skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rivets actually does a great job allowing you to create functions for similar formatting, which allows you to have very very short attributes, which in turn ends up being multiples of lines less than the equivalent javascript.
Just a heads up - I think this post has been flagged off the front page? Strange.
Too much soap opera style info for someone who is "considering" an $1.1B deal.

It seems a bit odd, and everybody knows how these Hollywood style "romances" tend to end..
This is creepily good.
Absolutely!

We actually had a special case of a UI that needed to have many many things updating via push events, and have profiled it a few different ways. Turned out that with the frequency of updates we were making, larger chunks of HTML ended up being multiple times more expensive than adding a class here, or changing the text in a tag over there. This method actually _was_ the optimization.
First time I saw Cupid With Friends mentioned here on HN, I immediately thought of Zynga. I'm not saying I actually thought they had anything to do with Zynga whatsoever, but the naming connection was immediate.
It depends on where you are. Public transit in London, for example, is amazing. The longest wait for a train at my local station (Zone 2) was around 12 minutes off peak. Night buses take over for the tube late at night. They'll take you where you need to go, albeit a little slowly. A yearly pass costs £1216 (Zone 1-2). Good luck getting insurance and petrol for much less than that.

There's an argument to be made that public transportation isn't available because poor and middle class people can afford cars.
With tumblr as a curation hub and Flickr as a pool of images, maybe yahoo will next aquire a video pool (Vimeo?), a sound / music pool (soundcloud?) ... Having a small network of creative sites each with their own communities, tied by a single hub would be pretty cool.
Ask HN: What are your day to day pain points while coding?
At my job we collectively have several small but annoying, tedious, confusing or slow operations. What are the things that bug you?

For us:

* Needing to enter our username and password every time we push/pull to github

* Having numerous processes running at once: our app's server, a couple instances of Jasmine, a couple instances of Coffeescript guard, selenium, etc

* Keeping track of which of our many builds are failing/passing

* Debugging and generally dealing with IE

I know there are good solutions to all the above, but for various reasons they don't work for us (I'm leaving the details on that out on purpose). My point isn't to look for answers to these annoyances, but rather get an idea of what annoyances devs see often.
The next Flickr? Hopefully they can keep innovating after an acquisition...
There might be a sort of disease of anthropomorphism in modern (Western) culture. From a young age, kids are exposed to talking trains and animals and all manner of other things.

This probably makes people very susceptible to ascribing properties to things that can't have them: "hot" slot machines, "lucky" dice, and so on.
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I got to try this out when he was showing it in Toronto. It was a couple of months ago, so what I remember might not be exact.

- The demo included glowing hands of ice and fire. I did see my own hand with ice and fire glowing from the finger tips. I'm sure I saw it as blended around my fingers, rather than an overlay on top.
- There was no latency at all, he let me type some stuff out on the virtual keyboard and the feedback was instant.

My only problem was it kept falling off my nose :)
I would bet that is a relatively small portion of their addressable market. Sure, they will eventually want to support those users, but for an initial launch, it is not worth spending time building an authentication system when they can just use Facebook to reach the majority of their users.
They built a business copying scrabble.

Whatever the legal merits of protecting a name verses protecting a game, they get exactly zero sympathy from me for their intellectual property claims.
I take Fox News seriously, especially when they're the only major American news outlet that asks tough questions of the establishment in D.C., especially the liberals in power.

Too bad you had to litter this thread with your naive politics, and end up displaying your ignorance as well.
Is depleted uranium more pollutive that lead? It is depleted...
If this happens to your Samsung LCD TV, it is a pretty fun project to fix yourself! the only thing you need to is to order to the parts, youtube, and a soldering iron.
100k users after 9 months doesn't usually warrant a headline, and barely tickles twitter's user base.
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The risks of scratchers (and other lotteries) is known, controlled, and published. If you feel "ripped off" by a lottery, you are stupid.

The risks of startup investment are murky and subject to manipulation. People can rip off other people. Some of the laws are there to protect people's retirement savings from investment scammers.

(Whether those laws are effective or not is a debate I'm not qualified to have.)
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Oh please Google's top brass are in bed with Obama, regardless of a few differences on this or that.
Isn't something really weird going on in the world when you can sell a company with almost no revenue (let alone profit) and no obvious business model in the horizon for $ 1.1B, or is it just me?
The EPA exists to allow companies to pollute and skim some tax dollars in the process. In the time before zoning laws and complex regulation, if a company dumped something toxic, the legal frameworks were in place to sue them for the harm they had done. Now they're allowed to pollute a set amount via a regulators ok.
So can people now stop saying that twitter+facebook killed digg?
Trademarks on words used for their plain English meaning are generally not protectible.

