skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see it as a positive if a candidate uses an existing solution to the problem. That's exactly what a good engineer would do in the real world.

But then I take away the library/method and re-state the problem. Because the point is to see if they can understand the problem, and devise a solution.
The Guardian’s of Julian Assange’s Interview and Era of Fake News
will it bend?
I kept hearing the same thing and seeing mixed reviews on the Linux commitment since Thinkpad left IBM and went to Lenovo. Seems like there was a big push around Yoga tablet-hybrids that were not Linux friendly for a while.

I ended up going with the Dell Developer Edition Ubuntu laptop line after talking to a few people who swore that their XPS 13 was the greatest thing they'd ever owned. Personally, I went with a beastly 17" Precision because I wanted a desktop replacement. Should be delivered any day now, but I'm excited. Btw, I'm switching from a Mac.
Are you sure "non-competes are unenforceable in California" generally refers to a different form where you agree to not work for competitors after stopping employment at a given company. If you use company equipment or company time, your work is subject to assignment to the company; I don't know how enforceable the clauses about competing fields with the company are, but usually there's a form to declare when you join (claim widely).
That you can go back ... I've been forced into management several times and pushed myself back into development when I got bored. Smart companies will create a technical track that allows advancement roughly equal to the management track (though it never seems to equal the sales track).
Switched to DDG for most things 3 years ago.
People going to Instagram to escape their existing Facebook connections. Starting a new graph on Instagram that is restricted to their current and more private interests. What I've observed.
Some of the underperformance has been attributed to the crackdown in insider trading
Estimations are a game we play. To understand how good you are, you need to figure out what's happening with the business and understand the impact you're having there.

For a small company, this is probably the rate at which you ship features. Good developers ship enough that there's pressure to constantly explain the improvement to sales / marketing.

For a larger company, this is probably a user metric. Are this things you're doing moving the needle on logins, time on site, repeat visits? You should understand what areas of the product are high value, and which are experimental. You should spend your time converting experimental features to high value features. Polish and edge cases.

For a bigco, this is probably scaling metrics, like page load time and uptime. You should have clear targets you're working against and be able to prioritize against that target. Numbers are easy to show results against.

Anybody can be fast against sprint points. You need to understand what the business goal is and play to your strengths against that goal.
The "progressive" part of this is all Firebase.

Firebase handles your offline database, and syncing it for you automatically when you are reconnected.
>My standard listening headphones are Etymotic ER-4Ps; there is no way I am going to downgrade to AirPods

The phone comes with a 3.5mm to Lightning adapter, so you can continue to use your existing headphones.

Also, you can disable 3D touch and reachability (the double-tap home button thing) in the accessibility settings, if those are causing your issues.

>offer a system that just underlines words-thought-to-be-wrong without changing them, and let me tap on them to change them

If you disable auto-correction in the keyboard settings, it acts just like that.
Agree with you 100%. To me, reading those kinds of posts are very misleading as they give you all the good stuff but none of the gory details of travel, how long it takes to close a deal, etc. I have clients all over the place, rarely travel and make a great money. It just seems very strange to me that someone that seems to have such a grip on billing, etc. can't seem to make these things work to his benefit.
This is an annual story, not super interesting. Nikkei itself actually posted something similar at this time last year:

http://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Trends/Parts-makers-brace-fo...

> Apple is expected to reduce output of its latest iPhone models by around 30% in the January-March quarter compared with its original plans, according to several parts suppliers. The measure will deal a blow to Japanese and South Korean parts companies.

So maybe a 10% cut is actually bullish?
It's the winner-take-all phenomenon, it crops up everywhere
I hope we'll find out in practice: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a22678/em-dri...
(via lobster_johnson)

"Proud to say that we have a partnership now - so the launch is already funded, and we hope to get a launch slot in 2017."
Given it's not even fully announced yet, yet alone released... that'd be a no.
Betterment, Wealthfront, or Vanguards robo-advisor.

I do not receive a direct benefit from making this recommendation. (Not counting the feeling of doing good, or engaging in debate here or whatever).
You could. Or you could just run on the JVM. Either way, there are some tradeoffs to make.
I left Amazon a couple weeks ago to join a start-up. One of the reasons I did so was because I was tired of being tied down by Amazon's non-compete agreement.

When you work for Amazon, you can't contribute to open-source. Basically, you can't contribute anything unless it gives Amazon an advantage of some kind (fix a bug in the Linux kernel that's causing AWS issues, for example) or if it will somehow be impossible for the project to ever be used by a competitor to gain an advantage. There's lots of progress being made internally to try to open that up, but after 5 years I never met or heard of an employee who had been given permission to contribute to an open source project.

