skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"fresh viewpoint on how to transform the company"

And possibly who to poach from google.
I believe in the future it would be legal to film everywhere 24x365, and it also will be legal to shoot the bad guys (with weapons, not video) if they did some bad thing AND you film it.

And then everybody will behave, because if they don't they might get shot. Sort of a high-tech wild west.

(and you don't have to be a hard ball, just trigger the wearable fire response system).
>And why no pictures of the guy trying to grab his goggles off his face? Surely there would be a snapshot somewhere of that?

I think because of the "polar bear in a blizzard" problem: you don't actually see anything informative.

"And here, ladies and gentleman, is a blurry hand covering up most of the camera's view! I promise it's someone trying to rip my glasses off!"
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4220156
New Ways of Visualizing the Customer Journey Map
confused security + non-compliance = being hit
Agreed. I would think you could make an argument for NetFlix (streaming/rentals), Apple (iTunes + players), or Amazon (streaming/rental/sales/player (book)) as being 'digital media' companies.

It may be that I think 'education/entertainment' more than I think 'discovery' when I think digital media. If Yahoo claimed to be the digital media discovery company that might be the starting point for a bigger vision.
you say that until some terrorist screw a bomb to his head and kill YOUR CHILDREN!!!!1!!
A few people have voiced concern that this is a made up story. I have to admit that I belong to that bunch.

I would imagine that if a store had a concern that this was an ... odd individual, carrying a video recording device, recording customers, employees and the store itself, I would send out security to escort the person out. But I would do so with a great trepidation, because of lawsuits.

There MUST be something missing in this story. It would take great recklessness and lack of ethics to completely fabricate the story, but it is possible.

More likely is that there were some leading events that we have not been told about.
News Intl. aren't covered? How ironic, News Intl. publications were some of the first to put up pay walls.
This is infinitely more useful:

http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_date.asp
Heh, that probably wasn't phrased well. Let's try again:

Dynamo (and thus Cassandra) is designed for write speed and durability. What is MongoDB designed for?
There's a lot of money-laundering fast food franchises. I remember a KFC in Baltimore where the skeleton crew that manned it were barely familiar with the menu, and maintained a largely empty parking lot at all times in what I would imagine to be prime chicken-flogging real estate (it was my neighborhood.)

They got a bit of unwanted attention a few years after I moved away when a junkie died in the single-occupancy bathroom and nobody noticed for three days.

edit: found it - http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2000-12-19/news/0012190192_...
so if you were using a font with kerning information, Word would just ignore it by default? Astounding.
As I recall most of that was due to the US economy turning around and picking up defense contracts. I think it would be impossible to not make money in that situation.
How about storing the AES key in a HSM (Hardware Security Module) instead of a filesystem?
CEOs in general tend to be hard to work with. There are also anecdotes about Gates being rude.

Further, I would say the people who want to judge a character by a few anecdotes are being lazy, small minded, and short sighted. Jobs, Gates, and Mayer are all different people with their own styles. I'm not sure if Mayer's style will be what Yahoo needs, but I wish her the best of luck.
She did the right thing. I think she had peaked at Google.

She risks "failure" at Yahoo, but that's why this is the right move. What was she to do at Google -- just drift along as the cofounders continue to (rightly) control the company?

I've never been a huge fan nor a detractor of Mayer, but I'll be rooting for Yahoo now. It's about time for another epic comeback story in SV. Long odds, but that's why this is fun.
I'm not sure about OneNote, but you can go a long way (even export PowerPoint and Excel files) with both LibreOffice (which is free for you and your students, forever) and with Apple's iWork, which is very expensive, but comes free with a beautiful computer. If you already own a computer beautiful enough, it's quite cheap.

