skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ARM Cortex M4 is quite an amazing core, actually. The DSP instruction set is beautiful in its simplicity, and the best part is the table with clock cycles per instruction ("1" in all rows).

On a related note, I wonder — the OP used a Freescale Kinetis microcontroller, those begin at around $2.50 at Farnell. Meanwhile, Texas Instruments still hasn't began distributing their Tiva (formerly Stellaris) chips, with the M4F core. I wonder when they'll finally get around to it, and whether the pricing will be competitive with Kinetis.
Is it my imagination, or has the number of sign-ups dropped dramatically since introducing the £6 fee?

I don't think the amount being asked for is unreasonable, considering the speakers, the beer and pizza, and I agree with why it was introduced, but is the new system still filing up the venue in the end? Before the sign-up fee, a week before a meetup, it wouldn't be uncommon to see most/all of the 4-500 slots already filled up.

Sanderson is hilarious though. A great addition! Something to look forward to, since sometimes some of the talks can get a little... less interesting.
Fuck LinkedIn and everything it symbolizes and reinforces. Die, die, die.
This is not like the sports industry is today. It is however like the sports industry used to be.

In the past sports agents worked both for the team and the player. This lead to exactly this situation, players and clubs getting shafted by the agents.

It changed when some smart person decided that the clubs and the players should have their own agents, and that if a club wanted a player because of their talent - which is the main reason - they had to engage their own agent 1) to attract the player 2) negotiate a price with the play's agent. The pplayer paid their agent 10%, and it was their job to defend the interests of the players against the interest of the club.

Hence today we have players paid huge amounts based on their talent.
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> closed and collisionless solutions with any out-of-plane components would be newsworthy and immediately publishable.

Trivial example: What about two tiny spaceships (they're small enough that their effect on each other is negligble) orbiting a star, one orbiting in the XY plane the other in the XZ plane?
Economics of Application Virtulization on AWS
Given current EC2 pricing, deploying your application tier directly to EC2 VMs is the wrong architecture for many use cases. Using a Linux Container isolated and application centric platform can provide up to 10x+ hard cost savings vs. a VM instance based approach.
No sane e-mail client executes Javascript from mails.
Wow, that increments the possibility of finding weapons of mass destruction there to the roof!
Sure but then it's not a contest of moral turpitude. Gitmo is probably better than any camp in North Korea, it doesn't make it any less despicable.

Calling VC 'human garbage' is, at the end of the day, just nerd message-board hyperventilating. And it's still completely repugnant and talking about other repugnant things doesn't make it any less so.
Its called probation.
> The PC is not going away, but it's not going to be the ubiquitous consumer device it once was.

I think we are saying the same thing then.
I suspect you are right about the desperation thing, on the ground the client is under some pressure.

But look at it this way, if the client was asking for a small reduction in the rate the agent would be on the phone right away asking me to take a cut. They would also be getting a cut as their %age is based on my rate.

To be fair and honest, if the client is offering more to get you - for whatever reason - then that must filter down.

That just didn't happen here. The client therefore has also been mislead because they think that I am being paid appropriately. Instead the agent is profiteering.
approval. A software is just like a math formula or expression. Can a math formula be patentable?
Wow, over-reaction, much? Look, I could go on and make several well reasoned arguments about how animals are not human but clearly it would be wasted on you.

Just a quick question, but once you have given Chimps human rights and said Chimps go on and kill and eat other apes/monkeys, as they commonly do in the wild - would you have them up for murder and cannibalism charges with appropriate punishments?
Reminds me of an IBM DeveloperWorks (IIRC) script to control your computer by whistling (I wrote about it in my blog many years ago and used it for a while, it was fun :)
TL;DR No software industry for seasoned computer scientists.
This was a great post. Having seen several apps deployed in the app store myself, it seems to me OP is right on that discovery is bad (beyond editors' features, search and recommendation systems are terrible). It makes it really hard to gain traction through word of mouth. Nowadays, especially for a game, you need to plan on having a large UA budget.

Google Play seems better than the App Store right now in terms of both search and recommendations (though both are still bad). Still, it is brutal out there and you need not just hefty UA budget, but a real operation around this stuff.

OP had great thoughts on solving this. App Store / Play APIs would be awesome. Wonder if AMZN will do (or already has done?) this and set the pace.

