skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
oop = c++/java/ruby/python
funtional = c/scala/ruby/python
don't use: php
web: java/ruby/python
desk: net/c++/java
try: clojure, scala, f#
nice to know: groovy(for grails)
javascript = no categories
One one hand, you're right. On the other hand, chasing dreams like that is far riskier without substantial cash in the bank.

If it truly is his life dream, then sure - go for it without the money. But a lot of dreams turn out to not be so much fun after a month after all, and the big difference the cash makes is that you don't need to commit. Dreams change? Big deal. Dip into the savings and move/do something entirely different next month.

If you have the money you are free to chase "dreams" that you are a lot less serious about.
really nice and useful. Will use it for sure
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>Even then, though, we will stay a small team, with ‘satisfactory’ goals, and hopefully living ‘good enough’ lives.

IMO, a realignment of corporate objectives from "maximizing shareholder returns" to "giving reasonable returns (to investors)" should ideally develop in tandem as well. We're all out of whack these days; hopefully we can regain some balance to society's expectation of our careers and lives one of these days.
Retiring a payment system is really the ultimate insult to those that invest in your platforms.

Imagine the bank that you use for your business transactions, especially recurring billing, to one day walk in and say: so sorry, you won't be able to process your old payments any more, but here is a new and shiny service that we think is better that you'll have to use from now on.

Never mind the integration overhead, possible loss of business, customer service issues and all the other headaches that can come from a thing like this.

I'm scared just to change bank accounts given how far those bits of information have propagated, losing a billing platform is a nightmare for businesses that rely on it.

Why would anyone switch to another service by the same provider that just chose to shut you down or that chose to saddle you up with a bunch of overhead on this years calendar?

Google partnering with braintree, shopify and freshbooks is the saving grace here.

In payment systems only two things matter: fraud control and continuity. Google excels at the first, drops the ball on the second.
I think now days you really want to have 3 factor authentication for e-mail. It is a gateway to just about anything you do online!
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Your link did not work http://hackathonprojects.tk/

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Any chance of getting it working again, it sounds interesting?
Ah, I see. Hence the quotes, sorry, I should have gotten that.

I developed some pretty complex apps using Cappuccino and Atlas, before Motorola bought them and shitcanned it. But even before that happened, I stopped using Atlas, and I think there are probably a lot of lessons about how not to make a GUI-builder-IDE-like-thing that one could derive from Atlas (and a lot of similar projects). Doing the GUIs in code actually ended up being a lot easier.

Smart guides and drag and drop are great when they work, but infuriating when they don't snap to the right coordinates, and the inspectors don't let you edit all the properties you need.

My advice/feature request for you and anybody contemplating a similar project is to have some part of your GUI builder that lets the user get 'close to the metal', such that in cases where the GUI to build your GUIs isn't yet smart/sophisticated enough to do what they need, they can directly edit the underlying representation of the GUI objects (which kind implies that it is some kind of human readable textual format)/

E.g., if under the hood your GUI definition is a big JSON structure, have an 'Advanced' tab where you can directly edit that JSON, so that the user can edit literally every single property of the objects when they need to.
At its core, the essential work is to detect changes important to the user. Adding summarization techniques to further weed out the noise would be a very important improvement.
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Ugh recipe-book statistics! This might be useful but not to programmers. No-one should be applying any of the more complex formulas on this page without a good basic grounding in the theory, which is something nearly all programmers will lack (and fair enough). The best place for programmers to start is understanding the basics of likelihood functions, maximum likelihood estimation, Bayes rule and likelihood ratio tests. Then look at e.g. the derivation of the chi-squared test statistic as an approximation to a likelihood ratio test of multinomial distributions to get a sense of where all the mysterious formulas of classical statistics come from.
Using Sieve it is possible to monitor any kind of webpage. It should be possible to monitor websites that require you to log in to check updates too.
Another proof of the fact that security questions are a really bad idea.

I'd rather have to go through some manual time intensive procedure in the unlikely instance of losing access to my password safe, instead of opening myself that wide to social engineering.
But surely they don't make $49 per user per year on ads? It looks like they're over-charging on the paid accounts to cover the costs of the free accounts. Especially the 1TB is free, 2TB is $500 deal.

And it seems that after proving people will happily pay for premium features, they've now sent an email to all their customers which essentially says unless you have over 1TB of photos with us (which is pretty-much no-one), you may as well cancel and use the free account instead.

It seems like a very bizarre structure to me and I can't see people subscribing to it which is a shame as IMHO they've just vastly improved what was already by far the best product in its market.

