skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even though their TOS might state that, it's extremely poor PR to go after the end user rather than the distributor. Most people won't even know that they have a counterfeit chip. Even though it may be well within their rights the customers will eventually find out what they have done and bear a grudge.

May cause more problems than it fixes.
What does this mean for https://www.inboxapp.com/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/10/inbox-app/ ?
I find it really hard to watch foreign TV/Movies with subtitles because I lose almost all of the audio, and am pretty much just reading the whole time - path of least resistance to understanding, I guess.
You should, because there is.
I agree. No open source, no thank you.
Hypnotic Spectre, Hymn to Tourach, Sinkhole. I remember the days when you could empty your hand with Suicide Black (Type I) on the first turn. Not fun being on the receiving end of 2*ritual, spectre + hymn, losing 2 random cards and looking your doom in the face and your only action so far was losing a coin toss.
sweet, that's good too
That's an awesome story. Thank you for sharing.
Android + google apps is definitely a very nice combination and I believe that's one of the biggest reason why there are a lot of people stick to Android years ago when it was not nearly as nice.

The nice thing about this combination is that, you can enjoy everything within browser eco system, therefore you are not locked by any sort of OS system. Be it Ubuntu or MacOS or ChromeOS or whatever, OS doesn't matter.
I was made with 23 flavors!
> A small company is less likely to have sufficient appropriate work to allocate.

Maybe so. But this isn't just any random small company. This is a specific 50-person company.
> And what tech ceo is showing up at city council meetings up and down the peninsula demanding more housing, or in any fucking way using the platform their job gives them to help even their own employees, let alone other people in their communities?

http://money.cnn.com/2010/02/18/technology/google_zoning/

Care to guess how that went? Tech CEOs are doing the jobs you proclaim them to not be.

> Yup. Fuck grannie -- why didn't she anticipate rental prices doubling in 5 years?

She didn't need to. She just needed to know that since she didn't own the property, she was at risk. That's the risk you take when you rent - you don't get the safety of owning.

This has been true for centuries. Don't treat it like a novelty.

> Piss on off out of your community, family, job, network, etc etc etc.

I don't know about you, but I've done this. Multiple times. It hasn't killed me. It's not always fun, but that's life.

Since you're here, I'll ask you - what do you think the correct and acceptable way for someone to move to and live in SF is?
I think that the number of Westerners who achieve conversational fluency in Chinese is limited only by motivation and access to resources. It's more difficult for an American than learning Spanish, sure, but wholly within the grasp of anyone willing to put in the effort.

The skill-level displayed in the Facebook video is about what you'd expect from a student having completed about four semesters of Chinese education from a mid-tier state school.

The other video is much more impressive as a display of language skill. There's a natural fluency on display, and it comes from a bunch of regular folks who have the benefit of an immersive learning environment and probably not that much more.
>> I don't understand why anyone would get their forecasts from anywhere but the NOAA website.

One obvious reason is that many people follow the weather in regions other than those covered by that service.
AppCompat v21 – Material Design for Pre-Lollipop Devices
Ads are aspirational, not representational according to mostly everything wrote by thelastpsychiatrist. While they are bust-assing their studies they still aspire to look cool, friendly and careless. Hence the add.
Surely we all expect a charitable organization like ARC to pay market rates for electricity, paperclips, postage, clerical personnel, and medical technologists. Why should they not pay something approaching market rates for executive leadership? I'm certain a corporate CEO of the caliber needed to run ARC would command well over a million in salary plus stock options, so they are already well under the market.
I would assume that the IBM JVM uses DFP instructions to implement the BigDecimal class.
Setting Siri to Mandarin is great practice.
Love Dan Carlin's podcasts.