Thanks for writing and sharing this article, Jeff. It is great to be able to learn from your experience, and the candid and humble approach is appreciated!
Unsurprising really - most older programmers I know are fed up with solving the same problems over and over again with whatever the new technology happens to be. After a while, writing what amounts to CRUD by and large is pretty dull.
Legal entity options for startups
Are you a resident of HK or doing this as a citizen/resident elsewhere? I'd be interested in speaking with any experts/service-providers you could recommend for the process of setting up an HK-based company. (Contact info in my profile.)
Nice! It would be much more useful if one could pick the color manually (instead of random) though.
and all your facebook friends will get up to the minute information on where you are and where you are heading to.
The other articles in this series are worth a read too: http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/things_i_wont_work_with... for a convenient list.
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Not by me any more if they're owned by FB.

I dread to think what FB will do/attempt to do with the 'Waze experience' and the near-realtime info pinpointing all the users.

(Waze Area Manager and non FB user)
Just a question: how did you get those vendors to partner with you. Did you approach them?
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It's been pretty useful in my experience on the west coast.
Hedge fund managers and traders will try time and again to convince people that their job is not 'gambling'. They are having a tough time, though.

Some of them are really not gamblers but man, there are so many many of them willing to play with other people's money.

As long as they have zero-risk (zero responsibility, that is), they will gamble on.
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> If the law firm had been trying to screw you over, they wouldn't have told you about the trademark conflict. But they told you. Are you blaming them that you ignored the advice?

> founders are assured by law firms and VCs it's no big deal.

The problem is exactly that they took the advice. Without supposed experts telling them it wasn't a problem, they would probably have changed the name.
Does it allow for collapsing comment threads?

Edit: Just installed it and it's very nice, but a great feature to add would be... collapsible comments :-) Please?
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The problem is that any company that sells to people in the US can have their product banned from import if it is found to infringe on patents there.
"private care costs get so high, only the rich can afford them"

That is most certainly not the case - private health care is a fairly common perk for senior positions in many companies (I get it and I'm two layers away from a CxO).
One of the clearest examples I’ve seen of HTML5 Animation maturing. I had to right-click to check whether it was done in Flash. The site even comes with a splash screen and a ‘Skip intro’ button. The horizontal scrollbars down the middle of the page and the Mystery Meat navigation feel very authentic. I love how the actual content is placed in lightboxes, making very little use of the available space. The barely legible 90s techno fonts really finished the look. Bravo!
> Life expectancy correlates nicely with wellness.

It may correlate reasonably well, but there are plenty of ways life expectancy can be the same for systems with very different level of "wellness". For a long time, Sweden had special wards for people in persistent vegetative states because there was no provision for ending care, for example, resulting in people being kept alive for years long than they otherwise would. I believe they loosened the requirements for ending care quite a while ago. But there are plenty of other ways that life expectancy can correlate badly with "wellness", e.g. poor treatment of patents with long term conditions such as dementia where patients can often easily survive for a decade or more but where quality of life can be massively different depending on treatment.
Here's one - risk management. Having a second place we can call home will greatly improve our chances of surviving as a species.
FACT: the overwhelming majority of Syrians support the current government & voted for them in independently observed free elections.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/17/syrians-...

> the regime was brutally terrorizing its own citizens. There are countless of videos that prove it.

Where are videos - have you verified them? Didn't think so.

Re: Houla - carried out by NATO backed terrorists, confirmed in a UN report.

http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2012...

http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2012...

http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2012...

This is part of massacre marketing strategy by NATO, Qatar et al:

Writing in Bild, [2] longtime German war correspondent Jurgen Todenhofer accused the rebels of "deliberately killing civilians and then presenting them as victims of the government". He described this "massacre-marketing strategy" as being "among the most disgusting things that I have ever experienced in an armed conflict"

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/NG24Ak02.html

So you fully support killing civilians to aid a propaganda effort?
If you are asking about how to get over the fear of cold calling from someone who is naturally shy, take it from me, the first few calls will be awkward and you'll trip over your (probably prepared) speech. Don't worry about that, make sure that the first few calls are the least important ones. Use them as practice runs.

Try also to go via a switchboard, or a reception desk. This way you can 1) practice on the receptionist 2) get a feel on how responsive the company is to this approach 3) get some names to contact directly

As someone mentioned here it is a numbers game, and believe me the more you do the easier it gets. You build up resilience to the responses, and after a while you find an approach that works for you.

