skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a pretty popular thing at many large companies. Everyone somehow wants to hire the cream of the crop, yet there are only so many cream of the crop candidates.

My own experience is that after a couple of rounds of these layoffs, most of the fat is cut from a lot of teams. After that you start knocking off productive people.

I'd be more impressed by someone who invigorated their workforce and then selectively cut people after they figured out who wasn't working out. Choosing a random manager assigned number that wasn't specifically requested to be a ritual offering of headcount isn't very smart. It'll bite you in the ass eventually when productive people actually end up leaving because of the work environment.
Man that's something that would stick with you forever. Ugh, not recognizing opportunities in their infancy always scares me.
The way to do things changes with every single Ubuntu release. A colleague once looked up some way to alter a desktop setting (can't recall which) and he found that it was different in each of the past four ubuntu releases (as of 13.04).

Similarly, you have to know you want to remove each of the items - fixubuntu hits a bunch at once. It doesn't require as much a priori knowledge.
They may have not had 'hard' problems to solve as part of their core app.

But it seems as though, solving how to scale a CRUD app is a problem whose solutions are still being discovered.
It's used on the TouchID button.

And it's quite likely that TouchID will be rolled out to the iPad, iPad Mini and quite possibly the MacBooks.
This is the crux of the matter. A world in which people have power over others, moreso where people want power over others, will always devolve into suffering. As per Lord Acton.. power corrupts.
With that sort of distribution, there have to be at least 7 people on a given team to have a >50% of a single bottom 10% outlier (0.9^6 = 0.53). Bell curves only work well with large sample sizes.
Growth Hackers Conference - my bullet point summary
If only! I'm Australian, and Kickstarter only opens to our projects on November 13th (which, assuming it gets approved in a timely fashion, is when Sprite Lamp is going live).
"Food, clean water, and basic shelter have never been cheaper."
Lack of these things are, and always have been, mere symptoms of powerlessness. And though nature played a larger part in this powerlessness in the past, it is largely a social problem. But still, this is only even arguable in the states because so much wealth, and so much power, was captured from the rest of the world during the last half of last century. If your supposed lack of suffering (which I would dispute) of some 300m citizens rests on the suffering of a couple of billion in other places, it doesn't exactly mean a whole hell of a lot.
The first phrase of the article is "Apple is building a manufacturing plant in Arizona". Space to build manufacturing plants is not scarce. They are actually even re-purposing one.

I guess GT Advanced Technologies might have some scarce expertise.
It would cost a lot more than $40 million to majority-attack Bitcoin. I estimate $3-4 billion or more. Mostly data center costs.

Let's assume an attacker is very good and needs only 6 months to design his own ASICs and build data centers to host the farm. The network is at 4 Phash/s today, so 6 months from now we should be around 4 * 2^6 = ~250 Phash/s (the network has been doubling in size every month for the past 10 months). The best ASICs, 28nm KncMiner, are approximately 100 ~Ghash/s and 100 Watt each. So an attacker would have to build 250 Phash/s of these to clearly outperform the network: that is 2.5 million chips at 250 megawatt total. And to plan for a potential delay of 30 days in his plan, an attacker would have to build not 250 Phash/s but 500 Phash/s of ASICs to attack the network. 5 million chips. 500 megawatt data center. For comparison, Facebook spent $210 million on their 28 megawatt Prineville data center. So a 500 megawatt data center would probably cost $3-4 billion. Even the well-funded NSA couldn't get their comparatively punny Utah data center to run correctly and it has been delayed by more than 1 year: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2052960/nsa-data-center-suffe...

Is China seeing Bitcoin as a threat? No. And even if it was, is it big enough for them to be willing to spend $3-4 billions to destroy it? I don't think so.
Radeon graphics performance improves dramatically in Linux 3.12
Ahhh... Unity.

Shortly after upgrading, I needed to burn a CD. So I go to fire up Gnome's Brasero. I start typing it in, and before I've finished, Unity helpfully provides me with advertisements of bras for women. At work. Yeah, that's helpful.
Here's your example without a watch: http://plnkr.co/edit/GCv7bQALiOTgJ0npavwi?p=preview
This is correct. GE has been considered a conglomerate for nearly a century now. GE sports a $276 billion market cap, Samsung is at $194 billion.

I'll say however, that Samsung appears vastly undervalued. GE is trading at about 20 times earnings, Samsung is trading at 20 times just its last quarter alone (and around 5 or 6 times trailing four quarters).

