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That's not going to be the best API over time.

Give everything a default traffic weight of, say, 10. Make it alterable as above. Divide traffic proportionately between all versions according to their weight.

The reason to do it this way is so that when you go from 5 versions to 4, then 4 to 3, then 3 to 2 you just eliminate versions and don't have to calculate the percentages to rebalance. Trust me, calculating percentages gets very old, very fast.

While you're at it, add the ability for versions to be marked as not to be reported on. This allows people to have versions test, control, and unreported control. You start with a lot in unreported control. You ramp up the test by dropping the weight of unreported control.
By the real interest rate I mean the interest rate after taking inflation into account. If you think about it, the average long term nominal interest rate in the economy is going to be roughly in line with nominal growth of GDP, because there are market mechanisms in place to make it so:

If the nominal interest rate exceeds nominal growth in GDP, then wealth effects (aka people have more money thanks to interest and therefore spend more) will eventually encourage faster growth of nominal GDP - either by stimulating more production (real GDP growth) or by driving up prices (inflation), or, more likely, by a mix of both.

If nominal interest rates are below nominal growth in GDP, then it becomes more profitable to borrow money to invest in production. People will do this, and this will adjust interest rates up (you can understand this from two directions: on the one hand, profit is being spread around via interest, on the other hand, demand for loan drives up interest rates).

These adjustments do not take over night - they probably operate on the timescale of years (unfortunately, economics tends to pay very little attention to how fast such market mechanisms operate, so we basically have no scientific basis for such statements, just common sense and gut feelings). Still, you cannot escape those adjustments of the interest rate in the long term.

What does this have to do with governments, inflation, and financing the deficit? If the government consciously acted to increase inflation to finance its deficit [1] this would indeed temporarily benefit borrowers. However, this is a temporary measure and certainly not the case today. Furthermore, governments have also consciously acted to decrease inflation, which obviously has the opposite effect. So in the end, it's at best a wash.

One last point:

the Fed does in fact purchase US Treasury Bonds without requiring the Treasury to pay back the debt

The same happens in the real economy as well. Firms operate using debt that is effectively never paid back. The debt is regularly rolled over, sure, but it is de facto permanent and contributes to a permanent increase of the money supply, which is what matters (if any of those quantities matter).

The Fed does buy mostly Treasuries to create the monetary base (which is necessary for purely technical reasons), but what else would you have them buy? I personally wouldn't want "my" central bank to gamble on risky assets.

[1] Also, I find it fascinating that the goldbugs never point to actual examples where this happened. I suspect they don't because it's a myth, at least in the countries those people come from outside of wartime.
Hah! Well, usually I can get past things like a lack of apostrophe or incorrect use of there/their/they're, I wouldn't consider myself a "Grammar Nazi". But for some reason this one causes me to lose my place when reading. I kept having to go back and find where I was in the paragraph and re-read the sentence to be sure of who is involved and what they were doing.
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To clarify, after that, you can use data, just not over 4G. You won't lose connectivity.
It's the price point, entirely. 3ds is pretty expensive.
You could do some basic stuff like motion sensing floodlights, and leaving a light or two on at night inside the house (on a timer).

I've always been curious if one of these fake tv things would be any good.

http://www.faketv.com/
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He's trying to spin a character, which isn't very useful to someone looking for analysis.
From what I've read, I had the impression that she has many Jobsian (for lack of a better word) qualities. Especially with regards to product design: apparently she was a perfectionist at Google, going so far as to even care about subtle color differences and the effect these had on people.

As an engineer, I've always had more respect for managers with a technical background compared to managers with "just" an MBA, so in that regard I'm definitely interested in how Mayer's leadership will shape Yahoo - I think I would respect her as manager as I can only appreciate the opinions of people I respect in a work situation.
Sorry, if it's you in the forest with a shotgun defending your property in a libertarian utopia, you're the government.
For some years now, I've used the phrase "cargo cult design" to describe those designers that copy the look of a successful product without understanding the reasons behind it.

As a UX professional, I'm often told that we can just copy the menus in someone else's product, or the colors they've chosen, or any number of other decisions they've made about form and function.

It's why you see printers with touchscreens where buttons would actually work better, cars with vestigial body effects that do nothing, skeuomorphic elements where none belong, or "flat UI" where a bit of skeuomorphism would have helped the user.

There's no substitute for starting from user and business needs, instead of "what do the other guys do?"

I'd love it if more people started dismissing the idea of "cargo cult design."
I love scathingly biased op-eds like this! You can tell he really enjoys describing his loathe.
Maybe so, but the characterization makes little sense.

