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I don't have a problem with non-technical HR and managerial people, nor sales, marketing, production staff and so on.

I remain dumbfounded that their HR didn't understand that work I did on other platforms, contributes a great deal to my ability to code for Mac OS X.

Consider that OS X drivers are all written in C++. I've done quite a lot of C++ work on Windows and embedded platforms, and a little on Linux. Yet their HR wanted me to delete all that from my resume.

I didn't just turn down the jobs. Each time I explained to the recruiters - who generally are non-technical too - that all that other experience contributes to my ability to write OS X drivers. Yet the recruiters were unwilling to pass on the message to the HR.

I've only known this to happen at just one company.

Actually I am quite good at explaining difficult concepts to the uninitiated, as a direct result of my experiences with many of my teachers.

I have a BA in Physics, with some graduate school. I had some courses that I regarded as quite easy, some were quite difficult. Quite often this was not the result of the material I studied, but the ability of the instructor to explain it.

Consider that physics is commonly taught by working out mathematical derivations. That leads people who either don't know math, or don't like it, to regard physics as completely unapproachable.

But physics can be taught in a purely conceptual way, with no math at all. For example, I once explained elementary particle physics to a Burgerville cashier by comparing it to the game of pool. "Suppose you cover the break" - the initial positions of the balls, in a triangle - "with a sheet of plywood. Your job now is to shoot the cue ball underneath the wood, then determine the shape of the break from the tracks of the balls after they scatter out from underneath the sheet of wood."

She was quite pleased as she grasped it instantly.
The only down side is that a country that can launch a payload into orbit, can launch that payload into an orbit that intersects the planet (effectively making it an ICBM). You really want such countries to be run by reasonably stable governments (I know you don't get to choose but still). I think India having this capability is great, Pakistan? Not so much, Iran? Probably even less excited, and North Korea? Not excited at all.
How can it be my attitude, when the age discrimination is made plainly apparent before I even speak?
The EU countries don't need 8+% returns to provide their citizens with comfortable retirements. One major reason is that in the US you need to save for living to an age much greater than the average life expectancy.
I bet Harry ends up in computer security.
If I start a flame war in your interview, it's because I don't want to work for you.

But before we part ways, I aim to set you straight, so that you stop making such mistakes as, for example, using CoreEdit.

I regard that as a public service to the community.

Apple's vendor lock-in is a particular sore point with me, as I have experienced it with many vendors, but Apple worst of all.

Quite commonly I interview to work on a client's very first Mac or iOS product, after they have experience with some other platform. For example I do a lot of Mac ports of successful Windows products. Also quite commonly, the client wants to make use of some really, really ill-advised Apple technology, perhaps as a result of Apple's Developer Evangelism, or having attended an Apple World-Wide Developer Conference, without the understanding that those conferences are specifically intended to enable vendor lock-in.

So I regard it as my duty to the client to advise them not to use Apple-only technologies when a suitable portable technology already exists.
I bookmark every website that I want to read/watch at some point with "todo". It's getting a bit large now.
I've been on teams where newcomers have shown up in suits, and we politely told them "We don't wear suits here." They started showing up in jeans.

I felt a little bad, but honestly they fit in better after that.
How is made plainly apparent?
I wouldn't say this is revolutionary (this sort of technology has been around for quite some time), but I really like the idea.
Looks like the account posts nothing but nonsense: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=saeguaiga
TV medical talk shows–what they recommend and the evidence
Inclined to agree but lack of replication does not of itself point to trash science. There may well be other good reasons for so-defining this project.
I've been asking everyone I know questions about this to make them realize how intense the total surveillance possibilities are.

"How many internet-connected microphones are in the same room as you?"

It's astonishing how big that number gets. For me right now, it's ~50. And so many of them are made by different companies, assembled in different countries, etc. The chance that someone, somewhere, can listen to you is nearly 100% if you're in a semi-public space. We're living in a dramatically more invasive surveillance society than 1984 ever predicted (that was just street cameras & one 'telescreen' in your home).

And then, add into this mix that we have new market acceptance for devices that intentionally open this behaviour: XBox One, Moto X, Amazon's...whatevertheycallit. There's not only technical capability, but also increasing consumer desire. It's crazy.

Further edits: There's a lot more at stake here, too, if you extrapolate from their[1] known capabilities and combine with actors who may also have motives at large scale. Take Facebook's mood-altering study, for example. We know that someone/Facebook has the ability to alter the moods and opinions of large groups of populations. The same actors can also listen/watch those people in real time. Dystopian scenarios of totalitarian governments exercising total population thought-control is more and more plausible as we all trade our privacy and security to giant corporations in exchange for mere convenience in our daily lives.

