skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is frustrating to watch. Yahoo is a terrific company with some amazing people. And they know how to execute. YUI / YDN / Boss / Flickr / Hadoop / etc.

But they lack any sort of strategy or vision. Wall Street has assigned $0 to the entire value of Yahoo! as a solitary business unit. They should have sold to MSFT but they didn't and now they need to move on.

What they need is to gut the top, promote from within and act like a startup again with a true leader who is willing to think long-term and galvanize the troops. The people at Yahoo! want leadership, and they want a strategy and they want to succeed. But until they get that from the top, they will continue to leave.

The only thing they have going for them in their favor is that they have lost so much value, that taking a gamble to restart the engine isn't that big of a gamble at all.
"I don't want a third party to be able to use it to their own monetary gain without my permission."

While I can appreciate the sentiment, that's not the law. I think Fair Use must apply when we're the content providers, just as much as when its Viacom.

With that said, your approach is probably the right one for you: avoid classes/teachers that use it. Personally, I don't mind, although anyone who would actually copy one of my papers has bigger academic problems than plagiarism.
As for reddit's size compared to digg here's the infographic: http://i.imgur.com/jiHka.png
you can google around and find other sites that go into greater detail on this.

And they currently have 5 engineers (believe this is their entire staff), this post is them pleading for extra funding for the fifth engineer: http://blog.reddit.com/2010/07/reddit-needs-help.html
Depends whether or not you believe Zuckerberg genuinely wanted to build a world-changing business. If that's his main goal (and the more I hear him talk, the more I start to believe it), and he genuinely believes he can do it, then taking the money isn't necessarily what's most important to him. I read a lot about entrepreneurs getting shit on for not swinging for the fences, but then they get shit if they turn down a billion dollar offer when they only see that as a triple.

It remains to see how this all plays out, but when you turn down a billion dollars, I think there's a good chance you're doing it for more than the money.
I think it's not technologically unimaginable -- we know basically what we'd need in order to get there. With a nuclear pulse design, plus sufficient life extension to make people willing to go on 200-year voyages, no reason why the Gliese 581 system can't be our second home. (Hopefully we'll think of a catchier name by then).

Taking a really long-term view, Gliese 581g has certain advantages over Earth. Its M-class sun will still be burning many many billions of years after our fuel-hungry sun has burned itself out.
P2P settlement factory expects £10 million from mailing letters
I'm in Portland, and I don't think that "chillin in the woods, driking tea, chopping wood" accurately describes it.
Color me unsurprised. I dislike Java as much as the next person, but for a certain class of problems -- particularly in game programming -- it is a tool I often reach for.

Java is a painfully verbose language that does not trust me with any power tools. When I work in it I wind up cursing its name approximately twice per hour. But the combination of Extreme Portability and Libraries For Absolutely Everything and maybe a little bit of Everybody Understands It often draws me in anyway.

I don't love it, but sometimes it is the right tool for the job.
I prefer his long, opinionated posts.
That's true. Scala can be pretty fast but it needs a lot of ram.

Thanks for taking the time to write this up. Detailed descriptions of real-world applications of FP languages are always welcome.
Which works great, unless they're part of your target market.

Is the cost of supporting IE6 worth hanging on to those impressions/sales? That's a call you've got to make on a case-by-case basis.
Last time I tried Scala, it blew Clojure out of the water for speed on the program I translated. I assume that Java did too. I think that's probably not true any more.

Anyway, pretty fractal tree program in lisp!
We don't support IE6.

If a client wants IE6, why not tell them to spend that money developing an accessible version of the site? There are going to be more disabled people visiting their site then IE6 anyway:

IE6 stats: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_explorer.asp

Paper on percentage of disabled rising from US Dept of Commerce: http://www.census.gov/prod/3/97pubs/cenbr975.pdf

Based on IE5 degradation in usage and extrapolation of the IE6 stats, it may only be ~3.5 years (~summer 2013) before IE6 drops to ~0.3% usage.
Stretching a single browser window over 2 monitors isn't really 'multi monitor support'.

Not that the system doesn't look good, but give credit where it's due.
What about something along the lines of Project Deadalus?
Some personality types mesh perfectly well with Dick’s Machiavellian management style. Specifically, it seems to work on people who don’t feel very attached to their jobs. They have separate, thriving lives outside of work, and are fully able to leave all baggage at their desks before they go home.

- meshing with the Dick style of management

- being attached to your job

- having a thriving life outside of work

- being able to leave work baggage at work

I admit these aren't entirely unrelated. Being able to leave baggage at your desk mitigates the damage done by Dick. Having a thriving life outside of work helps you leave your baggage at work. If you don't have a thriving life outside work, you are more likely to be attached to your job.

