skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The $179 price is total bullshit. In Brazil, where the phone was actually launched (and being produced), the price is US$279 (8GB) and US$343 (16GB).

Not that I, as a Brazilian consumer, am not used to getting dicked on hardware prices for everything. But reading $179 over and over again is kind of making me want to punch my screen.
Of course, to be truly accurate, the question "merit for what?" needs to be answered. Merit is a hazy word when applied across a whole industry - it needs to be matched to very specific tasks, projects, and goals to become clear.

An embedded systems designer may exhibit less "merit" than a wizard of front-end programming when dropped into front-end programming - and vice-versa. There's no absolute, gold standard for merit, no matter how hard we try to find one.

That doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to hire the most suitable (meritorious?) people for our own companies. Just because merit is a hazy target, and subject to different caveats, doesn't mean that it doesn't exist, or that you can't judge one person as more effective than another for a specific set of tasks. That's why we make job descriptions specialized, so that match peoples skills and attributes to the needs of the job.
Hawaii gives us a glimpse of the future of what solar will look like in the US. They are the hottest solar market in the US due to having the highest electricity rates combined with excellent conditions for solar. The primary utility in Hawaii (HECO), has started denying many permits to homeowners due to grid saturation on many circuits.

Infrastructure investments must now be done by HECO to allow for increased solar adoption - something that may not be in the best interest for the utility.
Dominiek ter Heide is Dead Wrong. The Semantic Web Has Not "Failed"
It was SOP when I was working with off-shore devs. Some linkz:

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/Total-Economic-Impact-VDI.pd...
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns1176...
http://goo.gl/a1Tlqp

And who are these developers working for? I dunno, read any news stories about companies out-sourcing IT to China and India in the past ten years?
My dad’s extended family was involved in the papermill business in the hills of North Carolina. The running joke was, “Smells like money.”
I actually spend quite a lot of time coding in my spare time, be it Project Euler, code katas, messing about in a new language for shits and giggles, doing pluralsight tutorials or hacking on an experiment for my employer's product at night or on a lazy weekend afternoon. None of this is really useful to throw on GitHub, and being penalized for it under the assumption of "not enjoying coding in my spare time" is pretty ludicrous.

Also, I prefer Hg/BitBucket for personal code anyway.
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I think the worst smell I've ever been near would be a dry dog food plant...
ha ha, I can confirm. I live and work in Nampa and the beet factory puts off a stink like you wouldn't believe. What's awesome is how the smell transforms from day to day. Some days it smells like strong peanut butter, some days it smells kind of musty and some days it smells extremely putrid. Luckily I moved across town a few years ago and the smell rarely makes it to my subdivision.
> the way in which real fluids deviate from N-S is completely unlike the way in which lattice gas fluids deviate from N-S

Can you describe more how the deviations deviate? Specifically, how do these differences affect numerical solutions?

> If anything the trend in that field since the late 90s has been away from NKS and towards seeing the lattice Boltzmann method as a solver for continuum treatments at the Boltzmann (rather than N-S) level.

Also, which continuum are you referring to here? Number of particles? Lattice spacing?
Instead of dynamic creation, could you sign a wildcard cert that covers everything?
Surveillance Leaves Writers Wary
Anyone ever watched Moshidora? The "No bunt, no ball" strategy from it kind of reminds me of this.
Well They “Should” be Our Customers
WHAT IS THIS MAGIC?
Uh, "with"?
> And 80% of perceived functionality is what most users — even people who rely on spreadsheets for their work — need

This is exactly the insidious myth that the GP is pointing out.

Yes, 80% of the "perceived" functionality might be 1% of the work. But the remaining 20% is a long tail of utterly essential features that are completely fragmented between users. Each user only cares about 80.1% of features, but without the extra 0.1% your spreadsheet is useless.

One user will care that it doesn't print. Another will care that it can't do a sum over columns. Another will care that it doesn't have charts. Another will care that you can't make a bold heading. Another will want statistics functions. Basically your "80% of functionality" has zero value until you do years of work to implement all those 0.1% features.

This myth leads countless people to implement what they think is MVP and then be mystified that their insanely great work still has zero value to anybody they actually show it too.
Congratulations on the success and great story. After reading it I would have enjoyed something along the lines of: "Rejecting Y Combinator; making sure you and your co-founders share the same vision on how you'll build your company"

I throw the "Rejecting Y Combinator" in there so you'll get on the homepage. I found the story about developers building a successful business and then rejecting the Bay Area/Y Combinator lifestyle really interesting and probably a refreshing read. And how different your personalities clearly were. They didn't even want to go there while you clearly took to it like a duck to water and networked like a crazy man. Maybe the other founders though are the right guys to write my desired post.
Ask HN: Managers and employees, your thoughts on stand up meetings?
- Are you a manager or employee?

