skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great question. What it seems to come down to is:

(1) Companies are horrible at hiring in whole a lot of ways, most especially at writing meaningful job specs + quite often, simply knowing what forums to post job ads in.

(2) Candidates suck at marketing themselves (though not quite as much as companies are at writing job specs + knowing where to post them).

(3) And back to the company's side, a lack of a "DYI mentality", i.e. that this is something that not only they can do themselves, but which really ought not to be outsourced, given the absolutely crucial and strategic role it plays in their chances for success moving forward.

Taken together, these lead to a lot of pressure for hiring managers + HR types to throw in the towel, and let hiring be a numbers game, i.e. get as many resumes in the inbox with as little effort as possible, in the hopes that the 1 or 2 decent candidates will stick out like sore thumbs.

Which also leads to a tendency to simply blow candidates off when the search pool narrows, and other accidental gruffness. And this is where recruiters do provide a value-added service of a sort, in that their job to say "no" to a candidate, thus serving as a lightening rod for the negative feelings that tend to arise when the decision turns negative.
If I had a Bitcoin for every dotcom company that saw a >40x YoY increase in market cap that hasn't stayed around as long as the internet...
Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines
New features for China in OSX Mavericks
How is that in any way related to HIPAA? The patient has to contact the company and give them their information. The company then bills their insurance. No one is exposing their private health information.
I knew a manager whose favorite saying was that we just needed to do the 20% of the work that got us 80% of the way there.

Well, needless to say, he never got a minimal viable product out there.

It definitely makes sense to be "lean" and not do anything that doesn't need to be done, but if you're lean you still need to complete 100% of the MVP.
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Again. So. Much. ANGER.

RAAAAAGGGGGEEEE!!!!!!!

Addressing your last paragraph:

But why am I arguing with you? You've made it perfectly clear that you don't feel that I'm welcome here. You'd rather live in an Apple bubble, pretending that everything they do is better than everything the competition is doing. The world would be better if Apple was the only corporation on the planet, right?

Please point me to the part of my comment where I said any of these things. I haven't voted or commented on ANY other Apple-related articles on this site. Seriously, check my history. I made no comment about Apple at all. My only comments have been me laughing at how angry / emotional you sound.
http://bugreport.apple.com

You do need to sign up for a free developer account to use it.
That's the most annoying comma I've seen in a while. :) Great article though.
For once my general laziness looks like it is paying off. Mined a couple bitcoins years and years ago, and was too lazy to sell them at the time.
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I've been wondering whether people benefiting from bitcoin stability (silk road?) mightn't have been manipulating exchange rates. This seems to be weak evidence in support of that (though I still wouldn't say it seems likely).
Ethical and evil are two different words with two different meanings.

And, if I can make the same thing you can for cheaper, then why shouldn't I? Your problem is that you value "ingenuity" as something that can be stolen or ripped off which is wrong. You can't protect ideas. Everyone has them. Why should yours be more valuable then mine. Just because you say yours first? Even when I may have been working on my without anyone knowing? Or maybe you think, taking the risk of making something (i.e. the iphone) and since you took that risk, you should be rewarded by not allowing anyone else to make one. Because life if fair right? If you created the first product, make the product better than others, and offer at a reasonable price, then there is no reason you shouldn't be successful.

If apple didn't have patents, they would fail, why, because their products would be too expensive to compete with other "clones". Now, if they actually made a better product, then they would at least exist (if their "better" product was worth the cost). Think about the guys that started a business building normal pc's and putting OS X on them. Apple forcibly shut them down fast because they new people would flock to them. Why, because they were much cheaper and would do the same thing as a Mac. And yet, Apple forced the business to shut down so that they would own their market. That is evil.

Your stance make me believe that either, a) you are an Apple lover and thus overriding basic logic because you are blinded, b) don't understand the underlying points c) just trying to argue. Your ultimatum of "If you don't believe Samsung is as evil as Apple then I won't talk to you" is childish, immature and extremely bias. I believe Samsung is a better company than Apple. That is my own personal opinion, and I don't care whether you believe it or not.

Patents do not protect anyone accept the greedy corporation that files them. They stifle innovation and hurt everyone but themselves. Apple is the king of patents and thus, the worst.
Yeah, we may well end up using it, but it just seems like an annoyance to pay for something like that.

