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>But these are very different business cases - retail banking and institutional investing have very different customers, practices, regulations, etc. So why not make these be different companies?

Operating Systems and Search Engines are completely different business cases with different industries and markets.

So why does Google do Search and Android? Because both fit the larger Google Data focus.

Both retail and institutional banking fit the larger Bank Finance focus.

They are one big company for the same reason why Apple makes smartphones and desktop operating systems.

For the same reason why Microsoft develops the best Office Software as well makes tablet computers with styluses.

What can I say? You can use government to force large companies to break up, but otherwise the existence of a large company that works in multiple industries or has multiple focuses isn't that crazy or alien.
I've heard a few Jeff Weiner speeches, and he's very big about connecting and improving human capital. This is him putting his money where his mouth is.
I'm not sure that stevia is an "artificial" sweetener.
>But we do know for a fact that excess carbohydrate intake causes numerous serious health problems [...] Alzheimer's,

Do we know that for a fact? Definitely?
Re "Nice to have"---acknowledged, but. . . . The junior programmers I know will still be intimidated by that list. And the intermediate/senior programmers will see it and wonder why you're offering so little. So it seems like the ad is conflicted.

If someone really needs those skills to do the job, then perhaps you can transform a negative into a positive: "New hire will receive on-the-job training time and budget in Mongo, Python, and Hadoop." That would attract a lot of people! And probably adding training is cheaper than raising the salary.

Once your ad has a clear message, perhaps you can use it in more targeted venues than SO. Imagine a CS student at Dublin University seeing a flier on their department bulletin board:

Junior C# Developer Wanted
Excellent Salary
Will Train in Python, Mongo, Hadoop

That's something you might even be able to send to a couple professors and ask if they could pass it on to any outstanding seniors.

Even better would be to s/Excellent Salary/€35 - 45k/.
It appears the US Government is making it up intel by having them use the chips in a new supercomputer for the department of energy.

http://techreport.com/news/28092/xeon-phi-chips-will-fuel-18...
In Ender's game they are searching for the perfect specimen to transform into the perfect military commander. Very smart men are making elaborate plans how to entrap him in order to mold him into a lethal machine. They are searching for a commander who can end (not intended) unresolvable conflicts decisively and, above all, permanently. Not for a morally balanced/superior leader.

Anyway, I read Ender's game first when I was young and I loved it for the action, mixed with philosophy. Now I enjoy the rest of the books a lot more then the initial one.
Computers are terrible in situations they have not been programmed to handle. Many aviation accidents are the result of edge and corner cases, sensor failures, unknown engineering flaws, etc that would be hard to account for in software
Yeah sure, why not make your business process depend on a closed proprietary cloud-based product?

(in all fairness Amazon are better than many when it comes to unexpectedly withdrawing products)
s3fs-fuse has its share of problems, but master has fixes for some of the error handling and truncated files issues. Please report any bugs you encounter on GitHub!
It's bad for user experience. Also, you're getting paid to encourage users to LEAVE your site.
"L'avion s'est envolé!"
I've had much better luck with killcx:

http://killcx.sourceforge.net/

In particular, it sends a spoofed SYN packet to induce an ACK packet containing the sequence numbers necessary to send the RST. That means it doesn't rely on there being traffic already.
Because ads irritate potential users/customers.

Also, a bit more specific to Product Hunt, they're mostly targeting the dev crowd; many of whom would be using an Ad Blocker anyways.
Love Ted Chiang!
Gainesville Losing its Entrepreneurs
Why semantic code helps to keep your costs down
Quite interesting, but would've been better to see how it compares to regular sapphire glass (in other watches).
I think most customers would prefer to know that this is going to cost me $99/month till I hit a certain level of XYZ and that you will contact them when they approach that level to move up to the next plan.

Plus for your benefit I think you'll make more money off the tiered plan (depending on the service you are offering).

