skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is funny people make such points about Saudi Arabia, as they are what we should compare to. However, I live in a Gulf country neighboring to KSA and trust me mail censorship is bizarrely complicated and we all laugh about it.
And in case you're on a systems without such fancy shells as described in the other answers, the command "apropos [keywords]" will give a list of matching man pages.
because it was consistently communicated that int is currently 32 bits wide but that it would be changing to be architecture-specific; this has been a planned change for a very long time. It has always been the case that if you needed width-specific behaviors, you specify int32 instead of int.
As someone who isn't remotely jealous for the kid (I'm happy for him actually), let's not pretend that he is an innovator. It's a link aggregator app, no different than pulse or others. In fact, the difference from Pulse is that its inferior, because it displays far less at a time. But that is my opinion, and I'm sure a lot of older folks like it better BECAUSE it displays less.

Kid: Go for it dude, and good luck.

Yahoo: WTF?? Why not just build your own version of this?
Just had trouble seeing the links to the add-on center. Excuse me then, I stand corrected.
Google Is Eating The Internet
I'd legitimately be interested to see that tested.
Your Startup’s 10 Most Important Metrics
Not bad for an "advertising company".
No. Perhaps it's a smart professional and business decision to keep certain opinions to myself, but that doesn't mean that everyone has to.

And it sure as hell doesn't mean that packages that say "ATHEIST" on them should be "lost" or "delayed" by the USPS.

These guys manufacture fashion items that makes a statement. Clothing was recognized as a valid forum for freedom of expression by the US Supreme Court in Tinker v. Des Moines, all the way back in 1969.

Or do you think that everyone who makes religious jewelry or political t-shirts should also just close up shop?
What's the point? Doesn't the truth come out eventually? Yahoo is a public company, their financials aren't exactly secrets.
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Looking just at the blog design I'd say the team has no clue of what people generally like.
Okay. Meanwhile thanks for reading the article and for commenting.
I felt like it was good to mention it when we started out to give context. I’ve banned it now to a sub-page. I don’t want to remove it for good so nobody accuses us of being sneaky and ignoring incidents or something like that. It’s not the first thing you see when you come to the page anymore though.
It's also pretty rare here in Britain to say "Good morrow" or refer to each other as "fellow subjects of the Crown". Maybe we should give him some artistic flexibility here.
Personal injury - the same, unlimited.
Damage to private property - up to 5 million euros.
Both countries are within the EU and you can drive between them using the same insurance, so I think it has to be the same by law. So I could in theory bring my dad's Land Rover on my own 800 quid insurance and drive it in the UK even if insuring it there would cost me a few thousand pounds, and I would have the same kind of coverage, or even better.
I assume you mean 'VPS' right? Anyway I'm curious as to what you use, I've heard good things about RamNode and Digital Ocean, but I've not yet tested, the only VPS provider I have experience with is Linode (two 512MB Linodes for a few years now)
> totally controlled by China's gov,

I work in a Chinese popular site (douban.com) and I have to say that you are wrong.

There is some limited damage control tools, but Chinese sites and Chinese internet as a whole are far from totally controlled by the government. Quite the opposite actually: internet memes and rumors are spreading like bush fire and local and central government have very hard time playing firemen, and there is no week without its new scandal or revelations.
Right after college I started consulting at an eCommerce company that had bought a 17 year old's website for over 1M. Had had built a gaming community site that had become very popular and they wanted the traffic.

I thought the kid was just lucky until I was in a meeting with him. His thought process basically ran circles around everyone else in the room, some twice his age. I realized then, that there are kids, KIDS!, much smarter than I'll ever hope to be in my life.

Sometimes you have to meet these people to believe they exist.
> That's a big assumption.

I thought it was enough to qualify it with "more often than not".

> Someone also has to sell the things that people do need

I think I can justly say that I purchase far more things that weren't advertised to me than those that were. The 'someone' in this equation is, imho, the people who actually produce stuff.

> Advertising done responsibly serves a useful purpose for all concerned.

Absolutely agree. My point isn't that it's impossible, just that it is rare. So rare, that I think the fury against the people who don't handle it responsibly is justified.

> Also, marketing and advertising are not the same thing.

Borrowed that generalization from Mr. Hicks.
People brand products around all sorts of things.

And if there's a market for it, it's not "dumb" at all -- it's capitalism, and satisfying the market.

And no, it should not be clear at all that the USPS would delay or lose packages like that. This is absolutely shocking (as long as it's true), and has no place in a global, modern economic infrastructure.
It would also not hurt to mention the topic of virtual memory vs. "memory usage issue" here.
perchance...otherwise is awesome.
Actually it now looks more and more like some sort of elaborate kick-back scheme for the investors. "Your YHOO stock has sunk below the waterline, so here's something to sweeten the pot."
On the biggest company I worked for (~200-250 people), we had a wiki. I think it was TRAC.

