skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you're stating is a gross generalization and untrue in a literal sense (probably easy to realize if you remember how things were a decade ago).

While Y!J and Y!Inc are separate entities, the former does borrow/use technology from the former and some of the Y!J services use Y!Inc servers and/or services maintained by Y!Inc.

Y!J user ids are completely separate from Y!Inc though (Y!Inc ids are shared through out the Y! locales).

It's been almost a decade since I was at Y!J, but from what I understand Y!J does continue to leverage the Y!Inc relationship for services and servers.

Additionally, simply stating that old technology is the reason for a security breach could be a red herring, it isn't always the age of the technology but how it is implemented.
This doesn't put me off heroku very much. Seems a pretty meager list of complaints.
Karp lost nothing, and gained a great deal. I suspect that he can only shake his head at the notion that anybody with a three-digit IQ would step inside a high school under any circumstances.
(Okay, I'll bite). Von Mises was the mentor of Hayek. You know, the one who won the Nobel Price?

F.A. Hayek... he has also led the way in attacking the mathematical models and the planning pretensions of the would-be "scientists," and in integrating economics into a wider libertarian social philosophy.

Perhaps one reason is the evident and galloping breakdown of orthodox Keynesian "macroeconomics," which leads even the most hidebound economists to at least consider alternative theories and solutions.

Everybody is drowning in debt, but hey let's just print more and we'll all get wealthy.

http://mises.org/daily/4082
And then there's Eve, the evil one, the eavesdropper, the susceptible one in Genesis.
Much ado about nothing, as the App Store will do diff updates, starting in iOS 6: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/ipad/#qa/qa1779/_inde...

So the author is about 9 months late with his complaint. I mean, assuming that is his complaint; he never explicitly says.
Or that yachting is like standing under a cold shower tearing up £50 notes.
Please, have a plugin for the major photo packages (Lightroom, Aperture, iPhoto, etc). Making it easy to get the images into your site lowers the barrier dramatically.

I stick with flickr because I use Aperture. It can export directly to my flickr account and means I have one less headache.
Since I moved to California I no longer wear socks at all. I find that there is little need given the climate. Maybe this is the real reason for the miracle of Silicon Valley?
I agree with the GP post. What they need is better value. If all they have is that they know about it and you don't, why are they being paid such a large rate? If that's all they do, they should be paid slightly more than a job posting rate, because they are acting only slightly more useful than a job posting.

OTOH, we've seen posts before from a company trying to be the equivalent of an agent for developers. Negotiating better salary and finding jobs the developer is going to enjoy more is indeed a service that is worth the expense for the developer; the company is also more likely to get a long-term, quality (viz. someone at least interested in the company's vision) hire. The problem is that this kind of recruitment requires effort, real communication, and thoughtfulness, instead of email-blasting as many addresses as you can find.
The Wright Brothers were Not the first to fly a plane
Presumably you resort to grade school-level name-calling because you don't have an actual intellectual argument.
I'm trying self-depreciate, but apparently I'm inadvertently simultaneously obtuse.
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The problem is that in order to make the experience fun for new players, the faucets have to be relatively open and the sinks not too punitive. I'm not sure how you can successfully balance a truly working virtual economy with making it fun for any but the most hardcore trader types, especially once real money comes officially into the equation.
I think you mean the right unit :)
> I’m definitely not saying there isn’t value in hiring female web developers. There is so much value. But not because she’s a female.

Thank you so much for this. Similarly, there is absolutely no need to be annoyed by a lack of female physicists, mathematicians etc., but only by the fact that many intelligent women still waste their talents at home or studying Applied History Of Liberal Arts and, if they do get into a good workspace, quickly raise the suspicion that someone had to fulfil a quota.
Except it is turning into that, like r/cringe.

r/tumblrinaction was great in pointing out the ridiculous beliefs and lengths others would go to in the name of "social justice." However, I've seen a surge in activity of making fun of overweight people[1] and even the mods breaking rule one[2]. I'm not surprised by these activities because I expect such group mentality to bring about the same kind of people that social justice warriors did. People make a mockery of "others," it's human nature.

[1]http://www.reddit.com/r/TumblrInAction/comments/1ekf0f/thin_...
[2]http://www.reddit.com/r/TumblrInAction/comments/1eefjc/its_o...
How so? Most people who use Tumblr daily are under 30. Do people under 30 interact with pharma daily in the US? Why? Anti-depression meds come to mind, but why when you have tumblr?
Text editor vs IDE
first world problems. in all seriousness
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>The very short time limits

IANAL, and I may not be reading the bill correctly, but it looks to me like the limit is always 10 days, which doesn't seem that bad to me. The relevant language is: "10 whole days if the warrant is issued under Section 5A, Article 18.21". Section 5A is the meat of this bill. I think the warrants we're concerned with are all issued under section 5A.