Another one I tried was pretending to be someone else, for example a student doing research, (ahem social engineering student haha) and as I got into the role, it became dead easy to speak freely....
I love hypothetical science fiction movies like this, but they so often get criticized for the improbability of their premise rather than admired for their vision.
How much VC funding has Gitmo raised? I must have missed the Techcrunch post about the evil VCs who finance concentration camps.
Couldn't Google just theoretically bake Waze's functionality in Maps and use Google+ for the social layer?
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I don't agree with the label, I do agree with the principle.

Many animals show signs of sentience and even if they don't, they should not be allowed to undergo cruel testing. To try to only apply this to great apes shows a lack of understanding of the issues involved. It is often human nature to be guilty of anthropomorphizing.

The intentions are noble, but the focus is too narrow and the label is quite frankly, ridiculous.
Is there a list of HN-related projects and tools somewhere? There is a great number of weekend projects that enhance or complement the HN reading experince.. E.g. I enjoy the "collapse this subtree" bookmarklet. There are also some projects that "summarize" HN news over some period for those of us who dont have time to be here every day. There are also some projects that aim for "dont miss anything from front page", some "parsers" for code processing etc.

Would be great to have a list of such projects in one place.
About "using bitcoin for complete privacy", the service will know the client phone number, no?
"Also the quality is also quite poor"

If the quality of care is so poor presumably voters here in the UK would be falling over ourselves to get rid of the NHS and replace it with a more efficient and cheaper private system?

The NHS is far from perfect, but in my experience (and I have private health insurane through my employer - which I personally have never used, although my son has) is that the standard of care generally in the NHS is very high - my son was born in an NHS hospital, my wife has been treated for life threatening injuries more than once (e.g. climbing accident) and the standard of care and the attitude of the doctors and nurses was great.

Private health care in the UK is mostly about getting access to non-vital procedures more quickly than others (my son had his tonsils removed) and getting a nicer room.
There have been a number of these services over the years. Some have disappeared.

I first used one in 2001 to stop recruiters calling me after I had found a job. I use several numbers to put into web forms as well.

http://Flextel.com offer free (i.e. disposable) numbers and a lot of other sophisticated telephony.
WebGL is more secure than OpenGL. It helps a lot that the major browsers don't implement WebGL with OpenGL on Windows. Chrome and Firefox implement it with DirectX.
I guess I don't see being clever and resourceful synonymous with being evil. I don't know what the other guys are doing, but I try to use LinkedIn only as a reference (e.g. "where is this person working now, and how long have they been there?", "what kind of stuff has this person worked on historically?")

I try to look at blogs, GitHub, dribbble, HN posts, tweets, Quora submissions, and whatever else I can to try to get some idea of what the person in question is interested in and good at. At the end of the day, I'm trying to surface smart people. Then I try to figure out whether I can offer said smart people interesting work that's in line with what they seem to be passionate about.
I wasn't criticising, I like Google+ Pictures since they're all private by default, but sharing is even easier than it was with picasaweb.
This is terribly nit-picky, but reading "loose" so many times is making me crazy! It's "lose".
Warren Buffett has another advantage: He realized the value of financing his investments with insurance floats earlier than the rest of the world did.
I use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.manuelmaly... because it's the cleanest looking HN app I could find. It currently doesn't let you comment or vote on comments. It's open source though so those problems are theoretically solvable.
I'm an "older" programmer and I love doing basic CRUD for work. Largely because it can pay very well, is reasonably hard to get wrong (= happy management = renewed contracts = happy me) and takes very little of my limited brain power.

If I want risky projects that might be spectacular failures, I'll do them in my spare time -- I really don't want those in front of the people signing my pay cheques...
$1 billion for this app ? Wonder why fb is buying it. FB can build it on their own. Last year at a hackathon me and my friends made a similar app in 2 days. The feedback we got from people and judges made us to drop the idea to move forward with it.
You have to drive to the gas station and then drive home.
I'm waiting for The Daily Gruber.
It depends on what the recruiter's goals are. If you're trying to build a brand and establish longterm relationships with people, then, yes, spamming the world is not in your interest. If you're working for an agency, have a quota, and are doing your best to stay above board and not get fired, then spamming the world is in your interest.

The design makes it easy to contact multiple people at once with seemingly personalized messages. In particular, I can specify the type of greeting and a template, and LinkedIn will fill in the person's name etc.
the comments in the source are the really interesting thing, actually.
Obviously, this is not the value of the income stream. Facebook's own valuation is not the value of its current income stream either. These valuations are bout potential and about competition. Potential to have a huge business created around them and fear of the competition buying the target.

