skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This fits right in line with my prediction [1] that we're all overestimating the amount of gold in the enclosure and that it's going to be cheaper than the high estimates. I'm still thinking $2,499 max. Can't wait to see what comes out on Monday.

[1]: https://twitter.com/newFosco/status/569407140151959555
I think 10% of these animations look cool AND actually don't harm experience, but the rest are just confusing. These morphing animations just distract users with something that shouldn't be the focus. There are too many apps that try to make "pretty design" and they don't realize those pretty design and animation are what distracts users from the actual value the app provides. Even in cases where an app has these pretty designs and are working well, it's because the app is useful, not because the design is pretty.
In the 5 minute interview video, he mentions that the most exciting uses for math are learned in college and that grade school math is very dry because the students don't see what it can be used for. However, the article says that his focus is on pure math, which doesn't necessarily lend itself immediately to real world application.

I'm wondering what his opinion is on how to encourage a love for studying abstract/pure math in spite of not seeing how it can be applied immediately.
Rubocop is an absolute pleasure to work with, but it also helps that the ruby community seems to have a more widely-agreed upon style guide than other communities (Javascript comes to mind). There are similar tools for Javascript, and I imagine many of them are configurable as well to cover most use cases. But with the diversity of Javascript style guides and the lack of cohesiveness in the js community, it seems unlikely that many of these would be as useful as rubocop 'out-of-the-box'.

It would be amazing if a similar static code analysis tool existed with settings to conform to the most popular javascript style guides: npm, idiomatic, jQuery, etc. But even within these style guides there is a lot of 'undefined behavior', or situations that aren't explicitly described in the guides.
How many grams of pure gold do you think will go into each watch?
...while paying more to produce the composite vs. what they'd pay to make an alloy. Still, I wanted to see what numbers are:

http://www.ebay.com/gds/How-Much-Gold-Is-Really-In-A-Rolex-W...

We see that the golden Rolex has most of the weight in the bracelet and I haven't seen the "full gold" bracelet on the Apple site. The body of the golden Rolex apparently has cca 2 thirds of the golden ounce of pure gold, which is at the moment not more than 700 USD. If Apple can save a half of it, it's around 350 USD saved, not counting the higher expense to make a composite which would reduce the saving.

Now if we accept Gruber's guess that the most expensive watch will be priced in the order of 10 K USD, compared to all the profits per unit, it doesn't seem to be a big percent. But if we factor the expected number of the items sold it's not something that should be ignored. Still I can imagine that they could have simply made a body with the steel "reinforcement" inside and nobody would blink.

I sure expect somebody will properly tear down the Apple Watch Edition to measure the exact amount of gold. If Archimedes managed to do this 2 millenniums ago, why wouldn't we?
At first, it will be free micro-lessons.
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This is awesome. I'm imagining a fluffy UX/design conversation being replaced by a proof.
Having a few example gifs would be nice for showing what learning linux using animated gifs means.
I give you that with very high motivation you can find out anything about anyone, more or less. I still think that the count of employers who would use such measures is miniscule compared to the count of employers who check felony records (because it's easy).

Additionally, according to this paper(1) around 8.6% of people have a felony conviction in the US. I have a hard time believing that all - or even most - of this felonies get reported by a newspaper/Google, so even for very noisy employers this seems to be a small risk (yes, if you are the "Slaughterer of <some town>" people will probably find you on Google even without a public felony record).

All else given: Start with removing access to felony convictions, then remove access to credit information and go from there. I didn't say it was easy, but at the moment the government (in the US) seems to do its best to make the life of people who have been convicted of a felony very hard.

(1) http://paa2011.princeton.edu/papers/111687
There is an example gif on landing page.
Not sure... I saw estimates that it would contain ~$1,500 worth of gold, and I'm speculating it's closer to ~$1,000.
I think the choice of pattern depends a lot on what you are building and how much and how often you will need to change it.
> The government could disallow access to all felony records (probably with an exemption for police) and even (if it wanted) provide people with a fake background story for the time they were in prison. Discrimination can only be based on things someone else knows, if the government didn't provide the information, how could the employers be "picky"?

