skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the incentive to do so? BTC is expected to rise in value over time since it's a deflationary currency. So any sane businessperson should expect to be constantly decreasing the BTC price over time. It's a feature, not a bug.
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I would wager that even so, drives are replaced in less than 10% of all laptops bought by consumers. Even batteries would likely be a small portion.

Now if we talk about this particular upgrade, how many people would pay $600 bucks for 960 GB of space, I can imagine it's an even smaller fraction.

The size benefit is something that everyone appreciates when they buy a MBP retina. There are enough other laptop choices if you want upgrade-ability and repair-ability, and MBP retina doesn't need to compete on that level.
I just read the whole article, and I still don't know why Yahoo! bought Summly.
I believe that is exactly the point.
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Five weeks ago I couldn't code. Today I programmed a robot using JS, jQuery and AJAX to dance to my favourite MC Hammer song.
The Sad Part is they could actually be out buying companies like

http://www.algorithms.io
> "Yahoo buys hot new company, hot new technology, hot new talent"

IMHO, any non-tech person who read that bit of news will likely have never heard of Summly, and will only remember the age bit. Which kind of makes it all read as "Yahoo needs help from teenagers" and conjures images of kids roaming around the company.
It's in the interest of the big companies. From what I know, some smaller schools like Harvey Mudd start off with other languages, like Scheme and Prolog.
> In the future, we may not be using bitcoins, but you can bet we're going to be using coins made of bits.

Well, in that most sovereign currency denominated accounts in the modern world exist as digital records, sure, we have been for many years.
Yeah, well, my analysis, then and now, is that you were replying inappropriately to a semi-trollish comment by someone who's probably redeemable.

And actually, if counter-trolling is how you frame your comment, then I have to say, you're doing it wrong. The correct response to trolls is to silently downvote. This is called "don't feed the trolls", and it's the right strategy because genuine trolls are encouraged by counter-trolling, and this would result in more noise and less signal. Alternately you can try to say something that will be useful to other people, while still downvoting and ignoring the troll.
Microsoft accused of locking out Linux
This is the inevitable future, but something else - and related - I've been thinking about is the rise of the freelance. These two processes go hand in hand on the path to a more efficient yet flexible employment.
The biggest variable I found travelling around Europe last year (38 flights in 35 weeks) was which passport queue you had to join. If you're a citizen entering your own country, customs is usually much faster - it's an added variable, not sure how easy (or helpful) it might be to build in.

(My beautiful wife and I were lucky in that we could cherry pick - I was travelling on my UK passport, she on her Australian, so depending on which queue was shortest we either went through together in the UK / Europe line (I'm travelling with my wife) or the Other Passports line (My wife is travelling with me)).
That's like saying a manned Mars colony is "only" being held up by transportation issues.
By generally competent across the board, you mean adept in a variety of disciplines, but only within the general discipline of Software Engineering. Of course, this covers a lot of ground, from networking to kernel development, to web frameworks, database system (RDBMS and NoSQL), and even old-school assembly...

Or no? Perhaps you look at the fundamentals of algorithms, such as types of sorting, binary data operations, that sort of thing...

Either way, many people will not be able to know enough across the board to make the cut, who in one or two particularly focused areas may be quite talented, and there may be people who, having spent all their waking hours in the deep study of bits and bytes, pass all such tests with flying colors and who, once in the company, poison the well of goodness because of their inability or unwillingness to adapt to rapidly changing surroundings, because of their inability to endure tenaciously under, shall we say, difficult managerial arrangements, and because of their inability to genuinely care about the welfare of their peers, Google customers and clients, and Google investors, both in word and deed?

Perhaps this is not what happens, but, from the outside, as far as I can see (and I remember the pre-google days of Lycos, HotBot and metacrawlers) Google the Company behaves as one would expect a talented yet socially awkward and uncouth twenty-something; brash yet caring, uneven in his affections, vacillating between opposites, such as standing up for freedom and privacy one year, then chucking freedom and privacy to the wind the next for a sizable windfall. This person can charm yet irritate, seem brilliant in one area but somewhat novice in another.

This is how I see Google, and I see very little, standing on the outside as I am, that leads me to believe that there sill be change for the better anytime soon.
Ask HN: Views for top weekly / monthly stories?
Has anyone considered providing (or does there already exist) a Hacker News 'weekly' or 'monthly' view whose exponential decay function is structured to show the top stories on a weekly or monthly basis (rather than by the hour / minute).

I know there's http://hackermonthly.com/ curations and an automated version seems relatively easy to build (I've implemented something similar before hackerlist.net:1337).

Interested in hearing what's out there -- maybe a similar thread has already been proposed.

