skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Who in their right mind chooses to give up a huge salary in favor of an equivalently time intensive startup which pays 1/10 as well?

If that one tenth the salary is enough to cover your monetary needs, then why pay the price for the other nine tenths?
No worries. I've never done iOS development, but taking advantage of the fact that the first three gens of iPhone had exactly 1/4th the resolution (1/2 in each dimension) of the 4 and 4s should allow you to save some time (e.g., they may have the same number of virtual pixels).
Shading can impact the power output of a string significantly. By dynamically reconfiguring the topology and effectively stringing together panels from various locations they can balance the power output in a nicer way.
Crush all opposition, just like Stevie would have done!
For anyone else reading; here, the comma (,) is a decimal point, not something like a thousand separator.
Join me and share the $1,000,000 revenue
> If that one tenth the salary is enough to cover your monetary needs, then why pay the price for the other nine tenths?

What price? I think startup hours are nearly as grueling as those in finance.
I couldn't make it through the first few paragraphs of this article, which used the drop in the percentage of students at HBS/Wharton going into finance as an indicator that somehow these folks were going into tech because they were "fed up" with 90-hour work weeks. Comparing data from 2006 and 2007 to current data is meaningless. The banking industry has retrenched tremendously in the financial crisis. While the top banks are still very profitable, they are doing more with less, and laid off 500,000 people between 2008 and 2012: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/25/wall-street-layoffs....
"The farm was built with a $967 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy, as well as equity from owners NRG Energy and MidAmerican Solar, which is the energy-focused fund owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway." https://gigaom.com/2014/04/29/the-worlds-largest-solar-panel...

This does not include other tax incentives.
I don't think the entire FCC, and all of their employees are really out to get you and I. A few maybe but I think it's somewhat too broad an approach to punish the few by punishing everyone associated with the FCC.

Their IT staff probably doesn't deserve this either.
What do you make of the naturalization oath? Namely: "I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; ..." It doesn't have anything to do with which country you are from.
Hey I'm one of the designers of the game. In Killer Queen the only middleware we used was 2DToolkit for 2D rendering, although this is no longer necessary since Unity has 2D tools built in. However with other projects, especially 3D ones, I use stuff from the asset store all the time. Some of the code we're using from the asset store handles pathfinding, procedural terrain generation, tweening, and GUI rendering. Plus, we get a lot of art assets from there (especially for placeholders.)
I wonder if one could learn how to program games in C++ by following the progress from the very beginning and persistently try to understand every line.
It makes much more sense to share the decks through the built-in deck sharing system where they are accessible on http://ankiweb.net or in the desktop/mobile app.
I think this is showing a lack of a link between executive pay and stock performance. It could be the case (though I don't know how you'd measure it) that executive performance improved with pay but just had no discernible impact on stock performance.
The Soviet Union did not have the capacity to withstand the expected losses in the European Theater for very long.

Soviet planning of the era revolved around maintaining operational and strategic initiative at all costs, and fighting an offensive war. The hinge point was how quickly the red army could break through and gain operational freedom versus how quickly the U.S could land a resupply and reinforcement effort in Europe. Soviet planners give very narrow chances for success.
I think that would be terrible and unfair. Plus, I think any switches should be done on a case by case basis. Not all government jobs require the same software.
> This is nothing against Wine or Linux, but shows why organizations will choose Windows after a business analysis - fixed costs.

You mean vendor lockin - hopefull, more applications will move to the web.
Another remarkable projet regarding Bach is the Open Goldberg Variation ( http://www.opengoldbergvariations.org/ ), a project that freely offer a high-quality version (they hired a world-class musician, rent a world-class piano and studio) of the Goldberg Variations. (I have no stakes in that project; I do enjoy listening to the album as work music though)
I live in New York City, the biggest market in America. My options are: TimeWarner (but only with a cable subscription) or Verizon (not FIOS, and only with a phone subscription). The lack of competition really is a problem.
"Global climate change is here". I'm confused. "The RSS satellite record shows a zero trend for 210 months". 17 years, 6 months.
It may be enough to cover your needs now, but most people want to be able to do things like support families and save for retirement.

