skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because people in Santa Clara County don't have issues relating to housing and health care?

I've seen this argued before by various people from Alex Payne to Buzz Andersen and I'm starting to feel like it may be a good idea to add an asterisk to this assertion: this is a function of the people in SV that you happen to be talking to. It's true that many of the startups in Silicon Valley and San Francisco are focused on "social media" and this leads to an awful lot of circle jerking that may be sharply lessened in other places, but it's not too difficult to find all sorts of startups out here that are focused on less abstract problems than how open the Twitter API is.

(Also, I think that just as people out here can miss the circle-jerkiness of the Silicon Valley scene, people in other cities sometimes tend to miss their own brands of it.)
Golf, Clipboards and Great Minds Think Alike
AW Tillinghast, great American golf course designer and inventor of the clipboard- how he compares to Clipboard+ founder Kevin Merlini
Downvotes? Aww, you guys need to lighten up!
I assume you mean Elop became CEO of Nokia, not MS.
I think it's a risk too. She's shown that she can excel in a small company undergoing hyper growth.

In this case she's presenting herself as a turnaround expert. I'm surprised she didn't sign on with a pre-IPO darling like Twitter or Facebook long ago.
In one of the numerous HN stories about this thing someone pointed out (and I wish I had a link to this) that if iFixit can easily disassemble the machine (and they can) then there obviously isn't a problem here. No, end users aren't supposed to be taking it apart, but the complaints about the glue have to do with the potential for impacting recyclability, which is a whole different ballgame. If iFixit can remove the battery, so can recyclers.
For-pay services
If she tries to make Yahoo be exactly like Google circa ~2007 it will be a massive success.
There's another way to look at it. With $1bn of net income in 2011, Yahoo! can clearly turn a profit.

Could any of us here on HN forge a great, long term business from a profit stream of hundreds of millions of dollars? I'm sure quite a few could, and Meyer surely stands a good chance.

Even if she has to turn the organization upside down, make major branding changes, or fire key staff, Yahoo! has the resources, at least, to change for the better. It has just lacked the willpower, till now hopefully.
Not anymore, V8 team is now mostly located in Munich.
Came here to say just that.

Another prediction: such partnership won't help Google very much, but will hurt Microsoft a bit -- due to Yahoo shying away from Bing and possibly MS e-mail technology.

It may also well help developers -- Yahoo's YUI is a very handy and very relevant toolkit; with Marissa as the CEO, I sure hope Yahoo will embrace developers more and YUI will get some more love.
I agree, when WebGL takes off it will definitely harm their desktop business, and this is a main reason why they oppose it (for now).
Food for though concept to consider when building something new
Time-based One-Time Passwords with an Arduino
unless they transfered it elsewhere, looks like Godaddy..

getting someone else's domain shut down though is unbelievably fuk'd up.. this alone turns me off of the site

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, LLC (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: WEDGIES.COM
Created on: 19-Feb-99
Expires on: 19-Feb-14
Last Updated on: 04-May-12
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Bias showing much?

If you disagree that you are biased, then please explain how this is "grossly overestimate[d]" and why EPEAT "must [...] reduce this [...] clearly inflated rating".
if we were to follow the trend in software engineering/computer programming/technology companies, we want more doctors who drop out from medical school to be surgeons.
UI/UX is one of the most critical parts of customer engagement in a car, so it's a great analogy with the smartphone.
Not all games are crysis.

A lot of games these days run on mobile with limited graphics, or use lower-end game engines like Unity as opposed to AAA ones.

There is plenty of room for WebGL gaming, but you are right, it will not intersect with AAA gaming in the foreseeable future.
Lou Gerstner's turnaround of IBM, in addition to the obvious Apple comparison.
Android-x86 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich RC2 is released
A real-time collaborative HTML/CSS editor
> And you can explain those to 6 yr old child.