What I've found from research:

* http://news.ycombinator.com/best -- would be great if there was a weekly / monthly version of this (or some generic API -- and there kind of is via something like https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=100)

* Quora: http://www.quora.com/Hacker-News/Is-there-a-weekly-summary-available-for-top-news-on-Hacker-News

* http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/

* http://www.hackernewsletter.com/

* http://hnsummaries.com

EDIT: Updated for fix bullet spacing
I mean that it will be useful to have currencies allocated by computer programs in predictable fashions, and to be able to track the history of each "dollar." Today, we only have politically controlled currencies, and we can only track transaction history, not dollar history.
>Note that it's labeled "terrorism" only in some interest group's "model bill."

This reminds me of an old web design trick. You get the customer specs, plan out exactly what you think will work, and then add something stupid-looking. Like a giant duck by the login button. The duck acts as a decoy for customer complaints; a lot of business people want to point at something and say "change it!", so you give them that. And when they bring it up you smile and say "say no more, I'll have it removed sir".

Likewise, if complaints about a given bill can be pulled or drawn towards language like "terrorism", then the meat of the bill avoids some scrutiny. Hell, an unscrupulous legislator whose constituency opposes the bill could demand the terrorism language be cut and then end up supporting the bill, pleasing both sides of the aisle as it were.

This is just me thinking out loud, though.
This only deserves comment for being a monument to bad analysis. Let's keep it brief and take only the example of maps. How important is mobile revenue to Google's maps business? This article suggests Apple's flub cost it $1 billion, which Google just snatched up: http://articles.marketwatch.com/2012-12-13/finance/35791575_...
Perhaps Yahoo saw some positive benefit in paying off Summly's coterie of celebrity investors and advisers.

http://summly.com/about.html
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Sorry, but not being a woman, how would you know whether or not men are standing in the way? And in what respect are you qualified to pronounce women's complaints invalid? Yeah, whoever accused you of mansplaining upthread has your number.

Your premise rests on the idea that in order to get along with men, women must behave like men, in a system originally designed by and for men. And if they don't succeed, well, it's their fault because it's past the sell-by date.

Good call. You neatly absolve men from any responsibility, and completely disappear the uneven playing field. (Starting your own business is a non-answer— you're again playing the "have you tried acting like a man" card.)
Meh, screen sharing is only part of the solution. I want to see who is available, who they've been chatting with, and I want to instantly share screens when I want.

The only tool on the market that does this is Sococo; I don't understand why it never gets mentioned in these conversations..
https://www.sococo.com/home#screens-carousel
I am afraid, its being said without irony.
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I went out on a Monday night to EVR, met Charlie through a mutual friend. I had no idea that he was involved with Bitcoin at the time, nor that he was planning on accepting it at EVR. Really down to earth guy, plus the free drinks didn't hurt my opinion of him. :)
The new hot kids of 3D graphics formats are http://alembic.io and http://openvdb.org.

Finally people are moving forward from the twenty-year-old OBJ and the horrorshow that is FBX...
For a more fancy mature solution, consider http://bugseverywhere.org/

Git (and dvcs generally) is a nice hammer to hit all sorts of things that look like storage/content/versioning nails.
The developers probably don't have the pedigree that Marissa demands.
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Do you need to upload a resume for this to work? I signed up a while back but didn't hear anything from them.
> I remember Andy's second point. He argued that if Google did not act, we faced a Draconian future, future where one man, one company, one device, one carrier would be our only choice.

When exactly was this point supposedly made?

"One man, one company, one device..." is presumably a reference to the iPhone. So if Google did not act (by buying Android) then the iPhone would dominate? But Google bought Android before the iPhone was even announced.

This sounds like a big retcon to me.
I have work experience and common sense, and I've had success talking to boss^2 and HR.

You get out of life what you put into it. Also, at some point, you have to be willing to take the risk that things won't go well. What's the worst thing they can do? Fire you? Michael was already thinking about leaving anyway.

At some level, you just have to ACT like the company you work for is the company you WANT to work for - and if they don't see it the same way, no hard feelings.

If Google was the company he wanted to work for, and he and his manager didn't get along, what SHOULD he do? Stand up for yourself. Don't quit for the sake of your "permanent record." If there's more to it, then that's fine - but if that's your reason for quitting...?

It's a company, and you have a job. If your manager sucks, say something about it. If that doesn't work, vote with your feet.

Talk to boss^2 and HR.
Sorry, I fat-fingered it. I meant 2500-2900 hours per year.
There are a few big reasons schools still teach Java primarily - adoption, scalability, and maturity. According to almost every Tiobe language survey, Java has been and is still either #1 or #2. It is pervasive in just about every enterprise IT environment throughout the entire world (whether you realize it or not), running on a ~billion devices and, now, Android phones as well.

