skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Normally I like hires within, but hiring a board member is just trouble. Particularly one who has been around for the total collapse of the stock. Apple had a natural and trained successor in-house and was running smoothly, HP needs a product guy who can articulate a new HP way.

Ms. Whitman is just the wrong person. Heck, I am not fond about his time at Apple or Be, but Jean-Louis Gassée (if he has learned price does matter) would be a better choice from the product side. He would need a strong CFO and COO to make it work. Not ideal but better.
Looks like a digital, semi-automated scrapbook. From my understanding, it's not an overhaul of the profile, but another view of your online identity. If they pull it off it could be pretty cool.
The most depressing part? "He will be fired, of course, with a nice, big (and appalling, considering the 47 drop in HP stock in his tensure) severance package as a goodbye-on-your-way out."
I worked with someone who financed a feature film on 67 credit cards. He didn't make his investment back at all, and had to disappear for awhile, as he was saddled with about $300,000 in credit card debt. But when the credit card companies did catch up with him, years later, he was able to settle his whole debt for about 30k.

Running from the credit card companies ruined his credit, of course, but I wonder if the author of the article would have gotten a better rate of return if he had just hid from the credit card companies, waiting for them to get desperate enough to settle.
Whatever happened to just "being a utility"? All of these new features really don't line up with Zuckerberg's vision of Facebook.*

*At least my impression of his vision, given that he often describes Facebook as a utility.

Edit: sorry, what did I say that was so offensive? In every single interview I've seen with Zuckerberg, he talks about Facebook being a utility. How does adding various features (like the timeline) correspond with that at all?
I can get behind that. I'm a big fan of finding better ways to teach. Thanks for taking the time to respond.
Does that mean it is not open for MERCHANTS outside the US or it won't take CARDS from outside the US? You may want to clarify this for potential customers.
Meg Whitman to be named new HP CEO
I've stopped bothering.

Anyway, payment processing is a solved problem in the Netherlands. Which other countries have sensible, cheap payment, easy-to-implement solutions that are widely used?
It's the Java / Linux version of it, yes.

Confusingly "oVirt" has in the past referred to some different software. That's what you get for recycling a convenient domain name that we happened to own ...
Since even the most high-level concept, explained correctly, can be absorbed and applied by any person of average intelligence, I will be very interested when the author (or, y'know, anyone) posts such an explanation of motivic cohomology.
This does look quite cool. Will be interesting to see it for real.
The examples that they are showing look awesome. I wonder if they will surface ex-girlfriends as "important" parts of your timeline.
Facebook Unveils Timeline: The Story Of Your Life On A Single Page
The “What Can I Do For You?” Culture
Its done on purpose. For example, high-gain communications antennas need to remain pointed at Earth, else they don't do much good.
Good question. I'd imagine that's part of the logic behind giving you "complete control" :)
I'm also interested to see how they associate old photos and other pre-Facebook content with dates.
I agree completely, which is why I don't own HP stock. From my perspective it shouldn't really bother me unless I'm an HP shareholder and it's my money they're playing with. If the company wants to waste tens of millions cycling through a new CEO every year or two -- so be it. It'll be that much easier for a competitor to eat their lunch. If the shareholders cared enough they would throw out the board of directors.
Thanks, I didn't think of that. Clarification noted above.
I imagine this just killed erly.com's collections.
PPC or SEO?
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So effectively Apotheker was brought in, trashed Palm, spun off the PC division, and now is getting the boot? The suggestion that HP replace the entirety of its upper management, Apple-circa-1996-style, is becoming more and more credible.
Have they added a way to change the date on a photo? Because those scanned 80's photos in the demo aren't going to show up in the 80's if you uploaded them in 2010.

Edit: Sounds like you drag the existing photos to the timeline to add them in the appropriate place. Better than nothing...
Looks like a digital, semi-automated scrapbook.

