skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends what you mean by "fires". If a customer comes along with a new requirement, how do you predict that? Then your job is figuring out if it can be done, the best way to do it, if you have people free to do it and test it, if doing this for customer A will have any impact on customers B-Z, if there are any currently in-progress features you could or should cut to work on this, whether to push back on the customer and say, not in this release and how to do that without disappointing them too much, etc etc etc.

Basically a manager's role includes being the interface between his team and the outside world, and the outside world is by its very nature chaotic.
> Clearly that's part of the answer, but I don't think that's the whole answer. While the existing broadband providers certainly did benefit from growing out of locally or regionally regulated monopolies, they haven't been that for quite some time, and much of their capital investment in infrastructure has happened after deregulation.

The monopoly condition and the public position they had with it is how they acquired a lot of the permanent property rights (easements, etc.) necessary for the infrastructure. That advantage doesn't ever go away, even if the regulated monopoly status does.

And it doesn't change the fact that wireline broadband, because of the physical access requirements, is inherently not a kind of service for which a real competitive free market is possible, for the same reason that it isn't with road networks or sewer systems or electric power delivery.
"most efficiently"

Stop doing that and its a lot more fun. It annoys me when a PE problem is specifically designed to make it impossible if you do it the "wrong" way. Most PE problems allow crazy solution strategies. The bad ones only have the one true way that is computationally feasible.

A few posts up someone liked problem 267. I would pick random numbers, run them, then keep the winner and make n-1 new random numbers for round 2 and keep running rounds of multiple threads until bored, remembering the best result so far. Yes, that is not a very smart way to solve the problem, but its a very fun way to exercise the heck out of your knowledge of threads in some new language. Or you could make an insane thousand thread pipeline and hope for convergence. Or a thousand processes on a parallel cluster pipelined together. Could I write my random processor using BASH to baby sit a bunch of octave instances? Newtons method at least at first glance would be too easy. Could I solve it graphically, literally, by graphing some results and doing image manipulation and analysis of the generated graphic file to obtain the numerical result and feeding back for more "zoom" detail? Totally ridiculous unless the whole point is some weird computer vision project. Given an emulator for a IBM1620 mini-mainframe from the 60s, could I write a perl script that output random Fortran-II test runs for the emulated mini-mainframe to compile and process and then another perl script to eat the virtual "printer" output of the mini-mainframe to get random run results? Problem 267 looks like a fun one to solve the wrong way.

This is the unfortunate part of PE becoming popular at interviews. First of all it surely has nothing remotely to do with almost all programming jobs, secondly, "having fun while doing crazy things" is probably not the ideal IT department mission statement or employee selection criteria (although it would explain some things I've seen over the years...)

The proper tool for 99% or so of PE problems isn't a programming language anyway, its octave/mathematica/parigp. So its not too far out of the spirit to try crazy stuff.
5% is 2 hours per week. That's a pretty short time to get one proper commit in.
Die shot: http://i.imgur.com/Unb9ng0.jpg
Five years now. It's perfect.
One screen, one touch pad, one keyboard.
I somehow misread this as Scalia (Supreme Court Justice) and thought this was about one of the recent announcements from SCOTUS...
I have an android device and these are the apps i use mainly: standard browser, gmail, hangout, calendar, online/offline navigators (Google Navigator and MapFactor Navigator), backpacking tracker (Orux maps), TripAdvisor, GoogleDrive, Torch, memo and diary, various AngryBirds editions and italian based weather app. No facebook account, twitter sometimes.
Ask HN: What do you use for load testing an API?
There seem to be a number of tools (such as JMeter) and services (such as BlazeMeter) to load test APIs, but I am having trouble finding good examples of use cases or assessments of the tools and services.

What tools and services have you used and for what use cases? How did you monitor you server and find the bugs and bottlenecks?
Looking at documentation, doing specification is coding.
It's sad times we live in when creating culture is labeled "labor", "work" and so forth... About the "stealing" part - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/06/lady-gaga-jack-whit... artists are more than happy to let anyone experience their art, it's the producers that have a problem with it.

I guess this is what you get when you allow business-minded people to define what being human is all about...
HP 200LX is so neat, so I'm immediately interested in your project. What sort of keypad and display are you planning to use/make? What about case, a 3D-printed one?

Using PIC32 sounds like a challenge, it would be in the same ballpark than the original 200LX performance wise?
Well right now carriers can be gatekeepers until the SCOTUS takes stand or FCC pick up their game if I understand the whole mess correctly.

Everybody loses in the short term because the future is uncertain.

Edit: Wrong TLA agency
Show HN: Staticizer - ruby library/tool to create static backup of website on S3
That's an interesting question. Is FedEx or UPS prevented from having special arrangements with particular shippers? USPS has a special agreement with Amazon for Sunday delivery.
"I could see the Germans investing heavily in developing technologies that prevent spying. Germany could become a place where you learn how to NOT be spied on."

