skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Except bankers don't understand finance either, but they think they do."

Amen to that.

Your own analyst tells you half the mortgages in the pile are toxic. But the banker tells the analyst to shut it and make the pile look good so the bank can sell it to 'investors'. Some banker.
They sold Windows 3.1 until the year 2008. I would agree that they spend way too many resources on the past.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.1x
How to enhance the UX in your mobile apps?
It's also a feeling of being stuck. I mean, you a 13B, where you gonna get a job? At Burger King? And you're (were) an E6; a platoon leader with responsibility for personnel and artillery equipment worth millions and now you're flipping burgers?

I've always thought the Army needed a job training problem (maybe through the VA, if nothing else) where you could "un-learn" your military skills in favor of civilian skills.
Unfortunately the math doesn't really say this.
but it's the only one publicly listed in their portfolio at this date.
That doesn't match my experience. The libraries around Redwood City are high quality and filled with families.
No, people hate bankers because they are leeches, as demonstrated by this article.
The end of Moore's Law will have profound effects on the entire technology industry.

What happens when computers stop getting faster?

There's no obvious successor to CMOS on the foreseeable horizon, so it's good to see that IBM and others are searching for solutions.
Is this the case? I mean, sure options won't be as lucrative, but RSUs are basically an extra way for companies to compensate employees, and still count as "velvet handcuffs".

If the stock rises, that's magnified, but even while relatively static, RSUs count up.
There seems to be a bug in the string compare function. If either string is empty the function return 0 meaning success.
People are stupid about everything, not just finance. That doesn't imply causation of hate.
Treadmill desk, baby
Hi everyone,
How are ya?
My team and I are building a treadmill desk company with a dream that everyone deserve a better working environment. We want to learn as much as possible from people who actually used a treadmill desk. So we have two questions that hoping you can kindly answer.
Here are the questions: 1. Why treadmill desk is not the main option for company offices now? Some company offers one treadmill desk for all people to share. But some just say no to it. Why?
What is the biggest challenge/difficulties of using your current treadmill desk if any?
So whattya say?
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There's already very little money available for first books, relative to the many many people who give it a shot. I've worked at a number of publishers and trust me, the "slush pile" is always huge, always growing, and always hopeless. The other poster is correct that most writers will never finish, but more than enough still do.
Moore's Law is not about speed per se. It's about transistor count on the chip that is cheapest per transistor. (If memory serves right.)
Or it's about appearances.

You know the government does this all the time. Congress mandates a department cuts their budget. So ok.. fine, the director lays off the IT department. Then all the "deferred" IT folk go to work at"some consulting company" who get the contract to provide IT services to the department. At twice the price the original payroll was.

it happens all the time in government. And not just in IT.
Well. The moving picture at the top, the Masonry image layout. It all really fits well together to convey what airbnb does -- and it really makes you want to connect with them. Airbnb is no doubt a very well funded company.

The second one you mention is also very well designed I'd say, but as you can see, it's a professional web design firm -- so it should look very well -- and as you can see it uses very similar techniques as airbnb.
Ask HN: Yak-Shaving Methodologies
For those of you who follow Zed Shaws "Learn X the Hard Way" series, the term "Yak Shaving" might sound familiar, but for those of you that don't —

>"“Yak shaving” is a programmer’s slang term for the distance between a task’s start and completion and the tangential tasks between you and the solution. If you ever wanted to mail a letter, but couldn’t find a stamp, and had to drive your car to get the stamp, but also needed to refill the tank with gas, which then let you get to the post office where you could buy a stamp to mail your letter—then you’ve done some yak shaving."

What methods/tips do you use to convince yourself to do a boring but important task? This isn't restricted to programming (such as creating environments, installing dependencies), and applies to life in general.

Thanks
It's all about good intentions - assholes who want to record without permission will still exist, but the vast majority would not enable that hack, unless it was socially acceptable to do so.

I think the LED lost out because then it would look all too much like the Borg.
Good Work !

Had made something similar before : http://jaykanakiya.com/bootstrap-grid-builder/
No, MS isn't in dire straits that they need to start letting the lowest guys on the totem pole go. For the first couple years focus on being the best employee possible and making your manager's life easier. Don't shy away from doing the boring, ugly grunt work that no one else wants to do. You need to establish yourself as a reliable performer.
Or even:

indexedList = zip [1..]

Love how ML-like languages let you express just the bare essence of an operation.
SpaceX is involved in an ongoing lawsuit against ULA and the Air Force because they want to change their acquisition process into an open bidding process:

http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_26041385/spacex-files-...

