skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Waiting quite eagerly for this. I've used Windows and Office since both came out (and DOS before that). I started a new job recently, and this new gig gives me a MacBook Air, an iPhone and a Gmail account. Talk about a culture shock.

Anyway, I use my Windows 8 tablet rather than the MacBook, so it's all good. Except that when I accept a meeting invite from Gmail using the Metro Mail app, it puts the meeting into Outlook. WTF?!?

I get that cloud is cool and all, and that everything talks to everything else. I just really hope that Outlook 2013 cleans the accounts confusion up because I'm missing meetings.

That aside I'm looking forward to trying it out.
Ditto. Was expecting it to tell me about the dinners before the groups in my area. I assumed (because of the interests I put in) that the Young Professionals Group was hosting a dinner so I "joined" it. Then when I was on my profile, I realized that I'd only "joined" the Young Professionals group not their dinner. I had to go back to the homepage to see the to-be-determined PDX dinner date was actually being hosted by the Portland Foodies, which I am not interested in attending.
Yahoo Appoints Marissa Mayer Chief Executive Officer
Curious; care to elaborate from an insider's perspective?

What about their cultures make this situation hilarious, and how come you're convinced that Mayer won't make a difference?
It can always be saved. They have a reasonably competent group of employees, a nice patent portfolio (recently cross-licensed with FB), and a recognizable brand that is still in heavy (albeit declining) use today. Even the more geeky crowd is becoming bearish on Google, so I think it's the perfect opportunity to reinvent the brand. What it should/could become is anybody's guess, but it will have to be a big change to correct their current course. It's always possible.
More like Google just bought Yahoo.
Dan Bull has built a business that depends on partnering with a business entity that is extremely nervous about DMCA violations. That doesn't give him extra protections against DMCA violations.

When Don Imus was suspended by his employer for talking about nappy-headed hos on national radio, it wasn't a violation of Imus's free speech rights.

YouTube channels seem designed more for people who want to make money from pageviews than for people who want to make righteous stands for free speech. It seems up until very recently he liked that arrangement, but now he finds out that there's no free lunch.
If she fails it will not hurt her reputation. Yahoo has already gone through so many CEOs. I think that if she can't turn around Yahoo, no one else will. After all, she is better qualified than the previous executives.
Uncertainty shrouds psychologist's resignation
QUESTION: What makes vector graphics based UI's so hard?

I am not a UI designer, so I am ignorant. Please educate me.

Several other posters have mentioned the option of moving away from raster graphics, and indeed this was my own first thought. I remember using IRIX back in the glory-days of SGI. For those who have no idea what I'm blathering on about, IRIX was a professional workstation OS that had en entirely vector based UI. Yes, almost two decades ago an OS existed that was immune to the retina problem. Pause for a moment and let that sink in.

IRIX was actually one of the first GUI-based OS's, and SGI's use of vector-based UI elements probably arose from specific needs SGI faced. I can only speculate on what they were, but one thing they had plenty of was raw power. SGI workstations were very nice in their day! However, the average smartphone built these days probably has more power than all but the last SGI workstations, and perhaps even them too. Processing power is therefore likely not the issue. In fact, given that most desktop OS's already render your desktop in a 3D environment (OSX, Win7, and Linux (depending on what you're running) all do this), vector UI elements may actually be less intensive to draw than raster elements in these situations!

Wild speculation: Is it that UI building tools and API's make working with vector graphical elements painful, or are UI designers just ignorant after almost a decade without a major vector-based OS in common use?
Well then, I suppose you're probably not their target audience :)
Thanks so much, sorry I did not think of that myself.
Historical precedent: Stephen Elop was head of Business Division at MS before he became Nokia CEO and then Nokia fully fell in MS's lap.

Prediction: Sometime in near future some sort of very close partnership will happen between Google and Yahoo, subject to regulatory approval of course.

Edit: Fixed "MS CEO" to "Nokia CEO" typo. Thanks kreilly
Depends on if you think Mayer has some Steve Jobs magic in her.
I've got to upvote this one on its timeliness and relevance alone. Startups, take note.
> Having moved across the country a few months ago, I'm still trying to figure this one out. Any idea HNers?

Take up a hobby, more or less unrelated to what you do for a living. Maybe it's rowing or rock climbing or fencing or writing. Find something you think you'll enjoy that draws in people from all walks of life.

I think it's especially important now, when the only thing in your life is your work, to avoid trying to make friends there. In my mind deep friendships start with sharing personal things, which starts from sharing everyday things. Someone you're around all the time will share just enough experiences that you won't be able to talk long enough to open up.
This is straight spam and phallus-waving. It's like this is a gaming forum or something.
I wouldn't bother. They are so far behind both Bing and Google that trying to play catch up in the search game is simply a lost cause.

