skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue here is not whether or not he's qualified for the CEO spot. It's whether he has been signing off on SEC filings that he knows contain falsehoods. In particular, there's information in the proxy statements that shareholders are supposed to use as the basis of their voting and their support for executive compensation. If he's lying about this, how are shareholders supposed to trust the rest of the SEC filings he signs off on as CEO?

(Also, if it's ok for him to lie on his resume and keep his job, does that mean anyone applying to Yahoo should feel free to do so?)

From the proxy statement:
"Mr. Thompson has served as our Chief Executive Officer and President and as a member of our Board since January 2012. Mr. Thompson served as President of PayPal, a division of eBay, Inc., an internet auction and shopping company, from January 2008 until January 2012. [clipped prior jobs out] Mr. Thompson holds a Bachelor’s degree in accounting and computer science from Stonehill College. Mr. Thompson was selected as a director nominee principally because, as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and President, he has in-depth knowledge of the Company’s operations, strategy, financial condition and competitive position. In addition, Mr. Thompson has a deep understanding of global online businesses, experience in transforming business models to deliver growth and increased value, and experience in integrating customer experience with innovative technology. Mr. Thompson also possesses strong organizational and operational skills."

http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1011006/00011931251219151...
Shouldn’t these things be obvious? Work hard, be persistent, have a clear vision, treat money carefully, be constructively dissatisfied, and show that you’re trustworthy.
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Will it remove the unnecessary scare-warning about third party cookies?
If that's the reason for getting some extra HN backing, cool, but there will always be people who want it basically for free. I thought the previous "prices"(investments) where good.
I have a B.S. in Computer Science and B.S. in Mathematics (a double degree). Had I taken fewer courses, I could have had a combined B.S. Computer Science and Mathematics (a double major).

I haven't seen a double degree like mine very often, but I have seen the latter form on a LinkedIn profile where Googling for his name returned a university web site showing that the person actually had a minor, not a second major, in Mathematics.

It's true that degrees are not comparable and colleges have different standards of difficulty. Students may be able to convince advisers to count one course for multiple majors. And degrees are not a great measure of applicable skill.

However, if you want to get a degree, double degree, double major, or triple major, you should follow the procedures at your college before you graduate, rather than just adding it to resume many years later.

As another example, a classmate created his own major to take more Business and Psychology courses and fewer C.S. courses; he lists the degree like a triple major, which is very misleading.
In RubyMotion, you can do something like:

def animate(*args)
UIView.begin_animation
yield(*args)
UIView.commit_animation
end

animate(myButton, &buttonAnimateBlockFromSomewhereElse)
animate(myView, myOtherView, &genericAnimateBlockFromSomewhereElseWithTwoArgs)
animate do
# Do something locally ignoring args
end

And, yes, you can do the same thing with Obj-C and some creative casts...but it's nicer in RubyMotion! (ymmv)
While strategy is good, nowhere in this post we can actually see that it is a spammer. I get a lot of emails from people who think they are talking to someone else. These look like those.

Again, I agree this would be good strategy for spammers, just don't see how this is one of those.
No, but I do expect my OCaml compiler to also do Caml.
Adafruit, Sparkfun, Pololu, Seeed Studios, Leaf Labs
Also see Mouser, Digikey, Allied, et al
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Radio Shack carries Arduino now, some do anyway.
My personal favorite is Adafruit because this one time, I whined to her about her webform not accepting my name+spamtagger@emailaddress.com and she fixed it and wrote me back in like five minutes, no joke. I do not know her personally and that was the first time I had ordered anything from her.

tl;dr Limor Fried is a bad ass, buy things from her store.
For me, the REPL is the key that makes this interesting. I don't really know much ruby, but I would consider picking it up again just for the interactivity you get with a REPL tied to the app running in the simulator.

This is a step in the right direction, a step toward getting immediate and interactive results when you code.

The piece that I find a tiny bit lacking is disconnect between what you futz with in the REPL and what is your source. By that I mean, all the manual tinkering in the REPL isn't saved anywhere, you have to copy and paste.

Emacs rectifies this sort of thing a little with swank and slime. Maybe there will be a mode for RubyMotion.
You might be if you go back to your desktop to watch proportionate amount of ads.

Same argument for adblock.
Darn that is effective! I think just posting the story to HN works really well also. I ended up googling the game and poking around the forums. Nice marketing scheme.
My bad, I replied to the wrong parent. I meant to reply to chriszf's point that you also disagreed with.
You can check my comment history and see that I don't insult people often. However, sometimes when people are being really stupid the correct response is to call them stupid.