ETA: maybe the idea is supposed to be, since Mayer read this book, she would never succumb to similar sins: she's sure to be cognizant of what she's earned vs. what's simply come to her; she wont be delusional but will rather have a clear head on her shoulders; she won't just attempt to control and suppress her subordinates and won't even think of them as mere brutes.

It would be beyond absurd to draw a conclusion like that based on a person's high-school enjoyment of a novel.
Who needs cheese when you have an unlimited supply of matoke?[1]

Have you seen any positive changes in ICT ed from the Carnegie Mellon program[2] that started there?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matoke
[2] http://www.cmu.edu/rwanda/
Have you tried the Realforce? I'm more interested in it than the HHKB because of the ergonomically weighted keys (jrockway here says he likes them).
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I don't find the physical design of a product to be unique or worth protecting. If the "pirate" wants to go through the trouble to scan, touch-up, and print something they could've bought then let them go through the trouble. How is the "pirate" working to reproduce, reverse engineer, a physical product piracy?
It's interesting they removed the fold. Make it less portable IMO.
If I were a business owner and a customer judged me for allowing my employees to wear comfortable clothes around the office, I would not want them as a customer. Same with investors.

Why? Because them caring about outward appearances would signal to me that they have a fundamental lack of understanding about what factors are relevant to running a successful business.

Don't get me wrong: if an employee is visiting a customer or business partner, then yes, they should dress up. But the office should be an environment where people focus on their work instead of how they look. My philosophy: people should be able to wear anything they would feel comfortable wearing around a roommate that they don't know well. I think once you provide that guideline, people will auto-adjust towards a standard that is acceptable to everyone.
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The lack of a hinge between the two screens makes me wonder how this will interact with games that use closing the screen as a required game mechanic. For instance, "Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass" has a puzzle where you have an emblem on one screen, and you close the lid to imprint the emblem on a map on the other screen.
The $2k is just a price cap, you can still bid on it.
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"It's like trying to sell shovels to gold prospectors, but for more money than the price of the gold that they'll dig up."

I'm sure that has happened quite a bit in actual gold rushes.

People aren't always rational, and no one really knows exactly how fast the mining difficulty will increase.
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We currently aren't using a fork for feature flags, though it would certainly be cool to do so.

Now get off HN and fork it.
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Yeah, that is a pretty substantial discount. I guess plenty of parents will take advantage of that for their kids.

This quote just seems to revoke the whole idea of making a 3D capable console in the first place:

"The new Nintendo 2DS system gives you all the features of
the Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 3DS XL, minus 3D viewing"

What a clumsy way to phase 3D games out of their product line.
I'd say mostly age group and "health" (with a good chunk of price point). Specifically, for the under-7 crowd. It doesn't have hinges, so fewer parts for small children to break. It doesn't have 3D, so the possible vision damage stops being an issue[1]. It's cheaper, so parents are more likely to purchase it. Oh, and it's coming out on the same date as Pokemon X and Y.

[1] http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/nintendo-3ds-young-e...
amazing eye for detail. that baffled evrybody in the team! :) thanks for pointing that out..will fix asap
I totally agree. Yahoo has risen back into my mind and before her I was always like 'Meh, it's yahoo...' but now I actually think positively about Yahoo. Well, at least until I signed in the other day and found my account was removed for inactivity. They almost had me back...
It's an interesting balance I've worked places where the boss thought the best way to go was to do nothing like the other guys do..which resulted in a product that was essentially unusable.

These days I write "enterprisey" software and I've found that a clear simple design with controls that people understand is much better than an unconventional design (even if the unconventional design is more rational).

I suspect this is related to the classic principle of least surprise/don't make me think mantra.

That said I'm a back end developer who can handle some front end stuff and most definetly not a UX expert so my opinion is worth what you paid for it.
Kids are 7 and 9. But Nic is spot on above. It really is just a bunch of small steps except for maybe a biggish one to get started. Thankfully that's the only hard one. But ya, the other thing you can do is reach out to the folks in the region you are interested in and just see how you can get involved. Relocating may in the end just seem like a natural next step.

To be honest, Kigali is one of the easiest places to do this in Africa (if not the easiest) when looking at all factors, so we are bit spoiled in that regard. I was surprised, when talking this over with my wife she was on board right from the beginning and even moved here sight-unseen. So, I'm grateful for that. Having kids also adds the extra hurdles of finding schools and such, but nothing too difficult.
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Locke's definition of property always felt like a philosophical hack to me.

It seemed more like an, "Oh shit, I need a definition of property," than a "Well... so that's what property is. Fascinating."
>I'd love it if more people started dismissing the idea of "cargo cult design."

