skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I block anything that looks like penetration testing or content scraping if there's no chance of false positives. Even when there's no vulnerability present, it conserves resources on dynamically generated sites.
I end this conversation.

I guess it shouldn't really matter since someone else equivalent to both of us will step in to continue it. I mean, if Albert Einstein is easily replaceable as you said, you and I can't be important for the continuation of anything.
The game is working great technically. But it gets boring quickly. As the level is increased, it doesn't get more difficult only tedious. It just takes longer but you're more or less following one path with little chance to make decisions. There should be many sub paths (and most of them lead to dead end) for difficult level.
That and the Russian propaganda machine might at any moment decide to have you killed.

How convincing do you think these epigrams actually are? The reality is that the US media market provides a vastly more credible stream of current events information than Russia's ever has. Does that make the US media credible? It's hard to say. Russia is a very, very low bar to clear.
You realize that historically U.S. markets have not worked that way, and putting your money under your mattress instead of investing it resulted in dramatically lower returns?
Thanks for that. NYT lifestyle stories can be so dreadfully middle-of-the-road (while taking their subjects oh-so-seriously).
Maybe it's easier and less costly to find someone who's already qualified than to determine whether someone is capable of being trained, and then train them.

As it happens, big companies already have to train even the most qualified new employees, because they usually have developed complicated internal cultures and systems. Training someone in basic qualifications on top of that is a big ask.

One of the few employers who does that is the military, and they often spend years training people. On the other side of that, officers who receive lots of training are usually legally obligated to serve the military for several years. Though even a basic enlisted man will spend maybe 1/2 to 1/4 of his first four-year enlistment in training.

At-will employment makes that kind of contract impossible in the private sector. So not only is it a big ask for companies to train unqualified people, it's an even bigger ask for them to do so knowing that as soon as those trainees are qualified, they can and often will jump ship to another company.

That might be a risk companies are willing to bear if they're badly in need of qualified folks and can get a competitive advantage that way. I'm generally more sympathetic to an actual business case to that effect rather than vague, entitled complaints about corporate America.
Indeed there are. I _want_ to reward the authors of technical books, but there's no way I'm going to pay the outrageous prices Australian distributors want. It's still much cheaper to buy from Amazon and pay shipping from the US/UK to AU than buy locally. That assumes 1) you can find a bookstore and 2) they have the title you want in stock.

And Aussie retailers wonder why people are revolting and buying online...
Assuming you're right, who cares? Why must large corporations train employees if they don't feel it's in their best interests?
Has everybody already forgotten that OStatus¹ is a federated, open, production-ready protocol for Twitter-like notifications? Seems like building an OStatus-based clearing-house for messages and charging based on message volume would be a more sensible thing than trying to start a whole new ecosystem.

¹ http://ostatus.org/sites/default/files/ostatus-1.0-draft-2-s...
It kind of annoys me that we've got all these "kind-of, sort-of" related stack exchange sites for programming and whether one question belongs on Stack Overflow, or Programmers.SE or cstheory.SE or whatever is often quite hit-and-miss.

But then, on the other hand, you have tags on Stack Overflow that are almost separate sites in and of themselves. Usually this happens when companies start using Stack Overflow as the defacto support forum for their product (a lot of Google stuff uses this, e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/google-apps-script or http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android etc)
$ softwareupdate -i -a [install, all] as it avoids the (slow) UI and you can schedule it if you want to.

Not sure if it'll carry across to ML, what with updates going through the Mac App Store there.
Recouping is about changing your mental context. Disconnect by turning off your phone and computer, then go outside and do something you haven't done before. Try doing this for two or more days in a row. Anything with real face-to-face human interaction where you don't discuss topics having to do with work is a major bonus.
I'm wondering if there's something about computer related tech fields that tends to promote unkind, amoral, and short-sighted outlooks on the world.

Don't forget drama.
I can't stand the "breakdowns" from iSuppli: as if raw components were the only cost! There are the massive teams of software engineers, not only to write the software, but to maintain it over time. There are shipping costs, labor for manufacturing and quality control, advertising, marketing, R&D for all the unshipped iterations, legal and compliance issues (for every single country), data centers, overhead, infrastructure, and more. Sure, some of these are fixed costs, and some can be absorbed by revenues from other product lines, but it's not like you can just subtract components and arrive at the take-home profit.

All that said, I'm sure that Apple still takes in a good profit on every low-end unit. But I don't see their overpriced storage as a gouge (or at least, an unreasonable one). Rather, it also acts as a subsidy: all the people who can afford a 64GB/3G iPad make up the difference profit-wise for the 16GB/WiFi, allowing them to offer it at a lower margin, both to entice users in and then up-sell, and also to grow the market share. Other industries do this kind of thing all the time, for cars, game consoles, etc.

