skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say the "premier digital media company" at the moment is Netflix. They have their problems and troubles, but they have enough brand recognition and enough good content (albeit produced by other people) to quality for that moniker.
I tried GrubWithUs out of curiosity last year. They have something that looks like a social network to promote keeping in touch with people, but I didn't notice people making us of it effectively. Perhaps if it was plugged into Facebook in some way it might help people move at least to "acquaintance" stage.
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I think rather it's much more straight forward, Apple's mobile devices make up the bulk of their income, it's where they're pointing their business as a whole now. A growing segment of their mobile device sales aren't covered by any EPEAT certification at all (iPhone/iPad). Future Apple devices are going to be increasingly complex to disassemble, and this is seen as a competitive issue too, in the pursuit of thinner, stronger and more attractive enclosures. I think they were just getting out of EPEAT before EPEAT caught up to mobile devices, a quiet exit (or so they hoped.)
Interesting. I thought sysadmin operations like MySQL sharding and master-promotion are usually automated/scripted? Not to say it makes it conceptually easier, but it limits the opportunities to lose hair to 1.
I don't think you're wrong, I'm just asking for some elaboration.
Indeed, my last 2 dell laptops were 1920x1200 with 15" screens.
You might want to set TCP_NODELAY on the socket to disable Nagle's algorithm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagles_algorithm). We ran into some issues with memcached where if Nagle's algorithm was not turned of, GETs would often take several milliseconds longer than was necessary.
I am a (web programmer with some experience now viewing myself as a) secure programmer:

1. I will not store sensitive data in plain text, I will protect it in a suitable manner. (EXCEPT when I realize that security, scalability, performance and other requirements are often such that plain text from an application level may be secured adequately through other system components. Thus, citing 'plain text' as something to avoid is an inherently flawed approach, as it breaks the modular assumption that good code (Unix) is built upon. Do one thing and do it well.)

2. I will always protect my users' data as if it was my own. (Good luck with that when you have hundreds of millions of them and competing availability/scalability requirements. Security is about carefully managing risk against goals and available resources, not idealism/dogmatism.)

3. I will only use vetted and published algorithms, I will not invent my own. (A recommended course of action for aspects of cryptography; elsewhere - good luck programming!)

4. I will use existing libraries where possible, and only write my own implementation where no suitable alternative exists. (While sometimes of value, dogmatically using this approach is more of a pledge to be a mediocre programmer.)

5. I will always use parameterized queries when executing SQL, I will not trust escaping. (This is just wrong, as addressed in other comments)

6. I will take vulnerabilities seriously, and not just ignore them when found. (Yes)

7. I will understand the OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, and will always protect my applications from them. (Yes but this hardly needs saying)

8. I will not assume that I know better, but instead will try to constantly learn. (Yes, but this could be "don't be an asshole" pledge, also)

9. I will not trust the security of systems that I have not personally examined. (Yes, but then this goes back to Unix philosophy - do one thing and do it well. Also, one should admit one's own limitations and not pretend that by examining something it's 100% bug free and secure. Many a smart programmer has created or missed bugs in insecure code on a bad day.)

I will always try to educate others. (A worthy but tiresome goal, consider these probably-snarky-sounding but actually well meaning comments my own contribution)
Will Unsubscriber also harass mailers with broken unsubscribe processes? Two pain points for me here:

-Anyone who sends out e-mails where there is no unsubscribe link. Instead, you have to reply to the email with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject line, where it is no doubt manually processed. This is especially annoying if you have a catch-all account and it's being filled with mailing list e-mails addressed to people who are no longer at the company. Often times the spammy mailer will not let you unsubscribe since the unsubscribe email was sent to a different address that is no longer active.

-Even worse, emails with no unsubsribe link what so ever!