[1]: Who is 'they'? I don't know, but there are many possible 'they's and it might be many of them.
Ask HN: How are the acoustics in your open office?
I am an acoustical consultant who works with architects to design offices, among other spaces. The trend for some time has been to throw out things like the acoustical ceiling tile and embrace the industrial look: concrete, wood, metal, etc. Now that its been a few years down, how is it working for you?

What are the sounds around you? People on phones, collaborating between work areas, or generally working alone with earbuds in? Are you aware of other people's conversations? How far away? Is it distracting?

Do you have partitions between your work areas? Taller than your seated height or just desk height?

Do you have HVAC suspended in your space? Would you call it noisy enough to drown out distant conversations or too noisy in your specific workspace?

I'll use your responses to flavor my conversations with architects in the future.
Presumably some of those neighbors you know, if you were in Dallas or Austin, would legally own guns. Statistically, at least half the country owns guns (add survey results to reasonable estimates of "none of your business" non-responses, double check with NICS sales plus new firearms production and imports, which are closely tracked for tax reasons, vs. the New Math of gun grabbers which would have the average gun owner's armory at around $100K per my estimate).

It's estimated there are at least 2 million illegally owned guns in NYC, and while plenty are not in the hands of true "bad guys", plenty obviously are, and unless your group can stay off the radar while everyone else around you is starving, which will get hard as people get thinner ... someone better armed will come knocking sooner or later.

And agreed to the preparation. But do you truly know no one in "flyover country" who might take you in?
How is this any different than Dropcam?
The concern isn't (exclusively) increased discrimination from those with pre-existing chauvinistic mental models; you also have to be concerned about people who see this type of event and subconsciously infer that it means that females are inferior.
A little FIPS, a little AES, all-optical Bayesian framing, and some formal plotholes measured in thousands of hectares.
Yeah. This is anecdotal, obviously, but I always tip online and tip pretty well. My pizzas always seem to get here as quickly as when I tipped in person, and the drivers have thanked me specifically for it a few times.

Be an interesting thing to really do some research on, though.

I will say I tend to agree that I'd rather see employees be paid a higher rate by the company itself and then have their performance monitored and be rewarded or punished accordingly. I've worked in a few places that paid hourly folks $14+ an hour, in parts of the country where that was pretty decent money for a job you get get off the street, and they managed to keep really efficient employees who did their jobs well.
If only there were a way to run performant Postgres on Windows. Maybe it's time learn Hyper-V so I can run it in a Linux VM.
Airware (YC W13) is building commercial drones in downtown SF
Airware's next-generation commercial (non-military) drone platform extends beyond flight-related hardware and software. Giving drone operators online access to data, video, and images is a critical element of transforming drones from flying robots into viable business tools. We have multiple opportunities to play a leading role in architecting, implementing, and deploying an innovative web-based management system that is tightly integrated with sophisticated autonomous aerial technology.

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UI Designer - https://boards.greenhouse.io/airware/jobs/16606

Automation Engineer, Flight Systems - https://boards.greenhouse.io/airware/jobs/16684

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Black Lives Matter Murder of Innocent Black People in 2014
sorry, i meant, "so much corn--not a good thing for us"
Most notebook computers have video cameras built into the display's frame, at the top. These cameras typically have a light that powers on when the camera is in use.

However there is nothing at all to indicate that the computer has its audio microphone in use.
But that's not really a correct thing to expect is it? If an object is an unordered set of name/value pairs then multiple serialized versions of the object may indeed be the same object data.
There are other reasons that cell phones would not be allowed in such a location. For instance, it makes it more difficult for an insider to remove sensitive information.
Thanks for the feedback! Right now the Social analyzer pulls how many people shared that one specific page on FB (or liked it or comment it), rather than how many followers a Page has or Users an FB App has. We could add that per your suggestion though.

We currently use it to see how popular various articles are on the web since FB likes is a good proxy for overall traffic. FB like are public whereas page views typically aren't.
""The fundamental problem with sloppy focus on the Mac is that the menu bar is always associated with the currently focused application; if you had sloppy focus, accessing the menu bar for a specific application would be supremely difficult.""

Well that's the real trick. It would be difficult to access the menu bar if you had a mess of weirdly placed and sized windows scattered around, like the OSX UI paradigm assumes you do.

But if you have a tiling window manager, and especially if some of those tiles are full height, it's quite easy. Just put your mouse in the window you need, and then go straight up to the menu bar.

Yes, once in a while you need to cross some extra real estate with the mouse in order to "dodge" a UI element you don't want to switch focus to, but it's really no problem.

