skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. I am speechless. There is probably no better person on earth to light a user- and product-focused fire under Yahoo. But the risk, the risk for her is just stunning. Huge props to her for making the leap from what must be a very comfortable Google and for the board for finding a stunning candidate to lead the revival of Yahoo.

(Edit: my definition of risk is lost time and missed opportunity. She's not going to suffer in compensation or reputation.)
> this self-awarded and clearly inflated rating

You just said that all ratings are self-awarded. Now can you show why it's "clearly" inflated?

For comparison, all 95 models of Toshiba laptops claim EPEAT Gold rating [1]. Is it that surprising that the most advanced laptop of them all is just as qualified?

[1] http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/customlanding.to?page=EP...
Off-topic: Anyone else noticing the proliferation of Svbtle[1] blogs on the front page of Hacker News today? I counted three in the top ten links just now.

[1] - http://svbtle.com
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Clearly she's done good things at Google, but I think the chances of her being able to right what's wrong at Yahoo! are very low. Best of luck to her.
It will be interesting to see what happens at Yahoo now that someone who actually knows what they're doing is at the helm.
I just don't think you can ever have a rational New York vs SV debate without folks getting really passionate about their life choices.
+1 on this, a better side bar or something on docs would be wonderful, but the tech just rules. The ease of setting up a redundant cluster is great, not to mention the just insane response speed. We switched a few page loads from mongodb to elastic search, mongo was taking ~13000 ms per page load, elastic took ~250 (2 mm records).
This resonates with something I was thinking too. Basically everyone who has had a web experience hooked up to their 1080p TV has been screwed for a long time. Basically an '800px' layout has sucked for at least 5 years now on both 1920 x 1200 monitors and the aforementioned HD setup. There is no 'Retina' war, there is only web design stuck between the same rock and the same hard place. I feel for them but your tool box has to account for that.
Why is it important that the founder is from Goldman Sachs?

I'm especially curious because GS is mentioned in the title of the post, which suggests it must be important to the poster and perhaps relevant to HNers.
I wonder if someone patented an actuator/microcontroller based cuff. The "key" would contain a battery and the cuff would challenge the key for the right password. There's lots of cryptography that could be used there, from shared secrets to public/private signatures.
If it's not patented yet, I guess this description of the idea (that I might have thought of 364 days ago) counts as prior art :-)
get on google and type X -> top suggested result Y:

CrossRider a -> "CrossRider adware"; CrossRider d -> "CrossRider delete"; CrossRider m -> "CrossRider malware"; CrossRider r -> "CrossRider removal"; CrossRider s -> "CrossRider spyware"; CrossRider u -> "CrossRider uninstall"; CrossRider v -> "CrossRider virus"; CrossRider w -> "CrossRider web apps virus"

Keyword summary: adware, delete, malware, removal, spyware, uninstall, virus, web apps virus
Yeah, 72/96 is shocking, but look:

We're only just now reaching the point where I can count on my friends having 64-bit CPUs.

Intel's first 64-bit mobile processor was released in mid-2006. That is only six years ago. The manufacturing transition itself was pretty quick - only a year or two until all their currently-manufactured CPUs were 64-bit [AFAIK], if we ignore Atom. Many of my friends have 6-7 year old laptops because they still work and that's all they need.

64-bit was chiefly engineering work: the CPUs didn't cost more to make because of Moore's law [I believe]. I hope that Retina screens are similarly not-more-expensive when made in large quantities. But what if they are a bit more expensive? We'll be cursed with budget 72/96 screens for maybe five more years on top of the length of time people keep their devices!

And it really will be a curse to us, personally, web designers. The Web uses images, and everyone uses the Web.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_64#Intel_64_implementation...

[Disclaimer: I am writing a science game that uses lots of 64-bit integers, so it runs noticably faster when compiled for x86_64 than for x86.]
It's fairly common to keep array sizes bounded at a power of two, because when you take a hash you can use bitwise shifting instead of a modulus to determine the hash bucket to use. Depending on the performance of your hash function it can have a noticeable impact, although you're right that it's probably not a matter of 'much' faster.
Can non-Newtonian fluid behavior explain stuck ketchup bottles?
Just because structures like that are sometimes helpful doesn’t mean that they’re necessary. When I first moved to Austin, I tried a couple of meetups on nights when I had nothing else going on. None of the groups interested me enough to make me go back, but I made friends I still hang out with now, seven years later.

If you mean someone you click with, it’s easy to say “let me know next time you go Xing”, if you share a hobby; if not, you can just decide to meet to check out some interesting food cart or restaurant, and then go from there. Is that really so hard to do? I’m incredibly shy, and even I can do that much!
No, neither of the starter tier plans (dev and basic) support PostGIS.
I mentioned this out loud at the office and that was the exact same reaction.
Being old doesn't have to mean looking it. Taking a different guy as an example: http://cbass.com/PICTORAL.HTM
> There's no free lunch; anything that can track a set perfectly is going to end up taking as much space as just maintaining it in a more straightforward way.