Think about what numerous people are arguing here. OP said, "under no circumstances do I work more than 40 hours a week" and a number of people insist that these words mean "sometimes I will work OT", and that it's perfectly clear. That's stupid.
Apparently they are not. The author says lots of people keep trying to keep pitching the idea even after they are asked why their team is a good bet.
I am not criticizing. This is a perfectly neutral question:

Isn't the issue with a lot of these "look Ma, no Objective-C" approaches in that there are always little nagging issues here and there?

I mean, Apple is constantly moving Objective-C/Xcode/iOS (notice I didn't say "forward"). Isn't it somewhat dangerous to adopt peripheral approaches for development rather than staying (suffering?) with the Apple-provided tools?

Now, if someone has an alternative IDE that truly allows me to record Xcode to a DVD and perform a ritual burning ceremony of said DVD...that would be something.
Yeah, but nobody's run PHP in this silly CGI configuration for 10 years.
I thought Flash got in trouble for targeting iOS with something not originally written in JS or ObjC, is that still true?
I'd second this suggestion. I love the idea of using ruby on ios, this looks like a womderful solution, and it looks far more rubyish in syntax than Mobiruby (which isn't there yet anyway), but I would really like to try it out for myself in the simulator and develop a few simple apps before deciding whether I would want to use it professionally. If they could limit it to simulator only for free it would be much easier to tell if it is going to be really useful or more painful than just putting up with obj c. Having a demo might even boost adoption.

A question for the developers - did you consider this option and reject it for some reason?
Discovery Communications owns a couple strange properties. I was shocked when I discovered they owned PetFinder.com.
Having a car provides function, but the difference between a mediocre car and a great car is $10k+.

Spending the extra $10k for a better car leads to less happiness than using that same money for a 2-week vacation in Europe / Asia.
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40x refers to the return to the investors. If investors own e.g. 30% (I am making this number up and have no knowledge of the situation), their return is ~12x.
From the article:

> [...] we had a bug in our bug system [...] causing this issue to go public before we had time to test solutions to the level we would like.

Ouch.
It's probably more like a 10x to 15x return, unless investors owned 100% of the company :)
Oops misread OP
8 years!!!! I wonder how many people knew about this already...

On the other hand, this does make me feel better about my own code!
I said this in another reply, but I'll reiterate here. It's not the lack of Objective-C that is the big deal here. Afterall you are still interfacing with cocoa, and are stuck with a lot of the verbosity in doing that.

The real key to this is the REPL and interactivity between coding and the running app. Being able to edit bits of functionality and structure in the running app, and immediately see the results is AWESOME!
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Is Disqus more friendly to screen readers / impaired users? In the past its reliance on Javascript has made it painful for accessibility software, but the SEO improvements might have made things nicer now. This is the big objection to deploying Disqus on our site.
...or is it possible someone just sent you these emails as a mistake?

I doubt someone is actually sending bulk emails from a comcast account.
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I grew up in the US and now live in Europe so I'm at least as qualified as you.

Education: Yea, get ready to pay insane prices to get in these so-called "good districts" because there are so few and everyone wants in. Realistically, you're going to have to send your kids to private school if you don't want to worry about violence and them learning anything useful. But you'll still pay for the near useless public system.

Healthcare: this is a bold faced lie. Two separate independent reports compared health care around the world and found that the US was the most expensive in the world and did not provide the best care. Where do you get your metrics? Some talking head like Hanity?

Vacation: I don't know where you work but a lot of companies seriously frown on taking unpaid leave. There is a lot of culture in the US that feels that 2 weeks is all anyone should want. When I was telling my friends about how excited I was to come to Europe and get 5 weeks vacation, one of them told me he thought that was immoral!

I worked the majority of my life in the US and I'll never go back unless it's to do a startup.
1) It's not new.

2) Running PHP as regular CGI (not FCGI) is a very dated practice so the amount of implementations that are vulnerable is probably limited.
You should minify that JS and CSS.
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No paid leave.
I agree, but honesty is necessary to be a competent CEO, especially honesty to government authority that can close the company down.
I would love to know how many people (not just CEOs, though they are also people) do this sort of thing. I have totally honest resume and I'm sure it doesn't impress much compared to people that have degree multiplier powers.

Also, I would never have imagined that Yahoo would hire someone who only has an undergraduate degree in accounting. He must be REALLY good.
Between memristor based local storage/cache, ... I don't see much reason for having hard disks, software, and data in our local computers for very long.

These apps will still be stored (permanently cached as a web-app) and running on the local box and able to run in an offline mode. We won't be installing pre-packaged software that we have to upgrade manually, but we'll still need a powerful machine to run them; not a thin client.