It is also starting to look a lot like what myspace was. Of course, without allowing customization, they could make it look a lot cleaner and meaningful but only time will tell.
Looks like a ripoff of Google's Dear Sophie, without the emotional impact.
That may be so (and I'm not an Apple insider, although I do know a few LLVM devs). I guess you could say a driving motivator to find an alternative solution to GCC was to not be reliant on a GPLv3 license. Traditionally I don't think the license has stopped Apple from contributing a lot back to the OSS community (just look at WebKit).

Besides, a compiler is just a compiler. Maybe someday down the road they will start producing their own ISA, but until then even if they're making their own ARM chips it's really hard to get it to do special Mac/iPad-only magic.

What I do know is that Clang was funded by Apple almost from the start, it was engineered right from the start to be more than just a compiler but something you could plug into the IDE as well (as the latest XCode demonstrates, it has completely unbeatable C insight).

LLVM itself is also far more extensible than GCC, just look at the slew of new-ish (last 3-4 years) of projects that have launched using LLVM. Have you heard of any such projects being launched with GCC? I can't think of any (maybe if they did, they weren't proud of it).
I have always wondered why people are so shamed of their past emotions. Ex-girlfriends are part of your life, part of who you are even if you don't want to admit it.

I suspect it to be somehow a configurable feature or you can always remove those manually.
This isn't arbitrage but it's a good article anyway.

I did something similar about 5 years ago but with "investing" the money in HYIPs (high yield investment programs). I was woefully ignorant of how many of these are scams (99.999%) but managed to make a decent return and not lose my shirt.

I wouldn't recommend doing this to anyway. The risks are extremely high.
Imagine if you worked for BigCo, and one day your boss says to you, "You're fired... and we're also taking back your stock options and severance pay."

Because that's what you're proposing doing to a CEO. Yeah, they're rich and proportionally more of their pay is comprised of non-salary items. Oh well. Yeah, you don't like what HP executive management did to the company. I agree, it sucks. But in the real world, people negotiate trading work for pay, and you can't just yank it back because you didn't like the work.

(Unless you negotiate some provision to do so, which some companies do. But not HP.)
How proper redirects and caching saved us 3.5 seconds in page load time
the myline ipad app offers a similar functionality with a cool interface.
Am I the only one noticing some latent sexism in some of these comments?

I view Whitman's role with Ebay as comparable to Eric Schmidt and Google. Both joined about 2 years about their respective companies were founded and made them #1 in each of their target sectors.

I don't think anyone here would seriously question that Eric Schmidt could run HP (not that he'd want to).

But reading through these comments, I'm getting the impression people think she's unqualified to run HP, even with her impressive track record and having been on the board of HP to understand what's actually happening there.

So is it me, or am I reading to much into this?
After I signed up I was directed to the "get-started" page where I could submit a test payment. It didn't work (sat on the pulsating "waiting for token").

Eventually I figured out it was because I had not yet confirmed my email address, but there was absolutely nothing on the "get-started" page which told me I had to confirm my email before I could use that page.

Probably should fix that, because I had a strong negative first impression when a simple test payment just sat there doing nothing :)
What is the underlying tech supposed to be in that video? A blogger blog? A GMail account?
What is this? Reddit?
You can control it, so you can hide or show whatever you want. However, in my case anyway, my ex-girlfriends have fundamentally shaped who I am and I would keep them visible in my timeline because of that.
I like that. It's not "you can't", it's "you will have to work".
What R U saying? PPC or SEO is better?
Well, if I get fired, my unvested stock options certainly dont suddenly vest. And I dont get any severance pay. So yes, I propose that CEO's get exactly that treatment.
Honestly, most of the concepts you listed are fairly easy. They mostly apply to the mechanics of writing code, so they just require a bit of thought.