- Are you running it locally or remotely?

- How big's the team? Is it working for you?

- What are the most common issues you run into?

- Would you rather have them or not?
Probably Sambal Olek chili paste is what you're referring to. It's my other favorite "not really that hot but yummy" hot sauce.

For hot sauce, I don't bother with anything under 100k SHU (tobasco for breakfast, however)
There's a huge difference between what works at the professional level and what works at the collegiate level and what works at the high school level. A lot of it comes down to the difference in abilities between kickers and punters between those levels.

In high school some teams will always go for a 2 point conversion after a touchdown. Not because they will make it a large percentage of the time but because they will be lucky if their kicker will make the extra point 20 percent of the time.

In high school and college it makes sense to go for it on fourth down more often because most teams don't have punters that can consistently kick the ball 50 yards or down it inside the 10.

Professional kickers can consistently make a field goal from 40 yards, some have really good percentages from 50. An onside kick that fails almost gives the other team 3 free points in the pros. An if the receiving team is expecting it the percentage of the time it works be small. In high school, where you almost have to be at extra point distance to even think of trying a field goal, I could see it being useful.

Main point: The coaches at each level are, for the most part, acting rationally. The occasional deviation from the typical strategy is like a bluff in cards. You need to do it occasionally so that they can't gang up on your typical strategy.
28,000 questions? Isn't that a bit of an overkill? Their claims would be much more credible if they had taken their questions from a smaller set.
Can confirm, I grew up on a dairy near Twin Falls Idaho, and now live in Boise (near Nampa). Occasionally I can smell that sugar beet plant from my house and it is as bad or worse than any dairy.
Friendster and Digg and MySpace probably imploded when the founders were in high school. Years ago...
They weren't by any chance near Candler, were they? That entire town smells like ass.
Things that I need for my C and future GoLang projects:

* Multi-platform (Linux, BSD, Illumos, Windows, Mac)
* Building C and GoLang :-)
"Is the NSA storing nude pictures of kids? Are your children in danger? More at 11."

We may get meaningful regulation after all.
I agree. There are so many things that need to be improved, optimized, moved forward.

If YC could improve their viral coefficient by .2 that could be the difference between success and failure.

If YC could improve homepage optimization and customer acquisition flow in a meaningful way, again, disaster diverted.

So many things that experts know how to move forward that us new guys often miss out on. At such an early level, it's like adding gasoline to a fire.
Couldn't agree more. Something you control is only safer if you do a better job at controlling it than the other service would control it for you.
Various combinations of 28k questions. If the study was done properly, they could design similar questions to remove biases.
You send an onboarding email from hello@ and it is not accepting emails from replies.
The question of how this works at the hiring level is interesting. We have to do something to filter out the small set called "people we hire" from the larger set called "people we don't hire".

Github as the only filter will select a certain group of people. Maybe they have "the most" merit, maybe not.

An on-the-spot programming test will select some other group of people.

A set of puzzles and math problems will select some other group of people.

A take-home problem to be submitted in a few hours or days will select some other group of people.

A culture-fit interview will select yet another group of people.

None of those tests by themselves is perfect, but by using a suitably weighted average, you can determine whether someone js smart enough to do the work, able to work with people in your company, and actually interested in working hard and making a contribution. The person who scores highly on most or all of the metrics will probably fit in well and work well.

Requiring a person to have a public github repository is perhaps a higher bar to set than requiring a person to write some code or pair program in an interview. It doesn't necessarily make it wrong, but it does mean that you will be filtering in a different way if you make it a requirement.
I am from a Little Rock, AR (went to PA's rival school), and when I saw the headline, I thought "oh, I know of a coach back home that does this." Little did I know he'd be brought up in an article on HN!

That being said, I'd be interested to see various modern machine learning and statistical techniques applied to football (as they have become applied to baseball).
The gaming applications sound a lot like Gaikai, who Sony acquired for $380m back in 2012.

Here's a pretty cool video demonstration of its on tablets and TVs use prior to acquisition:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2i01vGsbOk
My dad used to coach high school and college football way back in the 60's through the 80's. At one stop, there was a rival catholic high school that almost never kicked. No punts, always going for two on extra points and no field goals unless it was the end of the half or the end of the game. Their players and coaches were cocky about it, and beat my dad's teams more often than not, so my dad never liked them.