The thing I love the most about the first part of that WW1 series is the horror-movie sense of a moviegoer yelling out "don't open that door!" at a character on screen. You know what's coming, you know all the horror that will unfold, and you just have to watch/listen as bit by bit the machine of war starts up.
Vacuum Tubes are very popular in high fidelity audio spectrum.

http://www.head-fi.org/t/655961/pictures-of-your-high-end-sy...
I have two tube headphone amps on my desk, one of which I just bought new a couple months ago right in front of me, and 3 other people in my office have similar tube amps. Probably not the norm, but still the death of tubes has been greatly exaggerated.

edit: photographic evidence: http://jdon.at/15kV9
So, you're a good developer who is smart and passed the interviews with some studying. That's exactly how it's supposed to work :).

You're right that the problems that some up in interviews typically aren't real life problems. But that's not necessarily an issue. Are the skills they test (developing good algorithms) important for real life?

An interviewer doesn't ask you to develop an algorithm to return a random node from a binary tree because they particularly care if you know THAT algorithm. They're asking as a way of evaluating your skills developing solutions to problems you haven't seen before.
I think more than a couple of people still buy guitar amps.
I think more than a couple of people still buy guitar amps!
> Ok but as you allude to those buses have been going on much longer than the last month.

You're right. I did. Because they have. I don't know the details of any legislation that may have applied before the one that I linked. But I would like to highlight the irony of the voters (via the government) of California legally mandating that these busses be run (see Kalium's comment), even after they have become such a hot button issue.

It's no wonder that we have so many social problems we can't manage, when our voters and legislators act so schizophrenically.

In terms of "a lot of tech companies, based outside San Francisco go out of their way to make it easy for employees to live in SF and get to work outside of it", this argument could be applied verbatim to the government paying for freeways to allow cars to efficiently drive back and forth between cities. This argument could also be applied to people who commute in from the suburbs (look to the bay bridge; there is a metric ton of them) and 'take' high-paying jobs that could be given to the locals who can't afford the rent here. But it doesn't matter. Criticizing the commuter busses for allowing people to live somewhere other than they work is an unrealistic perspective that ignores reality. People will live where they want to and can live. People will work where they want to and can work. Neither of these facts are the busses faults
Nope you are not alone. IMAP (despite being a technical mess behind the scenes) is my favorite computer technology of all time and has benefitted my life immensely. I would rather have today's email and no modern web than the reverse.

I don't do inbox zero, I do inbox 50k. I just let mail pile up--why not? It only stresses you out if you let it (I don't). Even with a million messages, it's instantly searchable with any decent mail client--and since it is standard IMAP you can use a bunch of different clients just like you use 3-4 different web browsers at the same time.

I have automated filters for stuff like Amazon that's key to my daily life but that I don't usually want to actually see, and the only manual organization I do is annual: I have folders like 2013, 2012, etc back to 1994 (containing all mail in and out). This started because in the old days clients bogged down with more than 20,000 or so messages in one folder. That's mostly not the case these days, but I like the yearly organization, and organizing my correspondence once a year isn't really too annoying, so I continue to do it this way.

I have routed all my faxes and voicemail to my email for 15+ years, too.

And it works on every device I own. For years and years and years.

I think email is about as perfect as computer tech ever gets. Usually instant (but tolerant of a multi-day outage), completely standard and future-proof data, that works on virtually every device and platform currently in use.

Email needs to be disrupted about as much as the hammer needs to be disrupted.
The real problem here is that USB does not define a standard interface for an RS-232 adapter. Proprietary drivers should never have been required for these. Same deal for Centronics printer adapters.
I think most of the accredited investor rules deal with solicitation. If someone approaches you and makes an offer and you agree to it it's okay (pitching to friends and family), but I am not a lawyer.
It's trivially easy. Just think of all the debates we've had over gentrification in Nob Hill or Pac Heights.

Oh wait. We haven't had any.

Because these are the enclaves of people with so much wealth that even the techies can't afford to move in.
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Just like Japan.
Oh god, the video? Amazing models doing fun recreational stuff. At the end of the video I didn't feel I knew anymore more about Inbox than I did before.

I mean I get it... but it still feels stupid to do something like that, worse to sit through it and realize you're not watching to be informed by substance, you're watching to be convinced by style.
Post your resume on Dice // reach out to recruiters. Get another offer. Wave in front of them as a bargaining tactic.

