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Thanks for all the great discussion here & thank you Jess for submitting my article to HN. (In case anyone is curious, Medium currently credits this post with 13,362 views on my Medium post.) I have another HN account--sadly underutilized, I have to admit--but didn't want to tie it to my real name, so here's a brand new baby account for this thread...

I'm glad to see a few comments here from other ex-Yahoos who felt the same thrill I did when Marissa came to Yahoo. It really was like night and day.

I've seen a lot of discussion here, on Twitter and on Medium critiquing the way I responded to Marissa's late-night email habits. For a lot of people it seems late emails from an executive are a negative and demonstrates an expectation that others also be on email at 1 AM. I was surprised by that because I've always really enjoyed working for workaholic/fanatic CEOs, but I understand because I've also encountered some toxic personalities who do use late night email runs to demonstrate that they're "working harder" than everyone else (when in reality they're only putting more work into playing the game, not into deliverables). Because that was never remotely the case with Marissa, I didn't even think about it while writing. With Marissa, hearing from her late at night sent the message "I'm always thinking about what you need from me," not, "I'm always thinking about what you should be doing FOR me."

Of course, I'm a little bit of an unhealthy fanatic workaholic type myself, which is definitely part of why Marissa is such a powerful role model for me. She doesn't pretend that her sleeplessness or fanaticism is the most healthy or balanced way to live, and she doesn't advise others to be exactly like her. She just demonstrates that being naturally that sort of person is survivable and is compatible with having love and happiness in your life. That alone was huge for me. If I can be who I authentically am and survive it and have people around me who love me anyway, even if I shorten my life and don't necessarily have human relationships that are AS fulfilling as a Type B personality might be able to have, I'm ok with that outcome.
Very thorough explanation!
You kind of are though. You could've gone with a whole slew of different things but by saying "that doesn't suck" it implies that other things that are used for blogging do. It doesn't have to imply that but that's the connection most people will make and why we use phrases like that. You wouldn't go with "that like all the other solutions doesn't suck either", that doesn't set you apart in any way.

If you want to distinguish yourself then say what you are good at, what makes your experience better/different and to what kind of users this solution is tailored to.

That said, it does look very nice.
> If we would hold a poll, "should Poland accept whole lot of refugees from Middle East?", what response would you expect from "gays and leftists"? I would suspect they'll be at least 60% pro "Poles should definitely accept as much refugees as humanely possible".

Aaaand, in my book, that counts as "wanting to flood smbd with Muslims".

There's just notion that it's a respectable thing to want, and fighting it is not respectable. Even talking about this is frowned upon as you can see.
What if you don't have a Facebook login?
I just wanted to try making something vaporwave-like. I really like the aesthetics of it.
PokemonGo just got a callout in the earnings call.
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Agreed. I was at a Hackerspace years ago that worked on this principle, and wanted to start lower than that.

http://nand2tetris.org/course.php

Alas, I left before I could really get into it, and never had the peer pressure to understand a lot of core CS way over my head.
It really should be against the law to offer a paid subscription that you can sign up for online that you can't cancel online.
Oh, and to give credit where it's due, all I'm doing is setting up poudriere and jenkins. The guys working in the area51 deserve all the real credit for doing the real hard work of getting things working.
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Title is a bit bait-y. A better title might be, "Functional Programming isn't enough". tl;dr He says that FP is good, but you can still write bad functional code (which is fairly obvious).
I've used Gmane back when I was trying to debug linux-bluetooth issues to search through my old e-mail threads. It's a pretty helpful index. I didn't realize it was a single maintainer effort.
> Are you kidding? That falls into the realm of superhuman. I've seen 20 year veterans blow a 100 grand and get half that far. I think even Woz would do a double-take.

A high density BGA through an OSH Park board with a homebrew reflow oven and only 3 revs and a stainless stencil on only the last pass? Yeah, that's really quite good.

You practically can't avoid making a mistake on a PCB of that complexity. There are simply too many details buried on too many datasheets and one of them is going to drop.

If you have the time, the best thing I have found for catching mistakes is to have a design review. Even if the person doesn't understand electronics, the fact that you have to walk through every part and explain it to somebody means that you will catch some really stupid things.

However, if you're good and the board isn't too expensive, it's often cheaper just to fab the board. You're time is worth something, and you can be designing something else while the PCB is being fabbed.
Just arbitrary hand-tweaking. It was chosen because I though it looked good. When doing procedural generation like this, you basically just tweak constants 'til it looks good. There's no deeper reason behind it.
To cancel Blue Apron, you have to send an email, which then sends you a link to a cancellation page. I can't figure out what purpose that could possibly serve.
They still have tiny profits in the retail side from North America and actually lose money in rest for the world.

