skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Jobs had the destructive habit of tearing people down for no reason, preventing them from liking either themselves or him. I knew him personally and I saw this behavior any number of times, behavior that had no possible positive outcome."

Well it did have a positive outcome for Steve and the users of his products though. It obviously didn't have a positive outcome for any of the recipients.

"In this case, Jobs could simply have said, "This is completely unacceptable, but I'm sure you'll find a way to meet my legitimate requirements. I'm available next Thursday if you think we can come to an agreement." You know -- like a normal person."

Are you saying "normal person" or "normal businessperson"? Forgetting for a second whether it even matters different people have different styles. What works for one person may not work for someone else.

Business is a game. This is the way Steve played the game. I've been in business for a long long time. Specifically involved in many negotiations. I've see many of these games. And I would have smelled it a mile away. And acted accordingly to my advantage. Not only that but there is opportunity with "assholes" like Steve. Because he turns people off the ones that can take the punishment (and deliver) stand to gain greatly. In the game of business that is. Which is what it is.
Others here have covered the fact that M means thousands to many people. But where does it come from?

As best I can tell, it comes from the fixed-income markets, where MM/MMM/MMMM have been used for many decades. This convention is not universal in finance--you often see monetary policy news using M/B/T instead. And applications not targeted specifically at finance professionals often use M/B/T (e.g. Google/Yahoo Finance). The most widely-used finance application after Excel is probably the Bloomberg terminal, which uses MM/MMM/MMMM for all asset classes (n.b. Bloomberg originally was most focused on bonds, so of course they adopted that convention).

Once you have arrived in the present situation, where M can mean either thousands (to the weird bond people) or millions (to laypeople), you realize that MM is understood as millions everywhere, if not right away. That's better than ambiguity. And B for billions is a little wonky anyway, because not every language calls it a billion (the Dutch, French, and Polish all start their "billions" with an M).
This actually reminds me of ripster55[0], who is (in my mind) the leading expert of mechanical keyboards online, and is banned from many of the popular mechanical keyboard forums.

[0] http://www.reddit.com/user/ripster55
Off topic, but I found this layout painful to use, with something like 60% of the window devoted to links for other articles and the actual content squeezed into a column on the left. Why would anyone intentionally make things so hard to read?!
The apologetics here are nauseating. You want to be slaves. Maybe technical labor ought to form its own cartel and stop working for these companies. Let the executives clean their own toilets.
Sounds like a great place to live, but you haven't listed anything particularly advantageous to startups vs any other kind of business.

The reasons why SV, NYC, and a handful of other places attract startups en masse:

1. First and foremost, high concentration of local investors with the right risk culture - they're both financially and emotionally able to invest in, say, 100 startups, knowing 90 will fail and lose all their money, 9 will just break even, and maybe 1 will be Google or Facebook and make back all their losses and then some. Very few places in the world have internalized that understanding of risk throughout their entire culture, but it is absolutely required for a flourishing startup scene.

2. High concentration of good bets, aka smart/skilled/highly educated/etc people capable of building new businesses with a potential 10x, 100x, or more payoff, and willing to forgo a comfortable corporate salary to sacrifice everything for a few years to do that. Typically young kids without families and mortgages, but not exclusively so. Again, very few places in the world have a high concentration of such highly skilled people willing and able to accept that opportunity cost.

3. Enough skilled and experienced talent who may not be willing/able to do a startup, but are willing and able to join one and build it up once it gets some funding or revenue and is over that initial risk barrier.

4. Helps to have some world-class something or other, be it a city like NYC or a university like Stanford, or even just a freewheeling creative culture with enough local money Austin (I suspect from both Dell and the TX oil industry).

In fact, without knowing much about Imperial Valley, your best model might be Austin, TX. Both NYC and SV benefited local and history (NYC), and war research funding (Stanford/SV), both of which played out over a very long time. They weren't made overnight. Austin might be a better model of how to grow a startup scene from scratch, but not sure. I also know Charleston, SC is working on incubating a startup hub, and NC's Research Triangle Park has been a hub of sorts for a while, but with more emphasis on medical/biology. Maybe some of those can give you some ideas.

[1]:http://www.fastcompany.com/1839445/introducing-silicon-harbo...
not to mention that if gamestop changes their return policy, you could end up getting royally fucked.
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No, prefixes, as in kg. Money, as we have seen in this thread, does not use SI stuff at all, so talking about it this way is awkward, since $100k appears to have an SI "suffix" when technically it carries an SI "prefix." But US people usually do not say "100k USD"; they believe $ always means USD. People in other countries using $ know their dollar sign is likely to be confused, so are more likely to say "100T ZWD" etc.
I immediately thought of this, but dismissed it after reading that 2 of the largest FAQs were being merged. This is made less important by the fact that neither of those FAQs are going offline, but at least it gives the impression that this will be replacing 2 and not just creating a third.
This site actually chronicles the terribleness of the modern web quite perfectly. Warning: NSFW.

http://motherfuckingwebsite.com
Straight money http://straight-money.urbanup.com/7591709
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"The bravado of shredding the paper and loudly announcing the desired figure is a dead giveaway"

You are right based on my many many years negotiating.

