skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read it with a few grains of salt. I've had dry runs for meetings where I was presenting. It's pretty useful to walk through your presentation with your boss when your 3-4 level higher boss is there. I've also requested subordinates dry run when they have poor communication skills and need coaching to perform up to standard.

It's not something you do with everyone there or with a meeting that just works off an agenda.
Not a developer but I would definitely do a 2+ year stint at Apple to get the name on my resume and find out what it's like to work at one of the largest and most profitable tech companies ever. I'm sure there's an incredible amount to learn and the pay is nice as well.
Ehhh. Zooming out this far just makes the phrase meaningless in the context of tech, which seems counterproductive since as you may have noticed we tend to discuss tech around here.
> we were usually home by 8 or 9 PM rather than midnight...

Wow, Is it normal? Sounds ridiculous to me, having a family at home, I can't imagine coming home at 9 PM, having a late dinner and going straight to bed to wake up the next day, not seeing my son or wife the whole day, is it like this in every big company?
Detroit water affordability map
Skit literally means skit in English.
All of western accounting, including the cost-reduction mindset, is artificial. It just happens to be the dominant paradigm, so many people mistake it for some sort of universal truth.

If you look at the Lean Manufacturing folks, they have their own notions of accounting. They think the mantra of, "increase revenues, reduce costs" is stupid. For them, it's "increase value, reduce waste".

A simple example: you make hamburgers. You find a cheaper supplier of meat. It's not quite as good, but the number of complaints is manageable. In the western perspective, that's a win: revenues are stable (in the short term, anyhow) and costs are decreased. But in the Lean perspective, you've probably fucked up: value is down and you haven't reduced systemic waste.

As an example of what customer service looks like from that perspective, consider this example: http://kevinmeyer.com/blog/2008/10/jke-day-2-saishunken-cosm...
The free market is only for the billionaires. You are just some resource to be exploited and expended.
Words flipping from positive to negative and visa versa is very common in language. Just the other day I was talking to some younger kids about hockey and they were going on about a goal being "filthy" and "Dirty". In my day a dirty goal was one that didn't look nice. To them these goals were so naughty(as in sexy) you wanted to take a shower after seeing them.

Here's some reading
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/15/1284995/-Origins-of...
Did you delete your reddit account?
highwayautopilot.com - let an app drive your car.
> Apple wields its supply chain like a weapon...This is why Tim Cook is CEO: he was the architect of their supply chain strategy...

Really? "From 2016, {Samsung] the company will supply 80 percent of APs used in Apple devices"

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2014/11/133_168259...

Let's call Tim Cook out for what he is. A former Dell middle manager who happened to be working the supply chain when China opened up to the world. Otherwise there must be a million supply chain geniuses out there who have also figured out how to place orders using cheap labor...
I'm not sure... My only exposure to HPC was the install of a cluster with MPI over Infiniband. At the time I looked into MPI a bit and played with it at home (over wifi and ethernet).
Slow apps, low battery life limit appeal of Apple Watch
Too right.

Edit: Just to be clear, I understand that the title is sarcastic and am in agreement with the content of TFA.
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> it inevitably dies because i forget about charging it ever

How is that possible? It gives you ample low battery alerts.
If the device is an iPhone[0], then there is only one copy on one filesystem on one memory card.

Granted, if your iPhone is offline for extended periods of time, you're also doing it wrong. But maybe you have an iPod Touch instead.

[0] For the last few years, the newest iPhone is the #1 most common camera model found in EXIF data on Flickr, http://petapixel.com/2015/01/09/popular-cameras-flickr-2014/. IIRC, Facebook saw similar results for photo uploads.
With something like $150 billion+ in the bank, it might just be a long term viable strategy.
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Easter egg ?
Bringing this back from a previous comment. Normalizing the "how many gallons does it take" for different foods into Calories per Gallon (items towards the top are more water-efficient):

Watermelon......... 8.2 cal/gal
Almond............. 7.0
Head of broccoli... 5.9
Cantaloupe......... 3.7
Corn cob........... 1.5
Beef............... 0.2

Source: USDA
I should point out that the two areas in the center of the map outlined in red are the cities of Hamtramck and Highland Park and their data wasn't provided for this map.
In case anyone isnt getting the sarcasm in the title, quote from the article:

>Since I happened to have a pound of almonds in the refrigerator I decided to count up those little water suckers and see how much water it takes to produce a pound of almonds. It was bad. Four hundred and thirty-three gallons of water.