Unless there are regularities in the data that you can exploit.
> You're not going to make friends over one dinner. ... Friendship takes repeated exposure in mundane situations.

I agree... so why not host multiple dinners? On your own?

I started hosting my own dinners[1] at my house every Wednesday and it's been fantastic. Really super great. I can't advocate it enough, especially for someone introverted like myself who may not want to go out of his way to interact with new people every day.

The people that come to the dinners are people I meet through my roommates, or old friends, or workers at the local cafe (original and ongoing source of roommates too), or their friends. Sometimes we invite acquaintances on an off chance. Neighbors are fair game too. GrubWithUs would just be another "source" of potentially great people. After all if they don't click, you don't have to invite them next week.

Another similar event I started was a recurring beer tasting event with the owner of the cafe. This is a completely different crowd, fairly varied in age, but still small enough to be intimate and regular enough to make good acquaintances and bring people together.

There have got to be a lot of ways to introduce regularity into your life with acquaintances. Hell, even going to the same cafe regularly can help with that.

GrubWithUs may not be good for long term friends, but it does provide a sampling of people that you can in turn invite to your own regular dinners. It's a launch-pad for finding people to invite to your own regular events.

[1] Some photos: http://imgur.com/a/X2Zoj
I suspect you are correct. Different people have different priorities, and this is A Good Thing.
The problem is compounded by the fact that many companies will not give a "no" to candidates that are a pass due to legal reasons, social convention or whatever else... it puts candidates who want to be persistent in a weird position, because you "don't want to be pushy," but you don't know whether the company is trying to send a message, taking their time, undecided or just incompetent.
Cool. Despite what the naysayers may think, Fiat is taking a very 'smartphone' approach to the car. Instead of viewing a phone as just a phone, OEMs realize that with innovation, it can be a device that meets many common, everyday needs at once...camera, music player, etc.

One of the core rituals millions commuting in their cars perform every single day is the morning cup of coffee. It's literally one of the things you just do in a car.

This saves me time, and it meets a core need for behavior in a vehicle. It probably saves me money too if I am used to going to Starbucks or some other overpriced coffee shop.

Definitely cool imho.
I don't think std::function does any dynamic allocation when you initialize it with simple functions. When you initialize it with function objects or lambda expression, most, if not all implementations use the small object optimization to avoid dynamic allocation when possible.
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Let me see if I can work through this.

Player 1 wins based on the following series:

Chance to get a 1 (turn 1): 1/6
Chance to be allowed to roll: Previous chance to be allowed to roll * 5/6 (Chance player 1 didn't roll a 1) * 5/6 (Chance player 2 didn't roll a 6)
Chance to get a 1 (turns 2+): Chance to be allowed to roll * Chance to get a 1

So... summation( 1/6 * (25/36)^(n-1) )

I don't know what that comes out to be.
I wonder if this means Bing is out and we'll see a new partnership with Google in the coming months. If so, it's a total ninja takeover :)
PG talks about the kind of response plinkplonk came up with in "What You Can't Say": (http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html)

We have such labels today, of course, quite a lot of them, from the all-purpose "inappropriate" to the dreaded "divisive." In any period, it should be easy to figure out what such labels are, simply by looking at what people call ideas they disagree with besides untrue. When a politician says his opponent is mistaken, that's a straightforward criticism, but when he attacks a statement as "divisive" or "racially insensitive" instead of arguing that it's false, we should start paying attention.
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Wow that really is an audacious move from Yahoo!
What I found missing in this is _why_ I would want to jump to a matching bracket, or insert a line before.

Perhaps the game should be to transform one block of code into something different in as few keystrokes as possible.

I would love to see videos of people using commands that are not a part of my current vocabulary.
Marissa Mayer is Yahoo's New CEO
I'm sorry but I find it so hilarious. I worked at Yahoo and Google both. I know both their cultures (and especially the culture at Yahoo after all the good engineers left). IMHO, she is status quo - no different than the horrible string of CEOs being hired by Yahoo. In fact, I will put a stake in the ground that she will not move the needle further than what Scott/Bartz did.

I just can't get over how hilarious this situation is.
Is it possible that Yahoo is just too far gone to be helped? Her head must be filled with dozens of ideas for changing the corporate culture there, but would any of us honestly believe anything could save Yahoo at this point?
Philosophically speaking, he is defining the term "prediction" right out of existence! It's not that "real" predictions are "right" in some sense, even probabilistically. There is only ever such thing as one take on the future based on certain data from a certain perspective.
I am not familiar with those religions, but aren't they monotheistic?