Noting also that Steve used this with Heidi Roizen.

While he may have also used it with a "Carl Icahn" (someone like Carl, not Carl) I somehow doubt it. It's pure bluster and it telegraphs a lot. [1]

One more important point (perhaps someone else has mentioned this). The "friend" could have been part of the act. Quite possibly. Negotiating is part acting and role playing (at least the way I have seen it done and practice myself). As a result it's similar to when the government doesn't officially release info but manages to get someone to "off record" to get something in the press. They call it "absence of malice" or similar (I think don't remember the exact phrase..)

[1] I've had cases negotiating where I know in advance that I will shake my head up and down "no" even if the number is good just to send a message.
Why PG's favicon is YAHOO's old logo?
So you would be willing to "displaying the device" on a street in a poor DC neighborhood since you are certain that you would be within the law?
Long blog post on this question: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/gervais-macle...

The Theory X workplace believes people have to be intimidated into working. Theory X managers love to micromanage, to play psychological games, and to be mysterious and slightly terrifying to the people below them.

Theory Y holds that people do their best work when they're happy, enabled, and trusted.

Who's right? Mostly, Y. It is almost obviously true that people do their best work when happy. There is one issue with Theory Y workplaces, which is that while being decent and liberal in trusting people with their own time and energy tends to pay off without fail when creativity and output are measured, one does have to take a hard-line (even zero-tolerance) approach on certain ethical issues. It goes back to what Lord Acton said about judging talent at its best and character at its worst.

The reason there are so few Theory Y/R&D workplaces left is that, in the 1980s (Reagan Era) people sold out their companies to snag private equity jobs (thanks, Boomer yuppies!) making the case that maybe workers shouldn't be liberally trusted. The Theory Y workplace died out because it couldn't defend itself against what people became in a time of increasing economic inequality (more specifically: potential for personal advancement through unethical means).

As much as they're reviled here, the three-letter agencies (NSA, CIA, etc.) do a great job of this. They're Theory Y work environments in general (employees are treated very well) but take a "need to know" stance on high-level secrets that could kill people if lost, and have a zero-tolerance policy regarding leaks. They take a mostly Theory Y approach on peoples' ability to work hard given the right context, but are X (that is, very conservative with trust) on the things that need to be protected.
I would suggest to SchizoDuckie to remove/redo the screenshot because of self-incriminating info.
This is retarded. What happens if GameStop goes belly up? You could be out the games and the money. I think this must be a trolling.
This guy complains about overdraft fees. Isn't the simple solution not to overdraft? Almost any bank has online access to your account, and ATM/Debit transactions seem to show up immediately. If you are getting toward the end of your pay cycle, make a daily check of your balance. Have a habit of mentally subtracting some fixed amount (say, 1,000) from your balance whenever you look at it, so you always have a cushion too. BTW, when you have a bank turn off overdraft privileges, that applies to your debit card only (i.e., instead of letting a transaction go through it will get denied at the terminal). But any check or automatic withdraw will still generate an overdraft fee.

If you need something a bit simpler, set up two accounts -- one for recurring bills, a second one just for your debit card. Have your paycheck split accordingly between the two accounts (or set up an bi-weekly transfer to coincide with your paycheck deposits). Any utility bills, mortgage / rent payment, etc comes out of the bills account. Then you never miss an important bill payment. Bonus -- to make this work, you need a bit more going into the bills account than what goes out. At the end of the year, you will then have a surprise savings balance sitting there.
I have an ODAC and I can't detect any noise unless I max-out the volume knob with my ER-6is. Not that it matters, since playing anything at that volume with those headphones would be deafening and painful. I definitely hear more noise with my FiiO E7, and my laptop's headphone-out is even worse.

In the hope that I have some idea of what I'm talking about, I've listed some possible reasons why you may be hearing noise and how to fix them.

1. Using analog inputs (RCA or line in) instead of USB. This will just amplify the noise from your input source. Analog inputs are enabled even if you're playing sound through USB, so be sure to disconnect any secondary source from your amp.

2. Nearby EMI. I found I could hear a high-pitched whining if I put my amplifier near the lower-right of my monitor. Repositioning your amplifier and/or headphone cable may fix the problem.

