skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. It more or less saved Germany from internet censorship.

http://www.netzturbine.de/en/internet/zensursula-deutsches-i...
Then it would defeat the purpose of the acquisition. Perhaps a middle ground? Initially limited involvement, slowly integrate feature/traffic to other yahoo property in a way that doesn't devalue current tumble experience but also gives yahoo a younger crowd as their userbase.

Its obviously very hard thing to do, but I am (probably the only one in HN) rooting for Yahoo. Tired of 2-3 companies dominating the tech world. I am rooting for Marissa Mayer to succeed and give others a run for their money by doing an epic u-turn with yahoo and changing everyone's perception of what yahoo is usually associated with.
Although I don't agree with the list, the metric they applied is a good one: does the project actual welcome contributions? I mean, nearly everyone says they do, but the reality is rather different.

They probably should have recommended you stay away from GNOME, as well.
BeerPL

I'd like a beer.
Yahoo hasn't done much justice to their past buyouts. I feel like this going to be a waste.
Yahoo isn't doing much for their existing products. They should really focus on what they have. No doubt the apps and all have been updated but desktop UI still remains same. No consistency in UI across different products.
The new ymail still isn't that great.
Another thing is why can't yahoo come out with own such product - they do have some brilliant engineers.
Did Mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki Invent Bitcoin?
Very very cool. I like their approach toward file management -- "we'll get the multi-user data into a buffer; you deal with it from there."

And now, of course, I'm wishing I had this before I switched my primary editor to SublimeText ;) Anyone know of a similar project for that?
Bitcoin’s creator is Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki
This is a very mind expanding book on FP in javascript that covers currying amongst other things. https://leanpub.com/javascript-allonge

Here's a famous post from HN's nostrademons that talks a bit about why people care about FP. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=185153
Please sign this petition! [...] we can do this. We got a
girl a goddamn fluffy chicken, and took over the Internet
with the Mishapocalypse.

What on earth are they talking about?

Also

no chance well be google users 5eva if you do this
Same is true for Twitter, Facebook and Reddit.
Of course it depends rather a lot on how deep your pockets are and what sort of return you were getting on your Fb and Google ads, but these are not the only sources for advertisers. There are plenty of other types of advertising, affiliate companies, remarketing and the like.
I can't seem to find any indication that Shinichi Mochizuki has done any published programming, and then to suddenly write very good crypto software in C (by himself, who does that) seem implausible. Mathematics Genius != Crypto Programming Genius.
> That 1% interest rate, however, means the best you could do with your billion dollars is something that makes about ten million per year.

This is just plain wrong. Interest rates does not reflect earning potential. The conservative view (guaranteed 1% or riskier 3%?) has become the only choice. That's the story.
> I do wonder how well the exploit would have worked

"the"?

> locked down with SELinux/Smack

If you're executing in kernel mode, then you can just disable these. It might be more interesting to point to the efficacy of various exploits on a Grsec/PaX kernel, however.

> In the end though, the only secure system is one that's not powered.

That's silly. Sure, airgap your sensitive stuff. But there's a reasonable level of security you can achieve that's far beyond what docker provides, while still retaining a flexible and reasonable computing environment. For example, Xen's xl tool makes making quick and cheap VM containers very simple.
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Per AllThingsD, "There were no other competing bids, despite reports, to snap up the New York-based hipster blogging service."

http://allthingsd.com/20130519/yahoo-tumblrs-for-cool-board-...
This doesn't make sense. Which CEO doesn't believe that their stock won't go up in 3 years? If they don't believe it, they should be fired.

Cash is much more valuable than stock. Any CEO worth their salt would ALWAYS issue stock and never cash, since stock is essentially free (with some GAAP repercussions, but better that then spend cash). But it sounds like tumblr wanted cash instead of cash/stock.

It doesn't matter to the employees, they get paid out from the purchase, and then will all get YHOO retention stock options when they join.

Great deal for tumblr, terrible deal for YHOO, it's a waste of cash and as someone else pointed out last week, it's reminicient of Geocities from the dotcom days. Every employee from tumblr will start exiting, maybe after 2-3 years, and the entire thing will fall apart.

I'm disappointed in Mayer.
Predators hunting randomly spaced prey should not themselves move randomly.
He forgot to put .DS_Store files in his .gitignore.
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The rate at which Yahoo is buying out companies for talent acquiring , I wonder what must be going through minds of engineers at yahoo.
In my experience, most developers are looking for more then "just" another job...it could be a bump in pay but it usually also means a new challenge like working on a particular tech, type of product, domain, etc...nothing here on the Hire-a-HN-hacker tells the employer what you want to do, only what few hot keyword/skills you have and sure, the skills will match the same keywords that crappy recruiters are searching for and you'll learn about heaps of jobs good and more often bad. You could also post your résumé privately on monster if you want to cast a wide net.

we're lucky as engineers...tradionally employers have had an abundance of candidates to filter, but with programming skills in such demand, developers now have an abundance of oppourtunities...it's not that we need more job oppourtunities, we need a way to filter the bad ones out.

disclaimer, I run trypitchbox.com - which operates in a similar space
Want to learn functionnal programming , just download GCL

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/novak/gclwin.html

check out a few Lisp tutorials on Youtube and you good to go.
Dont try to apply fuctionnal principles to procedural languages , if you are a beginner.

