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That's an incredibly reductionist view, and I'm so tired of people parroting it over and over again as if it's insightful. I mean, maximize shareholder value how? And how do they continue to maximize shareholder value? And over what period are they maximizing shareholder value? And how do they try find global maxima instead of local maxima? Is your answer to this simply going to be to parrot "maximize shareholder value" again? Not all companies are started with the goal being "to maximize shareholder value." Try pitching that to VCs. Try trying to get a small business loan, telling your bank "ahh yes, I noticed that there are too-few companies maximizing shareholder value, so I'm going to do that."

"Maximize shareholder value" is not a company. A company needs vision, it needs to do something or build something. A company needs profit, and preferably lots of it, yes, but it also needs a guiding philosophy that informs the markets it enters and the ways it enters them. You can call it "marketing fluff", but it's what makes the company what it is. For the best companies, profit is part of the vision, but it does not subsume the vision.

Google and Apple are both very successful companies, but they're both very different. You can deride the difference between them as marketing fluff, but I call it "successfully executing on vision."
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I don't think Zynga and Groupon are tech darlings ...
I think there's some benefit in figuring out the math well-enough so that you can translate each formula into a small number of linear algebra operations without any loops. They weren't always expressed that way. If they had been, then the homeworks truly would have been child's play.

If it's concentrating more on the math than on applying the stuff to real-world problems that bothered you, then you wouldn't want to take the real full-blown Stanford class. That class is largely doing rather difficult math proofs and the like.

I'm not sure I understand the argument that you could have solved the problems in a lazy fashion, however. Such lazy solutions aren't good for the real-world, as they don't perform well-enough. Part of the insight taught in the class is that you have to look for these sorts of performance optimizations in order for the solution to be feasible to use in the real world.

If the problem is that other students could pass the class without having put in the same effort as you and I did, who cares about that!
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What's 'right' for the company is often not what looks best for you when performance review time comes around. That's sad reality in most big companies.
Are there really 23 year-olds making $600,000 per year (=5x what I'm told Google pays) at large tech companies writing javascript? Or is that just hyperbole?
Per the GGP post, they can use Android, they wouldn't be competing with it. They can leverage their market position to create an additional Android app marketplace, or produce a suite of apps that create a Yahoo! integrated experience on other Android devices, whether they distribute these in their own store or someone else's. Android manufacturers already exist, establish a relationship with them and they can start churning out Yahoo!/Android devices in addition to their Google/Android B&N/Android and Amazon/Android devices. The device manufacturers are competing with each other and Apple for the market. They can be promiscuous with companies seeking to create X branded Android devices. They get to rely on their existing production infrastructure and design database, and they get paid by Brand X to create a custom design, it's not out of pocket for them.

The competition would be with the Google/Amazon branding, but Yahoo! already has a relationship with millions of customers, many of whom already own Android devices. Give them better Yahoo! integration into their existing devices + the future option of migrating to a Yahoo! branded device.
> I think their issue is that they lack an underlying framework from which these services should be stemming

This is actually what people mean when they ask "What does Yahoo! do?" When you ask that question of Google, for instance, you notice that all the technical branches can be relatively easily argued as coming back to search, and all the monetary branches come back to ads.
I think that OP raises a good point in this post, but I'm skeptical of whether his strategy is really applicable in the real world. Yes, there are obviously some cases where it may make sense to do the more expensive option in order to save time, but can this strategy really be used as an overarching decision making mechanism? I think not, primarily because of the fluctuations in productivity/necessity of productivity that happen from minute to minute, hour to hour.

As OP says, he "use[s the] expected values throughout this post,"—I don't think average/expected value is really an accurate way to make decisions about non-averaged decisions. Primarily, if you always choose the more expensive thing to save time, justifying because your average value makes it worth it, you will inevitably end up "saving" time that is useless; therefore, you'll end up—on average—spending more money than the value you create.

Does anyone else feel this way/think I'm crazy for thinking this?
>stay by my opinion that sometimes it's just impossible to resolve without a middle man

Right, that's why TURN is part of ICE.
From the article:
"The American Psychological Association created a panel of eminent researchers to write a summary of what was known about intelligence, which would presumably contradict many of these claims."

"...would presumably contradict" is right, of course, because the APA is one of the most political organizations in America. An article published in The American Psychologist (the APA's own journal) describes how "a past APA president urged psychologists to advocate radical leftist positions and 'explicitly blend our data and values in order to make strong arguments for the kinds of [radical] change we think is necessary.'"

The people the APA chooses as "eminent researchers" to summarize "what is known" just aren't going to include anyone who doesn't promote their political agenda, leading Willingham to the "would presumably contradict" comment. What they would "find" would be a foregone conclusion, by policy, given the nature of the APA.