Because I don't recall Old Norse mythology as having any saviors (though the gods were supposed to fight the evils after Ragnarok).
Well, yeah. Dustin managed to convince a whole bunch of startup founders and investors to use his blog platform. They were already people HN was interested in reading. It's no surprise they're still people HN is interested in reading.
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Does he consider contrary evidence or other habits that were considered and excluded?
Okay, that's pretty, but is there one new functionality, or is this the same as Office 2003 with some shiny buttons, for $119.95?
Can someone explain how she is able to do this? Set aside the boldness of the move, but if anyone ever should be put on some kind of "garden leave" or some kind of non-compete it would be a person moving from a prominent position in Google to become CEO of Yahoo?

Anyway, that aside. One thing that I hope that comes from this, is bringing some of the same Google-quality-developer-friendly-ethos to Yahoo. Dispite consuming several Yahoo services, I'm always disappointed at how slow they release changes... and if there is one thing that Yahoo needs it's changes..

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[] June 16th, "Marrissa Meyer Makes Move to Yahoo",

[] June 20th, Yahoo switches from Bing to Google Search.

[] July 21th, Bing sees enormous drop in QPM.

Coup of the century? Who would of thought, should this actually happen, it would be the best possible outcome. Sacrificing the queen to totally dominate the search market even further.
I thought for sure Mayer was a Google lifer. It's sort of like when someone like leaves a great college coaching gig to go to the pros. That doesn't mean Google isn't prime time, but rather just the idea that you have a comfortable situation for yourself that you can ride out or you can move somewhere else and make things much harder for yourself. She is clearly a driven individual and extremely talented so I think she will be successful at Yahoo.
At his age, any part of the body can easily be the site of a life-threatening injury.

Doctors are wary of operating on the elderly under the best conditions.
"the risk for her is just stunning"

What risk? She's already achieved complete financial security from here time at Google. At Yahoo! she'll be taking the reins of a company that still attracts a massive userbase but is aching for someone with a fresh viewpoint on how to transform the company. Nothing buy potential IMO.
Quake 3 was released in 1999, 13 years ago. It ran well on my 700mhz Pentium 3, with a 32mb TNT2 graphics card.

Show me a WebGL demo with the level of realtime visual fidelity and physics simulation from a game five years old - say, Crysis - and then I'll believe that WebGL is suitable for game development.
> At 2880 pixels wide, the new MacBook Pro resolution is about 1.5 times as many pixels across the screen as a typical high resolution display at 1900 pixels.

A typical high resolution display of what physical size? Using the resolution is meaningless, it's the DPI that's important in this case.

Also, the 2x is not really marketing copy. It's the number of physical pixels that make up each geometric "point" in an Apple retina display. Ideally applications and operating systems would be truly resolution-independent and this ratio could be any decimal number. In such a world, you could chose how to use your screen's resolution - for more space or for smoother rendering of on-screen elements.

Apple's solution is a hack that uses an integer ratio to make backwards compatibility easier. With a 2x ratio you can blow up a point from a non-retina app to exactly 4 pixels, avoiding some hairy rendering issues.
IBM (now Sony) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_T220/T221_LCD_monitors

(BTW, LCD != LED.)
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A flat "yes". I still stand by my rationale. imgabe didn't "steal" my ideas, I still have them. So do more people, now that the ideas got spread around. imgabe is more than welcome to go to the work of collecting, collating and publishing anything attributed to "bediger4000" on hacker news. The price to society is just too high otherwise. Also, maybe imgabe really did have those ideas, maybe I'm already just copying.

But also, what's the harm? imgabe will be discovered as a fraud, when he/she/it/them can't produce any more instantly viral, utterly quotable 3-sentence analyses of difficult situations. Or when someone tries to look up a phrase in Google.

imgabe is not bediger4000. I have a natural monopoly on the witticisms of bediger4000.
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I'm just gonna leave this right here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcSujceZDmg
Actually, there is no risk at all (if you know what's behind the covers).

She is stagnating at Google. She had high ranking high influence positions at Google but over the years has been relegated to a position that has little visibility and control, mostly due to her non execution. This is a great opportunity for her to make some serious cash and be the "top dog" in a kennel of average dogs, rather than the opposite at Google.

Also, even if she crashes and burns at Yahoo, she will get many more opportunities simply due to the brand recognition she has due to her tenure at Google.
Definitely unexpected that she would show up at Yahoo but not unexpected that she would leave Google. The re-org was kind of a slap in the face and everyone pretty much knew it. But taking this role was not what I would have expected. If Microsoft really is trying to sell its Bing unit she might be able to make a search company out of it again. Or at least a company with a native search product to power its other properties.
> would only Martin Luther King be allowed to express his opinion

If you want to recreate his entire speech (or mostly his speech), you would indeed need to get his permission. Or that of his estate.