(Granted, 90 hours a week is terrible for family life.)
Wait so the bank fired him for buying new flats every year ?
There's also ProVoc for OS X which was great in its time, and still works, but has now abandoned:

http://www.arizona-software.ch/provoc/

But luckily it's been forked and now lives on as iVocabulary:

http://apps.chbeer.de/ivocabulary/

I don't know if it's strictly an SRS app or not? It's certainly smart though, and is available on OS X and iOS and has a web interface too.
1) That's a useless statistic without knowing what those folks were doing originally. It could be that the tech boom has resulted in more engineers getting MBA's.

2) The fact that they are leaving finance and entering technology does not mean they're becoming entrepreneurs and engineers. Going in-house in Google's M&A department would be counted as "entering technology" in these statistics, for example.
I profoundly disagree that the current HM stops being the most authoritative possible version of HM available to just because he happens to have a major medical condition. In particular, this ends up having fairly squicky consequences like having the real, actual, living HM getting outvoted by a third party's mental model of an HM who never actually existed. (I now feel like I sort of have to add for posterity "If you're a doctor reading this please do not override my future self's opinions solely on the basis that they're incompatible with my present self's opinions. I would like to reserve the right to change my mind in the next 30 years on this and many other topics, irrespective of whether I maintain 100% of my present mental acuity or not.")
How about the actual subsidy data for 2010 http://www.eia.gov/analysis/requests/subsidy/pdf/subsidy.pdf

Renewables get about 10x the subsidies (both direct and indirect) of oil. Nuclear seems to be getting screwed in the deal. Given the crappy economy, looking at the number of people employed by each sector is helpful.
I was in a hearing of a committee ("Enquete-Kommission Internet und digitale Gesellschaft") of the German Parliament (Bundestag) where the technical leader of the LiMux project mentioned the numbers in passing.

IIRC he mentioned that if you only consider the license costs, the balance is roughly even, and if you also consider that you need to upgrade the hardware less often (because of lower resource usage of limux vs. windows), limux comes out clearly ahead.

Sorry that I don't have anything to link to, and I notice that my source is biased too.
A significant number of these people are probably Beamte[1], letting them go is not a possibility.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamter
Life of a programmer in investment banking can be much better in pretty much every respect compared to your typical internet startup (pay, working hours, availability of "toys" and exposure to new tech, etc.).

If you're thinking MBAs, then those 100 page pitch decks that lead nowhere can happen in any industry in equal measure.
I always thought the "defund NSA" movement was bonkers. I realize this is from the other extreme of the spectrum but it's nice to hear from both sides.
This animation made me laugh, hope it does the same for you
Here in London, Barclays is about to boot 7k staff from its investment banking division. The writing was already on the wall for contractors, bankers looking for another industry is par for the course.
What's really interesting is what is absent from the article: An actual reason for junior employees to work 90 hour weeks.

There is no plausible task or process in ibanking that requires that. It amounts to a form of hazing. It's an industry gratuitously consuming the people in it, as if that would justify their subsequent compensation.

Here is a telling quote:

“Culture really matters,” says Podolsky, 33, a Wharton graduate. “How the bullpen interacts is critical. You can work 80 hours a week and not mind it so much because the people you work with are awesome.”

Not a hint, not a whiff of why this culture matters. Why wouldn't it be forgotten 5 minutes after it's over. It's an unusually pure delusion.
No, it means they would have to actually care about broadband competition in US and about abuses from the local monopolies, in order to get faster Internet.
You could buy the parts and build it yourself. You could find somebody local to assemble you one. You could order one from Dell or HP or Lenovo -- at least Dell seems to have a reasonable markup over parts cost, I haven't looked at HP or Lenovo.
> For or good measure, Scoville removed H.M.’s amygdalae and other nearby structures as well.

