skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mine's working like a champ (The Netherlands - US-East)!
You make some valid points. I was not aware of the Google+ photo album design but then again I was only a user when it was mandatory within Google. I don't personally know anyone outside of Google who uses it. Quite a few public figures have accounts but none of my friends are on there. Google+ feels like a very closed community. I've never seen anyone share links to albums on there whereas someone is always passing around a Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, Imgur or Dropbox url.

Flickr is almost 10 years old. They've been around longer than anyone right? It only makes sense that they would have one of the most mature products relevant to people who want to maintain thousands of photos and share them.

I think we'll see a lot more interesting features for Flickr over the next year as social and mobile becomes a bigger priority for Yahoo.
And in case that link doesn't load either, the jokes are not very funny anyway.
What if there's no blog post?

I could write a blog post saying exactly what I said here.
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Neither IE nor the IE experience was ugly for that time, the time when they decided to introduce ActiveX. Infact, it was the hip browser. I used to remember being on Netscape (my fav/default browser) and unable to browse most modern sites as they were designed specifically for IE, similar to how you now come around those "works only on chrome/webkit" sites.
>>The article states that "the resulting whey is roughly as acidic as orange juice", so the industrial process probably creates more acidic waste than what you make at home (because they're using a different process that results in less dilution, I would assume).

"roughly" is a pretty general term when there is an order difference. The difference between 4.5 and 3 is pretty significant. Unless they actually tested the Ph and publish the number in the article they should not be making claims as "roughly".

>The point is that your personal experience making a small amount of yoghurt at home does not make you an expert when it comes to large scale production and the problems resulting from the waste produced.

>The article specifically explains why acid whey is harmful to the environment - it's decomposition robs streams and rivers of oxygen and kills fish.

yes that is evident.

my point was that there are much more harmful things going into rivers and oceans rather than yoghurt juice.
I was disappointed. I expected the guy to tweak the columns's width and rows's height to make an array of "pixels" and then fill each one with a color (thus making an image).

Instead, he merely uses the drawing tools of Excel to make his art. Still pretty cool though :)
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, "I'm smarter than anyone else who writes code." Now the next person has two problems.
I expect some hate towards PHP here, so I want to say something.

I've been working on some big PHP applications lately and I can say that the language is very much moving away from its past bad reputation.

PHP 5.4 is a quite modern language, with a pretty decent object-oriented structure, namespacing, lambdas, closures and most of the usual goodies.

It is true that you can still write terrible PHP even with the last version, but you don't have to. PHP has now most of the tools necessary so you can use it on pair with languages like Python or Ruby, and the new generators on 5.5 brings it even further.
FWIW, I recall Jobs' biography mentioning that he was not a great negotiator because he was at times impulsive and abrasive. I think somebody in the book, maybe Jobs himself, is quoted as saying that Tim Cook was a much more effective negotiator.

Like others have said, this was not a difficult negotiation for Apple. Maybe Murdoch could have used the other verticals (video and newspapers) in a better way or tried to leverage an upcoming big release. I don't think they had reason to give in either way though.
Innovation is implemented ideas
> - will only run on the hardware platforms for which you have developed.

What fast browser JITs are actively developed for platforms other than ARM, AMD64 and IA32? V8 does not support anything else, and while Firefox enables SpiderMonkey for MIPS and SPARC [1], "unsupported" is not a very hearty endorsement.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/SpiderMonkey/1.8.8#...
OK, coming from a regular user:

- Your updates and activity entries are now mixed with other people's photos. That the photos are humongous and your updates are tiny one-liners doesn't help. You have to eye-grep and scroll the infinite image feed all the way to the bottom.

- At the same time, the right bar is occupied with such immensely useful things as "Flickr Blog", "People you may know" and a patch of empty space.

- Portrait orientation photos are disadvantaged in the feed layout.

- The documentation is not updated! It took me some time to find how to share BBCode in the new layout.

- Flickr is no longer Safe for Work! If any of your contacts posts a nude image, instead of tiny thumbnail it gets blown into all its high res goodness.
IANAL either, but I'd say it's pretty transformative. It goes from binary code and assets you can interact with to a video with commentary.

