skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to Forbes, Americans' GDP per hour worked is better than that of the Germans, and the Americans are happier while doing it: http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2013/10/30/the-pursui...

This also shows Americans work more than the Germans and this doesn't say anything about how hard people are working, but don't forget the old adage: Don't work harder, don't smarter!
Not only would I echo the "give a website my Amazon creds" argument, but what if I want to sell things I haven't bought from Amazon and/or (like me) you don't really buy things on Amazon?

I have lots of things I would like to sell and declutter, but none of them are from Amazon.
I was also sent off from Microsoft last Thursday. What a day. My observations:

- This was the best kept secret ever at Microsoft. Many VPs and directors were not knowing until the day of.

- It's clear the layoff decisions were not personal or based on talent or seniority, but just rather the high executives each doing a large pruning of their own branches. Whole branches of the company being lopped off because they had no role in the future picture. Especially after the Nokia buyout the total headcount was too high so this was also to get headcount under control.

- Severance terms were good.

Overall I can't blame Microsoft. Their competitors are making much more hay with much less people.
I'd answer that with "0", and send them an updated form as soon as things change. Filling out that form is not the time for heroism.
A/B testing showed that the Norton security badge is perceived positively. Does anyone have a different experience?
> The main consideration is the tradeof between performance(best for mutability) vs ease of use of development (best for immutability)

No, no, no. Immutable data structures are not actually inefficient, they are just different. They were designed for different tasks and work better in that tasks. Imagine, for example, that you need to traverse list of customers in a large multithreaded application. While traversing, you don't want this list to be updated. So if the list is implemented with a mutable array, you have either to lock it all the time, or create a copy, both of which are pretty inefficient. With immutable list, on other hand, you can freely traverse it because you are guaranteed it will not change during processing.

Multithreading is one of the main sailing points for immutable data structures, but not the only one. IIRC, Java String are immutable to allow creating substrings as views on the same char array, which, on average, increases performance, not decreases it. Another cool thing is that with immutable data structures you can add new cool features like auto generation of `hashCode()` or memoization.

Surely, some algorithms require mutable data structures by design. Change one pixel in 1M image stored as immutable array is definitely bad idea. That's why most functional language tend to, but not limit you to using immutable data structures only.
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I applaud your conviction to work your 40 at 100% and then go home, and in many places this is absolutely achievable and I absolutely recommend it.

Japan is (largely) not yet one of these places. There is a culture there related to work and life that is very very different. The short version is that you can get lifetime guaranteed employment without risk of termination, but at the cost of the company owning your time. For the longer version, you can search Patrick's posts for "salaryman."

It's very interesting to learn about how these conditions came about. It's also interesting to see how things may change there as software continues to eat the world, crossing many previously-untouchable boundaries.
> You can do OOP with only ad-hoc polymorphism...

Which is still polymorphism. I purposely did not enumerate all CS forms of polymorphism, but can get more detailed if you will.
Big appliances are already big, justifying putting an inverter on them if they can't be converted to DC. An inverter of appropriate size and power, of course, rather than a single mega one.

My argument is that this contest is a bandaid on an outdated way of thinking about power. Yes, safety is important. However, in your example we don't have to use physical-contact plugs. There are plenty of devices that can be powered or charged via induction.
Mirage is actually not just the Xen ABI. It includes a frontend that swaps in appropriate implementations of module signatures for other backends.

For instance, Andy Ray just got a kernel module target working: http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/mirageos-devel/201... (when this mode is complete, the network stack module will call directly into the FreeBSD kthread rather than invoking socket syscalls, for example). This is also how we plan to support the Raspberry Pi (use FreeBSD as a bootloader, with just one kernel thread running which runs the unikernel).

And there are also ongoing ports to JavaScript (to work as an IOCaml notebook, which is itself based on IPython).

All of these just need a recompilation with a different invocation of `mirage configure --<target>`.
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I feel bad for the guy, but Microsoft really does need to reinvent itself, and the deadweight of a huge Windows-focused testing-QA bureaucracy wasn't going to help that mission.

After 15 years at MS, this guy is probably unemployable anywhere else unless he is open to learning new things and retraining.

Big company people often just learn how to operate in a big company environment, and forget how to do real work.
The motor in my LG washing machine is actually DC [1,2]. Sure, lots of other motors in my house are AC, but perhaps they neednt be?

Also, San Francisco has a DC power grid downtown, mainly running large DC motors [3]

Brushless DC motors are typically very efficient, and long lasting [4]

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsNUyD6Nr5s
[2] http://www.google.com/patents/US6396190
[3] http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/the-smarter-grid/san-francis...
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_motor#Brushless_DC_mot...
I agree. If my Amazon credentials are stolen, here's what I have at risk:

- My credit card details (multiple)

- Shipping / billing addresses

- My private order history 5+ years

- Access to all my AWS instances

- Amazon Cloud Drive data

- And I'm probably forgetting a few...