This is already happening. The Washington Post had a story in November about how Berlin has become a new haven for leakers & privacy activists. Of course, it probably now makes Berlin one of the most heavily spied-on cities in the world.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/leakers-privacy-a...
Thanks for the suggestions, we will consider adding a referral program. Also what do you mean by promos? like a discount on contracts?
gmail, hangouts, spotify, randmon game of the month that I just discovered, RedReader (os reddit client), Twitch (live video streaming)
Usually how does one prove such verbal comments with evidence? Does this guy need someone witness attesting such and such comment was made?
Enthusiasts aren't generally using the onboard HD 4600 graphics -- the power profile of CPUs yield a reality that they remain seriously underpowered compared to standalone, 100s of W dedicated GPUs. But for those who do want to maximize the integrated graphics with Intel, the highest option for desktop chips is the Iris Pro 5200 (on the i7-4770R, for instance), which is some 60%+ faster than the 4600.

Nonetheless, these are usually targeted at business PCs and the like (hence the "9 out of 10". Businesses consume the overwhelming majority of PCs).

This article reads like a really bad press release. For instance-

"The new chips show that AMD is moving in a very different direction from Intel"

How so? Intel is fully embracing compute, is increasingly improving the onboard integrated graphics, and already has the beginnings of unified memory (http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2013/03/27/cpu-texture...). Where is the big divide?
It seems to be nationalism, not racism. The quote refers to the country, not American Indians.
First, this is from 2010 and is a repost to HN.

Second, this site's favicon made me think I was redirected to a YouTube link.

Third, there are a ton of us who do both Python and Ruby programming. This whole us vs. them implication is pretty annoying.

Fourth, Grosenbach states:

I’m not sure if the shock was from hearing someone ... or
from learning that someone considers Larry Wall to be a
hero.

Grosenbach is a really nice guy, so I'm curious as to how he meant that Larry Wall snipe.

Larry is also a very nice guy in my experience and is fully worthy of being considered a "hero" in the technical sense.

While Perl is considered out of style, it was the scripting language throughout most of the 90s and is still in use as a glue language today. It's influence is pretty vast.
Xenophobia is racism's twin sister.
Ok. I agree forced may be a bit of a strong word since i can always choose not to pirate it.

However what about books or scientific papers which are hidden behind pay walls or just incredibly expensive.

The price of a good programming book is about £20. But when your monthly income is £300 that is a lot of money. Not to mention you have to pay electricity, gas, etc. and the prices for the utilities are not that much different.

So your options are:

1. buy the book and not eat for 2 weeks

2. pirate it

3. don't do anything and let your progress as a programmer be hindered by the lack of knowledge

That's what i call being forced. There's no situation where i can say i helped the author with the little i have and progressed in my development as a programmer.

If you give in to the system they set up knowledge become the privilege of the wealthy I agree that content creators need to live but the one size fits all approach is really f*ed up.

Open it up let people pay as much as they want or set different prices for different regions piracy will fall considerably if you do and for god sake don't limit peoples access to content by regions it's a sure way to increase piracy.
the fact that I already have 100 unfinished projects. Or finished and waiting for updates.
Yes, the so-called "shortage" of STEM workers is just an excuse to relax immigration laws in order to pay foreigners less than domestic workers.
The worst manager I've had, tried to often pretend he had any idea what he was talking about when pitching some gibberish during the 10min standup talk. He would often make suggestions like "and if you use Apache Solr? ". My face would be like ":/" and had to explain a subtle no (cause he was paying my salary). If he wouldn't be putting up that act, and just work the team dynamics without trying to provide technical solutions to experienced coders who will be like ":/", he would actually fare pretty well I think.

But I must say if you are presented with a tough technical problem, and human resources to solve it, but you fail to comprehend the problem and how you should direct your resources in solving it, it's going to be a tough cookie to make any impact other than wasting your time, and precious developer hours trying to do something you can't.

The best one I've had I worked with for a long time as a colleague freelancer, and 0 hour contract directly under him until we expanded to a 15-20 workforce.
He was an experienced PHP'er, and would argue even a better salesman and networker.
He would almost never write any code, but when push came to shove he would provide the fix within minutes time after a client made an upset call after hours.
Most importantly: Other than being able to point out strength and weaknesses of his employee's, he was never afraid to acknowledge his own, and always assumed our expertise over his. ( unless someone really f'd up of course :) )
Now tell me how the landmine in the field prevents grazing everywhere in it.
Is there support on OS level for that? Something that rewrites existing binaries on the fly and paralelises where possible? Is it even possible?
One day in the open world
Sure the advantage of those property rights doesn't go away, but what's the value of that advantage as a proportion of the total private investment into these networks?
Most used (Guilty Pleasure): Baconreader (reddit,news)
Most utilized: Evernote (storage)
> DRM only works if you don't know how it works.