Also worth noting, that despite being more profitable than Apple, Samsung trades at a 60% discount to AAPL.
Thanks. will try one to replace some old hardware.
booking your seat is so easy!
sorry, didn't see this until the edit window expired
Apple just purchased 15 percent of Samsung's entire worldwide advertisement budget in just sapphire.

That's a pretty enormous chuck of change, even for massive corporations such as Samsung.
> The "GE Way" was to keep pruning from the bottom, and yes, it would mean that sometimes decent performers would get cut. In the book, there's an anecdote about how at some point, groups would take on crappy workers, just so that they could fire them for the yearly purge.

How is that something that should be emulated? Seems like a tremendous waste of resources to me.
... which is why you italicized the 85% bit? But one is a percentage of people, and the other a percentage of problems. If I'm misunderstanding, it would be helpful if you explained further.
Perhaps because it is the first half of another up/down swing?
I mean people who can't do the basics such as feed or clothe themselves without assistance, not people who want a better car.
Apple has a higher share in the US (40%) compared to other manufacturers, but Android is dominant (51%) vs. iOS.

Regarding tablets, I'm surprised more Android tablets didn't target the Asus Transformer/Chromebook form factor - seems like an area where Apple wouldn't want to tread (to not cannibalize their Macbook sales).
Nonesense. He's the customer.
True, I believe that it is a simple reasoning: more people on Google+ leads to the better targeting for a wider audience, so better ads and more revenue. The social interaction is just another channel of information.

As you said, why is it so strange? It makes a lot of sense from a marketing point of view (the business strategy dictates so) and an engineering point of view (they already have a commenting system for users).
I thought sapphire was much more brittle than glass, so more prone to shattering. Does someone here know if that's true? Would it be a problem for iPhone/iPad sized pieces?
In the book, it didn't really freeze the oceans "in an instant." It took several days.
I'm so glad I bought a bunch of GTAT a year ago.
What exactly is this? It looks interesting.
Manage your guilt by making sure you have had a frank, honest conversation with the person. Not by throwing money at it. The money may seem like a small amount now but bootstrapped generally means strapped, and you will regret it in 6 months if it wasn't 100% necessary.

Make sure you aren't doing this for some protected class reason, not saying you are, just obviously that is a way different situation.

Don't let anyone convince you to put up with an asshole just because they are smart. This is one of the worst decisions you can make. I don't care how smart someone is, if they aren't able to work on a team or work constructively with you get rid of them and do so quickly. And don't try to isolate them, this usually makes the problem worse and again causes you or someone on your team additional work to manage a specialized work breakout, not doable when you are small and bootstrapped.

If this was my situation I would likely go down this path. (But make sure you check with the attorney if you aren't sure/aware of the laws in your jurisdiction.) Sit with the individual and have an honest above board conversation (no finger pointing, name calling, etc) and say something to the affect, you are super smart and talented which I respect, but the situation as is can not continue because I do not feel it is in the best interest of the company and also feel it isn't good for you or the team (team to be). So if we can't come to some middle ground, it is best for you to find someplace else to be quickly. But leave the door open to the person wanting to change. Sometimes passion is misunderstood, or mistaken as someone being an asshole when they are really just trying to fight for the company.

My own complaint about some of the advice I read here. Don't worry about what might happen/not happen in a month, fix the problem you have today. Not that you should go blindly, but worrying about what could/couldn't happen just paralyzes you in fear and means you will fail. Any decision is better than no decision, either do it or make the commitment to fix it, but don't allow status quo to continue as it is obviously affecting you. From what you wrote I think you already get this, but just a point.
Target of Silk Road murder-for-hire plot tells his story
I think you're confused about the difference between a basic income and a guaranteed minimum income. What you are describing is the latter, but what we are advocating is the former.
So, we're talking Google here. IF your assessment is true, then Google is certainly reigned by lawyers, not engineers.

Point taken.
I guess it's a failed experiment the way Catcher in the Rye was a successful experiment. But it's kind of interesting despite that. I like how daringly he injects esoteric religious material into conventional 1950s settings. But it was too hard to pull off. None of the characters is captivating and most of them, especially Zooey, are asses in a way that doesn't feel entirely intentional.

I'm on a Salinger kick, having run across his books for a couple bucks in a used bookstore and never having read him before. He is a singular writer. Catcher was a freak success. Like Kurt Cobain, Salinger would clearly have been happier as an obscure cult artist. But Catcher was the opening bell of the 60s counterculture just as the 50s were getting started. Once it picked up a wave it became a tsunami.