However, in general these four things can vary independently. For example, I once had a Dick manager I hated, was apathetic about my job, was unable to leave work baggage at work, and had a personal life that varied from thriving to nonexistent during the time I worked for that manager.
Maybe that is a lesson learned for investors if the founder wants to be bought out early. I bet things would have turned out better if he had all his eggs in the basket still.
>3. Programming effectively in a functional style is more difficult than banging out imperative code.

As someone who is just starting to learn functional programming, do you believe this is because "we've" all been taught to think imperatively, and functional is just new to us? Or is it something inherent in functional style coding?
2.5 grow

Kind of important
Density of a planet's interior is not uniform, and gravity tapers exponentially with distance. So, a planet with a dense core and a less-dense middle area could easily have less gravitational force than you might expect since the surface is so far away from the dense core.
No one is accusing you of cheating. Do you refuse to let professors grade your papers, because if they do they're implying that you have gotten every question wrong?

And any professor who talks about academic trust is someone you should avoid, because they're lying. Part of academia is about verification and refutation. If you can't validate work, you don't believe it. Now it may be the case that you choose not to validate it, maybe due to trust of the author, but that trust has been gained not something granted to all academics.
I use Skype as my primary development collaboration platform for a group of freelancers. I do not have a Facebook account, I am not a privacy nut, but Marks comments on users being stupid about trusting him with information and his documented abuse of that information shows a core character flaw that I would not trust my data with.

I know that Facebook has grown bigger than Mark and that he was young at the time but that is a very damaging statement. Especially his condescending tone in how it was delivered.

If Skype joins the Facebook family, I would switch to Google offerings for chat, video and voice and find a third party screen sharing tool for screen sharing. I just don't trust Facebook and that is a statement coming from a guy that is not too overly concerned with privacy.
Of course you also have 3.5 times the population

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP...

difference only 26%... guess you should move to Qatar or Luxembourg though -- but when you're not rich from oil or moving large sums of bank money around, that high GDP is not actually helping, is it?

And then there is stuff like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-of-life_index.
My (non-lawyer) understanding is that fair use doesn't apply because this is a for-profit situations.
Digg Founder “Burned Out”, May Leave by End of 2010
Phil Plait just posted a writeup about this: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/09/29/po...
The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted (Unless It Is)
That would be awesome as premise for a science fiction short story or novel!
The main problem with Java for games is that you have to do graphics through a wrapper written in another language (AFAIK Minecraft uses LWJGL's OpenGL wrapper) and working from a language like Java, you lose some fine control of memory management.

On the upside, it allows him to do rapid development, and you can even try Minecraft in the browser.
Good question. My opinion is that thinking in terms of recursive transformations of immutable datastructures is just fundamentally more difficult than the imperative equivalents. My earliest exposure to recursive algorithms was in AP computer science in high school and I remember a lot of the students really struggled with them, both those with previous imperative experience and without. This extra effort can pay off over time though because it makes the overall program easier to understand and incurs fewer bugs than the imperative style. You can also avoid a lot of this if you express your functions in terms of other elemental sequence functions (map, reduce etc) instead of explicit recursion.

Doubtless others will disagree though. Maybe we don't all have the same mental strengths and weaknesses.
Depressed? Technology Will Make You Happier, Researchers Find
> I dislike the accusation and assumption that I'm going to cheat.

They aren't assuming that YOU are going to cheat. They are assuming that SOME students are going to cheat.
66 Errors, 17 warning(s)

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fsubway.com%2F...
English Channel: until about 9000 years ago you could walk across. Stone age people had boats too.No historical analogy can come close to interstellar distances.
Vegetables have about 100 calories per pound. (See http://www.beyondveg.com/billings-t/cal-par/calorie-paradox1... ). You can get higher by picking the right plants so let's say 300 calories per pound. At 6,000 pounds per year that's 1.8 million calories. At 2500 calories per person per day that's enough for two people for a year.

For a family of 4 that's at least twice the area, or 0.2 acres needed, and likely more as the web page says their max was 6,000 pounds. It also doesn't say which plant those were, nor what the moisture content was. After all, if a watermelon is 15 pounds then that's 400 watermelons, and each one gets 11 sq. ft, but most of that is water weight.

And as for the gardenpool, as best as I could tell, duckweed is 6 times more productive than corn, and tilapia at best consume 1.5 lbs to produce 1 lb of weight. Not all that weight will be edible, and corn isn't as productive as potatoes, but the numbers work out that it might be 2-3 times more productive than my potato number for the same area.

However, I think the numbers for duckweed yield are in pig waste water or something else with a lot of nutrients in it, and everything is here is under best conditions, which also means a lot of care taking. Which potatoes don't need.

