skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. This is low power consumption for infrequently accessed data.
You don't code the notation. Knowing how to write optimized code != knowing the notation. I have hardly seen the notation outside interviews.
You're absolutely right that one needs to adjust for short-term liabilities since some of that cash would have gone to pay them (Longer-term liabilities would likely continue on to Lenovo). As big a question in this case is the amount of cash that will be in Motorola when Lenovo acquires it and was in their set-up box business when it was sold.

Unfortunately, the comment isn't editable so I'll add more detail here. The more accurate number is $3.32B in cash and equivalents less ($3.57B in current liabilities - $2.97 in current non-cash assets). This totals $2.72B.

However, I understated the tax benefit. Motorola had a $2.5B reserve against their tax assets since they weren't profitable, which is $0.8B less than my original estimate. So the total error from these two items is an understatement of Google's recoveries by $0.52B, which means they recovered about $10.9B of $12.5B.

Note that there are likely other errors still present in this new calculation due to both lack of information and less than thorough research.
This is Oracle's Java Code Convention: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/codeconv-138413.html
The extremely limited patent actions were pre-Google, and were largely contrived as negotiating tools. Trying to draw anything from that is foolhardy.
My favorite rule is 4.1.1; always use braces even where optional. I think a small fraction of the economy may have been damaged by the bugs caused by the silliness of leaving out optional braces and then having another developer come along and, well, you know how that goes :)

As someone who once read the Sun Java Style Coding [1] (which at a quick glance, appears to be a super set of the Google style guidelines) standard years ago and found it exciting and very helpful material, I unfortunately did not get such a kick skimming through this. Perhaps it's because after having read Clean Code [2], I feel that there is much missing that can lend itself to better code.

[1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/documentation/...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Clean-Code-Handbook-Software-Craftsman...
Yes, but you saw code was not optimized, you didn't see the letters "O(n^2)" in the code.

I'm not asking why optimization is important, I'm asking about the notation that only seems to appear in interviews.
It is fascinating how hard some people work to be offended at most trivial things. Of course "bro" is offensive - it is about males. Of course "babe" would be offensive too - it's a sexist term for a woman. Of course "professional independent highly achieving woman" would be a much better name - and still offensive, since it obviously implies the only thing such women are good for is to be the help for men who do the real work, just bringing them manuals or delivering stuff from here to there, not contributing anything of substance. And to think we use such tools as BROwsers... No wonder women don't use the internet. What? They do? Well, they must be feeling awful anyway, especially when they see HIStory staring right at them from the screen, constantly reminding them that "NO GIЯLS ALOUD".

We have companies with names like Yahoo and products named like gimp and git, but of course something named "bro" can't be good.
Some links are broken. capptivate.com, [Glyphish]gly...

But good post! Thanks
One problem that's quite common is that new managers are given very little training or mentoring - the company just promotes a senior developer to management and expects them to somehow figure out how to do it well (at least that's what happened to me). However, management requires a very different set of skills than programming, and, like programming, you can't just learn these skills in a few weeks (especially while working around the clock to try to meet a product deadline that's now your responsibility).

Unfortunately, the mistakes a novice manager can make - hiring the wrong people, irritating good developers to the point where they quit the company, etc. - are much harder and more costly to clean up than the kinds of mistakes you can make as a developer. For one thing, there's a multiplier effect: your actions suddenly affect more people.
HN just turned WolframAlpha into a porn site.
But then again, there's a good chance governments will be using Glass to watch us us just as we use it to watch the watchers (and each other).
Why is [programming language] so...?
I think it is still uniquely artisanal if they continue to adhere to some principles around how fresh the beans need to be, roasting locally, sourcing ethically, and continuing to make coffee in a way that respects the craft.

If they start shipping out bags of coffee nationwide from a central roasting plant and keep coffee in warming pots, then I would say they've gone from craft coffee brewer to just another coffee chain.

... and they make a mean New Orleans iced coffee.
A comment on the video suggested 950 TB per rack.

> 1 Rack = 44 magazines; 1 magazine = 36 cartridges; 1 cartridge = 12 blueray discs. So, ~950TB.
In my opinion, both are equally disturbing. CCTV often though we don't notice, don't have a choice, or can't as easily express, "WTF is your problem" towards the obnoxious person recording us without consent and clearing exactly what they plan to do with these recordings. When buying stuff at the store, the store does not offer my the option of consent regarding their ubiquitous camera systems. However, the hope is that the camera systems in this context will not be used to exploit, ridicule, or manipulate my very thoughts. With a person I am interacting with, the odds are not as good, but consent of interaction is also easier to withdraw without seriously affecting my ability to survive. I can choose to interact with people who aren't constantly recording me, if I prefer.