Fortunately, most developers were responsible enough to update the pages when they did something relevant (i.e., if you created a script to automate certain process, you'd put it on that process's page). I suspect that this is not very common...
It is embarrassing that in this day and age a dead tree copy of a CV, handed in in person is what gets peoples attention, but it does.

Also maybe print it in an unusual size -- that way they can't file them away for "maybe later" as they won't fit and they are forced to have the CV on their mind. An unusual color might also prevent it from getting lost in the stack of resumes.
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For H1B there is a big waiting list in the first place. For h1b visa, there are legal complications if you try to hack the system in-terms of ownership of the company you created and so on, there gotto be a sponsor for you to get your h1b approved. In some cases penalty could be big enough to get you deported and ban you for X amount of years. I cannot afford that. There are some drawbacks on taxation side too.

I will not recommend to go that risky route if you're an entrepreneur.

I explored this option first and my lawyer told me to back off.
I recently moved to diigo after staying with delicious for about 6 years and being disappointed by the lack of "vision" in the future of the product.
Diigo feels like what delicious would have been if yahoo didn't stop improving it, it is fast, simple to use and the browser extension for firefox is okay (which is more than I can say about the delicious one).

Had diigo been unsatisfying for me, I would have likely moved to pinboard which is I think quite popular in the HN crowd.
It’s just the first country that comes to mind that fits the bill of being openly religious/islamic (as opposed to Turkey), having a somewhat working government (as opposed to Egypt, Libya or so) and not being too hostile to ‘the West’ (as opposed to Iran) to make such an experiment at least thinkable.
Damn right! We should also arrest TV viewers who have the temerity to get up from the couch during the ad-breaks. Scummy pirates, how dare they not view the adverts! Send them to jail!
You would have to learn quite a bit. Pick a language that you know almost nothing about, preferably one whose alphabet you can't recognize without looking it up. Now use a website built in that language. Is this potentially an exaggeration? Yes. Is it still relevant? Yes.
But I think this is exactly the point, no?

Google has an API now, but who knows if it'll be there tomorrow. Google does not have a great track record at this point.
Funnily enough, I remember back in the days of Windows 95 when many older (british) people were first getting to grips with computers I helped a few of these people on occasion with various problems.

A common complaint I actually heard was about how you could tell that the computer was american because of how blunt and "rude" the error messages were and why weren't computer sold in Britain better mannered?
Can anyone share any details about one of those laser wood cutters? Costs/Materials/Brands/Issues etc. for a hobbyist?
I've used a ton of frameworks over the years, including Symfony2. My problem is that it tries to do everything for you.

The default ORM (doctrine) has it's own language that is similar to SQL, but allows you to use their objects. For more complex SQL, I've had to break out of it and it always feels hacky.

I also can't imagine it being very efficient on a high-trafficked site.
They might have picked this company up because its news,

"Yahoo" buys "17 wiz kid" "mobile app and company", is good advertising around the world, yahoo is now a company who buys the "latest" technology, they hired a wiz kid - they have him on board he will do crazy technology experiments - "you have no idea what he could come up with next!", and they have his technology that a company as big as yahoo would play $30m for.

It tells potential users and more importantly investors and current shareholders it is now company who buys stuff because its investing and changing for the better and maybe people should change their views about yahoo etc etc.

note: I have not used the app, still don't care about yahoo.
Forget about the conferences (you don't really need them anyway). Forget about Facebook, twitter, Hacker News, reddit, etc., etc., etc. They're definitely more of a distraction than a help. Learn how to separate issues from details (it's amazing how little really matters). Try to tune out the negativity

Now imagine that was on a techie job advert, or it was said to you during an interview. What would us hackers say?
It's not and probably won't be confirmed but 'sources' are saying $30m with 90% in cash and 10% in stock. I can't remember which site had the sources (it might have been WSJ).
Solar power, white spaces bring 16Mbps broadband to towns without electricity
If they made it British it would probably have one of the best queuing mechanisms as well.
Can't say I've ever been in contact with their support, hope all gets resolved!
I would like to see a similar experiment where boxes, some randomly labled with "Christian" tape, are handled by atheists.

We all know the results would be the same.
"Hire for talent, train for skill" means to screen for more general intelligence and problem-solving aptitude rather than specific buzzwords. You want smart people who will pick up anything you throw at them quickly, not just people who have hit all the keywords in their resume.

