skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm thinking about Yahoo and getting angry. Why can't I get a Yahoo! Games platform app on my Android phone? They have an online community full of Chess, Go, and Scrabble players which means even the first person to pay $15 for the Yahoo! Games app has people to play with.

Full integration between the web and phone means I can always find someone to play chess against. But no, they decided to spend time offering up Yahoo! Weather for free.

Some exec must have sent out an internal memo mandating that no Project Manager develop anything that will make money.
I love the colors on Yahoo video! I too had never heard of their video offering. I think they have some good products, they have eyeballs, it's just a very poorly run company lacking direction.

I'd take that CEO position in a flash and I think I could turn it round.
Asian assets are a very large part of the 'P'
That is not a very good comparison, linode as you know does not provide the same feature set nor does it have WordPress devs on hand to help.
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A keyword search is going to favor the generalist; we have a lot more keywords than a specialist. As a generalist, I have many languages, applications and operating systems on my resume, many of which I don't know all that well. These feed the keyword searches.

That's the thing; most people who have HR departments that do keyword scanning? To them, I look deeply technical and specialized. Most places like that are simply not set up to recruit or handle real technical people.
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Do you mind elaborating? Drive-by judgements rarely add much to an intelligent conversation.
> Yahoo only offers me the option to embed it.

Clicking the up arrow icon provides me a URL along with an embed link. Or you could just copy it from your browser's URL bar.
The term horny guys is kinda redundant..
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It looks to me like it's WinRT or nothing for Metro apps in general.
This is great but, whats the best way to store attachments ?
Are you interviewing anywhere else?

You could probably use the off as leverage. Yahoo's engineering core is still well respected in the industry.

Everybody just knows that none of the people in charge have a clue as to what to do with all of that talent.
Kind of -- there's 3 different layouts you can use for structs in .NET: "auto", "sequential", and "explicit".

"auto" lets the JIT compiler organize the fields in any order, with any padding bytes, etc. it wants to. This is the default, and changing it is basically a tradeoff between speed now (where the JIT compiler may not recognize where it can optimize something) and speed later (when we add a new optimization and your code automatically executes faster).

"sequential" requires the JIT compiler to layout the fields in the order they're defined, but it can add any padding bytes, etc. it wants to.

"explicit" forces you to specify the offset of each field, and forbids the compiler from re-ordering the fields or padding them in any way. It's rare to use this unless it's to handle interop'ing with a C library which uses some weird data structure as a parameter. You might get a speedup from using it in your GPU code, but since you've taken everything out of the hands of the compiler, there's little room for improvement/optimization.

Check out the docs on [StructLayout] for more info: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.runtime.inter...
Eh, you can always drop dimes anonymously if you know something. (I mean, you can now. Hopefully that will remain possible.) And there will always be people who talk to the police; they're just people with a tenuous understanding of risk versus reward.
It would certainly be depressing to live in a world of John Nashes. On the other hand, if everyone were perfect bounded rationalists, we'd merely have to replace Causal Decision Theory and Evidential Decision Theory with something that can solve coordination problems--probably a variant of Timeless Decision Theory, which could already solve this particular problem in many ways.
Why not take the job, and then continue interviewing? I know it looks bad to leave a job early, but I think most people in the valley are aware of Yahoo's situation, so I wouldn't be too worried about how that'll be perceived.
This is pretty darn slick, I did a similar thing a few years ago with Tetris and canvas, when I was first learning JS: http://www.benjamincoe.com/tetris/
General public is not anywhere nearly as interested as academia people. The ones who are in the greatest need of access to science journals are researchers, and since most of them work for public research institutions, they already have it. Undergraduate students don't really care about papers, because they're too advanced for most of them to grasp. That's why they use textbooks. People who are not connected with academia, but still want to have an access to academic papers, are a really, really small group, so it's no strange that nobody cares about them.
It appears that the promoted/lead video displayed at http://video.yahoo.com does NOT have a link field in the up arrow menu.

Once you find a video's specific page the same video has a link available. At least on ubuntu with flash 11,0,1,129 installed.
It's not as concise as Haskell, but the addition of FP capabilities to C# make it a lot more pleasant as a practical language than it was in earlier days.

var filteredCollection = collection.Where(x => predicate(x));
If Yahoo! is acquired by AOL, then I think there might be some bright future for Yahoo! and for AOL.

For example, they could focus on Yahoo! Finance to be the place for investment, stocks info on internet.

In order words, it is too early to predict whether Yahoo! will be sold to PE firms.

EDIT: Stupid comment: AOL is way smaller than Yahoo!
Outside of the Googles and Facebooks, this couldn't be further from the truth. Its so hard to find talent these days, and easy for the talent to jump ship to other firms, that most are hiring whoever is even remotely qualified just to remain fully staffed.
Well I actually didn't use the built in search as I couldn't be bothered changing it.