I'm sure everybody does that, they just rationalize what they're doing as not just blindly copying, by coming up with "everybody knows" reasons for design features without any data to back it up.
I notice that the pricing plans don't reward the middle tier as compared to the first tier.....would have expected that middle one to offer savings per SMS sent versus the first tier. My 2 cents feedback. Service looks very useful, congrats!
Hah, matoke is most definitely NOT a viable substitute to cheddar!

It is early days still for CMU, they are only just starting their second year, but I think their influence here and in the region will be huge, mostly because there just aren't many (any?) other top tier universities here. Their program isn't straight CS, but it does offer CS courses and the profs are top grade, so the graduates will be head and shoulders above others in the region.

The long term impact of that could be pretty huge.
Or we could say: security is a practice.

Usually the design of an O.S. has certain weight, but not half of the weight that the operators (and users) have.

A keylogger for linux takes less than 30 lines of C... a payload for a root shell takes less... but to certify that they will work on every Linux out there... is more hard... it's hard even with constructive software, it shouldn't be less hard with malware.

The concept of malware may vary too much from one person to other, from one company to other, from one project to other.

It's not always a trojan, and software is a changing scenario. And it's not isolated, it's an ecosystem.

First viruses did travel on floppy disks. Nowadays they use websockets, sql, or render themselves as a (web) image or font.

Even the low latency 8.8.8.8 DNS, maybe considered malware if we go philosophical.

Internet, as the real world, is something wonderful. And as the real world, may turn hostile. So even if wonderful, each one should take care on what to trust, and what not, and how.

Update: remove all "quoting" as I was told once that I use them too much.
There's a sleep slider. I bet it fires the "clamshell closed" event.
Countries like Norway and Sweden have 25% VAT. 24% for Finland, 21% for Belgium and the Netherlands.

There's plenty of choice really.
What is "Big Corp" though? I work at MS and they certainly don't do tests like this - and from my understanding neither does Google, Amazon, Facebook (is fb a "bigcorp"? perhaps not yet..). Dunno about IBM - wouldn't be surprised either way I guess.

Perhaps the bigger lesson here is to not do personality tests. With that said, obviously gauging team fit is super important - but you don't need (and should avoid) a test for that.

On a related note, it seems another lesson to be learned from here is to be cautious when searching a technical job at a non-technical company. We don't know whether this is the case in OP, but nevertheless the whole "BigCorp" caution you give is likely more applicable when you look at financial companies or otherwise "companies that don't focus on making software/etc."

But I have no idea why growing startups would model their HR after them. If they want to model their HR after a "Big Corp" then they might as well model it after a technical Big Corp. Let's not compare apples to oranges.
Content creators on Youtube have a bootstrap problem. Once their videos become popular enough, Youtube's content discovery mechanism will direct potentially interested viewers to said videos. The problem is that if no one has seen the video, then the algorithm has no idea what its quality is, or what type of viewer would be interested. Depending on your target audience, even getting a small number of views by piggybacking a popular channel may be enough to get you onto the algorithms radar, which generates a lot more views that the click through rate would suggest.

Linking within the video works, but it requires that the creator of the original video does more work, and if it was not planned when the video was created then, while doable with annotations, it appears scammy.
The inaccuracies started with your claim to be an "independent" analyst when you were actually a paid shill, and only got worse from there.

You are right that there is an appeal - there always is. But consider that the judge the first time around ruled nothing like you claimed would happen. On anything. Why should we expect the appeal to be different?
>>She's a woman. She's a CEO. She's guaranteed to have a target on her back.

I don't think her being a woman is terribly relevant here. All CEOs regardless of gender, race, nationality, etc. have enemies. That's what it takes to rise to the top in corporate politics. People smile in your face and stab you in the back at the earliest opportunity.

One could make the case that she has more enemies due to being a successful woman in technology, but I think that would pale in comparison to the number of enemies she has due to her job title alone.
Ya, that's mostly because we decided to discount the lowest plan for launch, it will 'normally' be $49 in the future, so then things will ramp the way you'd expect.
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It was Feynman who first popularized this metaphor.

The Wikipedia article on cargo cults is surprisingly fascinating:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult
<i>All high school students will be taught the fundamentals of computer technology, will become proficient in binary arithmetic and will be trained to perfection in the use of the computer languages that will have developed out of those like the contemporary "Fortran" (from "formula translation").</i>

We're still working on this one.
Unix even has "man 5 magic", which describes the format of the magic numbers file that the "file" command uses to determine the type of a file (executable, object code, shell script, etc.) from its first few characters.

My personal favorite magic numbers are the values that debuggers use to fill uninitialized memory, like 0xDEADBEEF, 0xBAADF00D, etc.

Wikipedia has a good article on magic numbers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming)
> It's illegal to reject someone based on any criminal history as long as the person has not lied about their background.