>Four hundred and thirty-three? Wait a minute. How about a pound of beef? (I dare say it’s a lot easier to eat a pound of beef than it is to eat a pound of almonds.) According to the folks at waterfootprint.org it takes between 3,000 and 5,000 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef.
People should at least try to see forest behind trees. It's not only cows or only almonds. The reason land dies is very complex one, mostly because ecosystems become unbalanced through abuse by CAFO and unsustainable farming.
I wonder if this explains the general impression that Apple's software quality is slipping over time?
I like it too. It's not perfect (what is?) but I'm not sure what I would be using if not iTunes.
New lawsuit pits Human Rights Watch against DEA phone spying
10 Percent of California’s Water Goes to Almond Farming. That’s Nuts.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/0...

Animals are a huge deal, but I think the shock factor behind almonds is higher. "The entire animal industry in California uses a total of 30 percent, ok... wait, just almonds uses 10 percent?"

Perhaps especially because almonds are perceived as more of a luxury food than, say, ground beef or omelets.
In New Zealand we say "yeah, nah", which is sort of a similar thing to this.

We've even got ad campaigns with it now:

http://www.alcohol.org.nz/alcohol-activities-services/campai...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFQzcWkKbbA
It's interesting that this uses smudge/clean filters. When I considered using those for git-annex, I noticed that the smudge and clean filters both had to consume the entire content of the file from stdin. Which means that eg, git status will need to feed all the large files in your work tree into git-lfs's smudge filter.

I'm interested to see how this scales. My feeling when I looked at it was that it was not sufficiently scalable without improving the smudge/clean filter interface. I mentioned this to the git devs at the time and even tried to develop a patch, but AFAICS, nothing yet.

Details: <https://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/smudge>
We all have our weaknesses. I'd rather have contempt for the manipulators than the manipulated.
>> Also leptons are 'equal' following the Pauli exclusion principle?

> What an excellent example of a non-rigorous statement

That is completely uncalled for. The difference between leptons (as a kind of fermion, which obey the P.E.P.) and bosons (which do not) is no more and no less than the different definition of identity/equality in the two cases. Rigorously.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose%E2%80%93Einstein_statistic...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi%E2%80%93Dirac_statistics
"USDA" isn't a source. A URL to a document (or a document citation with titles and authors) is a source. I'd like to read that document; do you happen to know the real source?
Please don't present your beliefs as facts.

Texas is #1 with 11m head of cattle. California is #4 at 5m.

632 lbs production per head * 5.2m cattle = 1.6m tons.

US production of almonds = 1.4m tons.

You can't reason about amounts merely by looking at normalized numbers. Billion dollar company X is growing 2% a year, and million dollar company Y is growing 5% a year. Only in normalized numbers is one more than the other. In absolute numbers this is not the case.
If your company is doing dry runs for routine in-house meetings, the management is broken.
They seem to have ignored that pastured livestock even exists.
From the outside, it definitely looks like the closer it gets to hardware, the better engineers at Apple get. Metal is awesome, Metal shading language and recent clang progress not bad too, Swift a little bit wonky but interesting — but the quality of their customer-facing software, especially ui stuff (not design, but I engineering) is getting worse and worse. It just doesn't "just work" anymore.
I should have provided context. We normally got lunch catered, but on those particular days though they served leftovers just to save a few hundred bucks.
You're mistaking what it should (or rather shouldn't) be with what it actually is. It shouldn't be high pressure because the stakes aren't that high, but it is. The poor management is the causal reason.
Hi,

blog author here, like I mentioned in the blog post one of the developers suggested that it might just trigger a re-use of poisoned memory.
OpenBSD (especially on snapshots) enables a lot of 'hostile' development features - poisoning freed memory is one of them. Some of those checks are disabled on releases in order to limit performance degradation. Why could dhcp impact a kernel panic? It boils down to the driver. If my understanding is correct the re0 driver works on the kernel level and uses the mbuf infrastructure for allocating and using memory on the kernel level. The specific memory usage pattern the re0 driver has might lead to the kernel or the driver reusing already freed memory. This is of course just a speculation I have based on the information I included in the blog post and received off list from one developer. It's not confirmed in any way and just an informed guess on the developers part. I think dhcp is just an easier way to trigger the panic as the OS does lock-up on this box when set to static IP even if dhcp was never fired even once (though I don't get dropped to ddb then).
It changes the value chain in ways that destroy their competitive position. Short term, it's pretty likely that they'll adapt. Long term, they're dead.

A good example is the IBM PC. When it came out, everyone was saying "Of course, IBM will now dominate the new personal computer market, because they have the sales & marketing apparatus to reach into every business that will want to buy one. Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM, after all, and now that they own the technology to make a personal computer, their offering is clearly superior."

But that's not what happened. Instead, they did dominate the PC market - for approximately 5 years. But the PC had reduced prices so that it was now targeting a market that was cost-sensitive, and it had created a secondary market of applications that let it reach into many areas that had previously required custom software direct from the manufacturer. IBM did not own the critical matchmaking components of this, the instruction set, operating system, and BIOS. Intel and Microsoft did, and then Compaq reverse-engineered the BIOS. As a result, clones flooded in, IBM's sales & marketing prowess counted for nothing, and they found their market commoditized.

