vehicles or structures. Some studies have shown reductions in crimes; others have shown increases. Most show no significant effect.

In addition, the capabilities of portable lighting have increased dramatically since most of our cultural assumptions about street lighting came to be. A pocket-sized bicycle light powered by a modern LED and an 18650 Li-ion battery can provide a generous amount of light for urban riding all night long and then some and recharge from a MicroUSB cable in a few hours.
/me done. finally.
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Exactly. As they say, crap travels downhill.
Another great option is the "Block Element" feature of uBlock Origin which lets you easily create a blocking rule for any element on the page. In Firefox it's found in the right click menu, and you can then visually choose the element to be blocked.

I regularly use it e.g. for the cookie acceptance boxes. They are a major annoyance -- as I don't save cookies, the setting for accepting cookies isn't preserved either and I have to approve them again and again. If I visit any such page for a second time it's easier to just hide the whole question with uBlock.
Some amazing comments on this thread, thank you everyone. Reading through as fast as I can and will respond soon
From the first code example:

> Yep, notifying outside of lock is usually BETTER. Otherwise the other thread would be released but will immediately run into our own lock above our own lock above, causing unnecessary (and Very Expensive) context switch

Is this true and if so, on which platform(s)? Aren't most mutex/condition variable implementations optimized to avoid this case by deferring the condition signal to the mutex unlock?

Additionally, in the implementation of kill() in the latter examples, there should be notify_all() instead of notify_one().
It really doesn't. I'll manage with my phone if something's actually important, but if it's not I can do it on a tablet/laptop later.

Phone gets used for communication, camera, music, Nike+ running, entering meals into myfitnesspal, and not a lot else.
Forced browser updates are one thing, but forced upgrading of the OS?

Yuck.
there is also: https://github.com/dgraph-io/dgraph also a golang project as the title mentions, if this matters to anyone.
That gives a market cap of $1.15bn (82,200,793 shares*$14/share). Based on public information, Twilio's revenue run rate would be around $150M, so that's x8 for Revenue and x20 for EBITDA (40% margin seems reasonable in the telcos industry). Fun fact: AT&T market cap is $248Bn, x5 EBITDA. Just thought it would be funny to compare the two
> I wouldn't personally hire someone via recruiters or LinkedIn, but I would hire someone via a recommendation from a contact I maintain on LinkedIn.

This seems like a pretty arbitrary distinction.
"Not a Google project, but created and maintained by a Googler"

Interesting location, being in the main Google organization, given this disclaimer. I've seen other projects with this disclaimer under Googlers' personal pages before, and I always figured a /google/ URL probably meant it was officially a Google project.
Read Microsoft CEO’s memo to staff about LinkedIn acquisition
speaking of, how does LinkedIn make its money anyways?
They're purposefully misleading you. Have no shame. Consult with a lawyer, then issue them an ultimatum: wages and taxes paid, or you'll rat them out and prevent them (via lawsuit if necessary) from using your IP. I bet they'll miraculously find money somewhere. Be sure to fix a deadline, otherwise they might just try to delay this forever. (IANAL)
Think of it this way, "Do I want to be a C-level employee of a company I know is cheating tax"?
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In theory, an Omaha bot wouldn't have to be as advanced as a hold'em bot simply because the 'theory' of that game is not as strong as hold'em yet. Omaha still attracts a greater percentage of losing players as well.
I didn't know that, thanks for sharing! It's really interesting and might come in handy to know this.
What would constitute sufficient complaining about Chicago?

Have you looked for that? Are you sure it doesn't exist?
do nothing about something that is wrong is evil itself, don't be like everyone else.
I read that document quickly.

I think it can only work through pinning, because it seems to rely on GPU bus mastering for accessing pages that are dedicated for graphics.

So you have 32 GB RAM and say 8 GB GPU RAM. Imagine you have a program that has 100 GB of graphics assets without built in mechanism to guess which subset of assets might be required for current scene. The program needs about 50 MB in any given frame -- in other words it has 50 MB working set.

As an operating system, which assets are you going to keep in memory?

Now imagine you have multiple programs running concurrently, each having 100 GB of assets. Each app has that same 50 MB working set.

How can the system handle this situation efficiently (or at all!) if the pages need to be pinned to RAM?

If you can have true on demand GPU paging, all of these apps need to only swap their current working set of data. User would not perceive any delay when switching from app to app. She could even display all of them in the same time without any issues.

If not, the system would grind to halt.
> Linux support has been deplorable ever since.

