skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of programmers do not like or do it because they simply see no value to it. It's not that they don't "get it." They do. The problem arises when they decide to build a business. Their apathy towards marketing ends up killing their startup. A business is not the code but it's marketing. And programmers fail hard with that reality. That's why patio11 says that a programmer who can market is an unstoppable force. It's true.
What configs do you change?
I think tablets will supplant television more and faster than they will kill-off desktop PCs. The one-way cultural channel offered by TV is a far stronger competitive overlap with tablets than those shared by tablets and PCs.
Github: Git, Subversion. https://github.com/blog/1178-collaborating-on-github-with-su...
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Making the assumption that Mayer slash Yahoo wouldn't implement a policy like this on a whim, I bet this comes out of a bigger plan. If one had a mandate to do X, studied how to do that, and found X would be more likely to succeed with a team working purely onsite, then you just do a cost benefit analysis and make a decision. You'll find out later if you're decision was a good one, so hopefully on the front end you've got good data, judgement, and moxie to effectively make bold decisions!
My optimal work environment is working with one or two coworkers in a coffee shop. I'm something like six times more productive (in terms of code/feature points/tasks) than working strictly remote (as I do most of the time).

It's a reason why I'm looking to hire remote developers who are mostly geographically located near me--main office is in Nashville, I'm in Boston. WFH when you want, head into a coworking space when you want some company. Seems the best of both worlds to me.
DDG does show ads: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9r0hxyxew3aiddr/Screen%20Shot%2020...

They are trying to build an advertising model that doesn't track or store your searches (just show ads based on the search at hand), which is actually plausible
I remember working at Yahoo in the late 90's as a barista and watching all the people walking around with HTML for Dummies books under their arms while enjoying their free espresso and chai thinking nah, these guys won't make it.

I remember my friends working at Yahoo in the 2000's being all excited about the cult worship, good perks, then getting cynical about being stifled because they copied everything AOL was doing with project matrix management thinking nah, these guys won't make it.

I remember being at Google watching Marissa Mayer's user profile being delete right after the announcement got out that morning thinking nah, these guys won't make it.

But then I keep remembering, my mom still reads Yahoo Taiwan, uses Yahoo Mail, and sends me Yahoo News links. Then I keep remembering about the hundreds of products with plenty of inertia keeping the overall organization going.

Yahoo's in a great position. They still have good talent, have good traffic, and most importantly they can position themselves to be Apple's best friend by simply being Google's enemy.

Flickr, IntoNow, legacy stuff like Mail, Sports, Trave are still pretty diamonds that needs polish and TLC. They just gotta shore up profit to stay alive while out Google Google.
Thus the "somewhat." Still, I've downloaded everything from torrent clients to open source video games from SourceForge, and many of those projects have (or, much more likely, had) active support forums on SF. It's a shame that they haven't pursued that route further and instead are just going after the Github/Bitbucket/etc market.
Annoyingly, the block he mentions in step 4 ({block:IfLogoInTopBar}) isn't actually present in the default tumblr theme. I ended up doing something similar near {block:IfShowBlogTitle}
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Your "leave a comment on HN" link is broken. Fix it. ;)
What if there is actually causality there?
Best wishes to her. Fatherhood of a daughter is an awesome responsibility, which I have found often turns into sheer delight. (My daughter was born after we had three sons beforehand. We like them all, but there is definitely something different for the dad about having a girl in the house.) Did you know that the current projection of cohort life expectancy is that a girl born in the developed world since the turn of the century has a better than even chance of living to age 100?
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Spotify is able to do this because they have partnered with Facebook. Facebook has white listed them for a set of API's that allow them to convert a Facebook User/Password into a Facebook auth token. Any time this whitelisted API is called the application that called it is automatically added to the users list of applications. Spotify is then white listed (by Facebook) for a second set of API's that allow them to add any permission available to the Facebook access token they were issued. This is why you see permissions being added to the application that were not clearly communicated. Facebook requires partners that are on these white lists to clearly communicate what is happening, but IMO Spotify does a particularly poor job of this.
Blocking system calls spawn OS threads in Go, which can be cached and recycled for new goroutines. You don't see this if you code to pkg/net because it multiplexes i/o with a select/kqueue goroutine, but you'll see it right away if you code directly to the syscalls.

Close isn't a blocking call, though.
Yahoo has been in it's death throes for quite a while. I'm sure they'll survive in a sort of AOL sense, but they are quite desperate to stay relevant. News is likely their last outpost and even that is starting to slip very fast.

It's sad to see, what used to be a crack directory, social hub (besides AOL one of the first true social networks), email, map and IM providers is now barely an afterthought and throwing the next cool "stand back I got this" manager to the wolves. But I can understand the frustration. Google and Apple both would have been happy to snap it up at one point, but it's too late and there is zero value left in the company besides the really nice Yahoo! name, and there's no big name to sell it to beyond perhaps AT&T or someone else that may want the infrastructure for something.
Have you ever looked at the budget of an academic journal to see where the money goes ?

