skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are umpteen versions of this sort (there was even an ActiveState cookbook recipe at one point, I think). The problem is that they tend to be coded up with certain requirements in mind, without really going through XML specs, so inevitably you'll find places where they break down.

In this case, I don't see any namespace in examples nor (more damning) in unit tests, which tells me it's likely going to fail on complex documents with multiple namespaces.
I'm about to deep-dive into Erlang so consider me still susceptible to temptation :)
I really look forward to a world filled with only engineering majors -- sounds exciting.
Yes, No, FileNotFound, three major paradigms
> a word can indeed have not only multiple meanings but also contrasting meanings. And there's nothing wrong with that

Given our current course, the logical conclusion is for every word in the dictionary to be replaced with "fuck" -- we'll just repeat that one word over and over again relying on context to tell us which of the thousand meanings is the intended one.

"he's drunk" -> "fuck; Fucker's fucked"

"she needs to pay more taxes than expected" -> "Fucker's fucked. Fuckers!"

"they had sex" -> "fuckers fucked"

"the sex was amazing" -> "fucking fuck... fuck!"

This is all well and good for simplifying the writing of language, but when we reach the point of all words having overlapping and contrasting meanings and somebody writes "Fuck, fucking fuckedy fuck. Fuck?", what the fuck does that mean?
I up-voted your comment, that comic strip is spot on, but I was trying to express my feelings more than stating some general statement about human nature.

I remember that when I was reading Zimbardo's book I was most touched when he was describing how he himself was under the influence of the experiment and his empathy to "subjects" deteriorated. Only after his girlfriend expressed her concerns he realized that something went horribly wrong. We are influenced by the context, behaviour of others, interpretation of the situation etc. way more than we would like to believe and I can easily imagine that if I were one of those TSA agents I could behave in a way that I now find despicable. That's why I think we really need to be aware of those things despite the fact that they might not be conclusively proven as a 'part of human nature'.

EDIT: also let me mention another IMO super-interesting book about this subject: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness by Erich Fromm. One of the best books I've ever red.
Professionals are a self-selected group, perhaps with vastly superior noses or some such. It has no bearing on My enjoyment.

Other trials use undergrads, who couldn't tell any wine from any other wine, no matter how you run the experiment.

I'm probably like the novices tested, less like the professional. Maybe you're different.
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also because people, not just men, who become leaders are psychopaths, so any damage they do is just a fun bonus, not something they'll sweat, a nice addition to the money, sex and power they get. And yes, sex too - power turns women on and powerful women turn men on too. e.g. I don't really consider JFK a rapist - he just never had to ask... any of his hundreds of conquests.

Homer Simpson : ...before the weight of the world broke my spirit.

Seems to have happened to me too. If it were possible to disable my conscience I would probably opt for it. Where's Dick Fuld now, eh?? Employed.
I think D will soon become your ideal language. It is quickly stabalizing and fits nearly all aspects you've listed, with only `a rich set of libraries` still on the road. You can see how `vibrant` the D community is in http://forum.dlang.org/.
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I have an AeroPress and a Bodum conical burr grinder. Buy beans from local, independent companies. Grind on medium-fine setting, 200 degree water, 1 AeroPress scoop of ground beans, fill up cylinder, stir 30 seconds, fill up again, place plunger on top to steep coffee for 30-60 seconds. PRESS SLOWLY AND GENTLY. Should take approx another 30-60 seconds to press the coffee out.

I freeze my beans, grind 5 days worth at a time, but keep in a extremely air tight container during those 5 days.

Edit: What I love about AeroPress is that I can buy it from many, local, independent retailers. The girl I bought it from didn't even know what it was, or that her store sold it!
But are you seriously referring to sexual intercourse that men initiate as "conquests" or was that non-serious?
I think a better title would be make working with XML feel like native dictionaries, There are many ways for interacting with JSON dictionaries are only one of them.

For example you can do XPath style interaction with JSON in python which for many things works out just a good if not better.
Why would a mortgage broker care to do his due diligence, if he knows he'll sell the loan tomorrow, and take none of the risk of default? This is about incentives. Incentives that were bound to lead to excessive risk taking and an inevitable crash.
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Derivative does not equal swap. MBS is definitely a derivative. It's a bond whose price and cash flow is based on an underlying pool of loans. The mortgage loans themselves are not derivatives, but mbs are. Stock options are cash products and they are most certainly derivatives.
> In fact, most leaders — whether in politics or business — fail.

There's a sentiment here that leading a complex organization (or even a team of complex humans) would be easy, if only all leaders were competent.

In my experience, there just aren't that many people who stand out in high-stakes leadership roles. People at the top make mistakes. But I rarely look around at the people below and think, "man, if only they were in charge." The people leading often represent the best options on hand.