With that being said, even services like Mint.com require handing over your bank's password to them even today. It's really not a good practice even if they are stored securely.
Not to mention the fact that he worked there for 15 years. Successful companies don't make a habit of holding onto bad employees for that long :)
Most of the population seems to have determined that, given the tradeoff between "seeing ads" and "paying more for content," they are more willing to do the former than the later.
Sure. I like SourceTree's git-flow support when I've worked on projects that used it. Most of the time I use Gitbox, which is super simple and fast and nicely integrates with Kaleidoscope.
I'm not upset, I'm fine with other people using it. I still think the format is stupid. For the same reasons I think XML is stupid, and no I don't have to use XML, nor do I.

Also, my comment isn't hurting anyone, if you don't like it you don't have to read it, there's no reason to hate :)

No where in my post did I say Rich Hickey is stupid, he has some very great ideas I just don't think this is one of them.
Probably because 1. LMDB is limited to logical address space, 2. it has one big global lock, 3. It's a B-Tree, and both of those contribute to the fact that 4. LMDB is a read-oriented database [performance wise]. I would conjecture that Rocks could also be 'more easily embeddable', but i'm talking out my ass there :)

And yeah, you kind of have to sacrifice availability if you want to stay consistent in the face of write skew...
I'm not against H1B visas or green cards for skilled immigrants and, in fact, have great friends who fit that profile. However, considering this massive layoff, what reason could Microsoft and Bill Gates have to lobby so aggressively for H1B high-skilled tech talent, besides wanting cheap labor?
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The bounties for the ISPs should come by way of revenue share on StackMonkey. Anyone can be a provider with the appliance, and groups of companies can band together to form appliance groups to share excess compute. I love the idea of bounties for software development as well - especially given OpenStack development can be somewhat opinionated at times.
I don't know how you interpreted Torgo's comment as worrying that inappropriate/extreme comments would be treated as an out-group. He/she said that he/she suspects that human-rating of comments would be based more on their (dis)agreement with the popular view (particularly on controversial topics) as opposed to the extremeness/inappropriateness of the content. There's a massive difference between a comment being 100% civil in their dissent, as in "I'm not convinced that you can attribute those causes to that effect, given XYZ" and "DIE YOU ASSHOLE YOU'RE WRONG I'LL KILL YOU". Torgo's suspicion is that filtering would be done based on disagreement vs objectively offensive/uncivil content.
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haha I know... I just wanted to highlight that
Intriguing concept, but I have some doubts about its security, considering there isn't any kind of security proof at all. I'm not really an expert in zero knowledge proofs, but what I've been taught about them raises some questions here...

For starters, notice that a hash function as a commitment scheme is neither information-theoretically hiding, nor information-theoretically blinding [1], unlike e.g. a simple Pedersen commit. Another problem is that the XOR in the example table needs to be exactly one bit -- it is non-trivial to show that this actually works. Thirdly and perhaps chiefly, it is unclear why this would actually produce a zero knowledge proof, since the same inputs will produce the same circuits and the same output. Thus, I think we can build a distinguisher better than guessing to decide whether two inputs are the same given the same output (and all other inputs being equal).

Maybe these aren't a definitive end point, but they sure as hell require merit investigation.

[1] for more info on these ideas, try these:
http://www.win.tue.nl/~berry/2WC13/LectureNotes.pdf (chapter 3)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commitment_scheme#Defining_the_...
I'm periodically shocking, if anything. Apologies.
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Juju is brilliant for orchestrating your services. Its refreshing to see a S.O.A. approach to configuration management and embraces it rather than having it as an after thought.

@tmikaeld - yeah the vagrant story with juju is an emerging one and great for getting started quickly on your Windows/OSX machine! But when running native, I prefer to use the local provider. LXC is so fast. When combined with BTRFS snapshots you get machines in ms.
Today. Nothing prevents a future version to target hardware directly.

It has been mentioned multiple times that Xen ABI is just away of saving resources to focus on more important areas for the time being.
Volume != area. So you could win with a thin device or an array of small devices.
I suspect this is what a lot of CIA operations involve. A whole lot of planning and deft technical execution but in the end little clear benefit. Still they 'need' to do it in case the 'bad guys' win. And of course, 'Everyone is doing it'

And I'll bet it made a fun story for the director of the CIA to tell at cocktail parties.
Are you giving him flak for misspelling Ellsberg? Because otherwise Daniel Ellsberg was the keynote speaker at HOPE X (which the keynote was right before Snowden's talk), and was the one asking the questions to Snowden.
Don't post X is down announcements here. 5 minutes later, HN readers are likely to wonder about your posting inclination.
Each element on an electric stove is roughly 2 kW. Let's say you have a 4-burner stove, and they're all on. That's 8kW of power.

