skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the numbers themselves are the problem. The problem is (if proven) that the hiring manager said those fateful words "...enough for an Indian".
He may be a bit interesting, but based on your assumption that he "hates" Scala seems to indicate that he is a very angry person (given that he still prefers Scala to other alternatives). I think he is emotionally invested in Scala and upset that it didn't turn out exactly how he would have like to see it, but "hate" seems like a strong (possibly incorrect) word to use.
It is obvious that they are, de facto, common carriers.

Give up the lobbyist payola, reclassify them, and introduce some real competition to my now more frequent than annual Crapcast price bumps (or significant humps, as it were).

(And in my case, this is primarily for Internet, although basic cable comes along as a quasi-freebie -- it costs, but then a discount on the combined package largely or totally negates that cost.)

Otherwise, you can bet I'm not voting for either major party, next time around.

As a consumer, I find that the only way to defeat this bullshit, is to stop paying for it. If I had an alternative to Crapcast in my neighborhood, I'd take it. (I don't count AT&T, because for a lonnngggg time they refused to deploy high speed Internet here, and because their policies and behaviour are just as bad. As well, they've personally screwed me in a prior location, as I've commented before.)
Do you have some examples for this?
We don't live in a world where every web user is part of a majority of three monitor resolutions and web design has changed to accommodate that. Web sites need to scale properly and that cannot be done with raster graphics.

If you are using a raster program for anything other than mockups before you head into real design, you are doing yourself, your clients, and their customers a disservice.
> and so can you

Well, thanks for the suggestion, but it's certainly not for everyone.

<rant>
Sometimes my sleep-awake schedule breaks and it's a PITA.

I can lie for hours in a almost complete darkness, counting breaths/sheeps/listening to rain outside/etc and still not falling asleep for a single bit. Melatonin doesn't do much; haven't tried anything else. Then, when it's a day already, nor willpower, nor direct sunlight, nor coffee is not enough to keep me awake for a long time - usually I can't stay until evening. Let me lay for a minute and I'll be asleep even if the sun's shining right onto my closed eyes.

The only way for me to fix my schedule seems to gradually shift sleep times by several hours (i.e. go to sleep at 10:00 [a.m.], then 13:00 then 15:00 and so on) until I'm again falling asleep in the late evening and waking up at morning. Then I'd have to do my best to not break the schedule again, i.e. not fall asleep too early and not stay up for too late.
</rant>
IOMMU is needed for VGA and PCI passtrough in general.
Comcast, etc, don't get many of the benefits of being a utility. They don't get guaranteed rates of return on investment, set rates, protection from competition, etc.
Express service on Amtrak costs more than the slower service.

It's not the whim of the carrier. It's what the carrier can negotiate. Why should the US Gov't be part of that negotiation?
Companies use the path of least resistance. (unless they like making life difficult for themselves)

If an L-1 is easier to get they will do that, if a TN is easier they will do that, etc, etc, etc. Immigration is highly particular to an individual case.
Is Instacart going to excel with Amazon Fresh?
I am wondering with rising market cap of Amazon Fresh, how Instacart will prosper with it?
I have chosen not to let anything stop me. I started Fogbeam Labs with no money to speak of, no co-founder, no startup experience, no investors, no customers, etc.

Over time, we've added two co-founders, and I've gained a lot of experience "learning as I go". I still have no money or investors (the latter by choice) and we're working very aggressively ont he "customers" part. We have a couple of deals we're working on, and hopes are high for getting some stuff signed in the early part of 2014.

One thing we've doing is shifting slightly towards more focus on SaaS deliverables. Our software will certainly still be applicable to "on premises" deployment, and some customers will favor that model for various reasons, but we're now starting to put more emphasis on getting the SaaS deployment model going. The main reason here is simply that we believe we can build traction faster and more readily, with hosted offerings. And since we're bootstrapping, anything that gets revenue coming in sooner than later is a Good Thing.

Anyway, my mindset is "If you have an idea, start building it". If you have the luxury of being someone who can code, you can get an awful long way down the road, just coding in your spare time, without spending any money. Our "burn rate" is nearly negligible to date, as all three founders are coders and we're building the product(s) ourselves.

Others will think it's a stupid idea

Screw the "others". Who cares what they think?

I'm not smart enough to get this done

You might be. You won't know unless you try.

The idea takes too much money

See above... if you can code, maybe you don't need much money. If it is something that does require money, well... there are options that involve spending other people's money instead of your own.

Family is a priority

You want to make it big so you can provide for your family in the best way, right?

Need to learn more skills first

Learn as you go.

Need a business partner

Start now, acquire a partner when the time is right.

I don't have domain expertise

Partner with somebody who does. Or pick a different domain. Or buy a book.

I'm not sure I can put in the effort needed

You won't know until you try.

90% of businesses fail

And 10% don't. Be part of that 10%.