Apple doesn't sell apples.
"old beaters" also differ from American standards. I doubt the typical American "beater" car would be considered roadworthy in Denmark.
I am quite familiar with the current engineering hiring practices at Google, and what the story claims is completely different than what I've heard from actual engineers who perform the interviews.

The process is highly technical and if anyone marks you as a "B", you are unlikely to be hired.
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For the first time in 6 or 7 years I didn't renew my Flickr sub this year.

It's not just that I've grown older, it's that fundamentally Flickr no longer delivers the content and community, and blame for that must lie at Yahoo's door and their failure to innovate with photo.
What is this blog post based on?
Of course Netflix already abandoned the mail delivery model as their focus, they even tried to spin off that business, and it is only a small portion of their revenue today. There were a lot of factors that went into Netflix's success, including working closely with the USPS on rapid delivery, a terrific web presence, and catching the DVD market at a point when they were dropping in price but still a popular format for consumers. The window for Netflix was actually quite small (I suspect you are young and don't remember the time before DVDs) as DVDs were the most rapidly adopted media format in consumer electronic history, and are imploding at an impressive rate as well.
I wish it wasn't the case but sadly reddit does not deliver for advertisers. Any good pitch deck would include testimonials and case studies. Those ads on slide 8 with thousands of comments are run many, many months if not longer to collect all those comments. The comments I've received on my Reddit ads are a litany of haters. Why advertise to people not willing to support their advertisers and spend money? Not in every case but I have to believe by and large this is true. I will say for their pitch deck, they are representing their cat loving constituent well. So there's that.
22yo coder here - my focus is patchy or fragmented at best and I procrastinate like a trooper.

I'm capable of decent stretches of focus/productivity when the moon & stars align - er - when I have the right energy levels and can fully mentally comprehend the task at hand (best properly planned and broken down into manageable chunks as xackpot said).

Isolating earbuds and some upbeat music help me focus. IMO regular breaks are a must to keep mental exhaustion at bay, especially in a career like programming.

I don't force myself to focus if my brain just isn't cooperating, since I just start making mistakes and any productivity evaporates. I just go and do something else for a while before trying again.

Really, I don't think that there's a 'one size fits all' answer. You just have to try different things and see what works for you. You may (or may not) be able to significantly improve your focus (I never could), but I learnt to get the most done with what I have.
How could it release more energy if it hits the ground? The total kinetic energy released must be the same whether it is released in the atmosphere or on impact with the ground.
I think my only problem with this is that this can serve one person at a time whereas a large printed menu or individual printed menus can serve more than one person in a small amount of space.
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I quite like it for that reason
This type of analysis is commonly used in tons of things, like communications systems, image processing, radar, etc. I used a similar technique when trying to identify an underutilized wifi channel in the vicinity of my apartment.
Thanks, I don't need a rackspace account ATM, but if want it in the future, I hope the the onbroading process is eliminated completely.

I understand prevent spammers or misuse is hard, but other providers I have used like Slicehost (acquired by RS), Linode, AWS, DigitalOcean...and more) don't have any issue preventing people from signing up. (AWS even give people 1yr free tier usage)
I don't this contradicts the article, as I'd fully agree with both the article and you. The article just says that SAT scores and GPAs don't matter so much -- technical chops still do.
I work in a media agency and would love to sell in Reddit to my clients but if you've ever tried to use it as an advertiser it's an extremely poor offering. Sadly, this sales deck does nothing to change my perception.
They're playing up the subreddits, but the truth is that there are very few truly popular subreddits (that aren't default ones or NSFW). If they could just figure out how to grow a bunch more subreddits they could make so much more money.

Plus, it'd make the site a whole lot better for users if the site's traffic was spread out across more interesting topics.
Yep, had an iMac G5 with this problem. Apple shipped me an entire replacement system board assembly. Later they started having people take them into Apple Stores for the repair.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrbill/62059256
Netflix for power tools?
Oh no... time to move off tumblr...
If acquiring millions of users is so worthless, why don't we all have 100k+ monthly page views and fantastic engagement numbers?

Or, put another way: put a dollar value on a speculative Yahoo effort to attract a user base the size and demographic composition of tumblr's. Don't forget to price in the risk of failure.
You are buying the potential for profit.

Not exactly the same thing, but in a way it's similar to buying a broadcast license. Companies pay millions/billions for the right to project some media onto eyeballs.
I developed it in windows. Thank you for report this bug. I'll fix it soon.
Fighting for your passion
If everyone wants to keep using what they have why would you be thinking about using this service?
I'm with you - the perceived values of websites/businesses like this are astounding. Somehow founders and VCs walk away with a bunch of money after acquisitions, but what's Yahoo going to do? Seems like a large sum for an acqui-hire.