Using Lisp will force you to do and understand functionnal programming. And frankly , Lisp is a lot of fun and easy to start with. Dont be afraid by all these nasty (()) and weird (+ 4 5) operations , it will make sense quite fast.

something like

(defun add(a b)
(+ a b))

(add 4 5)

is actually easy to understand , isnt it ?
Look no further: http://learnyouahaskell.com/

http://learnyouahaskell.com/higher-order-functions#curried-f...
I am thinking that the problem with yahoo is that most likely Mayer doesn't have much faith in the present crop of developers/managers. Recently she did a lot of acqu-hires, because traditionally really good developers are less likely to join Yahoo over better choices.

Maybe improving existing products and making new impressive products are in the plans for Mayer, but to get there she needs capable people and she needs to make Yahoo seems like a good/profitable/fun place to work at.

For a long term sinking ship like Yahoo I think major changes in direction will need some time.
"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice". That Rush quote seemed relevant.

Trivia: Rush were actually quoting Ayn Rand. It's entirely possible that the quote or at least the sentiment predates her too.
The MIT license is essentialy "do whatever the fuck you want" in legal terms: http://mit-license.org/
That will be cold comfort when you waste years of your life and probably your entire life savings because of it.

"Welp, we can't buy that house we were saving up for 15 years for, because I decided i wanted to take a stand and use the WTFPL". No offense, really, but that's not chutzpah, it's stupidity.
This system favors people with a network of friends who solicit and coordinate up-votes! Don't tell me it doesn't happen on HN.

However, I liked the concept enough to submit an idea myself, http://firespotting.com/item?id=340

Now, can you please up-vote my thread :p
If you remove underline, and increase font-size to 21 px for titles, it will look lot better on windows.

http://i.imgur.com/7ZKA7gh.png
A rising tide lifts all boats.

From a recent-grad perspective, Yahoo fell far, far behind the rest of Big Tech on the desired employment scale. Part of this was for changeable reasons -- we've read in recent months about the larger offers and better perks that Mayer's been implementing -- but another huge reason is that Yahoo's workplace has a reputation for uninspiring people doing uninspiring work.

From all the anecdotes I've heard about Yahoo's workforce (and yes, I realize they are merely anecdotes) -- the subpar engineers should be worried, but the great engineers should be excited.
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Why are so many April fool's jokes listed in the history time line?
I tend to do things with less legalism, with the copyheart (which is not a licence)

http://copyheart.org/
Of course you can. Companies use MIT/BSD/Apache/etc licensed work in proprietary systems all the time, that's what they are for. You're better off using one of those since they leave no room for confusion.
It's amazing how many people here are saying things like "my tumblr represents my identity and I do not want to lose my identity to Yahoo" and "I don't want to lose the only place where I can express myself."
Thanks - fixed (will happen at twitter just the same!)
First, unlicense is a bad name for a license that is so different from no license.

Second, the first sentence and the third paragraphs do not work in most of the world: you cannot put a work in the public domain, even in countries that "recognize copyright laws".
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Sure, the comment you replied to made that point as well. The proper response to your comment is already essentially what mseebach wrote, so I can only recommend that you go read it again and perhaps ask about a part you found unclear...
As someone who isn't very familiar with NetBSD aside from the "It runs on a toaster!" meme, what does NetBSD bring to the table compared to something like FreeBSD if you want to run it on a common architecture like x86?

Congratulations on the release, by the way. :)
That slid.es presentations are really pretty. It seems it's from http://hakim.se/ , You may remember his experiments here http://www.hakim.se/experiments .
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Flickr had a major interface refresh a couple of years ago, and I'm also pretty sure Flickr has lots and lots of paying customers. So, it may have already "panned out," in a "don't mess with success" sense, depending on what that means in the context of Tumblr.
another wannabe traitor
Yahoo Just Bought Tumblr for $1.1 Billion
So is yours. See "Defendant's fallacy" at the bottom of the page.
You can email them to ask for a test API key up to 1000 hits a day. If you sign a contract you can use 180,000 API hits every six month period for free. Beyond that there is a cost of £1.50 per 1000 API hits.
At the time of purchase the Model S didn't exist. When pre-orders were being accepted I looked into putting a deposit down, but the signature editions were already sold out. Didn't feel like waiting for a lower-end model (higher-priced ones being built first), as we'd already been through the waiting game with the Leaf (I pre-ordered one on the first day Nissan took orders).

