skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Check out the "smartalign" package in NASM: it contains 1-8 byte nop instructions for several different x86 variants: http://repo.or.cz/w/nasm.git/blob/a2c78555770990ed966c414da9...

You can use xxd and objdump to see which all of these translate into. For example, here's an 8-byte nop for x86-64:

$ echo '0x0f,0x1f,0x84,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00' | xxd -r > /tmp/bincode
$ objdump -M intel -D -b binary -mi386 -Mx86-64 /tmp/bincode

/tmp/bincode: file format binary

Disassembly of section .data:

00000000 <.data>:
0: 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 nop DWORD PTR [rax+rax*1+0x0]
7: 00
I am a developer and I definitely agree with the above.

The reason your programmer is not motivated anymore is because he doesn't care. This does not mean that he will never care, just that he does not care right now.

So how do you get him to care? Talk to him directly. Be clear about what you want (his commitment to the work that you are paying him for) and find out what he wants. Then, assuming he is being reasonable, find a way to get him what he wants provided that he is providing you with quality work.

What motivates me personally? Learning new technologies, interesting projects, financial rewards for good work, and knowing that my employer cares.

I start to lose motivation when I've learned the new techs that my job calls for, when the projects begin to get stale/repetitive, when I start to feel like a cog in the wheel of a machine, and when raises come too slow.

There could also be something wrong in his personal life or maybe he has a new obsession (girlfriend, video games, new social circle).

I hope this gives you some perspective. Good luck.
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"I’ll be as big as three Xbox 360s and as expensive as three Xbox 360s." a little more than $200, i think
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I think the Senators have a problem with Google's size because they analogize it to other corporations of the 19th and 20th centuries whose size went with considerable power. Google does have plenty of influence, but it does not have the kind of legal power through capital ownership an old-time vertically integrated conglomerate had or that a telecommunications company often has now.

Migrating from Google to another service, or suite of them, wouldn't be terribly difficult, especially since they seem to be fairly good about data portability.
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Depends completely on the startup. You'll get better information by asking about the management structure at a startup that you're interested in working for.
It does, but you have to explicitly turn it on for the pages you care about.
I think the Senators have a problem with Google's size because they analogize it to other corporations of the 19th and 20th centuries whose size went with considerable power. Google does have plenty of influence, but it does not have the kind of legal power through capital ownership an old-time vertically integrated conglomerate had or that a telecommunications company often has now.

Migrating from Google to another service, or suite of them, wouldn't be terribly difficult, especially since they seem to be fairly good about data portability.

Addendum: the old post title seemed fine and less linkbaity.
Also, ask your new hires for opinions on recruiters. They've just been barraged by recruiters, and will likely have an idea of which are worth anything.
> Frankly, sorting my past transactions just isn't a problem I desperately need to have solved.

That's also not a problem you need to be a bank to solve. Mint and others are already doing a lot of innovation by pulling existing transaction data and offering powerful tools/visualizations for it.

Banks are never the best place to get powerful analytics, because they are limited to the accounts you have with that bank. No one wants to be limited to one financial institution, or have to change accounting systems just because you switched banks.
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I skimmed the page five times before I ever saw the words "Software Developer." Everything about that page screams TLDR.

The information contained is informative but it doesn't even have a decent summary.
Bias may be injected due to being from one of the frameworks.

See also:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1822518/current-state-of-...
He asked both question, that was a separate one in general meaning. As for Google showing snippets of Yelp or anyone else that is still lawful, the whole search business is built of snippets and fair use.
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> Don’t get stuck with building a platform stack with Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings from Heroku, CloudFoundry and OpenShift – we’ll give you out-of-the-box features that offer a much easier and richer user experience.

That's a useless pitch, it tells me nothing about the product, which simply generates an API for you. (I had to go to the website to figure that out -- http://www.kinvey.com/) I can't imagine this as a one-size-fits-all solution, except for the simplest of CRUD apps.

also: http://xkcd.com/927/
From what I understand that is an issue with the Telcom, not with Google.
I've had exactly this idea! It's sort of like a credit card, except a "swipe" just gives the merchant an end-point to send bills to. You still have to authorize each bill, but your bank could automatically pay any bills that you haven't contested by their due date (or whatever policy you prefer).

