skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You said it yourself, he's a master of the field.

I think it's in everyone's interest, and especially HN's[1] to learn as much as possible about, and from, all masters in their fields. Anything that can broaden your horizon can give you a better perspective on not just culture in general[2] but your life as an individual.

Thanks to this article I found a fantastic song in "Desafinado". Maybe one day I'll happen to be in conversation with a jazz buff and I'll be able to discuss it with a modicum of intelligence.

One should never argue that learning in any field (especially from the masters) is "irrelevant" (not saying that you are), as any and all learning is precious.

[1] I'd posit that HN is less about software, programming, startups, etc, etc than it is about enlightening people to become entrepreneurs and taste makers within our individual fields (which happen to be computationally based) while encouraging a general thirst for knowledge.

[2] As entrepreneurs and people who hopefully deliver value to customers, knowledge about the culture we live in is tantamount in delivering a product that resonates with our target market.
I mean, I would consider doubling or even 1.5ing a pretty big premium.

That's insane though. It's hard to imagine a single programmer being worth a million dollars a year to a company.
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One nice thing about free assets is that you would be able to modify and remix them. So you could take some existing model of a car, change the dimensions a bit, change the shading, exaggerate some of its features and get a cartoon car that looks completely different.

Another thing is that you would not have to reinvent the wheel each time. Sure, you expect the important bits of each game to be unique. But do you really care that the wooden crates or doors from one game are reused in another? Being able to take an existing model of something unimportant and tweak it to match your atmosphere would save a lot of pointless work.

Just having access to such a library would not stop a good game development team for making a creative, distinctive game. It would just save them from having to make a whole bunch of boring models of limited utility. They would still make all the core models--characters, exotic settings and so on--for each particular game.

Besides, I think game studios already share assets between similar games in their own lineup. This would just make the sharing global, giving everybody access to more material to start from.
Sorry that I keep running off in the wrong direction.

They control the runtime in a very heavy-handed, opaque way to lock it down and I doubt that would ever change. New runtimes will be 100% up to Google to implement and they seem not to be a high priority in general - Java seems to be favored for the enterprise people and Go and Python have had involvement from the respective language creators... Google has only so many major language creators ;)

Just part of how App Engine is a closed platform really (although it's not like all of Heroku is open either)
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In this case, the platform exists. This would be moving it to mobile and extending its audience/reach. I'm not big into photography so I'm a terrible judge of this particular domain. But it strikes me that if you are absent in such a large market as mobile, but already have a substantial user base you're risking losing customers as they move to the more convenient platforms. It also presents a barrier for new customers: go with a potentially better, but not on mobile, platform, or the slightly inferior, but available everywhere, platform?
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i'm curious because right after i registered, i received an email with the subject "Scouts: Please confirm subscription" which goes to a listserv and has a reply to: will -at- vinova.sg.

What gives?
So, $100 to get a chance to contract with a quality designer?
Umm...
Except executive management and leadership
Miles Davis has recorded some BS as well, lest we not forget. That made his comments about why did they put out that record or record companies this or that into some perspective. Perhaps it was part of his frustrations of his own shortcomings at the hands of record labels.
So, you got a lot of attention, but the part of the story that is missing is whether or not any of it actually materialized into a job that you wanted (or VC funding or whatever else you were looking for).

Even if it didn't, you definitely seem to have made some good connections, so hopefully it works out for you. Good luck.
Pinboard does if you also have bookmark archiving turned on.
Ask HN: How do you get to be good at this?
Or, at least, how do you get the energy to be good at this? I'm familiar with the 10,000 hours hypothesis but I barely have the energy to get out of bed in the morning.

I've been programming "professionally" for a few years now but any energy I may have had after school is more or less gone.

I've been thinking about quitting my job, wondering how much of it is the source of my discontent. Go on some kind of a sabbatical and try to learn something new. I'm not sure if I'd be a good steward over free time. I don't know.
Per usual on HN, I think people take simple, fun utilities like this way too serious and try inject some philosophical ideal about loving your work blah blah blah. They dont get it. I like it. Good job.
When is Hadoop no longer Hadoop?
What if Pinterest and Youtube met and had a trademark violating baby?
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Of course, but the question is what that unique identifier denotes.

An IP address tells people who you are, where you are, and what you do.

A unique identifier ('+18El1iZRFCIiqRpfw4dJR8mXjJn2UxPrjwoRNpjSWg=' for instance) tells what you do without the who and where [1].

It's even possible advertisers could still target users based upon these identifiers, just without the background knowledge that makes these sorts of things privacy issues.