How do they separate the effects of these two? The amygdalae plays a large part in emotion, which probably accounted more for H.M.'s mood changes than the hippocampus. Also memories tied to emotion are more strongly remembered. How do they know they didn't destroy another path to creating memories via the amygdalae? Maybe there are three or more types of memory storage systems. I do agree that the "muscle memory" test was fairly conclusive but the other conclusions drawn are not.
I hope this is not too much off topic, but is Chrome on Android running natively or in Dalvik?
Tyrese Gibson Accidentally Confirms the Apple-Beats Acquisition
Writing your rep in Congress is a waste of time with as many form letters they receive pretty much demanding everything under the sun. You would be just easily ignored noise.

If this type of bandwidth throttling limit is to work it would have to target a much larger group than the FCC. The entire federal government might be a start. But management might like that as it would likely lead to increased productivity. One would have to focus on that list of people outside of work somehow.

Maybe a day of slow loading YouTube videos for all the customers of certain ISPs with a banner explaining what's going on.

All in all, I don't think anything like this could work unless you're willing to accidentally suck in a lot of people that are not involved.
I'm not trying to win a popularity contest. I'm trying to make a point about ethics that no one wants to hear. Still not one person has addressed any of my initial concerns.
Dialects evolve, sure. Although it's worth noting that if one had adopted Common Lisp in the '90s one would have a stable base that is today, 20 years later, still ahead of basically everything on the language level (except for the type system as noted in other comments).
just 20%? sounds like a lot of people are throwing their money away.
I think the difference might be in giving yourself a pat on the back, as opposed to looking to everyone around you to validate your success. The 'everyone gets a sticker' mentality is totally harmful. That's why it's important to realize success on your own terms — you don't need the sticker.
This is unscrupulous, even the account that submitted this to HN is only 3 hours old and I'm guessing most of the upvotes have been faked.
As a complete Bach nerd may I recommend this as the ultimate recording of one of his greatest works:

http://www.amazon.com/Bach-Matthaus-Passion-Bostridge-Colleg...

A search for Herreweghe+Matthaus on Youtube brings up a 'preview' for those interested to listen immediately.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_Ai171EQeU
There's two cabinets right now: one in NYC and one in SF. We're making more but it's a slow process. If you're in NYC you can play it at Spring Fighter in June:
http://gamecenter.nyu.edu/event/spring-fighter/
This is probably like the experience of the people who attended the Thomaskirche and heard a new work by Bach every week. I could take 21 years of this!
Please refrain from making comments about <so and so> people over <so and so> age. If someone is not technical or simply resistant to constant change, that is a reflection of their personality or interest mostly, not their age.
Does it come with a message that says tongue in cheek that you're on the "slow lane", and they should upgrade to the fast lane? Otherwise they may just think that site is slow.
Does a large installation of panels like this have a cooling effect on the nearby area? If so I wonder if they could put some wind turbines around the permitter to capture wind energy?
Wow, I just installed mnemosyne, it looks so much simpler than Anki. I'll be giving it a run this weekend.
Scriptcs is out there for quite some time now. http://scriptcs.net/ it also has the motto "Unleash your C# from Visual Studio."

It provides you proper scripting abilities by using other libraries, writing classes in the REPL and scripting, like proper scripting languages. CShell just seemed like a windowed application whereas Scriptcs also runs on Unix environment with Mono I guess.
Solar tracking for PV's isn't always desirable because the heat of the panel increases, thereby reducing its efficiency.
People aren't that delicate. I've known factory workers who've done 50-80 hour weeks for decades on end. When I was a machine operator at Harte-Hanks outside of Baltimore, I worked a 76 hour week without a day off for three months straight (12h * 5, 8h * 2). They refused to open the plant on Thanksgiving, so it broke my streak.

