skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a phone story but...I was in the market for a new portable DAB radio for the kitchen, I also needed one that I could plug my Android into and play podcasts. I'd previously been stung by paying £160 for a "quality" brand (Roberts) only to become less satisfied with it over the years (I'm a wee bit of an audiophile) plus it didn't even have an AUX input. I'd also auditioned Pure and Revo models but couldn't really audibly detect that they were worth the extra money - getting something with an AUX input seems to mean hitting the premium model price ranges.

To cut a long story short I ended up with a "Sandstrom" SDABXRW13 which is PC World (UK)/Dixon's own brand. Ok, it's not a total Shit-Brand but you all know the sort of thing, built-to-a-retail-price but passing itself off as some fancy Scandinavian make, often ending in disappointment after getting it home.

This is it here:

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/tv-dvd-audio/audio/radios/sand...

The reality is that it's a well built, fairly decent sounding portable DAB radio and has exactly the same features I needed as an equivalent Pure, Roberts or Sony, which was going to cost me at the time £80-100 more. It doesn't have tone/eq controls but neither did many of the more expensive brands and to be honest it I mostly only listen to spoken word radio and podcasts, that said BBC Radio 6 sounds just fine.

I've had this unit for three months now and would happily recommend over a prestige brand leader.
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(I'm the author of Vivid)
Euterpea has a high-level music language and FRP framework that Vivid doesn't (yet). On the other hand, from conversations with a developer of Euterpea, Vivid is probably far more performant for real-time. Because of its performance and design goals, Vivid is also much more suited to live performance (in my opinion).

You could say Euterpea is like writing a classical score to Vivid's rock band.

They aren't at all incompatible though, and I'd be excited to see Euterpea <-> Vivid interop.
If you look at the image of geodesics he shows an example of an almost 360 degree trajectory. Simple continuity arguments allow you to conclude you can have an arbitrary number of rotations, I believe.

I would conjecture the contraction is roughly exponential, there's no obvious contradiction with that but it's way over by knowledge to check it ...
I don't remember coming across any research proving causation over correlation.

From a quick Google search, there are a couple news articles (with direct links to the journal articles) about extra-curricular exercise not removing harms (which is all I meant to note in my OP):

- http://qz.com/223160/why-not-even-exercise-will-undo-the-har...

- http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/21/health/sitting-will-kill-you/
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Moscovitz did not say that employee #100 made $200M at FB. Read the article. First, this was an overly simplistic analysis. It assumes a strike price of $0.00... Which never happens, and certainly wouldn't have happened by the time FB hit 100 employees. It assumes full vesting. It assumes no lockup on liquidity. It assumes no dilution from exiting... which, in the real world, never happens.

You can actually see how much money FB's top shareholders were worth at their IPO. Very, very few employees made over $10M. TEN. Before tax.

A lot of people front in SF / the Bay Area. Very, very few are worth over $30M in liquid net worth.
This is sad, and not entirely unexpected. Look for a large number of websites to go under just like Gigaom.

Oddly enough, the reason these folks are failing is that Google's CPC (the money they get for an advertising "click") has gone down Year over Year for the last 13 quarters. What that means is that if your web site depended on advertising from Google (and most do), and your traffic remained constant, you have seen a 33% drop in gross revenue over that same period. Google doesn't call out their click fraud numbers, but they do improve their ability to detect it over time, which means your "quality" click through rate has been going down as well, for a double whammy. So unless you can improve volume, you die. In their Q4 report[1] they make this note:

Network paid clicks, which include clicks related to ads served on non-Google properties participating in our AdSense for Search, AdSense for Content, and AdMob businesses, decreased approximately 11% over the fourth quarter of 2013 and decreased approximately 7% over the third quarter of 2014.

A third less advertising revenue on a 11% fewer clicks over all? Serious pain.