I am TERRIBLE at paying bills on time, even though I always have the money to pay them. There's way too much diligence required.
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Why shouldn't Google attempt to drive traffic to their own products? If I write two books, should I be able to recommend one in the other? How is this any different?
No, that meme is wrong, it's not similar. You bought Windows and Microsoft bundled IE with it, you didn't by Google you use it, Google is Google's. And no one says that search must be just the 10 links and nothing more.
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Blekko's "search engine monte" provides blinded results from their own search as well as from Google and Bing [1], so you can perform your own experiments.

1. http://blekko.com/ws/hacker+news+/monte
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They expect him to be able to say "We know that we are not tampering with search results because of x, y, and z"--a strong statement--instead of "Search is a magic box that is imperfect. Shrug?" which is kinda what he said.
One day you'll be able to buy one for <$200, but not this one. Just having one available at $600-$800 will be huge. Imagine if the rich kid in your neighborhood had one of these when you were growing up.

I'm curious about operational costs though. Even if the initial investment is within reach of well-to-do middle-classers, dropping $60 every time little Jimmy wants to "print" his latest robot model could get old really, really quickly.
"Open source" and "non-commercial license" are mutually exclusive. See the Open Source Definition, which is the official definition of the term "open source" by the people who invented it, http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd, point 6, "No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor," whose rationale is explained on http://www.opensource.org/osd.html: "The major intention of this clause is to prohibit license traps that prevent open source from being used commercially. We want commercial users to join our community, not feel excluded from it."
I wonder what the cost increase would be of making it from pyrex or polycarbonate. It definitely wouldn't be a very Apple thing to do, but it would be nice.
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Enterprise software may be Apotheker's core competency, but I don't think it has been proven this is HP's core competency.

Maybe they expected Apotheker to do more in building the enterprise before he started killing HP's consumer business.
Tangent: I saw the "A Design Challenge" that the job submission should should include a document that addresses the issue.

As each instance starts, it boots its AMI. That image includes a snapshot of the checked-out eBook repository as of the date the image was created. Each gerbil, as it starts, updates this cache to get the latest version. This involves checking out perhaps 500Mb of data per instance, as new books will have been added and existing books updated since the instance was frozen. As a result, it will often take 30–45 minutes to start 10 instances.

Am I off base here thinking that a fairly obvious solution to address the 30-45 minute cold start is to NOT pull the entire library of book templates from svn at startup? Rather, why not simply update just the template(s) currently stacked up in the job queue? So instead of a 500MB pull your looking at maybe 1 or 2 before you can start processing a job in the queue.

I wonder if this "challenge" is an existing problem or something they've already addressed. Has relying only on "on demand" cache updating been tried already (seems like it would have been since it seems like an obvious possible solution) if so what was the result?
again, you're using 'snippets' out of context and taking the letter of the politician's word at the expense of his intent.
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I don't see an option for it, but you can replace the entire home screen app (though maybe not if your carrier has locked it?), which could accomplish the same thing if there was a good bing-based home screen out there.
Microsofts case would have been (or should have been) bolstered if their next largest competitors were all doing exactly the same things. All Google has to do to point out that these things are a natural part of search is point at Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, Baidu, etc -- and look for maps, places, condensed information and answers served up directly.

Microsoft was hamstrung by not having any competitors doing the same thing. It makes it more difficult to make that argument.
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Thank you very much, very helpful insights.
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It is hard to debug by "print $abc;" when $abc is code reference. So you bless code reference with package providing stringification override to print out closure position (file, line) and "near" defined variables. Pretty useful!
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"Putting rules on things" is the path to the dark side - aka corporate proxies.
I'd agree with the call for pictures. Either something rather neutral and abstract (50s style silhouettes and line drawing) or some actual images – preferably not just middle-class white people (social networks also need upper-class hipsters…).

Also, I think it's mandatory to mention the word "foodie" at least once.
No health care for a full-time position? Not a great template.
If you kept reading the paragraph you quote, it also says "since Microsoft began breaking out that unit's finances in 2007, the company has lost a total of $9 billion." While the title of this post is not stating a clear timeline for the loss, it still is technically correct.

And the original comment you're referring to isn't stating a clear bias against Microsoft, per se. It's more that they're stating a general perception: that Microsoft is Windows and that it's mostly a desktop software provider. I think we can all agree that the general public agrees with that.