The mechanisms whereby the software gets on our machines may change, but it's still going to be on our machines.
In general, wouldn't you just support leaving the protocol out and changing the universal code embed to just `://yourforumshortname.disqus.com/embed.js`? Isn't this best-practices these days, as it covers both cases best?
Ask HN: SF-based startup looking for kickstarter advice
Hey guys, my team and I are planning to launch a kickstarter project for an iPhone app next week. We've been reading everything we can get our hands on for the past six weeks and are almost done with our video.

At this point I'd like to talk to some people who have actually had experience getting funding through kickstarter, and would be more than happy to meet for coffee somewhere in the city. If you're not SF-based, Skype would be awesome too, shoot me an email!
Yeah, last time I worked with php was 2002 and we were already on mod_php.
$119Millon Sale price - 3Millon Funding = CRAZY RETURN!

I Love that equation!
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Lying on your resume should get you fired. Lying on SEC filings should get you imprisoned.
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Anyone know if this comes with the ruby stdlib?
pretty much. Though some were nasty:

char * getFirstName(char * name){
char * fname = strtok(name, " ");
return fname;
}

became:

char * getFirstName(char * name){
char * fname = strtok(name, " ");
return "fname";
}

And stuff like that. It was fun though.
That's a fair point -- it'll be a problem if people get involved in Kickstarter who don't understand that there's no guarantee the project finishes. But I still disagree with your original point -- often on Kickstarter you are purchasing something for money. Conditional purchases happen all the time. For example, you could pay me $500 up front for any valuable items you find while cleaning out my grandmother's basement, and you would have purchased something -- ownership of 0 to N valuable items. Or suppose I give you $20 to bring me a pizza through a war zone, with the understanding that if you get shot you can keep the $20 and don't owe me a pizza. I've purchased a pizza -- just one I might never get to eat. (My life is tough this way.)

I know this sounds nitpicky, but it's actually important to think about if you're running a Kickstarter campaign with inherently valuable rewards. You need to bear in mind that at least some of your backers will (correctly) think of themselves as purchasing a product, just one that they realize may never be delivered. That establishes a particular kind of relationship, and you won't hit the right notes if you don't know it exists.
White spaces and happy faces: TV stations drop lawsuit against "super WiFi"
http://www.rfsolutions.co.uk/acatalog/RFS_GSM_Modules.html

I have tried out. Well documented and you can get the breakout boards for $5 but I forget precisely where. Managed to get it working in UK on O2 pay as you go. Now in junk box :(

Watch out - you need a level shifter if you're using an Arduino or something as it has 3v3 operation. I used an old(er than me) HP lab PSU and a crudely hacked up set of BC548 switches as a level shifter. You need an antenna and a sim socket (my sim was cruely soldered onto 1/0.2 solid wire and plugged into the breakout board header).
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I wouldn't be so sure: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Php#PHP_on_DreamHost
Should have been titled" Herb Sutter confirms that Microsoft's compiler group management doesn't get it"

Even the IE team has learned the importance of implementing standards support. Way to go guys; you've only had what, 12 years to get this right?

And one of your "solutions" to your own organizational issues is to "pressure your standards committee representatives to have ISO C++ include more of the C standard (longer-term)."

Awesome! No wonder so many game developers prefer Intel's compilers.

I like the Visual Studio IDE, but this makes life so incredibly difficult for cross-platform developers.
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Regardless of motive, the allegations are true. Yahoo has admitted so.
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I wasn't arguing the letter versus spirit in terms of the IP address. I was more arguing about piercing the corporate veil. By the letter of the law, the infringement may have been made by the company, but, by the spirit of the law, it's clearly made by the person.

However, I want to take your speeding car analogy a step further. The police have video of my car parked outside a murder scene during a murder. The murder was performed with my handgun. On the 911 tapes, the victim is shouting that he's being attacked by someone with my name (John Smith). The victim is someone I've previously stated that I intend to kill. The argument that none of those identify me aren't going to form a reasonable doubt unless I can also provide an alibi or implicate a different John Smith.

