skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And this from "Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Optimization Reference Manual":

Assembly/Compiler Coding Rule 2.
(M impact, ML generality): Use the SETCC and CMOV instructions to eliminate unpredictable conditional branches where possible.

* Do not do this for predictable branches.

* Do not use these instructions to eliminate all unpredictable conditional branches (because using these instructions will incur execution overhead due to the requirement for executing both paths of a conditional branch).

* In addition, converting a conditional branch to SETCC or CMOV trades off control flow dependence for data dependence and restricts the capability of the out-of-order engine.

* When tuning, note that all Intel 64 and IA-32 processors usually have very high branch prediction rates. Consistently mispredicted branches are generally rare. Use these instructions only if the increase in computation time is less than the expected cost of a mispredicted branch.
This is probably my favorite PG essay to date, something I've spent a lot of time thinking about as well.

I think what separates novice investors from good ones is that a novice investor will start asking questions that only make sense at a later stage. They're committing a cardinal crime in startups: premature optimization. For some reason, even though they explicitly say they invest at the seed stage, they're looking at it from a warped lens of "let me think about how this works, in your current implementation, at enormous degree of scale." And of course the implementation will change, so the logic immediately breaks down on itself because you're assuming the thing you see now will be the same in 5 or 10 years. The baby analogy seems perfect for this reason. A baby will arguably have little to no resemblance to itself in 5 or 10 years, everything about it will have changed significantly.

The nice thing is you don't have to explain these things to the investors that "get it." It just clicks instantly, and I think this happens even before the meeting--it probably goes all the way back to the introduction that someone else makes for you. Good investors at a seed stage understand there's some degree of risk in a small yet still fragile startup that has at least some degree of promise to it. From the top tier people I've spoken to in the past, they focus less on the specific numbers and metrics, and more on the "does this fundamentally solve a problem in the market right now? Is there a real need for this thing to exist, and what's better about this than everything else out there?" They look at similar companies in different spaces and draw interesting comparisons. "You guys are like this other company, which started out much like you did, and you're applying a very similar solution. I think this will work!"

The really good investors don't try and evaluate your company as a Series D investment, they look at where you are right now at the seed stage and see it for what it is, and what it could be. I suppose this all sounds obvious, but the real world is full of surprises that contradict assumptions.
They start with a higher setup fee when new hardware gets introduced and lower the setup fee during the lifetime when hardware gets cheaper.
This company has been looking for a VP of Engineering since at least last summer. I applied for this position back then. They got back to me with a ridiculous busy-work problem they wanted me to solve. I forgot then about them.
mail-transfer-agents are configured fail open by default. There is nothing about SMTP that requires fail open. You can configure postfix to require TLS for all destinations or for specific domains if you want to:

http://www.postfix.org/TLS_README.html#client_tls_encrypt

Depending on your environment you could also do the same thing and require DANE:

http://www.postfix.org/TLS_README.html#client_tls_dane

I am sure exim has an equivalent setting (maybe not for DANE).
I really wish I could agree with you. My gut tells me that a good number of the students that failed probably decided that it must have been because they're not good at math or engineering.
Something I realized around seven semesters too late is that most programs are conducive to independent studies, which is I'm sure a wildly broad term but at my alma mater it was basically "Go spend three months on your own learning something interesting and then write a paper or a powerpoint or a plugin on it." You'd have an advisor (or sometimes a board of advisors) to meet with you every few weeks, but the work was all entirely self-directed, sort of like a mini-honors thesis.

I imagine that those are going to become increasingly popular. If you abstract it out, its basically a credential system for productive independent thought, which is sort of the whole point.
I think it would be even better for PC manufacturers to have a mechanism for all OS vendors to report BIOS bugs and similar where all of them are treated equally.
Hetzner clearly seems to focus on long term relationships but without long contracts. The longer you're a happy customer the more profit they can make out of a one time hardware expense.
At one point, I was able to get an S/MIME setup going in Mail.app, and it would automatically encrypt emails sent to others whom had previously sent me a signed message.

Unfortunately, there were tons of mailing lists and clients that would choke even on the signed messages, plus renewing the certificate and all that was too time consuming.
We can't all be in the top 1% of achievers, but that doesn't mean we all shouldn't try. Far more than 1% of people are capable of being above the threshold for "top 1% of achievers" as judged by today.

Similarly, striving to be the best doesn't mean you're trying to put others down, it means you're trying to improve yourself. That unless others do likewise you'll improve on a relative basis is not the important thing, rather that you'll improve compared to your old self.

tl;dr Compete with yourself.
The only reasoning I can come up with that could possibly support this is maybe they have the idea in mind that those with more than 12 years experience would be less able to adapt to newer ways of thinking?
Maybe they assume someone with 12+ years of experience would demand a higher salary than they can offer? They might identify such a candidate with a C-level position like CTO more than a VP position. I don't really know; I'm just trying to come up with a non-ageist explanation.