I'd happily bet you $50 that your next offer will be 25% over your current one. my username at gmail if you'd like to take me up on it.
There's exciting stuff happening in all languages. Right now javascript is fashionable in certain highly-visible development communities (like the open-source community, for example). That doesn't mean it's the most popular language, or that it's the right choice for your project.

The other factor is that browsers (for mostly historical reasons) only widely support javascript natively. So naturally, most front-end frameworks will be javascript based.
We've been working in the same space as you for a while with http://populr.me. Great to see others banging the drum of one-off content!
Releasing libraries tied to IDEs sound like an absolute nightmare to have to maintain over time. Package managers exist for exactly this reason - I have no idea how anyone at Twitter could have ever thought this was a good idea.
> A lot of the Bitcoin luminaries now seem to be coming around to the idea that regulation is OK and that trusting authorities (instead of just math) isn't the end of the world.

That definitely deserves a citation needed. Accepting regulation? Yes, sure. "Trusting authorities (instead of just math)"? Absolutely not. If you are ok with that, then why use bitcoin at all? A simple ledger on a central server works just fine and saves a lot of trouble.

The federated two-way peg is at best a temporary measure. The first most obvious improvement is to conjunctively add the SPV security trustless peg as well, such that using a peg requires signatures of the functionaries AND a valid proof. Then the worst they could do is freeze your coins, which we're still not happy with.

Another improvement not in the paper is to spread the functionaries out into multiple jurisdictions and selected from multiple distrustful groups. E.g. it would be nice if there were functionaries in Iran and China as well as the U.S. and Europe.

> E.g. patio11 has described such a system (Stellar)

Stellar's consensus algorithm (the same as Ripple's) is broken by design. It will not work as advertised, and provides little better security than the existing fiat system.
A press release[1] indicates the price is $26 - $37 each in 10k lots.

[1] http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20141005005052/en/Free...
And even if it came to the end of tubes, servicing obsolete hardware (and software) can be very lucrative. Kids don't learn COBOL anymore.
These sexy things don't seem to be going away: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_fluorescent_display

A fluorescent lamp also qualifies as a vacuum tube:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorescent_lamp#Principles_of_...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorescent_lamp#Cold_cathode_l...

"Most fluorescent lamps use electrodes that operate by thermionic emission, meaning they are operated at a high enough temperature for the electrode material (usually aided by a special coating) to emit electrons into the tube by heat."

Thermionic emission is how vacuum tubes work, like the 12AX7's and 6L6's or whatnot in your guitar amp.
I was surprised to learn that mobile networks use a lot of xDSL links to their base stations. They're faster to get provisioned than a traditional data link. So, anything which increases bandwidth in DSL will benefit mobile networks.

http://www.ericsson.com/ericsson/corpinfo/publications/revie...
Completely agreed. I recently applied to YCombinator and one of the questions asks how you plan on sharing equity.

Here was my response:

Everything I have seen, read, watched and smelled has made it clear that it is much better to be over generous with equity than to be stingy.

With that in mind I plan on following the Sam Altman model as follows:

Founder(s): 10%

First 10 employees: 10%

Next 20 employees: 5%

Next 50 employees: 5%

Vesting would happen after 5 years with a 1 year cliff.(I chose 5 instead of the 4 in Altman’s model because of the growing trend of companies taking longer to reach liquidity)

Not only would this model differentiate a startup from competitors to potential hires, like you mentioned, sharing the growth with those who put in the work is the right thing to do.

Besides, what can the gal who owns 10% of Google do that the guy who owns 1% can't?
Yes, names like Flickr.

Names with dropped vowels look like typos, typos relate to sloppy work, so that's an association you get with a name like this. You then have to put in extra work to undo it. Can it be undone? Sure, but why create this hurdle in the first place?
Accidental second-sourcing doesn't
really hurt anyone other than the
first source.

