skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Marginal effects don't really reduce well to narrow examples like that.

What I mean is that if you assume a healthy trade in something of limited abundance, you should be prepared for demand to drive up the value of that thing. It might not, but given the simple dynamics of supply and demand (microeconomics isn't really controversial), it is prudent to be aware of the possibility.

(I do sort of assume that people are mostly using bitcoins to complete transactions and speculate, I don't assume there is a healthy trade in them)
Well the link is dead.
I stayed in West Palm Beach for one night recently and my rental car (a brand new Chrysler 300C) was "keyed" on every single body panel while parked overnight at a hotel.
I didn't sign any agreements of any sort, and the question was about as generic as "FizzBuzz" that I wasn't giving away anything. If it's a problem, I can make it right by editing the article.
I spent a long time working on a business that completely consumed me. It was remote IT support so i spent 90% of my time indoors behind my computer desk. It was 24/7 support so most of the time, i just couldn't go out.

After a few years I didn't even notice that I hadn't been out in so long and the social anxiety creeped in very slowly. Just as bad was the fact that getting up and dresses early in the morning - say into a suit - and then commuting for even just say 30mins seems like a mammoth task. I realise it's all psychological but it's been there for a long time.

I kmow exactly how you feel; same with the envy of the friendship of tight knit groups.

For the benefit of my social life, my work now isn't much better either. I'm in a rather specific niche and operate as a lone ranger. I love what I do as a vocation but it i'm sure it hurts my social life one way or another.

Nonetheless, I've had to force myself to move to a major city. I make sure I work outside of home at least 3x a week. I try to make sure at least 30% of my clients are those I meet in person and not just remote clients (though i love my remote clients. theyre so much fun) - and i'm forcing myself to meet new people every week.

I literally just got back from a conference and met a few people and tomorrow i'm meeting someone new too.

I really regret not working this into my life sooner. I feel as if i haven't lived. True story.
Did you even read the article? The fact that you are speaking in generalizations strongly suggests that you did not. Steve Jobs made some very specific claims, the article debunks them in great detail.
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Taleb does enjoy barefoot running.
And who communicates the results? Non-IT-non-AI-compatibles?
Before anyone damns Microsoft or Google here, I'd like to mention Hanlon's razor, or my preferred variant:

Never assume malice when ignorance will do.

Someone broke something, probably not intentionally. Microsoft has a shady history here, Google has a shady history here (esp. with hostile treatment of Microsoft user agents with YouTube and Maps!), so in the absence of further evidence let's not point fingers.
I am terribly out of Ruby practice.
Choosing Ruby as his language, presumably because it is the language he is best at, and then whiffing on the basics is probably what did him in.
The brevity of phone interviews and the need to whittle down a massive pool of applicants to a manageable stream means that the interviewer is going to infer a lot from a little.

He should have chosen a language he is better at. If Ruby is indeed his top language, and he's rusty at that, then perhaps OP just isn't fit for a coding job at this point in time?
>It's pretty ignorant to keep attacking Apple for not 'inventing' every aspect of every technology they use.

The article doesn't attack Apple for not inventing every aspect of every technology they use. In fact, it doesn't even seem like you read the article. The article attacks a specific claim made by Steve Jobs.
Agreed that accessible FPGA SoCs are super exciting and I want to learn more about them. In the past when I've looked at these I've always been disappointed in the raw FLOPS available vs. GPUs, though it's difficult to compare directly, and I'm totally unfamiliar with the FPGA world. If I buy e.g. a ZYBO, make something cool, and want to scale it up to beat e.g. an NVIDIA GTX Titan in raw performance (4.5 TFLOPS), what are my options?
I realise that atheism is probably the fastest growing belief system around the world now and that any mention of God often gets a double-take but having to apologise for it just strikes me as odd.

I really resonated with what you said.
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I just did go with the 5ms because you mentioned those in your previous post...
you might miss out on a lot of bright bulbs if you keep red-flagging them because you think they won't move fast enough.
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A glass of juice is a lot of sugar. One serving size of fruit is much smaller, and would give very much less juice. It's very easy to drink a lot of sugar if you're drinking undiluted juice.

Dietitians in the UK recommend that people are cautious with juices and smoothies because of the amount of sugar, and they recommend that people just eat the fruit and drink water. Especially for children, the high sugar and acid is tricky for teeth.

(I agree that the hunch seems reasonable. But then, those are the things that need research, to combat my biases.)
At a certain point a myth got started that management was a valid profession in itself and it was perfectly fine for a non-technical person to make technical decisions. And for most businesses today, growth and innovation is going to come from better use of technology.