No matter, we like our Leaf and that gives us some time to see what else Tesla comes up with.
See also it romantic counterpart: https://github.com/pygy/The-Romantic-WTF-Public-License

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Yet extremely unlikely.
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>there will be arguments over what you were allowed to do

much like the GPL then
To me, this reads less like a Minecraft-is-great piece and more like a tablets-are-great piece. Julie's daughter isn't just choosing Minecraft over Disney -- she's choosing activity over passivity, creation instead of consumption.

For the first time ever, toddlers (as in, people too young to understand how a Gameboy works) are interacting and playing in increasingly complex ways. It's not a niche often covered in HN, but the childrens' app market is booming at an unparalleled level: it's why everyone from Amazon to Valve is trying to get involved, because suddenly we have this ubiquitous magical technology that lets our five year olds learn fractions while being on an adventure -- and the price is $.99, instead of an overpriced $15.99 pop-up book or a $49.99 DVD.

There's a lot of FUD in this overwhelmingly technological age, but I think it speaks volumes when I think that I'd rather be a kid now than any other time. The future is bright.
Am I allowed to modify copyhearted material? Distribute modified versions? Perform them? Incorporate them into works that are copyrighted?
If a warranty disclaimer from another well-vetted license were used in the WTFPL, would that solve most of the problem? (Sans the judge ruling that it's only limited to reasonable things.)
It will give you information for any bus stop, but not all of them have realtime data. Some use the timetable. You can ask Traveline for a list of areas where there is realtime data. For some reason the information is not published.
When you say "add complexity", I think you mean "add difficulty". Because for example, a language that has only one-argument functions, and builds multi-arg functions on top is a simpler one than one that has multi-arg functions built-in.

Simplicity is hard -- and pure functional programming is a lot about simplicity, which does make it hard -- hard to learn, and hard to figure out how to tackle various problems.

But the simplicity has many rewards. Mathematical simplicity makes a lot of mathematical deductions tractable -- this is what is typically referred to as "ease of reasoning" about code.

Referential transparency adds a whole lot of ease to the reasoning process.

The pure functional approach also means that type safety goes much further. If you forget to hook up your functions together properly (forget an input, ignore an output) you're likely to get warnings/errors. In the imperative approach, if you forget a side-effecting statement that adds another input to some code, the compiler cannot help you.

Imagine testing -- imperative code requires tests to build up a mock world as input for the code, and then inspect the mock world that results as an output from the code.

Testing a referentially transparent function requires just calling it with differing inputs. It makes property-testing possible, too!

Imagine composition -- pure function composition of two functions composes the meanings of those functions. If those two functions work, so will the composed one.

Try to combine two pieces of imperative code -- that's not necessarily true at all, one might mutate data that's in use by the other. Aliasing issues may arise, etc.

So functional code is easier to reason about, more composable, easier to test, and gets more safety from type checking. It is harder to learn to use, and harder to figure out how to use it to solve certain problems. With time, however, more and more problems yield to the pure functional programming approaches.
That's been there for eleven and a half months.

http://blog.reddit.com/2012/06/announcing-rabout-and-reddit-...
"This would be better without feature X"--said no one, ever.
I don't think CL is a particularly functional language. It is not much more functional than say, Python.
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Wow, in light of the recent (rumor?) that FB was going to snap up Waze for $1B, this seems like a steal.
As an outsider it looks like Yahoo is saying it will back big crazy engineering projects if they have potential. To me Yahoo went from being the last place I'd ever want to end up to being an exciting company. It's an amazing turnaround.
The abbreviations take just as long to say out loud as their meaning.
The updated Flickr iOS app is pretty awesome, and exactly what Flickr needed.
This would be fantastic if all it had was the instructions to see your own top commands. What a great way to discover opportunities for automation and time saving!

I can't wait for the full results.
I recommend that you do not use this. Traveline provide an official API with up to 180,000 free requests in a six month period.

http://travelinedata.org.uk/nextbuses.htm
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So what would you qualify as a "pure" functional language ? does python has tail recursion optimization ? ( it is a question ).
Can someone explain to me why you spend $1.1B on this if the company was running out of cash, had investors skittish about funding a new round and there were no competing bids.

Why didn't Yahoo just let them get desperate and buy them then? With an all-cash deal, it seems they're less interested in the team than the platform so seems they could have picked that up in a few months for significantly less.