Is Apple overcharging you on storage? Most certainly. But I don't think it's anything worthy of outrage. If it's not a good value proposition for you, don't buy it. There are plenty of alternate tablets which include micro-SD slots.
I disagree that there is a problem. The problem is that you are choosing to apply at places that employ hiring mechanisms that you personally object to.

So I think that you're the problem. Some people appreciate the rigorous screening. If you don't, apply somewhere else.
You have to ask yourself, what is the process by which prolonged standing causes or exacerbates atherosclerosis, then try to reason through how much standing you'd need to do to increase your risk significantly. I find stuff like this to be un-encouraging:

A recent study reports a reduction of plasma volume by 500-550ml or about 16% after only 15 minutes of quiet standing. The reduction in plasma volume in turn triggers several changes that can be grouped into hemodynamic and humoral effects, including but not limited to increased hemoconcentration, increased release of catecholamines, changes in pulse pressure, and increased heart rate. For example, one recent study measured a significant increase in heart rate and catecholamines after 10 minutes of standing for men with CVD and also for healthy referents. (em mine)

Increases catecholamines = increased stress.
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Get it out of your system. It's only going to last for a short while. Get everything out that you can. Your mind is going for some reason, so why stop it?

A lot of people here are going to argue it's unhealthy to be like that, but after me and my wife split, I started filling an amazing amount of time with work, and it honestly became very therapeutic. When I sat down in front of my computer, I felt like I was going into my woodshop, creating, making beautiful things.

It boosted my self esteem and gave me confidence I didn't have for a long time. That's just one instance where it's not unhealthy to unleash and give into that drive.
Code reuse works at the library level, not the individual object level. You're not exactly fishing an object out of a worldwide sea of classes there.

Actually, immutability can code reuse pretty easy, but many OO systems make no effort to encourage that (one reason Python is not my favorite language).
I was reading a book recently that called getting arrested, "being put on the electronic plantation". This was just getting an arrest too, not even a conviction. The logic was that all the good jobs do background checks nowadays and won't even interview someone with an arrest. So someone working retail with an arrest wouldn't be able to move up to bank teller, for example. Now throw in that you can be arrested even in cases where you are innocent or in cases of identity theft...
DOE awards Intel, Nvidia, AMD to "research" exascale supercomputing
"The VC/company relationship is really not at all like an employer/employee relationship."

They can fire you, and you can't fire them. That means you are the employee, and they are the employer. If everything goes great, you'll never have to put that relationship to the test. But things don't always go great...
Programming is not like breathing.
I hope that they replaced or repaired the automated system. How did it turn out?
`security` lets you manipulate your Keychains.

`say` lets you do text-to-speech in command line.
If you're talking about the social contract... who is supposed to train employees? It's certainly the case currently that the US workforce bears the burden of training itself currently often by taking on substantial debt to afford a college degree.

But to say that companies that operate in the US don't have a substantial interest in ensuring that the US has a trained and skilled work force... that just seems dangerously short sighted.
Although it is also a very good point that even with modern hardware many orders of magnitude faster than the emulated hardware, most emulators have to resort to timing hacks to make everything run smoothly, and because of timing inconsistencies when locking, parallelism is of limited use even when emulating multiple hardware components that originally ran in parallel. To emulate a human brain, we're probably either going to need far more sensitive locking across multiple cores than is currently even imagined, or we're going to have to emulate the whole massively parallel thing on a single thread on a CPU much, much more powerful than a brain.
Pretty cool but another thing missing from this is the dynamic lighting. If you make an enclosed space it's just as bright inside as daylight. The lighting in minecraft is simple but extremely effective. Here's a nice demo/test from Notch from when he was working on that:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnvqvFsNkq0
off-topic, but what's this font?

https://github.com/myusuf3/octogit/raw/gh-pages/assets/img/r...
Automated resume rejection makes a lot of sense.

If there are 200 applicants for a position, software which eliminates all of the candidates only has 0.5% error.

That's pretty good AI.
You're two steps ahead of where I am.

I'm talking about a basic acknowledgement that the resume was received. An email like this would suffice:

"Hello. Thanks for applying to FooCorp. We're currently processing resumes in the order they are received. If you meet our needs and we're interested, we'll be in touch within 4-6 weeks."

The fact that the job sites don't even enable this kind of tracking and behavior is, frankly, very disappointing.
I don't know anything about your specific case (obviously) but what you describe isn't necessarily a bad thing. In some organizations, one of the rules of HR is to add a level of corporate sanity-checking to a process which is otherwise driven by individual managers -- by creating additional unstated requirements if necessary.