Note: actually, iWork doesn't come with every new Mac, but I felt the joke irresistible.
He's using a power of 2 so he can use a bitwise-and to mask out his hash into the number of array indexes.
Malcolm Gladwell Unmasked: A Look Into the Life & Work
Is it only me or does the article look like the author took the already written material from MSFT and just did search and replace from "we" to "Microsoft"? It smell lot more like a "marketing department prepared" material than the plain article.
A lot of people are assholes. That doesn't mean they are like Steve Jobs.

That description of her didn't include a single word saying anything positive about how she did her job. No description of Jobs of similar length, regardless of how much the writer hated him, would have failed to mention that Jobs also had many positive qualities.
I propose that making the position of hour, minute and seconds the canonical definition is worse than using their names.

So this:
{
type: "hms",
hour : 10,
minute : 45,
second : 16 }

is better than this:

["hms", 10, 25, 16 ]

Either go across the wire fine. The names are not just local names, they describe the meaning of the data.

In the JavaScript world we would call the map an object.
Attacking people with cameras in a McDonalds, at a popular tourist trap, is not how any mafia front would behave if they wanted to last more than a week.
Ask HN: Should I register my iOS Dev Account as an Individual or Business?
What are the main differences? Pros & Cons? What materials are necessary to register as a company?
I only see an upvote button, what gives?
Using a modulo with a non-power-of-2 is going to introduce modulo bias.
I was commenting on how religion traditionally sustained social lives for adults, and how that's a problem today as we become more secular. I was not looking for suggestions for people to hang out with. The point being, no one thing can step up and take the place traditionally filled by the church.
$100 says Yahoo is acquired by Google in the next three years. Any takers? I am imagining/hoping for a more successful version of the Stephen Elop leaves Microsoft, runs Nokia, forms a strong partnership with Microsoft. But this time, Yahoo is even more in the pits.
EFF to FCC: Consumers Face Uphill Battle in Fight for Mobile Device Privacy
Most sensible explanation so far. It accounts for why they would be worried about hidden, automatic cameras much more than the ones regular tourists have, where you can see when they're taking a picture or getting a good video angle. Also, most tourists don't take pictures of what's going on behind the counter, so you can catch someone trying to overtly do that, but a hidden camera would make that harder to spot, leading management to be more paranoid about built-in cameras.

On top of that, "concern about the health department" has a much higher prior probability than "mafia collusion with major fast food chain".
> June 16th, "Marrissa Meyer Makes Move to Yahoo"

Psst: It's July.
From zero to one is a quantum leap - you go from "alone, no one to talk to" to "can talk honestly and frankly with someone". That's the biggest step. Beyond that, of course it enriches your life, but the first friend is the most important.
It's just TV. I let other people figure out what's worth watching. (Very little.) Collaborative filtering is great.
>The profit margin is not high enough for it to be worth ordering extra stock and throwing it out.

You wouldn't have to throw it out. Sell it on to other businesses.
I don't think that is correct. Version 2.2 (beta) has database level locking, but that was the hard part. Collection, and document locking are coming after according to this talk by the CEO Dwight Merriman. (http://www.10gen.com/presentations/concurrency-internals-mon...)
one of the main goals for the Office applications is so that you can create your own visualizations. Don't like any of the charts in powerpoint? create your own.
It is possible. There are many reasons people may have been nervous around cameras. They may have been doing a number of illegal or semi-illegal things, like dealing drugs, embezzling something or other, or even cheating on time-sheets.

And none of the above are that hard to believe. Drug deals especially happen all over the place and all the time.
Apple releases iOS 6 beta 3 with direct upgrade on iOS5 devices
The 4 Ds my grandfather told me: Doing a startup is a continuous process
No hope for me there; I like to base my beliefs on reason, not on copying another persons beliefs because I admire him, whether he's real or not. If I have to ask myself what would Jesus do, I've already lost.
God no. Haven't we learnt by now?

Two-Factor authentication (something you have + something you know) is for physical security as well as online.
Ah. Good to know.