They have significant traffic and brand loyalty for certain services (finance, sports, etc). They need to focus on that, not chase a game they lost ages ago (search).
I am talking about movement of goods within a single warehouse. We could stick an iPod touch on the bottom of a pallet/box for a couple days. If the tech takes off maybe someone will invent a ruggedized tiny piece of hardware that just has the compass and wifi data transmission built in.
I'm curious why you ask this question. What would either answer imply?

It's going to be hard to fairly tease the effects of having Asperger's syndrome on making friends apart from the effects of wealth, fame, and power.
Yes. But if an incoming CEO has a lot of political capital, they can try and demand that certain board members leave as a condition of taking the job. It's unusual, and takes an unusual person to pull it off, but it happens. (For example, this is what happened when Steve Jobs was made interim CEO of Apple.)

Mayer is a big coup for Yahoo, and the investors may back her if she wants to clean house with the board, but I wouldn't necessarily expect it to happen; it's unclear if Mayer really sees the board as part of the problem, and as Mayer is coming from outside of the organization, she may lack the close ties to other Yahoo execs that would be necessary to pull such a move off.
Wow, years later, even after her de facto demotion at Google, people still think she's some kind of product genius?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1028615

This is a hilarious situation.
Renowned Author Stephen Covey Passes at age 79: Author of '7 Habits'
I'm not sure what your definition of powerful is but the list of Office features is pretty long.
It's unfortunate that whenever someone mentions the word "TED, I immediately tune out and discredit.
This is so exciting. I can't wait to see what she comes up with. Everyone is gonna benefit from this.
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Not knowing much about Mayer and reading some comments here i have the opposite question, why Mayer should be able to make a difference?
I fear michael may be misunderstanding the depth / underlying intent / happy follow-on effects from the app.net proposal. I don't see it as a 'better Twitter' so much as I see it as an app-friendly social network touchpoint, basically OpenFeint with less of a gaming bias. This is a separate consideration than how 'real-world' the product is, but one that nonetheless merits mention.
I wonder if this was apart of the Kevin Rose acquisition, who seems to have somewhat of a holistic understanding of local. Google better find someone equally amazing to replace her though, and fast.
University's job is to expose students to variety of subjects even if they don't like it. It's part of the education.
Corrected. Poor phrasing on my part. I was suggesting a likely alternative for her would be starting a company, not that Yahoo is anything like a startup.
Excuse the typo, had just woken up.
Yahoo's roots were actually in a rejection of engineering.

For years their primary product was their human-curated directory of Web sites. It was popular because the quality of results returned by the algorithmic search engines of the time (HotBot, Lycos, AltaVista, etc. -- you young 'uns in the crowd may need to look them up) were so poor that you had better odds of finding what you were looking for in Yahoo's directory. The directory left out vast numbers of sites, of course -- that was the cost of trying to manually maintain an index of the Web as it exploded in size. Human curators couldn't keep up with that growth; only software could. But Yahoo bet that software would never be as good as humans at finding the site you were looking for.

Then Google came along and built software that could index the whole web and return relevant results from it, and that knocked the bottom right out of Yahoo's manual-curation approach.
That's might be really good news for Google users: I think products that she used to run, like local business reviews on Android maps have a new chance now.
These are some of the reasons I enjoy sailing as well.
The Lurking Horror - The perils and pitfalls of F# agents...
True, but Yahoo! has made so many mistakes that she would have to really to screw up (like lie on your resume) for it to hurt her reputation. So that time and opportunity cost is unlikely to ever be a waste. If she fails, well Yahoo! was already a failure, if she succeeds, she's a perceived as savior. Either way, she's a contenter for ceo of any other major internet company going forward.
> Microsoft has created a new set of interfaces for Office 2013, based on HTML5 and JavaScript, that will allow services to be surfaced within Office applications... the same APIs will be made available to enterprises and third-party developers to create their own add-ons for Exchange, SharePoint, and the Office client applications.

> Microsoft is not abandoning Visual Basic for Applications; the VBA engine is still fully supported within Office 2013. But it’s clear that Microsoft wants to push office toward the same development frameworks that it is using for the Metro environment in Windows 8.

VBA macros getting replaced by JavaScript+HTML (or probably XAML)? That's potentially a game-changer right there. I have at least half-a-dozen data sources available online that I would love to get into Excel, but VBA/Excel isn't a good language for consuming data sources. Being able to build a web client into Excel would make my life drastically better.
The culture lives on.
This was my thought, too: there seems to be a limit beyond which memcached simply breaks. I learned this 5 years ago, and it had nothing to do with Python.
“The Key has been Flexibility” -Steve McKay, CEO, DriveFactor
give "who says elephants can't dance" a read. it deals with the turnaround of ibm, a company with tremendous institutional inertia.

http://www.amazon.com/Elephants-Dance-Inside-Historic-Turnar...
It's likely that Crysis still doesn't run on many gaming machines, WebGL or no.
I would argue that python-memcached has been replaced as "the de-facto standard" by pylibmc. I'm not sure if pylibmc works with eventlet or not.