Myself I like making field recordings of nature sounds. I've noticed though that a lot of people are concerned when I pull out my Zoom field recorder and start recording them during conversations. They generally don't like it. I don't blame them. I don't like it either. So I either record discretely (which is illegal in many states) or not at all. I don't blame them for not wanting me to record their private conversations though, because their concerns and their desires to have a private conversation are completely legitimate.
Plus I'm sure they will keep the patents, licensing them to Lenovo

Yes, this was confirmed in today's reportage.
The problems with this are that:

1) You're implying that the vast majority of effective treatments are alternative medicine, and saying that 100% of effective treatments were at one point alternative medicine.

2) Most of what you refer to as medicine has not, in fact, been proven to work. In the U.S. (and all other countries) there is no legal requirement to prove that a drug is safe or effective before selling it, you only need to provide weak evidence that the drug is plausibly safe and effective. Oh, and you're also allowed to purposely bias the trials as much in order to produce this modicum of required evidence.

I think it's funny that the people who believe the most in medicine (and science in general) are the ones who don't read many books. Although to be fair that's exactly the same as with every other field. But still, I feel like statements like the above basically just glorify our culture of ignorance.
This article strikes really close to home for me. The company I had worked for nearly seven years laid off a bunch of people and I could see where things were headed. Fortunately I've been doing mobile development and it's particularly in demand right now, so I was able to land a new job in a few months.

> Interview at Least Every Other Year
If you struggle to communicate under pressure like I do, then it's important to do this a _lot_ more often. My personal goal is a phone interview at least once a quarter and one or two in-person interviews a year.

I would also add another rule:

Don't apply to too many places at once. (Especially if you're currently working!) Keeping up with the responses, doing the interviews, and solving coding exercises can be a full time job in itself.

Edit:

The other thing I learned to do was to note all of the questions that I didn't have an immediate, natural response for. Some of them I was able to think of better answers later on that helped me in the next interview. Some I asked other people to see how they responded, and I realized I hadn't always interpreted the question correctly.
Interesting how this document focuses on formatting and naming, whereas their C++ style is full of stuff like "don't use exceptions" or "avoid doing too much work in the constructor." I guess Java guides you into a uniform coding style much more than C++.
> I believe the idea that these technologies is alienating is false.

You know, there's one side to "alienating" where the world shuts you out. But I think it's fair to say when people talk about headphones or Google Glass, they also mean you shutting out the world. You're describing a scenario where headphones basically make it harder for people to interact with you (correct me if I'm wrong), or make it easier for you to avoid that interaction. So I think these people are right in their sentiment that it makes the ocean between us a little deeper and wider but maybe the use of the word "alienating" is not quite right.

Does that make sense?
Exactly - the fact that Google actually pays attention to you is a nice plus. If I had an issue with a campaign, I had a direct phone number for someone who could fix things.

That said, at that point, support had already started to go downhill & we found the "reps" usually knew very little / less than us about campaigns. Interestingly enough, we found that BING reps were much more helpful as they were eagerly trying to make up market share.

[EDIT]: You also get access to betas & other google "tests" they're running with adwords that most normal advertisers don't. Most of them are designed to make Google more money, but every once in a while they'd come up with some cool stuff that'd be really helpful.
It seems that Google isn't interested in being just another hardware/phone manufacturer. They want to make revlutionary and unique products. So they sold Motorola, but kept the R&D division. The same goes for why they bought Nest, are investing Google Glass, etc. - they want to be on the next frontier. Plus, they just built a great Android partner/manufacturer that will (if Lenovo is smart) continue to promote [near] pure Android and the Android ecosystem.
New theory suggests way to teleport energy long distances
> 95% of our graduates have offers or are working in tech jobs now at an average salary of $91,000.

http://www.appacademy.io/
I think you mean 'tick' for a die shrink, which is Denverton, and is supposed to have "more cores and more of everything". 'tock' refers to a new microarchitecture, and the details on the generation that will follow Denverton haven't been announced yet.

There's also going to be the Broadwell SoC, which will fit somewhere between Denverton and E3 v4's.
CCTVs are accompanied with the assumption that some authoritarian figure is responsible for the recordings, and will follow reasonable and legal guidelines to distributing the feed. Even IP Cameras with live streams to the internet are subject to township / state / federal laws and cannot record near bathrooms, hotel rooms or anywhere where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy.

A closer analogy to Google Glass might be handycams and smartphones, and these face plenty of pushback even without the always-on criterion.
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Oftentimes they start "optimizing" whatever gets the most impressions out of the gate.