Problem solving is difficult. Recognizing how to apply dynamic programming is difficult. NP-completeness proofs are difficult.
You forgot to talk about the part where you use arbitrage, you simply described how to get lots of credit quickly...
Timeline wouldn't work without a way to change the dates.
This looks like a new feature rather than reinventing the main way you interact with Facebook. Your comment seems directed at the changes they made in the past few days rather than the link in this thread.
I'd say it's time for you to negotiate yourself to another company. Severance pay, at least, should be standard.

(Edit: I'm taking the inference you're working for a big company. If you're working for a startup, we're talking about a whole 'nother world.)
So all !sub-domain emails are publicly accessible? I actually like this idea, sorta like a very lo-fi mailing list.

Anyways, this is very impressive to me. I've only dealt with email servers in the most superficial way and they've always struck me as being tedious to set up and manage. Creating a service that's based on email is pretty much a herculean enterprise in my book.
Back when I was doing e-commerce, a large percentage of my revenue was on eBay from '05-'09. I didn't realize how stagnant the platform was until John Donahoe replaced Whitman and finally changes were made to increase safety for buyers and differentiate sellers in the marketplace. I don't think ebay would have lost so much 3rd-party seller market share to Amazon if Whitman had been proactive.

I don't know what the HP board is hoping for by hiring Whitman as CEO, but if it's anything other than "steady as she goes," then I think they are making a bad choice.
Looks really interesting. Wonder if G+/Picasa will be creating a similar feature - I've almost moved away from facebook completely.
Would be interesting to see this compared to the number of hours you've put in over the course of the development, so you have an increasing per hour rate.
Sorry - just read the end. I see!!! Is there a way to share data between the two optimizations? Also, off-topic a little, is the skillset the same for SEO and PPC?
Enjo Review, not as clean as you might think
Experience has shown me that there are people who just won't get these concepts. I don't know if they decided it was hard and gave up or what.

Example: Shortly before a final exam for an undergraduate introductory course on logic, there was a student behind me who said "I still don't get this De Morgan thing"

This was something that was covered in the first week, it was impossible to do about 90% of the work in the class without it and has got to be at least as obvious as pointers and recursion. The student was trying in the class and went to office hours, study groups, etc.

I still don't have a good explanation for how someone can't grasp De Morgan's laws in under an hour, much less after 16 weeks of class.
It's not a matter of being ashamed of ex-girlfriends (maybe sometimes it is). The problem is my wife doesn't want to go on my Facebook profile and see pictures of a dozen ex-girlfriends. And I don't want those showing up in there automatically and having to explain.
Try http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/400
I think you are talking about moving balances between cards, sometimes called floating. It might loosely be arbitrage if you use the cash back features to think of the value of a dollar spent on one card being less than the other. If 3% cash back, spending one dollar on the card really only costs 97% of one dollar, then pay it off with a normal 0% cash back card.
Of course it is US only.

US people seem to think the rest of the world looks like Ethiopia and that you have to bribe people left and right and center to get a business started here.
God help those poor souls still stuck at HP. The gubernatorial campaign exposed all sorts of character flaws and showed that Whitman has a complete lack of empathy for people who work for her.
Please visit Cheers London and report back on the cultural value it micturates upon that fair city.
I really hoped her disastrous run for governor of CA would be the last thing the public ever heard from her. Her hilariously stupid decisions during the acquisition of Skype made me think she would have very little future after eBay. It boggles my mind that the HP board would even briefly consider her... What HP really needs is a new board and a new CEO...
to me it looks like this is the new default layout for the website, it says "a new kind of profile" in the title and the site title is "introducing new profile." Maybe I'm wrong...
Redis, ported to Ruby
I agree -- I hate these "negative" lists because there's an infinite number of ways to screw something up. Enumerating them isn't helpful.
He wasn't even that successful. He only got to the point of "maybe we should spin off the PC division, or do something else with it" without actually announcing (or maybe even having!) a plan to do so.
Is this similar to http://path.com?
I love gandi as a DNS provider. One thing to be aware of is that they are based in europe and your credit card company my ding you with a foreign transaction fee if you use them.
If we're talking emacs, you can configure it to do whatever you want. So no, it does not always mean "insert spaces until the next tab stop".
Worst tech BoD ever: HP or Yahoo? I'm thinking this pushes HP over the line.
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I was sucked into one of in-store customer taste comparisons, when Via was launching. The Via was better than the brewed coffee -- no surprise to me; I've consistently found Starbucks in-store brewed coffee to be lousy. (I can do a lot better at home, with the same beans.)