The most popular programming language for teaching children is Logo, a FUNCTIONAL programming language!
Bit borderline on being a 'tech' company by modern standards (though historically it's about as tech as it gets), General Electric under Jack Welch. He pulled off a Jobsian effort in the 80s. GE went from $27bn revenues to $130bn under his watch and a market cap of $14bn up to $410bn.
Steve Jobs executed the single greatest turnaround in corporate history, at the company he founded, from which he had been fired ten years before. Betting on a similar result (or even something 10-20% as good) is really no different than expecting to draw an inside straight at the poker table. Sure, it can happen, but it's very unlikely.

Best of luck to Mayer and Yahoo, though.
Not sure why but after entering in my zipcode it started me at NYC (I'm in NJ so I expected that) but then other pages like the interests page would start showing Chicago based information.
Just for interest, this still can be done with unique keys: Officer Alice handcuffs prisoner and wants to hand off to Officer Bob. Officer Bob locks prisoner with his own handcuffs (prisoner is now wearing two pairs), then Officer Alice removes hers.
haha, I actually meant the "what the fuck" part
Assuming that you work in California, no, the non-complete clause is rendered unenforceable. (Under Application Group, Inc. v. Hunter Group, Inc., California law trumps a choice of law clause with respect to a non-compete clause.) If you live in CA and commute to Nevada/Oregon/Arizona/some other state, then my understanding is that the law of the state where you actually work would apply.

Disclaimer: IANAL and this post does not constitute legal advice of any kind.
No one I've talked to who works at Yahoo would compare it favorably to a Lamborghini.
not talking about tax+shipping here. but even on alibaba.com those boards sell for $50. unless you buy 1000s

on dealextreme it's a little more than 50 (but they include shipping in the price)
Carmack is right - there are security risks with allowing web content to run GPU shaders.

But Microsoft is inconsistent since it allows Silverlight content to run GPU shaders - proving that while there are risks, they are manageable, especially with Microsoft's deep security measures in recent Windows versions.
Apple is a once in a century example, good luck with that.

And besides, I didn't suggest nothing can be changed at Yahoo. I didn't say that at all.

I said it should be blown apart, and the stagnant 1990s products should go. Mayer should put her talents to work on a smaller core where growth can be achieved with new products.

Yahoo Finance? Yahoo Sports? Search? Yahoo Mail? 1998 era portals? There's no growth there. She might be able to revitalize energy into Flickr and adjust it to a smart phone world, that'd be one existing major product worth giving some attention to (for example).

Unless Mayer has something equivalent to the game changing PageRank approach to search, there's absolutely nothing she can do to improve Yahoo's search product. So what can she do with the existing product core exactly? Not much, stagnation is inherent to most of the product segments in question.

The real simple angle is: ok, what's the gorilla / whirlwind product that's going to revitalize Yahoo? Search? Not a chance. The content niche products like sports or finance? Nope. Web mail? Comeon. Classifieds & jobs? Nope, small potatoes. So what is it? To really grow a $20 billion company, you need to find billions in new profit. Mayer will only find that with new products. Unless you think she can take 1/4 of the search market back from Google or take a huge chunk of the rest of the web email market.

Yahoo needs a blue ocean change.

All the stagnant parts should be sold off for a huge amount of cash. And she should more or less start over and attack something new where Yahoo can own its segment and build a gorilla product with huge growth potential (instead of being 2nd or 3rd (etc) place in everything).
In the discussion on yesterday's NY Times story, someone said that your coworkers are not an ideal place to find friends because of the inevitability of situations in which you have to compete with your coworkers for bonuses, the best assignments and promotions.

Well, a person is not in competition with his or her cofounders. Would any who have or have had cofounders like to comment on how good having cofounders is at creating lasting friendships?
The downvote button is a short ways to the northwest. HN's content should be self-selecting.
"Certainly there are reasons for concern if lower-income Americans aren't able to save or acquire sufficient capital to pursue innovative ideas, or to see their children attend decent schools. They will suffer, and the country will lose out on significant intellectual capital and growth opportunities. But this should not be confused with inequality."