Don't worry - not all of us are out to get Microsoft.
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Exactly. I've been using Assistly for about 3 months now and I can't imagine handling customer support without it.
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Not so sad I skipped the Brisk talk at strange loop now.
Could't you address the design challenge with auto-updating the AMI instances?

http://pragprog.com/wikis/wiki/ADesignChallenge

http://shlomoswidler.com/2010/01/creating-consistent-snapsho...
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Start up drama doesn't not really help "founders meet and talk", so I would say it is just as off topic.
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I'm very happy for their success, I really see GitHub as one of the most rapidly evolving services; my only wish is for BitBucket to receive the same care.
It all just Depends, there is no 1 strict rule. How old is the Start-up and how much it has raised. All these and more vectors come in place.

In a Bootstrapped or recently Seed Funded startup, The Founders pretty much do everything. In Later stage startups, the management structure starts to take shape as more people are brought on-board.
So I'm getting more interested in banking and accounting, largely because a friend and I are starting a business for the first time. When I saw "Accounting for Computer Scientists" on HN (http://martin.kleppmann.com/2011/03/07/accounting-for-comput...) it was a revelation to me, because I didn't realize that accounting could be so cleanly modeled as a graph structure.

Ever since then I've been itching to create some git-like software for accounting, where you have a repository of accounts and transactions. I feel like there is so much unexplored territory here in terms of analysis and visualization. For example, I want a way of saying "this insurance bill is for six months of coverage" and then seeing my bi-weekly breakdown of expenses include two weeks worth of that insurance bill. I want to be able to tag expenses as non-discretionary (taxes), periodic (mortgage), or discretionary (latte) as an easy way of understanding my overall cash flow. I want to be able to amortize my vacations over the whole year. etc.

I want to be able to view what my hypothetical cash flow would be if I cut out certain periodic expenses or added others.

A lot of this is probably more complicated than what most people would want to do -- that's why I think the important part is having a standard repository model that's easily programmable.
They won't. Instead, they'll call Meg Whitman.
Wouldn't be an issue if you projected it from the underside, even though that doesn't seem to be the plan here.
He's probably suffering from a quarter life crisis. A common thing in generation Y.
Let's say Google entered a clearly different market, such as making & delivering pizza. Further say: Google's pizza is slightly more expensive and somewhat less good than pizza created by their competitors. Based on that, we would ordinarily guess that their market share will be low to nonexistent.

But let's say Google reserves the most prominent position on their SERP for hundreds of relevant queries for one-click pizza delivery. Maybe the majority of people will still click through to Goat Hill Pizza or whatever, with tastier, cheaper pizza. But Google's more prominent position gives them an advantage vs. their competitor, and that will lead to increased and probably significant market share.

Now this is the key: we users could decide that Google's promotion of bad pizza on their SERP means we should switch to Bing. But Google's search engine is, despite this one bad case, still far superior to Bing's. So according to standard micro-economic analysis, pretty much all of us stick with Google, so Google Pizza continues to get the boost.

In summary, in this hypothetical, Google is using the "excess" excellence of their search engine to increase market share of very different products. Since those products may be unusually profitable, they also have an increased ability to drive competitors out of the market. If unchecked, wealthy firms with one great product can use this technique to extend their monopoly into more and more fields. The end result is that more consumers end up with worse quality products and (over time) fewer options due to less competition.

(Note: I'm not arguing that this is truly happening in real life. I'm trying to explain how even a free product with monopolistic dominance can be used to take over other markets with inferior products.)
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Interesting, I think it would be one of the first.

The reason why is that people that you hire early and that put together the core of the company will have a bunch of extremely important knowledge that will be very hard to transfer to another new hire. If a start-up spends a great deal of time replacing people that were hired and that left just as fast that would seriously affect continuity.

It is for that very reason that in later funding rounds it is not unusual to ask these people to sign on for an X number of years in return for some stock with a vesting period.
I found this a little strange. Isn't it generally cheaper per employee for a company to secure group health insurance than it is for each employee to get their own? Even if the employee was paying 100% through an employer-sponsored plan, they would save 25-30% right off the bat due to it coming out of pretax income, right?
I don't see on the "Making of Origo" page anything about what material they're using, but ABS plastic isn't that expensive, especially for small models. They also ask (but don't answer) "What if it could recycle its own material?", so little Jimmy will have to pick and choose which robot models to keep around, but could in principle make a new one without a huge investment in substrate.
As a general rule (ie I'm not taking sides here) - it makes it more difficult for higher quality options to compete.
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Agreed, the $9Bn refers to declared losses by the online services division.