Thinking about it further, though, their style of play broke the other teams' game plans. In general, if a defense can hold the other team to 3 yards or less they win. (Because 3 yards times 3 downs equals 9 yards and a new set of downs is 10 yards.) By calling a play on 4th down, they lowered their standard of success to 2.5 yards per play. In startup terms, they extended their runway by 33%.
Earth size doesn't imply habitable, title is misleading
When Facebook first reported strong earnings on Oct. 30, the stock was up ~15% in after-hours trading or ~$18 billion in market value.

Those gains were basically wiped out when the CFO said, "We did see a decrease in daily users specifically among younger teens."

With that one comment $18B in value disappeared.

I have no idea if Snapchat is worth $3B but what happened Oct 30 should give you an idea of how valuable that demographic is to Facebook.

On a side note, Google should buy Snapchat and integrated it into Youtube and use it as their new commenting platform (half kidding)
I'm also not American - and I figure it's worth pointing out the risks and responses from a non-US person's point of view to the HN crowd.

As I see things, the only possible way that the NSA's misuse of their powers (specifically regarding non-US persons) is likely to get curbed is when companies realise there's significant revenue implications. I have _zero_ voice in US intelligence gathering policy. I _do_ though, have the ear of people buying services from US companies who _do_ have a voice in forming/changing those policies. Google's position at the top of the web search food chain, and the amazing advertising business they've built on top of it, might not be enough to justify the risks involved in exposing all that data to the NSA. Microsoft/Yahoo/Google's enourmous slice of the webmail market is also a dubious value proposition if you evaluate the risks in a certain light. Amazon's dominance of the "cloud" market isn't unassailable if you take legal jurisdiction and corporate ownership into account. Salesforce becomes suspect as well for non-US users (both as a CRM and their entire force.com platform).

Those are my most likely allies in lobbying for non-US-citizen's basic human rights online. If Google, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Amazon, PayPal/eBay, Facebook et al. don't start telling your government that they're losing significant revenue because of the behaviour of US intelligence gathering services, then "outsiders" like me are inevitably going to have to find alternative jurisdiction to buy those services (and to create/use replacement services with robust modern anti-nation-state-snooping levels of crypto baked in from the start. Who wants to bet against Silent Circle's Darkmail becoming a serious SMTP replacement because the Brazilian or Equadorian or German or Chinese government mandates it's use nationally - even if it's only done as a political point-scoring "stunt", something like that could be a _major_ win for global internet privacy.)
I pre-released .Net client for Firebase backend API
And how did NK end up being that crazy? USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War#Bombing_North_Korea

"As a result, almost every substantial building in North Korea was destroyed."
You can get 'used' to a smell of a papermill, I guess except that typically the fumes and particulates are toxic. There's a difference between merely experiencing an odor and ingesting unhealthy chemicals through respiration, though often people seem to not realize that the former often means the latter.
Get more sales by being honest with your copy
Viral Journalism and the Valley of Ambiguity
Oh, the fond memories of that satisfying modem handshake. Once alone, you are now connected to something bigger. New possibilities, new venues, stuff to explore.
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A few reasons:

- You don't want users to have to download gigabytes of graphics to play your game.

- Your users don't have powerful enough computers/devices to run your game

- You don't want users to have access to your binaries (Maybe your app is some proprietary business app).
Hack and warp Buddypress for us.
We can pay you, it's a long term gig, probably life long. We are a startup and what we are building has not yet been done on the internet - anywhere. Expect around $150 US a week at the start, $150K+ salary plus benefits later on. The plans are in place, you will be the final key piece.

If you have completed at least one significant Buddypress based roll-out, can code just like-a-ringin'-a-bell and you want to be there at the start of something truly incredible...

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Death of Garath Williams found in locked gym bag ruled 'accident'
A timeless story about this: http://mybroadband.co.za/news/wireless/11099-massive-revelat...
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Make informed decisions, and be comfortable with celebrating your successes and learning from your failures.

Requirements:
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Experience programming in Java, .NET, or Python a plus.
Once again, people's productivity is not linked with their salary. There are better ways to encourage them to increase the quality of their output, while making them happier.
Content-based action selection - REST
Well, the latter is about an unexpectedly long, tricky and awkward journey, so either works.
Haha, that's so like him!
The thing is - How do you develop a standardized toolchain for work? Who decides what the tradeoffs of a particular ERP stack are, how do you integrate it with your accounting system, who controls data flow in your company? You still need people to make those decisions, and that is what corporate IT is about - it's about designing, implementing and refining processes, not really technology. The tech is a tool, not the be all end all.