It hurts the entire electronics industry industry if I can't trust that a part is what it's labelled as, or if I can't trust a supplier not to deliver fake parts.

If your suppliers can substitute a fake FTDI part, why not label 10% precision resistors as 1% precision, or label 1,000-operating-hour capacitors as 30,000-operating-hour, or label parts that failed temperature range binning as having passed temperature range binning?

And the people who really lose out from this aren't the Apples and Samsungs of this world, who do enough business that the promise of future work can keep the suppliers honest - it's the small manufacturers and kickstarter projects that aren't big enough to have the leverage to keep their suppliers in line.
If you model the entrepreneurial/tech ecosystem as a market, you'll find inefficiencies and mispricing of risk everywhere, not just in hiring at early-stage startups.
The last useful vacuum tube product.

Tube amps distort the sound more, and clip more gradually. This basically means that a digital amplifier can perfectly emulate a vacuum tube amplifier as long as you aren't maxing out the range and clipping the digital amplifier. (You may need a slightly higher rating on the digital amplifier to achieve the same volume.)
I'm a little puzzled. If you're uncomfortable having business drinks with women, and you've seen how a simple invitation can go badly in a sexual harassment context, why not just stop having drinks as a context for a business meeting with either men or women? Have lunch, get together for coffee, etc.
There's been a lot of progress since then.

One IGBT pair. 1200 amps. 4500 volts. 140x190 mm housing:

http://www.infineon.com/dgdl/Infineon-FZ1200R45HL-DS-v03_01-...
- I don't like the name at all. It's not obvious how to pronounce it and that's a huge problem if you want people to talk about it. MovieWish I'd be fine with.

- Basic problem - what do I do with this list? Is it integrated with my Netflix account? My Bittorrent client? A ticketing service like Fandango? The DVR on my TV? all 4 of these?

- Forget numerical ratings and silly averges like this movie is 7.4/10 points good – for you, a movie is either good or bad, period. I hate this. My opinions on a movie are much more nuanced than 'good or bad'. I'm not even that hot on only having 5 stars to do a Netflix rating. 'Averages' is spelled wrong BTW.

- The individual movie pages are OK, in fact the graphic design is pretty good. still, I can't escape the feeling that it's a prettier but less capable version of IMDB. did you scrape their DB? a good aspect is that so far my searches have all returned a result, even for my obscure test films.

- Social buttons - I would fold them away under a sharing icon and put them in a UI frame rather than straight in the film listing. I never understand why site designers want to stock someone else's branding in the middle of their offering.
Not open source? As many times as it's going to take, these people will get the message. I grabbed the "Bracket Computing Cell" transparency PNG to mash into something later. That's my take on it.
Mobile developer jobs which are really web based roles
That puts the cost at over $100 for a 1kW oven though; seems like it will only be in high-end ovens at first.
http://waltherpragerandphilosophy1.blogspot.ro/2013/10/turni...
How else would you model companies and their staffing?
From that page: "FTDI is definitely not targeting end users - if you're unsure if ICs are genuine then please don't use the drivers."

This is where I think they are mistaken, because end users may be downloading and installing the drivers themselves. I have done this on more than one occasion: Some gadget has a USB port and I find that it uses the FTDI chip, so I go to the web page and download the FTDI drivers for it. This may happen quite frequently, for instance when an end user moves a gadget from one PC to another, and (mistakenly assumes that) they want the latest driver.

I'm disappointed because I was a big fan of FTDI and use them in a lot of my projects. I won't just go and burn all of my FTDI chips, but I am sufficiently motivated to look for an alternative. Looks like SparkFun has a couple of breakout boards for the Silicon Labs chips.
Uhm. Hate me for being the downer, but.. isn't he most likely heavily invested due to his wife? And do you think it is harder to learn a foreign language as Joe Random Guy or might it be easier if you try to learn the language of your significant other?

Is it harder to learn a foreign language if you manage a huge business and are insanely rich or is it harder if you work to make do, have kids and not a lot of free time?