The average journal profit margin is 20-30% and that's roughly the same whether you're talking about an open access journal like PLoS or a closed access one. They also have roughly the same operational (staff, etc.) costs. Most new journals tend to be run at a loss for a number of years being subsidised by the more successful ones.

Marketing is another big cost, journals don't magically build reputations, they have marketing budgets to achieve mindshare and to establish a reputation.

There are good reasons for open access, but lets not pretend that journals are cheaper to operate than they actually are.
I'm always apprehensive of outsourcing critical business infrastructure without a failover plan, and I find the excuse "amazon is down" or "azure is down" unsatisfying (especially when its a service customers pay for)
Yes, it's the classic, "not there when you need it the most" behavior.
Uh, they did. There were a couple paragraphs on it.
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There is nothing ironic about an Open Source logo being trademarked.
I love this article from 2009, especially the description of the drunks dialing the phone number on the front of the bottle to leave slurred messages of love.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/dining/20united.html?pagew...
So how many work-days per year is Mayer in her office at Yahoo?

Oh. I see. That's different.
This is the distance between Google's HQ and Moffett Airfield / Ames Research (both NASA properties):

https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Unknown+road&daddr=Cr...

It's likely that the land that Google is planning on expanding onto is either owned by NASA or adjacent to their facility.
Neat, looks much easier than dealing with some cheesy attorney!
I could have noted that Bob manages his time well and completes all of his assigned work. The outcome is still the same. Haters gonna hate.
NASA owns a lot of the land around Moffett, near the proposed location
Hackers used Zendesk to compromise Pintrest
Github: Git, Subversion, Mercurial. http://hg-git.github.com/
I don't get your sarcasm. Where would you suppose clicking on my face should have led you? It's the Medium blogging engine and it is in their interest to have you follow from one of my posts to others, then to my collections, then to collections of others. Pretty obvious flow of things.
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Politically? I moved to Göteborg a few years back. The day after I arrived was May Day. The Socialists, Marxists, Marxist-Leninists, Social Democrats, Leftists, and Red Front political parties each had their own march. Then of course the Christian Democrats, the Moderates, Center Party, and the Green Party are 5 of the 8 parties with representation in Parliament. (The Pirate Party has 2 people representing Sweden in the European Parliament.)

In the US there's the two major parties, and Bernie Sanders as the only self-described socialist in Congress. In non-national offices there is a handful of Greens and Libertarians. When was the last time you saw people who were self-described as something other than Republican, Democrat, or independent as a regular commentator on a political discussion show in the US?

That seems like a lack of political diversity in the US, compared to Sweden.
Thanks. Updated the post to include this.
Yup. Especially after github abandoned the download feature which allowed developers to provide compiled binaries.

Github is great, but to end users which are just searching for good open source software to use its practically useless.

I hope sourceforge regains some of its old strength. I remember that when I was looking for open source software I googled something like "cd ripper sourceforge" and I would almost always find the current de facto standard open source solution to my problem. Without scanning through miles of useless entries filled with cdnet and the like.
For Facebook they do. They have a tight partnership. If Spotify did something wrong with their Facebook app, Facebook would have removed their app a long time ago.
How efficient is home made solar panel constructed out of pop-cans?
How does Google verify Academic tickets?
"This is stupid". Excellent constructive criticism there. Well done, you!
Coding exercises (before even going in for an interview) waste an engineer's valuable time and in some cases a deceitful way for a company to solve problems it can't on its own. Asking people to work for free is ridiculous.
Having a "hot spare" cloud provider is going to be so complex and expensive that it probably would kill the idea of using Azure, Amazon, etc for most companies.

Unless you run your own DC, you are still outsourcing part of your infrastructure to a colo facility, which will not be immune to power and connectivity issues, and of course, issues with your setup.

Saying "<cloud provider> is down" certainly isn't very comforting, but if the aggregate downtime is less than if you were running your own setup, I'm not sure that being powerless in the event of downtime is reason enough to not use them.
And yet the spelling and capitalization in the "official" Google statement at the bottom is "Bayview."
I used to find it quite handy to query the DNS of a customer's ISP, etc, when debugging.

