skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting Austin to sign up for that would be a huge coup. I don't think you'd have any trouble getting great engineers to move out there, given how many strong tech companies are already there. That would be ideal. But I'd also want to talk to other municipalities and see what terms they'd have to offer.

It's definitely a job development play. These engineers are going to be founding companies that, if successful, are going to employ large numbers of people.
I am 34 and run of the mill type. I find it harder and harder to match the fresh grads who have the skills relevant today, can put in longer hours, are full of energy and work for quarter of my salary.
I'm not wild about my current job, and I'd like to do something more rewarding. I've also considered places like App Academy.
Ask HN: How do publishers deal with bad ads?
Its hard to find resources on how large content publishers who use network ads deal with bad ads. Why have I never heard of a company that they can outsource bad ad reporting to? Moreover, is there liturature on how different publishers approach this issue? How prevelent is it? Whats a good industry estimation of the proportion of users exposed to bad ads report them? How can that ratio be improved? Are there any case studies worth looking at? How proactive are publishers at stopping bad ads?

Looking into this, I can't help but be surprised at how little information is publicly available and how unexhaustive that informatino is.

Does anyone have any good resources on the topic, or have any insight into questions like these?
Funny, I thought it meant...

Too Long; Didn't Read
I don't think he was suggesting it should be made illegal to do that, and obviously I know that it already is...

I am quite pro-gun (remember the part about growing up around a lot of responsible gun owners?), but you making the kind of comments that make me strongly reconsider identifying that way. Hurling insults around does not contribute to the discussion; it is just childish and makes you look desperate.
Google Glass, Google self driving cars -> made by PhD's.
Color app -> not made by PhD's.
What Was on the First SAT?
Nitrous.io has a cloud IDE and built-in ubuntu server terminals with vim. If you tell them the 9 year old daughter story they'll probably let you skip the line.
No, ING Direct USA was always a United States bank regulated by US regulators, it just happened to be owned by a Dutch parent company (and thus ALSO subject to THEIR regulators in some ways). Capital One since taking over and rebranding as "Capital One 360" has not made any major changes to the Know Your Customer process or the application process. As I explained before, the legal requirement is to identify the customer, and there are a variety of different ways to do this which are acceptable to regulators.
There are some problems with that method though.

If, for example, you'd like to reverse the condition, you can't write

if (!(MouseEvent *mouse = dynamic_cast<MouseEvent *>(event)))
{}

because a definition is not a general expression, but was only added as an "extra" to allow its use in some cases in conditionals.
Reminds me of Ken Thompson's Reflections on Trusting Trust: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
The '=' above is not an assignment operator, as there is no assigment, it is a declaration. Yes, the following is also valid:

MouseEvent *mouse;
if(mouse = dynamic_cast<MouseEvent *>(event)))

but it is not the same thing.
Perhaps the most common and controversial aspect of Mayer's decision was the claim of hypocrisy regarding child care. Staying home with children to avoid the cost of a full-time nanny is a common reason for telecommuting. Some claimed hypocrisy for her installing a persona nursery next to her office for her own newborn while making Yahoo significantly less family friendly for its employees.

Although I never agreed with these criticisms, I'm annoyed that she apparently said, "I need to talk about the elephant in the room" and then avoided addressing this complaint at all. Unless she did and this was simply bad reporting which omitted any reference to it - I'd appreciate a link to the fill keynote transcript if one exists; I can't seem to find it.
Yahoo needs to reinvent itself. Working from home is so unimportant in the big scheme.
I got a Scratch teaching comic book from No Starch for under $15 on Amazon. It's a bit much for my five year old but your daughter might like it!
Node.js Application Monitoring with the NodeFly Dashboard, Part One
> or at least of nothing that I would consider as art

That probably is part of the problem here.

For starters, you could try looking into Jeffrey Shaw & Gideon May.

