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I posted this on another thread, but it was buried in comments. Curious to hear reactions to the ideas below. Will delete this comment if inappropriate.

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First, the board should decide: media company or tech company.

If Yahoo! is a media company -- which is more conservative since its peers would be AOL, Viacom, et al., and not Google, Facebook, et al. -- then merge/acquire Netflix ($11.5B market cap) and anoint Reed Hastings CEO. Let him navigate Nethoo through the transition to new media. Combining distribution and content failed for AOL-TW, but with the media industry in flux and with more content surfacing from the grassroots, perhaps now is the time for vertical integration.

If technology, then Yahoo! needs a new culture and a bold vision to attract the most talented engineers. No ambitious engineer wants to slave under PMs when they could flourish in engineering-oriented companies like Google and Facebook.
Yahoo!'s mission? Help users discover, personalize, and consume content.

Be the service -- mobile or web -- people turn to when they have nothing to do, when they want to find a cool article, deal, song, video, picture, restaurant, conversation, or event.

Today, Google is where you go when you know what you want. Yahoo! could help people upstream of search -- before people know what they want. Which, conveniently, is most of the time.

Lots of companies tackle the problem in different areas: Digg with news, Pandora with music, Yelp with local businesses, Instagram with photos, Groupon with deals.

With content proliferating faster than ever before, there is a need for some service to help people discover and consume content. Users don't want to hunt for content. They want the coolest deals, music, shows, restaurants, and news to come to them.

Analyzing the web for the most relevant content -- no matter the type -- at a personalized level is non-trivial. Because it's a daunting technical problem, it will attract smart engineers.

Despite the naysayers, Yahoo! occupies an enviable position with massive assets: hundreds of millions of users, deep advertiser relationships, and an iconic brand. The question is how to organize these assets into a sustainable and promising company.

Yahoo! has the cash flow to acquire some pieces, perhaps go private, and execute against some vision.

There is an opportunity to once again innovate with compelling technology and recruit talented engineers. There is an opportunity to help users navigate the explosion of online content in a smarter, more natural way. There is an opportunity for Yahoo! to reassert itself as one of the premier companies in Silicon Valley, one led by pioneering technology.
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I've used them for domain registration for several domains for about 4 years now. Very much a satisfied customer, honest and responsive crew behind it. I moved to them after having a nightmare experience with 1and1 a few years ago. I pay very little to maintain about 7 sites domain and hosting annually.
If only you'd said "usually"...
New 8pen released w/ practice game (acts as 8pen trial)
It isn't an argument about saving vs. spending, it's an argument about what, fundamentally, money is.

Money is a temporary store of value. Imagine a world without it. How would commerce work? Via direct barter. Direct barter is inefficient, because you may have to engage in an entire chain of transactions in order to get the one good you are trying to obtain. That's money's purpose -- to make this more efficient.

What Krugman is saying, and I think it's hard to dispute, is that a currency that incentivizes hoarding rather than transfer of temporary value is an extremely inefficient one, in terms of economic activity. And free markets hate inefficiency, right?
Millions of DiRT 3 Steam Keys Leaked
Alternatively: http://xkcd.com/936/
Yahoo employees don’t think much of ousted CEO Carol Bartz
A brief history of Seattle startups
I very much like how you restated his point. I felt myself agreeing, nodding my head when he was following that thought, then I had the image of Rushkoff tripping and falling flat on his face once he tried to figure out how. I think it would've been a much stronger article had he ended with "I don't know how to make this happen, only that it needs to happen." As it stands, he's just suggesting a different job for these unemployed toll collectors to take up, as opposed to toll machine repair.
"We're living in an economy where productivity is no longer the goal, employment is."

This is more ground for the fact that we might not be in a bubble with major financial crash risk like the .com bubble. The fact is that engineers who are building and inventing new technologies are building a societal system (possibly unintentionally) that puts technology, rather than people, at the top of the game (especially in terms of efficiency & profitability).

While we may, as the tech industry, be relatively safe in the foreseeable future, this article really makes me question what we, as engineers, designers & general tech lovers, can invent/build that will allow future society to not only take advantage of our technologies (as end-users), but also allow individuals to make money in an increasingly digital and on-demand world.
Sweet! I hope they don't get bulldozed by Intel's aggressive (some might say 'predatory', but not me, no, not at all) pricing.
I've been in a project where management decided to ditch AMD, do a hardware respin and linux driver re-writes due to last minute vendor shenanigans :-(
Normalizing `for...in` iteration in Underscore has actually been discussed before...the consensus was that it wasn't worthwhile to overload `_.each`, and that the use of objects as hashes in JavaScript was inherently broken. As such, Maddy was created to provide a consistent interface for working with objects, not arrays or array-like objects. You'll also notice that Maddy conforms to the functional pattern seen in other languages, rather than the generic pattern used in Underscore: the arguments to all iterator methods are `callback, [context], object`. This makes it easy to invoke `Maddy.curry` on a functional method, and then use an identical iterator function and optional context for multiple objects. This is one of the advantages of functional programming, and how Maddy distinguishes itself from other libraries.