Let's say we run your 'simplified' household at 48V (the highest voltage commonly used in boat/cabin DC systems). To run 8kW on 48V you need 167 Amps. For 167 Amps you need something like 2/0 wire. That's really thick and heavy cabling!

Can you imagine replacing all of the wiring in your walls with this stuff?

http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa378/chance1525/Mobile%...
> That pre-compilation step, though... How does that play with the IDE?

It doesn't integrate with the IDE and I am not too fond of it either.

But if you want ORM as a library in Java, I don't think there is any other option possible. Java has no meta-programming support, and annotations are going to be processed at run-time which is even worse than pre-compilation.
That's really interesting. Thanks for the share. The "why" surely gives deeper understanding and gives context.
I would guess that A/B testing against HN users would provide different results than the general population.
isn't 'easily' an adverb?
I don't see how you think that avoids you needing to go see people in person which was the claim of the person I replied to.
I do wonder how much sabotage happened in the space race... while I'm sure there were lots of attempts to get the other side's tech goodies, I like to imagine no actual sabotage was involved. Rockets are plenty dangerous on their own.
I'm an Aussie that's lived and worked in quite a few countries, including the US, and I share this experience.

I was in Mexico partying with a bunch of US college kids when Obamacare was on the table, and we talked about it for a while. All of them said "We don't want it because it's Socialism!".

When I inquired as to what that meant, or why that is undesirable to them, the entire room of 30 of them went silent. Not a single one even know what Socialism meant, or why they had distaste for it, but they sure were certain they didn't want it!

IMHO, people in the US have been lied to for multiple generations, to the point where they don't even know why something is good or bad for them personally, they just know what they're supposed to think about something.
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It's not unlike Steve Jobs thoughts on hiring Big Blue types in the early years. They were not the right culture fit.

I don't think it's a perception of incompetence, but more of inflexibility. The thinking that a microsoft employee of 15 years is set in their ways.
I'm pretty sure I already am (indirectly obviously since I'm a poor scientist). I pay taxes, the government funds universities and research. As far as I know, there's no significant gender gap in psychology/sociology/ect. that would cause discrimination against such studies.

I don't pretend to be versed in either field, but I see plenty of related results on google scholar in reputable journals.
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It doesn't equal, but it's close, if you include Stanley's previous donated money. He's now donated more than Eli Broad by about $150M
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I follow you work with great interest.

I had the fortune of using Oberon/Blue Bottle in the 90's and also some contact with Singularity.

So I am very passionate about OS done in memory safe languages and alternative OS designs outside the UNIX System V model.

Congratulations for the work achieved.
Assuming the service is operating correctly, I think the more accurate statement is that it doesn't tell you the value will always be a number. That is, perhaps a field has multiple valid types. Maybe that field won't exist all the time or similar data may be available in a different struture. Without a schema, these questions can't really be answered.
Anyone have any ideas why they highlight only "wide bandgap device manufacturers"? I'm hope they'd accept a winning solution with different tech, but surely there are other possibilities they could mention right at the start?
The USA got a lot of "tech goodies" when they brought Dr. Wernher von Braun and company from Germany.
Does it achieve parity with native code?
I think the document referred to in the article [1] is from 1967, and refers to events "a number of years ago" maybe placing the operation in the late 50's / early 60's - remember, the US was stunned by the Soviet achievement of putting the first man in space and was generally trailing in the space race around that time.

As to the benefits, it seems they're still classified, whatever they are. The document [1] describes, for example, "revelation of the system XXXXXXXXXX that was used here and conceivably for other Soviet space hardware" as a "positive intelligence result" of the operation.

[1] http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB479/docs/EBB-Moon...
Several of the comments suggest a social leader board; I think that's a great idea. If you don't want to support Game Center on iOS, maybe a Facebook leader board.
You could also set up your score board using Amazon's simpleDB. They support Facebook, Google, and Amazon logins. There's a basic article on that here: http://aws.amazon.com/articles/SDKs/iOS/8829919029640036
Amazon's dynamoDB does more than that, but I can't seem to find the article on high score integration through dynamoDB.
Hope it helps, and good luck!
Not appropriate for Hacker News.
Not in my experience, no. There's no stigma when you are part of a mass layoff that was national news. People understand the ax swings wildly at times like this.
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I often do the same though I have found different lighting levels to help set myself into a "preparing for sleep state". I try to mirror the same settings I would use if reading a paper book, even when reading on iPad.