So why bother?

Freedom. Financial independence. The joy of creating something and building it and watching it grow.

I really need to work on this idea on my own before launching

Well, do it.

This is not the right time for my idea

Come up with a better idea. And/or revisit your assumptions about why this isn't a good time.

I would've done it if I were in the 'valley'

Successful startups emerge from just about everywhere in the world. Being in SV is not a prerequisite for success.

I am not sure I have the right personality for starting

There's only one way to find out.
> It is also the first series of chips to use a new approach to computing dubbed the Heterogeneous System Architecture

Are these not the same sort of AMD APU chips used in the PS4, i.e. the PS4 chips already have HSA?

According to the following article, The PS4 has some form of Jaguar-based APU: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/171375-reverse-engineered...
Maybe that should be FB's model. Maybe they could negotiate that with the ISPs. Or maybe not.

Why should the US gov't be involved in this business negotiation between two companies?
It doesn't sound like a recall but the title is misleading it to be. Here's Tesla's PR: http://www.teslamotors.com/about/press/releases/tesla-provid...
Why can't they start classifying ISPs like common carriers?
Will the APU and graphic card cooperate to form a multi-GPU with single output? It sounds as it could create a more effective gaming platform than a CPU and GPU combo.
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I find the version without the .s much more readable as long as all the methods take one argument each. Haskell does it for everything, so this is certainly a viable syntax choice, though IMO it isn't nice when you have multi-argument methods.
You were hoping a single hand-crafted unit to be cheaper than majority of massproduced chinese crap?
Would have been more fun to force one app per post.
Not mentioned already: ProWeatherAlert, RadarScope, Kindle, Amazon, runkeeper (although a better name would be hike-keeper for me), dropbox, google drive.

If you have to be told what a kindle is (and its app), or what it does...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but $50k actually is good money for an Indian right?

Pretty sure this is just a way for everyone on HN to vent their outsourcing frustrations under the thin guise of political correctness.
Net neutrality court ruling: Net neutrality killed
Any initial insights as to whether this new CPU/GPU combo will play any nicer with linux than previous AMD GPUs?

Setting up Catalyst and getting my ATI Radeon cards to work properly in a linux setup is probably my least favorite step in setting up a linux computer.
Ivan Sutherland: Technology and Courage
The analogy I use is a web designer who doesn't know HTML and CSS is like a fashion designer who can't sew.
The animals aren't generally sick. They are fed antibiotics at a very low dose because one of the side-effects is faster weight gain.
Strangely, here in the UK, corn fed meat (i.e. with antibiotics) is a premium product over grass fed one. So, the problem is a bit deeper than that.

There are other problems that are solved by antibiotics: overcrowding and mass production. Nothing to do either with crop subsidies.

And similarly that's not an easy problem to solve. Very few organizations defend quality meat. Small, local farmer are easy target for various animal rights group. Big groups on the other hand are generally ignored.
I like the Pony. But it sends the wrong message. Django is absolutely not magical.
Not allowed to fail
Elon is tweeting that no actual vehicles are being recalled: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/423144357873479680
False.

@elonmusk "There was an over-the-air software update (done last month) and an upgraded US 14-50 adapter will be mailed to customers."

@elonmusk "Some confusion in media reports today. No Tesla vehicles are being physically recalled by Tesla."

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/423145289310953473

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/423144357873479680
One nitpick: it is not possible to really get Iris Pro on the desktop. The 4770R (all the R chips, actually) are FCBGA and not sold retail.

Maybe the big brand guys sell some desktops with Iris Pro, and I know Gigabyte has it in one of their NUC alternatives, but otherwise 'enthusiasts' can't get their hands on one
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Because it's considered "vertical integration" and therefore not subject to anti-trust laws. Comcast merging with Time Warner would be considered horizontal; Comcast merging with NBCU was considered vertical and therefore allowed to go forward in January 2011.

I'm currently reading Susan Crawford's book Captive Audience, which is a detailed history of this exact topic. Recommended. Here's a talk she gave at Harvard summarizing the story and issues at stake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R4xhwy-1oI
"The Comcasts of the world did everything they could to prevent it from becoming accessible to the typical user."

How so? Buying a big ISP and expanding it seems like an odd way to do so.

