skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely absurd. She clearly knew who Steve Jobs was. She probably just didn't know what Steve Jobs looked like the year she got the job. There are a great number of people who I know by reputation, know by amazing reputation, but I have no idea what they look like. I know who Larry Page is, I have no idea what he looks like. I have a really really vague idea of what Sergey Brin looks like. But really, who cares what they look like?
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Lambda in Java maybe only in 2016
True, but he's also responsible for Pixar and NeXT. NeXT had many of the ideas of the current Mac a decade earlier, but failed to take off. Whether that's because the market wasn't ready yet or because Steve failed to manage the company can't really be answered.

(Also: "most dramatic in the history of business"? IBM was about 3 months away from bankruptcy when Lou Gerstner took over - it's not a household name now because their comeback involved pivoting to big-business services, but they're solidly profitable. Intuit nearly died and all the employees went several months without salary in its early days, and now they basically own the accounting-software market.)
Disagree. If you kick middle managers in the stomach every time they tell you something you don't want to hear, they stop being honest with you.
The teen who auctioned 10% of her income for a startup investment may not exist
I'd call that a postmodern understanding of art, and one originating from just one particular sect of postmodernism at that. There's a lot of postmodernists who would say that the artist's intentions in creating the work are secondary, or even irrelevant. (A lot of others who would say it too.)

The world of art is filled with warring philosophies just like everywhere else and you can't pretending that your preferred definition of 'art' is 'the one, the true, the only'. (Well, you can. Just anyone who adheres to a different philosophy of aesthetics won't take you too seriously.)
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It may be my own feelings and so forth, but I vote that comments are disabled on this network.

It's getting way out of control, quality of the network exponentially deteriorating, and far too much blatant disrespect without regard, perpetuating the same cycles of melancholia for any of those individuals who are genuinely interested in understanding.

For those who feel the need to be correct, the need to correct, the need to justify, the need to express their own opinions on behalf of the though of an other, for those who have yet to understand that they as themselves are not the constitution of thought of all of those who are an other independent of the self, for those who simply cannot simply recognize any/all realizations, for those who require conclusions, for those who wish to change the order of the world, for those who cannot be bothered with interaction that may oppose their own desire, etc., please leave this network. Please. I beg of you to leave. I beg of you to leave and return when you've lost the ability to use express your opinion in the forefront of others, when you've come to understand that every interact between your self and an other affects the experience and understanding of others, when you've come to understand, when you've learned to listen, when you've learned to reason, when you've learned your own language, when you've learned your own self, and finally, when you've learned an other relatively independent of others in relation to your selves.

The amount of hatred in the world is enough to drive anyone insane, why bring it to a network full of though-thirsty individuals who simply wish to share other understands?

I may be delusional in my expression of cordiality, though I only wish that this madness stops.

Why I have even bothered to make an account to share my own realization? The network is unique in its own right, and very difficult to find such a large group of like-minds. The more I visit, the further such ideals deviate from the truth, and it's disturbing. Quite a lot of this is clearly addressed in _why's seemingly random queue, but that's not the point. The point is [TL;DR;DC;WC;] Your opinions are going to change. If they don't, you're likely cheating yourself, and respectively others. Please find it in your minds to enjoy the thought of one another.

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For those of you on your high-horse of supreme divinity and fortitude, I sincerely hope you come find your self humbled by your self.

Kind regards,
<Let's pretend it matters>
Does it matter? The point is the same whether she's a programmer or not.

And she makes it clear in the article that she's a PM, not a SWE.
For her game, take a look at the Love framework. Lua is a fairly easy to learn language, and the framework is easy to use from what I've heard.

[1] https://love2d.org/
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The web's failed hunt for the boston bomber
> Well since we've exploded our debt to supposedly lower unemployment and the meter has barely moved, maybe we're doing it wrong?

Many, if not most, Keynesians agree with this -- that the current US policy has been all wrong, even while it some elements were correct in very broad outline. And they were saying that when the policies were proposed, not just when they failed to work.

> We've indulged the Keynesians quite enough over the last $6+ TRILLION dollars, tyvm.

No, what we've done is adopted incoherent policies that are driven by some impulse toward Keynesian with some directly contrary impulses (in part, this is a consequence of different branches of government having different preferences.)
This is an important point. Not only should your online services have an easy way for you to get data out of them, but you probably should have a reasonably sane backup schedule, just like you would for hard drives/physical media/etc.

That being said this is a very short amount of time, and hopefully future shutdowns like this at yahoo and other places give more of a warning.
Many, if not most of Apple's innovations are not Steve's ideas, but from someone working under him. He seems to have learned the wrong lesson.