In other words, yes, he's interested. It's good money that can help to fund the other stuff you mentioned.
This is a myth often used to justify unpopular decisions. The board has a responsibility to guide the company in accordance with the articles, but the shareholders are free to define the articles. If they think redistributing profits to employees is a good idea, they are free to do so.
We took "Show HN" out of the title. From the guidelines:

If your work isn't ready for people to try out yet, [...] please don't put "Show HN" in the title. Once it's ready, come back and share it then.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Disabling showModalDialog
Why Can’t We Be More Like Disneyland?
InsideTracker and WellnessFX are two companies that offer direct-to-consumer blood testing at somewhat reasonable prices. Another company called Cue [https://cue.me/] is working on a device that would let you do certain blood tests at home.
Thanks, I really appreciate the compliment. And yeah, it's great.
The author can just do what the fuck he wants to, too.
We sure have our share of rednecks on sundecks in Australia. The only thing more retrograde and embarrassing is the fact that Abbott was going around trying to form some sort of 'coaltion of climate change denying countries', whose sole purpose was to oppose action on climate change. I seriously don't think I've ever heard of anything so stupid in my life. Normal people create alliances to achieve something like 'reduce poverty', 'increase economic growth / trade' etc, but Abbott wants to be the first to create an alliance to not do something.
Seems to me a government mandated program might seem more limitless and be less personal and thus you don't feel like your taking advantage of the kindness of caring people or stopping resources going to those who are possibly even more needy.

On a related note: One of the things I somewhat like about taxes for welfare rather than "rely on the largess of charitable billionaires/private entities" argument is that it helps ensure expenses from charitable acts wouldn't be a drain on a business competing. Thus 'asshole' private entities wouldn't have a concrete market advantage over 'nice' private entities.
Seriously. People hate bankers because bankers are ignorant to their own behavior.
My recommendation would be to put your whole system on a test jig and bend it until it breaks.

https://github.com/aphyr/jepsen

Until then, you won't know.
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Creativity Turns Into Magic
What's wrong with the American society? You can be the country of awesomeness and freedom and entrepreneurship, and at times you also have those weird customs like bullying at school.

So beware game creators: This topic will be "understood" by other European cultures but it will not match what they live at school. For example we keep watching movies like Back to the Future where Marty gets bullied, or others with baby showers and popular girls dressed in pink, but it doesn't match any experience we live here.

About bullying in France: I didn't have any. No physical violence, except once on the beach, so pretty much out of school. I'm pretty sure most French people have never seen a wedgie or a swirlie. I don't even know how to translate those into French. We probably don't have a word for "bully".

Ok, we do have the word "racket". But this is only about stealing. And even in this instance... we use the English word.

So I'd say: Don't lose hope. Society doesn't have to be tough on children. You can change it somehow.
Various plants.
On top of that, the most likely thing is that they will increase the GST to fund this, which of course has the most relative impact on the less wealthy.
eeks, sorry about that.
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Interesting. The article makes the following claim:

As the leader in advanced schemes that point beyond traditional silicon-based computing, IBM holds over 500 patents for technologies that will drive advancements at 7nm and beyond silicon — more than twice the nearest competitor.

I would have guessed that Intel was the big player here in the low-level hardware space. What has put IBM at that position, besides sheer age?
I'm curious how this batteryless technology is supposed to work. Without a secondary source of power you're really just playing the idle game with electronics. Is there secondary power (small wind turbine using the HVAC breeze?)
Good place to host a logo design contest?
Does anyone on this forum have any good experiences in hosting a logo design contest? If so, which site, or sites, are the best? Also, does anyone have any advice on what to consider when trying to decide on the winning logo design?
Typo on first page under "Sane": "The workout is the right amount of challenging to keep you in shape, without being too though to stay motivated."
Today: Hacker news shockingly discovers that social acceptance is the main fear of teenage girls.

Follow up: One guy wants to make a game as depressing as their reality, despite having many years as game Dev he forgot the very main reason why we play video games in the first place: To escape from reality. To live experiences we couldn't live otherwise .
My scanner is old and not sold anymore, but it's a Fujitsu and presumably their newer models are as good.

You have to explicitly tell pdftk what to do.

http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/
Also to note: our megabanks would also likely be forced into restructuring (it's probably a bad idea for a bank to go bankrupt) if they also had to "mark to market" with the same strictness as before.

Instead of restructuring, the Fed and FASB decided to blow more bubbles in 2009:

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/fasb-approves-more-mark-mar...
Ask HN: What website/app do you use to cold email potential clients?
Taking into consideration that sending cold email from Google usually marks it as spam?
To The Android And Back
That always happens. The problem is the CEO needs an internal partner to get a list of people who need to be let go. And that's generally delegated to the immediate exec staff, they delegate to some layers below and when the list is built, it bubbles up back to the CEO.