As of the fourth quarter, Google also mentions it is paying nearly a billion dollars a quarter ($968M) to get search traffic. If you're a GigaOm and your traffic is already generating less revenue and fewer clicks are getting through, you can't really add insult to injury by paying people to send you traffic.

[1] http://investor.google.com/earnings/2014/Q4_google_earnings....
If you haven't seen it before, check out https://projecteuler.net/ which is a series of (very) loosely connected programming challenges.

The challenges start mostly bite-sized and typical programming problems (think fizzbuzz or "what is the 100th prime") and grow into some really interesting areas. You use whatever language(s) you wish, with no time limit, and are free to skip around to whichever questions interest you (or just do them in order... whatever you like)

I find it fun. You might too.
It's never legally required to pay the founders. The founders' equity, which should be vesting over time, can be considered their only compensation. Be forewarned that this can still lead to massive tax pains later on if an 83(b) election isn't filed[1].

No matter how broke you are, you should be able to find a lawyer who can help you get set up. You can use the same founding documents, amendments, and appendices for your future bootstrapped ventures, so it's worth doing it right.

Some firms will take equity in exchange for legal work, so that's also something to consider. I've never used a firm like that, so I don't know how that all works.

A dangerous and extremely common side effect of doing your own legal work is in-fighting with co-founders. When you have rock-solid, thorough founding documents, you've already agreed on what to do for an exhaustive list of contingenies: what happens if someone wants to leave, if someone isn't pulling their weight, if someone dies, etc. etc. My founding docs are about 50 pages.

It's extremely important that you set everything up right, and it shouldn't cost you more than $1,500. I've known firms that will give you a boilerplate package for your particular state for about $500, so shop around.

1. http://www.startupcompanylawyer.com/2008/02/15/what-is-an-83...
Thanks for your well thought reply to my regrettably snarky comment. I agree with you on many points, particularly how companies need to be smarter about qualification.

But yes, this post does seem to directly correlate, in timing and in content, to Patrick's Hiring Post. I'm surprised to see you say this is not your response to that, especially considering that it addresses many of the questions we should ask ourselves as outlined in The Hiring Post (namely consistency, data, and the idea of one being a “natural”).

Also the post itself is linked in the statement:

>We’re not here to fix the technical interview: we’re here to destroy it, and create something new and better in its place.

I disagree with the fact that outreach is a problem in recruiting. There is an entire industry of companies and teams created for the very purpose of reaching out to software developers for their skills. How many of us reading this thread get multiple recruiter emails a week?

Are the recruiters effective? Maybe or maybe not, but I (who am apparently one of seemingly only few) just don't feel that a competitive game needs to add itself as another middleman in the realm of software recruiting with the intent of "destroying the technical interview."
Obviously, I don't have all the information to make an informed opinion. Also, IANAL. No cash to pay salaries might be indicative that its time to shutdown or at least seriously contemplate doing so.
row access counters in memory controller would solve this problem - too many accesses between refresh cycles -> force refresh cycle for that particular row/potentially affected rows
It looks like employment is prohibited under a visitor visa. Even the "business visa" subcategory (B-1) only allows you to do things like "consult with business associates" (this seems to mean something like having a meeting with foreign employees of your company, not consulting for hire) or attend a conference.

http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/visit/visitor....
Can't pass the mention of "do you know your revenue per mile": http://walkingworking.com/english/do-you-know-your-average-r...

6000 km is a lot of walking.
It's not just insecure, this is memory that doesn't work 100% like memory should.

I use MemTest86+ on every stick of DRAM I buy - if there's even a single error, it goes back as defective. The fact that this memory seems to work for most access patterns doesn't excuse the fact that it is completely broken for others, because good memory should be able to store any data and maintain its integrity for any access pattern.