While everyone wants highly engaged customers who are getting maximum value out of your service I think you could have months where a user just doesn't log in to view their data that often, it's still there, still providing value but they might only login and review once per month.

Are you going to charge them $99/view?

On the flip side you might have users who login 4 times per day so they are both getting value but costs would be very low vs. very high.

I think tiered plans work better.

Take this feedback with a grain of salt as it may depend on your service/offering.

But for most SaaS I'd rather see as tiered as both a user and the owner of the SaaS app.
The point about the salary is valid - if we are looking for someone outstanding we should be prepared to spend outstanding money.

I would contest the notion that a person who's been developing software for three years is in the middle of their career, though - even leaving the semantics aside, I see no way that's not a junior profile.
NFS is definitely wonky if you are using cheap tools, but high end systems give astonishing performance.
This reads like an advertisement. Why is it on the front page of HN? I call BS.

This is not the "Platonic ideal of a laptop"—it's a smartphone with no touchscreen and no modem.
My hypothesis is that humans can fill any predator niche, all the way down to insectivores.

When the natural predators are completely removed, humans are certainly capable of filling the gap. We have, after all, billionhandedly hunted some species to extinction. If the rifles are too dangerous for the area, live capture traps and knives would work just as well.

The only reason people use long arms instead of more efficient traps to kill game animals is because operating a trap line is boring in comparison. It's the same reason why people catch fish using a rod and reel rather than a giant net or a fish wheel. It's just more fun.

The real question here is "why are these people surrounded by food and not eating any of it?"
LinkedIn buys lynda.com for about $ 1.5B
Depending on how you tune it, it can be a monster. Several years ago I was managing a cluster with ~5K linux instances all mounted to ~4PB of spinning disk served with NFS. Worked very well.
wops, bad UI i guess :P.. you need to be on angel.co.. so if your url is angel.co/startup just browse to dl.getpressk.it/startup.pdf or dl.getpressk.it/startup.zip and it will be auto generated!
> Just as you don't want to deal with provisioning BTUs of air conditioning or watts of power needed for your cloud infrastructure

Maybe you don't want to, but there is definitely someone out there dealing with these issues.

E.g. during a heat-wave (100 F+) a transformer on top of the building (at a previous employer) started on fire. When the dust settled, we found out that the person in charge of it had not upgraded it as our power requirements increased. It was over-taxed and the heat-wave put it over the edge.
S3 is going to be a lot cheaper. It isn't perfect, but it's pretty reliable. Then you can look at cloudfront. And they did recently release cross-region S3 replication. Then you can be really safe and keep a backup copy at a whole other location.
Exactly. If these small players start by acquiring deposits and investment accounts, they will be offsetting those deposits from the big banks. Once the small entrants reach a certain size they will themselves be able to play in the larger financing space thus competing with the big banks in more areas.

Hedge funds have been doing this for years, and some of the largest hedge funds now participate in many of the lines of business that are traditionally thought of as investment banking.
Full disclosure: I was born, raised, and went to college in Puerto Rico and currently work in NYC.

I agree with most of what you said, except for the college part, which you admit you didn't know very well.

The public Colleges of Puerto Rico are actually great and very competitive with the rest of the colleges in the US, but with lower resources.

I studied computer engineering in UPRM in Mayaguez. While studying there I had internships with multiple fortune 500 companies which allowed me to pay for my own tuition as it was at the time $40 per credit. When I graduated I was hired in a fortune 500, many of which recruit heavily in PR, and was recently able to move to a startup with ease. Many of my alumni were hired in various companies both big (Microsoft, IBM, Lockheed Martin) and smaller startups. I only mention this because many of us were hired alongside many ivy league school students or from other larger universities with more resources, which may serve as a signal of how competitive the school is compared to others.

I would happily recommend anybody to study in any of the UPR campuses.
> As does the U.S. government.