Are aggressive, over-confident males overrepresented in leadership roles? Probably, but it's not a man vs. woman issue. It's an overconfident person vs. everybody else issue. It's as much a problem for non-overconfident men as it is for non-overconfident women.
If you think the tank or a hose is leaking, rub some soap on it and see if it bubbles.
From what I've heard of Switzerland, the real key is the trains being exactly on time. Once you can guarantee that, it's easy to set a connection at exactly 4 minutes or something. OTOH, if your train arrival time is +/- 3 minutes, your connections are going to be too tight or excessive most of the time.
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They didn't take it out of the treasury, on a technicality: The room the machine was in was declared a bank vault, and 99.9% of the silver was recoverable, so it never really left!
This is a propaganda war, take nothing at face value. Is the Government lying (or ill-informed)? The Independent? The Guardian? Snowden? Is there another source of leaks?
Col. Nichols from the Manhattan Project went to the director of the Treasury and said that they needed to borrow 6000 tons of silver. Who replied frostily: "We measure silver in troy ounces here."
There is XML::Simple perl module since a century ago and it's ruby "copy" with the same name since long time ago also.

I've used the perl one and it only makes sense in very simple use-cases.
You did a great job and you had an amazing career. Time to take some time off to enjoy those other parts of life that you haven't had time for. You deserve it.
A lot of people expect coffee to taste bad. That's why it's rare to find someone drinking it black. I conducted a fairly large number of ad hoc singly-blinded tests in college on friends to get them to see what I saw in coffee. People often do "like" "bad" coffee but never once believed that it had more flavor or was preferable to drink black.
He'll be remembered as a terrible CEO. Ballmer took over as CEO in 2000. In the 13 years since then, Apple has experienced an unprecedented resurgence. Google and Facebook have gone from being obscure startups to giants. The tech industry went through the bubble, recovered, and today is stronger than ever.

What happened to Microsoft? While the rest of the tech sector exploded and prospered, it stayed still. A MSFT share was worth about $35 dollars when Ballmer took over; it's worth about $35 now. The world moved on, and Microsoft didn't move with it.
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Once upon a time, "late to the party" aka "fast following" was their strategy, and it served them very well.
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Ballmer has always lacked the ability to see the future. Be it about him calling Zune the iPhone killer, or much prior to that claiming it in the media that no one would ever wan tto buy an iPhone. Also, really below par products.
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No, I don't think he'll be seen worse than the CEOs of AOL Time Warner, Enron, Worldcom, or Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, but sure you go on with your hyperbole. It's turning into a staple on HN. Really raising the bar there.

Edit: parent comment used to say "worst CEO of modern history"
Yes, just to clarify for non-native speakers, this is a positive (but very colloquial) expression in English. The person who said it was giving a complement.
I especially avoided the word "rails". You know why
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A 5 minute interview with the careers advisor is definitely not where society's gender stereotypes stem from or play themselves out, especially at 16. Part of their role, at least now, is actually to offset preconceptions.

>"I just had a romantic notion"

This is just where the socialisation manifests itself. Social conditioning is just that, undetectable (by definition) changes in your own perceptions, rather than coercion from authority.
This sounds exactly like the main point of many Dilbert comics and books (a dozen or so of which I own). Scott Adams explains it as nature's way of moving incompetent people out of the way of the competent people. Having an incompetent person on your team is most likely way more obstructive than having an incompetent manager.
I started coding Django a couple of months ago and was blown away when I attempted to add a field to an existing model only to get yelled at. StackOverflow comments told me that South was the only way to go. I guess I just couldn't believe it wasn't an already existing feature. It seems that adding fields is common enough to be needed early on...

Happy about the news!
Would BH leave a16z is the question though. I mean sure, ShoeDazzle, Zynga, Groupon, whatever. They're really doing a lot to mess with SV culture, which could be (long term) more transformative than guiding an ailing giant.
I believe Jobs didn't actually take the course but just showed up without being an enrolled student. This is an important point because he got his "liberal arts" fix without the high price tag.
Exactly. My reaction, and I imagine everyone's reaction, upon reading the headline was, "finally."
If an MSFT share was worth 35 when he took over (at the top of the bubble) and it's the same now then it does not mean (at all) that he was a crap CEO. MSFT still remains one of the most important tech companies ever, that's not a small feat. I don't think that he's an extremely brilliant CEO, but tech companies come and go, and MSFT is still close to the top. Even if everyone in the media is 100% focused on mobile now.
1) my favorite quote on leadership is from ben horowitz:

"Even if you know what you are doing, things go wrong. [...] If CEOs were graded on a curve, the mean on the test would be 22 out of a 100. This kind of mean can be psychologically challenging for a straight A student. It is particularly challenging, because nobody tells you that the mean is 22."

2) Clearly the only solution for our incompetent leader problem is for everyone to go to HBS, right?
There's a gender bias question here, and a value of language learning question.