To take an extreme case, if Bob the VP of Sales decides he wants to create a "Senior Engineer III" position with a salary of $300k/year based on requirements drawn from his 13 year old nephew's resume, it's entirely appropriate for HR to add an unpublished "should have education or work experience suitable for a $300k/year job" requirement and not accept Bob's 13 year old nephew as a match for the job.

No system is perfect, but that doesn't mean that it's wrong to have such systems in place.
Do these stats take into account device density? I wonder if the higher density flash chips are more expensive.

About a year ago 4GB DDR3 SODIMM's were about $50/each but 8GB versions which required twice as dense chips were around $500/each - there was a huge premium on the dense chips.

Now the prices have dropped to roughly $30 and $70 respectively, which is much closer to a linear price/size curve.

Does anyone know if flash pricing follows a similar curve?
Octocat's spoon-knife?
If you're an early stage company, the pre-revenue kind that we tend to think about when we talk about VCs on HN, the VC is buying a stake in 2-4 years of your output when they invest in you. Sure, they can "fire" you, in the sense that they often have the ability to vote you out of the company you founded, but this is usually a loss for them, not a win; they staked you, and you end up walking.

Anyways, the number of instances we can cite of a VC removing an officer of a company because they were discovered to have written mean things about VC in the abstract is... let me go out on a limb here...
> If accurate I must be unlucky to hit so many locked questions.

Well, there's another possibility... A lot of those 200 locked posts were created when Stack Overflow was still very young, and are quite popular - they're locked because they turned into discussions or polls and are pretty much played out when it comes to getting anything answered, but keeping them around preserves whatever value made them popular. It's hardly surprising that you might stumble onto a few of the more popular posts regularly - there are a lot of links out there to some of them.

It's pretty safe to say that something like this - http://stackoverflow.com/q/686216/ - doesn't need more answers, and doesn't need to be repeated. But it's there, locked, in the archive for those who want to refer back to it.
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Companies have an interest in there being a trained and skilled work force -- which is why they lobby for the government to spend tax dollars on education and training.

There's no inconsistency between it not being advantageous for companies to spend their own money training people and it being advantageous for companies to spend everybody's money training people.
Do something that brings you into your body and out of your head. Dance, music, exercise, meditation: all these practices encourage you to take your attention away from explicit verbal thought and focus on your somatic experience. It will be difficult at first: your mind is a muscle, and its currently in the habit of listening to itself talk, but the more you practice rooting your attention in your body and it's experience of the world (which is far, far richer, by the way, than we're usually aware of, thanks to our predisposition to thinking), the better your right hemisphere will be able to inhibit your left, and your mental chatter will begin to quiet, allowing you to be more fully present and focus on rejuvenating activities. (Don't worry -- when you go back to work, you'll be able to pick right back up where you left off, only you'll be more energized and balanced.)

If you're into it, here's an (hour-long) intro to mindfulness by Jon Kabat-Zinn, a well-known name in Western meditation circles (he basically rebranded meditation as mindfulness to bring it into Western medicine): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nwwKbM_vJc
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For $50, you can get a portable, adjustable height one: http://www.amazon.com/Invacare-Over-Bed-Table/dp/B000QA0EHI - they're not flimsy, can take ~20lbs (more then enough for a laptop + reasonably sized screen).
Oh? So how do I use it to detect which box model to use in my CSS?

How do I use it to detect whether I can use gradients?

And if you're just thinking about javascript, I've ran into a few text manipulation functions that always returned "not implemented". But hey, sniffer says they're there!

edit: Oh, and there's still plenty of html fun, too. How does your browser support <video>? <thead>? <svg>? I'm guessing the answer starts with "javascript".
ST2 is a great text editor (I like vim more) - and a text editor is what it should be compared to.

Intellij/RubyMine are slow to start (initially) because they are indexing and giving you some of the most powerful refactoring support you could ask for. I sincerely doubt ST2 could will ever match this functionality.

They can be bloated but so can Emacs with all its plugins and so can ST2 by the time it starts to resemble an IDE in features.
We were well on our way to wiping out malaria until DDT was banned. Millions of people have died due to that decision.
Yeah this is a very limited subset of what Minecraft does and arguably the implemented bits are the low hanging fruit. I wrote a "game" in my teens that covers this functionality, though in C++ not JS on a browser.
It makes me sad when cool things like this don't support keyboard layouts other than QWERTY
Virtually every great tech company was built with the help of VCs. Google, Amazon, Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, Yelp, etc.

The alternatives to these companies winning was not an open solution run by a co-op of hippies. The alternative was some shittier solution by Microsoft, MySpace, Yahoo, or even nothing at all.