I never purchase Via, and neither do many others, I suspect, because at $1 or more per 8 oz cup, it just seems ridiculously expensive for instant coffee. (Even if it's comparable to the in-store price for a brewed cup -- and, as I mentioned, tastes better. If customers ever learn the latter.)

I've read that they use a centrifuge to "dry" it, and so I don't know what the production costs are. But when I read that they are grinding beans very finely, rather than concocting an extract, and when I look at the physical quantity they are selling you, I can't help imagining that the margin on Via (minus marketing and all that crap) is exhorbitant.

Perhaps one problem is that if they dropped the Via prices, they'd undercut their in-store sales.

Anyway, Via's a decent product, but it seems to have limited opportunity under its current marketing.
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Does this mean they'll bring back the TouchPad? Is it even possible, given the people they just laid off from that team?
Yes, thank you. It's too late to edit it now, but I appreciate the head's up.
Ask PG: The mixed message in AirBnB
Hi Paul,

You have written and spoken out on numerous occasions that you prefer startups with all dev teams. No sales guys, no business guys etc. You have never made any qualms about where you stood on the issue.

However, when one looks at AirBnB and what you have said about them, is it fair to say that above all it is hustle that matters to you? Given the function they were performing it seems like they were business guys – doubt they were writing any code, correct me if I’m wrong here in my assumption that majority of the team was not neck deep in code.

My question to you, given the AirBnB example, where do you stand on the team’s mix of founders? I personally agree that startups should be dev heavy, but I cannot help but notice the contradiction in all your writings and interviews v.s. your take on the Air guys.

Thanks!
An avid reader of your writings.
Have I missed any Spotify - Facebook announcements? I know there's been some buzz on FB live-streaming music - this seems to indicate (in the Apps section) that it will do so using Spotify.
This feature is giving me visions of "The Final Cut"
Completely agree that is the perception, even if the net effect is less time spent working. And to be honest, I'm sure in some cases it would cause more work.
Well - once they've gone down the wrong path, realizing it and making a correction should reflect better on them (although it still shows poor predictive skills IMHO).
...this rather awesome. I think this'll be a good way to make the profiles more engaging and visually interesting. Good move!
Works on iPhone too, although it's so small I could barely even draw anything.
Whether Google is a monopoly isn’t the point
A pointer points. A reference refers. These are the same thing.

Except they aren't the same thing in many programming languages. In particular C++.

To implement a linked list, just open your eyes and think about what the term means: it is a list, and at each place there must be a thing, and the address of the next thing if there is one.

This is one example of a type that you probably won't use a reference in C++ (at least not a mutable linked list).

The thing the author did was actually swapped out one analogy for another, although unknowingly. To really get away from analogy is to point out that there are values stored in memory locations (determining the value uses metadata associated with memory locations). You can use those values literally, or you can use them as an index into other memory locations -- and then recurse (to tie both concepts together).
hahahaha you just compared the HP board of directors to Al Davis, that is just plain awesome
Whitman spent $144 million of her own money campaigning.

She is the type of person that feels $144 million in TV Ads is enough to buy public support rather than $100 million in charity and non profit work to build an image. I don't imagine her leadership of HP to be any different.