If harassment of senders with a broken unsubscribe process is part of the service you are providing, I would gladly pay for this.
That's kinda lame reference since MRC is pretty isolated from the corporation to do science.
Same experience - I am in NYC, it started me off in Kips Bay - every time I explicitly change my locality it changes it back to Kips Bay when I navigate to a new page. Additionally, and this could be user error, but it added me to various groups I have no interest in and I had to hunt down how to leave those groups.
As an aside, how do you generate the QR code? Do you have to create a separate wallet?
It wasn't pointing out that certain people are more "different/intelligent", the idea was that everyone is different (and correspondingly intelligent) and should pursue that.
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Well, we know they get an email address and, quite probably, a username associated with an account. Of course, that would only be of value to someone doing something sketchy...

Alternatively, he gets a large sample size of unwanted emails with unsubscribe links. This would be useful for someone writing a gmail plugin (or Thunderbird plugin, or new mail service, or whatever) designed to deal with unwanted mail that's not fully spam (i.e. complies with CAN-SPAM) but which is not desired by the recipient.
New study finds that startups perform better closer to home
The Online Advertising Fallacy
You should definitely do this.
For proof of this, see Marc Andreessen's comments in TechCrunch[1]:

Andreessen also said he's "super-happy" for Mayer, because she's ready to step into a CEO role at a major tech company.

But can she actually turn Yahoo around? Andressen declined to offer any suggestions for areas that the company should pursue, and he also cautioned that it's hard to think of many Web companies that succeeded in turning themselves around.

"On the other hand, it's hard to overestimate how screwed Apple was in 1997," Andreessen said. "Tech comapnies can in fact be turned around. The problem is, there aren't a lot of Steve Jobs characters running around."

Basically, if she makes it, she's "a Steve Jobs character" and if not, well, it's hard to turn tech companies around.

[1]: http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/16/marc-andreessen-marissa-may...
But this isn't an answer, it's a promotion.
I 100% believe that she has the best pedigree of any person out there.

Think about it, who would you have as CEO of Yahoo? John Chambers? Larry Ellison? The CEO of Hulu? Mark Hurd? Jerry Yang? Tim Cook?

I think Mayer is better qualified than anyone else that is available because she is an expert on the space. When she joined Google, the mainstream Internet was less than 5 years old. Her entire career has been built on the Internet. If she went to any large company like IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Cisco, EMC, you name it, I would think it wouldn't be a good fit, because she wouldn't be an expert on the space.

Mayer has been with Google since practically the beginning, and as an executive, she has participated in the decisions and actions required to create and maintain a world-class engineering organization. As well, being an early employee and not just surviving but thriving, I'd be willing to bet that Mayer has done more as an engineer than most engineers at Yahoo, except maybe Filo, so that gives her incredible technical legitimacy. So, yes, I believe she is extremely qualified to run a company like Yahoo.

You can't just stick a "turnaround expert" in the shoes of Yahoo CEO and expect a great result. You need someone that understands the space, and can make the tough and right decisions that can put Yahoo back on track. Everyone that they've chosen as CEO since Yang just felt like they were trying to salvage as much of Yahoo as possible, and sell it to some other company or PE fund, and give up. By choosing Mayer, it means they are serious about trying to put Yahoo back on the right path again, and not just selling it off. I'm pretty sure this will motivate the current troops at Yahoo.

The only other interesting choice for CEO might be Reed Hastings, but he's taken already. The Yahoo board could have elected to try to acquire Netflix and put Hastings as CEO of the combined company, which would have been interesting. I still prefer the choice of Mayer though, because it shows a lot of guts, both on the part of Yahoo and Mayer.
We'll be recording not only every talk, but also other events surrounding the conference.

If the network god's allow for it, live-streaming of the talks is also being considered.
I think you have a good point - cities might be statistically similar but getting out to another city might help in stepping out of your usual circle, which is not to say you cannot do the same while staying in your hometown.