As I was focusing a lot of work at the time on SEO, when doing a search in Firefox around the start of version 3, it used to do a search on the US google which would show me incorrect results. Therefore I used a bookmark which took me to google.co.uk. Firefox then localised the search but I still used the bookmark.

It's all about habit, I'm in a habit now with Chrome and I don't regret it. I might get back on Firefox on version 306, in about a years time.
One can hardly consider Bernie Madoff a paragon of astute judgment. I'll admit this is argumentum ad hominem, but his tolerance for risk was insane. Also notable is that he declined counsel when he really needed it, which is different than doing the same thing when you are secondary or tertiary to the investigation.
With Heroku you can only write to /tmp from your app.
FYI -- many folks here, me included, won't follow a shortened link.
Could you explain what you mean? Isn't "Desktop mode" Win32?
I'm concerned about Privacy to the extent that I might actually be negatively affected by it. The worst-case scenario that I can think of from the usage tracking in Chrome (that you can opt out of) is that I get served more relevant advertising that I might actually care about clicking. That doesn't seem evil at all.
> I can't shake the feeling that all of this has much less to do with people wanting to learn and much more to do with people wanting to take it to the man.

I think it might be people with genuine idealism about the virtues of openness trying to find a way to go in that direction and hoping to yoke the sense of entitlement other people have in order that it will do some rhetorical work for them. If you find the one distasteful, then those seeking to use it as a tool might lose some respect for doing so.

Personally I think the important issue for more openness isn't finding such rhetoric to motivate it. It is finding and promoting solutions to the review process and filtering/ranking-by-quality of papers in more fields. If the best minds in a field don't have any other incentive toward contributing to that process than the journal system, then I still need to go through the maw of the journals (or tell the library I use to do so) when I need to learn about the field using the benefit of the understanding in those minds.
The definition of "lawyer" is "someone who has graduated from law school" while "attorney" is "someone who is licensed to practice law." There are people who are one of those things but not the other.
Well my statement is not exactly true to be fair, I think it depends how much the doodle inspires me to click it, an orange didn't inspire me today and I didn't recognise the name

I generally read about the doodle on Mashable before I actually click on the doodle itself
Copy format has some play with this too. Interesting that in this particular case the section headings are anti-aliased but the paragraph texts are not. If you're not going to used anti-aliased you should pick a font that is not so rounded and apparent. Reading anti-aliased text is akin to rubbing my eyes with sand paper. Okay, it's not that bad but it has the same psychological effect of making me not want to keep reading.

I will also admit, that even when the copy font displays pleasantly, I will only skim paragraphs to determine the general theme and tone of content to determine my interest and whether or not I will keep skimming, start reading, or leave altogether. But still, bad font choice is very distracting and doesn't help.
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Does anyone know what text editor that is in the screen shot? Looks super nice.
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I doubt it. I think one of the main reasons they chose to use the "real" Windows for the ARM tablet version instead of WP7, was because they wanted to charge several times the price for it. So expect them to charge at least $30-$40 for the ARM version, even though it basically works the same as the WP7 version would've worked on tablets, with the necessary modifications. In fact, it would've probably had much better performance, since it's much lighter.
So let's say a kid goes missing. The cops come around the area she was last seen asking people if they saw her. They are trying to narrow down where and when she disappeared.

Everyone else is cooperative, but I'm not.

I've now drawn attention to myself and am probably going to be in for a lot of scrutiny, and at some risk for getting into trouble even if I had nothing to do with the girl's disappearance.
Anyone know how this works? How would a plain .txt file load a dll? In any case this looks like it would be difficult to execute since the text file has to be in the same directory as the dll.
Why buy-outs? If I were looking for cutting costs, I would just lay them off.
From my experience (in Poland), university libraries are open for whoever wants to use them. My department does not even care whether people who attend classes are actually students of my department -- as long as there are free chairs and desks, you're welcome to attend almost any course. If you talk about it with dean and professor responsible for the course, you can even pass it this way, so that if you actually enroll in some degree program in future, you don't need to do it again. I actually have friends who passed courses on my university when they were in high school.
I really would rather avoid this option. I'm not worried that it'll make me look bad to other employers, but how it will reflect on the team that I was signed up for.
It's always a case by case basis and I'm not a professional analyst, but I could come up with a few (flimsy) reasons.