No.

We have this system because that is what people want. Maybe not you, but clearly the majority.

Employers can be legally responsible for crimes their employees commit.

If you employ someone who has been found guilty of a sexual assault crime and hire them to work at a carnival where they assault someone, you will be sued.

You don't have to like it, but the reality is that the US is a country where the majority of the public wants to be able to know when someone committed a serious crime.
This is starting to pick up steam in the node community, and represents the coding style of a vast percentage of core and popular npm modules: https://github.com/feross/standard

It's not configurable, is a drop-in executable tool and supports a --format option which will attempt to reformat your code. To me it seems to be inspired by gofmt.
There was no Windows 93. 95 was the first release named after a year.
Post-Diablo, and it never got to a point where I deployed it at scale and found issues: it flunked out before that.

Haven't tried ceph, although I look at it every few years. It sounds promising but it also sounds really complicated to setup and administer.
Oh I see, the font in the gif appeared very small on my Firefox browser on LinuxMint on desktop display. I didn't think to View Image until you mentioned it upon which it became readable. Scratch my previous suggestion.
Though that's probably mitigated to an extent by many employers not bothering to check.
It's common in math to get theorems that prove existence without giving any explicit examples (nonconstructive proofs). A big research area is coming up with efficient ways to construct such examples.
I might have missed it, but that seems to clarify how they beat Keurig's lawsuit re: the cups themselves, but not the Freedom Clip.
Although ironically in Australia we would say something like "he is good at sport", whereas in the US it would be "good at sports".
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This reminded me of a short story I read, called Light Of Other Days, written by Bob Shaw.

Instead of black holes or other massive objects, he used a concept called "slow glass" - glass in which light takes years to pass.

Obviously, though, you'd had to have panes of slow glass in front of the scenes from life 6000 years ago...
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This style of video is the future of marketing, though I would tone (ha!) it down a bit. It is like a personal brand for a corporation, giving a soft persona to a logo and a product.

Another, absolutely brilliant move by Ableton was to host a MOOC, https://www.coursera.org/course/abletonlive
What Startups can learn from the Mittelstand
> In Netflix' case, this doesn't even count their vast replicated CDN infrastructure between your device and S3.

There is part of your answer. They only pay S3 outbound on cache misses, not on cache hits. That will lower their S3 bandwidth bill to 1/50th or 1/100th of the full cost.

Also, Netflix doesn't pay list prices for AWS, and they made a call that they wanted to be fully cloud based early in the streaming service's life. Maybe they would do it differently today, but that ship has obviously sailed for them.

On the other hand, lots of large AWS hosted services do discover that they need to move off in order to get their costs right; I have quite a bit of first hand experience there.

> Glacier

Costs and time to retrieve data from Glacier are quite different, and I would only use it for data that I basically never expect to access. A service like Backblaze couldn't use Glacier in reality, despite being a service for backups.

> Bargain basement drive arrays

On the contrary, I think that building it yourself with basic hardware building blocks is much more common at large scale Internet companies. A less technical or more appliance driven company might choose NetApp or EMC, but I don't think it's the right move for somewhere with some in-house expertise. It's the right move if you want more of a black box that you hope will work without much internal effort (hint: it won't work out that way).
Wikipedia calls this a "vacancy chain"

> In a vacancy chain, a new resource unit that arrives into a population is taken by the first individual in line, who then leaves his/her old unit behind, this old unit is taken by a second individual, leaving his/her old unit behind, and so forth

Neat!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacancy_chain
Kamcord is looking for an iOS Engineer who loves mobile games
It's just their build system and S3 setup that's broken. I make Pentadactyl builds nightly for anyone who wants to use them, located here[0].