It might not be any different from how someone with 5+ years of experience normally wouldn't be considered for junior roles.

Or it might just be ageist.
As I said, the less broken the recruitment process, and the more desirable the company, the harder it is to create a backdoor.

For most companies, recruitment is so broken that a lot of managers will try to hire staff in a way which avoids the formal recruitment process.
Where did you go to school if I may ask?
What about: "I don't want to" or "It kills usability: search, IMAP, labels ...".
There's a special place in hell for people who do things like this.

And a special place in the corner of the room and Dunce hat for people who didn't convict them and who paid good money to buy crap when lives were at stake.

Edit: Some links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadro_Tracker

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GT200

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniffex

And some food for thought by Stephen Fry

The use of the GT200 as a means of tracking smuggled
ivory in Kenya has also been questioned. Stephen Fry,
who saw the GT200 being used by Kenyan rangers in an
attempt to catch poachers, described the misinformation
which accompanied the devices as "cynical, cruel and
monstrous." He told the BBC's Newsnight programme: "I
was horrified. They had spent a vast sum of money on a
modern equivalent of a hazel twig divining rod. There
was no possibility that such a thing could work."
No, he was hired to do the job his employer want's him to do. If the founder says "stop thinking about stupid/unnecessary/other's things/jobs/responsibilities" then he HAS to do just that. It's not his role to tell the founder how bad a management this is. And yes, I saw such founders in action, it does happen... Quite often in my experience, though obviously YMMV.
Also have had a great experience with Hetzner, 100% uptime for the 11 months since moving http://www.servicestack.net over to them. They ended up 1/4 cheaper than the previous dedicated leaseweb server with our redis benchmarks now completing in 1/8th of the time.
> The real trick that I would like to learn, is how to turn more of the middle and bottom tier of students into better students.

One useful method is to remind them that they find the subject difficult not because they are stupid, but because the subject is hard, and that with some hard work, it will become easier.
Isn't this the problem that DKIM is supposed to solve?
The College of William & Mary, in Williamsburg, VA.
You need the public keys of your contacts before you can send them encrypted messages, so encryption is normally enabled on a per contact or per message basis. I think the signature is there to provide a level of assurance to your PGP enabled contacts.
Discussing Greenwald is like playing Calvinball.
The idea behind the "fail fast" mantra is that folks over-emphasize getting every decision correct. This is a problem because you don't really learn until your idea meets reality, including what's important to focus on and what's not important to focus on.

The goal is to learn new things as fast as possible. Since most people dither, "fail fast" serves as good, rough advice. With no extra information it's more likely someone is going to be shipping too slowly than shipping recklessly and pointlessly.

However, if you "fail fast" but also fail to internalize any lessons from that failure, it's little different from never having done it in the first place. You're committing the complementary sin to those folks who spend hours, days, and weeks tinkering until the product is "just right", except in this case it's the other half of the learning loop that's broken.
I've long assumed that there is enough competition in the CPU space that if somebody was doing something particularly naughty, they would be found out by one of their competitors soon after when the competitors put chip under an electron microscope.

Is this a bad assumption?
Agile is only 12 years old [1], so it might be related to the old programmer joke about HR posting job ads that require 'x' years experience with 'y' year-old tech, for some x > y.

But that's grasping at straws, and if that is the intention it's a really unfortunate way of putting it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development

* edited to address the < / > mistake MaysonL pointed out. Thanks!
Far from it.

What's empowering is feminism. Fighting the slow fight to crush and erase this male centered culture.

A man, standing up for her? If he chose that particular patronizing way, she'd be well justified in worrying he too was trying it on - the "hero saves princess, gets the girl" narrative. Out of the frying pan…

And yeah, it's patronizing, because it reckons she chose her choices from weakness or timidity rather than a well calibrated judgment of her chances in this sexist society.
That counts as ageist for me.
Also, NeXT essentially acquired Apple. The current Apple barely resembles the early 90's / pre-Jobs company
Apple hires fresh talent for ‘iWatch’
Because there would be significantly less adopters? Disclaimer: I like lisp
Holy crap, UW's CS only has 200 graduates per year? For a school of that size, that's tiny. That's close to as many as most Ivy League schools these days, and their undergrad population is usually around 1/5 that of UW. This is especially sad, as CS courses should be pretty easy to scale, especially when you have a group of undergrads who want to teach. Not to mention how hypercompetitiveness drives out diversity, especially of minds, because the more competitive it is, the more of the "correct" hoops you have to jump through. This means that, if you struggle in math but are highly artistic, and could bring a different perspective to your courses, you're effectively shut out.
1994.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Zeitz
Wow that sucks sorry to hear that, look at the bright side though things could always get worse no matter how bad you thing they are. Just be grateful your arm didn't break fully. Good luck hope you feel better.
Linux 'is free'. Very difficult to get people to pay a premium for 'free'. You have to charge less for a PC with Linux on it, since there's no Windows license it should cost less, right?