I think a better long term solution is moving to transport protocols like SCTP and choosing cookies that put computational burden on the initiator. Of course it would make the mobile sector unhappy.
I heard from discussions on SEOMoz blog that hosting on Tumblr doesn't give your domain the "SEO juice", but I don't actually know what that means. Perhaps your domain isn't marked as valuable when your popular posts are not hosted on your primary site. However, when your posts do get popular, they drive just as much traffic to your blog. They way I see it, it's your job to convert them over to the site itself. The "juice" value aside, Tumblr is so fast to setup that it was definitely worth it for us.
Can people please chime in with the names of any companies they know to be actively looking to hire remotely so we job seekers that don't want this yahoo move to become a trend know where to apply?
Used your site a few months ago and have been recommending it to everyone since! Can I make a request for "best Solutions" & possibly more exercises? Its been the best resource I've found for getting the basics down, thanks!
I'm a hot head. I have tasted almost any hot sauce and any hot chili, growing 14 different types of chili in my own garden. There's a bottle with 15 Bhut Jolokia in my kitchen waiting for BBQ season 2013. But whenever I taste Sriracha Hot Sauces I get the runs ..
My comment is meant to be more lighthearted than serious political analysis, not to mention that we both also know that the general public have short memories and the tone is set by whomever is bitching at the moment. I certainly don't agree that the general public is aware of the complexities - vocal opponents of party X usually take any excuse that's currently going and run with it.
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Weird, I grew up in Minneapolis, but now am in NYC and live half the year in Vietnam. No Huy Fong brand sriracha in Vietnam though.
Sorry, do you mean tablets will kill off TV as in the huge flatscreen sitting in my living room? Or do you mean tablets will kill off TV as in broadcast/cable/satellite/Netflix/etc?
I'd like to invite you to try AppHarbor. We provide Windows application hosting on top of AWS, and strive to deliver a higher quality of service than Azure. We're standing by if you need help to migrate immediately.

We do a number of things to keep our platform and your apps more available. For instance we set up reminders before our certificates expire...
Yea that works, until someone realises they can boost performance by changing the semantics of the "I know what I'm doing" call. Then you'll need yet another "no really I know what I'm doing" flag and on and on, or app black/whitelisting and so on.
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Didn't Secure Boot already show us what reaction people will have to mandatory signing?
Woops. Turns out it was linking to an editing page. :/ That was a little embarrassing :)
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In other words, CYA 'cause if people knew exactly how bad your service was, somebody's head might roll.
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I really doubt this is Spotify's fault. Facebook has quite the trigger-finger when it comes to reactivation -- clicking a like button with the right cookies will do it, IIRC.
I had a talk with my supervisor a few days ago about working from home vs being in the office. We're "open office", which sucks in its current form, but I've come to realize has some definite advantages.

The problem is when you have these black-n-white policies. When we're in bug-fixing, hardening iteration I estimate that I'm almost 2x productive working at home, than I am commuting in and dealing with the chit-chat and distractions of being in open office.

The bottom line is that it's completely retarded for a CEO to make that kind of decision on a company-wide basis. Middle managers should be making that kind of decision.
My employer won't take a new hire as a remote worker, but if you've worked on site for several years and have to move for family reasons they'd rather you work remotely than leave the company.
It's not quite the same as having native hosting of Subversion and Mercurial repositories. With a bridge and plug-in there might be some edge cases where things don't work as expected. I wouldn't risk my source code in this way.
They used certified mail for an extortion scam? Oh, man. Mail fraud is bad news. Might even qualify for RICO prosecution.
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Social enterprise opportunities for frontend app devs?
Hello, I'm new here and haven't read many of the current postings but I have a question anyway. Does anyone have ideas of which social enterprises are most likely to have the most employment opportunities for frontend RoR devs in 2013?
People who are not into hot sauces don't understand the idea that a hot sauce can actually have great flavor. In most cases they think it just burns. Huy Fong Sriracha is a great example of a great hot sauce with good flavor. At the extreme there's "Dave's Insanity", a sauce that is probably able to send you to the hospital yet, if used in moderation, has great flavor.

Tabasco? Really? Yuk. I can't understand why any self-respecting restaurant would even offer it.
Uh, Mozilla is happy to hire remote folks worldwide :-)

Just sayin'
The way of the substack
It does (Local Notifications) but to set those the app would need to check for new email and if it finds any create the notification. AFAIK on iOS it can't check for the email in the background, the app would need to be open (removing the need for the notification).
I never intended to imply it is an emergency condition. 1M users is in fact an enormous accomplishment, and I had exactly your theoretical business in mind when writing it. Not the one with no business model, but the one making 1M year.

I was just trying to say as you said that unless you have significant organic growth, "it's going to be a long slog to go from 1 million users to 10 million users." A much longer slog than people think when they reach that point and are planning to re-investing in traditional channels. A great 20% growth rate only gets you to 6x in ten years.

Dropbox is the counter-example. They've grown viraly.
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"Don't bother. I just called him and he's at his kids swim lesson"

There are issues with telecommuting that are difficult to overcome, but this one is ridiculously simple.

