skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That part of the post-mortem is inaccurate.

I was looking recently for a solution to display a status board for a small business on an HDTV. 40" TVs can be found for $180 (you don't have to spend $3000 to have something useful), a mount is $20, and the app is $10. You've got most of the components for $210, but then you have to stomach the $200-400 to buy an iPad which will sit unused taped behind the TV just to display the status board. Not to mention you have to secure it to prevent theft if the TV is on a high traffic area.

The idea that you have to sacrifice an iPad doesn't feel right to me, even though you could get an Apple TV for roughly the same price (< $150), but the Apple TV would provide more functionality (e.g., the Apple TV could be used as an impromptu projector through AirPlay).

They chose the wrong platform for the app. They should have developed it for the Apple TV.
In this case the next time the vulnerability will be available is with the release of the next upgrade, expected around March.
I read _Against A Dark Background_ as a teen an thought of it as a pretty fun sf, almost space-opera adventure story. Then I read it again as an adult and... wow. Bank's SF work is very good, but the quiet existential horror that lurks behind the scenes in that novel really merits the title. Makes good old Lovecraft seem like a piker by comparison.
Going back to Ludwik Fleck I'd argue that it makes a lot of sense for a thought collective to bridge the gap between the esoteric and exoteric circle more often. Social media seems like a natural choice in this day and age.
That's not the bad part. The bad part is that this process suspends the disk encryption. Without disk encryption having physical access to the machine would be enough to elevate priviledges anyway.
They themselves say it's a business model problem. It's pretty easy to infer they have absolutely no interest in selling integrated display/app combos.
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Videos

Watch video's on Khan Academy/youtube

Wolfram Alpha

Use Wolfram Alpha to confirm/deny yr solutions

Tutor

Get a tutor who can explictly show you how they approach solving any arbitrary problem you bring them

Tricks

Accumulate a list of math tricks that you can use and how to use them (example: how to long divide polynomials)

...
shouldn't the 1%er move up rather than criticise the rest down?

I mean by definition there are only so many 1%ers to go around to fill up top spots.
I've heard Apple's equity grants are stupid though. Instead of the standard grant-value / share-price-at-hire = number of shares, and then then vesting the number of shares over 4 years, Apple vests the grant-value over 4 years and then converts to stock using the share price at the time of vesting. This of course results in lower compensation over the vesting schedule assuming an appreciating stock price.
Which you may not be allowed to use within the company.
For anyone looking for an alternative geckoboard has the most integrations I've seen, whilst still looking visually appealing.

I found others to look so boring and didn't have time to spend styling it and making new widgets.
> Executables are incredibly small (the http mirror server for my gopherspace is powered by a 10kb executable).

Is this ever an real issue, even on any embedded system in the last 20 years?
He claims that your code will be easy to port but then goes straight to Linux system calls.

Still I like the idea. This is something that should be covered in a CS 102 type course. I know way to many cs guys who have no idea how to debug, let alone how their is being implemented.
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I strongly recommend you join the Rands leadership Slack: http://randsinrepose.com/welcome-to-rands-leadership-slack/ where you'll find (and hopefully contribute to) a motherlode of goodness and peer advice.
Not so much the pay, as the wonders it works for your resume. Prior to Amazon, I tried applying to Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc. Nothing. After Amazon, recruiters from those companies started contacting me.
While this seems mainly useful as an academic exercise, the `printf "#include <unistd.h>" | gcc -E - | grep size_t` bit to easily grep in header files was worth the read.
https://panic.com/blog/the-future-of-status-board/#comment-6... is why it wasn't ported to Apple TV.
I wonder if the forced phase-change the confinement causes applies to other contexts? Could we use a similar trick to force superconductive materials into their low-temperature superconductive phase at higher temperatures?
It's a bit misleading: he's referring to the Cortex-M series of ARM microcontroller cores, which do not implement the core ARM instruction set but instead only implement the Thumb series of alternate instruction sets that are optimized for code density. There are older ARM cores that pre-date Thumb and only have the core ARM instruction set, but there would never be a situation where you'd want to take binaries compiled for one of those devices and run them on one of the microcontroller cores.

There are however, plenty of other variables across the ARM ecosystem that can cause real headaches, like the different versions of the VFP floating point co-processor.
Alternate possibility, and just as likely, the sensation for the mouse is that of total parlysis, except some unseen force is puppeting its limbs, and perhaps inflicting phantom limb "pins and needles" the entire time.

Like an invisible older brother whispering in your ear:

STOP HITTING YOURSELF.

STOP HITTING YOURSELF.

Powerless to resist, and strapped in for a ride that never ends.
Genius is a dynamic thing rendered via the lens of social value.