From the outside, the MobileMe fiasco looks like a standard failed software project, where nobody steps up to say the truth and management doesn't understand/care what's going on. How a huge group inside Apple got to that point is anybody's guess (and would probably make for a great lesson in project management).
Utterly agree.

I would go further - thinking, experimenting (trying different approaches with metrics to say, number of concurrent connections supported) and then building one to throw away, lead to better overall results.
As a counterpoint to the "you must be an asshole to be a successful leader" line of thinking, I put forward Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, Sergey, et al. I don't think one can say they haven't helmed a successful company and commanded respect, but they are also not infamous for throwing angry tantrums and yelling at people.

Larry's practically so soft spoken you can't hear him sometimes. :)
It's part of the dysfunction.
If I was putting my own money in a project I'd definitely prefer the top 50% programmers with good organizational and interpersonal skills and concrete business plans over the top 5% developers who might just use their near-market salary to contribute to their favourite open source projects and work on esoteric problems that interest them. (I'd pay more attention to technical ability with "VC-istan" growth expectations and incentive structures)

I have a feeling that organizations part-funded by governments that hire intellectuals on near-market salaries to work on projects that interest them (and do the odd bit of teaching) already exist: they're called universities. I realise the plan here sheds a layer of bureaucracy and gives the productive a slice of potential profits they generate, but I think the comparison is reasonable, and I certainly wouldn't pump money into academia with the expectation of collecting returns on it.
How and what we observe?
Just be careful if he hands you a beer...
From what I've seen, he seemed to have a knack to attract top talent and push them to their limit.

He was able to charm those people he needed and knew just how to push their buttons so they'd deliver better work.

Contrary to what people thinks, assholes are not assholes 100% of the time; those people get their way by knowing when to be nice and charming. This is not antonymic with being an narcissistic asshole.

I'm fairly sure a lot of his collaborators had a honeymoon period with him, before he revealed himself to be the management equivalent of the abusive husband.
Feels like Reddit around here, with that guy deleting all his comments when you pin him down...
My first thought on reading "crew quarters must be well ventilated" was - like, opening the windows?

Then I remembered.

Luckily I am not on safety critical work for NASA
> I was in sync with the Left when they decried George W. Bush's no-veto policy and ballooning of the debt.

The Left never decried Bush ballooning the debt, the Left decried Bush ballooning the debt by cutting taxes in a manner which disproportionately favored the rich and focussing massive additional spending on unnecessary war -- that is, he was decried by the left for the <i>distribution</i> of taxation and spending as the debt was being ballooned, not for the balance of taxes vs. spending.

(Secondarily, the Republican Party as a whole was decried by the Left at that time for ballooning the debt to advance those policies after having recently previously taken the position that budget balance was a pre-eminent government priority, a position which Republicans surprisingly returned to embracing once they no longer controlled the White House.)
Ugh, though instead of through. Proofread
Count seems fake
I thought this was going to be about people who took the Steve Jobs route of design: "I know better than you, you'll use my design and like it, or go to hell."

People see Jobs' success in design and think they too can be successful by being merciless dictators of their design vision. Unfortunately 99% of people don't have Jobs' talent and they end up messing up their projects. (Gnome 3 and Unity, I'm looking at you, though this terrible phenomenon isn't isolated to those projects.)

37 Signals is also guilty of spreading that mindset, perhaps more so because they aggressively blog and write about it all the time and because they are (or at least were) startup darlings.
My Archive Warrior is still trying to get through all of posterous.com!

Internet Properties: Don't be a dick. If you're closing up shop, bundle the site up (public portion, not personal info), and ship it off to the Internet Archive.
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I regret that I have but one up-arrow to click on for this comment.

Google does this annually and they get criticized for it every time. Yahoo does it at the behest of their new ex-Googler CEO and now it's a great idea.
This seems relevant.. old concrete can often emit significant levels of Radon that will tend toward floor level. It's supposedly quite important to properly vent old basements on a semiregular basis for this reason. In such an environment, a fan left running overnight may easily contribute to increased mortality.
That viewer is almost as terrible as Scribd. Does anyone have a link to the document itself?
What Adobe considers a user's survey
> You need to quantify "are not as effective."

No, actually, you don't. Even they are even, in aggregate, even marginally less effective than face-to-face, they are a net loss to collaboration.

> I've personally been involved in collaboration over e-mail that was more productive than most meetings I've ever taken part in.