Then again I'm a giant noob when it comes to startups, funding and acquisitions. Regardless, the numbers are out of this world.
And "tesla.im" are more trustworthy than Microsoft? Based on what evidence?
This mirrors my own experience with CAH and Apples to Apples: you make plays pm the judge(s) and the words!
I think using the word "obvious" is very misplaced here. Obvious would suggest that fully understanding the statement is something the casual person would arrive at given no help or extraneous thought into the statement. This is simply not true given what we know about the average intelligence of humans.
I'd estimate that a greater percentage of HN readers than Google employees have perfect SATs.
Yeah I considered this:

(cond
[no.user
(submit-login-warning url title showtext text)]
[(~and (or blank.url valid-url.url)
~blank.title)
(submit-page user url title showtext text retry*)]
[(len> title title-limit*)
(submit-page user url title showtext text toolong*)]
[(and blank.url blank.text)
(let dummy 34
(submit-page user url title showtext text bothblank*))]
[(let site sitename.url
(or big-spamsites*.site recent-spam.site))
(msgpage user spammage*)]
[(oversubmitting user ip 'story url)
(msgpage user toofast*)]
[t
(let s (create-story url process-title.title text user ip)
(story-ban-test user s ip url)
(when ignored.user (kill s 'ignored))
(submit-item user s)
(maybe-ban-ip s)
"newest")])

Doesn't seem like an improvement. The big aha moment for me was to notice that in imperative languages (C, Java, python, ruby) you got the distinguishing separator between the check and the action:

if (test expr goes here) { action goes here; }
else if (next text expr) { ...; }

The intervening keywords also help, but the parens vs curlies are a huge visual signal.
In the post Old Spice Man world, plenty of major brands have embraced silly internet dadaism in aspects of their marketing.
Tumblr is ad inventory for Yahoo. Specifically, mobile ad inventory -- most of Tumblr's revenue comes from mobile ads. Mobile is a huge area of growth that Yahoo is anxious to stay on top of. They don't need Tumblr's audience to go anywhere other than Tumblr, and if they're smart they won't even try.
The Forbes Article has them hockey sticking their revenue.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2013/01/02/tumblr-...

"The company finished 2012 with $13 million in revenue; the hope in this “leap” year is that it’ll get to $100 million."
It sounds close to a Strawman argument but not quite...
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman
And for the last several years plus, the very vast majority of Windows malware has been similar in nature. But that's never really stopped the Apple faithful from being in willful denial about the same.

- a recent convert to Apple
Bingo. That 'integration' impulse by big companies is the death-knell for a product. Better off to leave a successful product alone.
They have started shipping printers as Kickstarter rewards and promise to ship regular preorders in July 2013. July is not that far, so I have just ordered one.
I think this article is dumb. And I think it is dumb in a way that many articles are dumb: it bounces from anecdote to unrelated anecdote--from 17th century French letters! To Facebook! To the Flash Crash!--and expects readers to tag along, mistaking the textual proximity of data for relatedness. But just because you put two things into the same paragraph does not mean they arise from the same root cause.

I believe these shortcomings result from iconoclastic writing. Rather than observations leading naturally to a thesis, the iconoclastic writer starts with a popular opinion and inverts it into a thesis as the first step--"hey what if instead of reducing friction like everyone says, we should be creating friction?? What if friction is actually good?"

From that point the thesis transforms into a research filter. Anything that shows that frictionless is bad (like the Flash Crash) is in; anything that shows that frictionless is good (like telemedicine) is out. The result is a pile of unrelated things that need to be sewn together. Like Frankenstein, the finished product is not pretty.
The article also states that a comma is required between variable declarations is one of the least important pieces of information in this code.

That is wrong. The comma is not incidental, it is an operator that tells you the next declaration is locally scoped. A missing comma changes the result of all following assignments.
There seems to be a lot of complaining/negative comments from people about software that is provided to them for free...
What exactly does that statement mean?
David Karp has 25% of Tumblr [1], and makes it clear, that to start off with - it really was just David and Marco.

"...Marco Arment, Karp’s first and, for a long time, only employee at Tumblr."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2013/01/02/tumblr-...
You must have been living under a rock. "Shazam it" to sonfs is as "Google it" to online search; in US and Canada.
So how do you determine, during an interview, if the candidate has a strong sense of mission about their work and also feel that they have much personal autonomy? Perhaps the second piece happens after they're hired when you give them the autonomy, but it seems like a strong sense of mission isn't enough -- they need to be able to execute on it either through their own actions or by influencing others. And, of course, you need to find some whose mission aligns with the needs of your company.
Absolutely NOT an acqui-hire. $13mm in 2012 revenue, more than doubling in 2013... "In November it shouldered its way into the top ten online destinations, edging out Microsoft’s Bing and drawing nearly 170 million visitors to its galaxy of user-created pages, according to the measurement firm Quantcast. Tumblr’s tens of millions of registered users create 120,000 new blogs every day, for a total of 86 million and counting, which drive some 18 billion page views per month."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2013/01/02/tumblr-...
MOOCs don't solve a problem. In my opinion, they only perpetuate that university is the answer to life, the universe, and everything in it. The fact is that university-style education (inactive lectures and wrote memorization) are not the answer for a large number of people. We need to get away from assigning one-off projects and instead focus on projects with long-term development potential.
This is nonsense.