[1] I'll admit, it could be argued that the what can determine the who and where
Yahoo! makes about $18.5M in profit every month.

That's pretty good for something widely regarded as dead.

https://mobile.twitter.com/dcurtis/status/225416886253391872
According to Amazon and Wikipedia, "The Case of the Civil War Sword" was part of the very first Encyclopedia Brown book, which probably explains why we remember it.
Are there any examples of machine learning and tagging beingused together in an online bookmarking service?
Sequence diagrams existed before UML and for getting stuff done, and being able to maintain it, I prefer http://www.websequencediagrams.com/

I just paste the diagram description into my documents as "hidden text", and everyones happy.
really cool, but looks awful in IE :/
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I have a girlfriend from Singapore and she is still using Yahoo extensively. Plus I discussed search engines with my Japanese teacher and few Asian students and most of them considered Yahoo the most popular website on the Internet.
search engine wise, it uses Bing.
I thought it was their new name for BerkeleyDB. Is it something else?
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The Yahoo phone would work in Asia, where the Yahoo brand carries a lot of weight and you already see entrenched Yahoo-branded services (e.g., http://bbpromo.yahoo.co.jp/). In America, I'm not so sure, but it's an interesting idea.
This is true, but organisational wise the Asian Yahoo! divisions are not wholly owned by Yahoo! as we know it. Yahoo! Japan for instance is a separately listed company part owned by Softbank. A friend of mine went for an interview at yahoo japan and was told "we don't have much to do with yahoo america so you'll never be sent to work there".

But you're right, it seems like an obvious strength to capitalize on.
The only issue now is that you've got to make a new domain for each case.. (I kid).
Steve Jobs admired Zuckerberg too much to compete with him
They have so much value in the products, yet they aren't even being developed.

I can see Yahoo Answers being a far bigger brand, News could be important as well as Flickr if as you said they actually develop it. Any products that aren't being improved after a certain amount of time should be killed.
All the shows is that people aren't searching for G+ on google - which would make sense, since there is a link to it right at the top of the search page.

Page views is a much better metric for this kind of thing - anyone who is engaged is not going to search for it more than once.
3 (More) Things I Learned from Richard Feynman
This is another instance of those 'clbuttic' mistakes someone can make when they learn regular expressions and think they can easily censor things they don't like.
Rest in peace. Loved his books, but I always sucked at his mysteries. Because of that, his books made me retain semi-trivial information (e.g. dogs can't see color as well as humans do) that I have no regrets over.
Jason Cohen, founder of WP Engine, talked a bit about this when he interviewed[1] for Mixergy:

Yeah. I’m a big fan of, I think Don Mershaw[SP] was the first person that told me this, but he said a founder needs to value his time at $1000/hour ...

Which he justifies:

So, what if you had a consulting customer that said, “I’ll pay you $200/hour but there’s only a one fifths chance that I’ll actually pay you.” Now, what hourly rate would you quote? Now you’d quote more like $1000/hour, because you probably won’t get paid, but if you do you need to be paid disproportionately high to account for the fact that you took on the risk. That’s exactly what’s happening in a start up, and that’s exactly why it needs to be $1000/hour.

[1] http://mixergy.com/jason-cohen-wpengine-interview-2/
Some people, and the referenced paper, are citing Jaeggi's dual n-back as evidence that interventions can positively affect g(F) (fluid intelligence).

I would like to mention that Jaeggi's results, and working memory training in general, have not been replicated.

The main issue with Jaeggi's experiment, is that proper controls were not used.

For a careful examination, and I would say thorough debunking of Jaeggi's results on dual n-back and g(F) improvement by training working memory, please read:

No Evidence of Intelligence Improvement After Working Memory Training: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study.
Redick, Thomas S.; Shipstead, Zach; Harrison, Tyler L.; Hicks, Kenny L.; Fried, David E.; Hambrick, David Z.; Kane, Michael J.; Engle, Randall W.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Jun 18 , 2012, No Pagination Specified. doi: 10.1037/a0029082
> World of Warcraft (and now other games)

The technique is much older than that in gaming. Client-side prediction was the big ticket feature for QuakeWorld in 1996, and Wikipedia says Duke Nukem 3D had it 10 months earlier.

Dead reckoning, a more advanced variation on the same theme, goes back even further to early work on distributed military simulations. With dead reckoning, not only does the client extrapolate based on the last update from the server, but the server also tracks how far each client's predictions would be from the true state, so it knows how frequently to send updates to maintain a low enough error. That is, the server simulates the clients simulating the server.

