skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
360 isn't perfect but it's better than the alternative.

You're basically saying that those who worked daily in close interaction with the 10x developer and had to work with the code that developer produced, had lower regard for his technical ability than a manager who presumably is further removed?

You can't ignore the social aspect. A team with social frictions isn't going to work as well as a team that enjoys working together. Obviously just being social isn't enough but a strong team needs a combination of the social and technical aspects. Also 360 should mean going beyond the team, so the manager should be evaluated by his peers, his managers and his team and technical people on the team should be evaluated by members of other teams they work with.
The Laffer Curve suggests that there is a maximum level of taxation beyond which increases in the tax rate do not generate additional revenue. (Also sometimes called the "Sheriff of Nottingham paradox": raising taxes on people with nothing does not yield more money)

I was suggesting that there are certain government programs that incur a cost to operate incur a greater cost to cease operating. They generate a net positive on the money spent. Cutting them for "austerity" is foolish.
Outer space is very expensive and extremely hard to do right and safely.
Ask HN: is it possible to teach math interactively using software?
I have noticed that a lot of math games online are for 4 year olds that mostly teach simple concepts like counting, addition, substraction etc. Are there any softwares available on the market that can teach more advance mathematics like calculus, linear algebra, geometry more interactively?
Interview with Heroku's Mattt Thompson on iOS, Ruby, & AFK
Good jobs for everyone + managed population growth/stability.
The Unlikely Alliance That Ended Sunday Mail Delivery ... in 1912
"Isn't that great" how? In that it imposes a bunch of limitations on you? Or that it frequently breaks and slaves have to be manually syned? Oh wait no, I was thinking of mysql.
you make good points but I think you are over-simplifying great marketing companies down to companies that spend a lot on advertising.

Going back to the stanford example, great marketing companies understand user problems and design products that solve that problem in a scalable way. Awareness (via advertising) is only one aspect of marketing.

So while advertising in a commodity market might be a zero sum game, I contend that true marketing is not.
Assessing performance post-hoc doesn't necessarily entail discretionary bonuses.

If I am not performing to expectations, fire me or renegotiate my salary. There are a great many ways to tune my compensation to my actual determined worth.

A discretionary bonus in this case is simply "you should take a below-market salary until we're convinced you're the real deal, and then maybe you will get the salary difference back". I'm not convinced anyone who isn't desperate will take this deal.

And having experienced the discretionary bonuses at two very large and well-known software companies, I am absolutely, completely, vehemently disinclined to ever enter into such an arrangement again.

For discretionary bonuses to make even the most remote amount of sense, it needs to offer the employee an upside for taking on the uncertainty.
I guess you couldnt buy your "own" debt but you could get someone to buy it on your behalf.
For people doing native development, RenderMonkey is an invaluable tool:

http://developer.amd.com/resources/archive/archived-tools/gp...

Really great way of prototyping shaders, though I don't think it supports geometry shaders right now, and it seems to be only Windows.

For debugging, gDebugger is amaaaazing (and has Windows and Linux support):

http://www.gremedy.com/

It lets you inspect textures, buffer objects, and suchlike, and can help you profile graphics calls.
That is true. And no, much like income, it's reported in the current year. It's very much just income. No different than if they gave the guy a check to pay his own debt.
I would guess that the "handheld" keyword is big with the Wii because of the new control scheme it introduced which was the main (sometimes only) thing talked about with regard to the system
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Except for the fact that your rapidly lessening credit score would make it harder to get the second loan, harder still to get the third, etc. The debt you purchase isn't sold until after substantial collection efforts have been made, and debtors report on your credit worthiness when you're 30 days late, 60 days late, 90 days late, etc., with each one worse for your credit than the one before.

There's undoubtedly a scam to be had, but without running debt/credit simulations, I would wager you couldn't make it very far before your resultant credit made you ineligible for any credit whatsoever.
Microsoft did a metaanalysis on general hardware failure based on the error reports sent by literally millions of consumer PCs. Although the results weren't particularly interesting (Hard drives fail the most, with rates consistent with what backblaze observed in the posted link), I was impressed by the sheer volume of data available to the study.

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/144888/eurosys84-nighting...
I think the parent was more interesting in buying his own debt for 5c on the dollar.
Leaked Google e-mail from 2010 reveals strategy to replace JavaScript with Dash
At least they are trying to innovate. I am tired of seeing n-th JS-MVC framework that are posed as something fundamentally new.
As someone who drinks Soylent regularly, the most pertinent part of this article was the blood tests after the author went on a 30 day Soylent-only diet. "Doctors tested Merchant’s blood at the end of it, and the only nutrient he was deficient in was Vitamin D -- i.e. sunlight", which he says made sense because having Soylent handy meant he "wouldn’t have to leave the office". That's certainly good news.

