skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably because he kept his saw sharpened in all 4 core areas.
Jonathan Gay also coded Dark Castle -- an early, awesome Macintosh platform game.
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There're lots of good people at Yahoo. I've heard from other Google engineers who do a lot of interviewing that their recent impression of a lot of ex-Yahooers has been "Hire this person NOW. How could the company let someone like this go?"

I wouldn't be terribly surprised if one of Marissa's first moves is to fire all the middle management and then promote a bunch of longtime individual contributors into their place.
You are spot on. The original headline is wrong as it is not a major label but a major music publisher who is responsible for the takedown. BMG Songs is (almost) exclusively representing songwriters and composers - who can be signed to completely different label (in the case of Al Green this should be currently an EMI sub-label).
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Yes, this has been maddening for me as well. For all of the people on this site claiming the market is "red hot", job hunting in the bay area has been slow. I have dealt with a couple of really well run companies that made it through the process quickly, but others have all kinds of HR filters and take weeks to even get a phone screen.

In contrast, I was able to join a start-up within three weeks of beginning my search in 2010 in Beijing... and that was before I had any professional experience. They made the decision on the basis of a couple of interviews and a couple of retro flash games I'd done as a hobby project.

Incidentally, if anyone in SF is looking for someone who can code and a proven record of hustle, my contact info is on my profile page.
I've never used Dotcloud (my go-to is AWS) but I strongly agree with all the other suggestions.

You didn't mention a web framework, but I've found Bottle.py [http://bottlepy.org/] to be great for putting together projects of all sizes. Set yourself up with Github and write some deployment scripts with Fabric [http://fabfile.org/] and you're all set.
Please can you direct me to a version of Flash DRM that's not easy to bypass, such as with rtmpdump?
I think at this point that there are (somewhat simplistically) two opposing camps in this debate. The first believes that UFOs are entirely the result of terrestrial phenomena, and take the Sagan/de Grasse Tyson view. The other viewpoint is that there is sufficient evidence to point to some sort of extraordinary phenomena which belies common explanation.

Now, this is obviously a simplistic breakdown. Broadly speaking, however, this is usually what we see in such debates. (With typically much ridicule being thrown about by both sides.) Files like these, though, give even the most hardened skeptics room for wonder. While I do not doubt the logical validity of the skeptics positions, there is nevertheless a large body of evidence (circumstantial though it may be) which becomes difficult to deny when taken in the aggregate.

These files are, unfortunately, just more in the circumstantial category. Although they have the "official" seal of approval they are still, at root, not hard evidence. It is frustrating to those of us who are curious about this that nothing beyond eyewitness reports ever seems to surface, no matter the source. I think most people at least pay attention to these news items, but do not know what to make of them beyond raising more questions.
Yahoo: "Software Developer - A Career For People Who Don't Like People"
Enable G.722/HD Voice and use a set of satellite microphones for the room, problem solved.

I love Polycoms and was sad to see my employeer recently replace them with Cisco units (who designed the button layout of the 7937?).
If it works for Ubuntu it will work for Mint. Mint is 100% compatible with Ubuntu, you can even install the Ubuntu software center in Mint.
I'm not sure it's entirely relevant, but here's something the very-very senior flash dev at work said about that recent Dart port of the Flash API (which he thought was neat).

>> "This little game was developed with Flash and later ported to HTML5 in only 6 hours. The new HTML5 version runs with smooth 60fps, which is almost impossible to achieve with the Flash plugin!"

> This is the kind of sentiment that shits me. Flash is measured by the worst of its developers.

> Flash is capped at 60fps in the browser so as to limit the carnage, but can run at 120+ on the desktop. If the dude can't get his example game running at 60 fps in flash it's because he sucks, not the plugin. /rant

Similarly, be prepared for a slew of super slow "HTML5" apps.
I think the generic term would be something like "HiDPI display".
... customers of which are highly unlikely to ever wander into a McDonalds, regardless of its location.
Anybody who gets into software development because they think machines are predictable and reliable is in for something of a surprise, I think.
They clearly mentioned in their post they would support other distributions if STeam on Ubuntu is successful. They are not choosing sides, simply starting with the largest distribution. Which makes sense.
That's what we are up to: Chemdex~=Quartzy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemdex.com
I'll take that bet.

Here is hoping you're correct.
Instead, they just joined a camp - this is not good.

This is exactly what they should be doing, not further fragmenting an already gratuitously fragmented market.

Every time some commercial vendor makes a move into Linux and people start bickering about distros I just /facepalm.
Does this really need to be said?

One is a semi-automated bodily process necessary for extracting oxygen from the atmosphere, and the other is writing instructions in strictly defined languages to control the resources of computer systems.