However you come across as claiming that Microsoft is being victimised by a conspiracy of unreasoning and unreasonable hatred by HNers and the mods. "Blatant bias"? Really?

I would suggest that people (not just HNers) know exactly what Microsoft is like and how badly they have behaved, if people are biased against Microsoft it is for a good reason. Microsoft have earned their reputation.
It's a bit too much gymnastics for my brain right now but shouldn't one also look at this from the perspective of Google's paying customers, i.e. advertisers? Looking only at those who use Google to search seems to be missing one half of the business.
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Exactly...I don't mind facebook or twitter at work. Heck, I spend a good 30-45 minutes a day there. That's normal.

The problem is when it's 80% of the day, and that's where we seem to be at this week.
Ohh, I didn't realized you'd interviewed them. My apologies
No he's good. I've hired/fired devs before...I have no plans on firing him. I just need to tweak....something.
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They provide a great service, and I use them all the time, but I don't like how their pricing scheme works for freelancers. You end up with a million small private repositories, and BitBucket has much more reasonable options.
You don't add yet another banking service, you switch from your existing bank to BankSimple. The fact that they're not really a bank but partner with existing institutions is a behind-the-scenes thing that you never come into contact with as a BankSimple customer.
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I was just thinking about setting it up for a client for his iphone app and couldn't remember the name...glad this worked out.
For the curious, here's a few extra links from this talk: http://warpspire.com/talks/responsive/

Hope you enjoy!
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That is a naive view... anti-trust exists to take choice away from the consumer and put it in the hands of the government, thus making companies more beholden to them.
I know, but I guess that's called frustration because of WP7 stagnation. Both Android and iOS get planty of updates with new features and WP7 users are still waiting to get the basics like background audio since almost one year.
No you're right they should merge and they have been planning to for months and after giving $10,000,000 to a marketing firm the board decided on YewPoo.
It's pretty awful in the stock configuration, at least unless you disable LTE (in which case why did you buy an LTE phone?) or root it and use SetCPU.

Honestly, it's BS that you need to either root the device or disable its flagship feature to get acceptable battery life out of it. It's annoying enough that depending on what the new iPhone looks like, I'm tempted to bite the bullet and pay full price for it since I'm not eligible for an upgrade.
Discussed at considerable length a month ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2895474

At that time I said this:

It feels to me that all he's done is show that the
"instantly" in the usual definition of markets being
"efficient" is a nonsense. Prices must take time to
compute, you can't know the correct price instantly
even with access to all the past information.

He proves that, but it doesn't seem that surprising
to me.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2895531

That was expanded on a great deal, and other observations made.

There was also an earlier version of the paper submitted some 19 months ago, also with a great deal of discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1144548
Well done GitHub! Keep up the good work.
I used to be terrible with these, until I sent up a lot of automatic payments. For the most part this is just logging into the various provider's websites and setting it up. The one I can't do this for is rent, so my bank has a bill-pay function that just sends our landlord a check for the rent every month. It has been very convenient and when he comes by and claims we didn't pay we can point out it was already mailed and he's the one who lost it (he is very disorganized).
But I think that the startup culture would do well to evolve away from using recruiters and rely more on networking.

The problem with that is that it makes it even more incestuous and hard to enter from outside. Yes, yes, if you can't find an employee to introduce you, you're not trying hard enough, etc, just like pitching a VC.

But seriously, given how hard a time we're having getting new blood now, making it harder to get in is negative progress. It's a lose.
You offered him 20% less money and some percentage of nothing? Are you really shocked he didn't take it?

If it wasn't your company, would you "spend" $15,000 on the equity you offered?
BankSimple is a bank, so there's no delay (beyond however long it takes your actual bank to get the data).
Then again, BankSimple's only purpose is great service. They delegate the actual money to a partner bank. So... Yeah. It doesn't really get much better than that in terms of motivation.
Yeah, it's ridiculous. I have enough repos that I'd need the Platinum 200 dollar a month plan.

All the repos are small and most are updated once or twice a year -- but the pricing is the same as if I had a whole team of people pushing to github every day.
True. But if they don't have that, it's hard to tell if they're really good. In a startup, that may be a reason to reject them by itself :-/

With engineers, at least there's a semi-reasonable way to see in a few hours if they can code. It's not clear that you can do anything similar for designers.
I'm slightly amused by the fact that Salesforce is one of their investors, so they just paid themselves.
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Unless you're not related to a ex-military person. Then it meets none of your needs, since you can't use it.