[0]: https://www.rylee.me/~rylee/dactyl-builds/
Really? It is much more likely that it was bought with an offical police purchasing department credit card directly from the carrier. For them, it isn't illegal, and governments control cash pretty tightly.
How to survive a tech job
It appears that Apple is making gold better - amazing.

What is the desirability of gold? It is the essence of the metal or the appearance? If apple is able to improve the essence of the metal and improve the longevity of the appearance - I say it's a win.
"Good" is inherently normative. Nothing can be "good" exterior to a normative claim. This is in contrast with "positive" statements, which are true regardless of anything happening to perceive them that way or not. The original vaccine, if it exists in a vacuum, is neither good nor bad, because there is nothing else to attach the normative claim to it.

Further - and while this is an entirely normative claim - if you would happen to agree that if you could save 1,000,000,000 lives by torturing one person for 5 seconds, that you should do so, then I would argue that torture is not inherently evil within your own normative value system.
jsonx comes with a schema, so you can validate it and mix it with other xml if you namespace it. I actually see nothing wrong with jsonx if you're moving json data in and out of a system that natively uses XML. Some people need that stuff. Ten years ago I was working on a system that required me to format data as an APL data file because that's what format the the system expected data in.
Shellsort :D
Reminds me of the wast difference in style, topics and tone between western and Eastern Bloc SCiFi writers.

I wonder if Chinese authors also try to criticise regime and socio-political system they live in under the veil of scifi, like Janusz Zajdel in Poland during Russian occupation.
Glad to know I'm not the only one who clicked on the defrag button first.
It's just their build system that's broken -- the code itself is fine; and works with the latest Fx. I'm using Firefox 36.0.1 right now with the builds I publish. The source is pulled and the extensions built every single night at midnight CST. Builds are located here[0].

[0]: https://www.rylee.me/~rylee/dactyl-builds/
Well dang... that is interesting and not what I expected. So from this I can infer that it also changes if a symbol is garbage collected now. So has the implementation of Object.send changed in Ruby 2.2+ as well? The latest copy of the code I have looked at is 1.9.3.
Three points that seem to say that the
girls/women should do well in information
technology:

(1) Advantages.

As I recall from K-12, college, and more,
in several respects of talent,
interest, diligence, psychology,
socialization, etc., the girls/women
(girls here and below) are, on average,
significantly better than the boys/men
(boys here and below). So, the girls
have some significant advantages.

Of course, coding, information technology,
computing, etc. consist of "clean indoor
work, no heavy lifting".

With those advantages and the nature of
the work, it would appear that any girls
who want to do well in coding, etc. have
a good shot, often better than that of the
boys.

(2) Evaluation.

How to evaluate the girls?

As in the OP, is it important for the
girls to wear pretty, feminine clothes
versus nerd wear of worn jeans and
T-shirts?

No. The main issue is getting the work
done.

When I was a student, it seemed that the
girls got graded on their work, not their
clothes; when I was a professor giving
grades, again the only issue for a grade
was the work. Thus, it seems to me that,
in the world of work in information
technology, the easy, natural, obvious
approach is just to evaluate the work,
ignoring clothing, gender, etc.

(3) Writing.

In computing, we need to build on the work
of others, but to do so we need a good
description of that work. That is, we
need good documentation.

Thus, to me, currently the main bottleneck
to progress in information technology is
bad documentation from poor writing.
Since in school on average the girls were
better at writing than the boys, I have to
believe that girls can be quite welcome
and do well improving the quality of the
writing and, thus, help alleviate the
bottleneck.

If my startup works, then I will have to
hire, and I will expect a person who does
some work will also write the relevant
documentation. Here the girls should have
an advantage.
For what it's worth, she describes herself as "bitchy software engineer. doing what i can to smash the patriarchy." in her Twitter bio.