They'll do it on such a small sample size that statistical significance is impossible.

Google is more interested in you putting out ads that get more clicks (money for them) than they are about the ROI that you get on those ads.

That's why the default settings for all campaigns now are all settings that benefit Google rather than the advertiser.
From the video: 24 magazines/rack * 36 cartridges/magazine * 12 discs/cartridge * 50 GB/disc = 518TB/rack. Based standard dual-layer discs. I cannot comment on storage of our traditional spinning-disk racks.
That's like saying I can't stand people who make good cocktails because in my mind, alcohol is supposed to get me drunk.

Some people just like coffee and the coffee we've had for such a long time in America has been either burnt, tasteless, or mixed with a bunch of flavors such that we've forgotten that a well brewed coffee doesn't need to taste bitter.

We've also discovered that coffee acquires flavor not just from roasting but also from it's provenance (just like wine, the terroir matters) so now you can taste for coffees that have caramel notes, coffees that have bright cherry notes, etc.

Another reason that I think it matters is that the difference between shitty coffee and good coffee is so clear. We're not talking about trying to discern a slight difference. I've been drinking lattes in the Midwest while traveling and they are the worst thing ever. It's like the heated water, milk, and a touch of coffee. A great latte (like at Ritual Coffee Roasters) retains the taste of coffee (espresso) with a creamy blend of frothed milk.
There are two kinds of Eve videos:

1. Video art made using well-composed in-game footage that may not be entirely representative of the general experience. Most of the official promotional videos fall into this category. Since Eve is a visually sumptuous game, it lends itself well to this form. It is practically machinima, although I'd be surprised if anyone has modded the engine as many machinima artists do.

great examples include:

"Dreams of Yasur" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ_UiIYarhg
"Lacrimosa, Tortuga" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYEaPLCCIrY
"Empyrean Age Trailer" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKdTJjDnYzE (official promo)

2. Capture of a real battle. Here lies the real nostalgia. Unfortunately they tend to be less visually sumptuous and more hundreds of variously coloured & labelled objects in a highly technical 3D HUD that is almost incomprehensible without some Eve experience. They also tend to be long. Ideally accompanied by fleet voice battle chatter because otherwise they are not only dull to watch, you'll have no idea WTF is going on.

recent good samples include:

"the Battle of Asakai" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLqb-m1ZZUA
"Anatomy of a fight" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMFahR4wXTg
"Everlasting II" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMU2SsF0IZk

and just to compare and contrast the fleet battle experience, here's an early Titan-class ship kill, from two opposing perspectives:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymdSjCYK_PI (GS/PL)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nalljAJPe8U (BoB, teamspeak only)

But in truth the two I was looking at were much older. They were the two movies that persuaded me to try Eve in the first place:

"The Fallen". Apparently from 2005. You will have to forgive the typos and grammatical blunders to get to the somewhat emotional core, because the whole thing is touching "I miss you" letter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmKB-LlIdMI and read http://oldforums.eveonline.com/?a=topic&threadID=485027 afterwards.

"Bhaalgorn vs Nightmare". Must be from around 2004. Two vicious-looking and rare ships duke it out for a few minutes in what looks like a high-stakes stand-up fight. At the end it becomes apparent that this is, in fact, a promotional sales brochure and both ships are on the market. The realization of what that meant for the whole structure of the game is what attracted me to Eve in the first place. http://dl.eve-files.com/media/09/Bhaalgorn%20vs%20Nightmare....
So basically Fetlife?
Because you have no reason to assume that the one with the most impressions is the top performing ads.

Because of the way impression share is distributed (and because we don't know what ad rotation setting OP had on), the top impression ad might only have the most impressions because Google decided to show it more rather than it actually being superior on any actual performance metric.
That's easy enough to overcome though. Just have mock interviews. Do it with friends, coworkers, or people from tech meetups. I actually find it much more embarrassing to interview with friends than with strangers also, so that helps with the "jitters" too.
Interesting site. I entered google.com and it was all OKs. I thought google was blocked in China.
std::sort in C++ is known to be faster than qsort() in standard C, because C++ templates allow the comparison function to be inlined. I find it doubtful, though, that Java has a generic sort method that regularly outperforms qsort.
Alternative version: you can't have a nice things because a random troll can play you like a cheap banjo.
+1 for no tabs allowed anywhere (must use spaces)
The subsidies only start after you earn a certain amount of income. If you earn less than that, you don't get any subsidies. Also, the subsidies won't pay for all of it, and the more you earn, the less subsidy you get.