In the process, most people think performance is the key to decide who stays and who leaves. While the fact is first ones to go are political enemies, followed by people who pose threat to the middle management(Kind of people who managers think will eventually take their job, if they stay) these kind of people are worst sufferers, because they would have performed well only to be perceived as threats. Next come people who don't fit well in the organization's pay parity. The last one's if they ever go are weak people who can be sacrificed to save manager's yes men and manger's inner circle.

What generally remains are people who are yes men, political alliances and generally people and partners needed to keep political cartels running.

Which is why if a company is laying off people, its generally an indication they will perform worse in the time to come. Because a round of good people have been laid off, many good ones are leaving. And worst stay on, and are more entrenched in the new set up.
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They still sell embedded DOS. Supporting legacy products is good customer service. It's not like they were spending tons of resources to maintain the code.
Rules of layoff
- Keep the indispensable people in terms of work.
- Keep the people who are on good terms with you (the top management).
- Keep people who sleep with you (the top management).
- Keep people with whom you play poker.
- Fire everyone who will create no fuss for firing.
Hardwired LEDs for cameras are common, precisely to prevent what you describe. Laptop cameras have their own processors, memory, and software, and if the light doesn't turn on then the camera won't turn on.

This isn't just so others can know when your device is recording them, it's for you to know when your own device is recording you.

Of course, it can still be hacked. http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/12/perv-utopia-light-on...
Scientists just returned from expedition, here are the two links in Russian with newest information:

http://sever-press.ru/obshchestvo/nauka/item/3638-uchastniki...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELqw-m6rVhQ (via http://ura.ru/content/yamal/17-07-2014/news/1052185489.html)
Girl acting like royalty (err..not really)
New You've Gone Incognito Message Chrome 36.0.1985.125
FTL: WebKit’s LLVM-based JIT
Banks share profits all the time. Microsoft does not have to maximize the share of profits returned, but the absolute value.
It can still record sound, which may be just as significant in the right (or wrong) circumstances.
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They already do this with something called Safari Online: https://www.safaribooksonline.com/
They'll just hang up on you so that someone else will deal with you and get the "disconnection demerit" on their record.

They're paid barely above minimum wage, apparently, and they get fired if they disconnect too many people.
How to Read a Research Paper [pdf]
Would it be more economical to install in a large home than 3 Nest thermostats? We're talking 3 separate compressors...not my house
Family Robot To Be Available in 2015
Again, your field is too narrow. Widen the context. You're trying to pitch fights as spontaneous events between people whose relationships are completely unspecified.

Conveniently, this makes it impossible to map out any potential emotional manipulation. It's like saying that World War I happened with no real provocation; it was just these random nations snapping towels at each other and somebody got hit in the balls, boo hoo.

Tell me who these hypothetical people are, who flip a switch and kick their neighbor's ass for no reason. Tell me how many months older they are. What competitions did they win recently? What's their relationship to the teachers? How long have they known each other? Why are some of them friends, and others merely classmates? What do they look like, to each other? What are their parents' relationships? What clubs did they join? And so on and so on.
That sounds probably stupid, and like a tremendous amount of fun.
CoreOS stable release candidate: 367.1.0
I envision competition between a few forces:

(1) As the ROI on R&D falls, R&D will be drastically cut and the industry will become even more commoditized. Less R&D spending means chips get cheaper.

(2) Capital equipment will last longer because it won't need to be replaced with new versions every couple years. Fewer equipment purchases means chips get cheaper.

(3) As performance/$ wanes, demand will fall in the short term. At first prices may crash if capacity is overbuilt, but in the medium term, production will stabilize at a smaller level than before. Because of economies of scale, prices will be higher at this smaller scale. (I believe this is what happened to the RAM market a few years ago.) This force may cause chip prices to rise.

(4) As software continues to improve, the value of chips will rise, even as the chips themselves stagnate. This will cause the market to grow, and economies of scale will drive prices down.

(5) As has been happening for years, the industry will continue to consolidate. Less competition between producers will mean higher profit margins and higher prices.

Overall, (1), (2), and (4) will lower chip prices and (3) and (5) will raise chip prices. But I think the overall trend will be lower prices, though perhaps not as the drastic rate to which we've become accustomed.
You can build a book scanner: http://www.diybookscanner.org/
I think the companies with the "up or out" policy also offer career paths that doesn't lead to management. It's viewed as acceptable to keep getting promoted within an individual-contributor role. They've tried to remove any reason to not be promoted.
The military has the up or out program. It varies depending on the branch, but if you don't get promoted past e5 by ten years you get separated. Generally if you get to e6 you will do 15+ and get retirement benefits.
Intel is the big player in that space.
Apple and IBM team up to crush Microsoft, Blackberry, and Android
How do you have CSV data with a comma within a field?
Is Linux considered part of the machine itself now? Jesus.
Tell them you work for Boeing as an Iridium technician. It's like having free access to the world's most complicated ham radio!
The best way for this is avoiding Storyboard.