In the same way, the original poster has publicly stated their intention to start an open network for the specific intent of hiding their downloads. The MPAA has an IP address that shows that a download was made from the account that was purchased by a person intending to hide downloads. If they have server logs showing that other people use that network on a regular basis, they have a decent chance. As it stands, however, it's pushing the bounds of reasonable doubt, not to mention preponderance of the evidence, as needed for a civil case.
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That's why its compared to the same quarter last year (Q1 2011) and not sequentially
From the screencast it looks like they altered Ruby syntax by adding named parameters to conform with Obj-C's way of specifying prototypes. I guess this is a trade-off for the fact that Obj-C has some unusual syntax that has no real analog in Ruby -- if you've ever tried developing with PyObjC you'll be familiar with how odd it looks.
I know there has been a lot of user interface complaints about github lately. People have said it's very noisy. What I liked about this update was that I noticed it a few days ago, prior to the announcement. It just made intuitive sense.
I'd like to see some of those languages too. And LightTable is free, right, so how did it lower prices exactly?

More specifically, I'd love to see something with good code completion and documentation built in for Ruby, as it drives me up the wall some times.
There's a reasonably new language called HTML that is a good development platform too. Works on all devices.
Then why did they build their own C standard library instead of using libc?
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Yep...in case anyone comes back to this thread, I purchase an AMD Sapphire Radeon FLEX HD 6770 1GB DDR5 PCIe 2.1, and Unity works perfectly across all three now using the proprietary drivers, and setting the "Multi-display desktop" option for each monitor in the amdcccle utility.
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I don't know Ruby. Therefore, by my own admission, this comes out of complete ignorance.

I am currently working on a project that uses a genetic solver and some fairly complex state machines driven by fairly involved databases. I can't possibly see how something like this could be made to be interactive in terms of the development process. Generally speaking you are writing a lot of code before you get to compile and see the results. And, personally, I don't have any issues with the compilation process.

What do you mean by "interactive"?
The good news is that since the employees owned some we can be sure that they saw some of that 119M$. That being said their site died :-)

[1] Random note: It seems to me that that KK would be the appropriate unit for millions (thousand-thousands) and MM would be Million Millions or (10^12, or trillions.
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As a lawyer, I would never recommend this. Corporate plaintiffs would sue the individual(s) as well under the theory of "piercing the corporate veil." Given these facts, I think they would have a good chance of winning, but even if they lost, that's not the point. The real issue is attorneys fees. $100,000 in legal expenses is a rounding error to large corporations; for many individuals, it is their life savings
Say it how it was, Steve Jobs was plain bat shit crazy.
Does LinkedIn own a Webex yet? If they're going from a recruiting site to a full business-communications type model (archiving, in this case) they're going to need it.
I doubt it was a spam. World of Tanks is owned by a quite big company. There are TV adverts for this game running in my country - they would not engage in such activities unless they really want to burn their reputation.

As for SEO benefits - I doubt that it would positively affect their ranking even if they were not widely known.

The only way that e-mails can be used for SEO (besides of buying links) is using the fact that Google is spying on the links you are sending. Every URL being sent through GMAIL is being crawled by Googlebot. This can be used to index backlinks.

In this case, there was no links inside.
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I was specifically addressing this point (which seemed to be the crux of your comment):

> Remove the concept of learning a new language, a new IDE, and only require that I learn a new lib to work against and I'm FAR quicker.

That's a bit like saying, "Remove the concept of putting on running shoes and warming up and only require that I run a marathon and I'm FAR quicker." The time to tie your shoes is nothing compared to running the marathon. Likewise, the trouble of learning Objective-C (especially with a background in Ruby) is insignificant compared to the time it takes to learn Cocoa.
> Maybe I'm being stupid and that's why I'm being downvoted

No you are not stupid, the user interface experience is highly subjective I think and most of all it is colored by our previous experiences. It used to be ex-Windows users trying to use Linux UIs.

And I guess you got downvoted because people felt you just vented your anger without really providing anything else to add to the discussion ( a particular bug that you found or a particular bad design). It is kind of like jumping in the middle of a discussion and saying "this thing is stupid I hate it" and leaving it at that.

> there was no search box for a free text search like in synaptic. I spent ages clicking around trying to find it but it wasn't there.

I remember that too when the switch happened. I think I either looked it up or started typing and found out that just typing often is used a way to filter items (at least that's how it works when you click on the Ubuntu button in the top left of the desktop, you can type and it will find applications that match that string).
Really? What on earth does it mean? The "baz: something" ought to parse as a hash literal, which isn't legal in a method declaration.
You are right. Even if he has the best experience, lying to the public and authorities is a big mistake.
Yes, to both - unfortunately personal circumstances keep me here in Finland. I'd recommend Amsterdam to anyone, however, it's a great city.
>>I have a B.S. in Computer Science and B.S. in Mathematics (a double degree). Had I taken fewer courses, I could have had a combined B.S. Computer Science and Mathematics (a double major).

What is the difference between having them separate as opposed to saying it was a double major? You still have to meet the same requirements don't you?