BTW, the web site says 8 eggs per day, not 8 fish. It looks like it takes 5 months for tilapia to mature to eating weight, and 8 fish a day would mean stocking 1,200 fish at a time. What they don't say is, is duckweed the only food source for the fish or are they adding other feed?

They also mentioned that they need a swamp cooler to keep the temperature in check. Assuming that's 200W average over 24 hours, that another 4,000 kcal ("food calories"), or almost enough for two people. They get that off the grid, but if they needed to provide their own fuel source for heating and cooling (tilapia can't handle cold water) then that's another factor in the energy equation. Potatoes are hardy in northern, cool climates.
Mark Suster on Women & Venture: Its a Numbers Game
Yelp Instant - quickly find stuff around your local area
Why did Columbia's Campus Network lose out to Harvard's Facebook?
I was kind of believing the video until that scene where the guy is taking a picture and rotates the tablet...and the picture rotates, antialiased, in real time.
This is a bit of hand waving (which is OK because we're talking about imaginary sci-fi constructs) but it was my understanding that since warp drive bends space around you, you're not actually going anywhere near the speed of light, and therefore you experience time similarly relative to people at rest.
> The cool thing is, technology innovations are accelerating as well, so we will develop better engines faster than the old ones will arrive to the destination.

The plot of Lost In Space (1998) contained that premise.
I'm not sure how 'useful' it would be, but what if you could overlay this on any web page you wanted, like that asteroids bookmarklet from yesterday. You could have the option to turn it on or off. Kind of an ability to see some real time comments overlay on articles or something. Or just a way to 'hang out' on the HN homepage. Each webpage would have it's own room. It would be like creating an instant chat overlay on the page.

I just feel like this would add a whole new dimension to the web. It's kind of like WoW back when I played. Each region/city has their own chat zone. I spend too much time just browsing random articles, it would be nice to start up some conversations that aren't as formal as comments (not logged, realtime, etc).
IPhone 4 Sells Out in China: 100,000 Units in Four Days
> the point is that RIM shouldn’t announce a device if it isn’t done

"Real artists ship, dabblers create concept products

Pretenders don’t quite understand that design is born of constraints. Real-life constraints, be they tangible or cognitive...

Concept products are like essays, musings in 3D. They are incomplete promises. Shipping products, by contrast, are brutally honest deliveries. You get what’s delivered. They live and die by their own design constraints. To the extent they are successful, they do advance the art and science of design and manufacturing by exposing the balance between fantasy and capability."

http://counternotions.com/2008/08/12/concept-products/
India Forces A Billion People to Register for Security Database
No one is accusing you of cheating. Do you refuse to let professors grade your papers, because if they do they're implying that you have gotten every question wrong?

Well, the head of the department all but accused me of cheating because I went and spoke to her about the use of TurnItIn. If I had to guess, I'd say that the only reason she didn't do so outright was because I hadn't turned in (or written, at that) anything yet. Nor is it like I refused to have my work graded; I tried to find alternate methods of handing my work in.

And any professor who talks about academic trust is someone you should avoid, because they're lying. Part of academia is about verification and refutation. If you can't validate work, you don't believe it. Now it may be the case that you choose not to validate it, maybe due to trust of the author, but that trust has been gained not something granted to all academics.

"Academic Trust" is usually mentioned in the context of "school policy" and something thats required on the syllabus. I've never had a professor say "Well, I trust you. You don't have to use any sources." (However nice that would be.)

I'm not saying to not verify or validate the work. I am saying that if I take the time to cite my sources in whatever format the professor specifies, the professor should be able to determine if I plagiarized or not on their own. Really now, if someone doesn't cite their work, that should be a giveaway that there is a potential problem.

And honestly, for undergraduate work, the issue of validation isn't exactly going to be important. An overwhelmingly large majority of the time, no original research is being conducted.
Tim Armstrong: AOL is Brands & Platforms
Google’s Mayer criticizes content “locked” inside Facebook
Likely much faster ways of going through this but to expand on your thought:

#!/bin/bash

for (( i=1; $i < 1250646; i++))

do

curl -s http://www.crunchbase.com/search/advanced/people/$i | grep advanced_search_query | cut -d\" -f12 >> people.txt

done
Thanks Mahmud! It's definitely nothing advanced, and it's a bit of a dead end as far as languages go, but I think it gets the point across!
That's not true. Wikipedia lists this under "Common Misunderstandings" of Fair Use:
"If you're selling for profit, it's not fair use. While commercial copying for profit work may make it harder to qualify as fair use, it does not make it impossible. For instance, in the 2 Live Crew Oh, Pretty Woman case, it was ruled that commercial parody can be fair use."