Unfortunately even MemTest86+ is not exhaustive, as I found out while troubleshooting a very strange issue: a specific file in a specific archive would unpack with corrupted bits (and an "archive damaged" message) on a coworker's computer, but on half a dozen other machines would be fine. A hash of the file matched, so HDD-based corruption was ruled out. His machine passed an overnight run of MemTest86+ perfectly and AFAIK unpacking no other archives would yield corruption. He reported never getting any crashes - but yet, that one file in that archive would fail to unpack correctly.

It would always corrupt in the same strange way. On a whim, I decided to swap the RAM out and the problem went away. Even the "bad" stick seemed to work fine in other machines with the same model of CPU and mobo running the same OS and unpacking the same archive, but with his extremely specific combination of hardware and software, would always fail. That experience taught me that bad RAM can be extremely difficult to troubleshoot.

This isn't like other storage technologies e.g. SSDs where their finite lifespan and sensitivity to access patterns is well-documented. It's a case of claiming to sell memory while giving consumers a close approximation of one that completely breaks in some situations. I think it needs to be treated like the FDIV bug.
They are all clones of the DOS and later Windows software called Norton Commander.

Yes, I even have a copy of the Windows version of the original Norton Commander.

I used version 2.0 of NC in DOS 3 and version 3 in DOS 5.

I still miss the embedded viewing with Ctrl-Q that midnight commander is missing.

And I still prefer NC over TC, because it was so consistent.
I find that it actually helps my concentration a bit to be able to stop typing and just walk for a bit when I'm thinking about something, but I'm a pacer to start with. When I'm actually typing I don't notice it much; it's only a major impediment when I'm doing a lot of mouse work.

It's audible but not noisy. I'm in a cubical environment where most people have headphones on all day and my coworkers immediately surrounding me can hear it with headphones off but those with one cube in between cannot.
There is an enormous difference between paper money and real, liquid money. There is an enormous difference between the headline price an investor invests at, with all their Preferred rights, and what an employee can actually cash out at.

There are very, very few cash exits of $1B+ in any given year. And far less than the majority of those have rights that allow employees, or even founders, to cash out at, for example, the sky high initial IPO market cap pop price.
I've seen YouTubers complaining about this too. One I follow (who has over 2m subscribers) says his views are up strongly in the past year (as in over 50% more) but his income has fallen by a third.
> Stack tracing? Procmon? Miserable understanding of DNS and networking, what's a /24?

I'm primarily a developer, but I'd love to understand networking/low-level OS concepts like these in greater detail. Every time I start with a tutorial, I just get overwhelmed with how much I don't know — is there a book you'd recommend for a developer getting into devops (advanced networking, low-level OS architecture, configuring a machine from scratch, etc.)?
As long as they will show "we have deleted 100K bot accounts a day since a year" they wont. No one will blame them for not inventing "foolproof" or workable spam filter, even if it is for small team of security engineers.
All they need is some number of abusive accounts to ban, so statistics are right.
You are quoting journalists and politicians. Not nuclear engineers.
I don't think this conversation is about any obviously vile behavior. In fact, this conversation has gone much past TFA into a much more nuanced and interesting discussion. I'm sorry if you missed that in the sea of text.

From what I understand from @camgunz replies, "unless you know that person well enough to do so" is not an acceptable exception in @camgunz mind. I specifically said I'm not talking about cat-calling strangers or anything remotely obviously offensive.

Recall the starting point, with my claim that telling a colleague, "You look amazing in that ___, like a rock star." is not harassment. To which @camgunz replied that women can't be complemented the same way as men, and "many women view comments on their appearance as demeaning and threatening".

My point was, in the workplace, between colleagues, and forget about the specific person being indited in these tweets, can you pay a colleague a complement? I think emphatically, why yes you can. I almost can't believe I'm having the argument.
Code with encryption isn't very useful to people who live in countries where encryption is forbidden, does that mean I shouldn't write code with encryption?
"Nuclear disasters have more staying power."

Not really.