Without getting people to pay a premium, it isn't possible to make things that are 'Apple-gorgeous'. Not to mention the Linux market is so small to begin with...
This is expected behaviour, you're just "signing" the message with your key at this stage. You need to import someone else's public key before you can send an encrypted message /to them/.
Reading up on the kindle paperwhite, I find this statement confusing:

> Unlike a backlit tablet display, Kindle Paperwhite guides light towards the surface of the e-ink display from above so that the light never shines directly towards your eyes.

The light will still end up "shining directly towards my eyes". That's the whole point of it. Is this just a marketing twist on lighting an e-ink panel, or does it have a real benefit over backlight?

Side note: I'm converting away from Kindle after being disappointed by sloppy conversion from paper to kindle. Like: they won't convert a picture necessary for the text (and it's up to me to realize that there should have been a picture there), or they'll mess up chapter navigation tags, or text will be self-referential to the medium (like referencing the number of words on the current page). It's painfully clear that there is a very minimal editorial process to kindle books, if any at all.
I am not a lawyer, but is this not illegal in the U.S.?
Checking The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission website[1], it says under the "PROHIBITION OF AGE DISCRIMINATION" section:

(e) Printing or publication of notice or advertisement indicating preference, limitation, etc.

[1] http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/adea.cfm
One way to interpret this is that the Agile Manifesto was published in 2001, so although it's possible you managed agile teams before 2001 it's unlikely, or if you've been successfully managing agile teams since before the manifesto and you're interested in a startup... what's wrong w/ you (seriously... if you're crushing it w/ agile for 12 years and now enterprises are all scrum-happy and you aren't making boatloads of cash consulting why are you considering a startup... oh, you're a serial startup guy... that's cool then you won't give a shit about some nonsense in a job posting, you'll work your network to get an interview or contact the founders directly and convince them you're worth talking to... and if you can't do that you're probably not VP material. No?)

One way to respond to this kind of job posting is "fuck that, I'm not going to waste my time w/ that shit".
In reference to:
I learned that the fastest way I'll ever learn a subject (whether or not it's a programming language, a financial derivative, or an era of Hinduism) is on my own, poring over search engines and worn-down books. Professors will never teach me faster than I can teach myself.
I would add an addendum that a good professor can significantly accelerate my learning of a subject, while a bad professor (in University, and not in high school) does not slow it down, but does not add much value.
Not really...

If you don't want to confuse people when you sign your e-mail, make sure you're using PGP/MIME not inline signing. I've been signing my mail for years and had almost zero problems doing this.
The Wiki Situation
Some of my content may be important, for example a provider emailing me a password.
Nothing to Do but Embrace the Dread
Sure! Man I love when people on hn ask genuine questions rather than trying to one up one another. It's one of the reasons I was so reluctant to stop lurking for so long.

Much like the Mars rovers, the navigation system is loaded in a modular fashion, with complex algorithms for each scenario loaded on the fly. So for example, imagine a UAV goes into a stall. Likely the aircraft needs a whole new set of algorithms to recover. It's very likely I this case you'd need low latency disk reads. Now again, this is just a guess based upon my experience with similar systems. I've never developed a UAV system.
shhh, you're not supposed to say the "no old people" part out loud.
It's a challenge, but people are willing to take risks at the moment despite there being fraud. We're verifying IDs, addresses, phone numbers (coming soon), social media profiles and we have a comment section with each loan so lenders can ask borrowers for additional information.

Our main competitor is btcjam.com and people have funded over 15k BTC worth of loans in the last year. We're hoping to offer a better platform and we're also eventually looking to target a slightly different borrower segment.

Our main recommendation is that people don't invest a lot of money in a single loan. Investments should be split up into small chucks and spread out accordingly. If a particular borrower's credit history is lacking, but their loan request is fairly big, then the lenders should probably avoid funding that loan. We're also going to integrate with WoT and integrate all the loans terms with the block chain, so people can monitor lending transactions/credit ratings just by scanning the block chain for our transactions.

In the future we're hoping to provide more standard ways to collect on defaults and insure loans.
I think my post must have been poorly worded. I meant to give her agency by encouraging her to stand up to him, instead of for him to do it (which is what happened).

