skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who found a bit of an interest in fountain pens some years ago, I understand and shared your penchant to go for super-premium when it comes to timeless items. I have bought the occasional $500 pen (Graf von Faber Castell and Caran d'Ache have a couple of very beautiful items), but after one of the more expensive pens suffered some scuffs from light use and a friend of mine broke another one's clip, I came to the conclusion that I have a tendency to, as they say, break shit. I enjoy using them. To me, the little marks in the pens' platinum-covered cap don't take away from their sentimental value, but if I were to ever try and sell them, I wouldn't hope to ever get my purchase price back. The same, I believe, holds true for watches. When I noticed I had lost my $30 Cadence in a Metro, I barely scoffed. Since I had liked the design, I had an identical backup at home. Losing a timeless super-premium $10k Omega, on the other hand would've been a more severe problem. The pens, the Rolex watch and many things like them will retain their value just fine -- if you never touch, use, or in any way enjoy them.

My initial comment went in exactly the same direction as yours on midrange "luxury" items, with the possible difference that I would consider an iPhone, the beats earphones or (to a lesser degree) the Tesla as the midrange pseudo-luxury choice. In my opinion, a large part of the retail price of each of those lies in the brand value and in the marketing done by those brands. As I view it, their prices are determined not by their cost or performance, but mostly on what the customers will pay. In my perception, the midrange choice (Shure Earphones, Nexus or -- as others mentioned -- Moto E/G, Jetta) more closely reflects the cost to manufacture the item. Their profit margins are slimmer and, more importantly, more consistent.

As a final point, my apologies to Kia. Being European I tend to stick to public transport, rarely drive, and if so, tend to get cars with a manual gearbox. I was going to go with Dacia (Renault's Low-End Brand, I believe) first, but couldn't tell how well-known they were in the States. I also was under the impression that VW's interior was considered to be of rather high quality while I have read some negative comments on Tesla's.
You are not nitpicking something I am not arguing. I'm happy with a VGA dongle.
I switched to webpack (the config is like ~100 loc) and it has replaced the need for a grunt or gulp file entirely.
I don't see the similarity with patientslikeme.com

Apple has created a UI toolkit to enable researchers to directly get data from participants via an app. All control is in the hands of the researcher creating the app.

And the app will be used for traditional research studies, the only difference is that participants enter data via their app.
Why not? Starbucks, Ikea, and Apple all target the same demographic.
Mashable?! I know it's last in the list, but come on. I can't take your list seriously now. Mashable... Ha.
Then it would be sold $1480...
At some point I had 5 Nokia phone and 4 Dell laptop ones, power adapter.
Why having an adaptor for VGA/HDMI/DVI/Display Port/USB/Ethernet/... shipped with all machines when all users probably won't need all but just one. This is a waste...
The data is from 2013, so by your calculation the person would have had to have made the $10MM in 1998. The stock market has not had 7% returns since then, and you haven't considered the impact of taxes and using part of the gains to fund a higher standard of living.

In addition, it was much harder to make $10mm before the .com era.
> What are some things a company like this could do to decrease dance-monkey-dance factor?

- Let players be paid by your clients to play for ~1 day.

- Introduce a non-game version that's a straight forward coding assessment.

- Make the game un-cheatable.

- Write into your contracts that you won't be the exclusive hiring funnel.

- Keep your clients confidential and don't let them mention your game in job ads (i.e., target people who just want to play a game).

Edit: I have to add, this does seem like a dance-monkey exercise and not something that an actual profession would have people do. My preferred hiring approach would just be contractor-for-a-day arrangements.
If you could tell us how to apply data analysis to produce a concrete number that represents the merits and talents of a fellow human being, I would love to hear it; it would make my job a lot easier. I didn't know that was possible. Is this some kind of linear algebra-y machine learning sort of thing?
How is the government certain that there is no conflict of interest here? She definitely holds google stock as an employee. Who is to say that doesn't bias her decision making?
> This is going to sound callous and compassion-free.

