skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
same-time communication: you schedule a time to do it. send them an email, say i would like to discuss the following issues, when is good for you. at the very most you'll need to do something else for a few hours till then.

start/stop: if you find time a useful way to plan things, just set yourself a "work time" and stick to it. it might require a bit of self-discipline that office work doesn't, but after a while you'll get used to thinking of that block of time as work. the nice bit is that it can be, e.g. 7-12, siesta, 3-5 if you prefer that to a straight 9-5.

schedule: you can still plan things out in man-days. people are responsible for arranging their time so that they put in that much work; it just doesn't need to be 9-5 every day.

supporting equipment: there are companies that will let you expense some of your equipment and internet bills; others see providing your own equipment as a tradeoff for not having to come in to the office.
* Everyone has a calendar with blocked-out times (for other meetings, or whatever personal things they do). Pick an open time that all participants can join (I work in MST, my co-workers mostly are on EST).

* The expectation is to be available during business hours for the local time zone, unless something very weird is going on. However, I will generally block a couple hours in the afternoon so I can go work out or help my daughter with her math homework (whatever hours I take off are made up at some point later that evening or later that week)

* Project scheduling doesn't change. The expectation is still to work about 8 hours a day, unless there is vacation is in the mix, but that's no different than people who work in an office.

* My employer provides all the electronics (computer, LCD, etc). It is also company policy to pick up the cost of an IP phone and high-speed internet (50MB/s down/15MB/s up where I'm at). When I was negotiating my salary for the position I took into consideration that I would be paying for my own "perks" (coffee, etc). I have friends who work at companies like Palantir that are paid a stipend for "forward-deployed" engineers that covers the perks that other employees receive in the office (catered lunch, coffee, etc).
To be clear, my downvote was very much in the spirit of two of HN's guidelines:

Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you.

See: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I didn't downvote your comment, but you're pretty clearly flouting the first guideline. If you want to be a productive part of a community, please respect the guidelines of that community. I have no problem with contrarian political remarks, as long as they're presented rationally and refrain from breaking the community's guidelines.
Well, a much smaller percentage of Windows users are on 8.0 than OS X users are on Snow Leopard or later. If Blue allowed upgrades from Windows 7 for free, that'd be a more equal comparison.
This is meaningless as you don't know whether you're one of those 70 people until you have a black bag over your head.

And sure, today's bogeyman is terrorism. What will tomorrow's bogeyman be? During any time of social upheaval you can expect those in power to attempt to maintain their power. We are fast approaching obsolescence of a vast majority of human labor. What social ideas will spring out of that and how will the powers that be respond to a threat to their power? We've sat watch as the ultimate system of control was created around us; it's only a matter of time before it is unleashed on us completely.
"Very interested to see if Microsoft will follow suit."

And what? Make it up in volume? Unless Microsoft's Surface sales take-off, they can't afford to give Windows away for free apart from what are essentially service-packs like the 8.1 update they just released.
I am seriously interested in this topic, but I find it really hard to work with personas.
I've tried it numerous times in other fields (e.g. software development), but it just never worked for me. Maybe this is a personality thing :-/
Since when have you had to have a Mac to run OSX?
I used to 100% believe in this, but came to appreciate people interacting face-to-face. There is a reason that great artists, philosophical circles, mathematicians etc. come in clusters of excellence. People feed off of each other. This can benefit start-ups as well. Facebook, drop-box, etc. and many other startups worked & lived in the same house in early days. I'm not saying this is a balanced lifestyle - won't be able to do drip coffee bike ride gardening and whatever other hipster stuff 37signals does as much perhaps.

I do a genomics start-up, with two offices, one in Europe, one on the East Coast. #1 wishlist item is only if there was a way the two offices could be physically together.

Remote works as well as a long-distance relationship. It may work in a mature environment, 5-10 years into your relationship. Not Day #1. Start-ups battle many odds, remote is not one you want to tackle from the get go.
Microsoft sells software, Apple sells hardware with matching software. But make no mistake, they are a hardware company - OSX won't even run without a chip confirming its an authentic Mac.