Basically boils down to odds and the change in growth rate. Just because a company is consistently, wildly profitable does not mean they should have a high P/E ratio. P/E is often much more influenced by the growth rate for earnings. With Yahoo and eBay, investors are saying that these companies are more likely to grow very quickly than Apple and Google, which makes perfect sense since those two giants will most likely grow between some range. Investors must believe Yahoo is either be a huge hit or miss and eBay must have some reasons for people to believe they can juice their growth rate higher quickly, perhaps based on their acquisitions, room to expand their fees, acquiring new customers etc.

*Edit: Added note on Yahoo, its assets (as the Asian comment below reminded me to add) could very well be worth more than its current valuation. This article explains how: http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/24/yahoo-shareholder-bartz/
To paraphrase Agatha Heterodyne, any insufficiently analyzed technology is indistinguishable from magic. I think their terminology is pretty reasonable.
Swallowing crashes is in no way a copy-protection or anti-cheating mechanism.
Why not? The guidelines are basically anything that hackers find interesting. You yourself said it is interesting.
Just saw this now. Poor people, I think have more children, with or without welfare -- it's not because of welfare that they do -- how much welfare in Africa?
Doesn't sound too difficult if you're sending someone an archive with both files in it.
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Yeah, it has to be "an untrusted remote file system location."
I have specific requirements, particularly numbers 3 and 4. AFAIK none of the ones that show up on google can do those, in particular 3.
I am planning to interview with several other companies. But by then I will need to decide whether I want to stick with Yahoo or not. I've heard great things about working at Yahoo (and the downsides) and the offer is fantastic, but my gut instinct is telling me to reconsider..
"You blame people who fail to control their unhealthy eating decisions; why don't you blame people who fail to control their unhealthy procreating decisions?"

That's not what I said.

I do blame people who make unhealthy parenting choices, i.e., who have kids before they're financially capable of supporting kids. I take no issue with that argument.

Rather, I took issue with the language in your original post, which seemed to imply that having kids at all is considered a high-end luxury. IMO, something's seriously wrong with any society in which that's categorically true.
org-mode for emacs is the most useful piece of software I've ever installed.

It can do everything you mentioned and far more. Number 4 might take a little hacking but shouldn't be a big deal.
TIL Bootstrapping originally referred to an "absurdly impossible feat."
I don't think the article is arguing against marketing. He's arguing against the 'launch' as the focus of marketing, and suggesting instead that building a brand should be the focus of marketing.

Building a brand is a long, ongoing process. You need to have a self-consistent set of values, and those values need to show through in your products. (I mean, there is more to having a brand, but without those consistent values, the other stuff doesn't matter.)
I have never been in an interview for a job as programmer, to be honest, but really, we're talking about fizzbuzz here. You should be able to recite it in your favourite programming language. :)

For more complicated tasks I guess you can say it's debatable when whiteboard is OK and when you should give the candidate access to a computer.
Here's how I do it. After a couple weeks of use I explicitly ask my users to rate the app after they open it, providing a button that jumps directly to the app on the market. This has worked really well. Checking that users have been activity using the app for a while weeds out most of the negatives
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Windows 8 on ARM: more than just tablets, more to come on legacy apps and Office
Yeah, it's almost like blog.wolfram.com is just a promotional tool for Wolfram Research. Actually, that's exactly what it is.

This blog is not pretending to be an unbiased information source on mathematics or computer algebra software. If you want that, go elsewhere.
Haha, funny.

Wait, that was a joke, right?
Previous:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2940763
There are always gift cards if you want DLC.

And really, if you use anonymous gift cards (or no payment information), you have the option to not even give them your real personal information, never mind your financial information.

That way there's literally nothing to steal other than the account itself.
Not all of it. Their FAQ say:

> Why not make any and all public domain content freely available? We do not believe that just because something is in the public domain, it can always be provided for free. There are costs associated with selection, digitization, access provision, preservation, and a wide variety of services that are necessary for content to reach those who need it. We have determined that we can sustain free access and meet our preservation obligations for this particular set of content for individuals as part of our overall activities undertaken in pursuit of our mission.
I'd be really really suprised if the large scale PC producers were sending MS anywhere near $75 for each PC with windows on it. I'd say the profit on a PC not accounting for the licence fee would very likely often be less than $75. I would think there would have been a much greater push for linux or no-OS installed sales if it were anything in that ballpark.
You missed my point: One strategy that should be safe is telling the god's-honest truth. But even with the truth, you invite a whole lotta hassle by bringing a lawyer.

Conversely: Even if you're a dishonest crook, you get the feds off your back by omitting a lawyer.