If scientific progress is our goal, then I would argue that forming cliques around a clique-governed definition of "most likely to elicit genius" is not only wrong, but dangerous. Heuristics can be ugly things.

Also, MENSA reminds me of church. Church is boring.
Yes can confirm that Snapchat does this.
Now that is scary. Because here's the thing. Just because two people have a potentially volatile relationship, that doesn't become an assumption that either parties are now no longer good to mix with anyone else. They could end up meeting their soul mate next, but bc of an app, and an angry ex who said somethings probably best left unsaid outside their now defunct relationship... now you don't get a chance with the soul mate? That just isn't right. My ex husband was a very very poor match for me. However his new wife and he were made for each other. You see?
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Now the ambiguity get fixed, with YOUR words. English is not my mother tongue.
Someone did the math and a Cray was on par with an intel core i3 series (early gen) in sustained perf even though in terms of raw GFLOPS the intel cpu was two leagues above. That's all I'm saying.

I'll link the url when I've scanned my bookmarks.

psedit: look at jojomonkeyboy's comment http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/classics-rock/the-80s-super... he says an i7 2600 (not an i3) has less sustained compute power.
So "surprisingly passionate"?
This sort of thing happens a lot in the world. With the internet people may think that all countries are the same but just with different languages and food but every country is really different.

my opinion on this story: some rich wanker tries to make problems go away with money and intimidation, not unusual. The worry is that there needs to be recognition and kudos for news sources that don't cave in.
Is tuition reimbursement a thing at companies? That would be pretty awesome. TIL
That would be one way to do it.
Was it a formal PIP, though? In my experience there are many managers who'll do that for employees that they wish to retain, but who, for various reasons, aren't performing up to snuff. However, I've never heard of a manager bringing HR in, doing the PIP paperwork, and the employee surviving the PIP. In general, the moment HR gets involved (either in person or via formal paperwork) between you or your manager, you know you're done. As others have stated, treat the time of your PIP as a form of severance pay, do the minimum amount of work necessary to not get fired that day, and look for a job elsewhere.
yeah, also fun: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core
> Even though they had CS degrees, they had vast holes in basic programming know-how...

A CS degree does not confer programming know-how...something about judging a book[1] by its cover comes to mind.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Computer_Programmin...
How about this in OSX?
echo "data:$(file -b --mime-type filename);base64,$(base64 filename)" | pbcopy

or for linux, your favorite variant of pbcopy using xsel or xcopy?

Not to say this isn't a great tool.
At least one of the major candidates in next years South Korean presidential election (Lee Jae-myung, recently dubbed the "Korean Trump" [1]) is running on a platform of dividing up the chaebol. He is not the frontrunner, but maybe Samsung is partially trying to mitigate their risk with this move.

[1]: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-24/harnessing...
This is required if you do systems programming (e.g: kernel development).
Xiaomi phones come with the full google ecosystem of apps, so they are certified.
How much is it? same as diamond?
Most game engines for a few years now are using what's called "Physically Based Rendering" (aka PBR). There's a ton of resources on that, including for offline rendering. It does add a lot to make it look realistic, for example an Intro for it in Unity 5 [1].

I think they extensively used Bokeh DoF to make it look at the right scale as it's a toy world if I'm not mstaken, it's know as the "Tilt Shift" effect.

The outline artefact is probably Ambient Occlusion, I didn't see it that much though but that's maybe because I'm used to it. THere are a lot of ways to compute it, including using cone tracing, but the least expensive is a "screen space" technique first introduced by Crytek. It can introduce a dark halo around objects but is constant time usually and very simple to integrate.

[1] https://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/10/29/physically-based-shadin...
I will invest in that!
Aldus Huxley portrayed something that scares me to death of actually happening... yet every day I see us coming closer and closer to its fruition. Strong teller...or fortune teller? Lol that is the question.
That also brings about the risk of doing bad things that the compiler could otherwise prevent. Simply using a non-optimizing compiler with a timing attack-safe algorithm (and using the resulting machine code) would have the same effect. There's little reason to actually write assembly by hand, in that case, unless you're trying to milk performance.
"The Seventh Edition of Introduction to Statistical Quality Control provides a comprehensive treatment of the major aspects of using statistical methodology for quality control and improvement." http://a.co/5xRV2UE

Covers: Hypothesis testing (single population), Analysis of variance (multiple populations), Control charts, Design of Experiments (A/B testing and beyond).

Edit: Used in the undergraduate industrial & systems engineering program at USC when I was a student. The 7th edition has various cook book style walkthroughs.
I don't personally consider this a spoiler but others might so consider yourself informed.