Note that the 3 day limit is current law. The 10 day limit is new.

>the contempt of court threat

What would the penalty be for failing to comply with a court-issued search warrant, if not contempt of court? I was under the impression that was already normal.
Seven Holograms That Would Blow Your Mind
DRBD? http://drbd.org/
I would if I used it a lot.. Extensive ads ruin a lot of webpages to the extend that I just stay away..

Yes, I know I could use adblock etc., which helps, but the design and layout is still much worse than it could be. It's worth paying a small amount to fix sites I use a lot.

Also, it's the principle of the thing. If they can't see that their site is totally f#¤ useless and ugly, I'm not going to bother with them.
"Furthermore, inflation is not simply an increase in the supply of money within an economy; it is the increase in that portion (if any) not backed by a commensurate increase in specie: most common in history, market commodities like gold or silver. "

Either the author of that article is misenterpreting, I am misinterpreting or Austrian school of Economics is tad stupid. I'm hoping that the one at fault here is me.

Basically even with increase of the amount of gold or silver you'd still get inflation, check what happened with Spain at 1500 or so when they got a huge influx of gold from the new world.

You can also imagine what would happen if suddenly we'd get huge influx of new gold. As the amount of stuff in the world does not increase the amount you can buy with that new gold must decrease.
Yeah its now combined to be 15GB for all Google products.
When was the last time you saw a caveman or a chimpanzee flying on an airplane or using a computer?

I was speaking of evolution in broad terms (as in, social and technological evolution as a race) not strictly in terms of darwinian evolution.
The article has a few things that aren't correct, as posted by other users.

If you are using Yahoo! Japan, check out the feature I was in charge of... alerting you when you have a login event on your account from a new device, and possibly locking your account: http://login.yahoo.co.jp/alert/intro
The original pro account removed ads while browsing the site, Not from your pages as viewed by others. Plus a lot of the time your Photos are submitted to groups, would adds be removed every time one of your pictures turned up on the page?

Pretty sure it is not a business feature to show a clean page but a viewer option for distraction free viewing.
Just talking about this with an office colleague.

An interest forum (sports site, gaming network, subreddit, etc) is not unlike a party in some ways in that it is not unreasonable for someone to overhear a topic being discussed and pick the right time to say "You guys talking about [x]? What did you think about [aspect of x]?"

Is Facebook a little more like separate dining tables at a restaurant? If you overheard a neighbouring table discussing a topic of interest, only in very particular circumstances would you jump in and participate.
Photo import is something I want to offer, but I need to make sure it doesn't break the terms of service of the other sites before I add it :)

I'm working out the subscription cost at the moment; I'm currently thinking around £25 per year. Does that sound reasonable? I'll very likely offer a discount to any beta users who upgrade within the first month or so too, as I'm really grateful for any and all feedback.
The edge case of this problem where the ratio is infinity, i.e. you want the crossing perpendicular to the street/river edges makes a nice kids math puzzle. It's usually formulated as "place a bridge over river so that the road between two houses is the shortest".
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'The "Wallet for digital goods API" continues to process transactions for you, so there is still processing in Wallet.'

Checkout was used by merchants that sell physical goods. So the digital goods api is irrelevant.
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These are definitely on the horizon. This is one of the things that has been on my to-do list from the start. I did look into how the integrations work, IIRC Lightroom was pretty straightforward, but I assume Aperture can't be that much more tricky :)
Rooting Galaxy S3 I9300 on Android 4.2.2 XXUFME3 Jelly Bean
This is what I have for controlling tabs:

" Mappings for controlling tabs.
noremap <M-a> :tabprevious<CR>
noremap <M-s> :tabnext<CR>
noremap <M-1> :tabnext 1<CR>
noremap <M-2> :tabnext 2<CR>
noremap <M-3> :tabnext 3<CR>
noremap <M-4> :tabnext 4<CR>
noremap <M-5> :tabnext 5<CR>
noremap <M-6> :tabnext 6<CR>
noremap <M-7> :tabnext 7<CR>
noremap <M-8> :tabnext 8<CR>
noremap <M-9> :tabnext 9<CR>

More here: https://github.com/daGrevis/Dotfiles/blob/master/.vimrc .
Cross platform vim script development
You say "community-elected" as if users voted for them; wouldn't it be more accurate to say they're appointed by the existing administration?
Also, the focus on "the money supply" is a red herring. What matter for real world prices is supply and demand of real world goods.