Netochka Nezvanova is another name that springs to mind (but that likely will not qualify by some of your criteria), the Electronic Disturbance Theater is another.

There are probably 100's if not 1000's of artists that have chosen to use the computer as their medium of choice, usually they don't make the code central to the expression because the code is the vehicle.

But there are definitely artists that craft with the code as their central means of expression.

I feel that by first stating something overbroad and now redefining it in a way that is overly narrow to then be able to say that 'see, nobody fits the exact same niche' is a bit of a cheap trick, after all, _why was just _why, unique, like every other artist. So no, if you keep on adding conditions why nobody was like him or even crafting 'art' you can easily exclude the rest of the world and maintain your claim. But that's a pretty limiting act and it seems like a very technical way to win the argument.

_why was neither the first, the last or particularly special in what he did unless you mean special to be used as 'specific' rather than as a claim to quality. He successfully promoted himself, his art and incidentally the ruby language. But that does not warrant such overbroad claims as were made above.
I think turnaround CEOs have the some of the toughest and most public jobs in the industry. The particularly difficult roles are for those individuals that already have a successful past (Mayer with Google) that are then implicitly 'expected' to bring new energy and vitality to companies simply because of those past successes.

Look at Ron Johnson, for example. His genius did wonders for Apple but the same concepts failed with a different industry in his tenure with JCPenney. There's no silver bullet, and what Mayer's doing with Yahoo may have some similarities with what was done early on with Google, but in order to cement Yahoo's independent identity, she's going to have to pursue some goals that aren't identical to things she's done before.

Ending WFH is perhaps a start. The externalities (noisy lashback from media, etc.) don't help, but she's going to have to face a lot more of that in order to institute long-lasting change.
It's interesting that both Yahoo and Best Buy both cancelled their work from home programs during a time when they are struggling to save their businesses. It would be far more relevant to me if a company that was posting record profits decided to kill its work from home program. Sounds like they were looking for a scapegoat.
It's nice to see she does actually still have her head screwed on correctly. I think she could have avoided a lot of criticism if she had only spoken on the subject earlier.

It is fair to say that what works for one company will not work for another. Therefore it cannot represent an opinion on the industry as a whole.
I think you meant "rally".
I think he's actually saying gunicorn was simpler than Apache. I've also found that to be true (anecdotaly).
Not sure what you're getting at. Google itself was started by two PhD students who are on semi-permanent "long-term absence".
Show HN: The Shame Blame Game
The people in charge of monetary policy completely missed the looming 2007 crash. Steve Keen's recent book details why, argues that it was speculative debt that fueled both the Great Depression and our recent troubles, and offers some solutions.

The fact that energy is fundamentally conserved has little to do with the amount of energy available to the economy in usable form.

There's nothing about bitcoin or energy-backed currency that would prevent someone from insuring it.

Hayek published a book in 1977 arguing that a decentralized system of competitive currencies would lead to natural price stability without centralized intervention.
To be precise, declarations are never expressions - there are two forms of if and while statements in the grammar, one taking an expression and the other a declaration.
Thank you _why. I needed this to get off my mind from today's events.
Idea: Kickstarter for Lobbying (2011)
Seriously? It's not a difficult concept to understand...
How Microsoft got Windows revenue to go up despite PC sales going down
>Perhaps the most common and controversial aspect of Mayer's decision was the claim of hypocrisy regarding child care.

That seems more like a rhetorical tactic than a genuine issue? (The hypocrisy, not child care in and of itself.)
My old job used spector. I'm pretty sure everyone knew it but people would still be on FB playing games when you walked past.
I believe IT was the last to get it and for about a week after they installed it on our machines it didn't work because Microsoft Essentials disabled it as malware.

I don't think they ever looked at it unless they wanted to fire someone and didn't want to pay unemployment and needed proof that they weren't doing their job.
In case you don't see DocumentCloud's fullscreen button, here it is so you don't have to sidescroll on the test:

http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/681564-1926-sat.html#...

