skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, try it then. It actually isn't that easy. Sure, everyone can try to write something about design. But that is not what Nielsen is selling, mere writing.
Not everyone can back his writing up with self-conducted user studies, for which one needs (a lot of) time, money (the equipment alone) and people. This is what generates the value of those reports.
Scala:

(1L to 1000000000L).sum
Ted Hopp thinks it is transformed to float in order to avoid an SO. Unless you know better, the irony is valid!
I believe your [a] and [b] footnotes are in backwards order at the bottom of your post.
Podcast: The Inner Workings of Small Talk
I used to have dreams of moving out to the valley after I finished school, but after checking, rechecking, and then rechecking again the cost of living out there, I pretty much scrapped the idea. The Bay Area may be a cool place to live, but it's not a 250% housing-cost-increase cool to me. Moreover, the pay doesn't match that housing increase. Forget it. For that price I'll wait for somebody to offer a telecommuting position, move out to me (it's not SO BAD in Missouri), or move someplace less psycho crazy on the housing.

This story drives me crazy because the market is essentially in the favor of the engineers, but it feels to me like the big tech influencers are trying to tilt it back in their favor by shaping policy and changing the game.

Pro tip: If you bring in foreign engineers and pay them peanuts, they're not going to be able to live in the Bay Area much less want to.
More mass doesn't just help when you hit other cars. It also helps when you, say, run into a wall. Or a moose. The more mass you've got, the slower anything that hits you can reduce your speed, the less harm that the sudden deceleration does to you.
I attended a talk of Roger Dingledine und Jacob Appelbaum two weeks ago and during Q and A the topic of compromised exit nodes came up. If I understood Jacob Appelbaum correctly he said that he didn't believe most exit nodes are owned by intelligence agencies. His reasoning was it was not needed, because they could use the data from comprehensive wire-taps for much the same effect.
He also said, that if they are already after you, Tor is not going to help you.

I'm not an expert in Tor and I attended the talk tired and after a hard days work, so I might have completely misunderstood him.
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Just out of curiosity, what's your use case for the barometer? How accurate is a typical smartphone barometer?
Yes but a non trivial amount of the app would need to be obfuscated. You wouldn't be able to just obfuscate the license validation code as the caller could then be modified to skip over that function call. If this really is as slow as it sounds like it is (still interesting though!) then it wouldn't be practical for game programming. The entire game would run like molasses.
There needs to be a phrase for that moment when the wholesale discarding of the law is so accepted within a government agency that it ends up embedded in a tutorial Powerpoint slide, which eventually gets leaked to the press and (hopefully) implodes the whole practice.

"PPTerrorism"? "PowerPointillism?"

Or maybe a wonderful German composite word.
I asked a similar question for R about a year ago, and saw an interesting way to do it, taking advantage of the math.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11623865/faster-modulo-or...
SBCL:
Commenter postfuturist said that this code:

(time (let ((sum 0)) (loop :for x :from 1 :to 1000000000 :do (incf sum x)) sum))

took about 3 seconds from his REPL with SBCL, with about 8.5 billion CPU cycles and 0 bytes consed.

Does anyone know why the same code on my version of SBCL (1.0.55.0-abb03f9) on a Mac took 156 billion cycles and consed 24 billion bytes?
That Magic Touch: Use a Stylus on Your Apple Magic Trackpad
It just proves there are easier attack vectors than tor itself.
And then deployed this exploit just before the Freedom Hosting founder, on whose servers the exploit was found, was arrested?
Battery life alone makes this best phone on the market at the moment.
I would do a little keyword research and develop a strategy that would pull people in for searches like DSLR Rental San Francisco etc..

Then create landing pages specifically for that searchhttps://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
Unrelated may not get you anywhere if the company is sufficiently large enough, which is probably true in any company large enough to actually have an M&A department.

I happen to know someone in M&A at my company, but only because I worked with him on a project. Even then, he's in M&A integration, and not someone with negotiation authority. Most of my coworkers don't know anyone in M&A. If you randomly showed up on my doorstep, I wouldn't give you his name.

You could be on to something, but I think you'd be better off talking to someone high up in the department you'd be acquired under.
Zynga announces closure of OMGPop.com, four OMGPop Facebook games
Great point. "Down the line" is quite relative, by the way. Right now, we are very fanatical about improving our designer interface, and we'll see where things go from there.
I'll be filming my neighbors house all day and let you know the results.
Many people use Amazon's mechanical Turk for this. It allows you to make automated requests like this that are processed by real people. Perhaps it is not the easiest service to dive into, so I wonder if their terms of service would allow someone to make an easy to use front end that focuses on just this task.
This would be a great addition to a "Smart Toilet" where it analyzes your urine as well. Through wi-fi it uplaods the results to the website and checks if you have any health issues.
you should read some of Rand's stuff before passing judgment on him

Just an observation that this is pretty much a hi-touch version of clickbait. I'm sure your friend is a nice and intelligent guy, though.