This is not how it should be; It is how it is.
I'm just waiting for salaries to reflect demand. I'm not moving from a small-town dev job to the Valley for a 15% pay jump and a huge cost-of-living increase.
Ageism is the elephant in the corner of the room. That and the vestiges of the old class system. A manager on the "graduate fast track" doesn't want to admit that his skills are simply not that difficult and so refuses to offer market rates for dev talent, who he sees as mere "workers".
Ask for a signing bonus of n months expenses (where n is how long you think it will take to find a job), and then put that in a savings account. Problem sovled. And if Yahoo ends up being okay, you have a big chunk of money you can apply to the down payment of a house (or fund a team of pro bike racers, or wahtever).
Me too. I went a step further and showed my kids everything Sony has done. They probably dislike Sony more than they need to really. But if the general concept of "sociopathic corporation" needed a poster child to make the point, Sony volunteered and won the part.
I think it puts them at a competitive disadvantage to charge so much for a more limited version of windows. I think they chose to use Windows 8 to create confusion that legacy windows applications will work on tablets.
This is misleading. From the headline you'd think that the rest 78% are all ads, but that includes all the white space and space for menu, etc. In reality it seems the ads occupy about as much as the organic results.

Is that too much space for ads anyway? Perhaps. But the headline and what the article is implying and how they calculated this, is still misleading.
There are a number of people who know what they're doing who buy smaller web companies. Typically they can network these together to get economies of scale around user acquisition and monetization.

Check out internet brands - http://www.internetbrands.com/ib/acquisitions
I'm not sure if you're sarcastic or not, but would you hire a programmer who can't compute "2+3" in his head? The same argument can be made for basic maths operations: we all have calculators (applications).
Seems to be a major shift occurring in required skill set which does not help when you are trying to move from a Senior role to Senior role.

At least in my experience in the NJ/NY region, I have been looking for Flex/AS3 work for a few months, and have not seen a single interesting role advertised.

Personally it's quite daunting to make the 4th major shift in my career. Started out in classic ASP/COM, moved to Java when Microsoft introduced .NET, moved to Flash/AS3 about 4-5 years ago developing web video solutions.

Now I don't know where to start retooling, should I work in Mobile, or move back to web backend, or web frontend work... or a mixture of all three. Also after 15 years it's hard to take that pay cut and start back at zero again.
The Crunchbase API is a good starting point for those wishing to create maps of other cities:

http://groups.google.com/group/crunchbase-api/web/api-v1-doc...
Very cool. I've been waiting for this sort of thing to happen for a long time. You still have to manage things by hand, but I bet in a year or two that won't be the case.

On the other hand, as CPU's get more/beter vector units what's to stop a rep add or rep mul instruction from automatically vector/parallelizing things for you?
hm I actually like the idea of tasks triggering other tasks. I just might have to make a small webapp for this :D
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See? Bump doesn't suck!
As far as I remember you can write that as

var filteredCollection = collection.Where(predicate);

I agree that C# is a fundamentally usable language.
I just checked out Project Euler - awesome, thank you!
I wonder if Notepad, Wordpad, and maybe Word all call some library (or all have copy/pasted code) that, for whatever reason, looks for a particular DLL in the working folder and executes it?

Not sure how the network drive part would fit into that hypothesis, though.
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First off, thanks for the tips. I wouldn't mind having Django/Bottle/Flask support as I do write python code. I assume that if a basic HTML service becomes obsolete for me, changing DNS to point at new service is relatively quick?

Heh. I didn't expect I'd get questions in this thread. :)

My biggest advice is not surprisingly, make games and more importantly PLAY those games. Play them a lot with many different groups. Give your games to people you don't know and let them try to figure it out from your rules.

There is no substitute for failure here. Success at designing games only comes after many failures. I've designed about 40 in 10 (or so) years and I'm only actively trying to sell 4 of those. The others? There's good ideas in there, but they would all need a serious revisions as they are either broken, or just not fun to play.

If other people can't understand the rules, figure out how to write technical manuals, or find someone else to do it for you. When you are licensing a game, the publisher is buying your rules. If the rules are not written well, they will get passed on.

I broke in by sending intro letters to publishers. I've been sending them for about 6 years. I researched publishers on boardgamegeek.com first to find companies that print similar products. After I targeted four or five companies, I sent introduction letters. This is the board game equivalent of a pitch. Be polite. Show excitement. Be short. If they like it, they'll ask for more. If not, move on.

Make sure you have a professional, presentable prototype!

If a publisher asks to see the game, send your prototype and forget about it. The publisher that is producing my game took two and a half years to accept it. That's fairly normal in the industry. Publication schedules are years in advance. Unless you have a name behind you, or your game jumps on a new hot theme, you aren't going to be rushed to the front of the line. It's okay to email them every 6 months or so, but don't be a nuisance.

And finally, like everything else: network, network, network. Go to conventions and shake hands. Go straight to the publisher and shake hands. Get involved with design discussions on boardgamegeek.