For anyone with a deeper interest in this topic, perhaps the best overview of the trickier issues with networked synchronization and prediction in modern games can be found in this presentation on Halo: Reach from last year's GDC: http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014345/I-Shot-You-First-Networ...
Oh, Heroku, how can you have such an excellent build system and yet you can't support WebSockets? You've spoiled me, and it's so painful to have to use other services now just because you think the standard is too much in flux.
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Yes, I am serious, and I am not disagreeing with your point, which as I wrote about in a comment bellow was clarified in your first response to me in this thread, I actually do agree about your last three paragraphs.

It appears however that you stopped reading my comment when you saw this the second quote that you wrote, here what I wrote before:

"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"."

This type of accusation is fairly serious in academia it's akin to say that you just invented data to fit an experiment, mind that I do not have a side in all this, I'm interested in this as a statistician, my point was to get you to give some names of the people that "have become crusaders, trying to squash any debate or research into this topic, making it taboo." No one was given and I said that say this about a group of people and not give any name is unfair.

Everyone knows about who get accused of being racist, Linda Gottfredson for example who received grants from the Pioneer Fund, I do not know about others that received grants from this Fund but I can say about Gottfredson, she came to Brazil two years ago and talked to an audience of students in Brazil, some of whom have visible African ancestry and I can attest she's not racist, she does not differentiate people because of their ancestry and do not act different answering questions of asian-brazilians, people with jewish surnames or afro-brazilians, she's honest her research and that's all.

Mind also that I have spent some time in academia and the majority of people I saw really hates politicized research, there's exceptions of course, some social scientists, historians, some legal scholars and economists, but I did not count psychologists in this group. As I said to you I asked some psychologists to provide papers some of them fairly recent.

This was my last comment in this thread it was a good discussion.
Motion, Not Direction
move the boat, before you steer the boat. Startup Lesson Learned
Not all architects have a programming background. Eg. in Lucent, the architects where postdocs and PhD's in wireless technologies and related fields. I think even Google has postdocs as architects.
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I realize it was a sarcastic remark, but pickles can actually be interesting. Here's a pretty fun story http://cambridgebrewing.com/blog/comments/i-have-a-pickle-me...
University of San Diego (http://www.sandiego.edu)

I didn't realize that changing it to San Diego University would change its meaning, sorry (and I didn't realize you had more than one either).

I don't know which form he filled, but I found plenty on Google:

http://www.sandiego.edu/facts/quick/current/ethnicity.php

http://www.sandiego.edu/facts/cds/2011/cdsb.php

etcetera, etcetera.
I clicked on the title "Prime Number Patterns" and am a little disappointed.

I'm just not seeing any patterns other than the semicircles of increasing integer diameters.

Should I stare at it longer?
> World of Warcraft (and now other games)

Other games were doing this many years before WoW.
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Re 2: you do need to re use your tags, but it is also true that the more tags you use the better. Having a long tail of very specific tags is not an issue because it allows you to go very quickly to that specific tag, but re-using the general tag allows finding the item if the specific tag is forgotten. So you need both. The only problem this causes is browsing your tags, but then you're not really trying to find an item in thay case, so it doesn't matter as much.
There's always the OnLive model, something which many thought wouldn't be possible. A browser game could be little more than a canvas tag to which pixels are streamed with input events being sent back to the server.
Yahoo doesn't need a phone to leverage any of those products. It needs quality mobile apps what people actively want to install, and it needs partnerships with carriers and manufacturers to preload devices with their software to get more people to use their services. That's effectively Dropbox's mobile strategy. I presume it's working.
I suspect the page views he got from this story was well worth it.
I loved the Encyclopedia Brown books so much, they were the model for my short stories I wrote for school, back at that age. :)
World of Warcraft, for example, trusts the client to handle pathing and movement logic in order to create the illusion of low-latency, super smooth motion.

There is a simple solution: Trust but verify. The main reasons not to check that your clients aren't cheating are code complexity and the server processing required.
You guys just demonstrated why I believe that open source is the best path for individual developers.

Once you try to too scale in the property rights world size matters and size always wins. Have 300 apps that you own, going to get rich on one. Write 4, going to make money off people paying you to write more.
1) array.sort didn't work for you? if not than this is an exception and could be an example of a good interview question ie solving a real problem
2) that is right, but in the algorithm of the answer you could use index function which makes code more compact
I agree with parts of your opinion, but disagree with your diction. There is no need for name calling. Instead of prompting a discussion about this topic, which could be very interesting, you are attacking and insulting many successful companies and people.