My take on the languages side - they are enormously valuable if you bring something else to the table. If all you can do is speak 4 languages, it's novel but doesn't open doors. If you can program Python, price a derivative, or design a bridge - then the language becomes invaluable. Who should we send to talk to the client in Spain? Jane speaks Spanish. Who should set up the support team in Prague? Bill is good with that language and culture stuff.

As for the gender issue, it's much tougher. It's easy to say, "Let's encourage our kids" and a lot starts there. It's hard to change society, but you can always start with the local schools.
check this out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6126255,
quite similar and very useful, as I commented on previously.
As soon as I saw the page, I thought, "Is this a Jorge Cham [1] project?" Sure enough, it is! Awesome.

[1] http://www.phdcomics.com/
They've paid dividends pretty consistently over that time so if the price is the same (or close) hasn't it effectively appreciated?

This article puts the cash value of the 2004 special dividend at 32 billion. (And that's not to include the quarterly dividends that they haven't missed a beat on.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/21/business/technology-micros...
Interesting. I see IBM is less than 1 too.

Facebook has a 3.29, LinkedIn is 1.81, Accenture is 1.4 and SAP is 1.5.

Do you think this is based on revenue models? Size? The amount of cash on hand? Brand strength? Likelihood of needing to go to the public markets for money?
Wonderful....Great blog and photos..Keep em coming.
MSFT pays a dividend. Just looking at stock price then vs. now is ignoring that. Very common mistake.
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I'm guessing the CEOs don't generally make announcements like this, unless a successor is already lined up. 12 months is probably just a guideline for transitioning to the new CEO.
Steve Ballmer to retire as Microsoft CEO
And there was dancing in the streets!
Also interesting that the Telegraph's reporting on the same story (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/1026117...) is pretty much a straight regurgitation of the Independent's version with no editorialising.

Normally there's always a dig when reporting something that originally came from the Guardian or the Independent.
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"the US continues to be one of the most free countries in the world in all respects"

I suppose if you ignore the fact that we have an order of magnitude more prisoners than any other country that is true. You cannot claim we are one of the most free countries in all respects when we have so many people in jail (which is basically the polar opposite of freedom).

"People making this claim should spend a few hours reading on history and learn about the Gestapo or the Stasi."

So if we have not yet descended to the level of the Nazis, we could not be a police state? This kind of "race to the bottom" attitude is dangerously misguided. We already have soldiers enforcing the law. We already have combination law-enforcement/intelligence agencies. We know that the police are lying to judges and prosecutors about how they gathered their evidence. Peaceful political protesters have discovered undercover police spies sent to their groups. Even if we accepted your extreme definition of a police state, we are in a lot of trouble as things stand right now.
I think the stock ups or downs isn't about profit. It's more about people's believe.

Take Amazon and Apple for example. Amazon barely makes profit while Apple made huge profit, and yet when they released their financial reports (last quarter or 2 quarters ago), AAPL got hit yet AMZN upped.
Seems like the author just didn't really understand the most common definition of "drive-by installer".

Either way, I find those installer "offers" are pretty distasteful even when they are deployed by good people with good motives. Roughly what percent of the people who installed the Ask toolbar actually understood what it was and wanted it to be installed? Surely a minority...
I live in downtown Atlanta. Cabs are simply horrible here. I don't think I've ever called a cab that's arrived in under 30 minutes. Several times a passing cab has stopped, flat out lied and claim to be my driver, only for me to 5 minutes later get an angry cabbie calling me asking where I am. More than once this has ended up with the driver of the taxi I was in "asking" for my phone and engaging with a shouting match with the other taxi driver on my phone.

I've had cabs refuse to take me to my apartment building, saying they would only go to hotels. Others stating up front 2-3X what the meter rate would be, which of course I refuse. I've had them drive in circles, "miss" the exit to stretch out trip, and not a one seems to know where anything other than major hotels and the airport are in the city, or have GPS. Only half the time will they bother to turn the meter on. Very few will take credit cards without a fight.

Those are just some of my first hand experiences, everyone I know that uses cabs frequently in ATL has the same and/or worse stories. Cabs here basically seem to only want to ferry out of towners to and fro the airport to hotels downtown. Unsurprisingly, Uber has been a huge hit in Atlanta. You can actually get a car in 5 minutes or less some times, that's unheard of.
But why Uber?

Uber isn't really a tech company, in the same way Amazon isn't really a tech company. The Secret Sauce(tm) behind Uber is logistics - in managing a highly fluid workforce, dispatching, etc.

Not much of which transfers into this post-human-driver world. I like Uber, but I don't think Uber being Uber really confers a large advantage over new entrants when the autonomous cars become reality.