Uber's critical value proposition is serving as a market-maker in a two-sided market. That's the part that's really difficult for a startup to clone. You can make the Uber ride-sharing software trivially, and many people have [1]. But even if you do, riders won't use your service because you don't have the same number of drivers available that Uber does, and drivers won't join because they won't make as much in fares.

When self-driving cars come out, that two-sided marketplace becomes a one-sided marketplace. We've yet to see how Google will market the technology, but the most strategically advantageous approach for them is to contract out manufacture of the cars, own the hardware, put their own software on it (and not license it out), and then sell a service to riders, undercutting Ubers' prices. Under this model, Uber's competitive advantage counts for nothing - their supply chain costs more than the competition, in a price-sensitive one-sided market.

Google could then use a number of different tactics to lock Uber out. The most likely one is regulatory; in the interest of public safety, they could argue that all self-driving cars need to pass a very stringent safety test, consisting of real-world driving for X00,000 miles. Google's got a 10-year head start on Uber for developing this software, and once a critical mass of cars on the road are Google self-drivers, they have accurate position information on everybody else, a key factor in making this safer.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/homeless-coders-trees-for-car...
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My Mio watch connects to its charger this way too. In the image below, you see both the heart rate monitor and the charging port (which attaches to a magnetic piece that connects to the wall).

http://www.dcrainmaker.com/images/2014/08/IMG_8187.jpg
So, they could stop beef and chicken production without crashing the local economy or depriving the market of meat, freeing up scarce water to sustain almond production?
By adding some humor and visual cues to help me better remember the salient points. Personally, I don't find pg's writing style especially compelling, so I don't always remember the content of his essays as well as I'd like. Also, in this format I could print it as a poster and stick it on the wall.

You don't have to like it. I did. So to Anna (the creator of this graphic, whose comment appears to have been flagged by some grumpy person) yes, it does help.
Dependency on iOS and Android as a platform is analogous to being dependent on Facebook as a platform.
Android Wear widens watch strap range before Apple Watch hits
Because phones are actually useful. They aren't just fashion pieces. They may ALSO be fashion pieces, but they aren't JUST fashion pieces.

People are willing to repeatedly pay for the latest model of something that they use constantly throughout the day as one of their chief tools for mediating the world. If (and that is a meaningful "if") it is indeed true that the aWatch is fundamentally a status symbol that has little functional value, we would expect many fewer people to rush to upgrade it.
This is the kind of comment that is really unnecessary. You could at least tell your side of the story, how you came to that conclusion and why.
> Imagine: You’re 16. You’re in school. You’re sitting in class.

Honestly, I think it's impossible for anyone above ~25 to imagine what it's like to be 16 in school today.

Context and social dynamics have changed too much for anyone that old (and probably anyone at all) to be insightful about the behaviour of groups of teenagers using a yet unreleased product.
What about compressing the same image with two different encoders? Or with different zlib settings? Even if the diff after lossless decompression is small, you have to somehow reconstruct the decisions that the compressor made on the target file.
Why is it that, at a certain level, intelligent company leaders seem to stop thinking of their employees as individuals and instead start thinking of them as company assets?

I think this is directly related to the language used within most companies -- at least all those I've worked at -- to describe their employees: human resources. I think this is because people too easily conflate human resources with natural resources, which are consumed by some manufacturing process.

Once upon a time, I worked at a company whose internal management guidelines stressed loading new hires with as much work as they could bear to determine their breaking points. Work load was then scaled back to some sustainable-ish percentage of that maximum, and the employees were worked until burnout. The expectation was they would then leave the company. Obviously they had an absolutely absurd amount of turnover. Upper management saw nothing wrong with utilizing their resources in this manner. This experience obviously colors my view of things.

In my opinion, the phrase human resource is simply dehumanizing. But, I also think it might be a necessary psychological barrier that is required by massive companies. If the upper management actually conceive of their organization as made up of employees, not human resources, they may act or react more slowly, become less risk averse, etc. That is bad for business! Likewise, I think there's a similar statement to be made about citizens vs. consumers when speaking about another type of large organization: governments.

Language and the words we choose matter. They shape our thoughts, and define what is possible. We ought to choose better words.
Can either of you give a source backing your argument?
No, but the article is written by someone who identifies as a vicious vegan; not an understanding-vegan, a compromising-vegan, or even a strongly-opinionated-but-reasonable vegan. But instead, it's by a vicious vegan who, judging by the sarcastic and defensive tone, is taking the nytime's report of our almond trees and drought as a personal attack.
Is this supposed to be ironic?? Given, you know, the original poster's grievances.... Support Heroes?.. No?
That's not a bad system. Can I ask how long it took you to upload it all to Dropbox?
It should be expensive! Tech companies are getting a fantastic deal on their employees right now. Apple made $460k in profit per employee in 2013[1]. This to me is a failure on our (software developers) part in capturing the value we're delivering.

