skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All your numbers are saying is that more trade occurs when middle men charge prices closer to their costs. But that isn't the problematic scenario. It's this one:

Before: Merchant buys 20 units of item A at $1 and sells them at $2. Supplier makes $20 in revenue. 20 customers each get one item at $2. Merchant makes a profit of $20.

After: Merchant buys 15 units of item A at $1 and sells them at $3. Supplier makes $15 in revenue. 15 customers each get one item at $3. Merchant makes a profit of $30.

Net profit: merchant is $10 richer, suppler is $5 poorer, 15 customers are each $1 poorer and five would-be customers can no longer afford the item.

The trade-maximizing margin for the merchant is the lowest possible margin, which is what maximizes overall utility because it increases the number of transactions without affecting the net utility per transaction. But the merchant isn't interested in maximizing trade, the merchant is interested in maximizing his own profit.

The way a merchant maximizes his own profit is to reduce margins on goods sold to price sensitive customers and raise margins on goods sold to price insensitive customers. So your theory has to be that giving merchants more information will cause them to reduce the prices of items sold to price sensitive customers more than they raise the price of items sold to price insensitive customers.

But selective pressure already destroys merchants who charge high margins to highly price sensitive customers. Anyone who does that loses all their business as soon as a competitor offers to sell for less. By contrast, merchants who charge slightly profitable but not maximally profitable prices to price insensitive customers can stay in business indefinitely, to the benefit of everyone but themselves, regardless of the prices charged by competitors.

Which implies that giving better pricing information to the merchants who have survived market forces will cause them to raise prices more than lower them.
Hi. FOVE's screen is WQHD (2560*1440).
Also we are planning to make Iris recognition for securing privacy.
It will be suitable and very secured headset for personal monitor.
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Another reason everyone should get comfortable with using y'all as a real/acceptable word in English.
Simple -- the crowd who picks and buys Oracle doesn't hang out on HN. So if you are on HN then you think everyone runs Docker, Kubernetes, RethinkDB, Go, and something...something Reactive.
I can't help but shake my head at the title of this article. Why spend millions on an OS to be at the whim of someone else? It's a bad business move. BB has to do something and this could work but...in the long run this is either killing your ecosystem or positioning it to sell.
shame it's only in Ontario, I might have applied.

The site's pretty light on info as well. I guess they want people to contact them.
In my opinion, this is what society today needs. I don't feel like we need everyone to be able to code, but rather just have a sense on some level that computers are nothing mysterious or magical, unconquerable or incomprehensible, but rather just machines of human creation.
That headline was prevalent back then. Oracle responded to the threat by eating the ecosystem around them. Had they not done that, their financial picture would be drastically worse today. It's entirely plausible that Oracle would have unraveled as a major enterprise player if they hadn't acquired so much of the industry. Ellison knew what was happening, his acquisition moves were meant to guarantee Oracle's long-term survival. It was: become a monster, or eventually be eaten by one.
The bottlenecks encountered by developers that don't take the time to understand the platform they are using. :P
And most Software Engineers never "engineer" a dang thing, but I'm not one to nitpick and rant about nonsense titles.
Only if you can find some non-fermented placebo kimchi that looks and tastes just the same, otherwise it ruins the blindness of the experiment. Hmm, Placebo Kimchi sounds like a good name for a band :)
That and their tendency to break. Another significant change was the allowance of custom headlight assembly's rather than the few standard sealed bulbs that had to be stuffed into a popup if you wanted a wedge that looked different from everybody else.
I love 80s Hondas. Especially the late 80s Civic Hatchback.
music videos were in their infancy in the '80s. They were still figuring out the ropes. Synthesisers were also a new instrument, and people were toying around with them.