I was surprised at how good the pieces in Nine Stories are, e.g. "The Laughing Man" and "Love and Squalor". He paints childhood and adolescence beautifully, as well as charming interactions between children and sensitive young men. But it all gives an impression of, um, arrested development. Did he write any great adult characters? The pervy teacher in Catcher doesn't count. It seems that adults in Salinger's world mostly just get sour, and the one who is clearly his favorite he has blow his brains out in front of his wife.

More Salinger books are supposed to be coming out now that he's beyond the reach of his fans and the press, and it will be interesting to see on which side of the divide they end up. One hopes they'll be awesome. But I suspect the odds are better that they'll be weird and turned in on themselves.
Though I agree most startups don't need amazing developers, some of the start-ups you listed do.

Evernote is far from a CRUD app, while the challenges of scale at Twitter were noticeable very early on. Facebook also had to overcome some serious scalability issues, though they were able to push those out to later in their growth.

AirBnb and SnapChat, you are probably correct about.

The thing about being a great brilliant tech team, to me, doesn't necessarily all come down to being the smartest technologists in the room. It's about being the best team for the chosen product. Developers who understand what they are building and why can influence and make good decisions for the long-term of the company, where others who may be smarter developers might not be able to see the long-term implications of some of their design decisions.
Rodrigo Canales: The deadly genius of drug cartels
It's an increasingly popular form of advertising for startups that would otherwise not be very relevant to HN, they were compelled by the easy traffic, the tiny sliver of 'growth' and the backlinks.
Where can I read more about this seemingly magical era? I'm so young that it sounds like a faerietale.
I remember that thread. I disagreed with you, but I don't think the particular comments I read were worthy of a ban.
You couldn't be more wrong. I was writing about one specific incident early in my career, quite likely (judging by your lack of maturity) while you were still in kindergarten. The whole point of the exercise was to put in the extra effort once when it really mattered, so that I wouldn't be subjected to the "work hard all the time" grind that has become such a dysfunctional norm in the startup world. It worked.

Since then, I've done a lot more than most of my peers to maintain a decent work/life balance. For example, when my daughter was born I negotiated a shift from my role as system architect responsible for my company's whole product to an individual-contributor role that gave me more freedom to spend time at home. If you think that's no big deal, try it some time. Right this second I'm on a sabbatical, and when I return it will be at less than standard full-time hours because life is just too short to spend all of it at work. I've even written about it.

http://pl.atyp.us/2013-10-leaning-out.html

In a nutshell, you are completely and utterly full of crap. I've done more and written more to fight the "heroic programmer" mythos than you ever will. You interpreted my anecdote in almost exactly the opposite of the way it was meant, and then made up some extra stuff besides, just so you could present your commonplace (and probably borrowed) observations as insight. Piss off.
not much more, and more brittle than gorilla glass which isn't regular 'ole glass IMO. Way way more scratch resistant though, so again IMO, totally worth the tradeoff if price isn't a factor.
I think I'm comparing fruit to fruit. :-)

Look closely at fiat currency and government-backed banking and you may see just how closely they are intertwined.
This is based on inductive reasoning:

This process is heading toward a time when your online identity corresponds directly to your personal ID. This will create a debate between at least two sides:

1. Privacy rights activists will argue that tech companies are complicit with the NSA and that we should fear totalitarianism and a police state's repression.

2. Others will argue that this verisimilitude between the online self and the material self provides for security and convenience.

On the one hand you have those that value freedom and on the other hand you have those that value convenience.
Money isn't just for spending, and money isn't just for your personal desires as you seem to imply. You can also invest and be financially independent, free to work on whatever projects you want without ever having to really worry about money again. A lot of money is a form of freedom.

Want to write good secure texting application that works on all major desktop and mobile OSes and make it fully open source? You could do that if you were financially independent. You could also hire people to do so if you wanted to.

Also real estate is expensive in NYC/SF where you would get these kinds of wages.
Canonical is using people and organizations who use Ubuntu:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/canoni...

I had recently made Blastarix:
http://blastar.in/linux/

I am now scared that I'll get sued, just because I modified Ubuntu, renamed it to Blastarix, and removed the Amazon search and ads feature with some other tweaks. I do not know how to remove the Ubuntu logo and startup screens and I used uck to make the distro. I also added the 32 bit Steam for Linux client so gamers had it pre-installed and most developers play games on Steam anyway.
Wow, I didn't know that. I got the same e-mail and went all the way through with this exact same processor for one of my "pages". When I think about it, I don't really care as much about that G+ page as the other related social networking profiles, but this would still affect me if it were enforced at some point in the future. Well, I made the change, unlike you. Score one for actually reading the TOS.
To be fair, they're clearly the master of countless trades. To list a few things:

- They have exceptionally high customer satisfaction. Routinely ranked among the best.