When you seriously study hyperinflationary periods, you realize that - unlike the story of this Diablo auction house bug - it's basically never a case of governments going crazy with printing money. There's always an underlying cause that came before the hyperinflation - usually a combination of a collapse of production capacity (in Zimbabwe, caused by drastic and ill thought-out economic reforms) and crushing foreign-curency denominated debt. See this paper, for example: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1799102

It is true that excessive spending by anyone can lead to inflation (not just by government, since most money is actually "created" by private banks). However, what Austrian-types like the Mises people blind themselves to is the fact that the economy has two possible reactions to an increase in demand: There can be price increases, and there can be increases in production.

To end up at their stated position, Austrians have to completely deny the possibility of production increases. It's no wonder they got basically all of their inflation-related predictions wrong for many years. They are unfortunately closer to religious dogma than serious economic analysis.
Thanks. I am going to rebuild Atlas, but not in Cappuccino, in a new JavaScript-only (no Objective-J) framework im calling cupertino.js. Just looking for feedback on the idea right now.
Software developer wages fall 2% as workforce expands
I would say that this is how most people would instinctively cross a road (a low traffic road with no crossing and with one's destination along the road on the other side, as in the model). A mathematician tries to find a proof for it :)
The same steady growth has been seen in the US stock market as a whole. Compare Yahoo! against DJIA, S&P500, and the NASDAQ composite indices. [1].

The US Economy FTW!

[1] http://s831.us/10hgz8D
Opera 14 for Android
I have a Yahoo Japan ID. The day after this was announced I got an email from Yahoo japan with a subject that translates "Requesting regular password changes."
I expected some kind of explanation or apology but the email didn't even mention that there was a breach. It just went on about how I should change my password from time to time and keep my passwords safe by not using on other sites etc. Given the news I found it kind of rude for them to act like nothing happened, yet ask me to be more careful with my password.

パスワードを定期的に変更しましょう！
Let's be sure to change passwords from time to time!

パスワードの管理には気をつけて！
Be careful with your password management!

etc....

It reads like a direct translation of an English communication, and feels culturally out of place.
The ability to downvote.
Microsoft Readies New Xbox as Entertainment Hub
Cheers for the great work, I'm really looking forward to working through this.
"And customers are left holding the bag."

Ok, let's dial down the drama here. I'm trying to understand the point, other than Yahoo has historically been a poor acquiring company. Shocker!

Let's see...Delicious, MyBlogLog, Flickr, Upcoming. How many of these services had customers as opposed to users?

I'm pretty sure we can substitute names of large tech companies and their acquisition lists here and have the article read the same way.
They don't dominate any market like they do Android phones. Are 90% of all fridges sold made by Samsung?
> Everybody is drowning in debt

Wrong. The economy was fueled by unsustainable private debt before the economic crisis. Part of the recession was shifting this private debt somewhere else, so that it has largely become sustainable public debt.

Your claim that "everybody is drowning in debt" is clearly a mischaracterization of what is happening in the real world.

Regarding your off-the-cuff comment about "printing more": I find it incredible that Austrian types still cling to their delusions so much that they outright deny the possibility that an increase of demand can lead (and does lead, in a slow economy) to an increase of production.
I'm pretty sure that the existing conservative GC in cgo doesn't even scan the C part of the heap, so if you try to use unanchored pointers to Go objects, you will crash. More details here, in the comments: https://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse/misc/cgo/gmp/gmp....

I'm not sure how gccgo does it. There may be some limitations there based on the gcc internals, but I don't see why that would prevent cgo from developing a precise collector.
Or maybe not. Here are some previous submissions of the same story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5730887 <- moderate discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5737910

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5738327

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5738595

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5741949
Maybe I'll give it a try, I use http://www.changedetection.com/ for some pages I like to monitor (typically job sites) but it works only if you can clearly address the page you want to monitor
Credit scores are pretty far removed from the world of online communities -- it's just not practical to credit-check people who just want to use a forum or play an online game or so forth, but yeah, they are relevant from the point of view that they're a widely accepted form of reputation economy, and they've been around long enough to show how a reputation economy could behave, and what sort of social norms you might expect to arise. For instance, congress has decreed that people have a right to find out what their score is, and what data was used to calculate it.

Reputation bankruptcy in particular is an interesting concept. In practice, for most online communities it basically amounts to creating a new account and starting over, but you could have some kind of mechanism for someone to declare bankruptcy (i.e. remove all positive and negative ratings about that user) without having to change their identity.

I do think that negative ratings should expire eventually so that a single bad interaction doesn't have consequences that last forever, and if you expire bad ratings, that means you pretty much have to expire good ratings as well.