A study was conducted in which a liberal, a conservative, and a centrist independently rated the political leaning of articles published by the APA in The American Psychologist. The results, published in The American Psychologist itself, found the APA's published articles to be 97% liberal vs. 3% conservative, with a 93% correlation among the different raters.

This doesn't make any particular claim about IQ right or wrong, but it does mean that you might want to take the APA's word about "what is currently known" about a politically controversial issue with a grain of salt. If other things had been found (and they have), would the APA's hand-picked "eminent scientists" be sure to tell you?

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See a lot of Philip Tetlock's articles on the topic (use Google Scholar, I'm lazy.)
Also, see this in The American Psychologist on the APA's own website:
http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=fulltext.journal&jco...
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Some? Who? I think that's an unfair accusation.

What I see sometimes in these discussions is people throwing the "hot potato" in the hands of their detractors, people that believe in the difference between groups throw the potato in the hands of the disbelievers and accuse them of being obtuse for trying not to advance an "obvious truth".

The other side just answer by accusing the others of being "racist".

The fact is the data is poor for a significant statistical analysis and for some reason this research has become heavily politicized, this in academia is a good enough reason for some people just ignore this entire field, but I never saw people trying to prevent this type of paper from being publicized or peer reviewed, last time I searched there's various being published every year.

EDIT: typos
At least in Australia, all you need to make a purchase with a credit card is the numbers and dates on the front, and the 3 digit security code on the back. Having a program extract these values automatically wouldn't make this any less secure.
You really need to do this. Here was my thought process...

I'm vaguely interested in this, so I'm going to go to the site to check it out. --> Hmm, okay 50 dollars, what was I here for again? --> Oh, iPhone app template, cool. Let's see, $50 is a lot, I wonder what I get. --> That picture can't possible be what I get, so I want to know what I get. --> This is too hard to figure out, I'm gonna look for an open-source version. --> ...

Not that I'm gonna be your typical customer, but maybe I could have been. YMMV.

[Edit] To be fair, I spent a little more time on your site and I like what I see, but that reaction should happen on the front page.
Pretty neat to read Davis' thoughts on other players but this would have been so much better if the recordings could have been embedded so we can hear what he heard.
My advice? Take the layers of middle managers who have been there for years, give them their gumball machines or espresso makers, offer to buy out a percentage of their long-underwater options, and make them promise to go work somewhere else.

The inertia is so ingrown there the only way is to cut out the "lifers" who were given their incentives in equity and clog up the system with incompetence or resentment.
Given that they probably got the biggest rust of donations at the beginning, it seems like they aren't doing particularly well on their fundraising goal. Looks like they might come up short?
I like this idea of collective, less-organized entities. I worked at a design agency for 3 years and found that every designer who came immediately started designing outside of their process. I think a system like this allows each individual designer the ability to implement their own process and creativity without management influence.

I would urge you to take this to the next step and unify accounting. This would allow customers to feel as if they were hiring a traditional firm, and would relish in the idea of being able to select out of 444 designers and then work directly with them.
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A day after the initial launch of the Raspi, I ordered two (one from RS and one from Farnell). The Farnell one arrived about 4 weeks ago and the RS one arrived about two weeks ago. I'm in France and ordered via the UK sites in both cases.

P.S. RS packaging wins - it had a cute Raspi logo sticker on it :)
It asks the user for a registration code. It obviously needs to communicate with a server to verify the code. When someone enters an invalid code, it will clearly be logged and the OP notified. It is not doing anything like "phone home" in secret (From what I can tell after reading the article).
If you'd like a different perspective, read "The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958" by John Litweiler. Litweiler is a huge proponent of free jazz artists like Cecil Taylor and quite dismissive of Miles Davis fusion records.
That's an incredibly reductionist view

Now that is a pithy retort I must commit to memory! Ouch.
I'd greatly appreciate it if you can call out specific examples of designs on Scoutzie that you believe are Teehan+Lax templates and fake iOS layouts.

I agree UX is imperative to the success of a product. But so too is the code, its marketing efforts, and more. Can you elaborate a bit more on what you're getting at?
... and how long exactly did you work at Yahoo?
Minor rant: "</end major rant>" made me cringe. I suggest "<major-rant>blah blah blah</major-rant>" instead. :p
So the difference between tags and hashtags is that there isn't a separate textbox for adding tags, because hashtags are entered into the item description, right?