Side note: This reminds me of a conversation I had with Wesley Zhao, a co-founder of Family Leaf, who said he finds it refreshing to hang out with normals while working on Family Leaf in Palo Alto. It's great advice for a tech founders to actively seek this out IMO.
Isn't that ratio 4x then? Or am I not understanding retina displays correctly?
You can script Excel with Python using IronSpread, you can get it from http://www.ironspread.com. It's free and it's super easy to import/export data.
safely is the core thing I believe, in recycler context you would not care about not breaking things.
Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass
We've been very well aware of it and safely worked around it at the time. It was also something we just disliked and so we changed it across our entire codebase when we decided to write our own library.

When we said "it turns out", we didn't mean that we had suddenly learned that after failure. It's just something we meant to note that we decided to fix.
These friendly high abstraction build systems show their teeth when they meet configurations that deviate from abstractions. Go's a great example -- if $GOROOT or parts of $GOPATH are not owned by the build user, "go build" will occasionally fail because a pacman or aptitude update touched the compiler and Go needs to recompile every package in sight.

When dealing with JNI, both Maven and SBT have to delegate the task to less pure build systems. For projects that cannot nest nicely above a very high and consistent layer of abstraction, these "archaic" systems are essential because of their lack of interfering abstractions. They observe a different definition of "simple", instead of being "simple to use in a specific problem domain" they go to "simple to adapt to a different problem domain."
But that's what the muscle memory is for. If you only ever used the arrow keys to move around and backspace to delete one character at a time, you won't need any special tool for memorizing which key to use!

The whole reason this tool exists is because the best text editors (Emacs ;)) do have a ton of different commands. So now you have to learn that when you wand to delete a word in front you use M-d.

The "muscle memory" is just associating each of the many discrete keystrokes with an action. So instead of thinking "hmm, I need to delete this word, I'll press M-d" your hands just go to M-d as soon as you realize the word needs to be deleted.

This is exactly the sort of memory you need to deal with a high-entropy command stream quickly. The ideal would be to use a ton of different commands without thinking about them at all.

Now, I don't think this site is ideal for this sort of learning, but it's a step in the right direction.
Really? I always heard it was a bit of a pain to manage (update a schema? reboot all nodes). Not sure if any of that has changed, or if it was ever true (never used it myself).
I think in the near future Mongodb will no longer have a global write lock. Yeah but I feel their pain. Given my still limited experience with it, Mongodb may be great for reads, but not so much for writes.
"Who would've thought"

(Couldn't help myself :-)
I loved the xorg bit ! And all the following actually.
But people haven't been running those in 2x mode, so they don't require special design.
Are You Dating?
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Some sort of deistic civic faith that is less about faith than it is about ritual, philosophy, and social relationships.

You're described the Unitarian church.
DisplayFusion 4.1 Beta 10 released
At work, Office is the only reason I use Windows (when I do).
CSS does support vector images. It's equally easy to do as their raster pals.
Grouper is in beta in SF as well. I've been on one and my friends have been on several. It was fun, but so far no one has made any friends (or started dating), so I don't know it's a solution to this problem.
> Just so you know, a whole bunch of laptops have been coming with "retina" displays for years now.
They'd call it a "Full HD" laptop so it doesn't sound as shiny, but it's still a 15 or 17 inch screen with a 1920x1080 resolution.

That is different, though. 1080p on a 15" display is 146PPI; a "Retina" display (2880x1800) is 226PPI. That's a significant difference.
That's interesting. We did an extensive series of A/B tests a while back between "Registrieren", "Anmelden" and a specific call to action (this was a german top100 site). There was no significant difference between the former two but, as expected, a much better conversion with the specific call.