I think that "cloud" will be a definite bonus to the SMB shop, and provide a wonderful amount of spare capacity to enterprise shops, but I can't foresee "the cloud" replacing in-house IT completely.
Haskell PDF presenter
Sometimes you have to roll the hard six.

My question is, had he gone bankrupt during that period, what would he be doing now? Agitating for the Hyperloop? Content with SolarCity? Or doing something even stranger?
Can I play Google Doodle door games?
Doing this all in a webworker might be one way to get security - by sandboxing the with/eval?
With high brightness and a lot of active, screen-on use, it will absolutely chew through the battery (though 20% in 15 minutes is extremely excessive: For wifi browsing Anandtech found it to be among the top devices, actually beating the benchmark iPhone devices. They then removed that result from the listing pending the full review release). What impressed me most from it is the standby time which is extremely impressive, even in difficult conditions.
Very interesting if amazon will drive Cloud Desktop, DaaS and virtual desktop to wider adoption or prove it's not quite needed today
This is the sort of broken thinking that prevents NFL coaches from trying this. The numbers just don't agree with your premise.

Brian Burke of Advanced NFL Stats has a great 4-part write up on it: http://www.advancednflstats.com/2009/09/4th-down-study-part-...

By the end of it, he has a model that demonstrates when teams should punt, when they should kick a field goal, and when they should go for it. Spoiler: They should go for it a lot more often.

For example, if you have 4th & 4 (or less) and are anywhere from the 5 yard line to the 50, you should go for it.

He even has a calculator so you can now add incorrect statistical decision making to your list of reasons to scream at the TV on Sundays: http://wp.advancednflstats.com/4thdncalc1.php
It might be referring to the "Desktop Experience" feature of Server 2008R2, which applies the Win7 basic UI and allows theming, but not necessarily Aero or any of the graphics intensive pieces. It also installs the "desktop" apps.
I've been unable to track it down in major supermarkets/grocers here in Australia, but the occasional Asian supermarket sells it (and sometimes knockoffs)

You can easily tell which are the knockoffs - http://www.foodrepublic.com/2013/01/17/how-spot-fake-srirach...
How sad that this is launching after the NSA scandal has pretty much ensured it will fail, and perhaps can't be achieved for decades.

This is almost certainly the most efficient and optimal way to do desktop computing. We've been waiting really for decades for networks and CPUs to get good enough that it's actually viable for a real good experience on the client end. And when we finally get there, the NSA and others are here pissing all over the party.

I hope that some day there is a full accounting of the enormous economic damage caused by the reckless, dangerous people in charge of these organizations.
Wow! That is great! Math is one of my fears too and I wish I had done the same when I was still in school.. (",)
I expect you're striking the right balance, but I've also seen cases where new freelancers get too excited to be a "real company" that they start emulating all the worst parts of large organizations and lose the benefits of individuality. Startups are guilty of this too. There's a reason our website has my email address on the home page instead of just a contact form. Anyone who wants to contact us can reach out to me directly. We won't be able to continue that as we grow, but it's a great advantage right now.

Regarding Lambda vs recruiters: we're complementary. A recruiter is usually hired and paid by a company to fill a given role. We're hired and paid by a developer to fill his freelance calendar. We screen clients to ensure they're actually the types you want to work with, we negotiate on your behalf to get you higher rates, and help you brand/position yourself to get you more work in the future.
Uhh.... Sure?

Suffice to say I find your comments so absurd that they don't even merit a rebuttal. Consider yours the last word, congrats.
Slaughter yards are the worst. Drive north on I-29 from Omaha to Sioux City and you can smell the city from 30 miles out. Its nickname is Sewer City, and it actually made it hard for Gateway Computers to attract talent.
In this situation its probably a matter of 'don't attribute to malice what you can attribute to stupidity'?

OTOH - the mainstream media is not reporting on this at all. Doing a search for 'trans pacific partnership' on CNN - the first result is a story about the G-20 Summit on Jul. 15th.

The more you look at, investigate and try and understand this story the crazier you may seem to other people.
It's interesting to hear there's someone doing this. Nate Silver came to a similar conclusion at his Google Talk[1]. He proposed this as the answer to the question "What is the most statistically unsound tactic in sports?"

[1] http://youtu.be/mYIgSq-ZWE0?t=20m2s
Often there's no difference.