DVCSs are designed for full error-tolerenceable text based source files. It requires the files are fine to be broken (e.g. for compile). This is the premise to merge data files without any issue.

Storyboard/IB data files are zero-tolerence. They always require full integrity for their data files. As the internal data is described as a interconnected graph, there's no effective way to manage Storyboard/IB data files in broken state. Most data files are in this form, and cannot be used in DVCSs.

Then, trying to use zero-tolerance data in a system which require full tolerance doesn't make sense. At least for merging.
Dealing with the public feedback is part of not releasing a shitty product, and that's a good thing for everyone. You make it sound like the Explorer program can only have one reason, public acclimation or design refinement, but not both, which is obviously nonsense. Overall, I see nothing to justify the cynical interpretation you've put forward here.

Further, your last paragraph defies belief. When I interned at Google, almost everyone I met seemed down-to-earth and humble, and I've never heard anything like your accusation. Citation is desperately needed.
> Go and Scala have powerful type inference, making
explicit type declarations very rare. In C++ and Java
everything needs to be declared explicitly.

I guess they forgot about C++11's auto?
Fundamental research. For example, Karl Alex Müller discovered super-conductivity while working at IBM's Swiss research lab and later won the Nobel prize for that (http://www.uzh.ch/about/portrait/nobelprize_en.html). Also, they invented the scanning electron microscope, along with other discoveries relevant at nano-scale.

IBM is one of the very few companies that does fundamental research with a time-horizon of decades, and not just one product cycle.
Update: The new 0.4.0 release of Funcgo supports limited operator overloading: https://github.com/eobrain/funcgo/blob/master/doc/reference....
Very interesting, but it doesn't look like it'd work too well with floor vents (stubbed toes and the like, not to mention durability in case someone or even a pet steps on it). Any chance you're already looking at the problem?
Yea this is really good advise! I've struggled with weight all my life and setting an extreme goal like that is an easy trap to fall into. When you have a big goal and don't make it, you keep yourself from feeling good about the slow but positive progress. I often feel bad about this and just fall back into old habits again and end up where I started or worse. Slow and steady definitely wins the race.
The books by Ricardo Semler?
"Maveric" and the "The Seven Day Weekend". Both worth reading, imho. Even if you won't be able to apply the same principles they can serve as a good eye-opener for the many things we take for granted.
I'm not 100% clear on what you are describing but I'll take a stab. I think you are saying that in order to have a similar 'microzoning' concept, an alternative might be 3 Nests and 3 corresponding compressors.

As a retrofit (say, 1 compressor -> 3 compressors [would probably have to ditch the original], ducting changes and 2 additional nests [assuming you already have one]), I would say flair will be more economical. That being said, even if you had a 'large' home with 3 nests and 3 compressors, it is still going to have N rooms corresponding to a single thermostat hence opportunity for efficiency gains and comfort improvement.

while flair is a distributed thermostat, it builds on top of Nest in a complementary fashion rather than competing with it.
On the other hand, this:

// Step d:
IntList::iterator back_pred_iter = back_preds[w].begin();
IntList::iterator back_pred_end = back_preds[w].end();
for (; back_pred_iter != back_pred_end; back_pred_iter++) {
int v = *back_pred_iter;
…

can now be written

for (auto v : back_preds[w]) {
… ,

hence you could argue that while C++ is certainly “mature” in a sense, it is far from converged.
39 years of computing in 11 hours, with $5K in costs vs. $44M estimate
Two separate issues. Pan-CJK fonts like Noto solve a problem that arises from the fact that many CJK characters are only ever used in certain locales. Since most CJK fonts are made for a given locale, they tend not to include any of the (many) CJK characters never used in that locale. Hence, if you render mixed CJK text in (say) a Japanese font, any characters that don't appear in Japanese won't render at all. That's what (I believe) this comment refers to.

The Han Unification problem arises from the inverse case - characters that are used in several languages but rendered differently depending on locale[0]. For those characters, they'll render even without a pan-CJK font, but the problem is they'll render in a way that's not appropriate for their locale.

[0] Another way to phrase this would be "distinct characters which share a code point becaus Unicode mistakenly thinks they're a single character whose rendering differs by locale". The difference is basically subjective.
yes. the prototype in the video is a fairly early physical form factor that is tailored to a popular vent size. Vent sizes come in a wide variety of form factors (shapes, sizes, materials and mount locations) and we are working on covering (pun intended) the more popular sizes for both floors, walls and ceilings. We have a few tricks up our sleeves around the form factor but (similar to our 'batterylessness' concept), we are keeping those close to our sides until we are a bit further along.
Appeals, that't not what I mean, but a system where patent demands need to be started out of ordinary courts.