IMO, Facebook has two big important things it needs to do: (a) Maintain its position the the social network where everyone has an updated profile & (b) figure out their ad business. Anything with real potential to impact those two is a potentially important buy. Instagram was/is a way to do the first by keeping people's photos on "facebook". Waze is a little less clear, but it has potential to meaningfully impact both. I can think of several paths that the buy could impact either A or B in a way that increases the total value of Facebook by more than $1b^.

I agree that valuations seem arbitrary when it's users, data & synergies instead of NPV (or book value). But that just means it's hard to put a number on it. It's just as hard to say that it's too high as it is to say it is too low.

^BTW, Facebook's market cap is currently $64b. Assuming they belive in that valuation, an acquisition that raises facebook's value by 2% is a good idea.
Good point. But I suppose you can maybe get round this by, say, giving candidates amazon vouchers or something? (I don't know what the employment contracts stipulate on either companies though with regards to gifts and such)
Nice concept. There's plenty of algorithmic methods of color scheming out there:
- http://encycolorpedia.com/
- https://kuler.adobe.com/
> several militias of (mostly) Syrians. So it's a civil war.

Incorrect: this is an external destablisation by NATO, Qatar et al. & a heroic defence by the Syrian people.

Who is training, funding & supporting the death squads in Syria? NATO, under the supervision of Robert Stephen Ford:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-salvador-option-for-syria-u...

Negroponte/Ford were resposible for running the death squads in central America in the 80's & Iraq in 2004 onwards.

If Mexico & Canada were sending snipers to the US & some libertarians joined in - would you call that a civil war?
Plan to release it on the App Store?
The UK and Europe have similar restrictions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_United_K...
What I really hate is the incentive structure that drives a lot of the bad behavior people associate with recruiters. At the heart of the matter, the incentive is economic, and LinkedIn's features are just a function of that.

However, that doesn't make me like it or want to use it.
The UK healthcare system is 96% or so publicly funded. Yet I choose my private GP. If they don't treat me well, I go somewhere else. So while they can't compete for me by price, they need to be efficient enough to be able to afford to provide care their patients are happy with, or they loose their patients, and with it their funding.

They also need to keep their cost under control, as their cost determines their profitability: The rate they get paid to take NHS patients is set across the board.

And if/when the NHS sees the cost of providing certain care drops across the board, they can and do push the price they are willing to pay for it down.

The UK incidentally has a healthcare system that is substantially cheaper than the US, yet ranked substantially higher by the WHO.
How is this different from the Exynos 5 Octa which is sold as an 8-core CPU but with only 4 Cortex A15 cores?
> we may be getting to the point where the average day trader needs a 3000U server farm to compete effectively

Yes. That's actually a bit of a problem. It is perfectly all right that day traders are being out-competed by HFT firms, by itself that's fine. Humans replaced by computer, nothing bad about that. What is not good, is that a successful entry into arbitrage market nowadays require a lot of infrastructure and technical skills.

That increased barrier reduces a number of players on the market. That reduces diversity. And that increases risk. That's bad.

A simple example how that increases risk. Imagine that a single HFT firm had managed to out-compete all others. And now owns perfect infrastructure with nanosecond level latencies, speed-of-light channels between the exchanges and trading algos without any bugs and teams of quants maintaining them. Obviously no day trader will be able to compete with teams of PhDs. And no new newcomer HFT firm will be able to compete. But as a result diversity of day traders will have decreased to exactly one. And any glitch in the operation of that firm (sorry, a box that was trading SPY just crashed) will be creating flash-crash artifacts without easy resolutions to them.

So yes, an increased entry barrier into day trading is bit of a problem.
This is an excellent attitude - and especially in software development where there is often a not insignificant amount of coding done by the candidates. Several interviews I've been to have involved a full day of pair coding with various members of the dev team on current production code - it seems fair to at least offer something for the work.
I believe that in some countries, probation is a much more complicated deal. I think it might be the same as an employment, just with an extra section about early termination.

In this example, the post is about charging on a freelance-basis for the interview alone, as a clearly-defined piece of work being delivered. The comment above about paying candidates to interview goes along the same lines too. Both should be simpler to set-up and less legally entangling than a probation.
The real question is: Why are there multiple exchanges for the same papers to begin with?

In the case of stocks, for example, there has to be one ultimately authoritative copy of who owns which stocks anyway. So why not just do all the trading in the place where the authoritative copy is stored?

That would certainly seem to be more efficient from the perspective of minimizing the overall social cost.
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