If the mold was the result of shoddy shipping causing the bag to be punctured, it's hard not to take that with a grain of salt.

And as for the rat (singular -- not "rats" plural as the title says), certainly that has the "eww" factor, but so long as the mix itself was not exposed to any animals, I certainly don't care.

[edit: the article this post was linking to has changed, so my comment is a little dated]
One of things that I was always curious about is why the govt didn't restructure mortgage debt and re-value property back to pre-bubble levels

It would have cost the government $2 trillion to buy every sub-prime mortgage and retire it.

But that's Communism

Instead, the government (by way of the private bank known as "The Fed") gave $16 trillion - free and with no strings attached - to Wall Street, the very people who engineered the destruction of the American economy in 2008.

That's known as Capitalism
I believe it's open, and not patented (or I'm wrong?), an attempt to bring LLVM IR (quite standardized) to browser side. It's redundant (competes with asm.js, which is the same kind of "non-standard nonsense" with a WIP spec) with it's own pros and cons, but that's about it.

Every browser vendor experiments with new ideas, only because of this we're getting nice things as the results.
yafoo!
I once had a similar experience - in an interview situation. (I can be likeable in person, just not in comments...)

The guy was attributing statements to me, from the conversation we were having in that moment, that i had never said. He would even say "what you said, or what you were going to say..."

I found it extremely bizarre. I am a pretty precise person, and I wanted to correct him but i realized it is pointless. the lesson i take away was powerful - if people "like" you there is almost no level they won't go to make it work out.

one thing we can do about this is cry about it. the other thing we can do is to figure out how to "hack" likability. i think my mother taught me most of the basics already.

of course - much easier to do this for one hour in an interview, than for an entire year at a job. but there is something to be said for smiling, a few kind words, and then ... graceful evasion of everything else when you want to do real work.
> It really depends which audience this article is targetting...

I disagree. Low quality articles like this are part of the reason why many undergrads are full of strongly held opinions about things they don't know much about. They think you can dismiss a huge paradigm with a glib one-liner: "functions are not objects".

> Yes, but why have that definition, if you already have functions as builtin types?

Because we can't talk about objects without having a definition of what they are? I have no idea what point you're trying to make here. I'm just trying to be clear about my terminology.

> Careful, the wording is a bit lacking here imho: you join two different ideas and make it seem like the second one validates the first, while it's not the case.

Think about it a little bit and you'll see why they are actually very related. His statement about Java is meant to imply that proper higher order functions and OOP are in opposition in some way (at least I assume that's his point, it's still not clear to me because that is obviously incorrect). I am saying that proper higher order functions alone are enough for a very pure form of OOP, so there is clearly no opposition.

> That shows you probably don't follow much the field. Anyway, this article doesn't fit your standard (see first point), ergo this man's whole work doesn't, ergo the whole field doesn't? That twice too much stretching from someone who isn't very careful in his own argumentation.

I'm going to ignore the digs at me and elaborate on what I meant. The author wrote an article about programming languages that was full of elementary errors, both in logic and in technical details. If he can't make a simple argument correctly, how am I supposed to have faith that his research isn't similarly full of errors? It's easy to disguise sloppy thinking in technical writing.
i hope this will curb people from constant backstabbing that I witnessed during my short duration there. It was painful to watch very smart, bright people indulge in really pathetic behavior consciously to 'protect' themselves..
That's not at the center of the argument here, it being economic, but sure, let's discuss it. How many people has Cuba, which was the model for Chilean socialism, imprisoned, and killed? It's far higher. While still nowhere like Stalinism, which in fairness to Allende it looked unlikely to become, Cuban socialism is pretty grim.

I sometimes defend Pinochet, mostly economically. So do millions of other Chileans. I'd guess about half. Hell, I know people who had champagne ready for when the coup came about. Did people die? Yes. Lawfully? No. But Allende's government had already been declared illegal by the Chilean Supreme Court, and was rapidly turning into Cuban-style communism. Pinochet didn't make the stakes higher than they already were.

And economically, which was what we were talking about, again, it was a case of taxing less and spending less that worked very well.
Native in-browser CLR, JVM and LLVM support would be the best world to live.
Just stop being a pussy.
Yeah, it's scary to try and imagine what sort of society would come out even further in the future. An aristocracy with an elite worker class and the masses in relative poverty? Relative is the operative word here, of course. It may well be that the quality of life for someone in poverty in such a future would be better than a middle class person today.
The news is that PNaCl has been enabled on the web in the latest release of chrome. Previously it shipped but ran only on the chrome web store and whitelisted sites like plus.google.com.