----

edit: The info on the test composition is pretty interesting, and telling about how we protect our students from feeling like failures.

http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/681564-1926-sat.html#...

> Students had 97 minutes to answer a total of 315 questions on nine sub-tests..."You had to answer about three questions per minute," says O'Reilly. "The expectation was that nobody would finish the whole test."... Today, students have three hours and 45 minutes to tackle 170 questions and an essay on 10 sections..."Now, you have a little over a minute per question," says O'Reilly. "We are aiming for 80 percent of students getting to the end of the test."
He has named it. It is Australia.
I thought it stood for "too long; don't read"
WebGL-driven 3D FlipBook
You can use Phono as an XMPP client.

https://phono.com/

https://github.com/phono/PhonoSDK
He has backed up that statement, while you have done nothing but hurl insults. I understand that you may feel insulted by what he said, but that is no excuse for the quality of your comments.
The bing.com certificate says it is valid for the following names: ieonline.microsoft.com , .bing.com , .windowssearch.com. So why does https://www.bing.com not match *.bing.com?
I want the blend-tec guy to become an astronaut. "Will it blend IN SPACE?"
Schwab is especially obnoxious in that they they silently truncate your password to 8 characters.

However, you can get a physical two-factor authentication token for Schwab:
http://www.schwab.com/public/schwab/nn/legal_compliance/schw...
Having a piece of paper that says you owe me 6 trillion kJ is fine until it turns out you can't pay up. Ultimately, someone has to have the actual backing commodity. This is no problem with USD, since it's all just numbers anyway. It's less of a problem for gold than for energy, since 1 400oz bar is worth over half a million USD. Half a million USD in barrels of oil is more than 5000 barrels. Ideally you'd want something that was easy to store to base your economy on. :)
Yes, the entire series is a joy to listen to.
As a lifetime theater actor Roy Dotrice not just reads the book, but really brings it to life.

You could also check The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. It is also a good series and has two fine voice actors. Though IMO, not on par with Dotrice.

Please tell what you've bought, I have some credits of my own that lay around :)
If I remember correctly, it's undefined behavior if you redefine keywords anywhere, not just for library headers as the article suggests.
Coworking space, The Factory, launches "Ship or Shame"
N9 'meego' was Harmattan, the direct descendant of Maemo 5, planned before the link-up with Intel to create Meego 'proper'. Harmattan had some backported compatibility pieces to make it nominally Meego compliant, but it was really Maemo 6.

Tizen came from the Meego proper project, which was more Moblin than Maemo.

This is what happens when you let marketing... do anything.
If Nothing is ever an error, than you can add code to handle that case. It isn't really different from some method returning an empty list and other functions being basically no-ops afterward.
"Executive summary" is the original TL;DR.
Years ago I knew of a pair of sysadmins who were extremely overworked, often staying back late and working weekends, etc. Eventually they got a meeting with a higher-up and the opportunity to make their case that they should probably get raises and hiring another person or two would be a great help.

They didn't get more people to help, but they were told they only had to work 4 days a week instead of 5, so, you know... That's a raise, right? Problem solved! More money for less hours in the office!

Except for the fact they still had the same amount of work that kept them back at night on the weekends.

Sysadmin #1 left the meeting, went to his office and wrote his resignation letter.

Sysadmin #2 went back to his office. He was found a short time later with slashed wrists and not in a very healthy state. He was taken to hospital, patched up, and put in to a psych ward for a while. After a few months he returned to his job in a very medicated state, and just wandered around having hard to follow conversations with people. He couldn't really do his job any more, but the employer either felt guilty about letting him go, or wasn't legally able to. I'm not sure.