"Non-technical" (I love that word) professional managers are thus incapable of either coming up with innovative ideas or recognizing the opportunities when they do come up because they simply don't understand them well enough. For the same reason, they're unlikely to make well informed choices between priorities. Even ex-technical people that moved into management still make bad decisions because they often don't really keep up with new technology and the changing technology landscape. They might go to conferences and surf slashdot but they aren't in a position to actually apply that knowledge so it ends up being practically useless. If they're asked how to approach a problem they often just use the approach they would have went with 10 years ago before they became managers because that is what they truly know and understand (because, unsurprisingly, you have to do something to understand it).
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I wanted to use:

- A language with a REPL so that I could check my ideas in a terminal window.
- A language that would reduce the amount of typing I'd have to do
- A language I that I was half-decent at (at lease at one point)

And Ruby fit all those criteria.
AIS was never designed to be secure, the easiest attack being to just jam the 2 frequencies it uses. But the AIS industry has sold itself as a safety and security device, convincing the government to mandate its carriage on ships in order to protect against terrorism.
Mine too, until I decided to do something about it 2 weeks ago. Really happy now.
Good point, I forgot about that about Miami. Well with a speed boat it doesn't take long to get to those crystal clear parts... And it's pretty easy to get access to one. Speaking of pollution, I forgot to tell people about "sea lice". Microscopic jelly fish that burrow into your skin to give you a horrible rash... Do not wear a wet suit in the ocean and if you do rinse off and shower like crazy right away. Hmm when I think about it same goes for anything you wear. The difference is that the spread is much less with a bathing suit. I forget why but the rash never seems to hit the bare parts of your body.
The one that doesn't have 80,000 gallons of fuel and 2000 gallons of diesel fuel stored in the building. :)

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Then you've turned the interview into a waste of time. There is no actionable information that is produced from that answer.

If you honestly are looking for a job and aren't looking to make some kind of F-U 2 The Man statement, do yourself a favor and don't give an answer like that.
I don't think it's cold indoors, in cold locations. Of course you can't go to sit in a park with a laptop when it's cold.
I guess that's fair enough. I'm just personally squeamish about sharing most interview details this publicly, but perhaps you're right.
I chose Facebook over Google two years ago (despite a more lucrative offer from Google), because I wanted to go where I could have more of an impact. The interview processes are nearly identical. One of my go-to questions was a question I got asked at Google, actually.
The position is for a developer advocate, so the best thing for me to show is my work along those lines, which is quite well-documented in the Global Nerdy blog. Whether at Tucows, Microsoft, b5media, Shopify and even the consultancy I recently left, my work is shown there.
But when you got it installed, finally, you felt like you earned it.
Github is fortunate in being one of the few companies that their customers are the same type of people as their employees. This allows them to get a lot of what traditional management is needed for "for free" and allows radical freedom in their management structure.

I'd hesitate to try to apply their example to other companies unless you're in a similar situation.
Nashville, my friends. No state income tax in Tennessee either. One of the fastest growing cities and the center of health care services in the US, with HCIT not far behind.
It is fairly short range. 9600bps @ about 162MHz doesn't travel much further than the curvature of the earth. If you started jamming it the FCC and the Coast Guard would become interested fairly quickly since they now use this as part of the port security system.
@smokinn thank you for the great video! I didn't know that the onion had such quality talks. I personally use Mendeley, but only to obtain other people's Papers and sync my Bibtex fies.

@afandian NOT OPENSOURCE! Not worth it for academia.

Generally speaking, I really don't get what's good about those platforms. Can anyone try to explain why people keep using it for another thing than peer-pressure??
I mean you upload a damn pdf with some meta-data attached to it. What's so hard? Use XMPP/IRC or Usenet for the communication and you're set, I must be dumb. I don't see why there is a need for those "new social networks". When email/mailing-lists/irc/xmpp/usenet/forums etc. already exist.
> Who slogs through producing the documentation, and keeping it up-to-date? Once a new product/feature is launched, who sticks around for the bugfixes, support, etc., since presumably everyone will be more excited to allocate themselves to the next new big thing?

Doing this work is part, and perhaps the most important part, of shipping a feature. It's not just boring work. If someone isn't prepared to support something, they shouldn't ship it.
Can the iPhone 5C be considered a flop?
I guess it really depends on the application space you're interested in. We are building a cloud-FPGA platform but the barrier is just as you mention- the user being able do the programming. The idea is more people could scale their projects using the platform, but holy crap do we have a ways to go. We're going to lease out algorithmic services, basically, since getting a customer's design to work on our gear is more than difficult, there's way too much hardware variety. Portability is practically nonexistent, and that's what we're specifically trying to address.