Right now, somebody in Germany is wondering how I can deal with only having 2 weeks of vacation a year, and speculating that it could lead to serious medical problems.

My father had a series of mini-strokes after having a pleasant salmon dinner.
From reading the article, it seems what he loves about weapons is not their ability to kill, but a lot of the design, the logistics and engineering aspects of weapons.
> A new version of the LiMux Client is due this year; it will be based on Kubuntu 12.04, an LTS (Long-Term Support) release.

> May 9th, 2014

They are an entire LTS release behind?
The opening line of the post:

"I adore weapons. Of every sort."

From Excession, by Iain M. Banks:

"It could see that - by some criteria - a warship, just by the
perfectly articulated purity of its purpose, was the most beautiful
single artefact the Culture was capable of producing, and at the same
time understand the paucity of moral vision such a judgement implied.
To fully appreciate the beauty of a weapon was to admit
to a kind of short-sightedness close to blindness, to confess to
a sort of stupidity. The weapon was not itself; nothing was solely itself.
The weapon, like anything else, could only finally be judged by
the effect it had on others, by the consequences it produced in
some outside context, by its place in the rest of the universe.
By this measure the love, or just the appreciation of weapons was a
kind of tragedy."
Netflix Learns From Past Mistakes, Increases Prices The Right Way
The oceans have been absorbing the heat from the atmosphere, yielding the flat trend in atmospheric temperatures. The total energy in the system is increasing.
> but what your desktop runs these days is less and less important.

Not if you care about US government backdoors.
http://www.tuxradar.com/content/browser-benchmarks-2-even-wi...

> Now I'm sure you can tell me all the tricks to getting Windows to run faster,

No, I can't. But it surely seems pretty slow.

>but if I wanted to spend all day configuring my OS I would use Arch.

:3

> How many people work in your company if you don't mind me asking?

60 people, though I don't work there anymore.
How We Rebuilt Our Business Model – In One Week
ROI on non renewables are high because the producers do not pay (all) of the externalities such as the cost of pull the carbon out of the air after it's been burned. I would love to see the true cost of oil and then decide if the ROI is real, or if its just a shift of wealth from those who get to breath polluted air to those who pumped the oil.
At least in my application, views are always bound to either an `m.prop` or an immutable value. What if you tracked when an `m.prop` was updated and queued up a redraw automatically? Redraws would be rate-limited via requestAnimationFrames/setTimeouts as usual.

I imagine this could have a significant performance impact, but don't know the mithril internals well enough to say.

EDIT: Thinking about it, the virtual DOM must be re-constructed on every redraw since the props aren't tied to a view. This probably wouldn't work well then.
Mass Rapid Manufacturing Via 3D Printing Coming Soon Thanks to New Technology
Ask HN: Sales Lead Generation Best Practices?
What's been your most effective/ineffective Sales Lead Gen effort: Marketing (automation platform, or Old School Cold Calling/Cold Emailing? Others?
This article got me thinking about the frying pan (investment banks) and the frier (startups.)

I just pulled an all-nighter in my company (note: I'm our CTO). We needed to put a new capability in for our team as part of a rollout of a big new feature that integrates with other customers. I was glad to do the work and put in the time.

I just so happened to interview a candidate the following day (I think it was hour 34). He's very eager -- wants the "fast-pace of a startup", "meaningful work", "make an impact and see the results". He currently works at TechBigCo in Seattle -- take your pick, I hear the same words over and over from candidates who work at these places.

We talked about what it's like at our company, and I explained what we just went through with ALL the caveats -- atypical, I made the decision on timing, it's a startup, etc.

The candidate was completely turned off and said he could not work for a place that would ever condone that amount of time or that decision. I explained that my team didn't pull an all-nighter -- I was the one who did, because I made a decision (business ultra-critical level), and that decision would affect only me in terms of time. I explained that it's because I have a vested interest in seeing the company succeed. He didn't accept it and has dropped out of consideration for our role.