I Hope I'm wrong.
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> IMO, a realignment of corporate objectives from "maximizing shareholder returns" to "giving reasonable returns (to investors)" should ideally develop in tandem as well.

For publicly traded companies, not maximizing shareholder returns can be a criminal offense. This is the real problem.
I like the so-called Steve Jobs prioritisation (can't remember where I heard this attributed to SJ). The concept is that the purpose for existence of a company is three-fold, in this order of priority:

1) Delight/help/solve a problem for its customers

2) Be a great place to work

3) Provide shareholder returns

Part of the concept is of course that focusing on the first 2 will lead to a more sustainable third.
1 TB free space is meaningless for me, unless they allow the upload of RAW files. As a hobbyist photographer, I avoid JPEG like a plague and store keep all my images in NEF (Nikon RAW) format.
Exhibit A for why a lot of economics articles are poisonous and should be flagged for removal. Comments on this thread include lots of name calling and other inflammatory rhetoric that does not make for very good discussion. Also, people have pretty much already made up their minds about this stuff... Austrian True Believer types are not going to be swayed by being called weirdos, and the rest of us aren't going to be convinced by 'praxeology'.
now that's what you call revamping a service! Awesome =)
Gildan shirts are the worst, I am growing really tired of T-Shirt companies using them just because they are clearly the cheapest stock they can get hold of.
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Maybe I'm in a minority, but I genuinely don't care about seeing the ads.

I'd never pay for them to be turned off, unless perhaps if it was a small site or community that I wanted to help out / donate to.

Oh, and the audio ads in Spotify, I'd pay in blood not to hear them :D
Not true, I'm changing the time frame and see that my URL updates the "range" parameter.
Opera 14 for Android is out, based on Chromium
So why did they go for storage instead of pumping the features with premium subscriptions.

It's more impressive. Storage is easy to add and increase. Just throw more harddisk at it. This not not the case with features (how do you reliably double your features?)
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I like to quote the Johnson & Johnson credo, written in 1943 by the founding chairman before the company went public. It mirrors your SJ priorities very closely (and I think it's important since JNJ shows that such priorities don't have to be a virtue limited to tech companies):

We believe our first responsibility is to the doctors, nurses and patients, to mothers and fathers and all others who use our products and services. In meeting their needs everything we do must be of high quality. We must constantly strive to reduce our costs in order to maintain reasonable prices. Customers' orders must be serviced promptly and accurately. Our suppliers and distributors must have an opportunity to make a fair profit.

We are responsible to our employees, the men and women who work with us throughout the world. Everyone must be considered as an individual. We must respect their dignity and recognize their merit. They must have a sense of security in their jobs. Compensation must be fair and adequate, and working conditions clean, orderly and safe. We must be mindful of ways to help our employees fulfill their family obligations. Employees must feel free to make suggestions and complaints. There must be equal opportunity for employment, development and advancement for those qualified. We must provide competent management, and their actions must be just and ethical.

We are responsible to thecommunities in which we live and work and to the world community as well. We must be good citizens -- support good works and charities and pay our fair share of taxes. We must encourage civic improvements and better health and education. We must maintain in good order the property we are privileged to use, protecting the environment and natural resources.

Our final responsibility is to our stockholders. Business must make a sound profit. We must experiment with new ideas. Research must be carried on, innovative programs developed and mistakes paid for. New equipment must be purchased, new facilities provided and new products launched. Reserves must be created to provide for adverse times. When we operate according to these principles, the stockholders should realize a fair return.

http://www.jnj.com/wps/wcm/connect/c7933f004f5563df9e22be1bb...
If you drop a file into your Dropbox Public folder you can share it instantly though.
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To be honest, I think you're being a tad argumentative. All the former poster said was the was "I'm sure that there's a bit of selection bias going on." Which is actually a very fair comment as polling at set times when only a specific region is active will generate some selection bias. He didn't state that it's a forgone conclusion that vi/emacs is unpopular in SV. If anything, he was just stating the obvious about how not everyone is on the same timezone and thus around to vote.

And accusing me of "totally derailing [your] thread" when it's neither your thread and nor am I going off topic, is rather childish. I appreciate you wanted pyre to expand on his comments, but let's not descend into hair-pulling just because someone else happens to side with a comment that you presumably misinterpreted (and I'm making that presumption because you latter agreed with his comment when I reworded it).
They are actually turning back to that. The are at least 5 new different variants coming up of their S4 "flagship": S4 regular, S4 Google Edition, S4 Mini, S4 Active, S4 Zoom, S4 Mega.

