skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that's a valid generalization. It depends enormously on the funding agency and the place you're submitting the paper, respectively.

You're not going to be able to do a good grant proposal unless you have a good track record of research, with multiple papers. So in that sense, a grant proposal supersedes a single paper.

But, given that you've already done all those papers, a grant proposal is just writing, not new research, so it should actually be massively less work than doing all the original research that goes into a paper.
It's fine to sell out a developer conference if there is high demand by developers. The problem with I/O, is that there are some who go, even though they aren't core Google platform developers.

I consistently hear the key reason to go to WWDC, is that a good portion of the Apple Engineers take the week off, and go there to answer, one-on-one, questions that external developers have regarding APIs and use cases. Quite often, the person answering the question, is the Apple Engineer who wrote that API in the first place.
It's pretty easy to do with Graph Search, for what it's worth (yes, I realize most people don't have it yet). Just search for "Pages I have liked".
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I think he meant fire them if they don't provide value. If they're remote and do provide value keep them remote.
this sure would make it a lot easier to get a ticket!
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The Android client has just got a complete rewrite that's made it better than its iOS counterpart (I use both regularly). However, it's still in beta and only available to Plex Pass users until the final release.

There's also an app for Samsung Smart TVs that I use a lot.
iCloud is hosted on Azure Storage.
At least it is more honest than Amazon's version.
Do you think that it is?
Sounds like something that turns companies into Microsoft.
It happens on its own over time as well.

See http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-d... for a fuller description.
In this case I don't believe it's sexism for one minute. Allthingsd (and specifically this author, I believe) are very well-known for aggressively publishing and criticizing leaks from Yahoo. Any motivations behind such a tactic would certainly bleed through into the aforementioned writing style.
As great as OPAM might be (neither have I tried it), it has one fundamental downside compared to Go: it is a package manager for OCaml.

Package management is one of those things that are better off when there is just one.
Colleges don't have PHD programs while Universities do, in America at least.
Yes overall the service has been good for us. We are mostly down, with a few services partially up but throwing errors and causing more confusion. Now we are just sitting on our hands getting pelted by clients...
Thank you for saying it better than I could have.

Alarm bells should go off when someone with a million users is talking about spending money to get more and not about converting existing users into customers. Free users are not customers. Strategies for spending money to acquire customers make sense because you end up making more than you spend.
That company is dying and it needs drastic changes to get it back to what it once was. Those changes are bound to piss off a lot of people, but the alternative is to continue on the same downhill route. Mayer is trying to change the cultural problems she perceives. I have a different opinion about that particular change she is making, but that doesn't matter... Good for her. I hope it works.
You're a fool if you think that is true. Java is one of the most secure technology and the problem is with Browsers and not the language. If you disable the Java plugin until the fix comes from Browsers you should be just fine.
Any info on Sql Azure being down a whole day? We didn't see anything. This issue on the other hand, a real bummer.
yes -- I was chucked out, and I'm not Nordic. Actually my mother told our new neighbours when they got kids, that it doesn't harm, at all.
If expensive human curation of research papers is valuable, that's fine with me. Let the non-public funded curation be proprietary.

But that's no reason to lock up the publicly funded research papers themselves.
"Free users are not customers."

Free users are the product. The point is to develop the product until you can sell it.

EDIT: to clarify, "converting existing users into customers" suggests that the parent assumes the users are the customers. In an advertising driven business, the users are the product (time spent by people on the app) and the customers are advertisers wishing to advertise to the users. Think about google: gmail is free, but its revenues come from advertising and not from the users directly.
I wish Palantir would do a campus somewhere (which I suspect would be an awesome LOTR-themed campus).

That would drop Palo Alto real estate from $5-7 to maybe $3-5.
> If you're not doing well with a million users, maybe you screwed up.

I think his point is that just because a company gets a million users, that doesn't equate to success. It's fallacy to think that just getting there means that you're doing everything right. As you pointed out, acquiring users doesn't make you a business.
We use Azure pretty seriously and overall, we really like it. We went with the MSFT stack due to some of our low level code to deal with printing. That being said, it's had it's share of outages, but honestly no less than if we were racking and stacking our own machines. The most frustrating thing though (with any cloud provider really) is that if it goes down all you can do is sit and wait...atleast if its our fault we feel like we're in control.
Added this tool to my suite of monitoring tools last time an outage caused by an expired cert popped up on hacker news: http://prefetch.net/articles/checkcertificate.html

Runs on a daily cron job and emails if any of the certs it's monitoring are within 30 days of expiration.
The article doesn't say that people were hired and promised 100% remote work. More likely, they have an office with their name on it already and they just have the ability to work from home whenever they want and so they never come in.