It really might be nicer if The Search Engine (Google), The Message Broadcasting Platform (Twitter), The Social Platform (Facebook) were NOT run by private companies, with all their faults and biases. It would be better for the world if every person and company could build on them in a completely competitive and fair way. We would get better stuff.

It just doesn't seem to work out that way. Either people aren't motivated to do it or it's not possible. Whatever the case it's just not how things work (for now).

Given the way it does work VCs contribute in a very important way. Their effect seems to be purely additive. They don't prevent anyone from succeeding by alternative means.

Mitt Romney seems like a very different kind of VC than helped tech companies. He handled much later stage stuff (IIRC), making him more of an investment banker type.
Link to the manufacturer's site: http://www.hardkernel.com/renewal_2011/products/prdt_info.ph...

You can also add on Wi-Fi for $9, and other stuff too.
Regardless, people tend to make purchases based on the perceived value, not based on component cost.

I mean, is Slate going to do a car comparison and create an argument for consider horsepower per dollar (or cubic feet of storage per dollar, or seats per dollar, or whatever metric you fancy most) when purchasing a vehicle? I mean, does it really cost thousands of dollars more to produce a 6-cylinder engine over a 4-cylinder, plus a beefier transmission and driveline components? Of course not.
Seconded. I would suggest, however, that deliberately trying to stop thinking is likely to backfire, much like the instruction "Don't think of an elephant" backfires.

I like to describe the key to meditation as acceptance: whatever you become aware of, be it a thought, a sound, or an itch, simply be aware of it without judging it (or yourself), and then take your attention back to the object of meditation, often the breath. If you do this patiently and diligently, your thoughts will slow down of their accord, and you'll find yourself sinking deeper and deeper into a state of quietude that we information workers are nearly doomed to miss out on if we don't make a point of cultivating it.
So because of that your takeaway is that the breakdowns are useless?

Take that data for what it is and don't expect from it what it isn't.

And they do estimate manufacturing costs BTW, plus boxing costs - basically all the costs of making the widget. They don't claim to, and don't, estimate other costs, that's just not what they do.
Enterprise IT Adoption Cycles
This is so very true...
Headline cleverness is a zero sum game. I'd rather have drier titles instead of a psychological hacking competition, and scan for content quality (as loosely indicated by upvotes) and subject relevancy.
Yes, it was a flawed analogy (aren't they all...).

However, these DOS-games usually fail in sped up emulations because they make assumptions about external inputs such as the Real Time Clock.

I think the point of OP was that we can't reasonably speed up the "RTC" in a brain emulation if you want it to interact with the real world, because that would break all sorts of hardwired assumptions.

For a simple example, if you ran your brain at 4x speed then it would perceive everything in super-slow-motion. At that speed it would already have difficulties to understand when you speak to it (at the least it will have to be a very patient brain).

At higher speeds pretty much all cognitive functions would probably break down - unless you feed it recorded inputs that have been accelerated to match the brain-speed.
Usually you leave an empty space on the board to be filled with extra memory for the higher version. (And for some devices there are services that will solder in a chip for you in that spot.)

It's not typical to use different density chips since then you have to tune the rest of the system to match, and that's more complicated.
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I did some research online and came to the same conclusion. I really like my $22 solution that addresses that. I've been using it for a month now and it's phenomenal. http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4134307

I'm not a fan of laptop on a flat surface... because do you put it on the right surface for your arms? Or your eyes? Something is losing out.
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http://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2012/03/01/personas-are-joini...

The term chosen was "background theme", since a background image is essentially all that they are.

"Skin" was also under consideration.
It's frustrating that one cannot make an analogy these days on the internet without some people assuming that you're making a comparison of the analogues. If a comparison seems unreasonable, it seems to me like the obvious thing to do is reread it and see if it makes sense as an analogy instead.

The problem is that an analogy's illustrative power is increased by using an extreme analogue, so if you interpret a good analogy as a comparison, it will always look like hyperbole. On the other hand, intentionally misconstruing analogies as comparisons is a great dark-side rhetorical technique, if you're into that sort of thing.
and don't forget to sleep in a Hostel
This is simply called segmented prices http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination

By all accounts it's a good thing, since it lets those with lower budgets still get the device, and yet still allows the manufacturer to make a profit.

You want to make a device for every price point your customers are willing to pay.

Cars do it too - those extras you can pay for don't cost anywhere near as much as you pay, they are simply there to make extra profit.

That's why you have the high/mid/low models of virtually every device, and the price difference is not anywhere near the performance difference (look at intel CPUs for example).

When you go to a car wash do you really think that extra shine/wax/whatever spray really costs that much? It doesn't, it's simply a way to make a little extra from those who are willing to spend it.
An FPGA implementation of a Microbee