If King wished to give his speech away, it was entirely his right and prerogative to do so. For the instances that I am aware of, he did not. In fact, King published and sold many of his speeches via vinyl record.

You are allowed to have your own opinions and talk about them. Pretending that seeding The Avengers is you expressing your opinion doesn't really fool anyone.
I don't think anyone in my office had a reaction other than "...What the fuck?!"
"Ms. Mayer resigned from Google on Monday afternoon by telephone. She starts at Yahoo on Tuesday." - That's quick.
Is a direct email to Dustin Caldwell not a better medium for this content? Aside from beating the "wasting smart people on advertising" horse to death, what value does this provide as a blog post and why is HN upvoting it?
Funny enough, I work at Grubwithus I just griped about this recently (for startup blogs in general):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4245090

Thanks for pointing this out. I'll pass the word along to the blog maintainers.
Trying to think of explanations for this. First thing that comes to mind is a Dilbert cartoon where the new CEO takes over to run the company into the ground. While Yahoo's news, shopping, maps and search traffic is probably only a fraction of Google's it's still worth something. Why not install an insider at Yahoo and slowly help the traffic move over?
I think she is very capable of turning Yahoo back into an engineering-focused company. Best of luck.
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I'm not talking about money or reputation. The risk I see is time and opportunity. She could spend a maddening four years not moving the needle at Yahoo rather than another company or a startup of her own. Four years of punishing travel, endless meetings, unending Wall Street scrutiny. That risk.
Can a name change help a website?
We're still in the early stages of product development, and all of our designers are hand picked. So we work with the designers we do have on board to give them insight in to how people are using the platform (what people are looking at, what people are sharing, etc...)

Outside of that, we don't have plans to expand to offer those tools to third parties.
Non-competes are unenforceable in California. Non-solicitation and non-disclosure agreements are more so.
Non-competes are effectively illegal in California.
> It seems like the content provider has little downside to doing this.

Seems obvious, but not to everyone. Some of those companies are trying everything they can to claw a buck (or in this case, a pound) wherever they can, no matter who it hurts.

The sensible thing for cutbot to do is just cut them off (no pun intended).
The risk of her reputation. Once you have money, reputation is of the things that keeps you going every day. Right now her reputation is golden.
"Backing up an argument with a lot of religious [references]" is one thing. Backing up a casual comment with a lot of anything references. is another.
The default mode is 1440x900 doubled, hence all the talk about 2x.
I checked the update notice. It says it just checked now and there are no updates.

Google Nexus is actually not a phone model but a collection of many models which are only invisibly different. Some of them get updates, some don't, even though all are advertised in the same way.

This is the model:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005XYU45E/ref=oh_details_o...

And it is a "yakjudv" (Australian build) according to the System Information app. It seems I'm waiting for some Australians to let the updates through (if they go through at all). When I bought it from Amazon, it was advertised as a "Pure Google Experience".

I think Google really messed up again. The "Google Nexus" should have been a simple and uniform experience, and not a bunch of branded-phone-hell.
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> Now, take @gruseom's idea of a visual "goal" that you are chasing, and I think this could be intensely valuable.

Yes, they really need to take the words out of the equation. It's just a superfluous modality that gets in between the muscle memory, the goals and the training.

Of course, this method will get you familiar with shortcuts rather quickly (I only tried the Vim ones), but then, so does printing out a cheat sheet, or reading some tutorial and an afternoon of practice. While I do believe ShortcutFoo does manage to teach that more effectively than those methods, that's not where it could really shine.

To become a pro text-editor user, you really need to go beyond that, hence muscle memory, not just "memory". You don't merely need to remember the shortcut for "go one word back" when presented with the written goal "go one word back", no you must intuitively know the shortcut as soon as you identify the goal already on an abstract level.

Even with a simple default editing control like this text box: As I'm typing these words, I'm not thinking of every letter I type, I don't think about whether I need to "move cursor left five times" or "move cursor left one word" or "delete word to the left" etc, I'm thinking about the sentences and ideas I want to put into this post and operate the keyboard to make that happen--and any literal textual description of shortcuts and movement commands would really just get in the way with my thought process.

I haven't seen @gruseom's post yet, so maybe s/he had the same idea but: Something like a phantom cursor that indicates "get the cursor to here" or half-fade a word that you must delete?
But that may become too low level once you get more advanced. What you really need is a sort of visual indication that shows a diff between the original text and the goal text, you get to look at it to take it in while a quick countdown timer goes 3-2-1 and from that point it times how quickly you can edit to the target and how many keystrokes it takes you to do it.
(could even make it a colour-coded actual diff, then people get to train reading diffs as well :) [something I need to practice myself])
Nice. Is there more info about how you wrote it? Which platform is this running on? Which tools you're using etc?