I don't see this as a bait-and-switch unless there's something to back that up.
citation needed. I've seen research showing remote workers are more productive than on-site. http://www.stanford.edu/~nbloom/WFH.pdf
We typically only do 15 or 30 day post launch warranties at no cost especially with native mobile apps as things can break with OS upgrades that may be unforeseen.

For our retainer (maintenance) agreements, it's based on a black of time per month. We usually have a few options proposed with one of them recommended. The client determines which tier they go with based on their budget. Otherwise we charge a flat per hr fee (rounded to nearest 15 min). Hourly is more expensive since it may fluctuate from month to month. For our clients having a fix fee means no surprises for them and they get faster support. For us, it's a guaranteed rev per month.

As far as structure it will vary per customer based on their needs.
I noticed the exact same thing last year when I deactivated my Facebook account and then tried to sign up with Spotify.

This absurd behavior was the last straw with me with Facebook. I deleted my FB account that day. I can't believe facebook has so many users still. This company has just been one big screw up since day one.
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I actually hadn't scrolled up. I had to revisit the page to understand what you were talking about.
Because natural language's type hierarchy is not that sound as we programmers would like it to be.
I can't believe there's not a single mention of Vitamin D in this article. People with normal levels of Vitamin D are healthier than people who are deficient. There's really no mystery there. I'm sure it's even more important for developing babies. The health effects of getting some sun > negative effects of being cold for a while. Or cold thermogenesis could actually have beneficial effects [1].

[1]: http://www.jackkruse.com/cold-thermogenesis-6-the-ancient-pa...
We do, for some of our infrastructure at www.itrendcorporation.com. We use Azure Websites, Azure Storage, Azure SQL. Websites has been great. SQL East had a major (I mean, complete 100% outage for more than 5 hours) outage, so we are now making some changes internally.

I like Azure, but I don't think I am ready to use it in production for anything critical without another standby infrastructure in place.
It should be noted that Spotify is directly integrated into Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/music

You have the ability to pause and play music from Facebook (which I doubt exists for any other music player with any sort of Facebook integration)
Out of curiosity, and if you don't mind divulging such details; what do you feel made you an exception?
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~~~Power the Geek~~~

This started from an Ask HN.

This is essentially a developer-centric approach to communication and life skills.

Please comment with any thoughts/constructive criticisms, and upvote if you believe this addresses a real pain, this is about providing real value to people who need it
Clickable link: http://powerthegeek.launchrock.com/
Maybe this tells you more about Mayer's lack of trust of Yahoo's (maybe former) managers that she wouldn't trust their recruiting decisions.

Personally, I do believe that remote employees can work well but it is a very selective decision.
you would think so, but this story is scarily plausible: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
And it's vegan: http://www.isitvegan.com/2010/10/09/is-sriracha-sauce-vegan/
Also, productivity issues.

Oh, I'll wait until tomorrow to talk to Bob about X, when he's back in the office.
@textminer, wrong. kara swisher is just a jerk. jerk-iness knows no gender.
Amen.

Couldn't agree more. Lots of companies miss out on great engineers. Companies that do hire on this tend to have bad to mediocre engineering and leadership and no ability to actually tell a good engineer from a bad one.
It was a reasonable ask and got a reasonable response. Hopefully the unlocking petition gets the same treatment.
"I like Azure, but I don't think I am ready to use it in production for anything critical without another standby infrastructure in place."

Seems like a really good general rule for any service :)
The cache system isn't aware of threads or processes, but it's clearly aware of address spaces. Make a big global Foo object in a single process and spawn a hundred threads to write to it. They'll be contending on the same cache line. You're with me that far, right?

Now take the same architecture and spawn a hundred processes. Those Foo objects now live in different physical pages and thus writes to them from all the processes live happily in L1 cache.

Obviously not all architectures work like this. If Foo is "really" shared, then nothing can help the contention. But usually it's not, it's just that the code was written by someone who didn't think about cache contention. That kind of performance bug is really easy to write. And a reasonable fix for it is "don't use multithreaded architectures when you don't need them".
More likely they will have to quit if they don't want to drive into the office every day... They all have an office they belong to presumably. It's not a big stretch to ask them to go there Monday to Friday.
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" it's had it's share of outages"

Do you just sit on your hands when that happens? Do you have a failure plan?
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"Now we are just sitting on our hands getting pelted by clients..."