Also, we have an issue with the TV computers not being on the same subnet as wifi'd laptops, so they don't appear through Bonjour. But that's a whole other issue for enterprise that Apple doesn't really touch.
Didn't the gap also come out of the fact Apple sells direct, and when they say they sold an ipad, they sold an ipad, and when Google, maybe even Samsung, say they sold a device, it is to the end retailer (carriers, bestbuy, and the like)? So they may be moving tons of devices, some significant(?) portion of which are sitting on shelves.
For making such a big deal about resolving the multiple desktop and full-screen issues, Mavericks feels a little disappointing. Switching between full-screen windows is still accompanied by the painfully slow animation which still can't be disabled.

Trackpad scroll speed on my 13" MBA is also noticeably slower without significant load on the machine. This seems deliberate, but it's a move in the wrong direction for people that already have the trackpad sensitivity maxed out.
But that's not an argument that the MBA is overpriced, it's an argument that you don't need anything as powerful as an an MBA.

Which is fine, but beside the point.
Lenovo Thinkstation, with the same Xeon quad-core, a bit less RAM (8 GB vs 12), and a 1TB hybrid disk instead of the 256 GB PCIe SSD, runs 2447 (plus 20 shipping!) on Amazon, and is almost 3X as heavy (30 lb vs 11).
Nice. My 2008 black macbook wouldn't upgrade. But I went MacBook Air, which was great.
I should make have said something like "need to be ... to succeed". That many "market" sites aren't agile isn't the point, the point is that to be useful for the purpose of impelling lower prices for consumers, the Obamacare website needs to be agile. To the extent it isn't agile, it won't be helping it's cause.
"Any production Machine has a million things connected to it. So the fact that you have to plug in a million wires into the thing is a mute point."

Is it? Given the choice between a decent looking truck and a pricier station wagon, where you will always have to add a trailer to the station wagon to make the stuff you need fit in it, I think people can rightfully state that the station wagon looks better only in theory.
I'm confused about what your goal here is. Are you trying to get advertisers to use HTML for their ads?
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I specifically said useless for dual-screen setups in response to the comment I was replying to. I too find un-analytical praise or criticism annoying. I hope I wasn't doing it.
Yes same here
I want to know more
The campaign's site was also a small part of online technology initiatives produced by the campaign's IT staff (see http://www.donarwhalshaveblowholes.com/buy-yetisandnarwhals....)
Obviously an altcoin would have to be as much better than Bitcoin (in the ways people care about) as Bitcoin was better than the preceding stuff. A system that is decentralized and doesn't require mining could have this property.
It's times like these I wish HN had a downvote button.
If the statement you're trying to make is that Wozniak is ignored and not given enough credit in the current Apple world, then come out and say that. Not this round about try-to-stir-some-shit bs.
It's complete guess work. The only mention of 500M lines of code is from the last paragraph of The Times article: "According to one specialist, the Web site contains about 500 million lines of software code."

This "one specialist" is obviously a fraud.
If all you want to do is browse the Internet, why are you buying a Macbook Air? Buy a $100 Android tablet and call it a day.
New Google search result page omits page content snippets?
A honda accord starts at $20k. All I want to do is get to my cousins house three blocks down the street. I could buy 20 bicycles for that price or buy 1 and save money.

This doesn't mean the honda is overpriced, correct? Your entire comment is a non sequitur.
Well, we have changed here from "employee of X can't talk about X on Wikipedia" to "company that edits Wikipedia for money", which is different thing.

>>> Otherwise, why would you pay the company?

I can name a bunch of reasons. To deliver correct information and ensure it is correct. To weed out mistakes and misinformation that may hurt clients of a company. To make people more likely to consume products by making them familiar with true variety and features of the said products. There are a lot of reasons to put absolutely true information out there, and there are a lot of companies that make money on doing exactly that. Of course, there are also those who put out false and misleading information for money. But presenting it as if any information that somebody paid for disseminating must be false is not correct.

And again, I see no reason why random person can just come in and edit anything, but random company can not. If I were Wikipedia, I'd rather do the opposite - make companies that are interested in providing input into certain pages identify their official representative, clearly mark it as such (maybe even charge for the privilege of having "verified account" or something) and engage them in the process. Of course, if the said rep seems to be bending the truth, it would be at his own peril - imagine how embarrassing it would be for a company to have their official verified rep banned from Wikipedia? So the incentive to cooperate would be on both sides.
New Hampshire's State Liquor store, just over the border, seems to enjoy tons of business from thirsty Bostonians who don't want to pay sales tax.
They also do book OCR via recaptcha[1]. If I ever see my handwriting as a captcha string, I don't know what I'd think.