Taking all those orders in North America and shipping all that stuff made less money last quarter - $708 Million; than they made running AWS - $718 Million.

Time to spin off that loser business of shipping stuff to people's houses.

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-new...
Agreed. I had a project recently and was looking for something like this. There are "API first CMS" systems like Contentful and Prismic that could allow this, but they are paid services. A cool open source version that has plugins for middleman and other static site generators would be really cool.
It's a really tough job market for a lot of people. I would guess as a total ballpark that 80% of people who apply to Amazon would absolutely jump through hoops all day just to get an interview. They're almost always not going to be a good fit, but if you deal applicants all day and they're overwhelmingly kissing your ass for the time of day, it's easy to see why someone with narcissistic traits would get huffy when someone doesn't follow their every whim.
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just to clarify because i think you sort of said you were wrong but i'm not entirely sure...

if i read 17 U.S. Code § 201 (d) clearly, it suggests you can transfer ownership of copyright in any normal legal way of executing a contract.

I think your confusion is around the idea of works falling into the public domain via expiry of copyright, and/or works that do not have an explicit declaration of rights ownership.

In this case it seems she was pretty clear about her transfer of ownership. I don't believe you can rescind that just as you prefer, at any time.

see https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/201
Maybe a lawsuit or an inquiry from a regulatory agency would wake AZ up. "Employee arbitrage" is a fancy term for skimming or maybe even embezzlement.
Agreed. The critical ones are the useful ones.
>He'll tell you not to violate TOS (in other words don't harass people). This should be common sense.

It would be common sense if the ToS weren't selectively enforced based on how far one strays from political opinions that Twitter finds acceptable.
Curious as to why you say that. Do you mean in comparison to other cloud infrastructure providers or in comparison or rolling your own infrastructure?
I live in Seattle. I love the look on new coworkers' faces when they see Mt Rainier for the first time in April: "HOLY COW IS THAT A VOLCANO??"
As a web publisher, I earn on average $0.42 per click (mostly from http://www.daterangepicker.com).

As a web advertiser, I pay on average $1.76 per click (for SaaS stuff with a high CLTV).

$1-5 per click for app ads makes sense if the apps have a high CLTV, or the campaigns are temporary as they often are -- they just need to get enough installs to start ranking in app store categories, after which that becomes a free customer acquisition channel, or so I've heard.
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> It's legitimate to correct offending narratives that conflict with your version of reality.

You're not "correcting" someone's interpretation simply by stating a different interpretation, unless there's some grounding in evidence and objective truth. Core1024 may have evidence that supports his interpretation, but he didn't present it. As such, it doesn't qualify as a correction.
I didn't spend much time optimising the size. I thought it loaded fast enough for me. But maybe it doesn't load as fast on a slow connection...
She inherited a depreciating asset in core yahoo, managed to hold the line on further losses. She is also managing a "strategic transaction" that could go very wrong if done poorly. I would guess that (if successful) this deal will be thought of as a success, and probably comes as a relief to the board and officers. But again, I only know what I read on the Internet which surely is missing some important facts.
Its mobile apps, not websites. Banners and interstitials in finance mobile apps.
Thanks -- you're right. I've added a link and spelled it out completely in the first sentence now.
> Everyone's mileage may vary.

In Amazon it can vary quite a lot across countries, cities, teams.

> I love it, and I don't know anyone that left disgruntled or unhappy due to being burnt out.

I met plenty. Heavy on-call rotations being the primary reason. Many people were quite bitter about the real VS claimed on-call load.

But again, I agree that this varies a lot.
Are you U.S. based? We're entering election season and the increased demand on advertising channels can have a network affect across all categories.

I was talking to a friend who is at an agency doing radio ads for a large retail company, and basically the company's usual budget will be blown out almost immediately on radio, so they're spending it on other channels.
Well, depends on how you define "reselling data". One could argue that giving advertisers an application where they can target users based on a bunch of metrics that are personal data from the user's point of view is also "reselling data", even though it's not in the form of a database of names and birthdays.

But in the strictest sense, you're absolutely right.
Right, I found estimates of $600B yearly ad spend. To put that into context, total annual spending (aka world GDP) is over $70T, meaning that less that 1% of all spending in the world is on advertising.
> our industry

Who does 'our' refer to here?

Clicking your profile, it's not clear whom you work for, so I sure hope it doesn't refer to hackers of hacker news in general.
Did the NDA specifically refer to the interview process?