Thanks.
Question for those who have this installed:

Does iOS6 really add file uploading in Safari? Because that would be huge (and about darn time).
That's not going to work at all. If I have an object A that hashes to bits 1, 5, 17, 24; an object B that hashes to bits 1, 5, 13, 15; and an object C that hashes to bits 2, 9, 17, 24; and I add objects B and C, then the filter will incorrectly think A has already been seen.
StumbleUpon has mastered the science of making money on mobile
"someone with a fresh viewpoint on how to transform the company"

Prior to joining google in 1999 as employee number 20 "Mayer worked at the UBS research lab (Ubilab) in Zurich, Switzerland, and at SRI International in Menlo Park, California" (wikipedia) for what appears to be only a few years. (She graduated high school in 1993, received a B.S. and and M.S. which must have taken at least 4 or 5 years afaik).

My guess is that she has a great deal of confidence, confidence built on the fact that she was an early google employee and she was able to ride the success of that opportunity. But her entire working career is basically google and I'm not sure she brings the depth of experience necessary to take on turning around the fortunes of Yahoo.
Don't be so sure. Nokia was a sinking ship before Elop joined and now he's wearing most of the blame. Sure, he could have hitched Nokia's wagon to Android instead. But given that Google own competitor Motorola and are selling the killer Nexus 7 at no margin, they aren't exactly an ideal partner either.
What I don't understand why clearly things have been manually blacked out (or whited out in this case). Why not show their face?

I agree this story smells in a dozen different ways. Rather than the mafia I'm wondering if Steve Mann is perhaps seeking to establish some documentation in order to assert IP rights against a very wealthy company which has made very public announcements about glasses that augment your vision and take pictures of what you see.

For that reason I think we'll see more on this story.
The biggest red flag for me is how he is suddenly assaulted without any warning or prior dialogue taking place. That doesn't mean that any assault was justified, but it means we are not being told something.
Given that the author of the article simultaneously published this overview and 3 in-depth hands-on reviews of the customer previews of Word, Outlook, and Excel, I don't think that he regurgitated any prepared marketing statements.
Company pays workers to go on vacation
I'm pretty sure the structure was designed around relatively small objects. If you need to store large objects, then you can modify this structure to store the full un-masked hash instead of the object. Assuming no hash collisions (even with MD5 this should be a safe assumption if you're working with non-malicious data) the structure should behave identically.
10 million rows though is a high enough limit to make that unnecessary.

Of course any limit can be engineered against. When I was in college, the deli used to have a deal where you could get a baked potato with whatever toppings you wanted for $1.50 or something. one of the topings was chilli. So I would fill the container up with chilli so it was more like potato chilli..... After a while they started charging by weight because apparently this was a popular approach to this esp. for college kids who would rather cut food expenses and spend money on other things.
Note that Jobs didn't turn around Apple alone. He had built an entire separate company with a strong team and a strong technology. That was vital to the turnaround. In some ways, Apple didn't acquire Next; Next ate Apple from within. Aided, of course, by Jobs knowing the company and its markets inside and out.

And that wasn't enough; 3 years later they got their new OS out, but they were still a small player in their markets.

It was something like 4 years from takeover until they released the iPod, and circa 7 years before the stock really started to take off.

Even Yahoo can survive long enough for Mayer to find some new multi-billion idea, I'm not sure whether key shareholders or the board will give her enough rope to make significant changes.
How exactly are they promoting a dinner arranged through their site as "unplanned"?
Ex-Mozilla worker rails against developers' love of frequent updates
When Thompson got pushed out new people took control of the Board, including the hedge fund that outed him for lying about his CS degree.

In the same way you can't attribute past failures to Mayer, you can't attribute them to the current Board either.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that Google or Amazon engineers implemented Cassandra (though it's notable, of course, that it was initially implemented by Facebook, adding a third Internet behemoth to its pedigree).