Song mashups already go from songs to similar-sounding songs and those are fine. Again, IANAL, but if mashups are okay, it makes sense to me that Let's Play videos should fall under the same - if not more generous - rules.
Alternatively, you could learn to use a framework instead of a whole new language. I've been using Laravel for a while now, and it's awesome!
I know that's what was intended in the joke. We can't just assume the variable with respect to which it was integrated. I gave a counterexample.
In their defense this is coming from their blog section, which I'd guess is not as scrutinized when it comes to editorial control compared to the printed version. I've been one of their readers for seven or so years, if you avoid their leaders (which I do) and if you read the section editorials with prior knowledge of the editorialist's way of thinking, then things are more than ok.

Now, whenever I happen to read the NYTimes I'm reminded of my grand-father's advice given to me ~20 years ago: "Whatever you do, paganel, always read the newspaper edited/printed by those in power, this way you'll always know where the world is heading to". He had been a Communist mayor from a small Eastern-European village, and I have this image of him always making some time in the evening for reading the local Communist propaganda newspaper.
The design might be modern but it is very distracting. The photos are surrounded closely by so many other photos that it is difficult to enjoy the beauty of a particular photo - it like a painting framed by a gold gilded frame which is more beautiful than the painting itself. Photography is an art form but in this new layout the art is overwhelmed by its 'evil' cousin, design.
> anyone writing performance sensitive apps will use MT right?

No, multithreading not that simple - usually it's the last trick you should try to pull and even then only if the stars align just right.

You need to have expert programmers on hand (of the rare breed who can pull this off), the good luck to succeed and the time budget to spend on the big code reachitecting and experimentation.

If you're running on something else than modern consoles, you don't know how many cores your users will have, the average might be 2 so your average returns on the effort will suck (vs spending equivalent effort elsewhere).

Witness modern Web browsers, for example, where Google, Mozilla, Apple and Microsoft employ some of the best C++ programmers in the world, routinely of pulling off heroic feats, and they haven't seen it worth the effort yet despite Core 2 and Athlon X2 hitting mainstream desktop at about 2005-2006, 8 years ago.
You may have to toggle the webgl flag on Chrome on OSX.

"Check in chrome://flags and see if "Disable WebGL" flag has been set. Also, take a peek at chrome://gpu and see if it's showing any messages indicating why WebGL may be disabled."

-- from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15141974/does-webgl-work-...
Haskell doesn't need a magical "do the right thing" operator. What it does instead is constantly nag you, saying, "but you haven't considered this case".

This causes you to think about you code in much more depth and generally leads to good results without the need to constantly debug.

I find that things written in Haskell that compile generally work first time more often than the law of averages would seem to allow.
This may seem a bit pedantic, but it is something I am working on right now to get myself thru a "ship-it" issue.

Innovation != implemented ideas. Execution results in implemented ideas. An implemented idea can be an innovation, but usually - or my money is on that - it isn't.
With some optimizations unrealized: it's not like everything can use SIMD or that all problems which could theoretically use SIMD actually benefit. Comparing scalar code is still useful for the vast majority of programs executed.
A more efficient way to do A/B tests (explained with memes)
Good point. I was hesitant to say "constitution" on the grounds that the official translation is Basic Law. But I'll take your word on it. Changed the title (not that I see this getting any traction here with 0 votes).
* It came up completely blank when I opened it (presumably because of NoScript disabling Javascript, but I didn't check -- just closed it and left).
I really like IFTTT. None of my recipes are really all that clever, but they save me money and time, which is why I like IFTTT.

I have about 10 recipes searching classified or bargain sites for various things I intend to buy, but don't need urgently, and get an alert sent to Pushover when matches are found. The sites do not allow you to search and email results, but you can search and generate an RSS feed.

After Google Reader was announced as shutting down I made recipes for my favourite sites and push the articles to Pocket. Offline articles ready to go every morning.

And then there's all the Ingress passcodes I get automatically forwarded to Pushover...
The original work is an interactive piece of software.

The videos in question are people showing what can be done with something which is copyrighted. They videos don't provide any ability to play the game. The games are only being played by a single person. There is no copy of the game being made.

A running commentary of a single played instance of a game is entirely different than sitting down with a controller in your hand and playing the game. That seems significantly transformative to me.
I found some of them very funny, but I could not share on facebook because it could not render a preview (is that ironic?).
Ubuntu (just using it for an example) is a modern operating system and every bit as easy to use for someone who has 'basic computing skills'.
How can Nintendo claim ownership of the videos? I can see how they might claim ownership of the images and in-game sounds, but the commentary and actions made by the player is the ownership of the player.