Other than a contrived emotional connection you might make between the two, they aren't comparable.
Even on Linux, Ubuntu is moving toward Unity and Gnome3.
The difficult thing is assessing your opinion whether it was downvoted because your opinion was fallacious or someone doesn't agree with it.

It does cause some problems with content, most notably bandwagons and mundane comments out of fear.
A weasel? I'm confused.
I hope not. Every time one of those happens a gaggle of retarded politicians take their pants off, put them on their head and start running around enacting egregious laws.

The aftermath is much worse than the event.
if humans are all cognitively similar we shouldn't expect a large number of similar reports about things to be surprising.
load balancers aren't meant to just be "HTTP routers". they can definitely be used as such for smaller applications and do a good job at it, but a real load balancer needs to be quite complex, being able to adapt to the underlying applications that make use of it

I think Poul-Henning Kamp is fairly well qualified to discuss what load balancers do.

(And yes, load balancer are fundamentally HTTP Routers. Yes, sometimes they do content manipulation etc, but all those features are add-ons to the basic use-case)
So happy you guys are doing well! I wish more people would have been supportive of your move - it was the right thing for you and LaunchGram.
To be perfectly honest, I was so pleased to remember about Long v. Ballantine that I stopped reading at that point and came here to post.

With that said, I don't see how Ars later characterizes the clip as anything but fair use. Looking specifically at

The Romney ad seems like as clear-cut a case of fair use as can be imagined. Obama's singing is a core part of the ad's message, and copyright law explicitly mentions commentary and criticism as justifications for fair use. And it's hard to imagine the ad harming the market for Al Green CDs or iTunes tracks.

Ars seems to be saying that the ad meets two of the criteria for fair use: that it is commentary or criticism, and that it has no effect on the work's market. How does this strike you as indicating that they are rejecting fair use?
New CEO of Yahoo Marissa Mayer is pregnant
I'm going to summarize the overall problem here as, "everyone has different goals for the same product," and the OP has some suggestions on how to unify them.

While the the evolution of roles described in the OP are steps in the right direction, usually the inefficiencies caused by the problem require some deep organizational changes beyond hiring some "growth hackers" or "product managers."

I encountered this a lot at previous employers where I developed SEM management systems (ie. optimizing keywords on Google Adwords). SEM had its own P&L (profit/loss) goal so we ran into issues like:

- Bidding on our own "brand" terms. Like if we're oursite.com, we would bid on "our site." Naturally we'd get ranked #1 on AdWords. Yet our site was also #1 on Google's organic results. I'm sure we were absolutely cannibalizing our (free) SEO traffic and hurting for the business units that had SEO P&L responsibility.

- Pretty much any change to the site threw our numbers out of whack. There was one major release that improved the UI greatly, but did add some additional load time to pages. Our Adwords rankings got killed, the SEM team freaked out because it was now mostly impossible to hit our P&L, and it turned into a disastrous political situation.

- We had no input to the actual site ourselves. When our site had no relevant content for whatever was being searched for, the resulting page was pretty much like yelling "OMG WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU EVEN SEARCH FOR THAT YOU SHOULD JUST LEAVE RIGHT NOW BECAUSE WE PROBABLY DON'T HAVE ANYTHING YOU'LL EVER LOOK FOR IN YOUR LIFETIME" at the user. So if a user came in on a keyword that would lead to one of these pages, there was very little chance they'd hang and poke around for something else, which made bidding on the "wrong" keywords incredibly costly. We REALLY wanted to change that page to something more consumer-friendly, but we never really had any channels to do that.

- Ironically, at the team level, the director of SEM resisted hiring any product managers. He wanted tech and operations to feel like one team and communicate constantly. We all talked with the analysts directly. Our wins were theirs, our needs were theirs, our pain points were theirs and vice versa.

Most organizations I've been at, the "product manager" is really just "have a meeting with everyone that's not an engineer, find out what they want, tell the engineers what to do." You know, kind of like this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGS2tKQhdhY

I recognize that this is not an easy problem to solve. My understanding is the idea of the growth hacker is someone that can "see the big picture" and then implement the solutions that lead to the best possible overall outcome. Beyond the right individuals though, it's important to have the right organizational structure to even allow that process to manifest. A very obvious example of a company that understands this is Apple, who has exactly one person in the entire company with a P&L goal[0].

[0] http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/10/steve_jobs_solved_the_innova...
I'd say the cookies situation could be solved by one-page apps. Because the software persists across page-views, it'll be able to maintain session using some other mechanism (localstorage, the lifetime of the tab, whatever). The user could then disable cookies and not be worried about tracking.
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Love the concept, however this is much like learning a language by learning to translate.

求 -> ball -> O (actual ball)

vs

求 -> O (actual ball)

Classic study vs immersion.