You also can't have personal projects if you ever plan to share them. I asked permission a couple times to do a side project on my own time, with my own hardware. The first time, legal flat out told me 'no' because Amazon also was involved in that industry- the industry in question being 'machine learning'. The second time, they wouldn't say 'yes' or 'no', they just directed me to the non-compete agreement and told me to 'follow whatever it says'. IE: do what you want, but we reserve the right to sue you.

I wound up doing some side projects that were purely Amazon-internal[0]. It got boring.

All that said, I loved my time at Amazon. I worked with great people, had some crazy times (Amazon Fulfillment is a crazy, fun business), and learned so damn much. If this start-up doesn't work out I may even try to go back. It's a place that has problems, but it's not a bad place- if you don't care about the non-compete stuff.

[0]If you work at Amazon, I wrote 'RediFork' over a couple of dull weekends when I was an SDE1.
Yeah, I just think this isn't one of those, and we have to be specific, or we're just generically angry, and that's not super-fruitful.

The thing is, your personal experience (people believing things about you just based on the color of your skin, their minds being made up; feeling like you're going into things with a disadvantage based on how you are seen; being powerless to argue your way out) is absolutely valid, but it's also how lots of other people feel (immigrants all over the world, displaced people, minorities in any country, etc. - often disadvantaged in business, hiring, dating, ...). I think white people in wealthy western countries currently really do tend to feel this sort of systemic prejudice the least in their lives, due to demographics and history, and often can't empathize with the problem well. I perhaps couldn't myself before I became an immigrant and ran into circles where I'm stereotyped negatively (super jarring experience, but valuable). Some of the outrage and prejudice you see - and it can be off the mark - is a reaction to that, and it's often specific to a situation you're outside of (e.g. race relations in the US of A), and from authors not considering any other situation for lack of knowledge or experience.

The bottom line is that it's a whole bunch of breakdowns of empathy all around and in all directions, including towards you. But the cool thing is that this kinda equips you with empathy special powers so you can try to improve things by being an effective communicator about these things.
This looks like a very nice computer.

I really applaud dell for trying to make the XPS 13 somewhat Linux friendly but they really do feel cheap.

Lenovo thinkpads, while not having the quality they had during the IBM era, are still head and shoulders above Dell in this regard.

This is the Linux laptop to get in 2017.
What is your risk tolerance? What is your time horizon? Do you have any debt? At what rate? Is the interest on that debt tax-deductible?
You sound incredulous that Instagram took off while also admitting you don't understand it's appeal... That doesn't seem like someone open to understanding the appeal :)
Cool! I like reading about that stuff, especially so since I've also been watching the semi-historical fiction of "Vikings". The show is enjoyable even when not historically accurate but it then gets me to read about the similar things that actually happened.
Kadiras pricing was completely incompatible with the Meteor app I work on as per host pricing is hard to swallow when you only have a dozen or two users on each host (eg: Kidara would have cost us ~$1/end user/month). Per host pricing is nice when you have hundreds/thousands of users per host.

Our software gets installed at each customer site/ship at sea due to high frequency of internet outages or wide variations in bandwidth (ships at sea have very limited connections). While each customer might have hundreds of users, it ends up to be a dozen or two users per host. This is also why Meteor is a good fit as performance doesn't really matter when the software only sees a dozen users per host.

While they only billed per nominal host (its approx: host hours/hours in month) so corner cases are easy, we still have a ridiculous users per host ratio due to the nature of our app. I'm a big fan of services that have an option to charge per GB of telemetry as it can cover use cases like ours without much fuss.

Its still sad to see them go though, and its nice to see them softly shutdown rather than the typical "we are pulling the plug tomorrow".
Yoga 910? Spectre x360?
I don't think so, really. Self-driving cars are a big one. Wearables (lenses, implants, clothing, etc.) are coming. Business software for SMBs probably has a bit to go yet in using big data/AI.

I do think biotech is the hot stuff of the future, but it's going to take a decade or two before it really takes off.
"Signature Edition" is a Microsoft concept, not a Lenovo one. [0]

And there will always be trialware and unwanted apps as long as the company gets money from including these. Because who doesn't want free money?

[0]: https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/cat/Signatu...
This Currency [Bitcoin] Has Trounced the Dow This Year, 124% to 14%
I think you are lumping things together where they don't belong. Processes and tools have places. As I've posted previously on the topic, some industries have strict quality standards, and the tools and processes are there to find and prevent bugs from making into fielded systems. These process can an do work, but don't always apply to a basic website or CRUD webapp.
Yeah the devices are coming soon. I find it ironic that the new macbook pro works seemlessly with new google pixel devices, you can just plug in a usb-c cable between them, no dongles needed. If Apple wanted to be really bold they would have swapped lightening for usb-c so the new iphone and macbook pro could be connected with one simple cable.
You must be trolling. Look at the size of it. The thermals for the quad core chip don't make sense and they can very likely only fit 16gb of ram.