Usually they mention any sort of business practices or plans you might learn about in the course of interviewing; recruitment is highly unlikely to fall under that definition.
How can I vote for this? Is there such a bill we can pay --er..encourage congresspeople to endorse?
I don't think there can be enough outcry all at once to even dent facebook's profits at this point tbh. Can hardly see it.
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There are a lot of sites (dozens, maybe) that I would be willing to pay $1-$10 a month for, except that I'm not willing to sign up for all of them individually, and not all of them are willing to sell me their information/services at a price that matches the value that they provide. It's not worth my time to manage each of those subscriptions on its own, and there isn't really a good way to manage them centrally, from the same interface.

The money is almost certainly worth it, but the time involved almost certainly isn't.
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So much for all those failed predictions in 2014 of amazon never being profitable, being a bubble, etc. Amazon's cash flows are very strong, they have huge growth, and market dominance..whats what matters.

Amazon is the online version of Walmart but much bigger and much more potential...they are taking over retail, both online and offline...just amazing
Clothing and shoes still are a better experience for me on eBay than amazon although Amazon is catching up.
I second this! I understood that it would be something like that from the context, but I didn't knew what SDR meant until I read the comment above.
Great work!
>Time to spin off that loser business of shipping stuff to people's houses.

or start doing it by drones, flying or crawling, doesn't matter.
Here is the blog post https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2013/07/26/monetising/
Actually I think NNTP solved a bunch of problems that we didn't even know we had at the time, including scaling and funding.

NNTP servers were generally provided by your ISP, so ISPs built the capacity out as they added subscribers, and added groups based on the perceived interest. It wasn't especially difficult (and it's pretty trivial today) to offer all the "official" text-based newsgroups with a few days or weeks worth of retention; it only becomes a significant undertaking when you want to offer months of retention for binaries newsgroups.

Similarly, because the NNTP servers were basically a value-added ISP service, they were funded by subscriber fees. You never had a problem with a newsgroup suddenly getting popular and being unable to pay their own hosting fees, or suddenly tossing ads in order to pay the hosting bill, which is unfortunately common with webforums. And you don't have problems with a single server crashing and wiping out the history of a whole group. It's all pretty robust.

Architecturally, netnews was superior to web forums. Where it failed was in not having a good response to the spam problem. I think that had it not been for spam, people wouldn't have left NNTP for HTTP-hosted webforums nearly as quickly. But the decentralized nature of netnews meant there wasn't anyone who could quickly implement any of the myriad solutions that were proposed (cryptographic proof-of-work plus reputation systems probably would have cut down on the worst offenders).

My guess is that eventually, we'll reinvent something that's similar to NNTP but by another name (with the decentralization, server-server replication, gateways to other protocols, etc.), but it's been a long and unfortunate diversion in the meantime.
I don't understand your comment. It got a "callout in the earnings call", what does that mean? Does the "earnings call" refer to a part of the article I can't read (paywall) or are you making an assumption about this being because of PokemonGo and Google/Alphabet internally mentioning PokemonGo in a conference call?
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If you mean "programs that can only use a billion petabytes of storage", then that's true, but if you mean "programs whose code is less than a billion petabytes long", it's not true. (Someone recently calculated a result that I think can be interpreted directly as an actual decidability bound, and it's dramatically shorter than that.)
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I would imagine we'll continue to see Oracle acquire mature software companies that are built upon their database. It makes a ton of sense for them - they instantly cut the primary cost of the business (Oracle licensing). Quite frankly the Oracle licensing alone will probably justify the purchase price.

As long as it isn't a startup where the braintrust instantly fleeing makes the product essentially worthless, it makes sound business sense.
The comments in the original blog post suggests a gap of 60k with the offer. Your comment makes sense only if he was interviewing for a Principal Engineer position or something, but instead was offered an SDE-I position. Plus I'm pretty sure very few (if any) non-Principal SDEs at Amazon actually get 200K in the first year.
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You can expand your reasoning to include all religion, while you're at it. And anything anyone does that evidences a belief in something irrational or unfalsifiable.

The thing is, you're not wrong. You're just kind of mean and arrogant to reduce a multiplicity of nuanced worldviews that many people care about very deeply to simple meaninglessness.
Or how about a more general law, saying whichever medium you used to subscribe must also be available for cancellation? That way we also cover the inverse: tricking old people into signing up for someone via phone, and requiring cancellation online (if that is allowed, I'm not sure).
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And google definitely has few AI powered projects, others can't match. Google is not a target of that goal, just because they always disclose their AI achievements.
Its been done, but AFAIK not with hand etching: http://hforsten.com/making-embedded-linux-computer.html

I don't think you can do high frequency RAM lines with hand etched boards or BGA escape routing without vias, but two layer prototype boards are pretty cheap these days.
Is there such a thing as Yelp for websites where they are scored for their UX with DarkPattern being a scored attribute?