- They have great inventory management and warehousing, delivering stellar shipping times (assisting their customer happiness numbers).

- AWS is arguably the best overall cloud service. Google and Microsoft - tech giants bar none - are still struggling to catch up to where AWS was years ago.

- Their prices are extremely competitive across the board, with even the king of cheap Walmart.

- The Kindle reader service is the best, there really isn't even a close second these days. The Nook is being buried.
Westinghouse: TVs and nuclear reactors.

(Really, that's two separate companies which license the brand from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_Licensing_Corporat...)
What inspired you to buy stock in the company a year ago?
Cruise ships are also an amazing alternative to nursing homes.

I did some work for p&o cruises, on a ship that focused on round the world trips. These was one old lady there in her 80s who had swapped a nursing home for the ship - and had been there for 3 years or so. The food was incredible, she had diffent company every night due to other guests coming and going, was treated like royalty by the crew (unlike normal nursing home residents), and had an onboard doctor and nurse when needed. And all this was cheaper than any nursing home. Inspired idea.
Sorry, it's difficult to take that wikipedia article and make a soundbite out of it. Elsewhere in the source you'll see this:

> Placing blame on workforces who are only responsible for 15% of mistakes where the system designed by management is responsible for 85% of the unintended consequences

I didn't use that, because it doesn't have any context with it.
Legend of Dungeon was released a few months ago after a successful Kickstarter using a similar technique for lighting its 2d sprites.

http://robotloveskitty.tumblr.com/post/33164532086/legend-of...

Unity just put up a story about the game yesterday as well:
http://unity3d.com/gallery/made-with-unity/profiles/legend-o...
> Gorilla Glass never truly delivered shatter protection, mostly scratch protection

Sapphire will certainly offer more scratch resistance, but I'd be more skeptical about shatter resistance for now...
By "make up" for it I mean you might get the same performance by moving more of your processing to the GPU and avoiding the CPU altogether. Obviously you can't do the same kind of close interaction between CPU and GPU like you could with shared, cache-coherent memory.

I can't wait until there's a PC that has that kind of memory architecture, though, if we ever get one.
For comparison's sake, Apple's ad budget in 2012 was $1 billion [0], so they just purchased almost 60% of their own advertisement budget in just sapphire.

[0] http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/00011931251244...
("Advertising costs are expensed as incurred. Advertising expense was $1.0 billion, $933 million and $691 million for 2012, 2011 and 2010, respectively.")
At least $578M. Because they made a $578M downpayment toward an unknown future quantity and value of sapphire over the next 5 years.
But isn't there a 'fair use' clause? At least there used to be one at one time before we lost our liberties, rights, and freedoms with the DMCA and Patriot Act.
Sponsored email lists, ie the HN Digest:
http://www.newsletterdirectory.co/profile/hndigest/?utm_sour...
This book is an excellent account of the whole fiasco:
http://www.amazon.com/Polywater-Felix-Franks/dp/0262560291/r...
Instead of painting several "lighting profiles", how about painting a single best effort heightmap/normal map?
I suspect that the whole Bitcoin thingy is a Chinese conspiracy.
You made the case that the US should be a poster child for unrestricted government, citing Somalia as a contrast. I'm simply saying that the beginnings of the US more closely resembled the Wild West than a well-regulated market place. You're only supporting my point in arguing that even the most "civilized" of governments are founded in death and despair, but you probably won't realize that as you're not arguing out of principle.

I will seriously buy your ticket if you promise to stay in Cuba. Email me in a year with proof and I'll send some bitcoins your way. Maybe they'll have computers in Cuba by then.
I've made ngrok completely open source and permissively licensed, I'd suggest using it rather than reinventing your own. Feel free to contact me about it.
Not off topic at all, thanks. The only time I've ever heard of people using MariaDB was because they were using MySql. Sure, its a valid reason to pick a technology, but its got to be be one of the worst reasons.
End of Inception De-Coded
Someone bought ~$1mm on gox a few days ago without too much trouble I think
This is precisely the passage that popped to mind when I read the article.
it's not, it asks for one but you can omit it, even though it will keep bugging you about it from time to time.
We've been steadily working on improving the docs, and rolling out significantly improvements on a regular basis. Is there any particular part of the docs that still ails you?
TRUCEConf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6698444