skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is needed more for the people inside than outside. I used to be at a famous hedge fund, and then at banks like Goldman Sachs where this attitude was common : "We hire selectively; only 1 in 750 applications is given an offer". Now how does that make you feel to be an employee? It's an amazing feeling, isn't it? To know you're special, that you're a diamond in the dust. It makes it easier for the employer to then demand you to create great things, eh? You're going to pressurize yourself to show them you're worth it.

But in reality, what happened, at least in my experience, is that the top talent almost always left because a) they never really got to use that Longest Common Subsequence algorithm that they quizzed on, so the actual daily work-experience was sappy compared to the hype or b) it was just one more conquest anyway; off to better / greater things that challenged their abilities

The real gems, in my not-so-objective perspective, were the in-betweeners : people who may not be brilliant, but those who worked hard enough to pass the interview and were really thankful to have a great employer. They stuck around and worked sincerely and were an asset to the firm in every way possible.

IMHO, a firm needs 90% ordinary folks, and only a handful of brilliant crazy geniuses.
"...So the DHS is telling us this Tor is something dark and sinister..."

Good thing then that the Government is on the case working hard to shut down this evil thing the Government funded and helped deploy.

I'm so glad the Government is here to help since you must always be on guard against mailign actors like the Government and we need all the help we can get!
see my comment to rmc below.

didn't mean to be argumentative, I appreciate the discussion!
Which is better, data or theory?
Paul Graham himself wrote a great essay on this which should answer most if not all of your questions:
http://paulgraham.com/startupfunding.html
Yellow and black is probably the closest thing there is to a generic high-contrast colour scheme for multimeters though - everything is associated with one or more manufacturers. Agilent are orange and black, Bosch are green and black or green and dark green, and I think there are companies that could reasonably lay claim to red and blue. Meanwhile black and yellow have long been generic multimeter colours - since well before Fluke moved to their current scheme, I think.
Fresh new Oculus Rift Development Kit 2 FAQ is here:

https://support.oculusvr.com/hc/en-us/articles/201835987

Here's an excerpt:

Q: What is the Oculus Rift Development Kit 2, its features,
and what does it come with?

A: The Oculus Rift Development Kit 2 (DK2) is a development
kit meant for developers that want to create virtual reality
content for the upcoming consumer version of the Oculus Rift.

New features:

- Positional Tracking

- Low Persistence OLED Display

- Built-In Latency Tester

What’s included:

[...]
GOG to start stocking Linux games this Autumn
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I remember a Netflix engineer posting somewhere that Netflix needed to implement this for legal reasons.

If they don't require you to keep clicking a button to "request content", it doesn't count as an on-demand service.
You're reading it wrong, it's specifically the dark grey color and yellow border/case.
That is some sick thoughts you have there.
Disclaimer: WORK THERE. BIASED.

Now... I actually agree that we can do more to help with questions that are less black and white. It's harder than it sounds - being a little rigid, and downright intolerant of questions that descend into religious debate "which language is better overall?" is a key part of what makes SO and our other sites work. But, I completely agree that we could probably do more to help more with a lot of more subjective or nuanced questions, and we're devoting a lot of energy to figuring out how to do so without undermining what's working well today. In summary, I agree with your point. :)

As to Startups, the main issue wasn't just questions per day. We have a lot of sites with less activity that we think are doing really well for their communities.
>There's nothing a controller can do, that a simple mouse and keyboard can't do better.

Analog control for a flight sim or racing game. Mouse and keyboard is absolute shit for those.

Platformers also really aren't great.
Qemu comes pretty close. You can dump register and memory values, crashes outputs useful dumps, etc.
I sold Fluke meters from 1990-96. They were mostly dark grey with a yellow bumper, and the meter in this article looks like a Fluke. Interestingly, my 20 year old Fluke 73 (which still works great, second battery) is only grey with no yellow. I would have to think that within Sparkfun with its 100+ employees doing electronics that they had to know it looked like a Fluke.

They are expensive, but if you use a meter everyday you probably have one. Its a good tool. Mine has taken a lot of abuse.
As I read the article I wondered if the inspection was a result of a complaint on Fluke's part and as a result it was a case of justice by money and power?

More generally, I wonder how is it possible that inspectors are expected to deal with all the grey market goods that could be entering the border? Perhaps, a better example are children's toy jewellery which on numerous times have been found to have toxic levels of chemicals (eg. lead to levels high enough to send children into hospitals). Do the inspectors actually test for lead, or is their some sort of certification paper that is required?

What about those cheap electrical parts that you can buy (e.g. computer/iphone power adapters). I read a tear down report stating that these were unsafe because wiring not done to safety codes, so who is responsible for inspections before they enter the border?