Ceiling lights on, bed made: awake time.

Nightstand light on, 2 pillows propped again headboard to lay/sit up more: reading time.

Lights off, 1 pillow: sleep time.
If the answer is to this question is no, the answer to whether or not a new format is necessary is not automatically yes. Certainly for at least one of those formats, a reasonably performant JS implementation could be created.
And this was written by a Russian.
This story was previously discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7730042
I agree with you that the german system sounds nice. But I couldn't let this slide

> The free market doesn't work for health care.

Where is there a free market for health care that would could test this idea? Certainly not the USA.

I believe Singapore is the closest to free market healthcare and they seem pretty healthy. Though even that is not "free market" healthcare
I would have them handle all my email and attend time-wasting and useless meetings.
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Sounds like a workable version of the Xanadu project. Is there any connection there or ideas from that being used?
No, I certainly can't imagine doing that. However, a person doesn't typically cook 12 hours a day. Instead, they cook in bursts, so it makes sense to put a bank of batteries in or near the stove (firewalled of course), and trickle-charge them with normal cables.
Ask HN: What are platforms to look at for scheduling, billing, and subscription?
I want to market to specific niche a service for scheduling, billing, and subscription management. I'm semi-technical, but development isn't my day job. Are there platforms out there that I can build off and customize to fulfill a specific customer segment's need?
I have to agree with most of this. I see these articles from time to time, and I know the facts behind them are real enough, but my immediate reaction is always the same: "I don't know any people who act this way, and I wouldn't stand for it if I ever saw something like this, but I have never seen it happen, so where the hell is this coming from?"

There must be some people with serious issues out there to generate things like this. Those people are not normal and this behaviour is not acceptable.
You sure about that? You can't think of a single site that produces content without ads? I can.
COBRA is an extension of your ex-employer's healthcare program that you pay out of pocket.

You have always had the option to either buy COBRA or buy individual coverage on your own. Often it is cheaper to buy individual coverage through private insurers than to buy COBRA, especially if you're willing to settle for catastrophic-only insurance.

Obamacare is a new Marketplace for buying individual coverage that includes regulations on the types of coverage offered and includes subsidies if you make less than $46k over a tax year. Since Obamacare doesn't offer bare-bones catastrophic insurance it will often be cheaper to buy outside the Obamacare marketplace if you're not getting a subsidy.

Obamacare also has the awful anti-consumer feature called "Open Enrollment Period" which means you can only buy Obamacare insurance between November and February of every year, which makes it useless if you get laid off now.
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If you were the developer for a Therac-25, yes, yes I would.
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Even if they're just outliers, they deserve the right to let their situation be known.
You're pretty close to "you didn't communicate according to my standards, so I'm going to ignore you". How do you know your complaints about style aren't an excuse to avoid confronting the problem?
Not saying you are, but for my part, even if they do it imperfectly, I will listen, I don't want my kids to grow up in world where this kind of things gets ignored
I guess, maybe it's OK to live in a socialistic country and pay a lot of tax. That insurance thing is a horrible situation to be in.

I wonder how many staff will be replaced by cheap(er) fresh immigrants in the end (I am not against immigration BTW).
I'm in a similar boat in that I just switched back to Windows from Mac last week. The Mac Git UI client that helped me avoid the sharp edges was Gitbox (http://www.gitboxapp.com/) which is only $15. Tower looks like a pretty nice client though.

I'm currently using SourceTree (I find it a little better than Github's Windows app), but I feel like I'm constantly clicking on way too many buttons in the UI in comparison to Gitbox. Muscle memory, I guess.
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Some solutions to the problem will utilize a high frequency, high voltage switching inverter. The performance of this type of inverter is limited by the losses generated by the devices making up the inverter. The wide bandgap devices (switches in essence) offer the lowest losses for this type of topology. Furthermore, some novel inverter designs work only if they operate at very high frequencies. Only the wide bandgap devices can switch at these high frequencies.
Sounds like a great opportunity to start a startup or join one in the Seattle area.
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I can't speak broadly, only from my personal reaction. I also left the site after seeing the Norton logo (and before reading the comments here), because it seemed completely misplaced. I associate Norton with cleaning my computer of badware, not of whether or not some just-launched service is treating my data securely.

Because it seemed out of place, it felt like it was an obvious tactic to bootstrap trust where there wasn't any. A better icon (for me) would have been a badge from your SSL provider, or even just some well designed lock icon.
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You can also sell products that you haven't bought on Amazon - if we show a price, then we are buying it (you can search for books / electronics here: www.shelfFlip.com/search.php).