My approach to ignoring fake accounts is to treat reputation as fundamentally subjective. In other words, it doesn't make sense to say "Bob has twelve units of reputation" -- rather, you would say something like, "From the point of view of Alice, Bob has twelve units of reputation". (In our system, we actually use multidimensional scores, but I don't want to complicate the example.) The only thing that matters is how Bob is connected to Alice. If there are a thousand dummy accounts that rate Bob positively, it doesn't matter at all unless Alice has given a positive rating of one of those dummy accounts, or one of Alice's friends has, or one of her friend's friends, and so on, and the more hops there are between Alice and the dummy account, the weaker it's contribution to Bob's score will be.
You usually see notes or clarification posted to questions in the form of comments first, where the types of links are more introductory, general purpose, than specific as you might find in answers.

Can't wait to see the updated stats.

If you could make "more" load more than just a few more records, though, that'd make it a lot easier to dig deeper.
Anti-intellectualism at its finest. You advocate that people not learn. What Karp lost is knowledge. He can try to gain it back as an adult, but most likely he'll be too preoccupied with his lottery winnings and socializing in the business world to care. Meanwhile, others will make serious progress for our society.

Unless you have the luxury of equivalent or better education than high schools provide, you are choosing a life of ignorance.
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The Elon Musk model, perhaps? Bootstrap by delivering to the people, repeat until Mars.
Auto scaling rules eh? Wait till you get DDoSed...
As a followup, the most effective way to minimize upload time would be to start from the front of the file with gzip or something similarly quick, and simultaneously start the heavyweight compressions from the end of the file. When the two meet the more compressed content gets sent for the remainder of the file.
I opened my PayPal account in April of 2002 and have made hundreds of payments with no major issues. I rarely comment regarding PayPal (and occasionally join in on the PayPal hate -- it's too easy!), but count me in as someone who is doing fine with PayPal.
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Actually, a huge influx of gold probably would not affect our economy today that much, because the total amount of gold is quite small relative to the size of the world economy, and gold is not used as a currency anyway. It would obviously destroy the price of gold, though.

That's really one of the two main problem with inflation scare mongers: they don't usually talk about the scale of things. A gigantic influx of new money would certainly cause inflation. However, when the Austrians come out of their holes, one is usually talking about low single-digit percentages of GDP in spending, which is really not that much.

The second main problem of Austrian inflationistas is that they deny the possibility that economic production can increase in response to an increase in spending.
> successfully balance

You could try to balance faucets with omnipresent unavoidable sinks aka. taxes. But how fun would it be to pay taxes in a game? "You loot 100 gold. Minus 30% gold drop tax. 10% dungeon upkeep tax and 15% financial transaction tax." :)

So the thing is: As soon as you try to model a "real" economy (possibly with real money exchanges) you can't have artificial faucets and sinks. Even Eve Online - which has the most advanced game economy - struggles with inflation as there are too many faucets. For such an economy to work you need to have a steady amount of money circulating the economy. And the only source (and destination) for money for players has to be other players.

But then you get a lot of other problems. Like what if a player hoards all the gold? Or if players just deactivate their accounts with significant gold sums on them? How do new players get their first gold? etc.
They are still working with low hanging fruit. Brad Fitzpatrick mentioned his optimization method was to run the profile, and pick the thing on the top to work on.
This is good fun...
Nicely written article, but it doesn't seem to factor in the fact that the item supply is also increasing over time. Since players are only equiping stuff only once in a while, the items have nowhere to go, thus decreasing in value.

While players (or bots) farm for gold, they're also farming for items. It would be interesting to see how item prices evolved over time...it might be that only prices for high end items have skyrocketed, while decent low end items are almost free.
And EVE online has had economist onboard since 2007

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=virtual-wor...
The goal of a business is ultimately to make money.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer. - Peter Drucker

A customer is defined as a person who pays a business for goods and services.
There's one good way: binding.

You allow players to add an after market effect to an item to greatly increase its value. However, doing so makes it bound to your account, and you can't sell it on the auction house anymore.

This can serve as both a tremendous sink of resources that players can work towards and a removal of valuable items from the market. (Because when the player eventually upgrades the item, the original item cannot be resold.)
There is a difference between inflation and hyperinflation. Hyperinflation is not too much money or not enough money to spend. Hyperinflation is a loss of confidence in the currency (ie, people immediately exchange the currency for something real). Money’s component as a store of value is what prevents inflationary episodes from happening. Imagine, if everyone believed that whatever cash that they hold would lose 50% of purchasing power by the end of the year, they would more than likely go ahead and spend it now instead of when 50% of the value is lost. That's the nature of hyperinflation.

The other component necessary for hyperinflation is a competing currency. In Zimbabwe the locals switched to dollars when their native gov’t currency failed.

From the article: Most of the gold generated by the ruthlessly productive, rapidly adapting bots found its way to third party vendors in a black market which undercut the prices in the sanctioned, in-game auction houses.