The general case is complex, and I've never been able to read how the process is handled, so I assume given the quantity of products being imported they are often priced so cheap because they never go through the QA and safety standards that would be required if they were manufactured here. --Another example of pricing that doesn't factor in the total cost of the good, that is Chinese toys are cheaper than local because they aren't tested to our codes thereby avoiding whole cost structures that local companies incur resulting in cheaper products yet overall they are more expensive to society because 1% of buyers end up in the hospital and incurring those costs.
If you open up the case on a Fluke and compare it with a cheaper one, you'll see there's significant differences in construction and design. This isn't because Fluke did it just to justify their higher cost - it's different because it needs to be, to give you safe operation, accurate results, and long life.

I've been through any number of cheap multimeters over the years and finally broke down and bought a Fluke. It's been absolutely solid. Worth it.
Everyone is viewing this as a cloud, but I think, in spite of the costs and legal headaches, Sparkfun has a great opportunity for a silver lining lying right in front of them.

Call it "The Sparkfun Multimeter Casing Challenge". Mention their existing industrial design issues. Call on their users (more than a few of which have a 3D printing background) to design a multimeter housing that's unique, and reflects their brand. If they could wangle it, they could even yank out their DMM circuitry from the import-restricted DMMs and send the guts to the contest entrants to make working prototypes.

That would be a great way to get design done for free by people excited about the Sparkfun brand.
I think the silent tracks contribute to the novelty of the idea. This is about promotion and I wonder if this article would have been written if it was just about a band asking their fans to stream their album.
That's why I put "purchase" in quotes... as it doesn't mean what most think it means.
> In my case it's more like "I wonder..." fueling innovation.

You put the wrong part in scare quotes. The word you're looking for is "arbitrage," not "innovation." Some guy figured out that Spotify pays more to send data than Amazon charges to accept and discard it. Eventually Spotify will pay someone to reject this particular scam, then to reject more sophisticated versions, then to reject legitimate songs that look a bit like scams, etc. That's just how things work.
Archery. But I have decided to take a break because of back problems (which originated at work)
The difficulty is that "immigration" means many things. It can mean "to settle", with the emphasis in permanence. But it's not restricted to that. Consider this quote from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_law :

> Immigration regulation is the control of the people, and their numbers, who may enter a nation's sovereign territory. It applies both to persons seeking to live and work in a particular nation (or part of it) and tourists, persons on layover due to travel issues, and those wishing to study or otherwise make use of a country's facilities.

Here you see "immigration" used with a wider meaning than what you used.

Consider Mexican citizens who come to the US for short-term employment but without specific permission from the US government. Many use the term "illegal immigrants", even though for those who have no desire to live permanently in the US, and are only in the country to make money.

In your case, "half his time" probably means 180 days or less, and as a US national you are exempt from a Schengen visa? There many other terms for that, including "tourist". ("sportspeople playing in championships" and "artist on tour" are a few alternatives). When does a "tourist" become an "expat"?

If you were to stay longer than 3 months at a time, then you would need a long-stay visa, and "must, on arriving in France, register with the French Immigration and Integration Office (OFII) or, in some cases, apply to the relevant prefecture for a residence permit" - http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/coming-to-france/getting-a-... .

See the "immigration" in the name of the office?
Sorry, he's not a great coder. I think there is a big difference between saying "just learn to code better" and "use the right tool for the job" (which was the intent of my post).

I'll add an addendum to my post that frameworks can be the right tool for the job. But 99% of the time they're used the wrong way and for the wrong purpose.
Every fitness tracker can already do this, or at least could, yet it's not really taking off. I'm guessing that blame and negative emotion are not the best ways to sell stuff.

Except maybe if they are physical products. Having a thing or a person that reminds me of my chores is probably easier on me than a non-local notification system that makes my whole e-mail experience unpleasant, or social media experience, or even spoils my whole phone.
I immediately thought of the father trees from Ender's Game series when I saw this.
My current multimeter is blue. The previous one was yellow. It's predecessor was black.

In any case, the punishment seems a little harsh. They could probably arrive an arrangement where the yellow parts would be replaced by some other color and the multimeters could still be sold. Warning shots are acceptable practice.
Seems like switching from yellow to red still leaves them open to law suite. They'll be less likely to lose the suite, but I don't think the court will throw it out based upon the trademark wording. Just make it black.
IsolatedService: A gem to unobtrusively fake services
if the filing doesn't it say no color associated with mark? Couldn't you file a cease and desist on the customs office?
Here is one way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvBOUy9E5Qw&feature=youtu.be&...

Don't watch if you are emotionally attached to pc hardware.
I got the chance to play with it a few weeks ago, along with several others in our office.

1) It didn't make any of us sick, but I could see how it still would for users, particular if they didn't try to move their body in roughly the same direction as they would if it was IRL. If you have ever sat in a vehicle and watched the outside via a mirror - it's like that.