The idea that they would charge for these smaller OSX updates is bizarre, and the price point has been in the "we need this for accounting" range in the past.
I personally think critical mass has been reached, and unless someone actually cracks the protocol (which I seriously doubt) and brings down the txn network, BTC is here to stay.

Quibbling about the current valuation misses the point. The secure transfer mechanism is the real value, and is not getting shoved back in the bag. Bet long on BTC and I doubt very highly you'll regret it, even if you get in at 200US and lose over the next few months.
I knew it existed, but the claim was that Windows 8 sold poorly with the $40 promo, which I couldn't find any backing for. The only reference I could find for Win8 sales around that time said that "Upgrade sales [are] outpacing those of Windows 7 at the same point in its lifecycle": http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/window...
Apple Releases The New Mac Pro Available In December For $2,999
Correct, you can't declare language use as a requirement in the same way as material. Check out DO-178C, it doesn't do that. It requires artefacts and processes to be in place so that when the system is done, if done right, you have a high degree of confidence that written in C or Haskell or OCaml or Fortran that it was designed and tested well, and consequently that errors are minimized or by design their impact is mitigated.

And this brings us back to licensure, if we had a PE category for this sort of software engineering, where people really staked their livelihood on what they signed off on, these sorts of processes might be taken seriously. So when you're told, after giving a 2 year estimate, that you have 6 months, you can honestly reply: I cannot do that. And have a body to point to to back you up in your decision when you get fired and they hire on a less reputable "engineer".
bad citizens and brown people...
Free for 10.8 upgraders only?
Does anyone know if this upgrade is worthwhile for software development?
As the author, I certainly hope so...
I work at Gridium (http://www.gridium.com). We're a 100% "virtual" company, meaning we have no central office. We work in several different timezones. Yet we've managed to build products that, by any measure, have been very successful. Good enough to see us named to this years Cleantech 100 (http://www.cleantech.com/global100/global-cleantech-100/)!

The point being, we are a successful startup that has made the lack of a central office a part of our culture. This is my first foray into a virtual company like this, and it's been eye-opening.

There are several efficiencies that come with remote work:

1. Our team members are thrilled. We have folks in basically every stage of their working lives. From fresh college graduates to parents of kids in college.. and everything in between. Everyone has expressed satisfaction with how our setup has given them the ability to easily balance their personal lives with work.

I know that for me, simply eliminating the commute I have an extra hour or two in my day to spend time with my family. That alone makes me intensely loyal to the company.

2. It's the best hiring hack ever. Did you know that there are insanely talented engineers living in Boise Idaho? Milwaukee? Conway Arkansas? It turns out that when you are allowed to cast a very wide hiring net, the level of talent available to you simply goes through the roof. Instead of sniping talent from local companies and participating in the hiring arms-race you're seeing in the valley and in other startup hubs, we get to hire amazing people that those companies simply never consider.

3. We save real money. Since we don't have an office, we save on one of the biggest expenses a company can have. We do pay for co-working spaces, but most of our employees choose to work at home. It leaves money in the budget for us to have amazing quarterly meet-ups. Every three months we get together and work on the company, but we get to have an amazing time while doing so.

4. Management efficiencies abound as well. You learn to really trust other people when you can't look over their shoulder all of the time. Which creates a brilliant culture of self-managing teams.

There are challenges. When do you have standup (DO you do standups)? How do you communicate? Thankfully tools like Google Hangouts, hipchat, and a variety of others help us cross that gap. I think the most surprising thing to me has been that our virtual company operates more like a traditional officed one than I would have thought. We still have meetings when necessary. We still collaborate. Hell we still whiteboard things out. Just the venue has changed and the manner in which we do things slightly altered.

tldr; It can most definitely work.
Those features are mostly in SBCL's FFI, which is (somewhat) documented here:

http://www.sbcl.org/manual/#Foreign-Function-Interface

You can disable the garbage collector with without-gcing or gc-off. To manually allocate and deallocate you need to go beyond SBCL, at least as far as I know; you can call malloc and free directly if you want (via the FFI) or you can write your own allocator using the low-level memory access facility.