The implementation will be much harder, but for this to be effective show the manipulation, not the description.
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I didn't say Jobs didn't obsess over details. Clearly he did. The difference is that he knew what he wanted up front rather than testing market reaction to make decisions. The latter is commonly perceived as the "Google Way" and it's more about meeting expectations than setting higher ones.
Not more recent than quake 4
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It's France. They're French.
It's "responsible" to treat people like potential criminals in lots of contexts. Doesn't mean it isn't a shitty thing to do.
Objects rely on being mutable. An object-oriented language pushes objects everywhere. This pushes mutation everywhere. This is the opposite of corralled.

As I said in another comment:

Note that you can have objects without OOP. Python has objects. Python is not object-oriented. Same with OCaml or Racket. I'm not arguing against using state. If you're programming a state machine, you may want to model it with state. That would be a pretty good choice. The problem is that OOP says everything is a state machine.
Also, we will never know if accounts that would be considered hard evidence were not simply destroyed and not included in any surviving record.

While I am personally on the fence about believing the accounts any gov has - clearly we know basically nothing of the universe relative to its size and existence.... so I will withhold judgement in any form - but lets look at the examples through history:

The earth is flat.
The Sun revolves around the earth.
Germs dont exist.
What is this radiation malarky?
There are no other planets in the universe.
There are no other solar systems like ours in the universe.
Lets kill eachother over imaginary rulers and their rules.
etc etc etc

People are STUPID.

So, are there UFOs? No idea - but I have sen weird stuff and I will never let another human tell me what the limits to the universe are. I'd prefer to just keep seeking, keep experiencing life and the wonders of all that is.

The fact that Humans exist proves there is some intelligence in the Universe, lets just hope we are not the pinnacle as that would be rather sad.
Interesting to see two major CEO changes today. However, has anyone used Cloud Foundry? And why everyone wants to get into "cloud provider" business?

Amazon is winning that market on price and features. And big players like Google, Microsoft etc. are good enough for competition.

Not to mention other established companies like Rackspace, Heroku who have loyal user base.
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No kidding. How ungrateful is this reaction (and I'm not normally one to grate-guilt)? If it works in Ubuntu, it will probably work just fine on other Linux variants, but Ubuntu is the primary support scenario.

And why would a new distro make sense? Now you can have gaming if you just install ~~Windows~~ ValveLinux.
He's designing a website in Photoshop and complaining 800px is too small. Is that serious?
Actually, your metaphor and the pattern of ruining hopefuls fits a pattern from Greek Mythology. (Other tough guys try to capture/defeat/kill a fearsome monster, but Hercules shows he's an uber-stud by finally doing it)

So Yahoo's now the Erymanthian boar?
Yahoo has nothing Google needs

Flickr+Picasa=I might actually use Google products in a social way.
You may be right, but the "experienced" CEOs that preceded her have been a disaster. It is non-trivial to find someone with executive experience at this level; there just aren't that many companies that are this big in this industry (and hiring from outside the industry seems to have been a massive mistake in most of the instances where it has happened; somehow business people always think the business skills are the most important, and so they think a PepsiCo chief can run a tech company, but that never seems to pan out very well).

At the very least, Mayer has been part of a real leading tech organization that grew from nothing to everything in record time. That's experience that is also very difficult to replicate. And, the skills she's known for within Google are all product oriented, and that's where Yahoo has failed so miserably and Google has succeeded so fantastically.
It seems a lot like closing the barn door after the horses have left. If they were going to do anything damaging, why wouldn't they do it after they've decided they're leaving but before they tell you they're leaving? After all, they control when they tell you.

I think that particular practice is security theater - it's so the employer can say "We take all possible precautions", regardless of whether the possible precautions are effective.
>While I do not doubt the logical validity of the skeptics positions, there is nevertheless a large body of evidence (circumstantial though it may be) which becomes difficult to deny when taken in the aggregate.

I think it's incredibly important to remember that the plural of "anecdote" is not "data".
> it's my understanding that producing bytecode is as easy as--if not vastly easier than--producing code in another language

Maybe true for unoptimized code. However, Java and C# compilers have received years of work to make efficient use of their respective VMs; standing on their shoulders makes some sense.
Haxe is interesting only because of its targets. No advanced type features at all.
i doubt that's really the first photo. I recently built http://whisper.sh - it's an anonymous social network built around photos, like PostSecret (before they shut it down). We have hundreds and hundreds of "first photos". We erased the 'production' server dozens of times before apple accepted. It's the nature of testing a photo app. But i guess you have to just pick one and make it the 'first'.
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Only thing missing is disclosure of BMG contributions to each of the campaigns.
> "It is the responsibility of the wearer to communicate this and ask permission when entering private spaces."