Sounds like a good way to simplify the UI, but I'm not sure how it would add any purpose that regular tagging is purported to lack.
Yahoo Fantasy Sports still has a leadership position in its space, which is a $1-2 Billion market for football alone. Anecdotally, it's the default fantasy sports platform for not only my group of friends, but whenever we are running an office pool (NCAA brackets, fantasy football, NFL survivor pool, etc.) since it's by far the fantasy sports platform with the widest adoption (main competitors being ESPN and CBS).
Fair, but shorter posts are far more relevant in the politics game than the developer community. I think it's a content length issue, not an ecosystem issue. Most of those developers were/are on Facebook before they adopted G+, and we never saw wall posts linked to on HN.
I think i'm just gonna knuckle down this week and do a full redesign.

The templates are very versatile imo, they allow you to easily modify them to suit your needs and don't go too far down one direction, so anyone using them should not have too many problems. Though i sort of agree with you that they don't solve ALL problems for everyone. That can only be solved by adding more templates. Which we will be doing regularly.
Having worked with some of the first few Rational employees, my understanding is that Rational was/is very good at sales through their consulting arms (hired a consultant? congrats, you just paid a member of their sales force to wear your employee badge!). They don't have particularly great usage numbers on those sold products, though.

That said, there are some very useful UML diagrams for non-architect-titled folks. For people stuck using class-heavy systems (some of which are out of their control), the UML Sequence Diagram is both useful and a very compact way to explain "what happens when the user goes <poke>":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_diagram
I wonder why the photo was of the Joint Chiefs of Staff? The uniformed military isn't mentioned at all in the article, which is all about senators and their staffs, and specifically the Senate Armed Services Committee.
That thought process paragraph you just wrote is invaluable. Thank you.
> I didn't know it had a fancy name though.

Well, by giving it that, I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have!
I completely agree with you. Those are all very fine and nice technologies.

But I'm not a back-end engineer and I haven't dealt with web technologies at all. The only one of those things I've ever considered using is Hadoop and I didn't even know Yahoo had anything to do with it. Needless to say, none of those technologies are things I would be working on.

I typically write embedded and high performance C/C++ applications and I specialized in video at the time. I'm not going to jump ship for a position in some also-ran fiefdom in a directionless corporation writing embedded JVM UIs.

And that's the problem. Most people who are good in that niche aren't going to risk it with Yahoo vs some other firm or by starting their own company. Simply put: Yahoo can't win at that game because they can't attract the talent. So why do they even play at it?
Big deal. The advantage skype has over countless other voip programs / SIP clients (many of them open source) is their userbase, not a superior product.
Of course every company has a "vision statement" on the wall. That doesn't mean it's a real thing that's worth discussing on HN. Even if a tiny percentage of companies truly believe and adhere to it. Google+ certainly isn't anything about "organizing the world's information".
I almost never down vote and didn't down vote you.

Plenty of very good apps make no money. The world will be a better place when people understand basic statistics.
And really, I don't think it's much of stretch to liken a great jazz musician to a great developer. The flow, improvisation and interpretation in the music. The way notes and bars can come together to become something greater than the sum of their parts. You can find all that in great code too :)
This is the concept of opportunity cost[1], and along with time preference and marginal utility, it is one of the foundations of praxeological thought. Understanding OC changes your entire perspective on the world, makes you realize why rich people don’t recycle as much, why first class flights exist, and why people with higher salaries are more likely to have chauffeurs (so they can not waste time on the act of driving, when the economic output they would produce in that time pays for the driver, the car, the fuel, and still leaves profit).

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost
A good start down the path - but you have to make the next conceptual leap after thinking about time as a countdown resource. That leap is thinking about whether you can use time to create more time, what sort of trade-offs you can pull in through support of medical research to ensure that you have a higher expectation value of living for a greater number of healthy years.

You can indeed put time and resources in to that goal in this day and age, and a related question is what you losing in the trade-off by not doing any of that. e.g.:

http://www.sens.org

http://www.neworgan.org

http://www.mfoundation.org

http://www.lifestarinstitute.org

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://www.scienceag...

http://www.bg-rf.org.uk

etc.
Ask HN: So you're looking for a full-stack engineer?
So you want to hire a master-of-all-trades super-coder capable of building a webserver, a web application, database development, DBA duties, front-end development, CSS, Photoshop design duties.

LOL.

You guys are fucking crazy. Unless you're willing to pay half a million a year for a some kind of supercoder capable of doing all the tasks of your company and doing so instead of starting his or her own company... then good luck.