If a company sold a widget that routinely generated $500k in profit per year each and leased it for $125k/year, would it make business sense to keep it at that price? Hell no! Charge as much as the market will bear. That's just supply and demand.

[1] http://nypost.com/2014/02/28/apple-has-biggest-slice-of-prof...
This is entirely untrue and extremely dangerous. It is very possible to love what you do for a living (I do). Some of us find "true freedom" in tricking people into paying us to do things we would gladly pay to be allowed to do.
Late to the story, but I have 8 invites if anyone wants them.
But you can see why vegans would feel unfairly targeted.
"nobody could build a phone at the same level as Apple."
People have to put their iphones in bulky cases because the screens break so easily. I have dropped my Samsung Note4 so many times, and it is fine (also, the charge lasts three days. Did I mention it is really fast too?).
This seems terrifying if the filesystem is that bad that you have to do this to guard against corruption. And isn't half the point of offloading images from a card to clear up the card for reuse?
So... you're agreeing with me that California does not produce anything vaguely like 80% of all the cattle in the world?
See Ben from the Raspberry Pi foundation's response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8983801 Sadly there really hasn't been any update or good info on what Win 10 on the Pi 2 will be yet.
That doesn't contradict what the grandparent poster presented, which was that California provides the vast majority of the world's almond supply, but not nearly as much beef or chicken.

Pointing out that California is the fourth largest US state in cattle doesn't even approach contradicting that (indeed, its pretty good evidence that it is not as dominant of a beef provider as an almond provider.)

Now, if you want to argue that the claim about share of the world almond market is irrelevant and that what we should compare is the water demand of California's almond supply vs. the water demand of beef/chicken, that's a different point. But you shouldn't criticize the parent poster for presenting their belief as fact, and then counter with a fact claim that doesn't even contradict the fact claim they presented.
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I guess my point about minimum wage was not relevant to this discussion.
The only person I know that drinks almond milk regularly is in fact not vegan, and according to their doctor need to drink almond milk due to reducing their cholesterol intake from all the meat they have eaten in their lives. (Yes, I know the science on cholesterol is changing.) This is an inflammatory and presumptuous headline, but this is HN after all...
I assume that refers to this bit:

Based on this, I have to conclude that most good
engineers@Apple are candidates who have a tenure of
more than 15 years and are aging.

With "silver" meaning grey hair and "fox" meaning clever.
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How about the dairy from milk cow? Does that matter for these types of stats?

Did a quick google search, and if the cow produced 2500gal of milk per year for 5 years before becoming meat, and the cow produced about 400lb of meat, then you end up with 1lb of beef + 30 gallons of milk for the amount of water the article states.
California exports a lot of alfalfa to support beef production elsewhere, but even so, if you buy, say, grass-fed beef from New Zealand (I assume New Zealand's not suffering a draught?) you're fine
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Not in the least. I picked up on it immediately, although the sarcastic tone puts me off reading the article.
This assumes that people don't grow & change. We should not only accept that people grow, but actively encourage them to have an opinion & give them enough room to change & grow.
Okay, but we already know that we can't just subsist on Watermelons. Like, you need protein and things.
It's a huge corporation with a huge amount of variance. But it seems that Apple, at its worst, is worse than other firms at their worst. And that's something related to the corporate culture.
Actually I tend to use sc start/stop for that, but .. should be the same.

Important utilities:

- findstr ('grep')
- sc (control services)
- taskkill (kill/control processes)
- netsh (everything network)
- wevtutil (windows event log)
I completely agree. How cooperative is the upstream in regards to porting it to FreeBSD? I am looking at Dart for a while and the upstream doesn't even seem to be interested enough to provide a tarball that would be possible to download without going through the gclient tools (even chrome provided that :().
My team mostly works similar hours to me (1-9, as I said elsewhere) but my previous team was more nine-to-fivey. We just had meetings after lunch, it wasn't a big deal. A couple folks on the team had kids and left every day at 5:00, and I did their code reviews in the evenings (so they were ready waiting when they came in the next day), and they did mine in the mornings, and it worked fine.
Not clear. They mention writing a custom loader, reading EXE files; whether that's calling the INT21h DOS functions or the INT13h BIOS disk loader is unclear. I don't see why they'd bother to write a custom disk filing system when you can just use the DOS one.

DOS is more something you run "on" than "in". It's just a filing and utility layer, no task scheduler, no memory protection.