The T series is what you are looking for.

Try find any laptop of that size with 32gb ram and quad core option. It doesn't exist.
I would guess because its a cheap (in terms of time) way to search for really bright people. Obviously not the only way, and not fool-proof, but if you find someone who loves math and science enough to devote ~10 years of their life to it, chances are they're pretty sharp - at least in certain ways.

I wouldn't say their patterns and algos "need" that level of research. But what a hedge fund doesn't have is a lot of time to waste interviewing junior programmers/undergrads hoping to find nuggets of wheat in the chaff.
> The numbers coming out of Apple next quarter will be interesting

Isn't it expected that many people will wait for the iPhone 8 (also iPhone's 10 year anniversary) because Apple probably waits with releasing new features for this version?
unlikely. i think it has more to do with competitive pressures in markets and the elimination of a lot of the less sophisticated participants (partly due to higher frequency trading).
The JVM is usually used for long-running applications so the warmup (not start-up, which is 60ms) time doesn't matter. It's not a great choice for short-lived command-line apps.
What would your answer be for a person with a 20-25+ year horizon, looking for a sector with alpha on that time scale. Like say, an Intel or GE circa 1982 and not needing to touch it until 2007?
I really loved the idea of Chumby. Would have killed it if it had come out more recently as an IoT device.
Hi. Probably your biggest question, but here goes: does the voluntary nature of it impact results? In other words, don't you need the discipline to self-administer the shocks? And, if you have that discipline, then why can't you just use it to stop the behavior?
Same, after hours of Googling I believe there is no way to restore it.
I don't think the author has heard of SNI.
Ah, that makes sense. I got really excited by the site and didn't read for content.
Sure it is more control. Just like pushing electrons with a magnetized needle is even more control. It doesn't mean it's convenient.

Now if you had an ML algorithm running in your browser that analyzed your preferences and transparently changed your DDG searches from "Django" to "Django web framework", you might get something closer to what you get with Google. Wonder if Firefox could make that happen.
I would love to get VR, but I have a bad feeling I'll end up getting nauseous from it. Everywhere I look, it confirms that the technology just isn't there yet.
I'd say also deep linking into followthemoney.org would help more thoroughly explore a politician's alignment on issues.
Trialware is installed because it improves ROI on the product. Whether people want them or not is functionally irrelevant--whether they're willing to pay to not have them is relevant. If you're willing to pay more, feel free to demonstrate it. (I'm not, because I nuke-and-pave hardware when I get it.)
In college nobody knows if you really do pull an all nighter
AMD+Nvidia, not even kidding, i've made a ridiculous amount of money off them.
Article seems to be about (but fails to mention) web backends. Whether or not caching things on startup is s good or bad idea is probably different between a client and a server app.
Drug offenses, not marijuana possession specifically.
Playing the lottery and winning doesn't retroactively make you a tactical genius. Facebook saw a rising competitor, threw cash at the problem- a page from the playbook of practically every major corporation in history- and in the fullness of time came out ahead. This is a story about nothing.
> “Every time I took a bite, I zapped myself,” she said. “I did it five times on the first night, two times on the second night, and by the third day I didn’t have any cravings anymore.”

Really? Why is this better than inflicting other kinds of pain on yourself like flicking a rubber band, or pricking your finger? Where do you get motivation to even zap yourself at all?
Consider a simple production function:

===

Y = zF(K,L)

Output = Total Factor Productivity * Function of (Capital, Labor)

===

Think of TFP as all the environmental variables that make up "technological dynamism" or the economy's technological infrastructure (horse -> steam -> coal -> oil, human capital/education, etc.) that increase productivity in fundamental but intangible ways, and that can only be calculated indirectly.

If you hold TFP (z) and Capital (K) constant, an increase in Labor (L) (total number of hours worked) should increase output.

If investment in capital is decreasing (which it currently is) and subsequently the stock of capital decreases; or, if the TFP is decreasing (which is currently is), an increased amount of labor is required to keep output constant.

Weak/declining output = slow/negative GDP growth = "bad economy"

The "Cobb-Douglas" output model takes this simple model one step further by embedding the output elasticities of labor and capital into the production function, allowing one to build in diminishing marginal returns. I.E. every hour of labor or unit of capital above a certain point produces less output than the previous hour/unit. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobb%E2%80%93Douglas_productio...
I'm surprised you say it had fantastic specs. My case was the complete opposite: my Thinkpad had pretty terrible specs for the price I paid for it, but I'm yet to find a keyboard that comes close to it. I don't think the keyboard is incredible, but it's depressing most laptop's keyboards.
Easily Calling Windows APIs from PowerShell
Thank God for that. I was worried Boing Boing might earn five cents when I clicked on that Amazon link.
This is a way to encourage that. How would you make the case for massive public spending on infrastructure when lead limits are within those allowed by the EPA? Not only that, but in an era of concerns over employment (whether real or imagined), public spending can provide an economic boost as well [1].

http://www.epi.org/publication/impact-of-infrastructure-inve...
- Appointment reminder: how to ignore a business for four years, while not improving it and giving you stress

- financial planning using a spreadsheet, then moving to more expensive lifestyle, getting in debt and having the retirement fund turn negative when he has a wife and child and is closing down his companies. Something we can all learn from?