[1] http://www.google.com/recaptcha
I've used a triangular ("conical"?) kernel when in a hurry and it looked reasonable. Vastly better than a box blur, at least. They're actually not separable but one can pretend and just do horizontal and vertical passes without much damage.

Amusingly Autodesk ship a GLSL shader with Flame which uses a triangular kernel under the hood but labels the button in the interface "Gaussian", the cheeky swines...

The nicest option to imitate lens blur is a circular kernel but that's quite aggressively non-separable. The other thing that really helps is blurring linear-light values instead of the usual gamma-encoded images. The blurs in Windows 7's Aero themes very clearly don't do this, to my eye - dark lines spread out too much and look generally muddy.

VFX guy who loves to blur things here :)
Samsung and Microsoft license Wacom digitizer technology for their stylus tablets. It's not just that they provide a stylus--the tablet itself has additional capacitive sensors. Apple would have to totally re-engineer their touch sensor to accomodate that.

The reason iPad styluses have fat tips is that they have to simulate a fingertip, which is the only thing that an iPad can sense. The tradeoff is that an iPad is faster and more accurate at sensing fingers than other tablets.

Wacom has released a pressure-sensitive stylus for iPad. I have not tried it though...not much of an artist.
the opening 5 paragraphs into this article was infuriating -- from cats having 9 lives, to self-actualization, the after life -- get to the point already. it's an operating system. a new version is out. talk about it.
Would you apply that same logic to Windows? Say between 7 and 8?
Can you give more details on the development? Do you use any IPython code, or do you just follow the specification? What would be necessary if I wanted to implement this for another language? Thanks!
Judging from the available specs, it seems likely the D300 is a modified version of this: http://www.amd.com/us/products/workstation/graphics/ati-fire...
Copying that file to an external and burning a DL DVD backup of that image were the first steps that I took after finishing the download.
well, it does matter a lot if like some people here, you're a software developper planning on developping on ios or android.
if ios is 10% "market share", it means android is 90%, so you better be learning the subtilities of android sdk and forget about improving your objective c skills. if it's 90% share, it means you can safely tell your customers to start building an ios version of their app first, then maybe later see if they want to invest on an android version.

and finally if it's 50/50, and stays like that for a couple of years, then you should probably invest in some cross-platform development environments.

it's not just marketing, believe me.
here are some wheel links:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wheel

https://wheel.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html

https://bitbucket.org/dholth/wheel/

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0427/

i am using wheel (with pip) as a replacement for .exe installers to install some packages (numpy, scipy, py2exe, etc) on windows. i find it useful because you can automate the installation of a wheel archive using pip (with the typical .exe windows installers you need to click next several times...). the wheel command line utility also knows how to convert existing `.exe` installers to wheel archives.
> I'd love to see a new micro-USB replacement which is reversible.

And does not feel so fiddly I still fear breaking them.
> It doesn't matter if it is 1 coin changing hands 12 million times, or 12 million coins changing hands one time each. Volume is volume.

Correct

> And it proves that not that many coins are being hoarded.

False. There's nothing in what you said to give any logical or empirical evidence that coins aren't being hoarded.

You'd be better off making the argument that it doesn't matter that they're being hoarded because the market is still liquid.
Smart family.