These things that are commonly understood to literally define the word inequality and are direct symptoms of it, yes those actually have nothing to do with inequality. Trust me, I own a dictionary. Don't look it up.
These svbtle blogs render unfocused on iPad 1 in portrait orientation - how annoying.
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Lessons from Digg's Collapse...
Not everything is AAA titles. I agree WebGL will not compete in the AAA space anytime soon, but there is a huge market for non-AAA games.
Apple tends to replace these things in 30 minutes. Maybe - and by definition this is speculation on all sides- the new machine's battery can't be replaced according to Apple's historical standards. But it seems highly unlikely.

On the other hand, it is very common for nonsensical and simply false information to be spread about Apple, constantly, to try and bash the company, because this kind of fake scandal is great for page views.

Apple was the first company to design computers for easy disassembly and repair, and their current generation of MBPs is certainly easy to disassemble. I know this because I've done it.

The idea that glue makes it impossible to recycle is kinda silly on the face of it. In fact, since lithium batteries come in tough-plastic containers, making the glue too strong would cause risk of rupture, and that would create potential liability.

Which means that this accusation is akin to saying "apple doesn't care about the liability they might incur from injuries or explosions due to damage trying to recycle their batteries.... even in their own stores!"

I don't find this credulous.
I think the problem at Yahoo has traditionally been too much of a focus on superstar CEOs, and Mayer isn't much different. What Mayer really needs to do is remove some of the focus from her and put it onto the people on the front lines doing the work.
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Taleb wrote better. Yes, prediction is hard.

If you're interested in these topics, do some reading on over-fitting, stationarity, and nonlinear dynamics.
Matt Cutts is a public face for Google.
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But there are many different monied interests! Sometimes they conflict with one another. Sometimes they conflict with popular interests. For instance, Fox News certainly isn't on the same page as Obama, or the Clintons, and yet they are pretty powerful in their own ways. It hardly sounds like a machine, but a competitive environment. Certainly not a perfect one, but not nearly so sinister as a label like "the US propaganda machine".
To be fair, Matt Cutts is incapable of ever not being nice.
Especially since most innovation is "slightly better x". Facebook was just a slightly better social network, google a slightly better search engine. That's how great things start.
Is this true even of the new Retina MacBook Pros?
I've been around some companies where any IT worker who gives 2 week notice is escorted immediately out of the building. It is not unusual for 2 weeks to not be needed or wanted.
I'm glad that hosting dinners has worked well for you, but my experiences attempting the same almost exactly mirrored the descriptions in the NYT article. I.e., long and exhausting back-and-forths trying to find a day that works for all parties. Even trying a fixed day, as you did, didn't work so well, as it became this complicated and frustrating experience of having to "book" someone's Weds weeks in advance and keep track of which of our friends and acquaintances were available when.
What a "linchpin" leader must be able to do...
All the original said in this regard was that RT employs Assange, which is a fairly uncontroversial factual statement.
Not very long, actually.

If I want a movie, its easy to get.
If I want a CD of music or a song, its easy to get.
If I want a program for my OS, its easy to get.

If I dont want to pay any money for said virtual goods, they're still easy to get.

And we are now, at a decent clip, adding 3d physical goods to the market of 'easy to get'.
36 Percent Of Fukushima Children Have Abnormal Growths From Radiation Exposure
At-will employment and your basic freedoms
> For myself, I still have a D&D group…

Oddity, that's exactly why I started to play D&D (…erg, pathfinder) at age of my life.
They are totally complimentary. 7 Habits concentrates on "What to do" and GTD concentrates on "How to do it."