You don't have a backup plan?
The policy at Google isn't "you can work from wherever you want", it's "YOU MUST ALWAYS STAY HERE NEVER LEEEEEAVE!!!!"
Created a bunch of bad designs that haunt me to this day on the Internet archive. I don't think I've gotten really good at design over the years but I make less crappy sites now. Being able to design and code whether your a dev or designer is important to have. Helps you understand how to semi talk to the other half.
It didn't seem possible but I now like Yahoo even less.

A 38 y/o CEO of a company that sells the "connected" world won't use the same connectedness within the business?

This is why you don't leverage yourself to the hilt and live paycheck to paycheck - so you can quit a job if it sucks.
Happiness is not a concern in this.

In America, the pursuit is for money and profits for your employer - an employee's emotional wellbeing is irrelevant.

Now be a good serf and pop your head back down into your cubicle.
Shipping mountains of high quality popular software at regular intervals? Sounds just what Yahoo! needs.
I initially thought you were joking, but it appears that iCloud is hosted on Azure and Amazon Services: http://www.redmondpie.com/guess-what-icloud-uses-windows-azu...
From what I saw, started as routine maintenance, and we began seeing SQL timeouts and errors on SQL East, and then all our DB servers on SQL East just vanished. Stayed gone for 5 hours at least.

I took a screenshot of the status console once it got updated with the outage info (several hours into the outage):

https://mobile.twitter.com/iTrendTV/status/30395990016434176...

Pretty unhappy about the whole experience. Luckily, we have our own colo in addition to Azure.

If you want to see people's reactions as this event unraveled:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ssdsgetstarted...
You can fire up Emacs and go to town with Clojure using SLIME, Clojure isn't really any different in that respect.
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Yeah, even if they just succeed in cloning 80% of Github, that still provides a lot of value.
actually, the thing i find most lacking in go (although granted i've only done a few toy programs in the language) is sum types. it would make error handling a lot more pleasant, for one.

i'm excited about rust, which did go the algebraic datatype route.
Red. Herring.
Deployments and automated tests; business vs. engineering
I've played musical instruments and sung in front of hundreds of people, it's stressful but I'm confident I could code under the same circumstances.

I have panic attacks if I feel too enclosed, particularly big crowds in small spaces. I would definitely fail to code FizzBuzz if I was having a panic attack! But if I needed to, I could disguise it pretty well. You might not notice that I was having a panic attack.

Stress isn't linear, so you can't really extrapolate from it that well.

Also, I would question whether absolutely everybody on your team needs to be exposed to lots of stress. Sure, some people have to care about live systems crashing (as one example of a majorly stressful event), but not everybody, surely?

Personally, interviews don't stress me out and I can do whiteboard coding tests no problem. A big component of that is because I went to the right schools and they rigorously trained me on that from a young age. I don't think it's fair that it's easier for me to get a job than someone whose grandmother was less well off (she paid for my schooling).
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You can't deny that the current issue is certainly not something you would expect of a serious offering
The one part I do not understand about all of this comes when you have a company with multiple locations and work that crosses locations.

Say you have east coast and west coast facilities. If people only worked within their local facility, I can see the reasoning and advantages. What I don't understand is where the value is when the work crosses facilities.

What you would need to do to bridge the gap between the workers in the different facilities is the same thing you should do to bridge the gap between remote workers.

How is having people that need to work together in separate facilities any better than the people working remotely?
It isn't an oversight by Facebook - it is by design. Facebook was a part of the decision to use Facebook login credentials to log into Spotify. Additionally, Facebook does not list access to your friend list (and your friend's email addresses) in their list of permissions. Rather, those details are implicit in using Facebook to authenticate.

As an example, using FB to authenticate with Quora does not list access to friends list in the permissions but Quora will send an email to every friend of yours already on Quora to notify them that you joined.

Another issue with this is that if you have never given any Facebook permission to Blizzard, but happen to use the same email address as listed on your Facebook account then Blizzard will attach your real name to your account without your permission.
There's a shortage of people who still want to work at Yahoo. I used to be one of them but they pulled a similar stunt with me and decided to change the terms of my hiring long after I had accepted an offer. Obviously we don't have all the details, but I don't think this was a smart move to attract new talent.
Original Source:
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I appreciate your comment. I didn't realize you were actually advocating giving a bunch of small programming questions in place of one or two involved programming questions. I totally agree that this is a far superior way to test programming ability. Actually developing such questions would be rather hard I think, it seems it would be very easy to degenerate to trivia. Perhaps a set of questions similiar to that Quixey one minute programming challenge that was posted here a while ago (http://challenge.quixey.com/)?