Nosedive is about a future where your social media rating affects your real life. As an example you might not be able to enter a popular restaurant if your social media score is too low because it makes the store look bad to have low score customers. Discounts and other perks are offered to people with high scores.

Say something some disagrees with and get downvoted which since your score affects your life you don't dare say something that might upset someone else.

It's a very scary episode in that is certainly seems like one possible future. We already have some small part of that future today with downvoted on places like HN and Reddit that while meant to promote civility have the unintended consequence discouraging decent. It's easy to imagine social media scores affecting more real world things.
I work under a micromanaging boss (who doubles as a PM). It is stifling. I can't function, get much done, move projects forward, etc. It's horrendous.
With all due respect, if your software has an OS-level dependency that is less than 2 years old, you're too cutting edge and it's your fault.

You should not require an unpackaged dependency from 2015. This is a problem with your developers trying to use the latest and greatest technologies, with no respect for reality. It is neither your users', nor Microsoft's fault, that your users don't have bleeding edge 2015 upgrades.
The EM drive is reported as producing maybe 1 mN per kW. The largest power plant in the world produces about 22 GW of energy--at that ratio, an EM drive could produce maybe 22 kN. The first stage of the Saturn V rockets produced 35,000 kN of thrust.

As a practical engine, EM drives are worse than chemical rockets or even ion thrusters (which produce about 25-250 mN/kW, according to Wikipedia).
Imho, you only need motivation. And where to get it, that's the question.
LTSB was launched being stable in mind, which Edge at the time certainly wasn't. Nothing strange here.
You can email your @kindle.com account with a PDF attachment, and it'll be delivered to your device. Google the details.
The comment section where gcc puts in ident info can be omitted with -fno-ident and syscall(2) is usually a very thin wrapper[0]. If you follow the musl syscall(2) it simply maps errors to errno[1] and uses the fancy count-args-in-macro[2] to call off the respective $arch/syscall_arch.h[3] syscall$n numbered functions.

[0] https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/misc/syscall.c

[1] https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/internal/syscal...

[2] https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/internal/syscal...

[3] https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/arch/x86_64/syscall...
I know of one instance. The colleague in question was working on a project which required communication with a sister team 9 timezones away. Unfortunately, the point of contact on said sister team didn’t care about communicating well (e.g. no written minutes of important meetings, no pro-active spreading of information, no willingness to get up earlier or stay late). Since the colleague didn’t have the personality/skills to enforce the necessary amount of communication, their output suffered severely.

After being put on a PIP, the colleague focused on other projects within the same team and eventually succeeded.
My comment on another branch of this thread may help: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13061431
Sounds like Capital One as well, which is mirroring Amazon's culture as well as stack ranking system.
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+1 for dashing [1]

While not actively maintained by Shopify anymore it's working really well, has easy setup and allows you to get up and running quickly.

The grid system and basic widgets provide a good and clean starting point, although you probably want to invest some time to make it visually coherent if you're using a large amount of third-party plugins.

Our team is using it for polled data that is updated once an hour up to every minute and it's working great for us.

[1] http://dashing.io
There are refresh equity grants unless you are on a PIP. Now you know what all the fucking PIPs are all about at Amazon (other than blocking your transfer).

You should not listen to what anyone at Amazon tells you.
>I know some companies assume that if you're on a PIP it's impossible for the emp to recover.

If the state has "at-will" employment, the employer doesn't actually need a reason to fire you. HR could come to you tomorrow and say, "All right. Pack your things and turn in your badge." The problem is, if they did that, they'd have to defend against lawsuits from people who say that they got fired because they were a woman, a minority, disabled, or some other protected class. What the PIP does is allow the organization to show in court that, out of all the reasons you could have been fired, you were not fired for being in a protected class. They don't have to positively show that you were a low performer. They just have to raise enough doubts about your performance that a judge or jury can have reasonable doubt about your assertion that you were fired for a discriminatory reason.
This. By not worrying about whether your notes are actually complete / sensible, you get the cognitive advantages of writing stuff down without the distraction. You can still make a proper summary after class if need be.
Used gameboys dwindling should, in theory, result in more people being willing to sell theirs since the price is higher.