Our approach for scaling is a monster FPGA board we're developing. It has a Zynq on it. It will be extremely inexpensive in terms of value next to, say, a highly-capable production server.

What kind of projects would you be working on if you bought a Zynq board?
Did they provided more info about this ? I'm still very worried, I posted a question about this situation including a link to your website and this post and I think it's not available in their website. So, not sure if I should trust them or not, I use it for personal use and been advising my company and we have lot's of projects running there, client work, etc... : X
The Office Hours/YC interview where PG decided to accept the team on the spot was freakin epic!!!
Hey guys come back for a sec.

You didn't know it, but that was your y-combinator
interview.... you're in the next batch.

-- pg to the codecombat team
Unless all countries implemented a minimum wage.
It's also possible that Google made a change to their SERPs that didn't go nicely with the docmode IE11 is rendering it in.
"I readily admit that there are some things that I don't have the faintest idea what i'm talking about." - Steve Jobs, 1997

He was a human being and made mistakes; can we please let this shit go already?
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Great tip. Does anyone know who Hetzner's largest customers are? Or at least major web services that host with Hetzner?
> SAP is not offering a 'true' SaaS product

That's not true anymore. They have this:

http://www.sap.com/campaigns/2013_Hana_Enterprise_Cloud/inde...
Do you think that there will be a computer in the near future that optimizes frequent workloads onto FPGA circuitry? Kind of like the storage optimization that occurs in certain SAN hardware now? This would require an OS component capable of identifying candidates from the workload and dynamically porting that to a hardware layer on the system.
I didn't get as far as a full interview, but an internal recruiter reached out to me and we chatted for about 20 minutes or so for a specific position she was trying to fill. It was no better than a standard recruiter, really - I was expecting more.

"So, I found your resume... blah blah blah, you say you've done XYZ, blah blah blah, send me a copy of your resume."

WTF?

I said "um... you're google - don't you already have all my information?" a bit jokingly, and she laughed a bit. I then told her I wasn't at my computer, but if she Binged my name, my site would come up, and she could grab a resume from there. A few mumbles later, I got "OK, got it! I'll get back with you in a couple days with the answers to those questions!" I'd asked a couple questions about the job. That was early August - no followup. As unprofessional as any other hack recruiter imo. I guess I shouldn't have expected more, but I did.

tldr: I told Google to Bing me.
Funny - Boss fired me on FaceTime??
>Who works in a setting with neither light bulbs nor direct sunlight?

You can have bulbs all you like. They just need not to be in the cone in front of the screen where they will reflect distractingly. I usually use my computer while sitting on my bed. Bedside lamps don't cause problems, and there are no lights behind me, so it's fine.

In fact, I very rarely notice glare on my screen.
You need to construct the stream with flush: require('zlib').Z_SYNC_FLUSH
A plan to turn every lightbulb into an ultra-fast alternative to Wi-Fi
Please stop linking to this site. It's been abandoned for ages and isn't a useful indicator of anything.
Yup, pretty much. Those attacks have become a real problem because they can be ordered so cheaply and easily that even kids use them in Minecraft feuds. The channel takeovers of the 21st century.

OVH's much more tolerant in that regard (ie. they keep your server online if battered) and all their servers now include a mandatory anti-ddos protection[1]. Unfortunately, they're fighting turn-over and don't accept new orders.

[1] http://forum.ovh.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6661
Even if he got it slightly wrong, the more fundamental problem is sample size.

CRUMB : BREAD ::
(A) ounce : unit
(B) splinter : wood

How much confidence would you have in a version of the SAT that was reduced to just one question which determined the entire score?

It's exactly analogous to tech interviewing. It's like saying, oh he couldn't even get that analogy right! He can't do analogies. Same thing with giving people one programming question. Much less nitpicking that one question...

So we are forced to go on lots of interviews and just hope that we happen to quickly grok the one or two problems they give us -- so we'll look "perfect" in that short period of time. which is eventually almost certain given enough interviews. but you can't be super confident to pass any particular interview you might have had your hopes on.
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To be fair, it was reasonable for her not to assume that whatever she found on a search would be up-to-date. Some people also like to tailor their resumes for the recipient.
So because Jobs once admitted to being a bullshitter, his claims are beyond scrutiny? Even when those claims are repeated as fact by secondary sources?

This article isn't grinding an ax. Rather, it's an interesting investigation of a little examined aspect of computer history that happened to be kicked off by skepticism of a claim that actually turned out to be false.
I'm glad to know that. I tend to spend my extra time doing company work, which cannot always be open-sourced; for example, a few months ago I wrote a small Go project, which is going to end up on the company intranet and wouldn't make much sense on Github. Look at my Github profile and it's empty; but put me in front of a whiteboard and ask me to write something in Go and now we can talk.