2) For me, while it was immersive (we had several users scream at things and dance around), it is still nothing like real vision. It still gives you one real focal point (or lack of one at all), which immediately makes it different from real life vision - particularly over long distances.

3) Unlikely. It would probably severely freak them out. Perhaps the rapidness of it would leave enough confusion that they worked it out, but it is still obvious it is computer generated graphics. See the focal issue above as an example.

Having said that, it was amazingly fun and I wish I had one now. I'd love to experiment with a 'Virtual Programming' environment. I'll leave what that means as an exercise for the reader :)
Doesn't fair use apply to this?
Why not use a smaller card (or the motherboard's controller) for the last 5 drives?
Link to the paper: http://people.csail.mit.edu/devadas/pubs/acc-hpca14.pdf
I'd like something like this integrated with a module system. For example, I could just say "var jquery = require("jquery")", and the script would be automatically downloaded from the CDN.
That is a shallow and inaccurate assessment of what's one the best articles that's been posted in the past month.
Wouldn't that just be Usenet? And how would it avoid the problems that eventually made Usenet worthless as a discussion medium?
AngularJS – Superheroic JavaScript MVW Framework
This feels like a lot of the good stuff Google Wave promised (and failed to deliver) but implemented with e-mail, in a way that will scale. Very nice, and I hope they get good adoption, because whilst most e-mail list web interfaces are terrible, keeping e-mail for casual contributors is invaluable.
Cache misses are a major problem many people don't think about or shy away from because you just need to assume they'll happen.

Missing L1 cache costs between 10-60 cycles, your 10x that for L2. Access to the direct RAM because you also missed L3? you start dealing in 100,000+ processor cycles of hang.

Glad to see were moving forward.
MH370 can’t go under a shadow of another Boeing 777.
Having just read a particular Philip K. Dick short story, that's what came to mind here.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Of_Withered_Apples
Hi, everyone. I'm Ian, one of the Threadable founders. I'd be happy to answer any questions.
How do you read "Color is not claimed as a feature of the mark." then? I admit IANAL.
In the long run graphics will probably converge on an approach that properly estimates the rendering equation. That's why I think ray tracing ultimately will be the preferred solution.

(I'm talking on a extremely long timeline)
If this is true, then why won't a legit band do this for their own music. They can effectively get paid any amount they want.
Ubuntu 14.04 Now Runs Well On The 2013 MacBook Air, Beats OS X 10.9 In Graphics
Excellent writeup. Makes me wish I was working there :)
you also have to defend your trademark. if there are plenty of examples that violate it it's not a trademark.
This makes me smile. These days, when most of the news is about the latest gadget and tech stuff and connecting yourself to the cloud somehow, I am glad there are still people coming up with fresh ideas involving not much technology at all. Just seed and ashes in a paper cup. Awesome!
>> You want to start negotiating at your strongest point - when they have said “we love you, let’s make a deal.”

One simple practice is at the end of the interview when you get the, "So what's the salary range you're looking at?" question, I always give them about 5-10K higher than what I'm currently making with the caveat, "But I'm always open to negotiating." which keeps the door open for the company/agency to get creative with incentives or other valuable options to bring you on.

You shouldn't feel bad about asking for extra stuff. 95% of the developers companies are hiring are just taking what they offer them. If you negotiate, companies are more likely to give you some additional extras. You just have to ask for them.
> bloat, which one should (ideally) refactor out later

How do you refactor out bloat from a framework without throwing away the framework?

This is my whole point about not using frameworks. They're a siren that WILL eat you in the end.
This is so cool!

Makes me wonder what the next step would be. Seems like they're essentially decomposing a song into its ingredients. I wonder if they could use their algorithm to convert a song from one genre to another like auto-creating the hiphop or dance version of a given song :)
Watch as 1000 years of European borders change
No doubt it's going to be fantastic.

I used my DK1 to death, tried every demo I could. Palmer is a pretty frequent poster on Reddit (they even got an early DK2-order heads up, before the e-mail went out), and it became fairly obvious a big announcement was coming at GDC. On that, offloaded my DK1 for $500 here in the UK just last week.

The positional tracking and the low-persistency display have what we've all been screaming for, and IMO is what's made, most people I've seen, feel sick.
Not according to my napkin math: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7426245
Why can't they just paint them another color instead of destroying them? Is it too expensive or are the rules too stupid?
>> "Well that is what First Class is for. Oh you wanted it to be the same price?"

First class is hugely more expensive than economy. I'm proposing a new middle tier.

I just did a search for a Belfast > New York flight next month.