Also pepper.js is a fairly recent thing, yes.
I just buy online from somewhere in Asia and you can get very high quality glasses for around $150. That would cost $600 here.
From the NSA to OKCupid, 5 Algorithms That Rule Your World
Key to near perfect discipline
He is saying that the actual demand (amount of food people buy) is not going to increase much, so the whole argument rests on you being the only grocer -- and if you decide to increase your prices that much, that would only result in either (i) your former customers now carpooling to go to nearest Walmart, or (ii) more grocers opening nearby (since the grocery business in this neighborhood suddenly became much more attractive).
You forgot the value of interest, which invalidates your calculation.

If the market price of consumer debt was, on average, lower than its face value, nobody would make loans to consumers.
Is there a reason that OP linked to crummy PandoDaily fluff and not to original Vice video? If anyone wants to go straight to source.

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/soylent-no-food-for-30-days
So JS shouldn't be JIT-ed as well?
There was literally mold on a month-old product. How is it disingenuous to say there are rats and mold?
Smart Design in the Developing World
How about linking to the original and not this blogspam? http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/soylent-no-food-for-30-days

I'm no fan of Soylent (mainly because it's all marketing hype, meal replacements have been around for decades) but this title is BS. He had a moldy shipment caused by damaged packaging and saw rats at a bar. BFD.
I believe the term was coined this way because x86 was originally invented by Intel.

Although, indeed, Intel lost the control when AMD introduced AMD64. :) But this is really getting offtopic.
It's possible to recover from quality scares. Clover Food Lab, which got its start as one of the MIT food trucks, had to deal with a salmonella outbreak over the summer. These news reports and blog posts by the founder document what happened:

Salmonella outbreak sickens 12 in state, triggers closure of Clover restaurants: http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/2013/07...

Clover Food Lab delays reopening after Salmonella scare: http://www.metro.us/boston/news/local/2013/07/23/clover-to-r...

First response by the founder:
http://www.cloverfoodlab.com/is-this-your-first-time/

Did we say Wednesday? We meant Thursday…: http://www.cloverfoodlab.com/did-we-say-wednesday-we-meant-t...

Read the blog posts by the founder, and the comments. Transparency about what was going on was key to keeping their customers informed, as well as curious members of the public. They also worked very closely with health officials. Clover was able to survive with its reputation intact.
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"The PNaCl bitcode is a restricted subset of LLVM IR."

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/llvm-dev/lk6dZzwW0ls/J...
>>government is taking ownership of all human beings

I take the view that a basic income like the one proposed is actually all human beings taking ownership of our government from the current selected few privileged few.
Show HN: Skinny Server: The new dedicated server
I purchased a townhouse for ~$280K at the height of the housing boom. As the recession progressed, my builder went bust, and a new builder came in selling new townhomes for ~$150K.

I stopped paying my mortgage and walked away from the property. 2 years later, I called Bank Of America and negotiated to pay $2K to settle the debt. They accepted and my credit report is as if I never owned the home and walked away.

You can indeed buy your own debt at a steep discount. Its up to you to convince the debtor at how hard it will be to collect.

Disclaimer: I live in a judicial foreclosure state; it costs a substantial amount to perform foreclosures in my state, and also costs the bank to maintain the property between foreclosure and sale. Also, all of my assets were in retirement accounts, effectively judgement-proof.
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You probably wanted to say JVM. Please read some Wikipedia for background info before posting.
The article starts the loop though. If tuning one setting is a black are that an inexperienced dev would miss (which it of course is, I don't disagree at all there), then drawing in a new library to work around the limits (in this circumstance) of file_get_contents() is very much so too.

Neither the original benchmark nor the response were well researched IMO. This is the Apache vs IIS wars again, where good benchmarks that reveal useful information were drowned out by the noise of a great any poorly executed (or sometimes completely biased and deliberately poorly constructed), with bad test resulting in a bad result for one side being followed by an equally bad test to try prove the opposite.
I too think that kettling is provocative and unnecessary. There is a balance that we have to strike as a society between, on the one hand, protection of property and freedom from violence, and on the other, freedom of speech and expression.

Personally, I would rather we allowed more of the latter at the (potential) expense of less of the former, perhaps with some civil compensation scheme for any who might be affected.

I also think that we should allow much more disruption than we currently do - that is often one of the ways protesters make themselves heard. If protests were allowed to make more of an impact then people might feel less inclined to cause trouble. Unfortunately any impact on the great economic machine is seen as almost taboo in some, rather influential, quarters, which makes moves in that direction less likely.

Another part of the puzzle is community leadership, whatever 'community' means in the particular context. The leadership doesn't need to be centralised, but if people don't engage with the police in situations like that then things can get out of control. Though again this is another area where I think the police are often at fault: following orders rather than engaging with people.