The government is largely Windows PC's (mostly XP and Win7).
So who wants to sell a patch for the now unsupported users of OS X 10.9, 10.8, ...? It could be as simple as changing the permissions on System Preferences so that now you must enter your password before running them (so that they always run as root). Then patch out the backdoor.
I'm 38 and have felt similarly since I was your age. Relax.
And this all started because I expressed a lack of sympathy for hunters who found it hard to hunt where they previously did. I'll fully accept that I was too broad in saying I hadn't heard a good justification for hunting. It's caused a of of people to assume a stance on my part and reply disputing that stance, which doesn't really exist. I don't believe hunting for enjoyment or tradition is really justifiable, but beyond that, I'm mostly open to the needs justifying our actions.
Indeed, one of SSLMate's CAs actually does require the country code to be present in the CSR, so SSLMate includes it (we get it from your online profile so you don't have to type it every time). Despite this requirement, the country code is not present in the signed certificate.
Honestly, there have been amazing candidates that I would have probably written off had I seen their resumes alone, so looking at the code first affords the chance to judge them based on merit before being biased by the glitz and glam on a resume. I highly recommend this approach.
Look at the shitstorm that happened when Pinterest started using skimlinks.

Admittedly, they did it in a stupid way, but still.
That actually makes a lot of sense, thanks for the pointer!
Weighing Privacy vs. Rewards of Letting Insurers Track Your Fitness
Some of my favourite books or books currently on my wishlist (in no particular order).
Many of these have been mentioned in other comments:

* Harry Potter series (thankfully I read this as a kid when I had more time)

* Thinking, Fast and Slow

* How to Win Friends and Influence People

* David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

* Self-Made Man: One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man

* The Martian: A Novel

* How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq

* Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

* Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

* Outliers: The Story of Success

* The Rare Find: How Great Talent Stands Out

* The Martian's Daughter: A Memoir

* Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

* Ghost in the Wires: My Adventure as the World's Most Wanted Hacker

* The Better Angels of our Future

* Daemon
Golang custom transports and timeouts
FWIW, 10.10.0 for me was perfect. 10.10.1 broke my wifi. Anytime the computer woke up from sleep, I'd have to reset the wifi card so it could find my access point.
After 10.10.2 came out, I got my second-ever full computer lock-up. I've had the same OS image since 10.5 (migrated and upgraded multiple time, obviously) and this was the second time my computer required a hard reboot. And this was while watching a video in the Steam client. I was in awe. A video forcing me to do a full reboot? Brought back memories of Windows ME.

While "upgrading" to 10.10.3, my computer failed to reboot itself. It just sat there, black screen, with a little spinner, for about 2 hours. Hard reboot, everything is back to normal. For now.

I fully expect 10.10.4 to actually destroy my hard drive at this point, as well as cause my monitor to spontaneously get 30-40 dead pixels.

Sucky part is, I feel I have no alternative.

Windows is out of the question after seeing what a factory OEM image comes with nowadays. I'm not giving them money and spending 2 days formatting/reinstalling/seeking out drivers on slow Taiwanese servers just to make a half-usable computer. And then, after all that, spend another 2 days installing various adware infested shitware to get a fricking PDF viewer. And don't get me started on getting a half-decent dev environment going. Ugh.

Linux is almost there. It's a crap shoot for me, unless it's running in a VM. I never know which kernel update will fix my trackpad/break my sound/wifi and which will fix the wifi, break suspend, fix sound, but break xrandr or some other archaic XWindows-related technology.

