skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It changed when Thompson was forced out.
There really needs to be an immediate financial cost associated with incorrect DMCA takedowns.

For instance, the entity the requests are made of (in this case Google) should be able to claim money for every false take down request.
Commas are such an idiotic, navel-gazing, Javascript hipster douchebag convention.
actually, the API was about being enough so that someone could write a nice client for your bookmarks.

we did actually build a recommendation engine (fell down due to scale) and popular within tag feeds (that were quite good, but the d2 redesign broke them after I left.)

text analysis and feature extraction is very different than tagging.
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Getting CE/FCC approval for wifi is expensive and time consuming.

It also normally requires you to either get emmisions tests for the complete system or you can use a separate WIFI module - which is why most laptops have wifi on mini-pci cards.

Of course if you want to make a no-name $5 usb wifi dongle and just print CE on it that's a lot cheaper.
Mentor qualities:
- Someone who has accomplished what you're looking to achieve.
- Someone who can helped expand your network
- Someone who picks up the phone when you call

How to meet them:
- Follow them on twitter
- Connect with them on Linkedin or FB
- See if they speak or attend events.

It might be analogous to stalking but be incredibly classy with them. If they're not responsive, move onto your list of potential mentors. Hope this helps.
Am I going to search, sort, organise, collage and archive on my phone? They don't sound like everyday activities to me. The uploader and justified view wouldn't even apply to a mobile platform.
It's also simply not true at a company like Google where the strong-visioned founders are still in charge.

Maybe with 2nd or 3rd generation leaders Google et al will be maximizing shareholder value for the sake of maximizing shareholder value. But not yet. They're still doing what their founders want them to do.
You can't do it. Don't bother trying.

It's at least less impossible in Native Client, but the verifier means that you can only obfuscate so much.

Ultimately the winning model here (that most games with serious competition end up taking, to some degree) is to never trust the client, at all, with anything. Everything remotely important is the domain of the server and the client is basically a dumb renderer that only has the minimum amount of information necessary to play the game. This does have some unfortunate consequences for latency and responsiveness, but people tend to hate cheating more than lag.

Sometimes you can find domains where cheating is okay in exchange for better responsiveness, but then it creeps into your design and causes issues. 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. As a result there are a litany of clever exploits that utilized this to break important game systems or acquire subtle advantages over others. For example, a locked door in a dungeon obviously is going to be impassable to players, right? What do you mean they teleported through it?
Just hope the user's IP does not change from purchase to activation?
Let's take the salesman example. A salesman isn't literally making $150/hour. As a hypothetical the value might be $0 in hour 0, $450 in hour 1 and $0 in hour 2 for an average of $150/hour. Much of sales work is this way, their is preparation time, and sales time. There may be prospecting, etc. So even though they may not make the money during that hour, if you are burning their motivation to prep or prospect you are burning their ability to get through hour 0 and into hour 1.

Part of the reason to use an average is that it gives you a very simple, but generally applicable metric. There are always exceptions and the rate may change frequently or slowly. Those are nitpicks though. The general point is that your time should be valued against the best use of your time. For instance the hotel example only makes sense if the alternative to walking to the convention is working or more time networking to generate revenue. If the alternative is sitting in your hotel room longer watching TV then $160/hour is not the replacement rate.
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Sounds like a step-by-step legacy code refactoring from an engineer :).

I'm sure in the real-world, executing any of the advises will have unknown repercussion.

1. It's hard to fire 10k people _correctly_ and expect things to still work without crushing morale (you may fired potential heroes as well), or perhaps even being poked by government over job losses?

2. I'm not sure a 23 years old hot-shot developer exist. No way Jose. There may be some smart and talented 23 year old, but they're by no mean "hot shot developer". You may get a better result by hiring a 26-32 years old developers. But not fresh grad. Unless your point being to work them like there is no tomorrow, a typical scenario in Silicon Valley startups. Or: today's mess will become tomorrow problem, so you're back to square one with Yahoo! sooner or later => uncontrolled legacy codebases. [Nobody will come out and say that Yahoo has one of the best codebase out there, even Flickr is notoriously bad].

3. Rounding up the smartest people in the planet is hard to begin with, making sure they all can work together without brushing ego is even harder (especially when everyone wants to leave their mark), finally, expecting rainbows and unicorns to show up is magical I would say.

5. Yeah, whatever, BYOD, use standard toolset, sure. If sys-admin needs their BB, be it.

The rest are generics and nothing to complain/argue/discuss.