And that's just for one "phone brand". Imagine if they do this to every other phone brand of theirs, which are already being called all "Galaxy". Samsung strategy is becoming a mess again. It will work in the short term (a year or so), and then backfire badly.
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What's (allegedly) hard to grasp is that Tumblr is Tumblr, not a generic money-engine that eats X dollars worth of fuel and puts out $Y worth of value. Mayer is acknowledging that part of Tumblr's recipe for spitting out that $Y is the culture that the users and the team have made, and that approaching it as if that didn't matter will not work.

Whether that's how Tumblr's integration into Yahoo! will actually be treated remains to be seen.
Are you sure about this? The Johnson & Johnson credo which I posted above goes directly against your claim, and so does Costco's operations (where they have resisted multiple calls by Wall Street to increase prices and reduce employee pay and benefits)

I can see that not maximizing returns can cause a storm in the shareholder meetings, but can you give a source for it being a "criminal offense" to refrain from doing so?
My $1,200 in Google Stock made x2 more profit than my $100 in Yahoo.

- Hopefuly you don't trade much.
Well, that, and teenagers posting stuff about their hobbies. Doesn't even need to be the cool kids anymore. If you can amass enough content from the nerds to get them networking with each other and then make some money off it, it works.

Of course, the issue with Tumblr is the make some money off it part, but Yahoo is from the '90s, so they know not to expect to make money off things.
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The main problem here is that a large amount of a consumer web service's user base are none technical, "normal", people who will in all likelihood balk at a more complicated authentication process unless they can really see the need for it OR it is implemented really well. Currently the best implementation is the card reader used by banks but that is a pain as you have to have it with you all the time (however it is protected people's money and so a certain level of pain is more tolerable in this instance). As a result most banks only use it for big stuff like sending money to a new account etc. I think only Barclay's use it for logon and it is a real PITA and made me leave them as a bank.

Santander use the "if you don't recognise the picture above then don't login" method which is stupid as if people don't login regularly then they will forget what picture they choose and login anyway.
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Senators accuse Apple of 'highly questionable' billion-dollar tax avoidance
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For a big corporation it is not important to succeed in most acquisition. The real risk, is that some startup eats your current business model and you didn't buy it when you could still afford it. If most acquisitions "fail" that is ok, you still sit on a ton of money.

In other words, probability is more or less irrelevant, because if you fail it means a small loss which does not risk the company's future, on the other hand, if you don't acquire, and the small business succeeds big time, then that is a big loss, and may eventually kill you.
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Woah, you couldn't have this any more backwards. Google Finance regularly publish bad price and fundamentals data, including for their own ticker. It's been that way since launch. Their database is also full of stub companies that haven't traded in decades (with no useful information attached).

If you spent more than a few days using it you'd know this.
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Is there anything wrong with the python bindings to phantom? I used phantomjs (it's great)a few years ago and I thought there were some python bindings to the original phantom C++ library - could be wrong though.
Nice. There's also https://github.com/jeanphix/Ghost.py which I remember using a couple of months ago.
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vi defaults to vim on some of my machines, to nvi on others. I like to have access to both.

vim pros: syntax highlighting is often nice (though when I really care about highlighting, I usually use Emacs), vim's :help is very nice, vim is usually installed

nvi pros: the small TCB I prefer when I'm root (`find /usr/share/vim -name \*.vim | wc -l` just gave me 1103 results, including hundreds of scripts that might be run without me explicitly asking for them), no splash screen, avoids the autoindenting that is often irritating, bound to vi on FreeBSD

I can't say nvi vs. vim efficiency has been an issue for me, but it has been for some people ... http://www.galexander.org/vim_sucks.html
It's the same kind of argument made about ruby being 'developer friendly.' My hunch is that the brain is so much more complex than _any_ programming language - that drawing out likenesses to one over the others is overdoing it. It's like saying 'zucchini is like pizza because it can be cut into round slices like pepperoni.'

One point that was missed is that all those curly brackets look a bit like neurons :)
I agree -- in the headline, I took the number directly from the article as they stated "[t]he potential data breach affects 10% of Yahoo's user base."

Another article clarifies that the total number of Yahoo Japan accounts as 200 million, so it was actually 10% of all Yahoo Japan accounts. My apologies for contributing to that impression.
Tizen has Android's ecosystem, which is nearly as good as having Google's ecosystem (let's be honest, it didn't really hurt Amazon much did it?)

> So, what I'm saying is, even under optimal circumstances regarding Tizen, Google is rational to think they don't have to consider Samsung a threat this year, or for a few years.