There are two other excellent "self-help" books that should be part of everyone's bookshelf. They are:

* "Getting to Yes" which I think is the greatest book on negotiation. "How to deal"
* "Sources of Power" by Gary Kline talks about how people make decisions. "How to decide"

Give me these four books, and a firm place to stand, and I will move the world.
Any news about Outlooks rendering engine yet? I hope the integration of Office 365 made them adopt webkit vs Word.
> mostly due to her non execution.

I remember long ago hearing her push the notion that all design and interface decisions must be tested. I remember thinking that is just a recipe for non-execution with the goal of never being "wrong".
Yahoo brings in Google's Marissa Mayer as CEO
Excel (at least the 07 version I'm using now) has useful features that are not existant in opensource equivalents (pivot charts, etc), and some of the usability is much improved in Excel as opposed to say, OO.org Calc.

MS Access has no open source equivalent. Some small businesses would flounder without it.

If you don't need to share xls/doc files, then yes, more power to you, but if you do, you will run into problems using opensource alternatives.
Just because they've "lost" search doesn't mean they can't make money off of it. Opera "lost" the browser market a long time ago and is still making money.
I believe this change of guard might open a possibility of future Yahoo buy out by Google. I feel that it will be very hard for Yahoo to survive and future sale will be an option. In that case, Google might have an upper hand.
Wow this is very huge. Look out Google!
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You might want to look at http://lawshucks.com/2009/01/apple-ibm-resolve-noncompete-fi...
Well in this case it's an original Lamborghini, but it was in a horrible wreck and has been sitting at the bottom of the sea for about ten years...

So you can dredge it up, and perhaps restore it to it's original glory...or you can go out and build your own, new dream car from scratch.

Either way it's going to be a TON of work to get to a truly valuable (and fun to drive) vehicle...
I'd implement it exactly like bloom filter but instead bits I'd use 0,1,2
0 means never touched. 1 means I've seen it, 2 means I've seen it more than once.

True positive is when all places for given entry contain 1.

Adding is incrementing all places (if they have value less than 2).

Before putting new value in check if it's not already here. If it is don't add.
He commented only on her intelligence and work ethic, not her work.
I do think it's something done right. And no, I didn't make it nor do I know the people behind it. But thanks for the cynicism!
There's really nothing hard about using vectors; they'll just be blurry because they're probably not pixel-fitted. Also, complex icons are much smaller and faster to render in raster format.
i'd disagree with the 'no matter who comes in'... but in real life, who comes in is decided by who is already in.
Why email is broken: author doesn't know how to organize himself

What we can do to fix it: use author's commercial web site

...great, thanks
Are product reviews on the roadmap somewhere? I'm in your target demographic (I think), in that I'm female and regularly buy stuff on Etsy and Gilt/MyHabit. However, I think there's a huge barrier to buying from you right now. Namely, there's no brand recognition, so I can't base judgments off that, and I have no secondary way (like product/boutique reviews) to gauge quality.
It should also help at getting those caps increased. In a major city cell phone providers not having capacity in 2012 should be lambasted for not expecting usage to increase. This is only the harbinger of things to come, we need to provide pressure on the providers to drop the (when technically unnecessary) data caps. They don't fix the congestion problem and only exacerbate these problems.

Also, its about damn time we have high dpi displays, we've been stuck at 72/96dpi for far too long on regular computers. I welcome this change and all it brings.
And if she crashes and burns, she gets what, 50million in an exit package? Why not take that.
The solution is what it always was. Design in units like 'em's, don't override the user defaults, and let the page scale however the end user wants. This not only accomodates the retina/non-retina split, it lets users with bad eyesight increase the font size and still be able to read things.

Images? That's a bit harder, but it's not the end of the world. Vector images are useful here, but for higher detail raster images, designing in double size and scaling down for ordinary screens gets you a long way. For smaller icons, it might pay to have two versions, and I don't see a way around that for a while. Gnome has handled this for a long time by having specific sizes of icon that it tried to snap to, as well as vector fallbacks for when none of the sizes were appropriate.