Yahoo! should definitely shed its fat: people and products, no doubt. Next they should think hard on what needs to be done with the successful products they have left. Once stabilization and culture are in place, then you can start doing something more extreme. Rocking the almost tumbling boat seems to be a recipe to drown everybody.
> Tag namespacing.

I think tags model all the information you want.

Perhaps there is UI problem.

Available tags can listed with number of tagged documents as an ordering criteria.

So then you click on databases. Interesting things to show are other tags for documents tagged with databases (subdirectories), and documents with only databases as a tag (members of this directory).

I think sub/super tags are not necessary.
People who just want to share photos without all the snooping through the medicine cabinet that Facebook does (though Yahoo may do it too, for all I know).
Ask HN: What do you think about Yahoo?
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I find most of the contracts I have done through Craigslist.

http://rssident.com/feeds/?t=job&e=telecommute|remote
In what way are the social connections between people and the things they share with one another not information? In some sense, that's the most valuable information out there, which is why not having it scared the shit out of Google.
Topless Robot did a good summary on how ridiculous some of the "mysteries" were:

http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/07/the_10_most_ridiculously...
Let me know when Google+ actually works with my google apps email address. It says you have to enable it but I did enable it (terrible documentation/help to do so) and still could never get it to work with no useful error about what's wrong.

It should just work by default.

And if it's disabled, they should stop sending me emails asking me to sign up when they know perfectly well that they won't let me.
Indeed. Several of these problems actually say a lot about the design of the games that implement the solutions. This is one of those.

Similarly, "start with procedural and add some bits on top" (one proposed solution to this) would be a huge, huge change to how you design everything, and require a different set of tools and a different mindset for designers, and, and, and...

But man, if you could make it work it would be amazing.

Several of his points are the same way. They constrain all kinds of things and don't look at all like the current game industry we're used to.

That's one reason I don't think they have a prayer of solving all five. Too many constraints.

If they could do two or three, that would still be brilliant.
My guess is that it depends on the buildpack. The Python one wraps everything nicely in a virtual environment.

If my information is correct Heroku is using Linux containers to keep everything nice and sperate.
"net revenue" doesn't account for salaries. You're thinking of "net profit".
Having the system create auto tags sounds good.

Recordings a strength to the association between an entity and a tag is useful.

This makes the lists created by tags ordered.
re 1: tagging on pinboard doesn't feel quite the same as it did on delicious. I think it is missing things.

re 2: yes. you need to re-present the tags that people use in such a way that the useage doesn't spread out over time. i use only ~ 500 tags and create new ones very, very rarely.

re 3: this is something i always wanted to do but never had the time.

for namespacing: delicious originally had that. was called "hierarchical tags." foo.bar would match foo.bar.baz ... I eventually took it out.
The value of such a simple model is not what it directly tells you anything but when it stops working you have a strong hint that something interesting is going on. Suppose you find a town where the IQ is 7 points above what you would expect after accounting for the children's socioeconomic situation AND their parents IQ scores. Sounds interesting right, except without the proper weights you can't really do that analysis in the first place.
World of Warcraft (and now other games) have a great semi-solution to number six. It turns out that by doing the game world calculations on the server but doing them in parallel on the client and updating regularly, you can beat the speed of light thing in many cases.

And then when the client doesn't know something and guesses wrong, you get rubber-banding as it snaps back to last verifiable server state.

It's still a really, really good hack.
I'm in Chicago and I also get news.ycombinator.com as down, but it's obviously up as I can view it and comment on it.
I really wish they would publish some prices though. I'm hesitant of the "contact us" pricing model.
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The interesting one on that list (to me at least) is Flickr. Take the cue from Facebook's Instagram purchase - that photos are one of the critical elements of a mature social community that remains active after other elements have slowed. While Flickr is/was great, it's suffered from neglect. Check out this chart from 2011 showing the photo-library size of Flickr compared to Facebook ... and that was before Instagram happened (assuming that deal goes through), so I can only imagine how it would look today:

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-09-19/tech/30174764...

Photos aren't just an island anymore ... not just something only uploaded when you plug in your camera. They're connected to everything else you're doing ... and your photo library is sourced from a variety of apps uploaded in real-time as you go about your day. To grow Flickr they either need to enhance the community (maybe in the way 500px has done) or transform it in a way that doesn't piss off the people that go there for professional-quality photos while at the same time carving out a space on the site to accept and leverage photos of what someone had for lunch.
Yahoo will have zero chance to reform if their product teams are using Blackberries. They won't have a chance. At all.