A good sign that you should check what comes next. Because it probably is callous.

> The average worker at Target is benefiting by continuing to get paid at all. They're also benefiting from the continued level of funding to city services from the tax revenue of tech.

Yeap, you are right: callous.

> The tech industry is one of the big reasons that SF didn't suffer economically as badly as many other big cities did.

One little problem with the hypothesis: non-tech workers have stagnant wages. So non-tech workers would have been better off with the tech industry shrinking so that housing prices would drop ( or at least flatten out ).
Pioneering Tech Blog GigaOm Is Shutting Down
On the flip-side this would be great advertisement information.
Interesting that the author claims that Kobalt "operates in a corner of the music business not normally considered to have much growth potential."

Anybody who knows the music business knows that publishing is the solid rock in the sea of chaos and change.

If I was investing in music publishing, Kobalt is the very first company I would approach - they are taking a modern approach to it, while a lot of others (Sony/ATV I'm looking at you) have a ways to go to get out of the paper-driven old school thinking.
I think the phrasing "in full" is important here. It implies that a debt was "called in" and thus something more political is at play. I don't think this means they couldn't pay their bills. I wonder if venture debt is involved.
Astroturfers need to have their internet privileges permanently revoked.
(1) People will die if they haven't already. Nuclear related deaths are drastically under-reported, because all governments try very hard to make nuclear look safe. When people die from Fukushima they will be reported dead from cancer and other diseases and not from the nuclear fallout. This may already be happening.

(2) Your argument about this being the worst case doesn't hold either. This is not nearly the worst case. I can think of many worse cases, such as a well educated and trained terrorist getting a job in a reactor.

In fact what happened in Fukushima is not particularly unlikely. What happened was something to be expected for a type of reactor that was built to last 40 years and was installed in an earthquake zone.
Why not say academics?
18k rolex gmt gold has about 5.3 oz of 18k gold, or about $4,700 worth. That's with full gold bracelet and body.

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc18/gaijinnv/Rolex18K_09...

I would be shocked if the most expensive Apple watch had more 2oz of 18k gold or roughly $1,750 in value.

Apple won't sell too many gold ones and they know it.
Senator Graham: “I don't email.”
Fixed link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin_%28file_manager%29
Don't be ridiculous, the written word is worthless. Nobody is going to visit a site that makes you read more then a paragraph.
Yes, populous Laughlin NV will be devastated, in the unlikely event that a new fault line opens under Hoover Dam and generates a 9.0 earthquake. I'll be less surprised the next time a nuclear plant located right on the Pacific gets hit by a tsunami.
I am thinking of the two 16GB DIMM setup, sorry.
It's so weird to me, because for me, it is absolutely the other way around. It's easy to break into computer systems. Put a single quote in the wrong place on enough web apps in a /19's worth of IP addresses and you will get in. What's interesting about security is the tour of functionality it takes you on. Security is an opportunity to crawl into the ventilation ducts, open the hatches, and directly tinker with the inner workings of hugely complex systems. It's a goal system that gives you a reason to do that, that points you in a coherent direction, that forces you to learn and retain otherwise random-seeming details, and rewards you with huge endorphin rushes to keep you going.

It doesn't even have to be competitive. It's just... fun.

Virtually everything I know about computer science I learned because of software security.

I don't think you need to care that much about security to benefit from a syllabus of exercises framed by security.
You are think of just technical books. You are in the tech/SF bubble.

How many tech books make it to the NYTimes best seller list? Zero. Or any best seller list? Zero.

Most books sold are not "knowledge books" - they are fiction, cookbooks, self-help, etc. I have fiction books from years ago that I still re-read on occasion. Which is not possible with DRMed ebooks.
I've never read anything that hints at nuclear-related deaths being underreported intentionally, though it appears hard to quantify the toll from catastrophic events. Can you point toward some sources?
interviews are broken enough that there is plenty of room in the space

Amen.
Az1z-Rush [Dance]Great and Chilled song
Wow, I hadn't thought of that. I wonder what the "compression" factor is for each orbit around the black hole.