It may sound squishy, but it's really not. You can tell smart people pretty quickly from talking through logical problems with them. Dumb people will ask irrelevant questions and want you to hold their hand and walk them through it. Smart people will ask smart questions and deduce a path to the solution.
What is a "people who understand mobile"?
USPS and its employees ought to act professionally, no matter whether the parcel is from someone who keeps religion to herself, or whether it's from some crazy religious Westboro-Baptist-style nutjob. If others commit crimes, then why should you limit your speech? This kind of attitude that you present is especially troublesome for a country that values freedom of speech so high.
You mean like http://docs.python.org/2/library/2to3.html ?

Static typing arguably makes it easier to provide a deeper and more accurate translation, but Python did at least try. And note that's a link to Python's official docs, not a side project or something; 2to3 was created by the core Python team as part of the official upgrade path, not an afterthought.
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I wonder if the move to create Google Chrome was a due to a concern that Firefox would disturb Google's ad-serving business some day.
While they must have expected some people to be offended I do not think they expected the postal service to intentionally lose packages.

Intentionally losing packages is a crime and against the very idea of having a state run postal service. USPS employees should deliver packages belonging to any weird religious group or sect.
It's possible it's a big top line number (some press quotes even higher than $30mm), but in a way which actually makes sense.

Long earn-outs could be one factor. Giving engineers $1mm with 1/2/3/4 4-year earn-outs would even be on the low side. Doing the same with a founder would obviously be worth less (especially at Yahoo!, given how founders historically leave after acquisition)

SRI is presumably getting a big chunk for a new license. Maybe even a domain-exclusive license. That alone could be $0-100mm.

If it's equity, it is a lot better for Yahoo!

It's possible the founders and key employees have a weird incentive structure -- if they continue with the product and get 50mm users, they'd get a payout of an extra $10mm vs. otherwise, for instance. That kind of thing could add to the reported deal figure without adding much risk to Yahoo!. (I'm sure I could get a "if you turn Yahoo! into a $60b/yr business in the next 3 years, you can have an extra $100mm" on any deal.)

I'm not Marissa Mayer's biggest fan, but I don't think she's in the same vein as the previous leadership at Yahoo!, so presuming that they're throwing money away irrationally isn't the first thing I'd do.
"The craziest thing is that there are a lot of really qualified, CS-beefy teams doing really amazing things in the mobile news/discovery space these days"

That's true of most of these acquisitions. There are a lot of qualified people doing crazy things, but the smartest people aren't always the ones who win. That fact is immaterial here until we find out what other things they got (maybe the kid brings along investors who may buy more yahoo stock ?)

I do agree, in general, that as a public company Yahoo has to explain to shareholders why they made the acquisition.
The problem with that kind of requirements is that a lot of non-agressive people take it as a "meet this minimum requirement or the CV goes in the bin". I did this initially but then wen't fuck that and applied no matter what, as long as I thought I might be able to do the job.
"140 parcels is a tiny number compared to what USPS handles per day."

Why does the size of the sample in relation to the size of the population mean that the numbers need to be better?
> Ubuntu, on the other hand, doesn't have the same strong OSS sensibilities and will probably tow the Oracle line, at least for a little while longer.

Sorry to ruin your "Ubuntu is more closed" claim (seriously why even make that up?) but Ubuntu has been discussing switching to MariaDB at for the past year -- here are the last 2 blueprints with the progress:

- https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/servercloud-q-...
- https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/servercloud-r-...

Also it's "toe the line", and we're toeing with Debian, it just happens to be the same person doing the work in Ubuntu and Debian, so doing the work in Debian and syncing to Ubuntu makes the most sense.
Not enough packages to make a real claim. The variance on package delivery times in the USPS is high. As an example, I recently had two identical packages shipped to me. They both left the same facility at the same time. They were identical weight(heavy) and dimensions. They were wrapped the same. They were shipped from in the same state as me. One arrived in 2 days. One arrived in 10.

Also, they mentioned that one of the packages in Michigan took 37 extra days. With that sample size it explains about 10 percent of the average right there.
"this concept of building a product around such a sensitive issue like religion/spirituality is kind of "dumb"."

Do you not consider religion in-general to be a type of business? I certainly do. Why not associate yourself with what many believe to be the fastest-growing religious status in some parts of the world?
Threats like “I'm going to find you and strangle you in your sleep” or “I'm going to set your house on fire” are criminal offenses. Voicing a wish for someone to die in a fire isn't (unless there's a discriminatory nature to the threat). In this case, it wasn't targeted at one person but at a hard to define group.

Utterly tasteless? Sure. Illegal? Nah.

NB: Since you're Dutch, this site is relevant and shocking: http://www.doodsbedreiging.nl/
Quoting:

Wager adds that the part of the ACC examined in this study “is one of the most frequently activated areas in the human brain across all kinds of tasks and psychological states”. Low ACC activity could have a variety of causes — impulsivity, caffeine use, vascular health, low motivation or better neural efficiency — and not all of these are necessarily related to criminal behaviour.