Hiding in the low-level code in the FFI and in SBCL itself are "system area pointers:"

http://www.sbcl.org/manual/#index-int_002dsap

Finally, inline assembly. This is the least documented of the three features you mentioned, but here is an example of how to do it with the VOP facility:

http://pvk.ca/Blog/Lisp/hacking_SSE_intrinsics-part_1.html

Unfortunately, all of the above are extremely hard to use due to the lack of good tooling. Manual memory management is possible, but going from a pointer to a block of memory to a Lisp object is not at all straightforward (it is possible with a lot of low-level hacking using the sb-vm and sb-sys packages). You can define VOPs, but it involves a lot of steps; you are probably better off just using the FFI, but debugging across the FFI boundary is hard, and the FFI imposes a performance hit that might outweigh the benefit of your assembly language code.

Like I said, the problem here is tooling. I suspect that there is a lack of demand for these things among SBCL and CMUCL users, and in the Lisp community in general.
HFT profits come from the money that the specialists/dealers used to make. They were the guys standing at the podiums quoting bid/ask prices all day.
That's a valid point, if you want just a quick list of what to put in a Persona you can jump straight to the Google Docs Spreadsheet here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Au0FugutnpOvdFd...
Well it's definatly not serving anything in lower Manhattan or in Atlanta (where our other office is)
The intent is for add-ons to ship in a box with the main Prime order. This doesn't always happen due to the combination of what you order and the locations of the items across Amazon's fulfillment network. When this happens Amazon is eating the cost of those extra shipments and is considered a 'miss' by the inventory folks.

Everything in the warehouse is not prime. If fact, an item can flip from prime to not prime in near real time if the most accessible inventory is used up and all that is left is the stuff in the 'reserve' areas of the warehouse. This is the area where the giant boxes of inventory stored. Grabbing inventory from there involves pulling it down, opening, pulling apart eaches, and then stowing in fast access areas.
I used to live on Oahu and back then Amazon Prime wasn't as friendly down there, but glad to see it's caught up.
That's what the btc crowd has said every time it bubbles

How about you guys go 12 months without losing 25%+ of value in a single day before you start talking about being "here to stay".
I thought Office, Exchange, etc. products actually formed the bulk of their revenue.
See you again at $1000 to talk about the bubble.
Back down to $195.
typecheck.static_type is supposed to give you the full type of the object - not just 'function', but 'function(int) -> int'. Or I guess I in this case I was just looking at the return type, so 'int'. Hence the problem - foo is defined so that if its type is int, it returns a string, while if its type is string, it returns an int.

The problem with giving up and returning 'dynamic' is that dynamics tend to propagate through the code if you're doing anything moderately complex. If we give up, then any expression that calls foo() now typechecks as 'dynamic', and any expression that calls one of them typechecks as 'dynamic', and so on. You end up with a typechecker that doesn't tell you anything useful about your program, other than that it was dynamically typed.

If this is restricted to a few special cases like, say, Django ORM classes or namedtuple, it's not a huge problem, because you can hardcode in specific rules for them (or put in a plugin mechanism). But tricky typing rules abound even in the basic language features; as mentioned above, multiplication does not even have concisely expressible typing rules in Python.
Any computer. Including the one you already own, and none of which are produced by the Linux Foundation.

I will give that driver support for wifi cards may make some computers more awkward than others. It's very rare these days that any common device other than a wifi card or a just this week released graphics card causes problems any more.

(As an aside, how do you escape asterisks here?)
What is the best social media monitoring tool and why? [Quora]
As one of the authors, I'm not sure what to say to this. I would honestly love to get your feedback.