3. Grounding issue (unlikely). Try unplugging the amp's adapter and using the DAC-line output[1]. If there's no noise, the problem must be in amplification. That means either a defective amplifier circuit or a grounding/EMI issue.

4. Bad software (very unlikely). I once had a copy of VLC that output low-level noise when paused. This was when x86-64 was new. There were plenty of other problems with VLC on 64-bit at the time, since it used ints and longs as bitfields. You'd have this problem with all soundcards, not just the ODAC.

It might also be useful to describe your set-up in more detail, including what headphones you've tried your amp with.

Edit: Another thing you'll want to do to improve audio output: Make sure your OS is sending 24-bit audio to the ODAC. On OS X, open up Audio Midi Setup, then select the ODAC output and switch it to 24 bit. The default is 16-bit, which reduces dynamic range if you don't have the software volume at 100%.

1. It's the right-most output on mine: http://abughrai.be/pics/IMG_0594.JPG. I'm not sure where the DAC-out is on other versions.
No. The investment was $2.6MM.
My first conversation with Cleverbot:

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The rendering error appears to have been fixed. Thank you.

Just out of curiosity, why is the default for search "story" instead of "all"? I believe that hnsearch.com's default was "all".
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> One of the downsides of his legacy is cargo-cult asshole-ness where people think that if they act like the kind of uber-jerk Steve was, they'll be successful like Steve.

Luckily, it would appear that Tim Cook is not one of the people who believe this, from what I can tell.
Do recruiters actually call you? I've gotten countless emails, which are easy to ignore—but I think I'd go insane if they started trying to call me.
Sure it's likely good for the FOSS community, but he's addressing the question of if it's good for the investor. On the face of it, an open source package management system doesn't have an obvious profit model, so it's not obvious to many people how anyone would expect to make a return on investing in NPM.
Of course not. In a public space, without appropriate context? You know this already. Keep looking for some way to find that Reynolds is right.

If the law meant to say "display", it would have said "display". The law says "brandish". That has a meaning.

Did Gregory brandish the device with anger, or intent to threaten?
I want an IM messaging product where I can communicate with almost anyone...
The "luck" over the long term is, as you say, more than just the equivalent of finding a quarter on the street.

Nearly everyone I've observed with long-term "luck" has been mostly successful at recognizing and acting on opportunities.

The a-hole contingent merely has another tool to widen the funnel of opportunities. By eliminating compromise and being willing to divest others of their benefits, one can increase the likelihood of eventual success.

It just takes timing to stumble on one gold-making opportunity. It takes an approach to repeat it with consistency.

I had a conversation with a drill instructor who encapsulated (hah) the role by asking if I thought he really had that level of anger over untied bootlaces.

Many a-holes use every opportunity to send the message that not following their way will lead to dire consequences. It doesn't have to appear rational in the moment, but it is generally intended to achieve end results that the a-hole is unwilling to communicate.
Ah, okay, I get it now. I completely misunderstood lutusp's sentence.
Found BBC has the Royal Society - Boyle manuscripts archive online at:

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/boyle/boyle_papers/boylepapers_index.ht...

A casual but chronological search of the material suggests Y^e was colloquial but in the process of fizzling out. Boyle, unlike the young Isaac, also made extensive use of the descending 's' (looked like an 'f' without the horizontal bar). As a kid, after seeing all these 'f-s' in ancient books you probably wondered whether people back then collectively spoke with a lisp. [fun diversion]
I'd love to see a blind test of Pono. The kick starter campaign is totally driven by celebrity testimonials. Hard to reall tell if it's better.
your point at the end is good - if we're only interested in the final price, then we should be able to do this in constant memory, independent of the number of timesteps and samples.

edit: on my machine the running time seems dominated by the generation of random numbers, rather than anything else.

perhaps another optimisation is to elimate the `exp` from the inner loop, and just do addition. if you're only interested in the final price, you can do one `exp` at the end.

i.e. change

paths[1, i] = st = s0
for j in 2:M
st *= exp(a + b*randn())
paths[j, i] = st
end

to this

paths[1, i] = log_st = log(s0)
for j in 2:M
log_st += (a + b*randn())
paths[j, i] = log_st
end
SchizoDuckie is based in The Netherlands and therefore by law allowed to download movies and stuff for personal use from the internet.

We Dutchies pay a fee on top of every media storage device that's supposed to somehow make it's way back into the entertainment industry.
Either what you said, or installing drop rules on routers to drop traffic to any of Twitter's IP addresses.