Something tells me this will be completely ignored in any future reports.
Journal’s Editorial Board Resigns in Protest of Policy Toward Authors
17 § The publication of dictionaries, handbooks or other similar printed publications is scripture writers, editors or publishers, at the request of the holder of a registered trademark, required to ensure that the brand is not reflected in the document without showing that the mark is protected by registration. The same applies if such publication is made available electronically by the person referred to in Chapter 1. 9 § Freedom of Expression.

Anyone who does not comply with a request under the first paragraph is required to contribute to a correction published in the manner and to the extent that is reasonable and to fund this.

-- (in swedish) http://www.riksdagen.se/sv/Dokument-Lagar/Lagar/Svenskforfat...

The way I read it, you are allowed to put a trademarked entry/word in a dictionary, but you need to say that a term is trademarked (basically put a ™ after it) if the owner requests it. It doesn't say anything about forcing it to be defined by the text of the trademark definition, or the trademark owner being able to pull it out of the dictionary.
Why are you so apologetic about religious discrimination in the US? "But these other people are so much worse than I am" has never been a valid argument.
$30,000,000 to make yahoo relevant enough to be discussed on hacker news? Ehhh I think they got their money's worth.
Not believing in god is not a religion.

Atheism itself though has grown into a full blown region. There is a point where your "not-golfing" becomes hobby, and it seems that atheism, at least for some, crossed that line long ago.

I grew up in a very religious environment, but I have been an atheist for 10 years (I'm 30 now). I don't see much of a difference between "loud atheists" and "loud Christians." The intolerance is the same, the language is the same, and even the "I'm a better X than you" and "You're not a real X" are the same.
So the actual article title is 'Moving your contacts and calendar away from Google', not 'Move your contacts and calendar away from Google' as it was posted here. Less of an instruction/warning than might be expected, and more of a how-to guide.
I'm also very comfortable using struts (1,2) and spring, have been using it for a very long time.

I think you should learn RoR (or Django) and then decide for yourself. Keep in mind that we are in the middle of another 'change' in web development which lead us to two aspects:

1) Traditional web development: If you are building experiments or software that can change quickly due to some sort of pivoting, you should avoid Java at all costs. It takes way too much time to test/change things using Struts (even 2) or spring.

2) Using AngularJs, Ember et al: Java does great, just use Jersey and you will be fine. But, why not use Go? It is faster than using netty, it is something new (we all like shiny things).

That's my two cents, have a great day!!!
Summly and Autonomy aren't the bet poster boys for Britian's software developers.
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That would like to be a huge leg up though. Just imagine that if Bill Gates didn't get the DOS contract from IBM.
I do expect people to be allowed to hold hands in public. I also expect people to be able to discuss last Sunday's sermon on the street. I would not live in a place were any of those things is prohibited. Luckily, I live in a civilized place where both activities are permitted (Argentina :D).
Oh. come on. I would kill to make an app as nice as this, even if it did not sell at all.

Kudos to the kids for actually making a product people wanted to use, and at least one person wanted to buy.
But they would be singing a totally different tune if the most popular sites and services were to be, say, British. Much more if they were Chinese, German, etc.

This is pretty far off the mark. American subscription to free market orthodoxy has many flaws but protectionist hypocrisy isn't high on the list. There are many categories (including, I might add, smartphones!) where foreign companies reign and there's almost no protectionist sentiment. I've never heard anyone recommend a Vizio TV over a Samsung because Vizio is US based. You'd be amazed at how many Honda, Toyota, BMW and Kia cars you'll find in Detroit.
How do you come to the conclusion that the "Atheist" parcels must have been handled by Christians? Why are you apologizing unprofessional conduct of USPS employees?
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No we don't. I'd like to see a split test between Christian, Muslim, Athiest, Jewish, etc.
sadly, the functionality not work anymore :(
Salaries are in fact a dominant expense of bus and rail fleets. In my area, WMATA pays out 78% of operating budget for buses towards personnel, and 72% of operating budget for trains towards personnel. Operating budget does not include capital expenses like rolling stock or infrastructure.
I really love go, I try to use it whenever I can.

That being said, I still have the feeling that having to rewrite a lot of dummy boilerplate code because of lack of generic collections hinders my productivity.

I completely understand that introducing that in the language it's a pandora box, etc etc (not only because of compiler's complexity and compilation speed).

But still, I have to find a way around that, being DRY has obvious advantages (although depending too much on obscure magic can be a problem); it's not just a random language feature from my favorite language.

I'm trying to see whether https://github.com/droundy/gotgo helps
To be fair, Go promises only single version compatibility. Which means all point releases 1.x will be backward compatible. I can see Go 2 breaking compatibility.
Not Steve Jobs though.
An overview of the Qubes VM management system
How does the way back machine and other sites compare to google cache?