Sure, for lots of things, email is a better choice than a meeting. You can easily do email with people being in the same office building. OTOH, there are things where a quick face-to-face is more effective, and you can't do that when people are telecommuting.
Any data structure can now be automatically "Merkelized" via new compiler
"We need secure, robust communication systems for medium sized groups of people (think revolutionaries) that don't need to rely on centralized (government owned) networks. Possibly use UDP to message someone (since without ACKs you can send to many hosts, and a listening host looks the same to the network as an unrelated host). More ideas about this in passage: "Right, so you send it to random internet hosts"

This is why sender spoofing should also be considered a feature and not a flaw.
> Let's not kid ourselves. The Australian market is tiny.

I don't know if you're being willfully ignorant in your responses, but I can add to my comment: "...for a whole country completely changes the tech startup landscape for that country".

> There's also the possibility that Malcolm Turnbull, a former barrister, investment banker and venture investor

In this context appeal-to-authority isn't particularly interesting. The pundits are all credentialed in this debate, and the tech sector overwhelmingly prefers the current NBN plan to the Coalition's.

> It's pretty easy to demonstrate that paying someone to dig up every street in the country is more expensive than deciding not to dig up every street in the country.

The fact you're quoting a response of mine and responding with a completely different issue is classic trollish behaviour. However as it's an absurd statement that looks superficially like common sense, I'll respond. Would Australia have saved money by not building an electricity and telephone network?

> Japan and South Korea have shown that it's really not that big a deal. Really nice, and enables some new businesses. But you have to trade it off against alternative uses of the funds. The same money could build about 20 new hospitals, a new Sydney airport and a clutch of cross-city tunnels. It's possible these might have been more valuable in the long run.

Reducing a national FTTH network to 'really nice, and enables some new business' and proposing a back-of-the-napkin alternate spend of new hospitals, new airport, new cross-city tunnels (!) which 'possibly' might be more valuable is not an analysis that's worth refuting.

I think you're more interested in pushing a political agenda than having a tech + economics discussion, so best to park this!
Know someone in Boston? Have dinner with them tonight.
Bostonians have been stuck inside their homes all day. The entire city is being held hostage.

I may be in SF, but I plan on joining them.

Step 1: Contact my gf's parents and sister in Boston
Step 2: Setup a time for all of us to have dinner
Step 3: Setup a Google Hangout to cook and eat together

Hopefully it'll get their minds off stuff and give us an opportunity to connect.

If you know anyone in Boston, maybe you can invite them to dinner too.
That's not exactly how this works; you can just maintain simultaneous connections over both network methods. This consumes a very small amount of data on both, but will intelligently shift the bulk of data between the two as connectivity/packet loss/etc changes. It's about being able to seamlessly go from one to the other and back again without having to halt and re-open TCP connections every time, not about using both connections full-out all the time.

Checkout the tech talk if you want to know more.
Per the article, Yahoo need innovation, not raw productivity. A bunch of Yahoo employees at home coding thousands of tested lines a day aren't going to help the company if it's all the same old crap Yahoo has been putting out for years.
From the survey:

Which of these statements expresses your opinion of Adobe Creative Cloud?
• It’s a great way to get Adobe creative tools, services and more. I’d recommend it.
• I need to understand the value of subscription vs. traditional product purchase.
• I’m not sure what’s in it or how it would help me. I need to learn more.
Glass is a sousveillance technology according to Steve Mann's definition. But also a surveillance technology due to its link with Google.

Edit: found an article where he discusses Glass in this regard, interesting read http://techland.time.com/2012/11/02/eye-am-a-camera-surveill...
It took me five years of regular meditation to really grasp the power of knowing not only what, but how, you think in certain situations.

It's easy to run on autopilot, but doing so often leads to temporary emotions fueled by passing events taking charge of your actions.

Five minutes a day can make a huge difference. It's not easy, but it's always worth it.
Thank you!

The amount of people who hate on _why around here for silly reasons is absurd. I often see people judge him by the standards you would use to judge an engineer (by which he fails miserably), but the correct standards are those you would judge an artist (by which he succeeds admirably).
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
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This puts a really interesting spin on the MobileMe story.

I wonder what would have happened if they had yelled back at Steve while he was dressing them down.

I also wonder who turned down their request for a more incremental launch. I'm not enough of an Apple-watcher to know what the org chart looked like, but could it have been Scott Forstall?
Steve Jobs is such a striking example because he was highly unusual in the business world, and especially in the tech business, and because he succeeded on such a massive scale. He was basically an artist. I don't mean that as a fawning compliment; I mean that as a description of his personality: for better and for worse. He was driven by a relentless aesthetic vision, he worked himself up into near-manic episodes, he was emotionally labile, and he was perfectionistic.