Edit: Actually, I don't think you get any photons that do a full 360 degrees around the black hole that subsequently escape the black hole.
I don't think these are contradictory at all.

If you're largely sedentary, getting an hour of exercise per day doesn't counteract the fact that you've been sitting for 12 hours per day. [1]

Simultaneously, walking slowly all day does not burn many calories compared to a proper workout. But that's fine, because the goal of walking slowly all day is not to burn calories, but simply to keep you from sitting all day.

It seems to me the best approach is to simply do both.

[1] http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2091327
I thought they were on much more solid footing, considering the funding last year and the very strong talent in their ranks. For instance, Laura Hazard Owen is one of the best reporters covering the ebook industry.

This could be a sign of things to come for other online pubs once the funding runs out. Too much competition, too little in the way of sustainable revenue sources, and not enough AOL acquisition cash to go around.
It was more than just a massive earthquake. At 9.0, it was the 4th biggest quake recorded seismically, and the biggest in over 1000 years of Japanese history.
Is devops bull**?
It's not quite the same. The old Mac OS had a one to one mapping of open windows to directories in the filesystem. As I recall, you couldn't open two windows of the same directory, it would just bring the existing one to focus. Hence the term spatial, opening a folder wouldn't create duplicate windows, there is only ever one in existence.

EDIT: Article talking about it back during OS X 10.0 release http://archive.arstechnica.com/reviews/01q2/macos-x-final/ma...
I have had similar problems with my team, and I went with the "meta-project" approach. I created an external project with all default configs[1]. It works well-ish. Main complaint is speed, grunt really is dumb to not lazy load...

[1]: http://github.com/vtex/grunt-vtex
Well that was truly educational and helpful. Really.

Why are such useful things so incredibly obscure?
The 4g ipod touch was discontinued May 30, 2013. So, they've been selling it to customers as a new product on store shelves until less than two years go.
the modem noise is the opposite of what anyone ever wanted to hear, ever.

Speak for yourself. Not only is it music to a nerds ear, but it also provided useful information (line busy, handshake problem, connection speed, sysops mom picked up the phone) long before the modem itself would report back.
Raspberry Pi vs. Raspberry Pi 2 vs. Banana Pi Benchmarks
The origin story of this company is the application of exactly this process in a real business, to great effect.
Identical article posted by same user 3 hours later:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9174612
Sounds like good news. It's past due for that office to actually do something to prevent patent abuse and low quality patents.
---> VERY YES. <---
The thing is that the effect of such biases is hard to measure directly. Employers will get better employees than before, but may also miss more good employees than before, yet notice the former much sooner than the latter (which will have a delayed effect).

The best way to address it is to first measure for biases (run a demographic analysis on players), and second actively design for unselected populations with focus groups. I am sure some of this information has already been collected by game studios.
I think the desire to to figure out where a level playing field can be built within a neighborhood of aptitudes. And to be fair to a process of refinement for that goal, some problems can't be solved before you have them. Like a business plan, the initial draft is just a guess, and I think we can all agree that it's a heretofore unsolved problem, the gender thing.
I guess what sort of domains do people like to play around with in their own time? For games there's 3d rendering, physics and AI which seem fun (at least to me) but I'm not sure how to necessarily make fun challenges out of them.

For non-direct-games things fancier AI like deep learning, audio synthesis, making compilers/parsers/transpilers, math stuff like project euler, puzzle/board game solvers/bots (https://gist.github.com/christopherhesse/51e9baf0e3d440d8aff...) come to mind.

Some of the stuff in the 3rd stripe CTF was pretty interesting like making a search engine or dealing with distributed system consensus problems (raft).

Maybe using the coolest new framework is fun for some people, like a challenge could involve angular.js so you could get some experience using it without having to go full-on side project or put it in at work without having any real idea if you should.