I think there's a reason you don't see Harper's titling their Annotations like, "17 reasons CAN-SPAM is fatally flawed," but US Magazine does. I use these examples of meatspace magazines to counter any possible, "but it's the internet, that's the way people write there! dealwithit.jpg" No, it's just another instance of the same old thing discovered decades ago by Cosmopolitan and the National Enquirer.

I'm totally open to evidence to the contrary! What is some of the best writing you've ever seen that is structured as a list? If it exists, I haven't seen it.
hmm.. I get
"Your browser is too small. Please resize your window to fit this media query."
in the demo Chrome 29/Opera 12.14
I'm curious why you're curious about a barometer?

For me it was a must have feature of my new phone because I wanted to use the BASELine flight computer app while skydiving.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.platypii.b...
> the war on drugs, civil asset forfeiture, the DEA intelligence program from today, the no-fly list

They're all related. They're all policies and actions of overly zealous bureaucrats with too much power and little to no accountability.
He bought a Ford GT...not a GT40. The GT40 is the 60's era classic the newer Ford GT was designed to look similar to.
Lots of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6146306

Some discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6159659

Others:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6154204

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6155216

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6160562
UI7Kit fundraiser aims to bring the iOS7 UI to iOS5 and iOS6
They made a very public guarantee to their other partners that Moto would have to wait in line for their turn as Nexus maker. I think there was some cryptic non-replies which indicated that the next flagship Moto after this might/will be a Nexus product.
It might be a poor idea, but I've planned to hold off on actively searching until I get more funding
Not true in the eyes of our government. The whole premise of anti discrimination laws is based on the fact that there is something absolute that can be said about job eligibility. Unless you reject the validity of these laws as well.
Yes. fooyc explained it correctly. ck2 did not.
Who can't negotiate? It's your fault if you can't/won't negotiate.

If there is a pool of labor willing to accept a free lunch and campus-like atmosphere, coupled with cheap imported labor, in lieu of perhaps $100,000 in pay, it depresses wages across the entire industry.

I'd posit that the reason finance pays more for engineers than STEM is because most of us think that the atmosphere at a finance company will suck and as a result they have a smaller labor pool (I've literally never responded to a single financial recruiting email).

And this is the funny part. Do you really believe working somewhere like EA is different than working somewhere like Goldman Sachs?
> At the very least some animal product is necessary (e.g., dairy or eggs).

And you would be completely, utterly, absolutely wrong:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12826028

"It is the position of the American Dietetic Association and Dietitians of Canada that appropriately planned vegetarian diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases.

"Well-planned vegan and other types of vegetarian diets are appropriate for all stages of the life-cycle including during pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence. Vegetarian diets offer a number of nutritional benefits"
I would also recommend photo blogs and forums. Reach out, get reviews of your site/service. Places like http://digital-photography-school.com/ are probably a good place to start.

Also, I think the risk is something that needs to be prominently addressed on the home page. It's been mentioned several times in this thread, and it was the first thing I thought of. As the person getting it out I want to know I'm not liable if I accidentally scratch the lens, and as the person giving it I want to know it is covered if I get it back broken, or don't get it back at all.
7 Cups of Tea founder here. I wanted to share a little back story with you on this. I'm an entrepreneur and have had my own fair share of challenges both in business and in regular life. My wife is a therapist. I'm incredibly fortunate to have her support. It occurred to me that it'd be great if people could have someone to talk with when they are struggling or going through a hard time. We built 7 Cups of Tea to solve that problem.

We have a long way to go, but the initial signs are promising. I'd love your feedback on how we can make it better. Thanks!
So this anonymous malware author compromises an enormous number of Tor sites and funnels identifying information to an SAIC/NSA IP address ... just for laughs?
> If you're not good at building a founding team, how will
> you excel at building a company?

This falsely equates "team" (a group of people) with "company" (a business venture). If the business venture requires a team of people to tackle it, then obviously putting together that team is a prerequisite. However, there are many business ventures that don't require a team, and developing better team building skills in those cases doesn't make any sense.
take it hook, line, and sinker.

:( I'm not a framework developer at all, just a user; this is just my observation. Maybe it's incorrect or poorly informed, just how it appears to one person. Anyway I'm not trying to sell anyone anything, neither am I a fisher of men, so feel free to spit out my tackle. :)
Camera apps that wanted to use volume buttons for taking a picture. Apple banned them... and then released it themselves.