If corporate-backed music is your problem, you need to look two decades later, when the formula was perfected and in heavy use. And if 'artificial' music is your bugbear, you must hate sampling :)
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/sla/
Just realized the double meaning of "forge" in SourceForge:

1) to form or make by concentrated effort

2) to imitate fraudulently; fabricate a forgery

They're certainly living up to definition #2..
.gov. PeopleSoft was such a windfall for them entirely because of this.
The accountants are in even bigger trouble than the lawyers, fwiw.
In China, there is a hot trend called de-IOE (to remove IBM，Oracle and EMC or other big foreign IT companies' technologies and products from IT systems) in enterprise IT.

Instead, we use open sources, or cloud/ X as a Service, or local technologies.

I wonder if it is the same in USA or other countries?
> Seems like once you work there you're part of the forever cult of Ellison.

Not just working at Oracle. Once Oracle bought Sun our Oracle DBAs started relentlessly agitating for us to buy SPARC servers because they were now the best, obviously, and a failure to use them meant we clearly were doing it wrong.
No mention of the vehicle that epitomizes curves for me, the Volkswagen Beetle...
Hmm. I was introduced to the term 3GL to mean languages such as ALGOL, PL/1, Fortran, Pascal, C, and so on. Substantially more structured or English-like than assembler. Most definitions say they take care of details unnecessary to writing the programming logic.

So, I just looked up the wikipedia article to find the same languages but also that anything above assembler is technically a 3GL. Even HLA is a 3GL by that standard. So, Forth is... at the lowest rung... a 3GL. By that standard, so are macro-assemblers with control flow and typing constructs. Personally, I think that definition is crap and we should reserve 3GL for languages that significantly raised abstraction like those I cited.

This is just a matter of opinion, though. Each will see it a different way and there's no right answer. That's what I've learned researching after your comment.
They will selling yet another Android phone, and that isn't good for margins.
Safari 8.0.6 on OS X 10.10.3
I only had some "Get adobe flash player", do I need to upgrade my computer to Windows 10?
I don't buy it. Curvy cars were not some high end European flirtation in the 60s. Pretty much all cars in the "old days" were rounded. Random examples:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Deluxe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studebaker_Lark

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packard_180

Why publish an article whose premise is so obviously wrong?
> 2) Lawsuits. With the right incentives to lawyers and politicians, Oracle might be able to get Lotus v. Borland effectively reversed; then they could start licensing the use of SQL itself!

That's what they're very close to achieving with Oracle v Google.

However, I don't think Oracle would be the winner in the "Who owns SQL?" conversation.
R is absolutely not shunned in big data. It is very popular.

There is a reason Microsoft acquired Revolution Analytics.
i'm surprised no one has mentioned this but it seems like the koreans are now driving automotive style. The 2000's cars pretty much hit jellybean status, toyota/lexus in particular.

A few years ago I started noticing some of the hyundai models starting to have a much more aggressive design with harder lines and more angular breaks. I notice the japanese starting to (IMHO) poorly follow this design.
Not sure what OP is being proud of exactly. I was subjected to this style when I interviewed at Twitter.

Sorry my op sounded like I was accusing the author of something but this whiteboard approach is what I did at Twitter.
I Was Wrong
What's he supposed to say..."Yeah, I could be fired. The leadership has no confidence in me".

That's ridiculous. Give him a break.
In this industry it seems that product success is only loosely related to product quality.
The problem is that you're also probably viewing that page using your home or mobile internet connection.
Not sure I agree. It's nearly universally agreed among auto-journos that the current Mazda 6 may just be the best looking full-sized sedan...well...ever.
I just started using MacDown a few days ago. So far I am impressed. It has a very simple UI and it's side by side editor/renderer is very handy. It might replace Notes as the my notepad.
You can always found Coops: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative

Problem of course is that traditional investing is how you get startup funds.
As an aside, Bézier curves were invented at Renault.
FWIW, I saw this fund after reading about their first investment [1], I thought the fund itself was noteworthy in its quick turnaround on funding decisions.

Edit: also see [2]

[1] http://betakit.com/orchard-labs-receives-500000-from-the-mla...