“All people decisions at Google are based on data and analytics,” according to Kathryn Dekas, a manager in Google’s “people analytics” team.

Calibration scores are not fucking data, not any more than bathroom graffiti contains reliable information. Data-driven my ass.

(She may have been only talking about hiring, but she said "all people decisions", and that's incorrect.)

Google discovered that its most innovative workers “are those who have a strong sense of mission about their work and who also feel that they have much personal autonomy.”

Bullshit. Take that attitude to work at a place like Google and you'll be on a PIP as soon as your boss catches wind that you have ambitions other than serving his specific career goals. Google hasn't valued "personal autonomy" since I was in high school.
Because HN's account registration is darn right hidden.

/s
One week of crowd-sourcing the weather.
Michael, I don't mean to be disrespectful -- I've enjoyed your comments a lot on HN, and find them to be incredibly insightful -- but I feel like you're beating a dead horse with your Google vitriol.
Their HR department has the most effective PR of any Google property.
Backed as well. Even the prototype shown in the video below, rough as it may be, is good enough to try a lot of things.

Looks really promising and they are not asking for much.

First thing I ever back in Kickstarter, too.
There's no blocked page. The outgoing connection just inexplicably dies. The block is based on IP addresses, rather than the hostname or DNS poisoning.
Begging the question.
"The Front Page of the Internet" is used as a frequent source by many profitable blogs. Reddit could just start their own, using itself as a source like so many others do.
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Personally I was disgusted by Krebs' level of tact in "researching" this entire article.
> With Friends" is a valuable trademark for them, they spent a lot on building that trademark

"With Friends" should be a tremendously weak trademark if there was any kind of fairness or logic. Every single online game has said the phrase: "Play online with friends." Are we allowed to connect with friends on friendster or are they next on the list?
It's an unspoken assumption that goes unchallenged because it's easier for people targeted by these stereotypes to distance themselves from "nerds" than to challenge these assumptions.
I thought of Friendster. I think they should sue.
Just redirect the money hose to their own bucket. :)
My work isn't done yet. Our industry is still hellish and there are trillions of dollars of value to be added to society by fixing it.

Programmer Autonomy is a $1 Trillion Issue: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/11/25/programmer-au...

The cultural war on closed allocation is the only trillion-dollar problem in the world that I have any power whatsoever to influence (not much, but I have a voice). Attacking Google-- exposing its closed allocation as a catastrophe that destroyed what could have been an amazing company-- is part of the campaign.

How to structure a software workplace properly is the only trillion-dollar issue on which I'm a world-class expert, and probably the only such one in my life. So yes, I do tend to be a bit overfocused on that problem domain.
“It also has thousands of micro sensors which are now swarming through your blood stream.”

This metaphor of the electrolyte solution is nice. Obviously an allusion to a seemingly innocuous service which ends up tracking every aspect of one's life.
A later HN story suggests this culture is changing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5727576 >
http://blog.idonethis.com/post/50579439215/the-most-innovati...

But a comment from someone "familiar with the current engineering hiring practices at Google" argues the opposite, along the lines of my concerns above:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5727620
The toal energy released is the same. The total energy released on the impact is quite different.
Huh? They have to build an authentication system for Facebook. What's the difference? It's just a matter of adding a username, and password rather then facebook stuff?
I've noticed that the companies with 3-sigma powerhouse reputations tend to be horrible, and the best companies tend to be firms (especially in scientific computing and consulting) that only nerds have heard of.

It took me into my late 20s to realize that it wasn't Google that was so great but that its marketing department was fantastic. Same for the horrible startup (executive ethics far worse than at Google) where I worked after the Big G.
I would prefer my mobile devices not have to burn the extra battery required to execute JavaScript code just to display a page of purely static content.

Yes, it is reasonable to expect all browsers to have JavaScript enabled, but that doesn't mean it should be carelessly used.
When was the last time you went back to a thread on HN that was made 2 months ago? 6 months ago? 1 year ago?

Building a mountain of conversations that will never be read again is utterly pointless.
Would you say you've noticed how the YouTube user experience has changed over the past five years? I don't mean whether you like it personally or not, but whether the overall YT-as-site UX has been ruined in their acquisition by Google.

I think we're all inured a bit to site shutdowns through acquisitions, meaning that acq's have taken on a largely negative set of assumptions, but it doesn't have to be that way.
Except that Flickr shows how poorly Yahoo will manage this acquisition. I feel sorry for all those Tumblr lovers that will see their favoured product ground down by mismanagement and neglect.
who cares about ebay anymore?