The ARPANET project was great, but expanding it to homes was never in the plans.
Reactive Android, Part 2
No. From how I understand hsa works, you would be able to throw raw memory at the gpu, but you'd still need to write the code to tell what memory the gpu needs to look at. I'm not certain how much work is involved in redesigning your app for this -- the dev tools AMD has available are from november, and I don't think they'll have all the Kaveri stuff in them yet.
About this:

"until you get some optional typing"

There is work being done on an optional type system:

https://github.com/clojure/core.typed

There are also some interesting experiments in enforcing specific data structures:

https://github.com/prismatic/schema

Much effort has been made to make contract programming easy in Clojure:

https://github.com/clojure/core.contracts

And if you would feel the urge to respond with something like "why is such important functionality in a library", I'll point out enforcing pre and post conditions (on a function) has a nice syntax that is part of the language:

http://blog.fogus.me/2009/12/21/clojures-pre-and-post/

I find that every time I read an article about Scala I am left wondering "Why don't these people just use Clojure?"
> and introduce some real competition

You do understand that regulating carriers as if they were utilities but then demanding more competition is inconsistent? Utilities get monopoly protection in return for offering universal service. That's the quid pro quo.
Of course you have sources for this statement, right?

By the way - this is exactly the argumentation neo-Nazi parties parties proclaim all the time [1]. You must be in lack of any information about what is going on in European and German politics to state stuff like this...

[1] http://npd-fraktion-sachsen.de/index.php?s=111&aid=6373
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If you have to be told you should still be writing code you've probably already lost it (or never had it to begin with). I'm surprised by the people here arguing so strongly against something that is just common sense to anyone who truly cares about software development. Sure the 30% figure is debatable, but you're splitting hairs if that's what you think this is about.

There are too many people who are completely incompetent in management positions who effectively hide their lack of knowledge and skills because they are never put to the test. Moreover one shouldn't want to completely lose touch with the processes and techniques of development and design of software. How much involvement in code is required to be effective is perhaps debatable, but that you should be involved definitely shouldn't be.
He says you need to be a "rocket scientist" to change the compiler.

We have computers that are thousands of times faster than the 1980's but Turbo Pascal, then, could compile tens of thousands of lines per second on that hardware. Scala is so complicated it takes minutes to compile large code bases.

Anyone remember what the claims were for Turbo Pascal?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal
Bing. This is an older article and they are not losing as much money anymore, but Bing has cost MS a lot of money.

http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/20/technology/microsoft_bing/
In a similar vein, I've had problems sleeping all my life. The easiest solution was exercise, I began rollerblading to/from work as well as pretty much everywhere (~ 15-20km per day). During that period it never took more than a minute or two to fall asleep.

Now I live in a city with laws against roller blading in the street and cobbled pavements, so once I again I'm insomniac.

I shall try the articles suggestions
Even what is written doesn't sound lawsuit worthy.

May or may not have been, but sounds like you didn't even read the article, judging from your response.

Hint: It definitely was not about a $10k salary difference.
A last ditch effort to preserve the ones that still work, and limit the amount of resistance that develops buys a considerable amount of with for "what next".

Drug pipelines are not hackathons. They need time.
This source is a year old, but it doesn't seem like Spotify is really raking in the profits either:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/31/4575506/spotify-doubled-re...
> The author's argument makes as much sense as saying a professional baseball coach should be spending 30% of his game time actually playing with his team.

This is a bad comparison because baseball hasn't significantly changed in the last 100 years, but software development changes significantly every 5 year to 10 years.

Over a 40 year career in software development, a typical person will see major fundamental shifts at least 4-5 times.

So yes, if you are directly managing engineers, you should be coding at least some of the time.

If you can't or don't want to contribute code, you should quickly move into upper management and focus on coaching middle managers.
There's no excuse for underpaying employees because of their location or the color of their skin. The proper salary for an oracle employee is probably several million dollars per year, based on their sales, but most of it is stolen by the shareholders and top level executives.
I think this is fine if it actually is temporary. As they're getting general living costs on top of their regular salary.

ie accommodation and food
The funny thing is the struct hack with regard to variable access is back in Go.
What salary does the founder of your favorite startup get?
From what I can see, it's been (for a while) that you needed to work 3 years for the current company, of which at least 1 of those years must have been in the original country of origin.
And [IIRC she also notes that] many of them were hotheaded teenagers / twenty-somethings. With the life expectancy of those days one had to grow up fast. And yet many did not.
Probably not. It doesn't seem very high on their priority list, and as long as they ignore Linux, Nvidia (and their CUDA) will continue to dominate them. With the big push by Steam, as well as GPU computing and Linux's dominance in supercomputing, you'd think AMD would be a little more motivated...
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I just did this. Unless you're targeting something really high end with a lot of 4K and gaming, 4600 is more than enough to handle typical HTPC duties.

I'd certainly look at Kaveri today instead of Haswell for HTPC if I was doing it all over again though.
"Loading slower" is an absolute 100% deal breaker for a Youtube competitor or streaming music service or VoIP or many other applications.
It's not a "recall" but a "patch"?
Yes. Kaveri is indeed a river in southern India. AMD has used more river names like Kabini (another river in southern India), Temash, Llano, Desna etc. for their APU chipsets.
That's just ideological right-wing bullshit. Presumably you're referring to the EU, but while there are efforts to harmonize EU asylum laws, it would be hard to find a more incorrect statement about them than that they would not allow a country to grant asylum to someone if it wants to.