Companies open sourcing code is always good. But, I would be surprised if there wasn't already a python memcached client that would suit your needs.
Good luck in California - worker's rights here are pretty hard to attack.

There's a possibility this is a coup by Google - if Yahoo defects to Google search engine it's nearly checkmate for Bing.

Remember, Melissa and Page were once a thang:
http://gawker.com/152210/editorial-googles-power-couple

Regardless, I wish the best for Yahoo and Marissa. It would be good to have a strong Yahoo back in the scene - lots of incredible talent there.
but this invalidates the idea of a general purpose algorithm
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Intuit hit a period of relative stagnation that Brad Smith has been working to plow through for a while, a period of change marked by the acquisition of Mint and an expansion in the online product suite

SanDisk went in the relative dumper following the memory glut in ~2009 but seems to have been recovering under Mehrotra for about a year now

And a great turn around (and around) story is Seagate, who tanked, went private around 2000, came out and soared mid-2000 and is sort of tanking again even under chairman Stephen Luczo's leadership
Given that any Apple store can replace the battery while you wait, it obviously can't be that hard to do.
My initial reading was St. Dildo :/
Yahoo! needs to decide if they are a content company or a technology company. I'm not sure which is the right one, but I think Mayer has shown she can focus and can get other people to focus as well.
Utility classes serve merely as organization purpose. It has nothing to do with OO. It's like putting related files in a directory, or putting related Python functions in a module.

I don't get how "stick function X so that it's useable by class Y and Z" is relevant for consideration. As the name suggested, utility classes are function libraries that can be used by all.
...and the list of annoyances even longer.
For the rank and file 2 weeks is standard.

For upper level executives as soon as you resign you're escorted out the door by security and you're not allowed to touch anything. The level of access you had was so high that they don't want you learning anything more about the company's plans and want you out asap.

I doubt anyone cared that she resigned by phone.
I guess so, but is there really a need to explicitly quantify that?

What purpose could such thinking have?
I came here to post the same quote, but my interest is the reverse: think of all the interesting data currently stuck in Word and Excel that could be interfacing with web services!

The ability to sell subscriptions to Word plugins written on the web stack is going to power at least a few successful new businesses.
Apple Moving to icloud.com Email Domains in iOS 6
Could you explain more what you mean by non-execution? I don't travel in circles where I have context for something like that and it sounds interesting.
Wow. You built 10 clusters, and I could have clearly given a name to each cluster.

As part of your demo, you should let me build a list based on each cluster.
Not true. You can't really obfuscate JavaScript in a meaningful manner without making it slower.
That's actually a very good description of my experience learning vim so far.

It starts off being a very conscious set of actions when first learning a new command -- e.g., "I want to change the word under the cursor... cw" -- before becoming something that happens subconsciously as I become more familiar with a set of commands.

Where this site at least appears to work well is that once I started to understand vim commands as verbs and nouns, I started seeing actions as sentences. The drills here seem to reinforce that sentence structure type approach.

I can see it being less useful for somebody that is familiar enough with their editor thatt it's already become a mostly subconscious process. While I'm comfortable using vim for the most part, I'm very far from a high level of proficiency with it.
If I have a non-compete from employment in another state but then want to relocate to California, does that previous non-compete still apply?
Yes; there is no compression function that will work for all data.
Why not just write tl;dr? Do you want the whole 4 page article summarized for you?
I don't think people who are using social media for personal use would pay for it, but people who are using it for business might.

Maybe pricing that works out so it is free for general users and has a low price point for "pro" users?
Apple from the mid-1990's to present. CEO John Sculley had been instructed in 1993 to sell the company (unsuccessfully, to AT&T, IBM, etc.), before getting fired. He refers to the time as Apple's "near-death experience." In 1997, Steve Jobs returned to the company via NeXT and Microsoft invested a severely needed $150 million. Without those two events happening, it is highly possible that Apple would not still exist today (let alone being the most valued technology company in the world). That's about as radical of turnaround as possible.
I did a grubwithus dinner last week and got to know a guy who's going to work out of my office on Wed and then go rowing with me after work. When I read that article's headline, I instantly thought of Grubwithus.
Wow. Nothing like waking up on Monday morning to find your app at the top of Hacker News. Thanks to whoever posted this :)

This is awesome feedback. It looks like the most requested feature right now is moving from reading words to a more visual representation of what's happening. This is definitely something I've thought about - but didn't want to attempt until I received exactly this type of response. Thanks! I'll definitely move this up as a top priority and hopefully have something implemented soon.

Thanks for everyone else's feedback. I'll carefully read each post and email I've received and respond appropriately.