I've been using tiling UI and focus-follows-mouse on snow leopard since 2009. I couldn't work any other way.
People here have a problem with it because it is a technically poor solution, even among nosql databases. The main problems are:

1. Historically mongodb was distributed with completely unsafe defaults. It was insane to use it with any data you actually cared about. Once you toggle on the safety features most of the vaunted performance goes away.

2. It doesn't actually scale that well despite claims that it does.

The fact that there are better nosql solutions just make people further annoyed. It's basically the cargo cult behaviour of mongodb proponents that people don't like.
I can't shake the thought that all of these came about because of the executive's direct lack of respect for the judiciary, not because of any perception by any executive office that the general population lacks respect for the court. The latter seems to be the takeaway point with these pieces of evidence for past transgressions. I really doubt that more instances of FDR-like behavior will or won't come about because of slight shifts in courtroom decorum.

To make a value judgement here: I think it's a perfectly reasonable thing if courts became more accessible to the general population. Whether it be through relaxed attire, language, or physical layouts -- discarding some of the cultural detritus of rituals of years past wouldn't bring the court system to it's knees because of a lack of respect. Rather, it would show the general population that judicial on-goings aren't some esoteric world that they need to think sacred. (Because really, why should they? The courts are for and by the people.) Accessibility would in turn bring understanding, and understanding would turn the current atmosphere of detachment (re: general public from the courts) into a more meaningful respect.
The trap on overflow will need to compute said overflow flag. Yep, it is not a register. Yep, you still have to compute it. And here you again pay for things that are 1) infrequent and 2) mostly statically inferred.

The Alphas were faster than MIPS due to manual design. Instead of using standard components they laid everything out by hand and they often used domino logic, AFAIK. Classic five stage pipeline MIPS implemented with domino logic can easily get 1GHz (twice as fast as direct synthesis).

Domino logic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino_logic

And software would benefit from static error checking much more than from hardware support for integer overflow.
Hm, it looks like you're right. I should live in those places before talking about them.

It just seemed odd to say that Amazon has an advantage where Wal-Mart doesn't. The announcement says Amazon is offering the service in Manhattan, but there's a Wal-Mart supercenter just 30 minutes away: http://i.imgur.com/oHS2h43.png

Do you feel Amazon can make good headway in dense city areas? It seems like if Wal-Mart can't figure out how to organize distribution pipelines in a given area, then Amazon wouldn't be able to, either. So I was just trying to figure out what critical advantage Amazon might have.
Of course we can be sure, that those fellows were not the first to learn about that.

The hack of belgium telco Belgacom sees more light day by day.

This system is broken beyond repair. We need to build it up from the ground, safe.
I probably couldn't consistently tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi in a blind test either, although I generally prefer Coke. However, I will immediately reject any diet soda as the taste of aspartame, which so many say is tasteless, is obvious and disgusting. Other sugar-free sweeteners are less offending, but I can generally taste the difference between HFCS/sugar and an artificial sweetener on the first sip.

I suspect something similar is going on with other taste tests. Different people are sensitive to different flavor profiles.
It's hard to believe that this will work for every type of camera / device. Have you tested them all?
Open sourcing was the topic, erroneously so. I corrected it.
Uber Driver Charged with Rape in Boston
In addition to what the others have said, it would also be semantically incorrect. Integers in mathematics are signed. So that terminology would not cross over very well.
I recall reading about plans to manufacture fuel on the surface of mars for a return trip. I wonder if the goal now is to manufacture fuel and raw 3d printing materials? Seems like it takes some of the pressure off the initial trip loadout.
I am not describing constant checking of overflow. The sticky flag is the OR of any overflow flag between the last flag-clear operation and a speculation pivot.

It does not need evaluating between every operation. In fact in the example I gave (ARM SIMD) the entire point of its design is exactly so that you don't need to incur the latency of the flag generation logic for every operation.

I wouldn't dream of implementing anything quite as deliberately inefficient as what you're describing. We're decades beyond the point of two instructions serially depending on each other.
I ment more about extracting that the page's twitter account is @..., and the Facebook page is fb.com/...
x86 has special into command to trap on overflow. Thus I don't know what he is talking about.

http://www.electronics.dit.ie/staff/tscarff/8086_instruction...

You can do without carry and overflow flags in long arithmetic just fine.
You don't need to organise them, they already exist by default.
You need look no further than the folks pushing "Cricket Flour"[1] (which is a weird juxtaposition for me) to see folks eating bugs today, and there was restaurant selling grasshopper tacos in San Francisco but that was stopped when they were unable to get FDA 'food safe' approval for the grasshoppers they were importing.