Implementing things that you are familiar with but that you don't understand the internals of has been fun for me in the past (for instance like https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2015-02-20-lets-bui...). Maybe you always wondered how this thing works, and now you can figure it out and solve this challenge at the same time.
I have a Moto G, it's excellent. Ok the camera isn't fantastic, but it's fine for snaps.

I found myself finally out of an 18 month contract back in 2009 (Palm Treo 750v) and hung onto it for another year eventually biting the bullet and bought outright an unlocked vanilla HTC Desire for around GBP360 in early 2010.

Sadly wear and tear got the better of it in September 2014 and it wasn't behaving very well, but still not bad for a four year plus device that saw quite a bit of action.

After reading favourable reviews of the "G" I picked up a PAYG for GBP99. It's bloody brilliant for the money, it's also at a price point that if I do accidentally lose it, or drop it in the loo, a replacement isn't going to be an eye-watering expense. The only sad thing was that I managed to drop it in a carpark after owning it for only three days and cracked the upper LHS of the screen. My HTC would have just bounced, as it often did. However the "G" still works just fine.
Its not the same, but how much more do you think it is? 5x? 10x? Even if it is 20x, its still comparable to Germany and the US (40 vs 30). Certainly not to an extent that you can indict 600 million people as rapists, as this professor did.
How do you switch off almost eveything in the left hand pane?
Why have a power port on every adapter?
So far I'm not convinced that "new" MS is not coated old MS. When they'll stop patent aggression, lock-in and open standards subversion, I'll agree that they are new. So my first guess would be that MS won't like her heading USPTO.

Here is a recent patent trolling example by MS: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/microsoft-drops-p...
> they can't re-apply the thermal paste because they don't have the tool to do it anymore

They don't have the same screwdriver they use on the latest MacBook Airs, some alcohol wipes, and the same thermal grease they use on everything except today's MacBook? Try an Apple Authorized Service Provider – i.e. an independent shop that repairs Macs – they should be able to help you out.
Windows offers shell scripts as well. Powershell, instead of Bash/Zsh/..., but they still offer many of the same opportunities.

Considering that teams frequently homogenize on one type of machine - bet it windows or Mac or Linux, shell scripts are typically portable enough for these use cases.
You've made 3 comments in the thread saying "he didn't make the cut". Read the article please. He didn't make the cut because he was an Indian male. The professor didn't even discuss anything else - his grades, or his previous internships or his research interests.

Even the excuse she gave afterwards didn't say he lacked anything, just that she didn't have space in her lab.
I don't live in London since more than 4 years ago and still get mails from recruiters. Some of them, that I never contacted myself before.

At the end I decided to always answer asking me to remove me from their database and, if they don't answer me, I flag them as Spam.
The awesome Java PathFinder[1] (a model checker for Java) seems to be missing.

[1] http://babelfish.arc.nasa.gov/trac/jpf
My first gen Toshiba Chromebook ran the test 130 minutes without an error.
I obviously can't speak for the founders, but I suspect that if you're viewing this as a replacement for a technical phone screen, you might not be viewing it as intended.

Did you read Thomas' "The Hiring Post" which was at the top of HN a couple days ago?
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9175119

(That article contains the complete quote of this one.)
I am curious about a biz dev kind of thing, and it may be entirely too early to answer, but here goes:

"Contingent recruiting" has an extremely negative connotation to me. Quite literally, I have to constrain my bias when designing hiring pipelines to not throw recruiter backed resumes away. I understand that you are only taking the payment model, and are trying to undermine the business model, but have you run into any problems associating with the industry?

Or, more interestingly, have you encountered anyone on the consumer side (HR, C-Suite management, etc) that has pointed out a non-obvious advantage to typical contingent recruiting. I for one would love to hear why companies keep going back to that obviously terrible well.