Someone asked about the tech stack: backbone.js + sinatra + mongodb hosted on heroku (2 dynos). I'll try and get a blog post up with more on this plus possibly a HN postmortem if there is interest.

ps. I'll get eclipse added as well :)
Have similar sentiments about Covey and 7 Habits, so thanks for your post. Wanted to also point out a follow-up book he wrote which I recommend. In "Principle-Centered Leadership"[1], Covey further demonstrates these principles at work. Like Dale Carnegie, Stephen Covey's clear vision of the human condition will continue to have a positive impact on many lives far into the future.

ADDED: I remember feeling compelled to get out a highlighter while reading both of these books (so many gems). Unfortunately, they're in storage, so won't be able to share the things that really stood out. However, there are excellent summaries of both books online if anyone is interested.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Principle-Centered-Leadership-Stephen-...
> And there you go again, as the OP did. Self-praise, deprecation of others. What happened to humility?

That's surely the pot calling the kettle black! First of all, I didn't praise myself--I praised the education that I was fortunate enough to receive. It was first rate. Furthermore I'm not disparaging you because it's necessarily bad to learn imperative programming first. I'm disparaging your willful ignorance, and your knee-jerk assertion that people who learned to program in a different manner from how you learned, didn't learn to program at all.

Your attitude here is offensive and counter-productive.

Regarding what makes functional programming "special" is that it results in code that is easier to reason about, and consequently to maintain and adapt. It also increases the ability to write "reusable" code, which can then be used unmodified in future projects.

On the other hand, FP is not a magic elixir. It is just one of many techniques that a good software engineer should understand. At MIT, when I first was taught to program there as an undergraduate, it was, however, considered to be the most fundamental technique.
IBM under Lou Gerstner is one of the greatest turn around stories in business history.

"How Lou Gerstner Got IBM To Dance"
http://www.forbes.com/2002/11/11/cx_ld_1112gerstner.html

Also, Michael Dell returning to his company has been a solid turn around in regards to profitability and improvement in product quality, both of which had languished under the former chief. It doesn't show in the stock valuation because of substantial PE compression, but Michael Dell has taken the company from losing money briefly and having some accounting scandals, to a solid level of profitability in the last few years.
I like that you guys pointed out more efficient ways to do stupid things :)
I just cleared the data again, forced-stop, and checked for update again -- and it successfully checked and says I'm still up-to-date with my 4.0.1 Android.
Doesn't it require ~10 minutes to solidify into the record to prevent double-spending without having the 51% attack?
At the end of the article it mentions that Apple recently stated that in the near future they will be "working with EPEAT as their rating system and the underlying IEEE 1680.1 standard evolve."

Translation: Whatever exists in the EPEAT guidelines that would prevent the retina MBP's from receiving GOLD certification is about to be tossed in the rubbish bin.
Ask HN: Where is the best place to sell going concern websites?
I've looked at sites like http://flippa.com but to be honest it looks a little full of dubious users and slightly more dubious sites for sale. If I was looking to sell successful projects of mine.
By projects I mean sites that are going concerns that to be honest dont interest me that much anymore, that is not to say that they aren't good or growing, just that I've moved on.

Where's the best place to do that? or is there even one?
So combining the two will not give you something that will make up for each of the ones weaknesses and always give a definite answer, but will give one of three answers – definite positive, maybe, and definitive negative.

| P | M | N
Bloom | X | X |
Oppos | X | |
What do you mean by a 'list?' A Facebook list?

We might include that as a neat little tool in the near future for those interested.

What are your thoughts?
Global job fair
Global job fair Of companies in India and USA.
IIRC, the real reason for this "power of 2" is for fast rehashing when the table grows. Calculate a 32 bit hash and store it all, but if your table currently has 1024 entries, only use 10 bits of it. Later, when your table grows to 2048 entries, you can just mask off 11 bits worth instead of recomputing every hash.

But, since the hash table is not going to grow in this particular case, any perf gain from using a power of 2 will probably be far less important.
No, that's exactly how I took it.

Oblig car metaphor: That's like saying hey, as an alternative to a free Lamborghini Aventador, you can have an old Pontiac Fiero chassis, and a Chevy 350 with a blown head gasket. If you're really lucky and amazing you might make something worth 1/10th what the Lamborghini is.
Matt Cutts seems to disagree about her work -- https://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/224963111222910976
So many Fortune 500 companies are going to sit on Windows 7 and Office 2010 for years because of Windows 8 and Office 2013. Not because they are bad, but because this all looks like a big shift.
Good advice. So according to you nothing can be changed at Yahoo! no matter who comes in. Apple was in a similar situation not long ago and I am sure there were people like you commenting similarly. I am not saying Marissa is similar to Steve Jobs but at least she has the credibility and qualification to make things work. Why comment when you have nothing to add?