That is probably a feature, not a bug ;-)
Would you like it less if you were paid more?
That's a pretty specific set of situational criteria by which to evaluate the head of a company that does a whole lot of different things.
You probably can't. The IPO price is what's being shopped around to private institutional investors via the underwriting bank. You can get in early in public trading, however, though that's historically at a higher price.
It's pretty well known everywhere in Germany that East Germany is more right wing than other regions - at least all people I spoke with, who live in the West/South-West and North of Germany - and it was already like this before the "refugees" crisis (as we Europeans call it).

I am sorry, but you can't minimize the issue to "they think the refugees are the problem because of +30 years old problems". I don't know the history of Germany in the last 30 years, but I find it more correct to say that these people are just extremists because of other issues (the frustration was already there before refugees came).

I just found the article pretty biased. This is more marketing than journalism: hiding important negative aspects of your product while highlighting what you want to sell. But after all, Germany is getting better and better at it, unfortunately ... :(
Given your technical background, be sure to involve someone with a strong sales/marketing point of view whether that's a cofounder, investor, or friend. Moreover make sure it's a relevant point of view. For example, someone with a great b2b pedigree won't necessarily add the most value if you're starting a consumer focused company. Most importantly, best of luck to you -
Digital+Altitude+Review+&+News:+Legit+Or+Scam?
Who would have regulatory oversight on this one? Fake Yelp and Amazon reviews go to the FTC and State Attorney Generals (Who could do a far better job.)
No, I'm serious. I'm not a big MS fan, but they've been doing some good things lately. Hopefully they can make LinkedIn feel less scummy.
My guess is that their longish-term strategy is to have everybody logged in to their platform when they are doing business work. Using Word? Must log in. Outlook? Ditto. They look like they are using SAAS to get the business software world back under their control.

You can't do it all at once, of course; you'll have some edge cases to deal with. But if you can manage it you'll have tremendous leverage.
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Actually, I suspect a lot of honest thought and debate went into spending $20 billion, but who knows.
Exactly, but I think the commenter was less interested in actual discussion and more interested in being snarky. Ironic in a discussion about the demise of Gawker Media.
> It prompts me every now and again to congratulate people on job anniversaries--maybe people do that but it's a weak play when a company reaches to those depths.

So what? Facebook prompts me to congratulate on people's birthdays, and Facebook is doing quite well.
I think, they just haven't bought those yet, because they could get a monopolization lawsuit for that. Red Hat and Canonical are among their biggest competitors in the OS market, as small as they are.
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Yup, the Coca-Cola example is bad, as it was a brand never valuated in the market. However, the reasoning holds for many other assets. Think of an office tower. It will be in the balance as an asset, with a given valuation and no error margin. That's insane.
> LinkedIn is hideous, difficult to use, buggy, and creepy. If MSFT can fix a few of those it'll be a win.

Have you seen Windows 10 yet?
If we're truly lucky, they'll get their security folks to take a look at LinkedIn as well.
It sounds like the situation is well within the threshold of complexity that would benefit from an attorney. You might be able to consult for about 30 minutes and pay around $100 to clear up a lot of questions in a sticky situation like this.
> Unfortunately, there's no real place in the world for a highly technical business leader.

While I certainly see evidence of this in the workplace, I also see that this kind of leader would be exceptionally valuable to any organization. Do you find that the issue here is that companies already at scale have separated concerns so highly that the management skills are more valued (so technical leaders go to startups / smaller places) or is this really just because us technical people like to build things more than manage things?

This is super interesting input - I think that on this answer, depends a lot of the future of companies, but also where technical folks can and should target. (Although you mention CEO which, I mean, that's a leadership role too hehe)
Microsoft bought LinkedIn for $26.2B
Recruitment spam or not it works and mediates a lot of jobs and connections. I don't think you should diminish LinkedIn's role on the job market.

And yes, a lot of my colleagues are very frequent users of LinkedIn for sharing and discussing business related stuff. With that said these tend to be non-techy people. Techy people tend to use sites like HN instead.
Agreed. I have never seen any commercial scientific lab (bio or otherwise) that let anyone just roam free. It would be a serious liability to let people roam without a chaperone. That has as much to do with biohazard/radiation/toxic/laser signs plastered around as it does company secrets. That said, the chaperone in this case should be very accommodating to the visitor in terms of seeing systems and operations of interest.
I don't think it's fair to call criticism flaming, and I think the article and most of this thread are being critical, and fair, again not flaming. I'll grant you that the tone of the article was harsh, but it's a fair criticism (IMO).

The Rust community is one that generally is extremely supportive of new users, even when those users are very pissed off at the steep learning curve with lifetimes, etc. It's impressive to see some of the even handed responses to questions.