It would seem to me that, when the time comes, any number of companies run by reasonably talented people with capital backing can start a car service. Uber's edge applies to their human-driver business.
Yes. Independent of your political stance, shouldn't Bush have groomed a few successors? You can see Obama's failure to groom the next generation when the top two candidates predate him by 20 years. NYC's mayor took a third term because there was no obvious candidate, and there's still not a good one.
I never said any of that. The title states it as fact, there are no facts.
Never thought I'll read a comparison with Katamari one day on HN. Thank you.
Self-storage places commonly rent out RV and bus parking for like $100 / month.
Reacting to new market conditions is definitely Ballmer's problem. Under Gates, the explosive growth of the web took them totally by surprise, and he managed to swing the whole company around, producing the market-crushing behemoth that was Internet Explorer 6, and green-lit the XBox on the basis that "convergence" (i.e. computers running your TV) was inevitable. Those two alone are really tough, smart, forward-thinking decisions that Gates nailed.

Under Ballmer, Microsoft had the same pattern repeatedly: Zune, Kin, Windows Phone, Surface, Windows 8 -- they took too long to see the need, took way too long to make the product, and when they did it was either not good enough, too late, or both.
They sell traffic to Pay Per View companies, which in turn sell it to affiliates. Basically, if you are an affiliate you can go to a PPV company and buy pageview for a landing page of your choice which will be prompted in response to a given action by the user. For example, you might want to prompt your scammy acai berry trial affiliate page to people who searched for the word 'diet' in google or visited weightwatchers.com. The ad software takes care of popping up the right ad for the right user, according to the criteria of the campaign.
"Until the non-classroom resources for learning the liberal arts rival those for learning CS, in an either-or situation (like the author's) one should definitely study the arts."

There are millenia of materials and practice in the liberal arts available for consumption; there is only perhaps half a century of resources for CS. I don't think it's unreasonable to believe that self-schooling liberal arts is possible.

One does wonder why the teaching of liberal arts is dying out--there may well be some systemic issue that is causing worse teaching or relevance. The issue may well lie with the current practice of liberal arts.
A confident person that confidently persuades everyone in the small company to work on a project that he thinks is good, but is actually bad, has just killed the company. Confident without smart/competent is a recipe for disaster.
I'm most interested with the "type" of CEO they replace him with. Broad categories:

- Within Tech: They hire an Apple type key executive whose background is all around getting hardware/software/direct sales to work together. They want to move to be a super tight, integrated brand.
- Outside of Tech: They hire from a GE type of company. This acknowledges that they're a sprawling behemoth and will stay that way. They need someone who can manage a hugely disparate conglomerate.
- Tech vs Sales: Broadly speaking Bill was a product guru with a huge slice of business acumen. Ballmer was all sales and number driven. How we describe the new hire will be interesting.
- Mobile vs Cloud. Do we end up with someone really well known for their mobile background? Or someone who is really well thought of for understanding the cloud? For example Apple has generally nailed mobile and struggled in cloud. MSFT has actually done a little better in cloud than they're given credit for. But it will tell us what they think is more important by the hire.

Any other suggestions?
The last version I saw, probably 20 years ago, had the APL version something like

"Somewhere a gun goes off and hole appears in your foot, but you don't remember enough linear algebra to figure out how this happened."
I've promoted this idea at my last two jobs. I called it lame vim users anonymous though. Because really, we're all lame vim users.
That wasn't under Jobs. He put it out of its misery.
Unfortunately, if the organization is succeeding, people see a single point of success, not a single point of failure. And if the leader is actually a poor leader, people don't recognize that the organization is succeeding in spite of of the leader. . .and probably because of some "heroes" further down in the organization.
I think I would prefer tips from their marine days on how to get maximum caffeine into it. Currently I just get three espressos in one coffee cup, but could use a more powerful technique. I don't really understand their chart with perfect in the middle between weak and strong, isn't perfect what comes after strong?
That and Perl.
I want to live in a world where they hire Scott Forstall. It'll never happen, he's not an idiot, but oh boy would that be a ride!
Because they kiss the right asses! I've seen this in large
organizations. In small companies, or companies started
with friends, the leaders are usually the most "well
rounded" person in the room. A small business needs a
person who can get the most out of everyone, in an innate
way. They are usually the first born, and male.
That said, I am one to believe that news always leaks at least to small indirect parties. It's not in those parties interest to spread the news or bet big enough to attract attention. It happens though.
Use GPS and cell tower tracking to determine if you are inside an airport. If you are inside for longer than X minutes, send a message to selected people stating that.
Or they just want more money than everybody else (ie it's not good enough to earn 200k when everyone else is earning 200k as well..) and they will stop at nothing to get another rung up on that latter...
Windows 7 was hardly a failure.
It does seem like the market is waiting for someone to replace Blackberry.

I'm with you on splitting the enterprise cash cow from the rest of the business.
WELL? I'm waiting! what cool thing did you make in BASIC?