Secondly, Maddy implements other features apart from iterator functions, including deep equality and object serialization. These methods operate on cyclic structures, which I've yet to see fully supported in any other functional JavaScript library. I've contributed a patch to Underscore that adds support for cyclic structures to its `_.isEqual` method, but it's still in review, and will likely remain so for some time.

Finally, while Maddy was philosophically inspired by Underscore, it isn't intended to replace or challenge it. You're free to continue using it as you prefer; I'm not suggesting that you replace Underscore with Maddy in your code. They are different libraries with different target audiences: Underscore is a general-purpose utility library, Maddy is a niche object operations library. In sum, it's simply another option for those wanting a more conventional functional programming library to work with objects.
Despite Microsoft's what late entry into robust virtualization, they've really put together a solid product quickly. I've found it much easier to use casually than KVM or Xen, and the Linux support is surprising quite good.

The integration into client versions of Windows will be quite welcomed by software developers who need to test on multiple versions of Windows.
RapLeaf announces $1M fund for data personalization apps
Electronics don't get cheaper every year because the dollar strengthens. They get cheaper every year because the production process becomes more efficient.

Some things can't really get cheaper every year (without some exogenous shock) -- anything with really high fixed costs of production OR a requirement of some level of quality by purchasers.

For example, it takes a ton of land to grow corn. As the population grows, the demand for and value of land will rise. That means that for the farmer to keep growing corn on his land, instead of selling it or using it in a new profitable venture, the corn needs to be producing a higher level of income for him than it had previously when land was cheaper.

Similarly - grass fed beef is not going to get cheaper. In addition to land requirements, there is the quality requirement also. If someone demands higher quality food, higher standards need to be followed, higher quality inputs need to be used, and a third party needs to ensure that those requirements are being followed.
I know two non-techie people (one a friend, one an acquaintance) who've used GoDaddy and gotten confused by all of the upsells and promos. My friend ended up purchasing a few extra services by accident and had a hard time trying to cancel them. The acquaintance was much less cognizant and ended up paying hundreds a month unknowingly.

I've also used them too, because a cofounder had registered our domain name with them. In Aug 2010, I noticed that GoDaddy had been charging us for an extra service we never purchased. I know this because none of us had logged into the GoDaddy account in a while. Fortunately, I'm really anal with accounting records and noticed the discrepancy in our bill.

After several emails and attempts to get this charge removed, I tweeted this issue with @GoDaddy included in it. THAT got an immediate response. Eventually, the charges were removed and we got a refund.

Moral of the story: Don't recommend GoDaddy to your non-techie friends, and consider avoiding it yourself. But if you must use them and have a problem, tweet about it to get a quick resolution.
Are you guys serious? No doubt there is good shared hosting, but most of it is oversold to shit. "Average shared hosting" is a race to the bottom.

The reason I say VPS is because that way you have guaranteed resources and the ability to debug and fix problems yourself. I guess if you know the right shared host you can get some good value there, but it still seems like a terrible risk to me due to undisclosed limits, or vulnerability to neighbors traffic spikes. When I said "startup" I thought it was implicit that it would not be expected to be a low traffic site, at least not for long.
I think the plasticity comes from the ears and eyes, which to me seem a bit doctored.

I think the uncanny valley could be overcome with some subtle rigging to simulate a person's micro-gestures. Its not often you look at a human completely motionless, sans a wake.
LinkedIn’s European competitor Viadeo opens API, brings developer contest to US
The killer feature I'm looking for is Riak's "it just works" -- especially in the case of nodes failing, soft failing, going offline, timing out, whatever.

In my situation, I don't care about the performance at all, because I don't have many keys at any given moment. The few that I have matter greatly.

I care that when I store a key, it's reliably, durably, stored and replicated, and that when nodes fail I don't have to do anything special to keep running. (This is in contrast to PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Mongo replication, where you have to fail over, then switch back eventually, and it takes special effort.)

AFAICT, It's not provided by Redis or CouchDB either, because their replication is async -- keys can get lost.

Having looked at a bunch of options in the last couple weeks, it seems like only Riak and Cassandra truly offer durable, synced replication that isn't difficult to admin. (...and of the two of them, Riak's documentation gives much more confidence about the ongoing admin efforts.)