What am I missing in this? I hope the answer is not that doing that would create enmity between Yahoo and Tumblr's investors or something like that? That would strike me as a gross violation of their fiduciary duty to their shareholders, no?
In my experience, most of the people arguing over it haven't read it (or don't understand basic copyright concepts). It's a pretty clear license...but, it gets talked about a lot by folks who misrepresent it, either willfully or out of ignorance.
Looks like then some major changes at Yahoo expected.
The child in question is nine. I distinctly recall a friend of mine having a gameboy in primary school, and I got my first computer (well, ‘us kids’ got it) at that age, too. With an actual keyboard and letting me explore that thing rather than merely being an interface to Youtube and Minecraft.
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In case anyone is interested in the relevant incantation:

history | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n 100

OP, maybe add a curl command or something to post the resulting answer to your website form?
The current FreeBSD installer is quite bad, I was unable to install a system with a NTFS partition left untouched. I wasn't able to create the partitions manually because it complains about "invalid arguments".

Also, when leaving out the bootcode partition, it happily installs and leaves you with a non-bootable system.

In addition, the pkgin tool is a really handy tool to install binary packages. I'm running in a VM with not too much memory and compiling would take ages or fail because of the amount of memory that compiling requires.

I also kinda like the firewall but YMMV.
As someone who only discovered functional programming this year (and now do almost all my programming in OCaml), I would say that the biggest revelation that I came to (and didn't really appreciate until I'd studied the subject for a while) was the lack of mutability in (pure) functional programming. This allows you to maintain invariants and makes it much easier to reason about your code, which has huge advantages when you're working with concurrency or parallelism.

Here's one of my favorite examples. Say we have a set S and an element x, as in the following code:

"let S = Set.empty () in
let S = Set.add S x in
f ();
if (Set.mem S x) then..."

If our code is purely functional, then it's impossible that x is no longer in S after our call "f ()". However, if we're using mutability, then maybe in our function f, we remove x from S. If that's the case, we really can't be sure what will happen when we reach our if-statement.
So no one can safely use your code, and you can be sued because you don't disclaim liability properly. Great idea!
FWIW, the Erlang bits (a rather small chunk of code considering its scale) took over a year to effectively replace and led to numerous chat SEVs as people learned the hard way that their c++ replacement was missing some little bit of "seldom used but very nice to have when things get dicey" component or behavior in OTP. Given how people move around projects the difficulty of maintaining an Erlang team for just chat is hard to justify, but the move to c++ for chat back-end service says more about FB internal structure than it does about Erlang.
It'll have integration with Yahoo's own services but it also presents a few more headaches with pirate links and takedown notices.
Here are some emails and headers that you might be interested in:

http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/bitcoin-satoshi/

phrases:
http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/bitcoin-satoshi/phrases.txt

He might be one of these people:
http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/bitcoin-satoshi/p2p-research-mem...

Here are some forum posts timestamps:
http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/bitcoin-satoshi/datetimes.yaml

I also feel it is necessary to point out that it is completely possible to spoof forum posts to match his writing style and C++ idioms. So there might be someone posing as a "second satoshi" waiting to be discovered by phrase analysis. This is one of the vulnerabilities of his pseudonym.

Happy hacking.
Excellent idea! I am investigating how to best do that.
"This doesn't make sense. Which CEO doesn't believe that their stock won't go up in 3 years? If they don't believe it, they should be fired."

This is clearly untrue. Which moron CEO at the head of a newspaper anticipates anything more than a very modest increase in their stock over the next few years? Most newspapers are very much aware of their problems. Do you think a CEOs job is to bury their head in the sand and ignore all of the company's problems? Because that's the only way your statement could even come close to being true.

And 2.. as far as Yahoo.. keiferski is right.. it depends on how rapidly yahoo anticipates to grow. Obviously a stock growing at 50% is worth more than one growing at 10%.. and maybe Mayer is incredibly bullish on Yahoo, and believes Yahoo stock is worth more than what the market thinks it is.
why are you asking for permission? You've already lost.

http://mimiandeunice.com/2011/06/23/allowed/
You probably want

`history -100`

on OS X, anyway, the default only gives 15 or so commands in history
I got my first computer around that age as well. However, that was far from the norm.
> The reason that all caps language is used is because of a history of court decisions and laws around what is required to effectively disclaim implied warranties. Right now, the license does not properly disclaim any implied warranties, which puts the developer at risk.

Just trying to learn a bit about US law here. This part intrigued me, and from what I've Googled so far, it's because of a requirement for the warranty to be "conspicuous". [1][2] Is all caps the most commonly accepted minimum as advised by lawyers (especially when they're advising business types who couldn't care less about putting it in red or bold or something else)?

[1] http://www.mslater.com/post/104847-why-are-warranty-disclaim...

[2] http://www.adamsdrafting.com/all-capitals/
Worse than that, they may just post the vulnerabilities publicly or sell them on Black Hat forums.