So, OS X it is, for the time being.
> And by the way few people do math "heavy lifting" with x86 CPUs today, they would rather do it in a GPU

This depends on the workload, really; some workloads are quite GPU-unfriendly. In any case, the supercomputer in question---Tianhe-2 [2]---derives most of its computing power from the Xeon Phi [1], a x86-ish many-core vector processor which looks much like a GPU.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon_Phi

[2] http://top500.org/system/177999
Maybe it only speaks the NFSv4 protocol, but the implementation is different?
Well C and C++, the father(s) of almost every programming language isn't quite true. Consider Jean Sammet's cataloging of languages, and Fortran (Originally FORTRAN), COBOL, Lisp, FORTH. All of these are real-world languages of which C bears no ancestry. Rather the other way around. Oh, and don't forget about BLISS.
I'd be interested in hearing the 'why' this was faster on reduced hardware.
> All services should eventually be like this. Just as you don't want to deal with provisioning BTUs of air conditioning or watts of power needed for your cloud infrastructure, why should you concern yourself about allocating a certain number of bytes of storage?

Infrastructure guy here. Abstraction is to reduce workload; you still need to understand the underlying concepts. Otherwise, you're just the guy who freaks out when their DB is at 100% CPU utilization or hours of replica lag without knowing why.
Google said to be close to getting Android Wear watches to work with iPhones
Fair enough, but one of the biggest reasons I ignore these types of posts is because too often they lack these critical details, they come off as puff pieces to me. IMO these posts would hold value for a larger audience if that info was included in them.
I worked for JP Morgan Chase a couple of years ago, as part of the main technology division for the entire bank. If I remember correctly, this 'IT department' had the same headcount as Apple. It was an interesting place. There was a lot of technologies being used through the organisation, lots of python and Java code, perl with Mojolicious, puppet and cfengine, desktops were Linux based terminals connected to virtualised Windows desktops, Hadoop and Cassandra was being rolled out, interesting things with FPGAs were being done e.g. http://web.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/110511-slides.... I worked with many skilled and experienced people, and nice people too. I have worked for many multinationals before, and this bank was certainly the most nimble of them all while being the biggest and most stable at the same time.
In addition to what others have mentions, the returns are typically low as well.

Going off what others said, since Google Adsense ads are targeted, that means your competitor would hypothetically be advertising on your own site, and second, startups usually are in niche industries where the bid prices for ads are low.

Unless the startup is in the business of legal help for mesothelioma, they can realistically expect a dime or two per click on ad. Consider an ideal 2% CTR (click through rate), and you'd need more than 5000 visitors to pull in only about $20.
Masters of Doom I read recently and devoured it in about two days. I am apparently starved for stories like that. I don't even like video games!
The Best Interview I have done in a long, long time by Mark Cuban
The e2v PowerPC and HiTCE Packages
DRY vs. DAMP in Tests
Training a Swedish NER-Model for Stanford CoreNLP Part 1
I have all kinds of problems with Bluetooth, specifically with pairing or connecting devices. Hibernation is all kinds of wonky, too. If it's been asleep for a few hours, it will hibernate when I plug it into AC power without resuming it first. (I really wish there was a way to tell it to hibernate if it's been suspended for some user-settable amount of time like I can with Windows, but that's not a problem specific to Mac OS X 10.10.)
I was being sarcastic, and if that's not fairly apparent I should probably change my approach; there's a tendency for HN to go full meritechnocrat in these situations and side with whoever seems the most disruptive. I find it obnoxious for exactly the reasons you've posted here, among others.
A company in most states across the US and throughout the entirety of Europe could pay a full time staff member with the same skills and experience you have the same amount you want per week ($3k) to work full time for them with significantly less hassle involved.

I think it's obvious why you're finding demand to be so low when you've set your price so high.

The amount you want for 60 hours a week ($9k) could get two extremely experienced engineers and provide them with a massive bonus incentive on top of their salary almost anywhere in the world.

It comes across as a bit delusional.
I'd love to know why exactly ternary was chosen. I wondered if it might have had some political motivation; maybe a rejection of the dualist philosophies of the running-dog capitalists, in favour of the technically superior Marxist-Leninist 'third way' ... ?
As always bundling fixes is bad
I've commented on this thread too much as is, but:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/linuxbrew/go/install)"

Can we stop telling users to do stuff like this? Please?
Or you could hire people to do it via oDesk or Mechanical Turk. Not so interesting technically, but it's a job people are good at.
No Fucking Shit
Federal Judge Dismisses Animation Studio Wage-Fixing Suit
> The Admin framework in Apple OS X contained a hidden backdoor API to root access for several years (at least since 2011, when 10.7 was released).