These are qualities you usually find in the arts. I've worked with and around writers and directors for most of my career, and I've seen "Steve Jobs" in a lot of the more successful ones. Consider the example of Stanley Kubrick, or, more recently, David O. Russell. Now, go watch the infamous David O. Russell temper tantrum video on YouTube. You could just about substitute Steve Jobs for David in that video and believe it.
> the ability to distinguish between cuts of beef and cow organs.

This sounds like basic biology to me.
My point was that you do not need to support Maybe explicitly. Instead, it naturally flows from significantly more general language features; Maybe itself is just a normal type built with these features.

Following your argument, we need special language support for any sort of abstraction, because everything has to be built in terms of some built-in language features at some point.

Also, on a largely unrelated note, I think that there is no reason for modern languages not to have sum types in this day and age. (cough Golang cough)
Agreed. Meditation really helps with self control. so important.
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I was speaking morally, not legally.
While this was a good bit too "name-droppy" for my taste, it's an interesting story of decision-regret and a decent chronicle of a founder's view post acquisition. At the time, the decision to sell seemed right, and it would've been difficult to predict it would be so poorly managed by Yahoo! Along the way.
Martin Cooper on the cell phone - past and present
"In search of the metaphorical startup booty" is an awesome sentence.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not but a decade or so ago, before Google arrived on the scene, Yahoo! was actually very popular.
Sounds like VB did 10x more research for this article than their original. Preventative measures (i.e. real journalism) would have avoided the need for this awkward band-aid.
I recently saw the Woz speak at the University of Arkansas. He spent probably 30 minutes total (not all in one breath, but spread out) ripping on Steve Jobs. He really didn't say anything that was unarguably good about him.
paul graham? ha! caught in the act... lol
The private bathroom, private airplane, private car, meetings on the golf course, etc are ultimately superfluous. Slash them, and nothing bad happens.

The nursery is an entirely matter altogether. Without it, you either work from home or find daycare for the baby.
Is there a mirror for CLOSURE.pdf only? Github won't allow download, and I'm on a terrible connection to download the whole repo.
I don't understand where this response is coming from. I said nothing about gender. I can't actually think of a situation in which male CEOs, and male managers in general ("pointy haired bosses"), aren't relentlessly mocked. Attempting to portray a sexist double-standard seems like a stretch and a refusal to address the actual issue.
The cafeteria anecdote is interesting because I've been in line in a cafeteria with a billionaire (former) CEO - Phil Knight. Very personable (he certainly didn't cut in line) and he seemed comfortable in his Nikes and jeans.

Knight built his empire quite differently than Jobs. While it's not great being a developer at Nike, the company's atmosphere is somewhat laid back. Things still get done and they make a lot of money doing it.
> You assert that text books are no different from novels? That's absurd.

No. I assert that a textbook could be art and that art could be a textbook. Transitively, though. This is outside the scope of the original discussion.

People here are frantic to give _why credit for doing something unique, and he did. But he was unique in his specifics. The general pattern has been repeated many times.

People seem to think that me saying, "Lot's of people have done things in the same category as what _why has done, before _why did it," is controversial. It isn't and shouldn't be. _why can be a unique snowflake, highly significant to you, and not be some sort of genesis for a new type of art previous undreamed by human minds.

I mean, seriously, how is what _why did any different from http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/unix-koans/ten-thousand.htm... ? Which has been growing since before many people on this website were born and will continue to do so after many of us are gone.

And Corey Doctorow probably has a few things to say about the idea that Novels cannot be textbooks for specific subjects. Little Brother had a lot of very specific detail on reproducible physical hacks people could do in their day-to-day lives for privacy purposes!

And the method of using a work of fiction as a teaching tool? Ancient.
Incompetent authority may come looking for fights. Any competent authority figure is going to hire the smartest people possible.

I have a high IQ and have never had regular "fights" with competent authority figures (management, government officials / LE, etc). I'm also very libertarian and don't like working for others but when I do I don't have problems.

I also have good social skills so that probably plays a part too.
This lady would be shell-shocked and would need therapy if she ever went into construction. Not just the "boss", anyone that is not an apprentice will be yelling, cursing, and putting down your work on a regular basis.
Physicist proposes new way to think about intelligence
This somewhat attempts to contradict the Machiavellian insight that "it is better to be feared than loved" but in an ideal world, I'd have to agree.
Such a beautiful product!
It allows you to resize the view without resizing the window, and has a dropdown list of standard screen sizes for phones, tablets, laptops etc.
She got the job in 2008... My point is, if you were to get a job at xyz company, wouldn't one of your initial moves be to find out who the major players were at your new job were/looked-like? What the environment/culture is? Some research would have suggested that she might expect this kind of behavior from a certain individual? I don't have to number the many reasons WHY you would want to do some research, or care to. Why is that absurd?