Taking control of content which they only have partial legal right to is still very much illegal and copyright infringement. They are basically knowingly committing commercial piracy, including sending knowingly false take down notices (if they claim complete ownership). In times like that, the authors of said videos has a good chance to sue for damages.
No, actually what I pointed out is that Silicon Valley has benefited tremendously from riding said field. I did not say Silicon Valley == tech sector; it's the greatest embodiment of it. The only reason Silicon Valley has the culture it does today, is courtesy of the technology sector and the wealth that has come with it. I'm not confusing the concepts, they require each other. The reason FWD.us is able to make waves is because of the wealth and influence the technology sector has made possible.

You can attempt to work in a field from just about anywhere, but that's not how most companies are started, that's not how talent pools, that's not how rich geographic ecosystems of labor + capital are formed, and that's not how Big Things happen. You'll also find, education from anywhere is not as beneficial as the total punch of collaboration + social + network value of actually going to MIT or Stanford or Wharton or Harvard et al.

There are very good reasons why so many of the great tech companies have come from Silicon Valley. There are very good reasons why - in the age of being able to 'work from anywhere' - Silicon Valley continues to be Silicon Valley.

14 out of the youngest 25 members of the Forbes 400 are products of Silicon Valley.
Didn't the loan place a lot of restrictions on them? You have to trade off the low interest rate against that, especially when the rate they are getting with the bonds isn't that much worse.
Thanks! I wrote this post a long time ago, but this is how I've always done it: http://www.rdegges.com/simple-continuous-integration-deploym...

Usually takes me 20 minutes ish.
The Boston Foundation is a community foundation, so they basically fund a lot of nonprofits in health, education, housing and other areas. They actually fund a lot of good nonprofits in the community and do a number of projects working with the public schools - their CEO argues that charters provide an external source of pressure to improve all schools.
Hmm I am pretty sure that he can sell this patent to a patent troll , which could in effect sue these companies.
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I use rollback liberally in team settings -- I also do a lot of my work on Heroku, so if anything breaks we do a `heroku rollback` immediately.

Usually though -- we're very careful about deploying stuff live. We autodeploy our develop branch to a testing Heroku project, and if that's good, we merge to master.
Some people have a problem and think "I'll just listen to Jay-Z instead", now they have 99 problem, but the bitch ain't one.
Depends on what you need. I tend to have CD setup for both my develop and master branches, and everything else gets worked on / tested locally only (until those changes are merged).
Key phrase: "explaining hows, whys or anything relevant".
Some graphics cards won't work.

For me, it worked great. Until it crashed my entire browser.
So all the industrial producers should do is get massive amounts of water, mix their acid whey with it, then use that mixture to irrigate the larger area around their plants? Maybe just inject their whey into irrigation systems at the point they pump up their water? (hint: no that is not a solution)

Of course the whey is not the pollutant, it's the acids in it. Low concentrations of anything are harmless.
yeah he really should be using visio (or obvs, inkscape)
I think all of this is to compete with G+.
Chen Zhengxiang and Mind+ (Google Translate)
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This is blog post is just a single sentence with clearly written as flamebait. People interested in this story are better off going straight to the referenced article[1] (though even that reads more like a smear campaign than an interesting and informative piece - but at least it it's not just one sentence long).

[1] http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/05/22/googles-new-3d-map...
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One more important tidbit from the paper:

We plan to soon release Ethos [experimental robust-security OS] and our Linux MinimaLT implementation as open source software.
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You put up posters encouraging random people to track a paranoid mentally ill person? Did you not think that might have harmed his mental health to see those posters of himself and have people pointing him out to their friends without understanding it? It'd be creepy enough for a normal person to see such posters about themselves.
One key thing you're brushing over is that the OP link is to a blog post on the economist web site. The print edition gives no credit to its writers and tries to speak with a single editorial voice for consistency's sake. The blog section of the economist website has no such restriction.

Compare the following two articles:

"Is Silicon Valley getting too big for its boots" [OP]

May 22nd 2013, 14:20 by T.N. | LOS ANGELES

"Feed yourself: if only Nigeria could revamp its farms" [1]

May 4th 2013 | TARABA |From the print edition

[1]http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/2157711...
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It's a stupid move by Nintendo.

Some people view Let's Plays before buying a game. People aren't going to go to the trouble of recording Let's Plays without getting any kind of ad revenue from it. So people aren't going to bother recording Nintendo games anymore.