Not really. It will already be too late in a few years when Tizen has proven itself (assuming that it does). As the saying goes, "there's no point closing the stable door after the horse has bolted." And lets also remember that a threat doesn't mean actual damage - threats are warnings about the potential to do danger (and sometimes those warnings amount to little more than bluffs). So Tizen is already a threat, the question is whether Samsung manage to substantiate on that threat and carve a slice from Android's market share. And if Google want to ensure that doesn't happen then they need to already be acting rather than waiting until something does and then trying to react (just look at how well that strategy has worked out for Palm, Nokia, RIM/Blackberry and Microsoft).
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Not to sound rude but what's your experience with project management ? Have you been a project manager or somehow involved in projects ?
How are you going to solve a problem that you don't know anything about ?
...because task to be solved to score higher IQ differ from task to be solved to succeed in investment.
I jumped a long time ago. But to this day, there is no web app comparable to GMail or GCal.
Would you want to work your whole life on one product? Maybe he felt it was good enough.
Thanks for the advice. You are right, each object is serialized as a JSON structure (freeze dried) and then instantiated when the GUI loads. Definitely that JSON should be editable.
A normal bank transfer will ultimately cost less, I would just contact your U.S. bank to inquire about a ITT, International Telegraphic Transfer.
My point is simply that you can't subtract the velocities of the two planets and call that your delta V. Delta V is the amount of actual powered acceleration your rocket does, which is only very indirectly related to the differences in velocities between the origin and destination planets.

For example, to get from an Earth-like solar orbit to an asteroid orbiting the sun very far away, at nearly 0 velocity, you'd need nearly solar escape velocity at 1 AU, or about 42 km/sec, minus the Earth's 30 km/sec. Even without taking advantage of gravitational slingshots or the Oberth effect, the delta V requirement is 12 km/sec, not 30 km/sec. So subtracting velocities has nothing to do with delta V.
Nice. It's just a collection of background colours for the buttons, though. These don't have any functionality, not even add the icons.

But nice eye candy anyway.
Japan's IPA (Information-technology Promotion Agency) include in their general application development guidelines that user ID's should not be email addresses for the exact reason that they "are easy to guess".

I spent some time arguing that this was a silly requirement but in the end I had to change my program to use non-email address user IDs (which no one can remember as they are specific to this application... )
Surprisingly accurate, unfortunately.
Correct, I can't see the practical use of this.

If Alice and Bob must have a secure method to jointly compute K(A) ⊕ K(B), then why wouldn't then use that same method to just exchange the data?
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Apple put some effort into fixing the password recovery vulnerability for AppleID's recently (i.e. a few months ago), vs. KBA.
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Isn't that the standard way to decide what to optimize? There's often not much gain to be had if you are optimizing things that are not the bottleneck.
I don't even understand why there are in-game economies. It's not as if the goods are scarce, so just distribute them as dropped items from random encounters and such.
Nice, I'd also like to see benchmarks with GOMAXPROCS > 1 so we can see whether the (scheduling, inter-process communication, context switch ...) overhead it brings with it has been reduced.
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Ask HN: Do you like the new Flickr?
Do you like the new Flickr? Please tell your opinions and also tell about how you use it, for how long please. Thanks.
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This. If you don't want to and/or are unable to properly operate your systems, please stay on Heroko, AppEngine etc., otherwise this is a disaster waiting to happen.
The point of the first heading " Flickr was acquired by Yahoo in March ‘05 for $35M" - was to show that Flickr has been a failure ever since Yahoo bought it.

Given the recent reboot and redesign, I doubt that will continue to be the case - hence my statement.
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Upvoted both your comments - agreed with all of it.
While I understand what you are saying, it does imply that people should not try to experiment or think of new usages because "it will ruin it for everyone else".
I imagine I am not alone here, but I actually can't find out how much space I am currently using 4,000+ photos. Looked on the stats page, but nothing there regarding the number of MB/GB used. Any ideas?
For those of us on the outside, what's the typical use cases of a headless browser engine? Testing?
That's a very good point. Two factor authentication is the way to go IMO. It is a pain to have it with you all of the time, but what if it was just a simple little USB that you used to reset the password?

To login you need your password + your phone but to reset your password you need that USB with a unique fingerprint on. That way, I'd just keep it at home in some kind of safe.
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Agree!

I can't believe Yahoo doesn't have a professional creative team to work on this product.

Flickr got screwed up by bunch of engineers who have no taste of aesthetics.
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We use it to generate images from a website. We do a product with HTML5/CSS3 and webfonts, layout it all then "screenshooting it" to make a final image with the proportions we want. It's cool because its server side and we can generate endless images based on what the user want.

Addendum: If you want to use webfonts, specially from Google, you need to recompile Phantom to support WOFF.
How (not) to introduce radical user interface changes