It would be like putting them all on dos and expecting them to make websites for the future.

I think this might be the single most important item on the whole list.
Interesting, maybe they should have promoted the Asian division head to CEO...
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You could define it like that, but you wouldn't be entirely correct. Depriving the original owner of whatever is stolen is innate in the concept of "theft"[1][2]. That is the primary reason society has had laws against theft for so long--not because we're afraid of everybody having a pony, but because my stealing a pony deprives its original owner of it.

[1]: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/theft
[2]: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/theft

Since copyright infringement does not stop the original "owner" from using the property in question, calling it theft seems intellectually dishonest. All the historical judgments are based around this idea--the reason theft is inherently bad and punished by so many societies is that the person stolen from does not have use of his property any more. Extending these to something that does not deprive the original owner of anything is not reasonable.

Besides, the idea of "owning" information involves having exclusive control over its distribution. Given this parallel, somebody just having an unauthorized copy does not own the information as they have no exclusivity or control over it whatsoever. If somebody with such a copy could then enforce that others could not use the information, it would be akin to owning it, but it would also be a very different story!

So your definition of theft would probably have to be amended to "using something without paying the price..." since just having a copy of something confers no ownership. But then this definition suddenly becomes very broad--much more broad than the commonly accepted meaning of theft. For example, trespassing would fall under "theft" as you're using somebody's land without their permission or "paying the price".

Expanding words by analogy is a good thing, granted. However, this assumes that the analogy is reasonably accurate. There are clearly harmful examples of expanding words by poor analogy: the oft-repeated mantra that "evolution is just a theory" only exists because the analogy between the common use of "theory" and the scientific use is fundamentally flawed.

So expanding words' meanings by analogy is good assuming the analogy is not relatively misleading or clearly biased. The analogy between theft and copyright infringement is both, so this use should not be encouraged.
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I've been thinking about this problem for a while as I attempt to develop my ideal note-taking system. There's a strange halfway between tags and folders, the gist of which seems ideal but it has so far escaped a full description. I started considering tagging tags as a way to create hierarchy, but I'm not sure how far down that rabbit hole I want to go.
The point is twin primes (6k-1, 6k+1) are more likely for a large k when k is a composite number than a prime AND the more factors of k the higher chance for twin primes.

EX: K = (6 * 2 * 3 * 5 * 7 * 11 * 13 ) gives a twin prime.
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This is interesting. If you're interested in getting somewhat comparable medicinal effects, maitake mushrooms also have lots of beta glucans and they're a lot of fun to pick. They're probably the best mushrooms for beginners to pick because they taste good and they're virtually impossible to mistake for anything else.
So a tiny minority of people, then. I would be deeply concerned about launching a mobile platform on that basis.
Some organizations that require the ability to remotely wipe the phone should it be lost/misplaced. It is my understanding that BB is the only one that provides a solid ability to do so.
Yes, I think it might be an interface problem as well. Maybe tag clouds were a good idea after all?
Wow! Google counter offer numbers always fun to hear. Without the risk of divulging too much info, would you share, if he was a back-end, front-end or mobile app developer?
The thing that sets the Pi apart for me is that is actually has some I/O broken out right on the board, which makes it much more suitable for things like robotics and automation. The things you mention can be done better with different hardware imho.

Pi doesn't have Wi-Fi, if you want to do ad-hoc Wi-Fi stuff I would suggest you get a cheap Linux-based router. If you want a video player, you can get cheap Android-based ones for ~50 bucks (i.e. http://www.dealextreme.com/p/mini-android-4-0-network-media-...).
Maybe until it becomes like youtube

Having said that though I still trust google more not to abuse their ad showing to the point of degrading the user experience
I cannot think of a single good thing that would happen to gaming if every single game had creative commons assets from day one. You'd end up with endless identical looking games.

Now, releasing the assets under CC after 5 years or so I could get behind. Let the culture remix your work after it has had a chance to stand and be judged, appreciated on its own.
Very good hustling. Takes a lot of balls, drive and willpower to refuse to stay in a comfort zone and keep putting yourself out there even at the risk of seeming "desperate".
I was speaking in the specific context of ideas. Clearly, sensitive data should be protected, and an NDA is a good legal control for that.

But I don't believe that an idea is worthy of an NDA, and therefore that so-misnamed "IP" would be "flush[ed] down the toilet" just because you happened to discuss the topic with a family member.