If you disagree, okay, but what better actions could he have taken in this situation?
This must be the ageism that everyone's been talking about. The whole team is probably under 30. The kids will never learn!
> It too was scattered with lights; of small towns, villages, individual
houses, lanterns on beaches and smaller aircraft, most of them come
out to welcome the vacuum dirigible.

> The two slowly revolving gondola sections slid gradually to a halt,
preparatory to docking. People in both segments congregated on the
sides nearest the island, for the view.

> The airship's system registered the imbalance building up and pumped
bubblecarbon spheres full of vacuum from one lot of tanks to another,
so maintaining a suitably even keel.

-- Iain M. Banks, Excession.
This post is free advertising for Hetzner, but I do think they deserve the attention for the unique value/price offering. Let alone that, their servers are not right under the nose of the NSA (although probably not that far away either).
Not only is it blatantly ageist... It's stupid.

They want someone that has been building engineering organizations for 5-12 years, after having been an individual contributor.

Then, they want you to drop back into an individual contributor role. At least initially. Wink wink nudge nudge.
Ok, here's a real life example then. My parents were on Skype to me today, and my Dad was talking about some controversial topic or another - a couple of times my mum said "you can't say that over the internet, people are listening".

Furthermore I actually disagree that self censorship is the key component of an Orwellian society. I think surveillance itself is the key component. Reading the interpretation below I challenge you to deny that the US and many other governments aren't well on their way to the dystopia described by Orwell.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orwellian#Meanings

Police charging through your house without permission whist you sit back and say 'they are just doing their job' is the epitome of an Orwellian society.
It's been more than a year since I was programming php daily, but I used cake and yii back to back then for similar projects, and I felt yii was significantly better. It's also much faster iirc. Not an answer to your question, I know, but fwiw...
NSA, GCHQ, BND,… probably spy on every DC in Europe and the USA anyway… :/
It's not for me.... check your adblock or extensions aren't filtering some div?
In the hosting world, I see set-up fees as a sign of quality, i.e. a service that isn't aiming for the lowest common denominator with free trials and whatever else. They create a hefty barrier to discourage casual users and scammers.
Charles Darwin's ecological experiment on Ascention Isle
With respect to your computer literacy skills, you seem to be doing pretty fine if you're posting here :). With that said, I still wouldn't recommend investing in bitoin unless you understand the technology behind it and you understand some basic about investing in general.
indeed: bongos, ladies, safecracking, QED, troubleshooting exploding space shuttles, and explaining things
500friends, 42floors, 37signals... it's like Yahoo handlenames of the past, but for companies.
Seems like they're breaking the law to me, but it's not completely black and white. In the odd chance it would happen, wouldn't saying "20+ years of experience required", prevent anyone younger then 20 years from joining the company?
No, I understood exactly that. You can't "give her agency". "Encouraging her to stand up to him" is exactly the wrong thing to do, she's chosen her choices as an adult who knows the score, and doing that is implying she just lacks the gumption and if only a dude was backing her up… No, it's not that easy. You may be the best intentioned dude in the world but you are ONE dude, and no, she is not going to suddenly start acting like a woman in a non sexist society at the risk of her own life, just because of one dude nominally taking her side.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6040089
It's an interesting idea for sure, but in my opinion the objections are justified. The problem I (and some others here) have with this is

"I easily could have hidden it. In fact, I could install this on every site you visit, and you'd hardly notice."

Personally, I think even with the assumption that the overall goal (finding prime numbers, for example) is a worthy use of crowd sourced CPU, sneakily co-opting visitors' CPUs without their knowledge or consent in order to do it is essentially building a bot net.

"The cool thing is that I could be solving a real problem, and someone or some company could be paying me for all the work that people's computers are doing when they visit my site."

I'm not sure I'd be willing to let someone sell my computer without my consent or knowledge. If this was an opt-in thing it would actually be kind of neat, I think.
The First Cut is the Deepest
Actually, in the US, discrimination against younger people isn't illegal - it's only illegal to discriminate the other way 'round.
Thanks you.
Yours is pretty much the only useful and informative reply in a sea of responses designed to make me feel bad for questioning the magnitude of the setup fee.
We are using this for our web and backend at Lifebit and i can confirm this makes PHP development so much more enjoyable. We have tried Code Igniter, CakePHP and a bunch of others. Has the right mix of community, documentation, weight, speed and code commits activity.
They're not putting specific limitations on age, but on experience. I'm pretty sure the latter is as kosher as matzoh.
I would suggest you visit http://www.reddint.com/r/Bitcoin on or http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com and post your questions there. I would NOT recommend that you begin investing unless you have a descent understanding of bitcoin and investing in general. There is a lot of fraud now and the people that are likely to lose money are the ones that are not very familiar with the various aspects of investing and bitcoin.
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