Source? As far as I know, it's legal, but you have to show a good reason to do so, and finely tailored policies, that aren't simply a broad "we don't hire anyone with a criminal record."

There are plenty of cases in which you may, or even may be required by law, not hire someone based on particular crimes on their criminal background check, such as sex offenders for jobs involving children or felonies for people who need to get a security clearance.
Maybe I am extraordinarily dense, but I still don't see an argument that the real interest rate is decreased by long-term stable inflation.

If real GDP growth stops or even becomes negative, then the real interest rate will have to end up being zero or less as well, regardless of what the government supposedly does to create inflation or not. Ultimately, even if government acts like every gold bug wants it to act, the private sector will create inflation through its action if the real interest rate remains too high. [1]

So I don't know what we should make of all this? Perhaps you want the government to stop borrowing when the Limits of Growth have been reached? But (a) we are not at this point yet, so it is irrelevant for current decisions, and (b) how would you recognize when we've reached this point?

Perhaps you recognize it when there is zero unemployment and real GDP is still shrinking?

In any case, this is very unclear territory.

[1] Since I don't want to repeat myself too much, this is the comment where I've tried to explain my understanding of the mechanisms behind this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6291096
> She's paid by stockholders to improve the value of the company. Not win popularity contests.

I'm not sure these two things are exclusive.
I'm very surprised to hear you say that. My experience of Rwanda is that the issue is always just below the surface. I spent three months there 3 years ago working as a Physics teacher. The election was on when I was there and it was rather surreal, the radio was constantly going on about genocide and there was a lot of tension in the air.
I thought Hacker News was the home of pivoting, launch-'n-iterate, and all that.
Ask HN: What tips do you have on moving from corporate to a startup?
I'm moving from Corporate (40K employees) to a Startup (<100). I've worked on small teams before (for large companies) but this is a pretty dramatic shift. I've met the team I'll be working for but I want to find out if any HN readers out there have done something similar and have any advice. This could also include how to handle equity shares, weekly happy hours, or anything else you can think of. Just looking for some wisdom to help make the transition better for me and the team I'm joining.
That's all nice and well, but my point is, no matter what change you make, you're going to alienate users. Youtube can't make everyone happy. It isn't feasible. This change, that affects the view-flow of 0.0004% of users, is an intelligent one. The change Youtube made to subscribed videos (mentioned elsewhere in this thread) might not have been as intelligent.

Youtube has to optimize for the greatest number of users it can. When you're working with a business at scale and there are millions of users (or even a billion), you don't get a bellyache over features that have to be scrapped because they're not used enough. It's a company, not a charity. That's how it works.
> I am not so sure working standing would be better, either.

I'm curious if standing desks make taking breaks much more accessible. Like many others, I use a program that basically notifies me every 30 minutes to take a 2 minute break. Even then, I find myself "skipping" them often as I'm typically in the middle of intense focus and I honestly feel like it's too much effort to get up and walk around at times.
This. I'll always feel safer with a dog I trust than any technological protection/deterrent. Well apart from the yappy ones rich women carry in bags...
Ottawa-Gatineau area, in my case. The downtown areas can often be clear of snow/ice, but not if you're on the outskirts. In this case it isn't the gear so much as the tire width.
Anyone know how many people (% of employees) that Steve Jobs fired when he returned as CEO? How did he get rid of the cruft of poor performers that had accumulated? Gradually? Or did he magically turn them around too?

I'm curious because it seems like Mayer has already doomed herself by not raising the caliber of the average Yahoo employee. Nothing hurts morale and productivity like working with colleagues you don't respect, in my experience.
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I'd be curious to hear more about this decision. I note that it lies somewhere approximately in between the extremes of Kenya/Nigeria/SA on one end and Central African Republic on the other.
"She's a woman. She's a CEO."

The bad news is Carly Fiorina. The good news is Carly Fiorina.

The bad news being she's also a woman leader in tech and the most famous one from a decade ago was a disaster.

The good news being she's a woman leader in tech and after a certain HP CEO a decade ago, she doesn't have to accomplish very much to rise above the bottom of the barrel and raise the bar for those of her kind.

Across any group, half of everyone is always by definition below the median. She seems, at the absolute minimum, to be in the upper half of leaders, so there's not really much to complain about.
This is 'the daily wtf' level stuff, but I believe it to be true.
There is some chance the 9th bit in each half-word was for parity.
Read the article again. Notice how many of the ways in which she was being criticized were things you could only really say about a woman?

Having enemies comes with the job. Your enemies will attack you as they can. Being a woman gives them culturally acceptable ways to attack you that they can't use against men.
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