Is it a business strategy, a gimmick that the company paid for? A real personal investment?

Everyone learning a completely foreign language impresses me. Zuckerberg just scores really, really low on my utterly personal "Am I impressed" scale.
Most people don't require the startup connections and capital of SV; they just want to survive and do their job, not start a speculative business venture.

Working as a firefighter/waiter/mechanic/nurse is roughly the same in the Bay as it is in (say) Oklahoma, but prices of living are proportionally much more favourable.
> Probably because Millennials grew up knowing there were wolves just outside the gates, and that your employer might throw you to them at any time [...] We don't know normal, so accordingly, we're not clinging to it.

Millennials need to learn some history.

A 52-year-old graduated high school in 1980. They grew up, then worked their first decade, during the economically scariest 20 year period between the Depression and the Recession.

Millennials don't even know what a pension is, let alone having to worry about losing one, or fear the Japanese taking over the world, including both the high-end and low-end manufacturing jobs along with Rockefeller Center.

It was pretty terrifying back then for your rank-and-file blue collar worker, and it didn't let up until the mid 90s. Anyone born around and after 1970 doesn't know "normal."
Zuckerberg's Chinese does sound pretty awful right now (although his listening comprehension looked much better), but it doesn't seem right to compare him to individuals that are fully immersed in a Chinese-speaking environment (probably for a many years). Also learning Chinese to speak to your wife's family isn't a gimmick.
It does, it's called CDC and there are plenty of other adapters that use it. Which is why I think the popularity of FTDI adapters is surprising in some ways.
I also prefer their website on desktop, but it is perpetually annoying to me that you have to pay a yearly subscription to make ads go away in their Android app.

To WU: I will pay whatever you want, just make it one-time.
It's hard to forget how Twitter treated 3rd party client developers with their surprise 100k max users limit per app.
U.N.C. Investigation Reveals ‘Shadow Curriculum’ to Help Athletes
I believe it's intentional (for privacy/usability reasons), so that it's always clear which account's emails you are reading and which you are replying to.
I don't think it's a technical issue.
I recently read Poetry of the First World War: an Anthology. There's a reason people make a big deal about the British poets.

http://www.amazon.com/Poetry-First-World-War-Anthology/dp/01...
I think if somebody steals your bike, they ride it away at their own risk, but...

* That doesn't mean you can shoot them as they ride away.

* It also doesn't mean you can booby trap your bike.
Well, they'd suffer more if they hit their deadlines.
My samples are on their way, I can't wait. :-)
Here's a question for you: REITs dehumanize and perhaps volatilize real estate markets. Do their benefits outweigh their costs? And if so, what are those benefits? Is it legitimate public policy in a system that ostensible has free markets as a principle to suppress or otherwise regulate REITs?
I'm so happy Google finally found its design language. This looks beautiful. Really something to build on.
so it's like wave, but implemented on top of normal email?
Agreed. It was pretty disappointing to sign up on a "Try it now" form and then be told I'm on a waiting list without mentioning that before. Was looking forward to trying the Crashlytics Beta offering, but I suppose I'll look elsewhere for beta distribution.
The whole point of the continued popularity of tube amps is to drive them too hard and get interesting noises ... people have been trying to duplicated that in digital for decades, and failed.
Personally "It left the phone" state is very important to me, esp., when I am travelling and network connectivity is intermittent.

Also "Message Read" is a very ambiguous state according to me - If the content of a message is read from the notification drop down, but user never opened whatsapp to read it - is it read, or not ?
Today's Dilbert is highly relevant: http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2014-10-22/
I just want to take a moment to re-affirm that A Mind Forever Voyaging is a great piece of Sci-Fi.
Don't forget about the krytron, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krytron
If you need to switch thousands of amps in under a nanosecond you'll probably need one.
Thanks, that's a great answer, but I guess I'm curious about legal/ethical considerations.
Startup Mentoring meets CouchSurfing
And tubes in UHF broadcast stations are in no way anachronistic.
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