The law says otherwise - and this position is backed up incredibly clearly by copious amounts of case law.

> " Let's say you have a teenage daughter who is also attractive and some guy stars to follow you a few feet in fron while recording her on video. While probably legal in most parts of the world this behavior is almost guaranteed to cause the videographer a lot of trouble, and rightly so."

No, just no. What the fucking fuck? What's wrong with you? What part of "being creepy in public" justifies physical assault?

This is the kind of attitude that results in people getting harrassed at a Parisian MacDonald's. You assume because your daughter is attractive that the stranger must be recording her? There is no innocent explanation? Will you bother verifying your suspicions before flying into a fit of rage at the guy (thereby escalating the entire incident into something quite possibly violent)?

> " Legal? Yes? Incredibly rude and inconsiderate? Absolutely!"

I'm waiting for you to get to the part where this justifies physical assault.

Don't be a douchebag. I get it. What does this have to do with physical violence again? Or are you saying that it is morally correct to assault douchebags? Or, more accurately, to assault people you believe are douchebags, but have not bothered verifying?

One of the fundamental tenets of our free society is the freedom to live without threat of harm or harassment for merely that which is unusual. Those who choose to "be dorks", as you so crudely put it, still have to put up with being ostracized, stereotyped, and distrusted. They should not have to add "fear of physical harm" to that list.

My question to you is this: have you ever belonged to a marginalized group, stereotyped and leered at for your subculture, your race, your sexuality, and more? If you have, you would know how easy it is for much of the population to fly to conclusions about you without even once consulting anyone knowledgeable, least of all yourself.
Oh you are so right, I didn't mean for this to read like solving a growth hacker or product manager would solve the problem -- I intended to say that these people could be part of the solution, and that often product managers have historically been the titles who do this kind of work so if you are pattern matching it might help. Thanks for the feedback, and the specific examples -- I will work to use more of those in the future
My mentor who was instrumental in nearly all the best things I achieved as an adolescent highly recommended I read 7 Habits, but I never did. It was one of those things I just put off.

One thing I'll say though is that this is how I want to die-- Biking steep roads in the foothills, living to the fullest regardless of age, and then be comforted in the end by my children and their families.

This man died well.
I'm sure as they work on the Steam client and as they port L4D2 to Linux, they'll start finding and fixing issues in the kernel/OS/related projects, thus contributing to opensource.
Yahoo appoints Google's Marissa Mayer as new CEO
"...but I have sen weird stuff and I will never let another human tell me what the limits to the universe are"

I would suggest rather than depend on personal observation and anecdotal evidence you listen to groups of others who are actively seeking out information.

We no longer believe the earth is flat because of a consistent and large amount of data has told as otherwise.
Her first priority should be to restore Flickr as a leader in photo and video sharing. With her "coolness" factor at the helm (even though personally I don't think she's that cool) this is possible, and the world would be a better place for it.

Flickr is Yahoo's best long term asset.
I really don't understand why people are saying she won't get a reputation hit from this if she fails. Every other CEO trying to steer Yahoo right so far in recent history has a black eye and had to leave in relative disgrace. None of them had the superstar status that she has right now, but the fact is, none of them were allowed the conclusion "well, Yahoo was just too screwed up anyway". I'm not convinced that she'll be able to escape getting a black eye if she also fails. People are harsh on Yahoo CEOs. The deck is stacked against them in so many ways.
I feel pretty dumb asking but, what's YCS12? The google results don't turn up much.
I've never seen the tech version of celebrity gossip before. I hope this doesn't become a thing.
Although I think he should further consider why many websites are using cookies at all or even cryptographically secure cookies, I think he makes a good point about caching and cookies. Websites with large amounts of traffic often move their static content to separate domains to avoid clients sending cookies headers on every request to static/forever-cacheable assets.
The GigaOM analysis[1] is fairly good.

“They’re trying to optimize for revenue instead of market share and — good, God — Maritz if anyone should know that they need to occupy the high-share, high-volume, low-price position, which is what Microsoft did to destroy the legacy Unix OS business. VMware is behaving more like a legacy player than anything.”

[1] http://gigaom.com/cloud/vmware-seeking-scale-took-its-eye-of...
More to the point: Amazon is winning that market using an open source stack which is frankly better and more performant than vmware's stuff. This company had some amazing stuff back in the day, but they've been passed technologically by the market and refused to open their products for too long. It should have been clear this was going to happen the instant the VT-x specs were published. But they turtled instead of innovating.

Their desktop solution is still pretty good, I hear. I don't use it though, as kvm works fine for my needs. And selling to a small market (developers) in competition with multiple free solutions isn't a good place to be.
Exactly. You could argue that God exists based on witness accounts.
Normally tech people are men and not attractive... (gross stereotype)