Has anyone used any solid options I've perhaps overlooked?
Ask HN: Amazon Tablet - where is the Dev Kit?
Amazon does not seem to be eager to let people develop for their Kindle platform (I asked about the Kindle Dev Kit here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2968353). What do people think/know/project about developing for their imminent tablet? I saw no mention of SDK for it anywhere, no preview - very unlike Apple of Google Android, who are concerned with forming a loyal dev base by the time device is out.
Yeah he lost me there as well. Some of these people being displaced I feel probably won't have the motivation to be independent and produce said digital goods. That's why they are being displaced in the first place because they don't have new skills and their old skills are no longer needed.
Amazon Tries To Coax Developers With Cloud-service Credit
Show HN:  An interactive Bezier Curve demo
I posted another question about this very issue.
I left yahoo almost a year ago. My experience was that I didn't even know what middle management did. I refere to it as the cloud. There was me, my team, and my manager. Sometimes I would know who my managers manager was, but passed that I didn't really every understand who made decisions to do what.

This might be a middle management problem, I can't be sure. I don't think most people at yahoo can be sure.
reminded me of RA Wilson's RICH economy

http://www.whywork.org/rethinking/whywork/rawilson.html
You're thinking of industries in terms of how many people each employ. If one tech paradigm changes one industry from employing 1 million people, to employing just 100,000, does that mean we are worse off? Not really, because when that happens there are usually more markets and businesses created adjacent to that industry.

The Internet did bring Craiglist, which did end up killing a major part of the newspaper industry. But does that mean we're worse off? No, because the Internet also brought us many other things. So it's good to look at the bigger picture, rather than how many people each industry employees over a period of time.
When git was born, many people complained about its poor usability and some people created friendlier "porcelain" scripts. Eventually, git itself became "good enough" and maintaining porcelain scripts became too much work to keep up.

Is it too late for an improved git user experience? With so many online tutorials and books, a new porcelain interface would have a tough time capturing much mind share (while still calling itself git).

For those looking for something simpler than git, I recommend eg (EasyGit), a one-file Perl wrapper:

http://people.gnome.org/~newren/eg/
Is it really a problem if I simply use them as a registrar? I have many domains there but that's all I use them for is to simply register my domain. I have liked them for that because they are cheap (if you avoid all the up-sells which is easy enough) and their prices have stayed fairly consistent over the last several years.

I moved to them from Yahoo. Yahoo always allowed you to register a domain for a cheap price of 9.00 but then the renewals were 34.95...a bit of bait and switch if you ask me. Anyhow, I've been happy with simply using GoDaddy as a registrar but after reading this thread I'm wondering if I should switch??
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I actually do postpone electronics purchases because of falling prices. Electronics have low resale value and resale/upgrade is time-consuming. I tend to just wait for a price drop and then buy last year's best thing, rather than worry about having the fastest computer on the block.

If it's for work and there's some measurable benefit to the latest and greatest (rather than just showing off), that's different. But as a matter of habit, I only build a new PC once every 3 years; for about the same amount of cash, I get a roughly 400% speed boost.
No grudge, it just seemed as though giving an amount like that without any expectation of a return was not exactly a libertarian thing to do.

As for not knowing what your position is, that's correct but it's a safe bet that you are not a in position to match his donation.

Feel free to surprise me ;)
I use Mixpanel to track interactions on my iPhone apps right now and it's really great. Highly recommended.
Ask HN: How many of you use CRM systems for your startup?
I've got a relatively new web app that is doing something for CRM-using startups that has never been done. However, the question before I really turn it from an internal tool into a public on is how many of you actually use a CRM system and if so, which one?

If you could reply with the one you use and why, I'd appreciate it. Thanks! :)
> screwing up a potential acquisition

Right. Letting Microsoft acquire Yahoo was the best thing to do...

Because, like I said then, two bricks float better than one.

What Yahoo needs is a CEO with a clear vision and accountability at all levels. That's not what Microsoft is known for.
Cheers for that! Thank you for reinforcing my decision. I may just move the rest of my domains over there this week.
My guess is to show off a realistic skin, showcasing a five o'clock shadow helps.
Lamarckism is evolution too. Don't confuse Darwinian natural selection with "evolution" as a whole, which basically just means change over time.
Well, to be fair, the title is not 'Git Is Simple'. I'm just starting to really use Git and after reading this it seems a little simpler to me. Personally, I think Git is relatively simple as far as version control systems go, it's forgetting 5 years worth of knowledge of SVN and the nice visual tools that support it that is hard.
It's a fact that computers/automation are going to continue to obsolete human jobs. Nothing short of a technological apocalypse is going to reverse that. And I agree that we shouldn't really lament the reality that a trucker who used to spend 50 hours a week vacuously staring at the highway no longer has to do that. But that's a triumph. One more human mind freed up for greater accomplishments.

That said, I'm dubious of his suggestion that we all turn to purely creative pursuits. At least, it will be a very, very long time before automation gets us to that point. I'm more interested in what we do in the meantime. What are we supposed to do with hordes of workers that are freed up in the coming decades as menial jobs disappear at an exceeding clip?