I'd take whatever she says with a grain of salt.
I'd describe myself as that too, if I'd quit Google last year after being sexually harassed and watching my company turn against me.
So every time there is an HR dispute it is news worthy? Let the lawyers settle this.
OK. I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking "XML based syntax? Get out of here..."

Given the widespread distaste for "XML overreach" (XLST, SOAP and other 'enterprise-isms') can someone sell this to me?
Trash incinerators run under strict scrubbing regulations.
The OP was referring to the US when he said "The world doesn't give a shit what America does".

The OP also is obviously incapable of knowing what "the world" gives a shit about.

I guess he's bitter because he can't get a job doing remote RoR work, but obviously nobody in the US would hire him with that attitude.
you will like this too I guess:

http://lygte-info.dk/

:)
Part 2: Skills and education
These experiments look very similar in concept to many of Google's material design animation principles (http://www.google.com/design/spec/animation/responsive-inter... and http://www.google.com/design/spec/animation/meaningful-trans...)
https://twitter.com/justkelly_ok/status/574248445780733954

A compliment alone should not constitute sexual harassment, that would be total madness. However with the other stories she tells I understand why she included this.

Nevertheless this got me thinking: could we consider overly sexy looks a form of harassment too? (Unrelated to the specific story; I'm sure she didn't intentionally try to attract her bosses' attention.)

As a male, the mere presence of an overly sexy woman can put me in a state similar to fear: rising heart rate, mild trembling, goosebumps, inability to concentrate on whatever I was doing (talking to someone or doing work) etc.
Gunslinger Day: Zombie
While this video is of course a giant job ad, it's still pretty interesting - Ableton seems like a great company and Live is an outstanding product. Really, even if music production isn't anything you'd see as a hobby for yourself, Live and Max might still offer lots of fun and a welcome change of setting for any curious developer.
"Nearly always" adds a lot of ambiguity. Perhaps this is one of the cases in which it is cheaper.
With the amount of unicorns in 2014 (68) and more coming online, I personally find it difficult to remember that VC isn't the only route to global niche dominance. I hope more entrepreneurs and funders embrace alternate funding sources for "lifestyle companies".
But if about half the people in the world are female and there are more male than female developers, then isn't it safe to assume that the likelihood of a random male being a developer is going to be higher than that of a random female?
For people not familiar with it, Ableton is an astonishing piece of content-creation software. When it came out it felt revolutionary in terms of speed, solidity and cleanliness of the UI.
Seriously, lol. Just wow.
>>A compliment alone should not constitute sexual harassment, that would be total madness.

That definitely depends on the compliment; exactly what attribute about the person you're complimenting.....
I don't currently have access to an install of Illustrator but I'd be very interested to see some sample output.
Agreed! It sure feels like HAL (https://henryherz.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/05-robots-hal....)

I thought there was a similar style in Star Trek: The Original Series, but while they had card-loaded computers, it wasn't as an array of cards. Their hardware idiom is more like http://tosgraphics.yuku.com/topic/409/The-Type7-Console-Comp...

ST:TNG has an example at http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/images/b/bd/... but I suspect it was more directly derived from HAL than a 1960s era computer.
I'm not a fan of saying we should "take whatever she says with a grain of salt". It's casually dismissive of the entire situation.

If you want to accuse her of having fabricated the entire story, do that and try to find evidence for it. From the limited evidence provided surrounding this incident, there seems to be a fair amount of evidence supporting her.

Declaring oneself "bitchy" and wanting to "smash the patriarchy" does not mean you are inclined to quit your job and falsely call out several members of your former team.
As a male, I don't really have that reaction. I'm not really sure that people's personal reactions to their own work environment ought to be called "harassment," and I think "inability to do your job" is probably closer to the right term.