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ip/access-lists/26...
A difficult review is not a bad thing, especially when it is a software review.
He couldn't give a single shout out? Considering what a behemoth that book is, that's just poor form!
Which is precisely why this entire "risk" thing is being blown out of proportion. At any time if you fail you can go get a job with ease.
Yeah, it's kilodollars, just written "$100k" rather than "100 k$" conventionally. But it's fairly clear that what's being multiplied is the base currency unit (dollars, euros, whatever). For historical reasons currencies give the units via a symbol before the number, instead of a letter after it: €10, $10, £10.
I made this question to myself and couldn't understand how would they make money. Now with these great insights the answer is clear: they don't need to

I just wonder what will happen when they run out of money. Will be they able to raise another funding round?
The pro version must be very nice. I hit the room limit before I finished scanning half my house in the demo version.
I work as a salaried employee. This is largely because I'm neither good at marketing & networking nor have a tremendous desire to be, as well as having lived for a long time in a place with no meaningful tech industry.

I would like to operate my own side business, but to date those projects have demanded more time than I have available.

In the long term, I'd like to obtain a PhD and consult in areas related to that, working remotely.

I also want to remark that, given careful choice of employers & their IP agreements, there's nothing stopping you from pursuing your dreams at home. Your salary might be paid for someone else's dream to come true, but it's also funding your life and dreams.

Every now and then a startup hits the jackpot - say, every one out of a few hundred. As a non-founder, you probably won't become wealthy this way. Even founders get messed over a good deal. This is well documented and understood. So if your dream is to become wealthy, being an employee developer is not the way to go. You will need to gain significant equity. If your dream is to build amazing product, you probably need to look for a midsize company who does that sort of thing but isn't large enough to have seized up into cash cow milking.

At the end of the day (i.e., when you look back on it in ten years), very few businesses are amazing, innovative, and tremendous: they exist to provide services & goods to help other people's lives get along all right & maybe improve their lives a bit.

final ninja-edit:

This is not a bad thing, to do good work for reasonable pay. There is great dignity in doing so, regardless of whether you make someone else rich or yourself rich, or simply holding a steady state in the world. Being able to provide for yourself & yours, giving back more than you take, is an honorable thing not to be despised.
> So they got a taste of their own medicine

You're assuming they did it first.
Not always, i.e. drag along rights. Depending on how you structure your deal investors can override founders on acquisition offers.
> a narcissist who thinks he's the best is at greatest odds to another narcissist who thinks he's the best.

Only if both have very literal, wide-reaching interpretations of 'the best'.

Arrogance and narcissism are often contextual, and I've met many self-absorbed, but ultimately capable people who value a similar imbalance in others.

Who am I kidding, I'm talking about myself.
(having said that, i've updated the screenshot with a more up-to-date one that shows the full thing)
I guess I meant normal as in not-a-sociopath. As another commenter said, Gates was definitely intense. But then a lot of other people can be similarly described (maybe not to the same degree, but someone like Linus is not exactly known for being mild mannered[1], but he's definitely not a sociopath).

But thanks for the link though, I'll check it out. I must've suppressed all my Gates-criticism for all the good he's doing now.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5107495
Usually you can get around proxy and firewall blocks of IP addresses by using the Decimal equivalent.... for instance, here is the decimal version of the IP address for google http://74.125.224.72/ http://1249763400
Why not just use a reload-able prepaid debit card if he/she is that bad at managing money? Managing your bank account is not that difficult.

I bank with Chase and they warn you if you get under the notification level you set, my phone will actually vibrate in my pocket with the message just after I swipe the card. Also even if you do overdraft and you get notified (with Chase)and can go make a cash deposit that same day and they won't charge you any fees. BOA is a different beast, stay far, far away from BOA if you can.
The recent interview on Javascript jabber with the NPM guys was very interesting, and covered some of this.
I went from CS at Uni into a full time dev job for a government agency. Since then I've worked for a mature micro ISV and now an environmental not for profit.

I have a paid android app and an OSS windows app that gets donations. The vast, vast majority of my income comes from my day job though.

Building someone else's dream can be great. Sometimes you get to work on things that are more important or just broader scoped than what you can do on your own. Also, a regular, decent paycheck has it's benefits.
I am self-employed and have been for about 10 years.

To some extent as a programmer there are times when you will (and should) help other people build their dreams. None of us can build what we want to on our own. Doing so for money brings you connections if you do it well, which help you down the road. Additionally if your dream doesn't help others achieve their dreams, you will never be able to make money at it. This is true both in terms of formal employment and major contract work.

None of that means you shouldn't work on your own projects as well if you want, and try to make money at that. Owning your own work, in the sense of not reporting to a singular boss (sure, customers are bosses, but they aren't singular) is very rewarding.
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Instead of posting judgement over this guy it would be more interesting to talk about other financial hacks.

One 'hack' I do is to use my credit card outside my country, but when I get paid in my own country my family repays the credit card debt with that money; is cheaper than using wire-transfer (i.e. western union) or direct bank transfer.
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