My guess is that this is a problem the labor markets will solve on their own. That is, the solution to a disappearing amount of work is that, on average, we all simply work less. Why pay 3/4 of the population to work 40 hours a week when we could pay all of them to work 30 (then 20, then 10)? Of course, we're going to need to reduce per employee costs/benefits to make this work, but that's a good idea no matter what. Making the employer responsible for health care and retirement caused more problems than it solved anyway.
I think that these phrases and especially number 5 point to a different paradigm in business than we have today, unfortunately. Profits should really be there largely to help a company expand service, do R&D into new technologies, and keep the business afloat in hard times, not as the prime mover it all too often is.

To your question: "What is a business for", I like this answer:

#2: Set out to build a company and make a contribution, not an empire and a fortune.

Even the meanest Robber Barren on the Gilded Age got this, I think.
Sigh.

Where are you getting your information from that they are "ARM7" cores? I think you are getting confused so please do not go off spouting about (ARM7 vs. ARM9 cores).

ARMv7 is Cortex of which there have been Cortex A8 (single core) and A9 (dual core). There's also A15 coming down the pike.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#ARM_cores

The processor in the TouchPad is a Qualcomm dual core APQ8060 clocked at either 1.2 or 1.5GHz. It is very much the current state of the art for tablets. And given that they have been overclocked to as high as 1.9GHz certainly means that the processor itself is no slouch.

Now, once again, what runs on top is a whole different story.

Again, re your statement about short battery life, I would love to see a proper reference. Stock, out the box: "The battery life is estimated at nine hours by HP; in a review by Engadget, the battery lasted for about eight and a half hours". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_TouchPad

Modified with appropriate patches, it should and will last longer than said 8 1/2 hours. I find it tough to believe anyone that would quantify a device capable of lasting over 8hrs (of use) as having a "short" battery life.

Now the product being released before it was ready, that's a problem. However, there have been rumors that the release date was forced upon the Palm GBU without regard for product readiness. The 3.0.2 release brought much improved stability so that really should have been the proper baseline release.

That said, this is all kind of moot since HP and Leo seem keen on stumbling around like a drunk bull in a china shop. The sequence of events since the announcement certainly give off the impression that HP is not on the ball here and the stock price certainly reflects that. In 10 days, it would be a month since HP made the announcement and the stock has been flat after the massive drop the day after giving credence to fact that the market has no faith in where HP is headed.
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Yes, overborrowing, but peopled overborrowed so they can spend more, not to invest.
I switched to tcmd from DISCo Commander couple of years ago. It is really a decent piece of software.
Most of the additional aliases are taken directly from Ruby's `Enumerable` module (though both `fold` and `reduce` are common names for that function; not sure why Ruby called it `inject`), but I definitely agree. One name should be sufficient, especially with the availability of the API documentation.
Love the concept of the article but right out of the gate comparing it to a Model T and saying you must be a mechanic to operate it will likely result in a high bounce rate, and possibly just serve to re-affirm someones belief that git is, indeed, complex.
Are any of the big registrars trustworthy? I'm trying to consolidate all of my domains on Namecheap right now. I transferred one domain from Dyndns and they did the transfer within a few hours (nice!). Then I went to transfer another from Network Solutions and four days later I am still waiting. Do they think I'll change my mind if they refuse to release the domain for a week?
That list is slightly outdated, missing the $10b endowment for the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (endowed by its namesake).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Abdullah_University_of_Sci...
There's another argument against fixed currencies like bitcoin that should resonate with the hackernews crowd, and it's this:

A currency with inflationary pressure incentivizes investments into new enterprises. A currency with deflationary pressure, instead, discourages investment outside of banking.

Here's why. With a slight inflation, money slowly loses value. Even if you put it in the bank and earn interest, it loses value over time. So the rational thing to do, if you have a lot of excess money, is to find places to put it where it outperforms inflation, where it has a chance of not evaporating over time.

With deflation, money is instead guaranteed to be more valuable tomorrow than it is today. Sure, you could still try to invest some of it to try to outperform the gain you get from deflation, but it would be completely rational to just stick all of it in the bank, and live the good life forever, as your money automatically becomes more money (because its buying power increases), every day.

Why is there so much money managed by VC and Angel funds? While not the only reason, I'd claim it has a lot to do with inflation.

And, of course, I'm making things more b&w than they really are. Both massive inflation and massive deflation are really bad things. Currency that stays largely stable, or that deflates/inflates slowly over time, seems to work out fine.
I use Excel and gmail, I reviewed the SaaS CRM solutions that were out there but found they were all too heavy weight for my need. They often lacked the ability to quickly add prospects, etc.