Honestly these fucking dumbass newly funded YC companies must be smoking some nice weed.
Very interesting. Watch the progression:

(1) "I like Louis! Anything he does is all right....That's Bobby Hackett, too; I always did like Bobby Hackett - anything by him. Jack Teagarden's on trombone. I'd give it five stars." September 1955, on Louis Armstrong's _Ain't Misbehavin'_

(2) "I don't know who that was, Leonard. Sounds good in spots, but I don't like that kind of trumpet playing....It's a good little number except for that interlude and that tired way of playing trumpet. I'll give that three stars." August 1958, on Don Elliott and Rusty Dedrick's _Gargantuan Chant_

(3) "Clark Terry, right? You know, I've always liked Clark. But this is a sad record. Why do they make records like that? With the guitar in the way, and that sad...piano player. He didn't do nothing for the rhythm section - didn't you hear it get jumbled up? All they needed was a bass and Terry." June 1964, on Clark Terry's _Cielito Lindo_

(4) "I don't dig that kind of , man, just a straight thirty-two bars, I mean whatever it is....It's formal, man, and scales and all that....No kind of sound, straight sound - no imagination. They shouldn't even put that out....Freddie's a great trumpet player....if he's directed, because he must have other imagination, other than this. I wouldn't even put that on a record." June 1968, on Freddie Hubbard's _On the Que-Tee_
Another problem that needs to be handled is how to keep the source code secret. For open source/free games this isn't a huge concern, but for a triple-A company, or a company making a multiplayer game, keeping the source code out of those haxxors hands is important. For a browser based game can we do much besides simply obfuscating the javascript? If people can pick apart obfuscated assembly code, js will be a piece of cake.

And for multiplayer games, how will a company detect a modified client? Short of issuing a browser plugin there isn't access to the low level so a Warden type program like the one Blizzard uses for WoW won't be workable.

I'm not saying these are impossible problems to solve, but I don't think they're going to be trivial. Hopefully I'm wrong though :)
In that case, they're pretty much the sales/support team... Unlike front/back-end, who actually build the "cake"
What’s the problem with unguided evolution?
I know of a 25 year old who got a 7-digit counter offer from Google when a friend tried to recruit him so I was hoping the 23 year old example wasn't too much hyperbole. Plus, the idea is to pay a big premium over what everyone else pays anyway.
You do realize that $60 million is an enormous, lifechanging amount of money, right?

It would be interesting to compare success rates between people who build companies to sell and people who build companies to change the world.
Flickr is stronger IMHO at searching, sorting, browsing, organizing, collaging, archiving, and sharing with loosely-connected groups. The HTML5 uploader is good and the Justified layout with thumbnail commenting is good too (similar to Google photo results, Metro, skydrive).

Will you do all these on your phone? I think yes, especially given the colossal success of Pinterest. People seem to love organizing, sorting, tagging, and collaging. And with the Yahoo phone, photos can be connected with your messenger, calendar, games, and email.
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The title is misleading. This is not about intelligence, this is about IQ, and that's hardly the same thing. IQ has never been a reliable measure for anything, and something you can improve on by training/repeated exposure is certainly not linked to intelligence.
Friendster was never really a thing. MySpace was actually briefly popular, before Facebook opened up to everyone.
OK, that thing in your edit is awesome.

But it was actually this: http://connectedtv.yahoo.com/

Basically, somebody at Yahoo said 'it's like the app store!' and got the green light to write something nobody cares about.

Later in my life, I actually bought a Samsung TV with Yahoo widgets (not that that was a feature I cared about), and it was an ugly clunky GUI on top of a bunch of applications that didn't really work. Then the UI would freeze. And the app would lose its state, including your position in whatever it was playing. Also, if you turned the TV off, the app would forget everything. And nobody fixed any bugs after the first 3 months because it was an abortion of a project.

So ya, I'd say I dodged a bullet.
Are you serious?

How can you say "that's an unfair accusation." and then in the next line say "The other side just answer by accusing the others of being "racist"."

I agree that there is no consensus, and no evidence that clearly helps determine the truth here. That is why I said it was an "unanswered question" in GGP.

However, we do have some ability to reason about this. Clearly genetics can play a role in intelligence. We don't know if it does between humans, but we do know that it could. Humans are very abnormally (as successful species go) genetically similar, probably because of various population bottlenecks.

So, it could go either way. It is quite obvious to me that there is a very complex interaction between genetics and environment. Some populations benefit from breast feeding, other populations do not. This is genetic. There are clearly some hereditary differences which have a measurable consequence in brain development. To what extent do these explain that one random person might be an idiot, while another might be a genius? I honestly don't know, but we shouldn't shut down debate.
First it was no "self-respecting engineer", now it's "embedded C/C++ applications", well I guess Yahoo just isn't for you dude. No biggie. Yahoo has had some great engineering talent well past it's time on top, and still even retains some today. If Facebook can attract talent to work on "Timeline" and "App Center" then I'm pretty sure Yahoo just needs to fix the fucking poisonous culture.
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