All that said, I don't agree with madaxe's statement: "(the police) are categorically not there to help you. They never have been.", and to be frank I don't see how your example shows that it is so.
Yeah, the dictatorship and the death squads kind of put a crimp on trying to analyse the economic effect of the reforms.
What It’s Like To Wear Glass (the Google kind)
It doesn't really matter. Most of the time you don't know which bucket you're going to end up in, so constant back stabbing is the modus operandi to stay on top. I'm more curious about the absence of the formal review cycle in the new model.
> Your hard drive manufacturer knows precisely how long the drive will last

Care to back that up with any real data instead of baseless consumer speculation relying on time travel?
Take a look at Khan Academy,

https://www.khanacademy.org/mission/math

EPGY,

http://epgy.stanford.edu/courses/math/

and ALEKS.

http://www.aleks.com/
Oh my god, I did not need to know that existed. I need brain bleach now.
Sure and I've acknowledged that by what I said.
Did they ever figure out of the beneficiaries of this plan were going to have tax problems? When the idea was originally floated 6-12 months ago I remember that being a potentially large problem.
But Sublime is not an IDE, it's a text editor.
Don't you think it says something about Silicon Valley that your first thought is to characterize this as a PR issue?

It's Airbnb "ransackgate" all over again ...
3% doesn't seem much higher than the annual rate of inflation.

http://www.inflation.eu/inflation-rates/united-states/histor...

And also probably much less than returns of a balance portfolio of stocks/bonds over a 30 year horizon.
The money did come from someone else in the first place, where it would almost certainly have been better-spent than on getting wasted. And you may just be enabling a substance abuse problem to continue and worsen.

To put it another way, you end up where you would have without the guaranteed income, except that the alcoholic has done that much more damage to him/herself, and the taxpayers are that much poorer.

So I'd say that yeah, in that particular case it does hurt.
I wonder what they gonna do with all those dvds now
The last bullet point strikes me as incredibly odd. No ratings? How will managers determine raises and bonuses if they don't have a rating to determine whether the employee is meeting expectations or not?
Maybe a new virtual machine along with a high-level language will magically materialize out of thin air? GoVM perhaps, that was secretly being developed all this time?
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I mostly program C# inside of Unity. What are some of the newer C# language features that it's missing that you think are pretty cool?

I have my game server as a C# MVC app as well (latest .NET running on Windows, not Mono/Linux) and the only things new that I seem to be using are the async and await keywords. But you don't need them inside of Unity since they have Coroutines and yield.
A tale of two start-ups
The Overoptimism of Research Assistants
> there surely is a level at which what you are describing would happen, and that is exactly what I am worried about

Yes. Essentially the Swiss will be gambling that the legislated payouts won't be high enough to trigger that scenario.

I can take your question about income taxes several ways, but I will say that progressive income taxes make much less sense when coupled with a guaranteed minimum income.

Also, a regressive payout has the opposite effect of a progressive income tax since the regressive payout enhances a household's ability to net more income while a progressive income tax makes it harder to net additional income.

Though disincentivizing marginal productivity may acceptable if the ultimate goal is redistribution of wealth instead of simply reducing the tax burden of people with modest incomes.
It's an excellent example; it's directly comparable with the Japanese sites which are also big legacy companies with a lot of content competing for attention. It's not as if Amazon is an outlier in design terms amongst major Western ecommerce or portal sites. Most Yahoo regional sites look a bit like the Japanese one, although some got round to updating the logo quicker. The US top sites list boasts portals that are even more text-heavy ike Reddit (and of course the infamous Craigslist) or noisy like the Huffington Post

Japanese startups, on the other hand, appear to enjoy their SV-style big stock photos, large bold text and colourful calls to action:
http://thebridge.jp/en/2013/06/top-50-japanese-startups
Soylent represents everything I hate about the valley.
Completely agree with your other points, but on healthcare I would note:

Yes it's remarkable, but it costs A LOT.

It still costs far less than the equivalent expenditure per capita in the US on healthcare. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
Meh. Sensationalist piece. I know Vice and the shenanigans they use to get headlines. I trust none of it.
oh cool i didn't realize that translate had that capacity, but what you're talking about is a really elegant solution. thank you.
If you find the link, I'm interested. In the meantime, here's the very related Finale of the Ultimate Meta Mega Crossover:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5389450/
This gives a good (and cynical) way to correct for naive programmer time estimates.
Or, since we have an intuitive hunch and we know about things like inflection points, we might go and investigate more carefully doing our best to find out how it works in the wild. Until then, I'll admit, it is much fun to "Gladwell" it over drinks, no?
First the Chinese exchange (GBL) and now this? Scammers have been hitting the exchanges hard recently.