I believe at some point iBooks could go to a darker brightness setting than other apps were allowed to.

Those are the two that jump to my mind.
I don't understand how an empirical analysis, such as this purports to be, could get around the fact that "conventional" power generation kills far more people than nuclear ever has.
I find it odd that they are pushing the, assembled with you, aspect but only one US carrier actually supports this feature (at this time).

Maybe I'm confused, but isn't this just a stylized cover plate? Similar to what is on offer at all the kiosks at various malls?
looks like it, fixed, thanks
Agreed! I'd love to rent some of the more interesting M43 lenses, and I'm sure some people could have a lot of fun with the Panasonic 7-14mm sitting in my drawer at home.
It's a great question. I asked a friend who works at Google the very same thing yesterday and sadly got a very non-answer answer - either because he didn't know, he didn't want to say, or because Google is having a case of the corporates.

Something about internal corporate structure, compliance issues having to do with the Motorola acquisition, objectivity when it comes to Android competitiveness, how the Android group has to treat Motorola just like every other Android phone vendor and can't give them special treatment, something about contracts with HTC, etc. etc. etc. I felt more confused than before I asked.
can't wait to find out what new failure modes your new "but it's really safe guys... this time I promise!" reactors have
I have an S3 and did my first testing of the barometer while skydiving on the weekend. I was happily surprised by how accurate it was. I'm not about to stop using a wrist mounted altimeter and rely on this alone, but being able to use my phone as an audible altimeter and not handing over $300 for a "real" audible alti makes sense to me.
In the place of analysis you have put a lot of snark which seems to be analysis.

If another company with a different business had posted - one with an incentive to say there is a shortage of high-skilled engineers, like most big companies hiring engineers - would you be implying their claims are false too? If not, you are being partial; if so, your method is just to say that whatever anyone says must be wrong because it was in their interest.

3 out of the top 10 jobs where H-1B requested does not equal a third of employees, and it isn't clear that those 3 do see a shortage.

Also, in case of a shortage in a specialized area, why do we assume that companies cannot ever do anything to train employees in that specialization themselves? If you need piles of Java programmers who know SOAP, get some Java programmers and let them train on SOAP.

If you are in the business of producing (say) cars, you have to make capital investments, including investments in human capital - why should software be a special snowflake?
I agreed with you at first, the day they announced the Moto X. But now all the head-to-head comparisons are showing the X to perform either on-par with, or better than, the HTC One. Plus the X is a smaller form factor for the same physical screen size (since it doesn't have the two front-facing speakers of the One which I don't need). And it supposedly has better battery life, likely in part due to having less pixels to power (which again I don't need) and two less cores (which I obviously don't need if it performs the same or better for all practical usage). In short, I'm now leaning back toward the Moto X developer edition, which will have an unlockable bootloader.

EDIT: I should mention, the benchmarks I'm referring to are these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmO5LeWUEeM&feature=youtube_...

http://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/smartphones/motorola-moto-x...

And I swear I saw one with Sunspider et. al. benchmarks that more or less contradicted the benchmarks in this article.
Plenty of companies I know pay $5-10k or more for a successful hire referral. Good engineers are in demand, foreign or not. It's way easier to get the interview and be hired if you're local, though -- can't beat skill + convenience.

Considering you pay 25-30% or more of first year salary for a hire by a recruiter and $10k is a complete bargain.
When I was first starting off I listened a bit to http://chinesepod.com/.
No substitute for other ways of learning but still high-quality stuff.
You can, theoretically, only A/B test things against new users. Most A/B testing tools do not support this behavior out of the box.

The one time I made a change which was drastic enough to consider doing that, I just put a revert button on the interface (on both sides) and got ready to tell people how to use it. It turns out nobody asked.

In general, though, many of the things which are most valuable to test border on imperceptible for long-term users of the site. For example, do you use Dropbox? (Picking a well-known example locally.) Can you identify the H1 on dropbox.com? Can you identify the button copy on dropbox.com? Most seasoned users can't, and won't notice changes to these elements, yet they're strongly influential on free trial signups.

Can you freehand sketch the Dropbox credit card form? How about identifying the button copy on it? These have substantial impact on purchases at the margins. People only see them once (well, typical case for software), and nobody remembers them for more than a few minutes.

Think back to your first run experience with Dropbox. How many steps did it have? What were their names? I'm going to bet you that the onboarding process for Dropbox has had more dedicated optimization effort than everything else the company does combined, but the median number of exposures per user is one.
Kivo was previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6023423

I think it's an idea with a lot of potential, if executed correctly. Great to see they're YC S13!
A lot of people assume that learning Java makes you qualify for the title of software engineer. Every time one of these articles pop up it gets flooded with comments from upset ITT tech graduates who are pissed that H1-bs are stealing their jobs.
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cryptoz
What would be the cost of letting the app stand, and only doing maintenance enough so that they continue to run?
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There are so many things that could go wrong with a scheme like this, the mind boggles.
An extrovert is typically better at marketing and sales, namely for the social aspect. For someone like me that's an introvert and extremely shy around new people, I gain XP by tackling technical problems.