And they can just delete all the Nintendo videos they already have up. So now Nintendo doesn't have anyone promoting their games (for free to Nintendo) and isn't getting any of the very small amounts of ad revenue and is competing against a bunch of other games that do have Let's Plays up online.
It also does not appear to be working on my nexus 7 as well. I find cases like this frustrating because I was very interested in the content, because I might start learning Haskell, but it is unlikely I will remember to check it later on my desktop.
As a former active Flickr user all I can say is that I have gone back to the product, big time.

I have ditched iPhoto as my archiving software and moved my +150GB of photos and videos to Flickr. I couldn't be happier. I'd also like to note that I share zero photos with the public, all my photos are 100% private or shared with family members/close friends.

Having said that there is plenty of improvement to go:

- iOS app (maybe it is also the case for the Android app) needs to improve (auto upload, better integration with iOS, etc). Recently I went on holiday and only used my iPhone to take pictures (over 5GB), it would be nice for an easier way to tag + create/add to set + upload photos and videos. By the way, where is the tablet app?

- Video is really really bad. Apparently Flickr doesn't support long video playback (and by long I mean 10 seconds or more - i think). Now a days (specially with smartphones) video is a big part of albums/experiences. Video needs to be permitted and nicely integrated within photo albums.

- Upload via web is nice, but a better Mac/Windows/Linux native app would go a long way for power users. Better upload resume, tagging, etc.

- Map view. Something is wrong with the new Flickr, it has a world map view, but it doesn't read/process any geo location from my pictures - unlike iPhoto which does this flawlessly. I need to drop one by one the photos into the map for these to be processed. I also have to say that the Nokia map could be better, I'd love to see Flickr using Google Maps. Has someone experienced this same thing?

- Better album sharing, a la Dropbox, would be great (e.g. allow friends and family to download an album as *.zip)

These are just a few things I would like to see in the coming updates.
This was published weeks back in The Hindu: http://www.thehindu.com/features/education/college-and-unive...
Agreed. Many people parrot this line, but I have not seen anyone put actual data behind it. I have seen made-up scenarios about what could happen. Those usually stick to near worst case situations, though, with no indication of the actual risk.

People also seem to minimize or ignore the cost of a no-hire. If your company has an open position it is trying to fill, it should be feeling pain. Work isn't getting done. Projects or clients can't be bid on. Current engineers are working overtime to meet commitments. If you can look at this situation, shrug your shoulders, and say, "Eh, we're going along fine. We can wait several months for a perfect fit.", then I think you need to re-evaluate why you have an open position in the first place.

I would like to see some actual data to back up this conception. Something that gives the actual statistical risk. As someone mentioned on another story here recently, humans tend to over-estimate the risks of negative events. I think the risk of bad hires in SV has been seriously over-estimated.
I suppose you would argue that we should all just pay all externalities created by the free market even if they would simply bankrupt or kill us.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality

For example, if HSBC knowingly funded murderous, criminal gangs around the world, they should be allowed to finance killing because it helps them pursue profit?

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/outrageo...

Car companies had a clear choice. They could give up one profitable market or they could take appropriate actions contributing to the cause of reducing smog-related deaths in California. There is a very huge public cost for eliminating these regulations, as was PROVEN to everyone in the 1990s when most green cars were killed on the spot when earlier regulation ended.
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tie the tether to something that can spin in opposition to the twist (a wheel or a gimbal).
> reservation system for the admission of scheduled castes and others residing at the bottom of India's socioeconomic pyramid

Correction: it's social pyramid only. Classification of SC/STs is purely based on caste alone, not on economic status -- and we must fight to make it economic-only pyramid.
"from whatever language you want" - in practice, not really. If you have a language that relies on gc or some kind of vm then you are also going to have to deliver all the asm.js code for the vm. That's potentially a lot of code to deliver to the browser, could you use threads efficiently in your implementation etc. There's no story yet for anything beyond a statically compiled language and even if there is a story you would probably have to wait a long time to see whether it would deliver anything in practice.
Who has ever surveyed their Potential Customers for their Market Research?
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I think the point of his description was for it not to be a modern OS.
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Just to address the Video issue. I think Yahoo knows this is a general problem for them and it's probably the next on the list of things to address. I have a feeling it's going to come in the form of a Video service acquisition that will then tie into Flickr and other services rather than trying to improve on Flickr's inadequacy. Although I hear you when you say that videos need to be permitted in albums.