What I really meant to say is that it's clear that the engineers behind Cassandra have done their research and chosen an extremely well tested design, while the engineers behind MongoDB seem to be completely winging it, ignorant of the literature and writing (based on my last examination) extremely amateurish code.
I'd recommend a simpler approach than contours or trying to convert blocked areas into patterns. Simply adjust the levels (or use replace colour) so the block colours aren't so dark. Advanced users would remove the magenta channel entirely on the blue sections of the image.
While this incident is terrible, there's one thing Dr. Mann doesn't make entirely clear in the article.

The contact information for McDonald's France is quite easily found at http://www.mcdonalds.fr/contacts. It's not an e-mail address, but rather a phone number, but the way the article is written it's not at all clear if he's tried to contact them by their publicly available phone number?
i've got w3schools.com blocked on google. because they're shit.

thanks for the feedback, though, rorrr! i'll have to think about how i'm presenting the info
That's what I ascertained, so ... yes.
A much more plausible explanation of a story posted by a newly created account to a popular tech aggregator about a technology which competes with (and possibly pre-dates) Google Glass, with a picture of Google Glass on the same page, is that a patent [1] suit is about to break out.

A cynic might think they were trying to harvest accesses from internal to Google IP addresses so that as of today they could show 'knowable infringement' aka treble damages.

[1] http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sec...
Not an option. Moving my teaching materials to other programs would be a mountain of work at this point, but in five years it will be exponentially worse.

PowerPoint is the main issue. I've made a lot of animations for my courses that I'll have to remake from scratch if I switch programs.
Page is down, but doesn't Occam's Razor handle this situation adequately? He ran into a random violent asshole. It can happen anywhere at any time to anyone.
Oh, you don't need to use Heroku to take advantage of Heroku Postgres -- it's available as a standalone service.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3984642
Bitcoin's crossed $8.00 mark
Wow. You had just what I had in mind. I created Strangers for Dinner to that extent. We've had about 4 dinner parties so far and they were pretty amazing.

The amount of conversation you get with strangers, learning more about different people.

Hope I don't sound too self-promotional, but you can check out Strangers for Dinner: http://strangersfordinner.com
Pew: Russia Today, Fox News lead the pack on YouTube
I have experimented a little bit with D, and really like some of the things in the standard library, but Haskell is already serving as my replacement for C++. D is a viable alternative to C++ for most purposes, though.

I’m actually working on a compiler for a high-performance functional language, to serve in those cases when I would want to go back to C++…
Two men wrote the original Adobe Flash in 1993 - where are they now?
The point of these displays is to (eventually) get away from slavery to the pixel. Just because a printer can render, say, 4800 dpi, doesn't mean you want to render your body copy in a 1pt text (which it can do with better letter-shape fidelity than any of my old dot-matrix impact printers); you still print at 9 or 10 points and enjoy sharper and better-defined type. Moving to high-linear-resolution screens does the same thing—you don't cram more stuff into the screen, you cram a better version of the same stuff into the screen.
I think you just showed us a glimpse of the future...
We should all be thankful that it wasn't Steve Mann's EyeTrap design.
Wow, this is so crazy it just might work.

I'm not sure what Yahoo would look like in succeeding under Mayer as CEO, but I have to imagine it would be substantively different than what it looks like now.
actually a lob can go up to 2GB. Byteas are limited to 1GB.

I store images and other binary data in the db all the time, when this is closely associated with data in the db and needs to be maintained together. Usually these files are store once, retrieve seldom. However for practical purposes I would not recommend going above a few megs on a bytea field. lobs are easier because you can seek in them, but access will never be as fast as it would be directly from the filesystem.
> "What are the chances in NYC that I go into a cafe and meet a startup founder?"

As someone who lives in SF and is moving to NYC, your odds are pretty low. But I think there's a better question here:

What are the chances in SF that I go into a cafe and meet a startup founder working on something big and impactful?

I don't know about you, but my time in SF has netted me a lot of opportunities to talk to founders who are working on [insert social/mobile/local thing here] which IMO simply aren't big enough (or original enough) for me to care. For every Square there are dozens of Square copycats who aren't really executing anything substantially different. For every Zynga there are dozens of startups in SF egging their exact formula and not really mutating it in a meaningful way.