Just so you know, when the book was more direct we had reviewers saying it was too direct and they wanted more flavor text. Our answer was an appendix of libraries in the back that listed all the recommended packages. Perhaps we should point readers to that earlier?

Also, if you are using Django, using third-party libraries is part of using Django. We feel this is a good thing because you don't want critical libraries standing still waiting for the next major Django release (a roughly yearly event). A good example is OAuth authentication - if Facebook or Twitter changes it's methods, you can upgrade to the latest django-social-auth or django-allauth and expect things to work.

However, as I said, I would love to hear more detailed feedback. That way we can make the book better. :-)
Which is of course how SV got its start, through government investment. Socialize the risk, privatize the profits, it's the American way.
I can wholeheartedly confirm this. The cheap Chinese knock-off companies are basically beyond the reach of Western law.
How does this prove it is a bubble? If anything, isn't this evidence for the opposite? I expected the price to drop dramatically after the Silk Road shutdown.
great idea. this is too good to be true.
VPNs are not "sillyness", and they have nothing whatsoever to do with preventing employees from stealing data. They are to allow authorized people to securely access the network.
So where can I go to download an ISO?

I'd like to burn a bootable DVD, and load it up as a non-networked offline install. Is such a thing even possible?
The DP is the right direction to go, same with the XCode 'point'. I think both still need to be conceptually separated form Pixels further. As for going entirely relative, There are some things that need to be solidified - mainly type treatments - as well as the elements that surround those elements - like padding, margin, and measure.
I hope this helps. Eating and working too much can be addictive and I don't think you'll be able to force him to change. Maybe try connecting and maybe learning some of his personal dreams. Real change has to come from him, but maybe you could gently establish a keystone habit that others can build from. "The Power of Habit" is a good book/audiobook that talks a bit about this in the first chapters.

On the other hand, it's hard to accept, but maybe just try to connect while you can.
I can address first of the issues you have mentioned: I have worked both in situations when whole company is working remotely or only one/two people of out dozen were.

In the second case, those people were very often left out of the most communication that was happening in the office, and for them it must have been not very good situation to be in. There was no general plan for handling this situation and trying to include them in meetings and decision making process.

But when whole company is working remotely, the situation is completely different, everyone is at the same level, and you really can make it work.
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Dave Girard noted in his "Critical look at the new Mac Pro" that the machine has "a truly epic lack of expandability."

I totally agree.

As someone with a macpro1.1 I'm clearly looking elsewhere at this point. I take a lot of still photos and frankly I'm filling up 2 TB drives. Plus having a heavy bulky machine you can put a cable bike lock through makes it much less likely to be stolen..

The design is interesting though. I'm sure its crazy fast.

Just odd that you'll need an expansion chassis for more drive space.

Plus hdmi for external monitor support? Is every DVI monitor going to need an adapter?
4.3 introduced a M, for what its worth (http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/changelog.html)
Make it up in Windows Store sales commissions? However, you are right, Windows is a cash cow that generates immense revenue to Microsoft.
I'm not sure I understand this.

Windows 8.1 is about as equivalent to OS X 10.9 as you can get and it was also free.

What exactly is the "boot to the face" here?
More I look at it and less I like it.

The design is weird and certainly not elegant.

Try to imagine it with 5 cables that come out from the "back" (a cylinder don't have a real back).
Hey, it's a great way to get lesser-known languages into production! </slight-sarcasm>

I wonder if I'm going to be the one who finally switches Google Search over to Go, by way of a quick throwaway prototype...
Bitstamp is also running up near 190, so it makes sense that lot of the new money has come in through MtGox.

https://bitcoinity.org/markets/bitstamp/USD
Just got a Google A/B test for description-less search results
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Again if you're looking at BTC as e-gold you're missing the point.