I'll start doing stuff on Github when I genuinely feel like it (probably soon, I have a few pending personal projects that would make sense there), but recently it feels too much like you should do stuff on Github because it's going to impact your future. Similar to how you should get a college degree, should nurture your LinkedIn profile (not sure anyone cares about that anymore), and so on. Bleh.
OH man. Knowing the answer to this makes me feel so old.

So, sooooo old.
Windows 1.0 was a little bit less : http://twitpic.com/39kbjz but you need to install first DOS: http://twitpic.com/39kaxd
I don't think that figure if accurate. I think it's save to assume that a great deal of people looking at Macaw will be on a Mac (considering it is being released on the Mac first).
I am running Component Owl (http://www.componentowl.com/) for about three years.

The original idea was to create top-notch WinForms and WPF controls (.NET visual components). However, developing single great WinForms or WPF control is pretty challenging task.
One need excellent knowledge about the framework and tools. It is much more than programming and deployment. It is also about knowing dark internals of the platform you use.

For example, the greatest challenge was doing seamless Visual Studio integration. Most users didn't know how to add a component to their software. They assumed it will "just appear" in Visual Studio Toolbox window and they just click on it and start using it.

Furthermore, most of my customers haven't just bought the component. They required some adjustments and features here and there. They also needed assistance with implementing the component even though we provided thorough documentation with code samples.

Because of the above reasons, I am currently orienting more on niche components and leaving all the buttons, combos, calendars and other typical controls to big players.
Absolutely. That's a major part of what we're working on. The Zynq, specifically, allows for this more than has been possible previously. When your ARM(s) and your programmable logic are on the same wafer, you can kick tasks over more quickly. And shared resources are a big boon. This obviously is a gross oversimplification, and not straightforward from a x86 development point of view. The ARM runs Linux, or you can roll your own bare-metal OS for your application, and it plays the role you mention.
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What would your advice be?
Our company has been using this service for quite a while. Works very well for our multiple websites, spread out over multiple servers/services.
I believe it is using CEF, so porting it to either OS's (including Linux) will be pretty easy.
Hi Pyramids,

please write me an email to hello@visualping.io and we can talk about this :-)
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Have you ever worked with C-level executives before? They frequently speak in soundbites like this because they have to have a 30,000 ft. view over their company while at the same time picking out highlights that can be used in interviews like this.

What's really notable is how much shit Steve Jobs gets for completely off-the-cuff comments like this (I mean, we're talking about oscilloscopes here), yet no one bothers to mention the fact that here we have a CEO giving credit to one of his employees by name. Does the CEO of your company even know your name? When's the last time a CEO has given anyone else recognition in an interview?
Yea, pretty much. That's why you had backups of any important software (copying floppies was a really fun process). Once the disk died, you were screwed if you didn't have a backup copy of it.
Yes. But this is a testing service, so if some change has made it so in some case the correct status code isn't returned, it's nice to get a fast warning.
Cloud FPGAs sound awesome. I'm interested in computer vision and machine learning, specifically "deep learning" neural nets. The current state of the art in neural nets is GPU implementations, and I think it's the right time to start thinking about FPGAs and eventually ASICs.

For deep learning, high performance in a single machine is important, as it's very difficult to distribute learning across multiple machines in an efficient way. A more powerful machine can train a bigger network in the same amount of time, and a bigger network can learn more complex things, with no known upper bound.
A lot of the old wall warts are "Type 2", which means transformer, rectifier, reservoir capacitor -- no regulation there at all. With light or no load, the output voltage can soar (such as, 18v DC no-load from a nominal 12v DC @ 300 mA wart). The switchers are regulated, so you get what it says on the tin.
Oh man, yea...I never installed anything with THAT many disks...I think the biggest one was 7 or 8 floppies...which took several hours.

I kinda miss those days. Sometimes.
The first result shown is sofaulove.com, not amazon. It is an ad. The only actual search result is amazon, which comes 4th on the page.
The idea was that moving slowly implies that they recognized the other cat has the same limitations as itself.

I am beginning to find Hacker News very tedious when people down-vote posts that they disagree with which were made in good faith.
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Users can force any site into their own compatibility list, so Google should have been handling both cases to start with.

Oversights can happen of course, but trying to blame Microsoft when the real cause was Google's bad browser sniffing is just weak.
Many of the MS disks used weird methods and formats, making copying the discs not easy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_Media_Format