I can sympathize with that reaction for, like, deadlines. I do get a rising heart rate and an inability to concentrate on my work, as a tight deadline approaches and I'm behind on things. I don't think that banning deadlines from the workplace is really the right answer. I'd rather just acknowledge that I'm bad at my job if I let this problem continue, and I should figure out a way to deal with this personal problem, if I want to keep my job.
The move Growl plays every sound in the game once- this is hilarious.
Can 50-somethings rekindle that old startup magic
How to Handle Job Failures
Showing up to work naked is already considered grounds for reprimand. If you can't be around a clothed woman without breaking down mentally just because she is clothed in a certain way, that is your problem.
I wonder if a Silicon Valley tech company would care about drug related convictions. I don't think possession/distribution/etc. alone would really be an issue (except if it were extremely recent and potentially ongoing), but clearly "I was high and raped/killed my neighbor" would, and either could arguably be "drug related". "Was an addict and broken into cars to get money for drugs" would be a more interesting corner case; nonviolent property crime. I think "in the past" for sufficiently large values of past might be fine.
> The axe against ex-cons is an ingrained bias that hurts competitiveness. It is an unfortunate 'reality' that it is a bias that is tolerated in America today.

I agree. I think it is the misperception that these people are risky hires. I believe employers are very nervous about liability and simply disregard anyone that may pose a potential risk (bad credit, arrest record).
> nearly always

Maybe not if you're Apple. It could cost them less to go through a complex yet highly optimized manufacturing process than to buy more gold.
At that point, how s it different from a Senseo?

As a matter of fact, why would you want a Keurig over a Senseo if all you're ever going to make is plain coffee?
Keurig does not appear to have any intellectual property claims to the ink used. At least not yet.
>I'd take whatever she says with a grain of salt.

If you mean this universally, then you are not in favor of law enforcement, at least how it is carried out in the modern world.
Pentadactyl's ("5digits"?) build system is broken, and they haven't released a stable version recently. I publish my own personal builds from the unmodified source at this location[0], if you're interested.

[0] https://www.rylee.me/~rylee/dactyl-builds/
Completely agree. I'm not that tuned into the marketing industry at the moment, but have wondered for a while why we haven't seen more news organizations branching into marketing.

I can see that there would probably be concerns with conflicts of interest, etc. But if done right (ie. keeping the marketing branch separate but connected) I think it would be a great match.

My reasoning? Companies don't just want commercials anymore. They want their story told. Who are better equipped to research and tell a comprehensive story than journalists?
Gruber's guess is still just a guess. I'm inclined to side with Marco Arment, who thinks Apple is going for more of a $5k-ish price.
> If you can't be around a clothed woman without breaking down mentally just because she is clothed in a certain way, that is your problem.

Yes, thank you. The whole "I'm a victim of being attracted to pretty people" schtick has gone quite far enough. You're an adult in a place of business, try acting like it.
From what I read about zAAP and zIIP, they're not actually hardware accelerators like a DSP or a purpose built processor, rather they're a way to reduce the cost of running specific workloads on a mainframe, and IBM markets them that way[1].

The zIIPs themselves seem to be standard z processing units that have been loaded with microcode that prevents them from doing anything other than run the workloads they were purchased for[2]. Adding (or activating/licensing) a general processing unit instead would get you the same "acceleration", but it would cost more due to the way IBM structures mainframe pricing.

They know you can't use these zIIP licensed processors for general processing tasks, so they don't charge you as much for them upfront, and they don't count for software licensing charges in other ways.

Nothing quite like this exists in the x86 world, but it does remind me a little of the time when AMD/Intel were selling 1/2/3 core CPUs that technically had 2/4 cores in the package, with the extras intentionally disabled to create CPU models for a specific market price point, or because they didn't work properly when tested at the fab. I still have a motherboard here that can enable the disabled cores on certain AMD processors (with a warning in the BIOS that they may not actually work).

[1] http://ibmdatamag.com/2013/04/performance-and-capacity-consi...

[2] http://www.itjungle.com/big/big013106-story01.html
Just what I was thinking. Apple operates at such a ludicrous scale, they can do things that are unimaginable for other manufacturers.