However, none of this is relevant to the "Login" vs "Sign in" debate. If that button influences anything then it would be in the retention, and I doubt the impact can be measured in insulation either way. It's merely one of the tiny details that make a difference in aggregate.
Confirmed: Marissa Mayer Leaving Google For Yahoo CEO Role
It's like saying the show is on, it's live, there's a reception for VIPs then there the general admission are allowed in.
Wooooow, it took me about 2 seconds to go from this is kinda cool I wonder how its built to giggling and spamming "PENIS". This is the best!
Honestly? I probably wouldn't. I'm in the minority though. Think how many Green charge card, OPEN card, regular consumer Amex credit card, and corporate card customers withe Amex there are out there. Would they quibble over an additional 1%? Or would they shop elsewhere with someone who absorbs the cost?
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The flaw with this analogy isn't likening Yahoo! to a Lamborghini. It's saying that startups are all the same, regardless of who's starting them.

If Elon Musk and a new Stanford grad started brand new companies on the same day, would both companies be old busted cars with blown head gaskets?

Also, the metaphor is a bit flawed by likening the 17-year-old floundering company to a new sports car and a hypothetical new company as something that's already worthless because of wear and tear.
How might we incorporate GraphMuse into the news feed?

I don't quite follow.
My thoughts exactly, this was the most exciting link on the front page for about 3 seconds, then it was the most disappointing.

The capitalization of 'Misfits' in the title looks like a proper noun.

Anyway, to make up for this, I will tribute the Misfits:

Hey, HN! I raped your mother today! And it doesn't matter much to me, as long as she spread!
This was only an issue in very early versions of Cassandra.
In C++ they do. In C++ anything goes. <insane laughter>
Not very organized.

And your typical UU congregation doesn't even let God in the door, let alone promote any especial belief except 'dude, whatever, let's talk about it'.
2x linear, 4x area. I could swear we had this discussion yesterday.
They've only stayed somewhat relevant the past decade due to partnerships and these legacy sorts of services. I agree 100% with this. But what are they to do? They aren't Amazon. Try and buy Netflix and battle it out with all the other digital entertainment services?
Google Announces Pricing for Compute Engine
There's both libreoffice base and a number of web based apps that provide an alternative to access. Some of them aren't bad at all.
Is this open-sourced? I'd like to fork this and use internally for workflow improvement.

This is PILF (Project I'd Like to Fork)

PILF Link: https://github.com/jlongster/ahoy
I had a CEO once who used to say "execute" a lot. I didn't really know what it meant either but it felt exciting when he said it. Sometimes I say it myself in the shower, when there's no-one within earshot.
Eh, I like Marissa, and I've worked on projects (the 2010 websearch visual redesign, and doodles) for which she was the executive sponsor. No, she's not a nice person, and most likely she does not give a shit about you as a person. But she is very often right about her design opinions, and when she's not, she'll listen to data.

I don't think Yahoo particularly needs a nice person as CEO right now. Their culture is dysfunctional enough that they probably need a Steve Jobs type, someone with clear opinions who's willing to ruffle a lot of feathers (and make a bunch of people quit). Steve Jobs wasn't really a nice person either.
That actually makes it sound like she'll fit in at Yahoo just fine.
I do not know about the other languages, but in Octave there's a function called glpk that you can use and it accepts problems in the standard form.

I tend to use clp these days but glpk is a good LP solver as well.
Excellent points. I'm doing a lot of code reading myself these days so it's nice to be reminded of some of the risks. :)
As to that quote, firstly you give it stronger weight than it was intended to convey. It was someone's opinion on the best way to educate, not a statement about use of force to allow or disallow anything.

More importantly, that quote is neither here nor there in the discussion between you and me. I did not utter it, you did not utter it, and the OP did not utter it. Therefore it is irrelevant without you having alerted me to what particular bee you have in your bonnet.

Additionally, it almost certainly true that any first class in programming should start with numbers, which are immutable data objects, and mathematical functions, which are referentially transparent.

E.g.,

def inc(x): return x + 1

Consequently, there is nothing at all incorrect about that assertion.

In any case, I am done with this conversation, and in conversing with you. You have a very rigid and myopic and, yes, ill-educated opinion. I do not wish to converse with you further.
If it's complex enough you need to script it, it's complex enough to make troubleshooting a bitch when something goes wrong in that script...
Obligatory references on the subject of the unvalidated Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®:

http://www.skepdic.com/myersb.html

http://www.psychometric-success.com/personality-tests/person...