[2] https://mapleleafangels.com/blog/2015/6/10/mla48-angel-inves...
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I'd think the best approach for something like this would be to have higher pixel density in the middle of the display -- that is, where your head is looking -- and lower pixel density in the perhipheral. That's tough to do with an LCD, but it could be done with a specially designed projector or two different LCDs that you combine optically.
A bit surprising that these instances are EBS only and don't have any ephemeral disks at all.
HN just provided a bunch of noise to cloud those page views. It's not much, but it's something.
I work at AWS. Stuff like this happens a lot, lots of redundant dev time..
>You are then ushered into a room with the programmer's worst nightmare - a blank whiteboard.

Am I the only one who enjoys programming interviews? Even if you screw it up, it's still fun to try your hand at whatever problem they give you. They also don't expect you to do it perfectly; you're allowed to have sub-superhuman performance.
On finding the balance between building and marketing a product
I guess this fits in here:

Once upon a time I wrote my thesis on building a web crawler.
The (tiny) blog post with an embedded preview:

http://blog.marc-seeger.de/2010/12/09/my-thesis-building-blo...

The PDF itself:

http://blog.marc-seeger.de/assets/papers/thesis_seeger-build...

It's mostly a "this is what I learned and the things I had to take into consideration" with a few "this is how you identify a CMS" bits sprinkled into it. These days I would probably change a thing or two, but people told me it's still an entertaining read.
(Not a native speaker though, so the English might have some stylistic kinks)
That was a really entertaining read. I'm not involved in the interviewing process often, but I'd like to be better prepared for the future so that I can ask meaningful questions and not waste anyone's time. I certainly won't be asking anyone to invert a binary tree.
A year full of trying things
Florida has rather progressive open public records requirements.[0] However, there are/were [1] exceptions for personal information such as home address for public safety officials under a rather reasonable belief by the legislature that such officials are somewhat likely to be targeted for acts carried out in the course of their work.

[0]: http://myfloridalegal.com/pages.nsf/Main/DC0B20B7DC22B741852...

[1]: Having had a provisional Building Plans Examiner license at one time, my home address was shielded under the exception. Since the exception predates September 11, 2001 it is unlikely to have been removed in the wake of the changes that event engendered.
They could fork and focus on stability, performance and security. Throw in a physical keyboard and some enterprise software subscriptions and it could differentiate pretty well. Then they have the added benefit of access to the Android app market instead of competing to reach critical mass on their own app market.
I believe that was the point - are you expected to do perfectly or not. There are different interviewers - some even just want to show off, probably like the strong hashing one.

It's great if you can have a reasonable discussion that actually shows your knowledge.
That was very funny. The failed Ruby interview with the soon to be defunct HN company was hilarious.

It's a good advice to go out to interviews from time to time. Just to see what's out there.
They should have done this 6 years ago. They make good devices, shitty OS.

As far as shaking your head, I don't see you pushing a better plan ... maybe they should continue with BB OS? HA. Maybe they should develop a new OS? HA. This is their only option.
I'll be starting work at Google a week from Monday as an SWE. It was my second time interviewing(first time was 2 years ago as an SRE). This time I had actually put in effort into preparing for the interview, CS Fundamentals, Systems Design and all...

Every interviewer brings his own personality. Most people(probably all) will stay to-the-point. Actually the more to-the-point they are, the more time I get to solve the problem, so that's kinda by design. Emphasis on behavioral stuff is near zero. But a couple of people asked me questions related to stuff on my resume. E.g. one interviewer asked me a VHDL/Verilog related question(I think of it as a sanity check question, to make sure I'm not BSing on my resume), the other had already asked me two questions, so he used it as a topic of chit chat. Some interviewers are poker face to the point that you feel the pressure, one interviewer wasn't big on hints(at one point I could hear the wall clock ticking so loud, I wanted to throw it on to the floor and smash it), one interviewer liked to make encouraging comments and was somewhat chatty. The others were like just any dudes you might run into at a party, very casual.