I expect her attitude to be "We can buy customers" rather than "We can earn respect and attract customers."
The conference just started an hour ago so you haven't missed much.
Added bonus if their sales department has tourettes.
To agree, I want to point out this snippet;

The conversation then turned to strange things [Neil Gaiman] has witnessed while in the US: a large decommissioned nuclear submarine docked by a road in Portsmouth, NH that locals barely take notice of; cheese-wheel rolling festivals; and people parking their vehicles on frozen lakes in the American heartland. He noted that, “The UK is weird, but not as weird as here!”

http://www.comicbooked.com/neil-gaiman-american-gods-anniver...
Totally not its intent, but this is fascinating as reference of all the decisions you will have to make if you create a new language.
Ah thanks, I'll definitely check it out!
Yea, exactly, they should have just bought this http://entrosys.com/
Looks like a Flipboard of your life, plus you can customize its content for different groups of visitors. Glad FB is focusing on design, it looks beautiful.
Simply because someone thinks that one particular woman might not be great at one particular job does not make them a sexist. Also, I don't think success at Ebay and Google are exactly comparable. Ebay is a dual-sided market. Once they became dominant it'd be very hard to unseat them. In this environment it's very possible Ebay was able to succeed in spite of Meg Whitman not because of her. She made some very good moves like acquiring PayPal and some very bad moves like acquiring Skype. I don't have much of an opinion on how Meg Whitman would do in the role, but I think HP's board royally screwed up and will not make the job easier. They hired Apotheker, approved of his acquisitions, and never gave his strategy a chance to work before deciding to fire the guy. HP's board needs to be replaced.
Does anyone here remember when Facebook had this feature back in 2004/2005? It was a little simpler, but exactly the same idea. They killed it a long time ago, but I guess they just decided to bring it back.

The dude in the video has sure aged and accomplished an impressive amount in Facebook's 7 year history.
I take that back. I think you're right that they're changing the profile. After watching the video, it wasn't clear, but scrolling down the page, you see:

"Fill this wide, open space with a unique image that represents you best. It's the first thing people see when they visit your timeline."

Assuming that when people click on your name, they go to your timeline, then this appears to replace what we think of as the profile.
The logos are version specific. So a Windows 8 logo would imply things that a Windows Vista logo wouldn't. Especially in this Win8 era with touch and min size for side-by-side, having a logo would be a huge help to many people.
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I don't understand: if the demand is international and there are plenty of viable US options, why build another US-only product?

Someone recently suggested checking out paymate.com. Yes, they're international and best of all, they say they're committed to reducing unfair chargebacks that PayPal customers have become so accustomed too.

I've tried Moneybookers, but they're a little iffy (bad reports about account limitations). So next step is definitely PayMate.com. Fingers crossed.
I'm tired of these theoretical bandwidth numbers getting further and further away from the real-world bandwidth numbers. On the original UMTS 3G labeled "384 kbit" we got 300 kbit, it was alright. With 7.2 Mbit HSDPA we get something closer to 2-3 Mbit. The same thing with WiFi - I've never ever seen anything anywhere close to the 300 Mbps theoretical rate of 802.11n WiFi. Cable numbers are diverging in a similar manner, and the DSL numbers currently quoted are only possible to achieve when you're 100 meters away from the DSLAM...
And yet you are taking the time to write about it twice.
Doesn't this underscore the argument against the OP? If Feymnan is correct, this means that many CS teachers don't really understand these concepts that they tell their students to be "tricky."

So, if numerous professionals are having trouble understanding a concept - or, they believe they understand something when they really don't, which is actually worse - then that seems to me to be empirical evidence arguing that said concept is probably difficult.

And of course you can make the argument that it just happens to be the case that these concepts are easy and society has just happened to promote a bunch of morons into professional positions, but I think that is the more difficult hypothesis to prove.
Great content. Lots to digest here. Although, I am sad to see him recommending 99designs.
HP close to naming Whitman CEO, firing Apotheker
I see your point and it's a good one but humor me.

What is there to explain? Why doesn't your wife let you be the person you are?
Actually.. it's being discussed right now. Spotify CEO just walked on the stage.

http://www.livestream.com/f8live