Sysadmin #1 successfully resigned, and was hired back as a contractor, setting his own hours and getting paid at a greatly inflated rate.
While this isn't guaranteed (all tools, including the compiler, may be patched), you can use checks and balances: verify /proc doesn't contain phantom processes, compile your own copy of ps, try more-obscure tools like top. If by "understand" you just mean "notice"... well, you don't, until one day you accidentally stumble across one of the above and start digging. (Maybe, for example, you install some kind of server monitoring tool, and when you log in to the web portal it provides you see a process that you find very suspicious; when you use ps, it doesn't show.) In my case, I've noticed this kind of thing twice: once, when the tool was binary pacthed to death (and just crashed), and once when the "patch" was "replace binary entirely", and the replacement was older and did not support a command line argument I knew that it should.
Wow, I really did not expect such a reaction.

Where exactly do you see me (OP) or the parent discard the creative work of a whole generation of people? In fact, in my top post I talked about a very particular combination of different things that make _why unique. I still stand by the hypothesis that _why was (at least one of) the first artist(s) to show such a combination in his artwork.

Of course there were lots of people before _why thinking about and expressing the relationship between art and programming. There were also lots of people thinking about teaching children just for recreative purposes (Alan Kay comes to mind as the most prominent example). There were lots of people fusing emotions with programming, in fact every act of coding is very emotional. I never said anything to the contrary and so I cannot see how you arrive at phrases like "mindless, emotionless robot".

Individual contributions such as the poignant guide, Shoes and even TryRuby are not really that important in my opinion, neither are they unique to _why. As I said, it's not _whys code that matters (to me). But rather _why's whole collection of "stuff" is so much more than a bunch of random things, it is a very coherent (funny to say that in the context of _why...) artistic opus with a clear signature and an artist's style. And I am not talking about code style here, I am talking about a clearly identifiable artistic message.
Here's where I'm attempting to continue the discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5578195

If we could set up Autonomy Funds we could reshape this industry.
That's like asking "why not just drive there" of people who lived in the early 19th century.

It's easy to forget just how quickly technology progresses :)
To switch b/w tabs, I find Ctrl + PageUp/PageDown a lot more convenient, since it's also standard in Browsers/other text editors. :D
He is clearly having tons of fun with this.
Not to disagree with the point you are making, but just to add to it -- I'm sure the personal nursery bit was a part of the employment terms that Mayer must have negotiated before joining Yahoo!.
My girlfriend's brother works there. Based on what I've heard from him, I'm pretty jealous, but she's worried if I worked there I'd never come home.
Debugging is work, I don't understand.
Yahoo uses Google Apps
He had root, so he could have instead installed a rootkit, which can hide the existence of processes from all of userland. In a graduate OS class I took, we had an assignment to do hide a process live on OpenSolaris 8 using the kernel debugger (kdb). I wrote some assembly and overwrote some bytes in the syscall functions for process listing. We were on developer builds so you could just use the function symbols by name in kdb. I forgot to cover /proc/ though.
This professor's attitude is great. I think it's a perfect example of hacker mentality. Some quotes:

"""
Some people, when they hear a grand-scale idea involving months of hard work for a couple hours of transcendent glory — like "Pong on the side of a 29-story building," in this case — immediately say, "Oh hell yeah!" Just as many people, though, if not more, respond, "…What? Why?" People of the first type rarely convince people of the second to hand over the keys to one of their building's computer systems on the argument "Because it will be awesome."

[...]

The idea came to Lee while driving down I-76 in 2008. Before long he was calling people he knew who might know someone connected to Cira Centre owner Brandywine Realty Trust. "Because I figure once they hear the idea, I'll get a call the next day, right?" Lee laughs, as his students battle it out nearby. "It's so obviously great! You don't even need to describe it: world's biggest Pong!"
"""
Anything that helps us live in present moment is helpful. Even future planning must start from a place grounded in a awareness of where things are at now. If Eckhart helps you do that, great. I enjoy occasionally watching him on youtube. My personally favorite is Alan Watts though.
Maybe this?
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-power-plant/
It's not terrible to cancel that program for a while. Her previous counterparts spent too much time on politics and people at home weren't WORKING on what the company needed. When the company is out of control, somebody has to take reigns..and it usually sucks for everybody.