That doesn't mean technical people can't be a visionary too because you'll definitely need it. Someone that can get a complete grasp of the scope to tell you when a decision will lead you into more or less technical debt. You can make all the right business decisions and still fail miserably if you make wrong technical ones.

I'm likely not telling you anything you don't already know but I just wanted to make sure you weren't compartmentalizing things too much.
This is a nice result, I am hopeful it will hold up. There is a tremendous amount of cool stuff you can do with really high power density capacitors (besides weapons of course).

When I was putting the solar panels on my roof in 2003 I figured that if you had enough 'super caps' that you could build into your foundation then you could do a nearly off-grid low to no maintenance project. (Battery maintenance is a huge pain)

The other things you can do are things like smart phones you touch to a charger for a second to get another 8 hours of run time.
Yep. This is how backwards our industry is. It wants to pay peanuts for rockstar coders, but doesn't realize that no one is both dumb enough to work for snack food Tuesdays and smart enough to have a PhD in CS.

The problem is exasperated by these companies treating engineers like children. "Toss them another Mt. Dew, and they'll work another all-nighter."

With all the VC and buyout money out there, a true rockstar is going to be a founder or have serious equity in their company. They'd be an idiot for anything less.
That would imply the initiative came from the Go team, and I can't recall ever seeing anything on go-dev or go-nuts suggesting such. That said, there are quite a lot of Asians on the go-nuts board.

What might play part of this is that one of the main contributors to Go is a guy calling himself "minux"; the guy is pretty fucking brilliant. IIRC, minux is French with Chinese roots, and he's one of the owners of the Chinese port. Note that he doesn't actually work for Google, so so far it's all community driven. Similarly, one of the earliest Go-specific IDE's is LitteIDE, written by VisualFC. I suspect it's partially thanks to them that the Chinese community was off to a good start. Well, that and UTF8.

Anyway, it's all speculation at this point; it would be nice if someone involved with the Chinese Go community could clear this up though.
Your number appears to be a factor of 10 smaller than the "one billion plus one" of the original.

I get similar times on my Mac; about 3.2 seconds for 108 and 31.4 seconds for 109. Both are about 5 times faster than Python 2.7 for me.
All good, but there is no boiling.

Just evaporation from the surface of the pooled water flooding the buildings, which will not be significant, even if it wasn't at a humid oceanside location.
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Having personally gone through some very difficult times, this is one of the startups that I'm most excited about for the very simple reason that I believe it has the potential to help millions of people in a very direct and personal way. I've already started referring family members to the service.
As a hiring manager outside the Bay Area (Tahoe), I can say that the hiring situation is worse than I have ever seen it.
The data doesn't support the conclusion that they pay more for engineers, just that they pay more per employee. I've been an engineer in financial services in NYC for 3.5 years, and I can fairly confidently say that those large salaries are going to the senior salespeople and traders who pull in hundreds of thousands or millions per year in commission. Maybe I've just been at the wrong places (I don't think so), but unless you're some kind of phenom quant engineer or you are in a very profitable and very small hedge fund, the offers are better at the Googles, Microsofts, and Amazons of the world than the Goldmans, JPMorgans, and Citigroups.
I'd never work at EA, either. Although they're the other side of the same economics, because young nerds who don't know any better and like video games will work there for less than an average tech firm, and less still than it would take to get them into finance.

As far as people who take low salaries screwing up your salary: If they're willing to do the job for that and they're not appreciably worse than you at that particular job, maybe that's what you're worth for that role, too? Almost every industry out there has it much worse than software when it comes to the 'race to the bottom'.
Sure, they could have it encrypted. Doesn't matter. They aren't hashing it.
Lab-grown beef taste test: ‘Almost’ like a burger
Heh, that answers that. Thanks.
Thanks, I submitted it.
Do the majority of staffers make normalish wages?

Anecdotal, but I have had a few friends working in support roles at investment banks making about double what they would make elsewhere.
Very interesting business. Quick question - is there any meaning behind the name? Why 7?
Don't eat veggie burgers then. Eat beans, nuts, tofu, seitan, flax - all of them are low in sodium.
Good to know that I'm not missing out on anything :)
"Where is this heading?" ... "Instead, it comes with an almost pure version of Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean."

I think the color shells is misdirection, it's a way to get the Moto resellers on the (almost) pure stuff.