I'm excited to see what comes of this.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9175119
They also removed a bunch of Pages features used by Powerusers. It used to be a reasonable substitute for Word.

I'm still on Pages 09 because I had a bunch of manuscripts made in that program. They don't format well in Pages 13. I'm going to keep using Pages 09 until Apple forces its obsolesence.

Probably will look at Word instead since they seem committed to stability and the ability to actually do real work on a computer.
Research labs have limited space, therefore they select candidates similarly to any job.

I can't imagine anyone here would have the same response if a startup were hiring two Senior Developers, considered many candidates and then got hate mail from some guy claiming that the ONLY reason he wasn't selected was because of his race.
I don't understand your point. I've worked with mediocrity far too often in the programming world, and outright incompetence as well. These kinds of contests/games are designed to weed that out.

If you're talking about the "winners" having personality issues, then hopefully that will be caught in the interview process.

Perhaps I'm completely missing your point though.
Actually, Intels behavior with the FDIV bug was originally anything but good. They downplayed the bug and refused to recall them. Then they started offering replacements if you could prove that the bug affected you.

It wasn't until the whole thing turned into a giant PR disaster that they started a generous exchange program. That whole affair is basically the reason that Intel is much more forthcoming with errata these days.
Artificial Photosynthesis Takes a Step Forward
Personally, I use mc since I grew up with Windows and mc is a great little curses Commander clone.

Path Finder is a good Finder alternative but despite its nifty use case features I can't justify a license for it. Especially when i'm already using mc or CLI-fu.
Salary for Founders of a Broke Startup
I know that Y Combinator recommends that startups pay their founders to avoid legal hiccups later (Lecture 18 from How to Start a Startup) - but what about startups that are side projects with no investment? Is it still legally required to pay the founders? Do the founders have to loan money to the startup so that it can pay them?
If you search "shortcuts for Finder" in your preferred search engine, this is one of the first that will be listed.
What kind of pleb prefers bash over zsh?
I would be very interested in a blog post on this
There's a lot of distaste for make as well, typically centered on the limitations of the dependency and .PHONY targets.

I rarely find them to be limitations for my projects, but there's certainly a reason so many different build systems have been built, even for Linux.
Check out Laravel Elixer[0]. It's built on top of gulp and exposes a very simple SDK for compiling the various parts of your app.

[0]: http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/elixir
On a OSX, when I two finger click(touchpad) on the Desktop, I get the context menu that shows "New Folder" right at the top.
For those curious: Exhaust velocity is linearly related to impulse per fuel mass, so if you double the exhaust velocity, you double the engine's total impulse (force*burn time).
Would you call a professional athlete who works out for two to three hours a day sedentary? They spend 21 hours a day resting and recuperating from working out.

"It has been established that the average world class athlete trains approximately 23 hours a week. Interestingly, the average athlete in America trains approximately 12 hours a week." (3h/day)

Source: google first result
...which still requires you to mail floppy disks or CD-ROMs containing one Excel spreadsheet file in order to update your customer number. See http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewIC?ref_nbr=201209-06....

...and has no static URLs for patent applications.

...and just gave a contract for $800K to a company with no experience, that lied about its incorporation date (it was in business for eight days), and that has produced no product for the USPTO thus far after months, causing at least two other bidders (myself included) to protest formally. See http://www.gao.gov/products/B-410658.

The USPTO does a lot of things, and some of them well, but IT is not one of them.
I agree, API authentication is poorly documented. Good that these examples are useful to you.
You might check out GoToShell: http://zipzapmac.com/Go2Shell
Why is that better in your opinion?
data integrity clearly didn't win market share

It requires more expensive, compatible DRAM right? Knowing that, it shouldn't really be super surprising. Enabling it on die is just one piece of the equation.
Same here, I used to read it but not much so in the last couple of years, probably ever since I started to read on HN.
I believe it's the manner in which these colonies are failing. CCD doesn't have the same appearance as outright insecticide application, thus the research.
The dream of declarative programming