Besides, no EU regulation is ever going to get passed that the German government doesn't want to.
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But how do you fix antibiotics abuse in other countries? Antibiotic resistant bacteria are spreading a lot faster in Russia, Pakistan, India, South East Asia and Latin America. And with international tourism growing it is just a matter of time before it reaches everywhere in the world.
There was recently an interview posted here on HN about the end of antibiotics (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/health-science-techn...). In short, the interviewee Dr. Arjun Srinivasan was pleading for a serious conversation about what to do to further regulate their usage, because some bacteria are developing increased resistance to most, if not all, antibiotics available. What's stunning to me about all these articles is that, after all these alarms have been raised and as all the people responsible seem to be contemplating solutions to regulate antibiotic usage, nobody's mentioning alternative methods to fight bacteria. Following the afore mentioned article one commenter remarked that Dr. Srinivasan did a great job or spooking us, but there was absolutely no mention of bacteriophage during the interview, which got me curious. Turns out phage therapy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy) has been used successfully for close to 100 years in Russia and Georgia. According to this Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage

Phages were discovered to be antibacterial agents and were used in Georgia and the United States during the 1920s and 1930s for treating bacterial infections. They had widespread use, including treatment of soldiers in the Red Army. However, they were abandoned for general use in the West for several reasons:

- Medical trials were carried out, but a basic lack of understanding of phages made these invalid.
- Phage therapy was seen as untrustworthy, because many of the trials were conducted on totally unrelated diseases such as allergies and viral infections.
- Antibiotics were discovered and marketed widely. They were easier to make, store and to prescribe.
- Former Soviet research continued, but publications were mainly in Russian or Georgian languages, and were unavailable internationally for many years.
- Clinical trials evaluating the antibacterial efficacy of bacteriophage preparations were conducted without proper controls and were methodologically incomplete preventing the formulation of important conclusions.

Their use has continued since the end of the Cold War in Georgia and elsewhere in Central and Eastern Europe.

In other words the reason why western countries stopped considering them, and to some extent continue to shun them, is lack of understanding.

I am wondering then, if we have to have these "serious conversations" about regulation of antibiotics for the sake of the threat posed by over-consumption, how serious can it really be if we have to wear blinders and continue to pretend that what the Russians and Georgians have been doing is utter sorcery?
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The pricing plans are LOL.
There were some scattered and quickly resolved problems, and Comcast certainly acted foolishly (and arguably dishonestly) in the case of BitTorrent throttling. But there was no evidence of widespread problems, and the Comcast-BitTorrent issue was resolved six years ago without the FCC playing referee: http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9904689-7.html

The reality is that Net neutrality became politicized long ago. It was embraced by pro-regulation left-leaning groups, who were in part funded by Silicon Valley companies who seeking a competitive advantage through the political process. And yes, AT&T and Comcast and other providers played defense by funding advocacy groups on the other side. You may remember that I was the first to disclose some of this dodgy stuff, back in 2008:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10016960-38.html

Once that politicization happened, rational thought in DC ended and it became something that a certain subset of politicians said "WE MUST HAVE," no matter what the law actually allows, which is a dangerous precedent. So welcome to today's state of affairs. On HN, however, I'd hope that we can be a bit more rational about this.

PS: If you think that a bunch of Tea Party conservatives in the House are going to defend AT&T, Comcast, VZ, etc. if they start blocking web sites, etc., you're badly mistaken. Also remember antitrust laws still apply even if the FCC vanishes tomorrow.
I grew up in the US often hearing stories of Israeli intel agencies spying on the US. 'Everyone spies on everyone, even allies, it's no big deal,' was what everyone always said.
This could be an interesting solution for a compact steambox, essentially very similar to the hardware in the ps4 & xbox one, though I wonder if the lack of memory bandwidth would hurt performance noticeably.
Many European countries require an opt-in subscription model by law ("EU Opt-In Directive") where the user explicitly states it want to receive the newsletter (e.g. it not being a side effect of a registration).
Though I had a good chuckle at the grandparent post, it seems to be less about preventing emotional arguments and more about derailing a legitimate concern (potential loss of revenue or whatever) with pedantry.
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Yes, it does. You can download both samples from GitHub:

- https://github.com/AshFurrow/C-41
- https://github.com/AshFurrow/functionalReactivepixels
Yes:

http://www.amd.com/us/products/technologies/dual-graphics/pa...

Of course it has all the issues of multi-GPU setup, so ymmv
Haskell but you can accidentally mix empty/non-empty lists (getting a runtime exception on `head`) or zero/nonzero numbers (breaking division).

This is due to Haskell's support for partial functions. It does induce some weakness in the type system but it brings the benefit of making the language Turing-complete. As for these specific examples, they would be solved if the libraries in question were rewritten.