The solution (well, a solution) is to have business hours during which everybody needs to be available. I have an arrangement like that with my employer - between 9 and 5, even if I'm working at home, my manager needs to be able to pick up his phone and have me be instantly available.

At first, he was a little doubtful, but he soon realized that he can actually get a hold of me more quickly this way when compared with walking across the building from his office to mine. (And no, he doesn't abuse this... haha) :)

It gets slightly trickier when people are in different time zones, but nothing that can't be overcome. People need predictable office hours; there can't ever be a "Bob's at his kids' swim practice" moment. Barring emergency, of course.
The AMS (American Mathematical Society) has done an employment survey for years --- see http://www.ams.org/profession/data/annual-survey/annual-surv...
I'd hope other professional organizations do the same thing, so there should be no need to guess or extrapolate to get pretty good numbers.
Well, it's open source so go fix.
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Type theory and accompanying first-order logic is the foundation upon which mathematics is built. This gives strongly typed languages a much more firm foundation which has the potential t be exploited by theorem-proving programs reasoning about and modifying other programs (e.g, compilers).

I assumed that's what the OP was talking about by saying Haskell was "more mathematical". The situation is analogous to ad-hoc databases vs. those firmly rooted in the relational model.
Good things are happening, there's still a lot of work to be done.
There are a few things that make Tumblr less optimal for SEO out of the box.

1. Headers don't come with h1 or h2 tags out of the box.

2. Title tags default to the title of the blog rather than the title of the blog post.

3. blog.domain.com does divert some SEO juice from the main domain. [1]

I wrote a short post on some of these issues that you can read up on below. [2]

[1]: http://www.seomoz.org/q/blog-on-subdomain-vs-subdirectory-be...

[2]: http://wadefoster.net/post/43633476838/three-quick-wins-for-...
As worthless as Tabasco is as a hot sauce (very), I think it works decently as a ketchup replacement. On french-fries, chicken nuggets, that sort of thing.
It's sort of a strange thing. An app like this should have the easiest horizontally scalable backend ever. Each user has no overlap whatsoever with other users (unlike more complex sharded instances like ebay, facebook, and every other social app).

So it must be more of a business decision about whether it's worth the cost of firing up all those new servers for a currently free app.

Makes me think they should have just charged for it out of the gate, then they'd have the financial incentive to actually fire up all those servers. Or a "subscribe now" to get to the front of the line.
I don't understand why they wouldn't do an auction - their entire business relies on auctions for ads, and they even did their IPO as an auction. Seems like it would be a unique solution to the problem of charging for events like this

let people bid for tickets, they see the current lowest bid that got in so they can increase their bid, then charge everyone the lowest bid that got in
Yes, that is exactly the way I meant it. The post I referenced at the top on orders of magnitude (http://ye.gg/magnitude) phrases the same concept another way. You generally have to go through a lot of orders of magnitude to get to one million, and then everything that worked to get you there probably won't work to get you to ten million in any reasonable amount of time. Unless of course you have that amazing organic growth.
Does anyone of a credible study about this?
On Meteors and Megatons
When I worked there, I took the job because of the flexible work-from-home-when-you want policy, which I hadn't encountered for.

I'd certainly be feeling baited-and-switched right now if I hadn't already left.
Yeah! Just like Google Wave is still relevant! And Google TV!

(Keynotes from a few recent Google I/Os.)
hey I like Tabasco... de gustibus...
I'm talking more about the general public tone, but yes, I do know some people that made that exact switch. There's really not much cognitive dissonance involved.

It reminds me of a friend of mine who grew up around poor people and was aware of how they struggle with money. Her family wasn't in poverty, but they weren't flush with money either. At around age 30, she made her way into the finance industry and started pulling down six figures. She mentioned that she got a raise recently, but had been infected by the finance mindset that any raise is tainted by the marginal tax rate, and was bitching that 'half of it went to the government' (for values where .37 = half, it seems).

Anyway, her version of the story went 'the government taxes so much money out that I can't give as much to my single-mother sister who is scraping by on welfare - they should lower taxes [for this reason]'. I asked what about all the other single mothers our there that don't have sisters in high finance - reducing the tax yield would mean they get less. My friend changed her tune pretty fast and realised that hey, she was actually in a good position and should be positive about it instead of negative.

The thing is, my friend wasn't someone who grew up amongst wealth, she knew what it was like to be poor, and she herself had worked the same shitty jobs as poor people everywhere. She was smart, and knew deeply about social opportunity (she dated a fiery, forthright anarchist for many years). People just tend to have short memories and short forethought and tend to think that what concerns them in the present is the most important thing always.
Would you mind expanding on this a bit? How exactly does it contribute to Microsoft's performance in new fields? This is a completely genuine question. I'm not an apologist just trying to defend MS in a roundabout way.