And no, spreading FUD like "Eludium P-38 has a half-life of umpteen bazillion years" doesn't actually make it more dangerous. "Longer half-life" = "less radioactive". By definition.
What insight? I don't see anything new on that page.
(Not OP, but answering with MHO)

Couple reasons:

1. It preserves the metaphor of your desktop being a place where you can directly manipulate your files and folders. On early Mac versions, the Finder "was" your files, it wasn't just "a browser for" your files. That metaphorical consistency is very important for building a good UI, but products these days have gotten so complex that most of them lose it.

2. It prevents you from getting into a situation where you've opened up a bunch of Finder windows, navigated through them, and then find that they're all pointing at your home directory again. Ironically, the reason Steve Jobs gave for the new MacOS X finder was that the old one popped open a bunch of windows that you'd have to manually "garbage collect", but I feel like I'm garbage-collecting a lot more on MacOS X than on System 7. The reason is because on System 7, the Finder window I had open was a natural extension of my current task and I just closed it when I was done with the task, while in MacOS X, I just usually have one or two windows open and then periodically feel like they're a distraction that's getting in my way.
I think that is not true. I came to realize that most difficult social and environmental problems occur because of a set of causes acting in combination. Most of the time, when a problem has a single cause it is possible to fix it easily. However, with many important problems it is so hard to find a solution exactly because so many of these causes have to be addressed at the same time.
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ATW, the area has a population of about 100,000.

There are about 360 million people living downstream of the Three Gorges Dam.
Professors have tons of leadership experience. They direct their own labs (attracting + allocating resources), train future leaders (graduate students + postdocs), collaborate with other labs, communicate their work to a general audience.... and so on. A tenured professor is also unbiased, in principle.

The academic world doesn't get the credit it deserves.
You could, but I much prefer more expressive tools. Make's DSL is spectacularly crappy.
"Your current rate is: $1.00.

Senders will be charged $1.33 per email, and you'll receive $0.70 per email."

The pricing/return is confusing. So my rate is $1USD but i only get $0.70? Oh so you must charge them $1USD and i get 70% like google play/apple. Oh wait no you charge them $1.33?

Makes it hard to understand why i put in $1...
My adsense money went from $1000/yr to $100/yr and now I'll be lucky if I break $25. Nothing changed with my users. My only guess is that everyone is using adblock.
This was also...14?-ish years ago. Sometimes on Solaris 2.6 or 8 boxes. I am pretty sure xargs didn't have that flag back then (which is why I said, "back in the day").
"When people die from Fukushima they will be reported dead from cancer and other diseases and not from the nuclear fallout."

The relationship between radiation exposure and increased cancer risk is well understood.
But surely this is "Hacker News" - the whole point of news is that it has to be new to _everyone_. Otherwise it's just facts, not news.
I'm asking myself the same question!

Here's the funny thing: Click the Go menu in Finder, and look down at the bottom where it says Go to Folder...

See the shortcut? Yup, it's Command-Shift-G.

I have no idea why I never paid attention to that before.
This seems to be what I hear about getting the maxed out version of this laptop. Does anyone know if the fan is still really loud on the more moderate version (i5, touchscreen,256GB SSD)?
I have gen 2 moto g to replace my dropped nexus 4. It was ~$170 unlocked. Great phone.
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They could specify the detailed system configuration with the CPU, chipset, and DRAM part numbers (including date codes) so others can compare. It's much better than leaving things in the dark completely.
Do you see adblock as a bad thing?
Why do you need to "burn" any calories and boost your metabolism? If you care about longevity, you need to actually slow down your metabolism and restrict your caloric intake. Walking 30-45 minutes a day in the park is good enough - most geniuses in the past had the evening walk (30-60 minutes) as a common theme. Also, you don't need a fancy desk. Just take breaks and walk.
OEMs (generally) eventually started making the power ports a replaceable part to make it a cheaply resolvable issue. Hopefully they will apply that wisdom to USB-3c ports on devices that use it exclusively for their power connection.
The Last Starfighter is by far the most underrated scifi movie of all time.
I assume, given your involvement, that this isn't likely to be an issue, but how likely is it that your candidates will be able to find jobs outside of SF/NY, or in fact outside the US?