The CS/Coding Questions covered topics like Dynamic Programming, trees, arrays, bit manipulation. The questions were not easy. I think I did ok in 3 of them(one/two might be even slightly below par). The Dynamic programming question I solved in 15 minutes, then I got asked a second question(which was easier in my opinion) I finished that too and I still had 10 minutes left. I imagine I impressed that interviewer. That might be the reason I got through.

The system design question was a very interesting one, I loved it. But it wasn't your typical large scale system design question like designing a service and so on. It was about designing a file system. I enjoyed it so I thought I did well there. Since I seemed to have talked all I wanted to about that question, I got asked a second systems question(in the same interview), an open ended question about internet system. I did ok in that one.

I didn't ace most of the interviews(Dynamic Programming interview being the exception). I thought it could go either way, since Google has a reputation for being very picky.

I had put some time into preparation this time. Friend of mine is coaching for interviews, so he provided me very well defined structure to focus my efforts, including videotaped mock interviews and feedback on it( interviewkickstart.com for anyone interested. Highly recommend!). Through the mock interviews I realized that I was talking too much, both in behavioral questions and during problem solving. Not only could that test the interviewer's patience, it also meant I had less time to solve problems. So I had to strategize about that. I think that helped me go that last mile.

Lunch interview was very casual. The guy was very friendly and liked to chat. I asked him whatever I thought I should about Google and the people there. Got some insight into Google that way, even though I know friends who work there already so I could have asked them anything.
> Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM, Oracle or Microsoft.

This is not even remotely true any more.
I'm only a rising junior in CS on my second internship and I completely agree. I did really well in my Data Structs & Algorithms class (A+...) and I just hate these types of problems. I bombed Google and Dropbox's interviews, and am ready to never go through another process like that again if I can.

I've been exceedingly lucky landing gigs at great companies that don't filter with these questions. I worked for LeadGenius (YC S11!) and the technical portion of the interview was super fun and effective; I was asked to write a useful piece of software in python which I later applied to school projects! No whiteboarding, no data structures. I'm currently interning at General Motors and their interview was similarly sans whiteboarding, and I'm surrounded by brilliant interns and coworkers. Hmm. At least for me and a few of my peers, being asked to solve the type of problems presented in the article raises some red flags about a company's culture.
The question isn't "why is there only one shape that minimizes drag?", the question is "why are all the cars sacrificing so much style and functionality to reduce drag?". You would expect some buyers to accept slightly less fuel economy for increased style, especially in luxury case, since they clearly are willing to pay significantly extra for style in ways that don't conflict with fuel economy (e.g., leather seats).

The reason is that the market is not being determined by having the consumer trade off style/functionality for fuel economy. Rather, the fuel economy, and hence the shape, is being set by statute. That's why even luxury cars have about the same shape. The only exception are the super luxury cars that make up such a small fraction of the market that they are negligible in calculating a manufacturer's fleet-average fuel economy (which is what the regulation specifies).
TempleOS: Grand Tour (video)
11-Year-Old Boy Played in His Yard. CPS Took Him, Felony Charge for Parents
Zimbabweans will get $5 for 175 quadrillion local dollars
I don't understand why they ask to use a payphone on a government website.

What is the benefit of using a payphone in this case?
I feel bad for his family, but that's a Darwin Award winner if I ever saw one. Unless he had a terminal illness. Then I applaud him.
Many customers run Discourse sites on the $10/month Digital Ocean instance just fine. It is true that you can't go below that, though, as 1 GB RAM is the minimum.
Thanks for the detailed info and context. Just signed up for my first edX course.
What if there's some weird loophole among the Five Eyes participants that ignores payphones in favor of other landlines and cells?
I heard Jaron Lanier speak about this 30 years at Xerox PARC. And the general principles of VR have changed little since then. Computers are at least a million times faster now. So you don't puke moving your head and the computer is a half second behind.
Not sure I agree. My automotive paymasters have given me my biggest paycheck...well...ever.
So if you get recruited, their surveillance partners like the five eyes don't know you are a spy. They are obviously sharing your call history with everyone, including people they might want to spy on some day.