- when to borrow money and how to calculate risk: Except he says not to trust his calculation of risk when he encourages the reader to play poker against him if possible because he's so bad at risk estimation.

- when and how to sell your startup: again no, he says it put him in a bad position to be wanting to sell quickly, and he glosses over 'how' with "I know how because I've done it before". The only good read there is "don't wait until it is declining before selling, like Bingo Card Creator was".

- the trials of shipping (six weeks became three years): the trials of promising and pre-selling a thing, then changing your mind and doing a startup instead, and trying to turn that into a positive. (Aside: Three years? I wonder how long before there's a reasonable chance that some of the purchasers died before the release?)

- setting goals for the future: where he keeps saying he didn't meet his goals, or they have changed?

- the value of family: "I had not felt as effective as a husband / father recently as I wanted to be" - the value of family is lower than a side-business he was bored of and wants to sell? Lower than a "huge amount of personal fulfillment" that he got instead during that time? Lower than the guilt of refunding customers over his video series? If you were a potential customer and he said "I choose to spend more time with my family, I can't do this work justice, sorry, here's a refund", wouldn't you be fine with it?

I don't dislike him at all, I do respect him, and I like the transparent views into his life and businesses and plans and thoughts, but I'm not seeing the same things you are at all. If anything these are more cautionary tales along the lines of "you can sometimes get what you want with hard work, but it comes with a price".
From the grandfather post to yours:

"There's about 95,000 people in federal prison with a drug offense as their most serious charge. About 11,500 of those charges involved primarily marijuana. (The overwhelming majority of that is for trafficking, not possession.)"

So no, your statement is not correct. If we take 'overwhelming majority' of 11,500 as 60%, that would leave ~5000 prisoners whose 'most serious charge' is possession of marijuana. Or about 2.5% of the federal inmate population (all this assuming that the figures quoted are correct, I didn't source them myself).
I work in both the executive and IC sides, and no, the "ATTENTION AND EFFORT" clause is not standard, at least, not that I've seen. Typically at most you'll see no-moonlighting clauses but I've never seen them phrased quite so repugnantly as they have been here - after reading the blog post about Japanese salarymen in particular it makes me throw up in my mouth a little. I'll never sign anything that says "Employee will devote Employee’s entire productive time, ability, attention, and effort to furthering <company's> best interests". That's bullshit, and no, not common.
Is that USB-C fully compatible with the new MBP one?
Yes. I've gone through the process just to be safe. Took less than 24 hours to get approval.
tl;dr;

> First, I cannot stress enough that there is no new EmDrive “effect” yet about which to theorize. The physical evidence on the EmDrive is neither defensible nor does it include enough operating parameters to characterize a new effect. The data is not even reliable enough to deduce the force-per-power relationship, let alone any other important correlations.
Linux is available to you and a very good option for these machines.
I've got a 2016 model and things work pretty well with Ubuntu 16.10. Only gripe I have is bluetooth audio isn't working out-of-the-box.
It really does surprise me how a simple programming questions like this does stump the average interviewee. If they need a bit of guidance to get started, I never hold it against the candidate, but if they need a massive hand holding to come to a solution, or if they can't explain how their solution works and how it could be improved, then I know where they stand programming wise.

It is a low bar skills wise, and it tells a lot within a very short amount of time.
I think the answer is in the article:

>“It’s not designed to be painful,” he added. “It’s instantaneous, a surprise sensation, a shock that knocks you out of automatic mode.”

If something is completely a habit, your self-discipline doesn't really have an opportunity to engage.
In terms of industrial design, Samsung's ultrabooks are excellent, in my opinion:
http://www.samsung.com/us/computing/windows-laptops/12-14/no...
I have a T460p, Quad Core (i7-6820HQ), 32 GB of RAM. I am satisfied. The T470p will also be available soon.
Why is Hacker news so popular, with its rudimentary comment system? The user community.

Instagram became popular with the right celebrities at the right time - someone internal to the company no doubt has the user acquisition timeline and has worked out who the "patient zero" was. This sparked a wave of people joining to follow them and has effectively supplanted OK! magazine and similar. Just have a look at the most popular accounts:

http://www.dailydot.com/debug/most-followed-instagram-accoun...

There's essentially two big themes represented there, female celebrities and footballers.