Which is why it doesn't work.

But it is very useful for excluding competitors and pissing off consumers.
Only if you mirror the data. If you only have one copy of the data, it wont magically repair itself.
Also the inter K chips are crippled - they lack some visualization technologies (vt-d) for no good reason.
Hackerrank is great. Thanks for sharing!
How to calculate the value of your early-stage startup
> Well right now carriers can be gatekeepers until the SCOTUS takes stand or FTC pick up their game if I understand the whole mess correctly.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has nothing to do with this.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) does.

> Everybody loses in the short term because the future is uncertain.

The incumbent carriers that had already been instituting practices that violate the at least the non-discrimination provision clearly benefit in the short term.
India has very strict laws about corporate fraud. If you do find that the URL ceases to exist you can put a case on the company with the LLPIN mentioned, even the name is enough. That will cause India to cease the funds and arrest all directors and put them on bail.

Its not that easy to do fraud in India and run away. India is not South Africa, Soviet Union or Middle East. The GDP of India is 1.84 trillion USD. Many companies want to invest in India, especially companies like Walmart, Starbucks and so on.

India has car assembly units of Toyota, Nissan, Renault, Honda, Maruti, Huyndai and many more each costing about 1 billion USD. That type of investment does not come if your country allows easy corporate fraud.
As someone who suffers from the same kinds of sleep issues he does (especially his point about letting his brain unwind with old TV shows), I think it's much more important to find something that works without you having to fight hard for it (at least at first, maybe if now he starts slowly replacing some of his devices with books, etc. he'll have more success).

I've found success with a formula much more like yours (no blue light for an hour before bed unless absolutely necessary). I understand what he means about books being too exciting or boring too. What I've done is what he does with TV: I reread books (I also lean towards very simple to read books). Just this year I've done Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Hobbit, and am working my way through the original Bourne series.
So, the court agrees with many others that the FCC needs to re-label cable companies as communication common carriers before regulating them as common carriers. I guess that's good?

Is it a difficult thing technically or only politically for the FCC to change their minds / admit they did this wrong in the first place?

What is the downside of treating the cable networks as communications media?

There are some thoughts on that here, though note the source: http://www.attpublicpolicy.com/government-policy/the-fcc-hav... .
Glad to help! If you run into any trouble let me know (email in profile) and I'll provide some hints.
Exactly the same way as you do in the cloud: read the docs, write the script.
First class and coach still arrive at the same time though. That isn't the case with different levels of traffic.
germany is hardly a sovereign country anymore. they couldn't do so even if they wanted to.

disclaimer: i grew up there
If you are not challenged by these problems, here is an alternative that I found considerably more difficult:

http://www.spoj.com/
Anyone who is interested in a really good overview of 20th century telco policy should read The Master Switch by Tim Wu (http://www.amazon.com/The-Master-Switch-Information-Empires/...).

It goes over the transition from telegraph to telephone to internet, talks about the rise of media conglomerates, and basically explains how we're in the mess we're in today. Quite an enjoyable read, especially when learning about the differences between old and new styles of monopolies.
Yes. This fact is becoming increasingly more clear to the rest of the world.
Why was it a mistake? Just curious. When I was stationed over there in 98-00, we pumped A LOT of money into the local economies, I personally bought a lot of beer! I love Germany, such a beautiful country, awesome people.
Congrats on finding something that works. If you ever want to try reading again, try rereading books. It works pretty similarly to how old TV shows work for you (at least for me). As long as you stick to simple to read books (stuff designed for young adults but still interesting to adults works well: Ender's Game, The Hobbit, The Phantom Tollbooth, etc.)
> That is the kind web you are negotiating for.

As discussed, that is a motivation that will exist regardless of the W3C's course of action. What I am negotiating for is the W3C being in charge of what access these "big bad companies" have over web standards, rather than allowing the development of similar technologies to continue unmoderated.
It's quite funny, since the the backbone server operating principles we all use were developed at a telco anyways (hooray *nix!).
I can't adequately express how great of a resource Project Euler is to someone learning about programming.

The way I learned to code was working my way through Project Euler problems in Python, eventually getting to a score of about 55 before I was at the point where I decided to try making "real" programs like Android apps.

When you learn to code people tell you that X or Y is bad for performance, and you should do A or B instead. The problem is that most beginner-type programs run in a few milliseconds and there is no way to see the performance either way. When you're doing a PE problem, a performance tweak can change your answer from a 1-minute runtime to a 1-second runtime. That's something anyone can appreciate, and it lets you experiment with performance on interesting math problems.