"Overall, the review committee concluded that the MBTI has not demonstrated adequate validity although its popularity and use has been steadily increasing. The National Academy of Sciences review committee concluded that: ‘at this time, there is not sufficient, well-designed research to justify the use of the MBTI in career counseling programs’, the very thing that it is most often used for."

http://www.indiana.edu/~jobtalk/HRMWebsite/hrm/articles/deve...

http://www.amazon.com/Cult-Personality-Testing-Annie-Murphy/...
> Given that there hasn't been an unusually large price increase, it's not that surprising to think that they're skimping on something like EPEAT certification.

A big part of that is economies of scale and clever business dealings. Things like pre-purchasing billions of dollars of LCD panels and flash memory made a big difference in Apple's success in the last ten years, and their massive cash reserves mean that they're willing to spend a billion dollars on new machinery if it will pay off in the long run.

Most laptop companies aren't willing to do that because they'll have a dozen disparate models, with different cases, hardware, chipsets, sizes, etc. Apple right now has five: 11" and 13" MBA, 13" MBP, 15" Retina and non-Retina MBP. They're all manufactured similarly, with similar sizes and shapes, and identical materials used. There's a lot of economy of scale there as well.
Safely refers to the well-being of the person rather than the battery. Puncturing lithium-polymer batteries can be dangerous.
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I just finished reading 7 Habits last week. A lot of it seems "intuitive and common sense"... it's just so much more powerful when read and "forced" to think about what's being said!

I also just finished "It's Okay To Be The Boss" (different author)... I think one of the main takeaways from both books is: Focus. You need to focus and think about what you are trying to accomplish and manage yourself and others properly and proactively.
Why not JVM and CLR targets?
Apologies, I didn't realize this was just about AAA games, I saw Quake 3 in there... ;)

I don't think a major overhaul is necessary to make WebGL secure. There is really just one remaining issue, which is DOS attacks from slow shaders. This is not an issue on recent Windows releases which can almost seamlessly restart the GPU.

Aside from that, yes, there will be GPU driver exploits. There are also browser exploits and network stack exploits - we don't stop making browsers and network-connected applications though.

WebGL-ready browsers have very good capabilities to work around such exploits, either by simply blacklisting known bad drivers, or adding things like bounds checks to shaders etc. (which is currently done). Otherwise, exploits will happen and browsers will prevent them, just like browsers already do for non-WebGL content.
I find it so childish, when company escorts an executive out. If CEO have been looking for a job, then all needed files have been copied long time ago. CEO knows it. Company knows it. yet they cannot resist the stupid ritual. giggling.
Database system combining two published technologies battle-tested by two of the largest Internet websites performs better under real world conditions than database written by amateurs, news at 11!

(In all seriousness, what did they expect? Have they looked at the MongoDB code? Do they seriously believe that the 10gen folks are smarter or better at solving problems than the masses of engineers Google and Amazon have thrown at this problem?)
I agree w/ backspace.
Damn, not sure what's up then. Are you in the US? Ours got the updates just sitting on wifi, no SIM card inserted.
Backspace, you sound negative. Can you at least provide some information which makes you feel like she is not going to perform? Like her previous performance, because that would be an ok indicator in this case.
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> the second knows when something hasn't been seen, and might know when it hasn't.

Don't think you meant that.
It's typically used as a buzzword to describe "getting s$%t done that matters".
Firefox 3D view helps spot application vulnerabilities
We were checking out Firefox's 3D view when we noticed something odd in one of our data grids. One of the cells was a little taller than the others. Turns out, we missed encoding user input on this column. Thanks 3D view for helping us spot this :)
She has a great reputation--and she certainly has a lot of work ahead of her. Wish her the best of luck.
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My rails apps bring all the boys to the engineyard.