Furthermore, it has very mature support for everything from GUIs (Swing) to web development (Servlet) to high-powered concurrency to advanced data structures. There are literally thousands of libraries and frameworks for every need and a wealth of talent and knowledge out there. Its performance is also orders of magnitude better than interpreted languages like PHP, Python or Ruby. It simply scales better in just about every way and is universally supported almost everywhere.

So, to summarize, for all the reasons listed above Java is the bread and butter of enterprise software. Personally, I prefer Python and C#, but Java is unavoidable if you want a good paying job or are serious about building a high-performance, platform-independent, scalable application.
I work @ a competitor Atlantic.Net (www.atlantic.net/cloud - Free Trial message me for extra free credits) but I think the market is segmenting between Digital Ocean which is very aggressively priced, and Linode which is trying to throw in more features and pack alot of value at a higher price point.

Interestingly, the largest providers AWS + Rackspace provide no free bandwidth, while Linode not only included it, but increased it significantly. Will these providers push the bigger guys to start offering free bandwidth which is a significant cost of the product [well, if its used].
The AP (Advanced Placement Exam)^ is taught in Java. Before it was in Java it was in C++. A lot of schools had C++ intro courses because of this. When the AP switched most switched to Java. It isn't the right language in my opinion for an intro course but there you go.

^ an exam which offers college credit at most universities to high school students
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IBM seem to only be interested in applying it to Medical. It's probably way too processor intensive to use as a search engine, and they can make lots of money selling hardware to hospitals instead of making pennies on ads.
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These ranks are so high that any metric based on them must surely have a lot of noise. I guess that doesn't prevent dmor's voting ring from surfacing this post, though.
The site this is hosted on is bad enough to affect my reading of the article. Tiny text in a tiny sliver of the window, big glaring ad video up top, terribly broken layout.

On top of that, I doubt they'll stop developing Android any time soon... They have a nice platform that brings a lot of attachment, and huge marketshare.
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Dear Marissa:

The next logical step for Yahoo! is to move into the enterprise. I know a great startup you could acquire that would accelerate your move into that space. I expect it could be had for somewhere around what you paid for Summly. Call me.

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you can get 'selection' in bars with the mouse options. I've hacked in better functionality before; it really is not difficult. Pretty much comes down to modding the redraw on mouseclick.

I still cant see how this would justify a $300 price tag, but perhaps its the FOSS philosophy taking over.

I dunno. I prefer to release anything I deem worthy of ridicule by the FOSS community under wtfpl. Power to the people!
Reading between the lines, I'm guessing Yahoo really liked the SRI tech (perhaps also with some of the additions made by Summly). They wanted to exclusively lock it up.

If Yahoo had gone just to SRI, a competitor could have bought Summly... and Summly may have had, as part of SRI's stake, a perpetual and transferable license that Yahoo didn't want falling into any other acquirer's hands.
They are competing against Android for developers.
These meals are actually profitable. Because I have free and good meals at Google, I always have my lunch there instead of leaving office and spending an extra ~30 min to go some place near (NYC office so I have that option), wait for service etc. My pay rate for this half-hour is higher than the cost of any meal that I would buy, regularly with my own cash; so I fail to see how Google is "spending". Not to mention the days when thing are busy enough so I take the food to my desk and eat it while working [instead of eating it at my desk while reading HN as usual :)]. It's also common for coworkers to have lunch together, or having visiting customers for lunch and other "business" scenarios.

Also, I know how much $ Google spends with food per employee, and it's a significantly lower number than what I would pay for the same amount and quality of food anywhere -- a small part of that due to no sales tax, but the bulk of savings comes from big economies of scale, very efficient operations, and no profit margin.

I am a Brazilian, and there most companies provide complimentary compensation as food coupons that are subsidized by not paying income or payroll taxes (both are very high in BR). Even higher-salaried employees get these coupons, usually in a value that's proportional to the salary; for an engineer that's high enough you can feed your whole family... when I lived alone I couldn't hope to spend all my coupons, so whenever I had a lot of accumulated excess I'd donate that to a charity. Now THAT is an obvious loophole to increase wages at the expense of taxes. Compared to this, the free food in companies like Google is available only to the employee, only at office, and it has no relation to your salary -- everybody gets the same food and other office perks.

There's an important element of healthcare too. Companies that can afford to provide free lunches are always also, companies that subsidize most or all of their employee's health insurance, which is a huge cost. The company has interest in managing employee health to minimize costs of insurance and sick leave; and Google certainly does that, they use lots of tricks and tactics to promote a healthy diet.

To summarize, this is much more complex than just "giving freebies" like some other posters think.
I don't understand why this is bad, though.

In that case food lion got publicly busted and undoubtedly had to tighten standards. What's the alternative in a system where you can't engage in undercover reporting?

ABC: "Hey food lion. ABC here. Do you guys sell rotten meat?"