Just remember, MOST employers in the country DON'T OFFER work from home at all. Or of the do offer it, it is primarily for sales people.. That are never actually "at home". This whole thing is a top 10% problem.. Only the top richest companies offer top employees these type of options.

Now child care and commuting is a DIFFERENT problem. Perhaps Yahoo doesn't need all its staff in crazy expensive trendy cities. They could relocate some offices out to other places property values and commute times are more reasonable... But that is for another time.
This discussion is shaping up in the other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5578195 . Also, I've been discussing it with other people for the past 48 hours. Austin is getting a lot of recommendation. I feel like #4-10 tech hubs are probably better targets than nonentities, but we'll see.

As I think about it, I don't want the governments footing the bill. I'd prefer to have at least 50% private investment (1:! matching?) as long as it's willing to stay passive enough not to interfere with engineer autonomy. Furthermore, over the long term, I'd want the ability of engineers to buy into the fund.
I'm glad to see Microsoft reusing the algorithm that Google uses instead of inventing their own. Now if Blizzard would just do the same...
I have no idea who Barrett Brown is, but I found this interesting profile of him:

http://www.dmagazine.com/Home/D_Magazine/2011/April/How_Barr...

It seems like he's an Aaron Swartz-like character who is involved with Anonymous.
> Staying home with children to avoid the cost of a full-time nanny is a common reason for telecommuting.

I'm not sure I understand your point. Could you please elaborate?

How does working from home avoid the cost of a full-time nanny? If I work when I'm at home then I can't, by definition, take care of my children at the same time.

Assuming a minimal commute, working from home doesn't save hardly any time at all.
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singing...
But they offer SecureImage™ and SecurePassphrase™!
There's a second elephant in the room, though a slightly more subtle one:

Was the elimination of WFH at Yahoo housecleaning? There have been many reports from former Yahoo insiders that the WFH policy was abused to no end by a small number of people.

I remember there was a large Microsoft layoff a while back during the fallout from the '08 crisis, which insiders also reported to be housecleaning. After all, what better opportunity to cut loose a lot of dead weight the company has accumulated, without incurring the requisite "is the sky falling at Microsoft?" reporting?

Personally I'd rather have people able to work remotely, but flexibility in staid, slow, crufty large corporations is more often a source of abuse rather than actual flexibility. I'm willing to believe that Yahoo's move was justified.
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In the original, pages were individually titled. The title was often quite relevant.

Can you add that to the top or bottom of each page?
No, I didn't misunderstand. 'Nothing' and 0 are not interchangeable.
People use bing?
Crappy reporting. They make it sound like the funds have been seized the way, say, drug money, drug money is seized, and the defendant gets no benefit from them.

What the Court is doing here is taking control of the funds to ensure they are used for the defense.
Is there a such thing as a corruption-repellent, paychopath-kryptonite system, and if so, what is it?

I doubt it. I think we have to just keep reinventing. There's no system we can set up and have it run on its own.

I like the way the Scandinavians think: they hybridize between the socialist welfare state and a capitalistic market for innovation in a way we could stand to learn from.
My familiarity with this issue extends only so far as the coverage it has received on HN, and this is the first time this "most controversial" aspect of the decision has been brought up.

The whole nursery thing also strikes me as a bit of a red herring. Yes, CEOs of multi billion dollar companies taking home million dollar paychecks receive perks that rank and file employees don't get to enjoy. Maybe I'm just complacent, but that doesn't even begin to enter "controversial scandal" territory IMO.
No it's not a bug. I had to read it twice. For me it says 10°F warmer and a bit windier than this time yesterday. It's also way clearer than yesterday and it'll be warmer an hour from now. The keyword in that is warmer. So if the temperature is the same as it was a day prior, it would be 0.

Very nice project by the way.