If the goal is to find the top talent that wouldn't don't normally show up on a firm's hiring radar, then I would expect that includes finding people who aren't in those cities (and don't want to be).

I couldn't find any mention of geography it in your blog post or on the starfighters.io website, but I've been burned many times by initiatives where the absence of geogrphical information is supposed to imply "USA only" (because they forget that the rest of the world exists), or if you're very lucky "USA and select European countries".
What year did this happen? Mashable reported in 2013 Sept that Apple implemented "legacy app" downloads [0]. Did it lose that functionality? (Not an iOS user, so a genuine question)

[0]http://mashable.com/2013/09/17/ios-legacy-apps/
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The one area where apple really exels though, in both hardware and software is the touchpad. I cannot stand using the touchpad on any windows laptop I used, the touchpad is 99% the reason I still use a mac/osx.
Both Travis CI and Circle CI cache your node_modules directory between builds. If you don't change your package.json, it just uses that cache instead.
I may have actually found a legal reason for this. I found an "Exemption for Executive Employees" - http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/fairpay/fs17b_executi... - wherein it appears to me (also not a lawyer) that anyone who owns at least 20% interest in a company is exempt from minimum wage requirements. Since everyone involved owns more than 20% I think this one is good enough for me!
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>Without being able to grasp and think critically about sophisticated propaganda, and how to challenge ideas

College education currently involves exposing students to sophisticated (progressive) propaganda, which they lack the skills to challenge.

Nonetheless, I think the good outweighs the bad when it comes to a the broad liberal arts education. But it could be a lot better. A good start would be

1) Adding more mainstream economics (and confronting Marxists economists who have left the economics departments but continue to preach Marxism from other departments).

2) Removing censorship of non-progressive opinions. This means people should be allowed to say that different races have different IQs, that it's not ok to be gay, and that gender differences stem from biologically hardwired tendencies. People censor all of these things, then wonder why there are no moderate right wingers. The fact is moderate right wingers get fired. All that remains of the right after it's intellectuals have been eliminated or forced to pretend to be more moderate than they are, is the populist right.
The hiring post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9159557
I dislike that they link to the full legal license without explanation or comment. I cannot read legal it makes my brain hurt. As a commercial closed-source software developer (aka leech) I just want to know can I use it?
There are multiple issues and they are closely related, which makes things confusing.

1) In terms of weight management, calories burnt is what is important. Mild exercise won't burn huge numbers of calories, but it can increased your basal metabolic rate which means you burn more calories sitting still. This can be a significant contribution to weight loss.

2) There are other, non-weight related unhealthy effects of sedentary behavior. Current recommendations for managing these involve 15 minutes of non-sedentary behavior every 2 hours (ie, stand and possibly walk for 15 minutes every 2 hours). Realistically, many people can do this by having a standing meeting in the morning, walking at lunch, and a standing meeting in the afternoon.
If all else were equal, sure. But it's not, starting with RAM and display and continuing on from there.
Ummmmmmm... anorexia? :)
Devops is a professional movement to codify knowledge about how web companies operate at scale and speed. It gets misinterpreted sometimes (more lately as it becomes a fad). Doesn't mean its bullshit. Same problems with Agile, Lean, Six Sigma, or any other codification of how humans could or should work together to deliver a product.

Many of the lessons learned here aren't exactly universal, for example some of the better Devops cultures (e.g Google) do have separate dev & ops teams, they just have good collaboration.
I use it, but it wasn't until my money went away that I thought much about it. I definitely have less incentive to keep it going. I'd need to go through the hassle of getting more dedicated advertisers or sponsors now. So in that respect it's bad for websites in general.