It might just be to create a sense of allure. Taken from the movies. Like you are a spy now, dog.

It might be to keep other people around you from accidentally finding out you are a spy.
The benefit is they immediately hang up, then call you back on your mobile. The first interview question is "how did we do that?"
Data retention and XKeyScores. Anyone with access can then see who works or wants to work for ASIS. Data retenton laws and information sharing can cut both ways.
I dont hate sampling. Nowhere near it. In fact, sampling brought back the raw early 70s/late60s sounds I love. Compare the early grittiness of a Public Enemy song from 1987 against a Cyndi Lauper or other neon-habadashery hair-metal corporate concoction from that decade. You can't. One was rawness and grit, the other a manufactured POS.
Every library benchmarked in there is open source.

- https://github.com/arrayfire/arrayfire

- https://github.com/thrust/thrust

- https://github.com/boostorg/compute

- https://github.com/HSA-Libraries/Bolt

- https://www.threadingbuildingblocks.org/download

Which library did you think is proprietary?
Ask HN: Which VC funds accommodate ventures targeting the African market?
I'd assume it's all slurped up. The difference is that there is zero idenification of the caller when using a payphone.
"You guys" is not only used to denote an all-male or mixed-gender group.

Evidently, Jenée Desmond-Harris is unaware that girls also use "you guys" to refer to their all-female peer groups!

It's clear from the all-female usage that "you guys" does not mean anything like "you group of males, and ... some less important people".
Also, synths were around from the early 70s. Look up Bob Moog or ARP. The 80s marked the over-abuse and reliance on the instrument. Hollow sound for a hollow, soulless decade.
While I'm completely, 100%, against these kinds of questions, how else can a company that receives thousands of resumes a day filter out the good from bad?
are we reading the same article??!?!

the content is quite good but the layout, colour, animations etc. are a mess.
WTF!!

One of your iterator example for primes uses GOTO (aka labels).

It may be different where you work, but anyone in my company using labels either has the mother of all excuses or is going to be a warning away from termination.
Diseconomies of scale.

The last mile of shipping is the most expensive. In the US, there are tons of last miles that are thousands of miles from very large cities.

Switzerland is a tiny country relative to the US, so it's much cheaper to deliver mail.
lmao thanks for this !!
qnx seemed really nifty. I'd been intrigued since the "1.4mb floppy with a full gui" days.

it's a pity they couldn't make it work for them.
I'd be really impressed if, while not carrying a mobile, they call the guy next to me, on his, and ask to speak with me.
I'm guessing because they want the identities of their recruits to be secret, or at least difficult for other intelligence agencies to determine. Calling from a cell phone makes a very clear link to a specific person, while a pay phone would require other methods of intelligence gathering to unmask the identities of potential new spies. It is probably easy for a nation state level adversary to hack, or otherwise obtain phone records (especially if the call is somehow routed through the US).
Obviously I'm showing my lack of knowledge here. I really only know enough about Open GL to look stupid on the internet ;-)

I've often wondered, though, how hard it would be to write a lisp compiler that outputted ARB, rather than use GLSL for coding shaders. Is this possible?

I may be completely wrong, but my gut feeling is that shader coding seems like it would be a natural fit for functional languages.
They don't want other countries' spy agencies to know who they're recruiting.
This may be the reason, but doesn't have to be and often isn't. If you can explain your idea to another person, and know when they've executed it, why is that not evidence of your thought existing? Why is being able to translate your idea into the unnatural constraints of programming languages as they exist in 2015 the arbiter of correct thinking?
Judging by the graph there was a serious inflection point in 2008. Which seems about right from what I remember. So it probably should have been a headline long before now.