Also, when companies say "full-stack engineer", I tend to think that they aren't looking for an ephemeral engineer with current, relevant knowledge on all those systems, but someone who has the capacity to learn several of those systems quickly and on demand.
> That's a bit misleading, because one of the few places G+ has gotten traction is among developers

I remember the same about Twitter, most users were devs and rails devs at that. Doesn't mean G+ will be as successful as Twitter though.
Music performance is one of the hardest things to be satisfied with every time... I recommend this book. It talks about perfection and fear and inadequacy. Just took it off my bookshelf to random-access read again.

http://www.amazon.com/Effortless-Mastery-Kenny-Werner/dp/156...
First things first. Figure out "what is Yahoo!" immediately.

Remember Carol Bartz? http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/28/ok-seriously-what-is-yahoo/
Bring it Together, Steve Jobs quote
Technically, Google is maximizing shareholder value, but their major shareholders value stuff beyond mere money. Not intending to detract from your point in any way, I just thought it's an interesting way to approach it.
I have two issues with this argument:

1. The user is not ever made aware that their registration attempt will involve sending out information over the Internet. The application is therefore surreptitiously phoning home.

2. There is no reason to keep logs such as the OP currently has -- the kind that enables him to segregate people into buckets like "honest", "pirate", "converted" and then crow about it online.
Good point and an inspiring story... interviews like these are good indicator not to work there :)
Google Chrome here.
This looks to be just the client. Even though it is an "end-to-end" solution, you still need a RedPhone server. Am I wrong here?
there are alternatives in the post
The best one:

Make a huge sign with the phrase ‘the premier digital media company’. Then make a video of you running a bulldozer over it crushing that sign.

Yes, Yahoo, you're not a media company, you're a technology company. You don't want to be a media company. Media companies make shitty profits (see AOL, Time Warner, NBC), technology companies make amazing profits (see Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple).﻿
> Is that how a bank would act? Yes, that's exactly how they act. When you get a chargeback

I wasn't talking about chargebacks.

> PayPal does not have the ability or authority to steal people's money

They have the ability and they couldn't care less about having the authority to do so. Largely, because the majority of their customers can't pursue them in court. They also limit any arbitration to 10K. If you read the user agreement, it's all right there, in black and white.

> You're spreading lies while admitting not to know how it works anywhere else.

I sincerely hope you keep a balance with them. So that you can find out from experience, as I did.
That link hasn't always been there and isn't there in your browser search box and doesn't even say "Google+" or "Google Plus" at least from where I'm sitting.

Page view data we have is, frankly, terrible. If Google wants to prove to the world what a huge success G+ they could do this in 10 seconds by giving us some pageview, photo, post, etc stats. The fact that they don't do this is telling.

"anyone who is engaged is not going to search for it more than once."

That's equally true or many other services and yet they trounce G+ both in absolute and trend.
Awesome approach! :)
110% agree, that was my point
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Imagine a game company where the official game console of the company is the Atari 2600. Sure, it gets the job done, but to have an official piece of equipment that's vastly different (and markedly inferior) from what your users are using is a huge handicap.

Yahoo is a web company, which means they're a mobile company. Having the official company mobile phone be something that's old and crusty and unpopular is dangerously stupid.
Your job is not you. In fact, if your job is the least interesting thing about your life, then you're probably doing fine.

I agree that you do need to learn something new or go on a trip somewhere. Don't quit your job unless you have a better one already lined up.
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BTW, I think a site like this begs for another site offering the services of those who take Photoshop comps and turn them into actual iOS or Android UIs.
Because, while Photoshop comps can be totally awesome, there is a humongous gap between them and an actual UI.
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Yeah, yahoo fantasy has good market share, which pisses me off. ESPN has far superior ux.
How do people get good enough to get hired where ever? Let's say I'm using this as a sort of test rather than wanting to get hired somewhere. Some people I see are so productive, those fabled 10:1 engineers but I don't see a path to getting there.
Judging by his web page, Cliff is a doer anyway. He ships. In the end, I don't think he'll need Arrington's help. He will be successful because of who he is.
I do keep a balance with them. I have for the past 12 years.

http://i.imgur.com/FWgxP.png

You've obviously had a bad experience with them. That sucks, really. And I won't tell you not to hold a grudge against them for whatever that was. It helps no one to use that as an excuse to claim they haven't innovated as a company in 10 years, that they have unlimited rights to steal, that their contract isn't essentially identical to other merchant services agreements, and then to wish ill on me personally for pointing that out.