I actually have a very ambitious idea to completely disrupt tech hiring. You have echoed much of my rationale. I don't want to go into detail, but the premise is basically to remove ego from the hiring process and make it far more statistically sound. Of course, this is also the very reason would very likely fail. Everyone loves to employ their pet "interviewing hack" to find world-class developers (who happen to be a mirror image of themselves). Most people will not give that up lightly.
You mean they can't do it from Terms of Service point of view? Because from a technical perspective there is nothing that could prevent an app or any other piece of software to login as you once you've passed your credentials (in this case username and password) to such app.
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I am aware of this sort of stuff that goes on, generally though I think of it as a management problem. But let me explain why I think that.

So perhaps "Bob" in our example really does have a job which allows him to work as effectively[1] at home as he can at work. Bob should also be aware of the schedule. So when the meeting comes up, Bob should be ready for it. And I've known folks working remotely who where chilling on the conference line waiting for the rest of the meeting to show up. But if either Bob isn't there when he should be, or the manager isn't organized enough to give Bob at least 12hrs notice of a meeting he should be attending, then you've got a management problem.

[1] First tip is that a manager needs to have a way of evaluating their teams effectiveness, if they don't then they can't really say if Bob is or is not as effective as others in his position.
iOS has an API to schedule a client-side notification without server-side involvement.
Warp is very nice.
is there something similar for windows?
> Unfortunately it's expensive, on patent and that's an off label use.

In the UK you can still get it prescribed for anxiety, and get it free on the NHS, so if you're wondering about betas it's worth checking what the situation is wherever you live.

I would strongly recommend that you do seek out medical advice regarding them, there are several very important caveats and contraindications.
We do for our apps and database, but not for our blob storage & caching.
I'm pretty sure OPAM will become the de facto standard of the OCaml world; most people don't want to deal with the other ones.
Just to add a perl version for the ruby and python ones.

($a, $b) = ($b, $a)
For a minute I thought they might be revitalizing one of the poorer neighborhoods of SF; but no, 'Bay View' does not reference Bayview.
Sorry, I misunderstood your point. I thought you were saying that you couldn't make fertilizer at a desalinization plant being driven by a fusion reactor.
At the level of implementation of individual features like what happens when a user logs in with an email address instead of a username, I am absolutely suggesting that the influence is so minimal as to be irrelevant.
Best comment:

"Yahoo continues its impressive drive down the fast lane of the information superhighway.

In your father's Oldsmobile. With the left blinker on. At 45kph."
Couldn't agree more about the need for more general skilled immigration.

But keep in mind, the current legislation in the Senate is about awarding green cards to all recipients of graduate degrees in STEM fields, so the topic here is very relevant to public policy.
Documentation looks quite incomplete(http://golang.org/cmd/gofmt/). Will it change all imports and usages of class/method/field? Will it resolve all signature polymorphic calls?
XOR trick? I'm not sure I'd want to work for someone who didn't know about the x86 xchg opcode.
I read about halfway through the article before I realized they weren't talking about sriracha literally catching fire. Good read nonetheless.
pip install requests?
> They all have an office they belong to presumably. It's not a big stretch to ask them to go there Monday to Friday.

I work for a different large company in SV, and live 3,100 miles away from my office. Suffice to say, it would be a big stretch to go there Mon-Fri.
To be clear I think this is very serious. There is a reason I deleted my Facebook account in 2009 and have never had a Spotify account.

But you were clearly trying to suggest that shared investors have something to do with this. There's no other information in your comment except that the two companies share investors. And in the context of this incident the only possible implication of your comment is that shared investors somehow influenced this. Otherwise why post the comment at all?
You still get tips, which generally outweigh your hourly rate anyway.
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Already do. But further protecting sshd is beneficial even when using public key auth to login.
While it's not a perfect solution, most of the time you are not trying to protect yourself from a dedicated, thinking, hacker. Instead you're protecting yourself against automated systems that share passwords. Unless it was commonplace it would avoid a majority of those issues.
> If a million users is enough to keep you afloat sustainably, congrats!

If it's not, perhaps you need to ask yourself why you chose that business model (or lack of business model) to begin with. Startups don't happen to you. You design your startup from day 1.

Take this kind of thing as a warning not to design one you'll certainly fail at.
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I don't like to bash on other peoples' hard work, but it seems like their focus on features and not UX may be a mistake here. The reality is that most developers use other services now and they need to make a better case for why I should care about them. More features != more compelling.

Also I think the juxtaposition of the big green "Open Source" logo with "TM" is very ironic.
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can someone explain to me why yahoo is still relevant?