Certainly very, very few are working on anything that has relevance outside of the tech community, with impact IRL - I'm talking about the AirBnbs and the Squares. Stuff that will change the lives of people who aren't plugged into the pulse of the California tech scene.

SF is full of startups, sure, but the vast majority aren't doing anything interesting. I'll trade quantity for quality, though I'm not asserting where one might find higher quality between SF and NYC.
In Russian, this kind of person is called "gopnik".
Feel free to use.

Not directly related to one of two USA main parties.
If I'm understanding this, it still relies upon 3rd party servers. That being the case, talk of how much better it is than BoxMail is meaningcless.

The speed of PushMail today has absolutely nothing to do with how it will perform when their servers start getting hammered.
Can you give more info on how you are clustering friends? AFAIK Facebook doesn't allow you to fetch friends of friends, so curious how you're finding overlapping connections.
I am very curious what goes in those Board of Directors meetings.

Does everyone just sit around asking eachother "What the fuck does this company do, and how are we still in business?"

Seriously, what does Yahoo do? I don't know, because I haven't been their website since the 1990's. They obviously don't make software or hardware products, because I don't own any and have never paid for any of their products. I have no use for whatever services they might offer because I've never heard of anyone praising or recommending their services. I honestly would like to know how Yahoo still exists.

I think Marissa Mayer has a much harder task in front of her than she might think. Yahoo really doesn't do anything, or have products. How is she going to improve that which does not exist?
Clients can be hacked anyways, whether compiled or not. This has always been true. The only way to make a game secure is to keep all the game logic and data server-side. This means clients only act as dumb terminals: they provide input to the servers, and render the output.
I've been using the new iPad for a few months now and I'm always bothereed to back to an iPad 2 for reading. I can just see the pixels on the iPad2 now, I didn't before, but now they bother me. Blast Apple for raising my standards!
Apple derives more than 80% of their revenue (and probably 90%+ of their market cap) from product categories that didn't even exist in 1999.

Yahoo needs to reinvent itself. They have a $19 billion market cap, billions in revenue, a brand with household name recognition all over the World and tens of thousands of employees to do it. It can certainly be done. I don't know that Mayer will do it or that it will ever be done with Yahoo - but to look at their current sources of income and define that as their future is shortsighted. Unfortunately, thats exactly how their investors look at it and it's a big part of the reason why they are in this mess in the first place.
Hey there,

I run Strangers for Dinner, which is like GrubWithUs, except we encourage you to host your own dinner party. We also don't do the groupon thingy that GWU does.

IMO, running your own dinner party is far more satisfying than meeting people for dinner/lunch. I mean, we've had 4 dinner parties in the 2 months we were running, and all 4 had been pretty dang amazing. The level of conversation, the depth, etc.

I personally find it difficult to connect with people, but in a small intimate setting like my house with 5 people, that is where I (and I suspect many others) are comfortable.

Give SfD a try: http://strangersfordinner.com
Hinduism is not.

Ragnarok is eerily close to the Armageddon story however, complete with monsters and beasts, darkness and destruction of the planet by fire from the heavens. It's also very similar to the Mayan and Hindu "rebirth following destruction" theories.

I'd posit that the "saviour" component of later religions is perhaps just a development of the darkness in the rebirth narrative.
Seems rather tin-hatty. Is it not more likely that, being next to L'Arc de Triomphe, they simply have extra security for anti-terrorism purposes, and that's why they attacked the guy who was recording everything? I recall a similar incident at Disneyland after 9/11.

These guys even look like private security contractors, and their actions are more easily explained by the mindset endemic in that field than by criminal conspiracy.
In this case it's probably unnecessary. It's probably better to template these higher-order functions on their function arguments and just return the lambda itself instead of returning it in a function wrapper.