I would love to check a new website against this list, and I would also spend my expensive time to add to this list to report dark pattern websites as they upset me enough to take action.
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use the "web" link under the article link. Does a search for the title. Getting to WSJ from Google's search page bypasses the paywall.
Congrats to the team. I <3 Launchkit, and use a couple of its features.

Seriously bummed that this sounds like the end, however I imagine your amazing skills will be used to enhance the google play store, which is great for you guys.

Anyhow, this is not a shocker considering how well L.K's features worked. Enjoy your time at google.

Finally, thanks for the code, here's hoping someone picks up the torch, or at least uses it for inspiration :)
Publication in Nature (doi:10.1038/nature18638)

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v535/n7613/abs/nature18...
Wasn't Yahoo essentially unsellable when she took over? Tying the company's future to her personally may have been pretty much the only way they could disturb investor sentiment and inertia.
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That's actually sort of what I did. I didn't explain it to someone else, but went through it in my head, talking to myself explaining the design. Explaining it to someone else must be even better!
Incidentally, I'm working on a project to spin off the reviews piece of Amazon and making it first class, with an emphasis on community and trustability. I feel like this is a very important part of the ecommerce ecosystem and I'm not really sure why it hasn't been done already (very well anyway, see Epinions).
Wow, that's a huge gap between spending and earning. Do ad networks have costs other than employees and hosting or did just nobody undercut that price yet?

Edit: What is CLTV? I tried looking it up but not sure what I found makes sense.
Got $99 from us with a Prime membrship.

NetFlix raising it's monthly price to $10.99 and we only get a sub par library of content..

With Prime we pay less and get much more
The only accounting "trick" was using all of your profits to reinvest immediately into expansion. Bezos isn't a moron, this was intentional, and it's paying off now.
To save others from searching for it:

> ATLAS (Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software) provides highly optimized Linear Algebra kernels for arbitrary cache-based architectures. ATLAS provides ANSI C and Fortran77 interfaces for the entire BLAS API, and a small portion of the LAPACK AP

https://sourceforge.net/projects/math-atlas/
I think that sort of solution would work better as an educational tool or as part of an augmented programming environment. But I don't think it fits within the spirit of the task. It also would hit a ceiling really early on, if the parallel solutions to the Allen AI Science challenge are to be looked at as hints of how things might turn out.
From my notes on a radio archiving project I'm doing:

> Could you record the entire radio spectrum and extract stations and broadcasts later?

> In the USA, the AM radio band is 540-1710 kHz, a spread of 1170 kHZ,

> http://rtl-sdr.better-than.tv/?page_id=237 states that spectrum recordings are also a function of how many samples per second you choose to record:

> 2.8msps - 44.8mbps = 5.6 MB/sec.

> 2msps - 32mbps = 4 MB/sec.

> 1msps - 16mbps 2 MB/sec.

> http://www.myradiobase.de/perseus/ has sample files. 3.5 minutes is ~360MB. 60 seconds of 1500 kHZ is a gig. All too much. 24 hours at 1MB/min is 1.5GB, but 17MB/sec. is 1.4TB. Spectrum recordings are out.
good point as well. might as well run every bit of security you can, helps stop the "script kiddies" and lower quality automated stuff.
Citation needed. The following sources disagree strongly with your claim:

http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.publhea...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/sep/19/scientists-a...

http://www.cdc.gov/narms/animals.html
This is in addition to the $22 million provided to replace salary, pension and bonuses Walter forfeited...

Shouldn't investors at any company that does this be angry at having to reimburse executives for opportunity cost?
I commented in a similar vein on a piece that said that smart contract environments should never use Turing-complete languages because of the undecidability of program properties: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11942015 (That piece seemed to have a misconception that you can never prove properties of programs, rather than that you can't always prove properties of programs.)
Can you clarify what makes Safra Catz a master operator?
Alphabet 2016 Q2 Earnings Call: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVpWjo023cE
i do, many of them in fact. it depends on how happy i am with the existing solution, the cost and the quality.

i reserve the right to change my mind and move my business at any time, i think everyone should, sad so many don't.
I wish the 3rd party tool makers would keep up though - the change in the authentication mechanism in the mysql.user table means that tools like Navicat tend to make a real mess of things.

We had to downgrade a project here from 5.7 back to 5.6 because of the issues that 3rd party tools were having. And we were using latest releases of the tools too!

Or perhaps 5.7 should have some sort of fallback or wrapper functions for tools that insist on doing a SET on the password column?
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