Reiterating what others have said, no one is saying C++ is dead, no one is saying that C++ won't be around for a very long time. What people I think are saying in general is; if what you want is a memory safe, data race safe, strongly typed (with ergonomics) language, Rust is a great one. It's got lots of really nice modern semantics, and comes at the same performance cost as C++ (in general).

It's like a Tesla vs. an awesome classic Ferrari; no one wants that Ferrari to die crashing out a window, in fact any car lover wants to see that thing continue to get a lot of love and work to maintain it. But maybe there's a nice car that would be better to drive day in and day out, so that you don't have to worry as much about a parking attendant taking if for a joy ride.
I wonder what they do with the online training provider lynda which is owned by linkedin? They could use that to push free training for Azure to increase the reach of its services??
just take a nice vacation for a few months. ill fly in to do your job in exchange for 50% of the salary. after you've made up your you can either come back or not (and ill be a rich mofo muhahaha). the lesson being: if you get such a position and then complain about it being no fun then you are the problem. its an honor to be the boss. it makes a lot of money. if its no fun, well cleaning toilets for $5 an hour is no fun either but people do it anyways.
It also also says something people throwing that word around like that, especially in light of "TimeToDieJake" thing, denying the impersonation attempts (even though "ioerrror" can't be explained away that easily), finding this [0] terribly funny, while still being unable to back up the plagiarism claims (e.g. Nick Farr answered all sorts of softball questions, but not that). That's very different from anything resembling a good faith effort.

And when it comes to mental health, considering their behaviour and words, I would need to see a clinical diagnosis of ALL involved people to take that seriously in the least. So far I see people who are being abusive saying someone else is abusive; so far I see people demonstrating no empathy, intellectual honesty or capability to reflect, calling someone else a sociopath. So far I see a "community" with very little courage or integrity talking about standing up to bullies, while flagging the story which is clearing up a false claim that has already been spread. A safe space for lynch mobs.

Appelbaum might be guilty of some or a lot of things, but I'm not taking anyone's word for it when they can't even answer the most simple and obvious questions, questions they should have had answers for before even speaking. And the "trust" or "respect" of people who don't notice that is at best of zero value for my own evaluation, at worst it has negative value. And as it stands, I can't interpret the "diagnosis" as sociopath (and plagiarist) as anything than another red flag for those making it, considering all the proof in all this pudding so far, and considering how they don't "criticize their own".

I guess that's also Appelbaum's sinister influence, or something, that so many people don't dare to or are unable to do what a somewhat moral, somewhat intelligent child would already have done (maybe you can even strike "moral" and "intelligent" and replace that with "without an agenda or outside pressure, freely and honestly responding"). Don't put any obligations on victims, after all - including having to prove their victim status that gives them amnesty for any and all transgressions and regressions.

Though maybe they're not transgressions, since a sociopath is not a human being (and just with the victim status, since a sociopath has no rights you don't have to prove the claim after you made it), like someone spookily alluded to but then somehow didn't follow up on [1]. But remember, Appelbaum's allegedly the sick person, so nobody else can be sick. He is allegedly manipulative and dishonest, so nobody else can be.

[0] https://twitter.com/J9Roem/status/741358060191514625

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11845678
Of the products built on blockchain, I've heard about, it is the most interesting. It also appears to be exponentially harder to get right because it's a wrapper around executable code and that executable code will almost certainly contain bugs.

The fundamental difficulty I see is that cryptographic hashing makes bug fixes problematic to implement.
If you really need the unemployment I would blow the whistle. Your livelihood is always more valuable than a reputation. I doubt your reputation will take a huge hit for reporting what sounds like a dishonest company.
> I suppose it depends on which team gets the job?

I bet! The number of people in here that think a company with >118,000 employees is always going to make the same tech and design decisions is baffling.
>PS. Sorry for the throwaway account but my main account has too much personal info for this topic!

If I was a CEO or founder, I would of course tolerate this kind of thing.
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>>Since gun control seems to go nowhere, maybe it is time to reconsider allowing the NSA domestic access?

HA! they're gonna do it whether we 'allow' them access or not... As if 'We' had any say in it...
A company that steals your time on the basis of a vague promise of payment that they have no intention of keeping? That is both illegal and immoral, all over the world. Yes, burn them to the ground.
Just get a dumb phone.
I don't have a smartphone because I'm sure I'd fall into the same trap.

It's occasionally difficult, but usually just freeing.
its really about just returning margin on $27 billion. The deal isn't supposed to pay for itself now. To be successful for them, it only has to do better than the cash would have done in a standard portfolio investment. LinkedIn may be able to do that.