Companies like Kinko's also operate under Fair Use (when you're making a copy of a page from a book).
You needed to click load more for the comments right?
Stands to reason that you'd probably have to do the same thing for hidden comments etc.
Keep in mind too that the new class decorators can do a lot of what metaclasses were good for, in a way much easier for the uninitiated to figure out. (Partly because once you understand function decorators class decorators seem obvious and straightforward.)

Metaclasses can do some pretty powerful stuff though. One of those features that you might never need, but if you do, you really do.
This is actually a timely piece of advice in my case, as I interact with my German managers. They might be expecting a more "go off and engineer what I asked for attitude" from me, while I'm doing more of the back and forth thing of suggesting alternative approaches with various trade offs.

Of course, they did decide to start their company here in the U.S., so they may appreciate some things about the U.S. style of doing business.
How to Use the Rule of Thirds to Improve the Look of Your Products
Alternatively, the (classic) how to trick an online scammer into buying a fake laptop: http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook/

(I know it's only tangentially related, but I love that story.)
Nobody says "I need to yahoo that". And it's a big problem.

Yeah, all the products you listed are cool, but they are not worth $19 billion (current YHOO market cap.).
Keeping an exact and full copy of my work without any modifications pretty much rules out the possibility of a parody. And TurnItIn isn't doing any sort of creative work with it (musical or otherwise).

Unless you're saying my work is a parody of itself? In which case, its still my work. And they're still not doing any creative work with it. An algorithm can be creative, but applying it over and over is not.
You’re implying that language syntax is primarily technical rather than social. I’m not sure I can agree. The reason that Python code uses standard idioms most places you go is that the larger-scale Python community is committed to quite a different set of social norms than the Perl community.

Pulling in that language-community momentum can definitely make a difference to the social/technical dynamics inside a smaller group.
It's discourage by HR, but is your manager going to pass you over for a raise or a promotion because you didn't take enough vacation days?
Ahh -- that makes sense. Thanks for clarifying.
They're assuming that someone will be cheating. They're not ruling anyone out. To me, they're implying to everyone (not just me) you may be cheating.
I can't do any direct comparisons any more, but one thing I keenly remember was WMP automatically syncing new content I added to my Music folder, whereas iTunes makes discovering new content painful.

WMP also had a play list on the side, and you could easily add to it. I miss that from iTunes, the concept of a play list that I don't have to save. I think there is sort of a way you can do that with the DJ... but it's so confusing.

WMP was like here, have a playlist area. Enjoy!

It's just very, very frustrating. I realize these are all probably personal preferences. I also realize I might be missing certain things, so if you have any suggestions, let me know. =)
Link to the actual paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.5733
So try it and prove me wrong. As I said before, that jQuery selector appears to be counting all the comments, including the hidden ones.
Chalk me up as someone who disagrees. Personally, I find recursive transformations of immutable structures far easier to reason about than iterative modifications to mutable structures.

At least in some cases, I think that's the expected result: consider the difficulty of reversing a singly linked list in-place and reversing it applicatively.
Federal Appeals Court Judges, who know US law pretty well, disagree with your assessment of US law:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/headline-her...

And it was unanimous.
Hey fellow Portlander, I agree I don't think Rose has seriously been to here if that is what he thinks this place is like. There are certainly places in Oregon like that and you can get to them within an hours drive from Portland. That is one of the things that makes this place so awesome.
Quick tidbit:

We had a name locked up. We were planning on using it for a new game. It was registered with Apple. A few days after registering it, another app came out with exactly the same name, but in all lowercase type. App names are case sensitive!
I'd recommend one of my favorite web sites: http://www.centauri-dreams.org/

It has serious discussions about e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Daedalus

Edit: Recent discussion about Project Icarus from a conference: http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=14513
I have to wonder why they are doing this. Money might not be the only reason. If you think about it, Fox will probably pony up the money to 'test' new technology on Star Wars. So, I wonder if this is a golden opportunity to build a technology that could better up convert/ sample any 2d film to 3d.

With that in mind, I wonder what the tech is like, what does it do?

Will it detect object edges and try to give them a z position on the fly? With a single camera? ( that's pretty sweet tech, AR could use that. )

I know there was some work on using the vibration in an orthoscopic camera to extract out the necessary angles to generate a 3d image.

With movies, they seem to develop tech that will get them close, and then pay someone to tweek it. ( how close will it get them? )

The concern I have with this approach is how they are going to get the details of items to pop in 3d. One of the things that Avatar did so well was how every item, even the jewelery seemed to have depth to it. ( after seeing it in imax 3 times you have to wonder )
Working out and reading are my top two wind down methods.

A simple walk around the block works wonders as well.
that's a pretty link-baity article .. At this point of time, it's a voluntary opt-in and the primary ID number is still the PAN # ... This might change however during the course of the implementation however ..

I'm more concerned about the privacy concerns.
Wikipedia has a good entry on this issue:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_Identification_Authority...