Economy: £532

Business: £2,636

First class: £6,809

If they added a section with increased space for passengers (no champagne or other extras) and charged £800-1000 for it I'd pay and I'm not someone with money to throw around - that's how uncomfortable I find flying. All I'm asking for is an extra couple feet spacing between seats.
As a counterpoint, I strongly feel that your pricing is just fine (maybe even a bit low!). You just need to make it clear that it's a one-time payment (assuming it is--if you want to integrate recurring revenue for some aspects, you'll need to re-jig things a bit).

People selling shit online are making (or expecting/hoping to make) thousands of dollars on the low end. The non-technical ones (ie. not the majority of people on this forum, which is why price perceptions are skewed here IMO) will gladly pay a developer $7-800 dollars to put it all together the way you have done here. You're making it easier for everyone by offering a plug-in that does the work, and in light of that I think your pricing is very reasonable.
How about not leaking to third-parties? I value my privacy and I wish Mozilla would too.
I agree not changing it until 3.6 is misguided, although ISTM this isn't a good candidate for backporting. I guess deprecation makes sense, but I don't see why adding a DeprecationWarning is some giant change that couldn't have gone into 3.4 at the last minute, or for that matter into 3.4.1 whenever that comes.
We've used Nodemailer in production at ClassDojo to send at least 100m emails - it's a great module.
This is purely anecdotal however I've been doing Rails dev (and prior to that Javascript, PHP and even Matlab) for 14 years and I have only a vague grasp how most of that list works.

That's not because I'm lazy or scared or even disinterested. I've exhaustively learned everything about anything that what I do involves and how most of what it touches works as well. However the simple truth for me has been that I've never worked on things that needed to know about the things you're talking about.

I constantly do need to know more about the fundamentals of the systems I actually work with - Rails, Angular, HTML, caching, Node etc. I'm sure there will come a point when I need to know more about some of those things too.

However there is a tonne that I don't know even about the things that I need to know about and I will always invest my time in learning those things. That's why I would always focus interviews on the languages and frameworks that someone actually uses. Those may be the ones you describe but for plenty of developers may well not.
Site reliability engineering could be an option: fixing other people's code to work and run cheaper at scale.

For devs, it's important to have a github or similar because that's your real tech resume.

Btw I use Perl 7 (Ruby)
Sounds pretty sensible to me. Isn't the alternative that we let people who do bad stuff get away with it?
The HF ones are red though.
Probably. If their lawyers are worth their salt, the TOS are written so as many people as possible are violating them, in case they need a legal excuse.
Colors in trademarks are tricky. I would argue that the colors of a tool or measurement device serve a functional purpose, namely visibility and outline recognition in low-light conditions, so if I were judging this trademark, I'd ask a few questions:

- Is the yellow used by the competitor distinguishable by the human eye from the yellow used by Fluke?

- Is the yellow used by Fluke distinct from colors commonly used on similar items to improve visibility, or a color not commonly available in the source materials for similar products?

If Fluke buys off-the-shelf plastic pellets, with the same colors used by everyone who makes colored plastic things, they can hardly complain when natural, functional choices in product design replicate their claimed color mark.

If they claimed a very specific, non-standard yellow, like rgb(197,247,45), and a specific contrast color, like rgb(0,53,117), I'd defend it in a heartbeat. But let's be honest. If you sell plastic pellets in bulk, and you could only stock 6 colors, they would be transparent, white, black, cyan, magenta, and yellow. At minimum, the customer could melt and mix a specific color within a reasonable gamut. Claiming 2 of those primary pigment colors as trademarked so no one else could use them without significant additional expense is a bit ridiculous.

But the wheels of justice have many irregularly shaped cams and cogs, so my common sense approach almost certainly would not have merit in any actual courtroom.
> Comp Sci. from top 10 worldwide college

Hogwarts?
I suppose someone could write something like this on top of the API, https://github.com/jsdelivr/api .
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The motion sickness feeling is not due to the product itself but the mixed sensory perception by the brain when different senses present contradictory signals: e.g. visual movement perceived by the eyes vs lack of movement by the ears.
Therefore, a newer product version is unlikely to address this.

Regarding your helicopter question, if you're tied and blind-folded and somebody moves you around, would you be able to fill that? So, in the same way your friend would "see" that he is falling through the glasses, but he would "feel" that he is actually not.
Most software isn't hard to invent; all software is hard to maintain. For the overwhelming majority of software development, being organised is more important than being clever.
It was initially called "BladeRunner" and one of the main reasons we decided to rename it "BladeRunnerJS" was for Google. As with other JS-based solutions adding "JS" to the end clarifies it's for building JavaScript apps. We've had a lot of positive feedback about the name so all-in-all I think it was a good choice.
Thanks, neilk. People say they hate email, but we see that as an indicator of its utility: "I hate this but use it everyday" sounds like an opportunity for improvement. As Elie Wiesel said, "the opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."