I think it's hilarious that Wikipedia could get something as simple as the number of siblings wrong.
I think it is more that Apple didn't want to implement and maintain two different solutions for the same problem.
I have read the source of extensions I've installed.
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6 Myths About Lean Startups
The specialist was talking to a reporter, who was writing for the general public, about how serious, complex, and justifiably expensive their work is. They might be including the linux kernels, dbms, etc in their line count.
In 2002 Microsoft noted that by fixing the top 20% most reported bugs, 80% of the errors and crashes would be eliminated.
I agree. Since I've decided to stop drinking cola and such beverages (about 8 years ago) I'm surprised how unpleasant and over-sugared their taste seems to me now. But this goes both for sugar and fructose - once the habit is broken, you really don't need it anywhere.
Insights Into Apple's Vision for the New Mac Pro
Does the definition of tablet include the (non-Fire) Kindle? That could explain the discrepancy between Apple's apparent tablet market share and that I've almost never seen a non-iPad tablet in public other than kindles. The kindle reader is sort of in a different market than the iPad though.
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I'm not sure I will play the absolute devil's advocate card here, but I do think that there is a downside to this idea. I live in a mid-sized, industry-legacy Canadian city, where tech has become part of the new economy. And these new tech companies hire locally - and eat locally, and invest their time into building a local tech scene. If remote working were to become a common theme in tech, would this not fly in the face of community building in its simplest terms? Would the Bay Area have the same community today if this brand of telecommuting were available in the 80s, 90s?
So is there a good exchange for UK people that doesn't require ridiculous amounts of identification like mt.gox?
It may just be that Apple's using the branding that AMD will be introducing with the workstation counterparts for the R9 series - the switch from 4-digit models to 3-digit seems to fit.

Based on the announced core counts, bandwidth, and TFLOPs, it looks like the D300 is the counterpart to the R9 270X but clocked at 780/1250 instead of 1000/1400; the D500 is a new configuration of Tahiti with the shader count of the 7870XT but keeping the 384-bit memory bus, and likely clocked at ~716/1250; and the D700 is counterpart to the R9 280X clocked at 850/1375 instead of 850/1500.

The main takeaway is that they aren't going to be offering a Mac Pro with a pair of the upcoming Hawaii GPUs that are twice the size of Tahiti and have a 512-bit memory bus.
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Don't get why the rate has risen? What factors have triggered the demand? Also[1], stated that there is a while before corporations will start adopting it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6589067
It was 81% on iPad, 19% on everything else. Not sure which metrics they're considering, though. I assume it is "time spent on devices", but that metric is not very objective, nor easy to measure.
How exactly will their hardware backdoor transmit its secrets back to the NSA? By sneaking out your apartment backdoor?
Amazon could raise prices negligibly and/or curtail capital expenditures and become insanely profitable. But why would it do that?
Thank you. I am filling out the report there now.
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Of course; the question is whether they have a secret plan to crank up prices and profits once they hit some particular level of market saturation.

I don't think so. I think Amazon expects to run at essentially break-even forever, or at least until Bezos leaves.
Just correcting the CodeHS link:

http://www.codehs.com/
Call a brand new business a startup. Hell, just drop the term and call it a new business. Call a failure a failure. I don't see why we have to load these terms so much or why people insist on pushing their own preconceptions.

People like to bicker about whether it's a startup if it accepts funding, where the funding comes from and how ownership is established, what kind of background the founders have and how long their "runway" is, whether it's set up for an exit or for long term operation... it's ridiculous.

I think the implication is that we've overloaded this term and a few others when we're talking about many different things in many different contexts but can't be bothered to clarify what we're talking about, so hey, what I see as a startup is pretty specific, but I'm not actually going to tell you what I mean (despite knowing I'm bringing serious bias to the term), so I'm just gonna throw that term around and disparage anyone with a different interpretation.

If you define "startup" as very early stage, fine. Why would you use it as an insult for something that's not? Why wouldn't you just say "no, you're just NOT a startup" and ask what the business model is and why they aren't profitable?
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It's definitely limited. But hackintoshes are a planned and strategic undertaking. You want OS X but don't want to pay the rape rates requisite of the apple brand. So you build your pc based on the hardware guide so that everything will work from the start. If you need to add more hardware, you just buy the brand that will work. There's not enough limitation to make it suck, and you're paying 700-800 bucks for a computer that the mac equivalent would run you 3 grand.
How to measure a project's progress? If time is your metric, then the last 20% should be done in 20% of the total time. (And that's right, when the OP says she was 80% done, she actually was 50% done.)

If your metric is something else, what could it be? And perhaps it is not the best metric after all: a loading progress bar that goes quickly to 80% and then slows down (by a factor of 4) until the end may not be the best progress bar after all.

I guess that the difficulty is to get a precise idea of the time you need to finish something.
Apple is either terrible at designing charts or thinks you won’t notice
Also, it might be worth mentioning where I work Agile development is used. It does help some but it isn't a silver bullet.

Also, I didn't explicitly say so but small companies are more efficient. If they are not, they tend to go insolvent. That's what is so good about them.
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