Rather, I believe that what matters is whether and how you implement the idea. Being first to market gives you the added security of fully understanding the idea and being able to improve it as you go along - while competitors are left behind trying to understand the idea. Execution, as they say, is everything. You don't need a government-granted monopoly to do that.

(That said, I think the whole government-granted monopoly idea is fundamentally flawed.)
As an amateur musician, and a longtime fan of Downbeat magazine's "blind listening" tests, this was an interesting read for me. But I concur that it seems out of place here.

P.S. That recording of "Desafinado" that he comments on is one of my favorite songs of all time. All of that Bossa stuff that Stan Getz did for that matter.
That's where the 'self-respecting' part comes in. If these engineers are so good, why don't they jump ship to Facebook or Google or JP Morgan? There's no way the culture could be any more poisonous, even in investment banking.

The only respectable answer I've heard concerns loss of security of changing jobs when you already own a house in the valley, send your kids to private school, lease a Lexus, etc.
There used to be an office devoted to providing Congress with unbiased information about technology, but it was eventually shut down because "Congress is spending millions of dollars on itself" makes for a good soundbite.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Technology_Assessment
This is a post I wrote on my personal blog that I thought might be of interest to folks here. A lot of people seem to be able to relate to this problem, and I'm hoping some here will have thoughts on how to tackle it.
"A Yahoo app on every home screen" sounds like a pretty user-oriented goal, regardless of the words it uses.
I'm a little unsure what you mean by referencing Digg and Reddit, however both of them were/are limited to the tech field. They both started as programmer link sites, but that side of the sites withered away as they became yet another mainstream site.

LinkedIn was dominated by the tech field. Specifically the valley tech field. That was what gave it the network effect.
I would add that my first semester at UIUC was very inspiring, thanks to Prof. Gupta
Honest answer, I upvoted it because I'm sick of reading the typical banal stuff on HN.
oh, like we had the resources to do that in 2003 or whatever.

fwiw the significant tags that users used on pages were often not contained in the text of the page.
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If I had my way the usage of analogies and semantic bickering would be strictly forbidden in threads pertaining to copyright infringement. There is a real discussion to be had about the situation at hand, but instead the top sub-thread is the exact same circle jerk that happens in every other copyright related thread.

I wonder how long we have until someone makes a car analogy?
I wholeheartedly agree with the premise, but not necessarily the solution.

I've been bookmarking crap for a very long time and even though I am extremely organized, I have ended up with a mess. One of these days I'm going to take the time to convert my bookmark export file into some format Google Refine can parse and clean things up. Synonyms, homonyms, singular and plural versions of the same tag, different conventions for handling multiword tags, etc. It's not pretty.

Searching is great. I have a tendency, however, to bookmark indirect sources. So a HN comment thread gets indexed instead of an article. Not always helpful.

Also searching isn't useful when you want to categorize things into some personal context (e.g. "Favorite Books" or "ReRead". I think the mentioned 'lists' solution might help here.

Not sure hashtags are necessary. Reddit users have been bitching for tags since day one and the devs never gave in. I think this was a good decision, sometimes people ask for things that wouldn't work well in practice.
Are you serious? VGA is a terrible analog standard that would've made the video output of this device useless.

Having HDMI means any kid can plug it straight into the family television without any problems, or they can always get a new, cheap monitor for well under $100 if they shop around.

It also doesn't preclude the Pi from being used to drive large displays for commercial applications or for classroom presentations.
Ah yes, that makes sense. I'm not terrific at business sense, thanks. I had not considered that targeting existing Yahoo customers doesn't necessarily cannibalize Google's customers, since they're clearly not jumping to move to gmail, are they?
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Furthermore, when a request takes down a bunch of material because it's so broad, there should be an extremely steep fine for each item taken down that should not have been taken down.
Maybe you and I just haven't found the right frequency yet. =)
Considering I am the one that said the patent system is broken and I also code, I think I realize what sense it makes, thanks.
Friendster was definitely a thing, before MySpace. If we are going to have a quantitative argument there will need to be high quality numbers
But, but it's actually crazy that they don't. Companies buy startups just for these types of people and pay up front for them (with no solid guarantee that they'll get their money's worth).

Hire someone who you think is a kickass dev for 200/hour and when they stop being worth it, get rid of them. Seems way more economical than the current setup.

But maybe (probably) I'm the one who is crazy.
The answer to this is to have a portfolio full of "here are things I've built", with a complimentary "here is a link to my github".