The candidate's response surprised me -- he viewed my action, even as a one-time event, as something that could happen again in the future. He's right -- it very well could, although we're managing our growth (much of the cause of this situation) to balance against our resources. We also have a business to grow, and sometimes success can be dictated by timeframes. That was the case here.
An "entire LTS"? It was only released 2 years ago, and 14.04 just came out. And it's not like they could use 13.10 or whatever. They need to use LTS.
Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood
It should be obvious that if the repository were unavailable, we would not try to push a new version of our code. This is a much better approach since library dependencies are only usually downloaded once when we start a service for the first time, vs a fat jar that pushes dependencies every single time, leading to long startup times. This is a big deal when you've got a hundred servers and dozens of services on each.
The Archival Bulletin
Snapshot Letter
It's clear from reading the comments people are making about older people shows that being technical does not aid one's level of wisdom.
Do you know of any home or small business printers that work with Linux out of the box?
The chiefs of staff of all divisions were immediately summoned to Moscow. They were given a day's instruction in the technique of sleeping out in snow at freezing temperatures, using only a greatcoat. Then each of them was required to convince himself that this was possible, by sleeping in the snow for three nights. (It should be remembered that March in Solnechnogorsk, near Moscow, is a hard month, with snow on the ground and temperatures below zero.) Then the chiefs of staff returned to their divisions and immediately the entire Soviet Army was put to a very hard test-that of spending a night in the open in numbing cold and without any extra clothing. It seemed as if those who were stationed in deserts in the south were in luck. But no-they were sent by turns to either Siberia or the north to be put through the same tough training. Thereafter, spending a night in the snow became a part of all military training programmes.

Two years before this, following the shameful defeats in Sinai, when it had become clear how much Arab soldiers fear tanks and napalm, urgent orders had been issued, making it compulsory for all Soviet soldiers and officers, up to the rank of general, to jump through roaring flames, and to shelter in shallow pits as tanks clattered by just above their heads, or, if they could not find even this protection, to lie on the ground between the tracks of the roaring vehicles.

The Soviet Army re-learned its lessons within a single day. I have felt napalm on my own skin, I have crouched in a pit as a tank crashed by overhead, and I have spent terrible nights in the snow.
Why would you bet they aren't in the office.

A friend of mine who interned at the FCC says the commissioners are almost always around in their offices.

It's not like the FCC pays amazingly well and these guys are sitting on beaches. The commissioners each earn $155,500 a year (they are level IV on the executive schedule).
Both AnkiDroid and the iOS Anki support syncing, so then all reviews can place on the device without using any data and then synced later in the day.

I do this myself and it works well: most of my Anki reviews each day take place using my phone when travelling without any signal on the metro.
I tried Quizlet for many months, but actually just recently switched to Anki. The Quizlet UI looks better on the surface, but Anki's UI is faster and more... utilitarian.
How much of this work is the result of the US tax system?
Courts appoint guardians in these cases. It certainly wouldn't be the doctors.
You'll have a hard time to get Microsoft on the phone to make the business case for fixing an edgecase...
To be honest I've only run it in Chrome and it's been pretty happy there on Ubuntu, Windows or OSX.
There are constant-FPS tests, that create more and more sprites until your FPS falls below a certain target. Your score is the number of sprites you can handle above that target.
Renewable energy sources are seeing tons of direct subsidies. However, quoting those numbers in a discussion like this can be a little misleading because of the disclaimer on page ix of that report titled "Not All Subsidies Impacting the Energy Sector Are Included in this Report"

> This report only includes subsidies meeting the following criteria: they are provided by the federal government,
they provide a financial benefit with an identifiable FY 2010 federal budget impact, and, they are specifically
targeted at energy. These criteria, particularly the energy-specific requirement, exclude some subsidies that
benefit the energy sector. Some of the subsidies excluded from this analysis are discussed below.

The examples that they list overwhelmingly benefit oil, gas, and nuclear energy sectors.