Food Lion: "no. no we do not."

ABC: "Mind if we check?"

Food Lion: "Sure, just give me a minute to clean up some things so you're not seeing how we operate day-to-day. I'll schedule your visit."

ABC: "Huh. Everything looks above board"

Food Lion: "Yes, they do look that way today. On your visit. Don't come back without notice."
Because now they are getting more competitors—from Google, from municipal broadband, from Gigabit Seattle (http://gigabitseattle.com). Political types have realized that fast Internet connections are a real economic advantage.
I don't see a grey area in that example. I do see a bug tho :) - the server should return 404 (File Not Found) or 410 (Gone). As you say, the server has no way to know whether the file was deleted by accident. A smart server should return 410 if possible. That signals to the user: "Your request was perfect, but the file you wanted is no longer here". If your server returns 404, what it really means is "Hey, your request is fine, I just can't find what you're asking for". A 400 is the "Bad Request" error code; you would typically return this in web API contexts. The message here is "Hey, your request wasn't fine. I don't know what to do with it"

If nodejitsu was returning any 4xx errors during its downtime, that's a bug that should be fixed. In this situation, they should have returned either a 500 or a 503, and I'd probably pick 503, and leave 500 to any web apps that suffered an internal error. This way you know that it's not your app but the platform it's running on.

As always, the best place to look up the details is in the spec: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616 -- long, but quite readable.
There's a lot to complain about with Java, but one part that IS great is that applications generally port pretty easily between environments (everywhere interesting for consumer software except iOS). Also this depends on Unity3d... guess what else is multi-platform! (including Win/OSX/Linux/web/iOS/Android)

I trust, then, that there's a good reason why this claims to be dependant on OSX. Seems to have something to do with this June (Java in Unity) thing.
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Would you be willing to write a post about how costs broke down? It'd be awesome to learn more about what it really costs for a side project.
Argh, this smells like the audio latency issue. An issue with 500 comments pleading Google to do something about it for 4 years. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you issue #3434:

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3434

There has been some improvement lately but it is hard to find devices that support the "special" low latency mode.

This sounds like a similar thing. Just pointing out the level or response and engagement you'd expect from Google (hint: almost none).
10 iirc, which is outrageous. Download a game with enough content which takes more than 10 minutes just to find out it sucks ass.
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Very few people invent anything. Most developers with limited resources work with groundbreaking technologies(built by others) to create something meaningful.
Yeah, but in all honesty, superbowl ads are pretty "local" to the north American continent, maybe southern, too. A lot of people in Croatia don't even know what superbowl is, those who do just know about it.

Also, I regret to say that, when I overhead a conversation, someone said their browser was Bing and that it was the "bestest" ever. That person is in the same class as me. I study CS.
Video game console != currency exchange company.
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Exactly. I came here looking to see if anyone else had a good idea of what theory this article was trying to express.

I think the author is trying to infer that Yahoo agreed to buy Summly, so that SRI could liquidate their equity in Summly. Maybe, SRI saw Summly as a loser and as part of their negotiations with Yahoo, they asked Yahoo to turn this loss position into a win. So, maybe, then that $30M price was really $20M as part of the SRI deal and then $10M for assets and aqui-hire talent of Summly itself.

Acquiring Summly seems to have been an almost incidental side effect of a deal Yahoo made with SRI for a piece of "summarization technology."

A source tells us that Yahoo has "agreements in place" with SRI for "knowledge transfer," and the acquisition of IP, code, and technology.

Until Yahoo bought it, SRI International held equity in Summly.
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> Because it allows not only buyers of an asset, but sellers as well.

Support for shorting doesn't allow sellers whereas a system without such support allows only buyers; to have buyers you have to have sellers -- any market has both.

Shorting is essentially equivalent to acquiring a debt denominated in the commodity shorted (so "shorting bitcoins" is essentially just borrowing bitcoins) and immediately converting the borrowed commodity into something else (presumably, bitcoin shorters would generally be converting them into traditional sovereign currencies.)
Apple somehow lost out in $1 billion in ad revenue? Talk about bad analysis.
Of course the bar doesn't want to hold bitcoins. Rent, booze and salaries are still denominated in U$.
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The news for me is that the founder of BitInstant (and co-chairman of Bitcoin Foundation) also owns a bar in midtown Manhattan.
I feel like a noob too, mostly because I started at 18!

That's to say, I started taking programming seriously at 18. I did write a crappy Visual Basic exe when I was 8, and I dabbled a bit in Flash ActionScript in my teenage years, but I don't really count those years, because I was learning by rote then.

I really only started taking programming seriously when I was in college. Writing an RTOS from scratch was one of my biggest coding achievements. A lot of times, I wish I have a job that's more technically challenging than what I'm doing now.