Lion was cancer.
I feel like this is an obvious "duh" followed by "that doesn't go far enough." I feel like the real question is "do we need fighters or bombers at all?" Seems like we would just want delivery platforms for guided missiles since dogfighting is to air combat as the line infantry is to ground combat.
So, it's my comment you quoted questioning whether this can be called a backdoor.

I don't intend that to be apologetic for Apple. I called it a 'significant vulnerability' but at the end of the day, it's a privilege escalation like those that have come before and will likely continue to be found occasionally, regardless of OS. I don't see what's apologetic about acknowledging a significant vulnerable while questioning whether it should be called a backdoor.

If you want to talk about Apple's response - I find it concerning that they aren't backporting the fix.
What hardware have they dropped support for without a technical reason? To my knowledge, the only Intel Macs they've dropped support for are ones with 32-bit processors, 32-bit firmware (requiring a 32-bit kernel and drivers even if the processor is 64-bit), or really old GPUs that can't support recent versions of OpenGL.
Never thought about it that way, thanks.
Your body doesn't care whether something was made by humans or whether it was made by nature. It only cares about the particularities of the molecules involved.
The NSA are screaming 'nooooooooo' as they realise the backdoored Intel chips aren't going to be used by the Chinese!
Hackpad goes Open Source
What I meant was the numbers for these drugs seems to be increasing while those numbers for marijuana seem to be staying steady or increasing slightly. There have always been high numbers of marijuana users, but in the last 5 years, usage for the other drugs is increasing, giving the cartels an easy way to pivot to those drugs to recover their losses from legalization here. Sorry if the wording was misleading.

"Across the U.S., heroin abuse among first-time users has increased by nearly 60 percent in the last decade, from about 90,000 to 156,000 new users a year, according to the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)."

source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2014/01/14/why-is-h...

"Emergency room visits related to MDMA -- known as Ecstasy in pill form and Molly in the newer powder form -- increased 128 percent between 2005 and 2011 among people younger than 21. Visits rose from about roughly 4,500 to more than 10,000 during that time, according to a report released Tuesday by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration."

source: http://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/20131203/ecstasy-use-on-...

"A report by the National Drug Intelligence Center released last August, “National Drug Threat Assessment 2011,” stated methamphetamine use was increasing, especially among the young. The report attributed the rise to Mexican drug cartels that control smuggling routes across the Southwestern border, which can produce, transport and distribute the drug. "

source: http://www.drugfree.org/join-together/methamphetamine-use-ap...
Plato's Camera and Player of Games are what I'm trying to get through on my Kindle. Trying being the operative word: they're slow-going.

Goedel, Escher, Bach -- I'm trying to push through it for the sake of keeping up with a subreddit-communal reading, but it's boring as all hell. At least, for the special value of "boring iff you've read quite a lot of theoretical computer-science and logic papers before", which I understand is not really anyone's usual meaning for the word. I'm still waiting to see how he actually gets to the bit about consciousness.

Certified Programming with Dependent Types -- started it recently, working through the programming exercises. I need to understand well-foundedness termination proofs for certain parts of my research proofs.
As a quest for the best fit, that was the intent: we need someone who can hit the ground running. I figured we could always try broader interview method if this didn't work out.
Technically I don't think its artificial. However, I notice that most Stevia products also contain dextrose. I don't think dextrose is considered artificial either but still, it begs the question why Stevia alone isn't enough and/or if dextrose is low or zero calorie then why not just use that?
The Lack of Accountability for Killer Robots [pdf]
> And due to it I've been rejected from 100s of interviews.

I'm really interested by this. In my experience in tech, this has been a complete non issue. You're not in the US, are you?