The original plan was to force the States to extend Medicaid (Government provided health insurance) to cover those that would not be getting subsidies because they made too little. The problem was, the Federal Government was only going to float the bill for this for a few years, then it was going to be up to the States to come up with the money to keep it going! Many States balked and refused to expand Medicaid, citing the fact that they could not afford this massive increase in their budget. The Supreme Court agreed with the States that the Federal Government could not force them to expand Medicaid unless the Federal Government was going to float the bill.

So now, anyone that doesn't earn a certain amount of money will be without health insurance, and the cost of healthcare will be higher for them when they do get sick (For many reasons, such as the medical device tax). Fortunately, for now, if you live in a State that did not expand Medicaid, and you would have qualified had they expanded it, you won't have to pay the penalty tax.
Had this exact experience happen to one of my coworkers.

We started embedding a secondary “password” in some of our email addresses, by leveraging googles username+tag feature. So something like johndoe@gmail.com becomes johndoe+1bayjdh1x91nj12e@gmail.com

One less piece of guessable info.
If they use 128 GB Blu-Ray disks its about 1.26 PB per rack.

24 mag -> 36 cart -> 12 disks

10,368 Disks in total per rack
> What you call "mainstream" providers provide tested, evidence-based medicine.

I think there is more nuance than that. Modern medicine is a mix of things that people have been doing for a long time and things that newer that are proven to work in randomized, controlled trials (for certain values of "work").

The things we've been doing for a long time might not work.

An important difference between the field of modern medicine and the field of alternative medicine, in my biased view, is that modern medicine actively attempts to figure out what works based on evidence, and evidence hugely changes practice and standards of care. In contrast, I do not believe that the same is equally true in general in alternative medicine, at least not with well designed studies.
the primary negative reaction is the voyeuristic-rejection of having a camera always pointed at you (that may or may not be recording)

Google should put an LED light on Glass that turns on whenever it's recording, just like MacBooks.
Remember how douchey the bluetooth headset people were?...but the kids wearing large, crappy headphones in other environments (e.g. at meals) are kind of pathetic.

Isn't this really judgmental? Doesn't this say more about you than about them?

I'm completely serious. I do not judge people on the tools they use in their life that is of no consequence to me. The same holds for Google Glass -- it is somewhat perverse, if not an attempt at group bullying, however so many try to get some sort of group disdain going about it.

The single credible complaint anyone has about Glass -- after you dig through all of the noisy subjective blather -- is the privacy angle. It may be defeatest but I think that ship has sailed, and we're absolutely surrounded by things recording us (someone mentioned lapel mics, for instance, but of course every smartphone around you might be audio recording. Video recording is often more ubiquitous, but the "pretend you're using your phone" tactic is hardly uncommon)
> The fact that anyone on my Wifi can access it with their phone, instantly, with nothing to install is a magical experience.

Does ChromeCast not require an app on the device? I thought it wasn't integrated with the OS.
Yes, Trade Doges can do that as well
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Well, I certainly hope that more of them will move towards Tit-for-Tat with forgiveness (and that forgiveness will win out in the end), if that's what you're saying.
Damn iMessage is a shocker for this. Coworker sends out group message saying big boss wants xyz and includes big boss in the group. Someone always misses that its a group message and sends an expletive or sarcastic reply. I am also guilty.
It's not dumb to ignore it if you believe it to be a fool's errand.
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We do, in fact, use tabs at work. But I wanted to attempt to avoid starting this war yet again.
They're not selling the patents.
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Which is good enough... let us be judged against hunter gatherers. We kick ass.
What are move semantics?
The notation just happens to give a good shorthand when discussing bits of code, as it tends to be rather fast to calculate.
Really? The plans that I have seen that could be purchased with the subsidies is no where near what I would call decent! It may vary by State, and I have only seen the "sample plans" that have been published.
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A couple people do philanthropy because they care. But the rest are just trying to impress friends.
I strongly consider attending one of these boot camps, but pulled out at the last minute because I became suspicious of their claims. I’m not saying the claims were untrue, but they were grand enough to make me nervous about dropping over $10,000.

I basically did it the long way. I took as many classes as I could at my local community college (intro to cs, intro to programming, advanced programming, oop, data structures, assembly language and web development). I feel like I got a great education at the CS basics. I think I can code. I know pointers, hash tables, abstract data structures and other things that the boot camps don’t even seem to cover, but haven’t even been able to get a single interview.

Perhaps the real value in these programs is the career placement.
This is pretty close to my own situation, and I live in Missouri, which could not afford to expend Medicaid, so no insurance for me. If I do get sick, ObamaCare only makes it more expensive for me!
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Viki Office Tour. Cool startup that got acquired for $200 million.