The value is the txn network and that isn't going away.
Price volatility is irrelevant to the long term value of it as a transaction vector of last resort for a huge number of applications.
No app store in Leopard? If the MAS is the only distribution vector, there's a bootstrapping problem from 10.5 IIRC.
Windows is still a major component of their revenue:

http://www.tannerhelland.com/4273/microsoft-money-updated-20...
Free as in free beer, not as in free speech.
Very true. It's important to invest in strategic relationships, but sometimes you have to lay down the law.

For example, many companies shirk their customer support duties, even on high ticket items. You wind up spending a disproportionate amount of time as a customer trying to mathematically prove that what you found is a defect, and not some undocumented bug. At some point, rather than seeing the world from their eyes, you have to say, "I need this fixed or I'm pulling the plug."

These are outlier case though, and to your point, there is social debt every time you have to pull rank.
While I'm not sure about "retarded", I am saddened by the RAM cut as well. We might actually pay more then before, because Apple soldered-on RAM is pretty expensive.
It's unfortunate that the failures of engineering garner so much more attention than the everyday victories, though it isn't surprising that people expect things to "just work".
It can still be planned obsolescence even if the plan is a good one. ;)

Apple has always attempted to strike a balance between longevity and progress, especially on Macs (5-7 year lifespan, usually). iOS is faster-moving, and gets the shaft more often (2-3 years, sometimes less). The latter will hopefully get better as the mobile hardware catches up to desktops; most of the forced upgrades have been due to low RAM or other hardware deficiencies.
Amazon.com raises its free shipping minimum to $35 from $25
Co-working is an absolute godsend for remote work. It's like an office, but better! You can pop-in and out without the pressure that your actual coworkers put on you to be visible during "office hours". Even if you only spend an hour or two a day at your co-working desk, being able to get out and interact with humans (on your terms) is an amazing thing.
Since you're being credulous, I'll bite:

Just because it's "free" and you can update systems that are on Snow Leopard, doesn't mean it'll update all systems on Snow Leopard. For those paying attention, Apple killed off quite a bit of hardware with 10.8. Those certainly aren't upgradable to Mavericks.
Another interesting startup from the Nordic. Where can I see what positions the team is hiring for?
No luck for us 1st gen 2006 macbook users!
"For the privacy advocates when it comes to public transportation like flying: what do you fear may happen as a result of greater background checks?"

I fear that some mistake, perhaps just data corruption in some gigantic database somewhere, will affect my government file and permanently ruin my life.
I think it's dependent on whether or not a 3rd party seller in Amazon's marketplace is offering the same item.

Amazon also sometimes has a "bulk" item at a higher price.
There are a few tools that will do this for you, basically copying the hidden restore partition onto a USB stick. Bootable DVD though? Really?
I'd say it is here to stay:

http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg360ztgTzm1g10zm2g...
Where do you get that information from? The only F5 information that I can find is http://abetteruserexperience.com/2013/08/get-a-sneak-peek-of..., and the changes fall into the camp of "things I don't need to hold my breath for."
Dark Matter (unfinished) pulled from Steam (and GOG.com), after team is laid off
What stops someone from creating their own Bitcoin alternative? Many such systems exist.
Wow, Colorado has 4 entries on that top 10 list, with 3 beating Silicon Valley! Unexpected, to say the least.
Where can I find the list of models?
There was no luck on Lion or Mountain Lion either.
Eureqa-natural laws from motion detection
lol :(
Ask HN: Is it just me or is Gmail Faster?
Gmail seems to load a lot faster on my linux box. What has changed? Can I learn from this to speed up my sites?
. . . but the quantity of all crypto-currencies is unlimited.
Get a HUAWEI ASCEND Y300 for less than 100€ ,4 inch, good specs , Android 4.1 ...

While Firefox os looks interesting, the ZTE Open is quite low end.
I feel the need to point out that you can run Mac OS X on pretty much any recent Intel processor and a wide range of motherboards. It is not locked to Apple hardware.
Open source projects that help get your startup rolling