Besides, Arduboy being worthwhile in 5 years doesn't stop their launch from flopping.
Over the course of my career Amazon is the only place I've interviewed and come away having lost all desire to work there.
A side-effect of a 4+ satellite fix is both extremely accurate and extremely precise computation of current time (in addition to location). (GPS sats broadcast time, receivers triangulate.) Some high-quality receivers (Trimble, probably others) attempt to count the number of pseudowavelengths back to the satellite, including relativistic, gravimetric and atmospheric effects. http://www.trimble.com/gps_tutorial/sub_phases.aspx
This guy's OpSec was pretty bad. I'm not entirely surprised, but I am surprised it took this long for it to bite him.
`malloc`'s not really that bad. There's a few different approaches you can take, but none of them are terribly complicated since the two basic memory allocation interfaces, `sbrk` and `mmap`, are fairly simple in terms of usage for generic allocations. But getting it all working and bug free still takes time. Same with stuff like `printf` and `scanf` (Though I'd actually argue those are harder to write then `malloc` if you're looking to be feature complete. `printf` has billions of features and I'm pretty sure `scanf` requires some extra black-magic internally).

There's no doubt that this is a fun project though - if you or someone-else enjoys this type of stuff, you should definitely try your hand at writing a simple Unix kernel or similar, you'd probably enjoy it.

On that note though, the writers aversion to inline assembly is unfortunate. It's a necessary evil for this type of programming. The syntax is ugly, but it's not really that hard to get used too (Especially since the large majority of inline assembly is just a few lines long, or even just one line long). In particular, the syscall wrappers can be done in a one-line piece of inline assembly, and then you can avoid the function-call overhead for the syscall by placing the inline assembly in a `static inline` function in your headers (Or a macro if you prefer), as well as avoid the extra .S file (Which IMO is the better part - it's always easier when you don't have to mix different languages like that).

I would also add that, while I used to share the aversion for AT&T asm syntax the author does, virtually all of the assembly code out there related to linux is written in AT&T, so it's worth it to get used to it and at least be able to read it. On that note, you can use the Intel syntax in inline assembly though, if you prefer, so even if you hate AT&T with a passion you can still write inline assembly ;)
I am against this approach at all cost. You are putting too much pressure on yourself and will doing the same on your kids (assuming this question isn't for market survey). Just leave them as they. You already labeled them as STEM when have no idea what does it even mean. Relax.

You should read biographies like Surely You are joking Mr. Feynman. You will know how Novel prize physicist are brought up.

Just let your kids be what he wants to be. Give him equal of every world. Music instrument, base ball bat, lego, Raspberry Pi, Screw Driver, swimming pool etc. Whatever you can afford. Kids have natural curiosity and they will play with anything which is around them. I used to play with ants and chase them wherever they go. I am physicist now, along with my foot in neuroscience and music.
> Punishing an employee for risking their life to try to come in to a job they already hate?

As long as there are more than enough people to hire for a position, managers and policy will tend toward lazy and controlling, it's easier than cultivating people.
AVR atmega based devices generally have about 2kb SRAM, and 32kb flash. Maybe 2kb EEPROM.
I don't know, man. My grades always seemed to reflect my understanding pretty damn well. If it wasn't reflecting my understanding, I knew it wasn't.

To be fair to the writer, it'd be a much longer and more difficult article if it was called "Tips for understanding concepts in math." I don't even know how you could approach that.

Also, what the heck is wrong with memorizing definitions? You can't prove something using nothing. Eventually, after doing enough proofs employing the definition (or axiom or theorem or whatever else you memorized), you won't have to even think about it anymore - similar to how you or I could find the first derivative of a polynomial without thinking about it or know the definition of an even number.
Almost all, I'd never heard of a tech company not do it.
Remember that the most vocal are the most dissatisfied. Also remember that at a company that large there are going to be more dissatisfied than smaller companies. Lastly, don't forget that no one wants to read a story about an upset engineer from a small no name company. People like seeing big brand names fail and we as a society are a sucker for a negative drama.

They retain people because not every team is like what you read in the news. There are teams with completely normal on-calls who love their life and job and are far from upset with anything that has to do with work. Free food isn't a deal breaker when you make what companies like Amazon pay.
I wouldn't be surprised if the person working in the warehouse doesn't actually work for Amazon. Contracting jobs that are easy to fill is a great way to insulate a company from moral responsibility, and you get to imply "success at any cost" to the contracting company.
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I have seen colleagues have to do very similar things on embedded platforms, when there is a large pressure on price, a smaller amount of flash on an MCU will make the MCU cheaper.
Or demo coding on old hardware. I sometimes write demos for the Atari ST (68000-based home computer launched in 1985), and the modern way of doing that is to develop on a modern computer, and cross-compile to a native ST executable.

The main loops are all assembler, but the support code is in C, but the C code is used as a more expressive assembler, and linking with libc requires way too much memory.

All this means that I don't even have things like memcpy() available. In a way it's a quite liberating way to program, since you are in full control of the hardware.

I guess yesterday's computers is today's embedded hardware.
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