Another advantage of Project Euler is it makes you realize just how powerful a computer can be in the right hands. These are problems that nobody in their right mind would try to solve by hand, but they're so tractable with programming knowledge. That was a very exciting realization to me and it pushed me towards a career in software.
It Takes Time
Do enthusiasts include those looking to build a Home Theater PC?
> Much like there's a cost associated with income inequality, so we tax the rich more to supposedly cover that cost.

That's a fairly disturbing way to frame progressive taxation. In the other examples of taxing externalities, we intentionally discourage the behavior by taxing it. Do you intend to discourage people from becoming rich by taxing it? Also, it takes both rich and poor to have inequality. Why not tax poor people more to discourage poverty?
...buffalo packet?
On Introspection
Angel funded techsters yearning for the proper yahoo connections
What the court is saying is that, if the FCC refuses to classify broadband providers as common carriers, then, because they neither receive the same protections as common carriers nor have the same responsibilities, they can't be regulated as if they were common carriers.

The FCC could change their rules to treat broadband suppliers as common carriers. However, that's something that big-name broadband providers don't seem to want, as it would reduce their freedom of operations.
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This is a strategy used by Accenture's ATS division. Teams of 100+ engineers deployed in the US, being bused to hotels and given meal vouchers at night, while earning Indian wages.
Why not? Reproduction with variation and selection (by the humans). Seems like evolution to me.
This article was basically written by the plantiff's lawyer. Of course it's heavily slanted to one side. Would want to hear the other side.

Even what is written doesn't sound lawsuit worthy. In the end, the company was offering an existing employee a raise to $50K per year and this one unrelated guy thought $60K was a better offer. It's a fine line. I can't see the guy winning his suit based on only $10K difference to an employee that doesn't even know this conversation is happening.

Companies are always trying to pay less than they have to, regardless of race. I've seen countless times employers being happy that a candidate, when asked how much salary they wanted, came back with a low number. Everyone in the hiring process knows the candidate is under-pricing themselves to the market, but lo and behold the offer comes at what they asked for. "More money to get the next candidate"
Are you saying that, for ~$600, you can have a top-notch PC? Really? Maybe if you're going for state-of-the-art of 2008.

Although given the slowing progress in PC's, that could well serve you 5 years...
fair point. Here's a more interesting benchmark [1]

Thus we’ve discovered and confirmed Kaveri’s biggest advantage over Richland, performance per watt. At the high-end Kaveri doesn’t have a lot to offer non-gamers but once you bring TDPs down into standard small form factor or laptop ranges the performance profile of AMD’s newest chip is a lot more competitive. At the present time Kaveri’s performance appears to be a little behind, but still near what we’ve seen from Intel’s ~45 Watt Iris Pro or GT3e graphics solution.

or [2]

It is interesting to note that at the lower resolutions the Iris Pro wins on most benchmarks, but when the resolution and complexity is turned up, especially in Sleeping Dogs, the Kaveri APUs are in the lead.

Seems that Kaveri might not beat intel on the desktop, but might do so on the laptop.

[1] http://semiaccurate.com/2014/01/14/difference-50-watts-make-...
[2] http://www.anandtech.com/show/7677/amd-kaveri-review-a8-7600...
You're forgetting about portable (notebook, tablet, etc.), where most personal computers are sold.

One reason I even consider buying a desktop anymore is that discrete-GPU notebooks tend to be enormous and/or awful. If AMD can produce an APU with reasonable graphics performance, I'll gladly buy a notebook with that in it rather than a new desktop rig.
"even text"? - nothing impressive in texting the information we already have.

Detecting mood is a more interesting part. I though the vast majority has already agreed of "lie detectors" being useless.

Though, perhaps it might prove clever in some cases to monitor a user's health condition by measuring the heart rate.
I agree, but how do you get notified that 'long-process' finished running?

Even if you poll using CursorHold-like hacks the user still needs to type something.
I really think you are failing to recognize that to actually understand technical issues managers need to code. Most managers are terrible at their jobs precisely because they are totally out of touch with these technical realities. At best they are clueless. At worst managers actually think they know better than their engineers and develop a hostile relationship with them.
> Sure the advantage of those property rights doesn't go away, but what's the value of that advantage as a proportion of the total private investment into these networks?

The value is a substantial barrier to entry to competition -- why even Google Fiber, backed by the vast stockpiles of cash at Google, is often seen as a risky proposition against the entrenched providers and why you see very few providers of actual connections (as opposed to resellers) to those who have access developed as CATV or telephone monopolies.
Ethics in Software Development
Oyster might not be a failure yet, but it certainly hasn't succeeded in a meaningful way yet. Getting funding might be a step towards it.
C# `using` with commas can cause memory leak?
The Fundamental Problem With OTPs in Two-Factor Authentication
Actually, their networks have no value without access to applications.

There was a time when these online companies had to pay other companies to develop applications for their networks. Now they get them for free and want to charge the companies on top of that.

Maybe Facebook's new business model could be charging $$ for "access to their pipes" from ISPs.