The important thing is to give up on pixel perfection. Just let the user chose the size, and don't mess with their defaults.
Victor Pelevin, a great writer, noted in his book Empire V:
(my translation)

"The main idea that person tries to convey to others is that he has access to much better consumption than they would think. At the same time he tries to tell them that their way of consumption is much less of premium than they were thinking."

And now you're telling me that you had access to much better education and that my education surely sucked ass. It's like the part from Borat's Kazakhstan hymn about Uzbekistan.

I do not argue that FP results in code that is easier to reason about. I'm just aruing that you should not call FP concepts like immutability and referential transparency "basics of programming". Programming is big and basics implies something very small. The kind of taking with you to an uninhabited island.

Demanding everyone to pray to functional gods before they are allowed to learn any programming, as OP implied, is a naive and dangerous dream. You're not alone in this, please behave.
> This is journalism, though, not science. The point isn't to answer the question, just to document the controversy.

Or in many cases, create the controversy.

Edit: But anyway, the article does fine with the journalism part. I was just thinking that people should probably wait to see if the rating really is ridiculous or not. I've certainly never taken a MBP apart. So I have no idea if it is easy or not. Either way, I have no more reason to trust one over the other.
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This is hilarious. Pro tip: not all your users are graphic designers. It may be the case that the author, and everyone he knows, has new "retina" products from Apple. That's wonderful. But it can't be taken to represent a broader userbase.

It seems to me that the web's mainstream properties are built for workers in large corporations to fiddle with when they should be working. Most of these people have 1280x1024, 96 DPI screens attached to Windows XP or Windows 7 PCs.

I expect that to be the case for some years to come.
Right. He's critiquing the term "predictive model" by saying we should use the term "hypothetical model" instead. Is he suggesting it's impossible to test a hypothesis? I thought Kant and Hume had this argument long ago.
She should have done it by G+ hangout

(my opinion)
The microsoft controlled board already made sure the founders have no voice in the company anymore.
One other facet of vector graphics, they don't always look that great at all scales.

I seem to recall a graphics designer blog that compared a vector to an image that was tweaked at the same scale resolutions. The differences were staggering. I don't think vector graphics are a panacea anymore. I'll see if I can find the link, was rather eye opening.
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There is one change that I'm excited about that no one seems to have noticed -- Microsoft finally turned on their typography features by default. At least in my version of Word, kerning and ligatures were enabled in a new document.

I don't care about cloud storage or menus in caps, but I do care about better looking documents.

Update: it seems to be enabled in Powerpoint as well! But not Outlook or Excel.
This particular conversation is precisely about AAA titles dominating on Windows.

Otherwise, the web is becoming a more viable target for small and indie devs. But as another commentator pointed out, without a overhaul in how video driver developers approach their work, WebGL as a concept cannot be made secure. Either browser vendors will wake up to this fact and at least start disabling WebGL by default, or enterprising black-hatters will start taking advantage of WebGL exploits, forcing browser vendors' hands.

High performance graphics on the web is a tough pickle :\
If King wished to give his speech away

I'm a little young to remember, but wouldn't most of the civil rights rallies been "open to the public"? Even if King gave away his opinions as a sermon to his church, I'd bet that attendance was open to anyone who cared to go.

Isn't public oratory (a.k.a. "speeches") the most flagrant manner of "giving his speech away"?

Shouldn't the question be reversed: if King wanted to sell his opinions, shouldn't he have avoided public oratory in which he gave away those opinions without getting an NDA or some other kind of license agreement with the attendees?
IOS 6 beta 3 is now available for developers with some new features
http://www.extremetech.com/electronics/132050-patents-werent...

"Apple, which has been one of the most aggressive players in patent litigation..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._litigation

"Apple is known for and promotes itself as an active and aggressive pursuer of enforcement of its intellectual property interests."
That's definitely in the roadmap for the near future. Would you mind discussing a bit more over email? My email is adam@boutine.com

Thanks!