[1] http://chapul.com/
said fork is Hammerspoon - http://www.hammerspoon.org/
for what it's worth, this is why i use my amex for every in-store purchase i make.
iOS 8.1.2 Jailbreak with TaiG jailbreak
Try this. The results are laugh out loud funny. In a good way.
What are CB's?
> This article is clearly far enough afield from the topic of this site

I'm afraid you have a misconception, and it's a crucial one. There is no "topic of this site". The axiom of Hacker News is intellectual curiosity, and intellectual curiosity does not limit itself to one set of things.

Of course we're not all curious about the same stuff. That's why we have voting—to express personal interest. But to flag an article like this one is to say it has no (or nearly no) potential for intellectual curiosity at all, and that seems clearly to be a bad call.
Thanks :)

We'd love to get feedback about Hammerspoon, or suggestions for plugins we could add.

Feel free to drop by #hammerspoon on Freenode, or file issues at https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon
In a previous life I used http://code.google.com/p/python-windows-tiler/ for Windows. It's not the most stable application though.
I hope they find someone to adopt or marry who will care for this hotel.

As someone else pointed out, the daughter seems to be sad. I hope she is able to find someone to make her happy and is able to let her do what makes her happy.
Let's (finally) hack the Tassimo
I'm very close to hacking the Tassimo. I just got one and couldn't believe that the barcode hasn't been hacked yet!

I've just posted an answer on reverseengineering.stackexchange.com that shows, for the first time, a direct connection of barcode to function. We just need a little more data and we can crack this thang!

Help out here -

https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3919/reverse-engineering-t-disk-barcodes-for-tassimo-coffee-makers/6851#6851
Yes and no. There are differences in the data guarantees that something like elastic search and postgresql give. So it's not really appropriate to compare those.

MS SQL does have easier tooling for replication. The setup for postrgresql is complex and it doesn't come with out of the box tools to easily manage failover and recovery as you mention. Progress is being made in making this easier, but it's still mostly in the low level functionality:

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What%27s_new_in_PostgreSQL_...

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What%27s_new_in_PostgreSQL_...
by feeding them to premium organic poultry fowl or egg-layers

Which leads me to an anecdote I find interesting. I raise chickens. My older child can immediately tell the taste difference between an egg from one of our chickens that have a varied diet and one from the store. And that's without even seeing them. As soon as you break the eggs open, it's obvious which is which: ours have deep orange yolks vs the pale yellow store bought ones.

tl;dr: eggs from chickens eating bugs and grass taste far different than from chickens raised on cheap feed.
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What I am saying is that for 3% of real use you sacrifice 5%+ performance for all other operations (all 100% of them) and make your future designs much more complex (not 5%).

IF you add overflow checking into hardware, you doing disservice to all your users. Pure and simple.

Hardware always evaluate everything. It is hard to get for software engineer, but it is true. The little overflow flag and scheme for its computation will sit there draining energy all the time.
AS a father of three adopted children I ask the same. Adoption is family even if they look different then your own skin they are family.
This conference is tightly tied into current politics.

If you want to keep politics of news.ycombinator then the obvious solution is to remove this post (or the comments section entirely).

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Edit:

What I'm trying to say is that taprun didn't introduce the topic, katm did. Why are you singling out taprun and not katm?
It is not just your health information. It is what you are doing.

It has a GPS and I suppose Wifi triangulation so they can track you outside and inside your house.

Are you running? climbing? walking?
Your heart rate goes up with a very specific pattern.

Are you making love with this thing on?
Also a clear heart rate pattern. If you remove this thing when you do it, it is also a very clear signal, normally you will put the device near you when you do, like on a table. Ohh, you know this thing has also a microphone?.

They can also track private conversations, like Snowden used to do in the NSA with smartphones. But smartphones use to be way farther than clockwatches to the mouth.

If you have a health problem, like a heart murmur, they also know, before you do.

Don't get me wrong. I would love to have something like this. But something I control, not someone else.
I think it's a useful concept. I guess my question would be: how is it different from hired.com or poachable.co or similar sites?
I know it's a trend, but that doesn't mean we need more stupid filter apps.
Grain-growing regions have grain, not food. Short term survival in oft-fantasized SHTF scenarios depends on easily accessible calories. A grain elevator full of maize is not accessible calories. Less so a cow. So while you're in the country trying to break in to a grain bin so you can chew on some raw millet, I'll be cowering (and crying) in my suburban basement waiting for the National Guard to set up a food distribution center close enough for me to fight my way to it with two mags of 9mm and a sharp stick.

See how absurd these discussions get?

BTW, I have family in a small Kansas town a with couple thousand people, four dipshit cops, roughly equal amounts of meth and ammo, and one giant grain elevator. If SHTF I bet you my mano&metate that they show up at my house in the city within days or weeks.