skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like Marissa Mayer is trying to do something similar with Yahoo!'s acquisition binge. Perhaps a lot of it is for talent, but she did make one big play with Tumblr. Only given Yahoo's market cap (vs. Facebook & Google), she can't make bolder plays in the range that Facebook/Google can.

I think Mark & Marissa are similar in that respect that they see the past pattern of BigCos ignoring the start-up's potential to grow and haggle on price and want to make a bet anyway because the technology/users/growth is there to pan out in the future.

In this example Yahoo (under Terry Semel) missed out on buying Facebook. In 2002 (or 2003) Yahoo missed out on buying Google [0] also under Terry Semel's leadership. Obviously it is easier to point this out in retrospect and Yahoo did make acquisitions that didn't pan out on the scale of GOOG/FB, but in the case of missing out on these breakout companies, it was a result of haggling on price. Of course in an alternate universe Yahoo could have made the bold plays with Facebook + Google and could have been one of the most valuable companies in the world (Hindsight is 20/20).

Mark Zuckerberg has been there and seen first hand of what the other side of the table looks like and what founders of young super-growth companies want. He perhaps also has some of the smartest people advising him. And I think that is why Zuckerberg is going to leave his acquisitions alone (Oculus, WhatsApp, Instagram) like the press releases mentioned because he realizes that these "subsidiaries" of Facebook might have a better chance of succeeding as stand-alone teams than as a merger with other facebook staff teams.

Also, I'm not sure how much of it has to do with the fact that Google & Facebook are run by founders vs. Semel who came in from Warner Brothers and wanted to personally enrich himself as much as he could (He made north of 450 million from his 6ish year tenure at Yahoo). If I'm making so much money at a company that I didn't help start and I'm already in my late 50s, the last thing I would care about is what the future of technology might look like and how I can capture that value by paying billions of dollars to young companies. Perhaps the case of misaligned incentives?

[0] http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/15.02/yahoo.html
The problem arises when everyone else lies - when you sit there as a sole honest voice amidst a torrent of fantasy, telling the truth gets you branded a liar, as you tell truths people do not want to hear.
"The regulations will now be debated in both Houses of Parliament. If the regulations are approved they will come into force on 1 June 2014."
The intention behind the introduction of KERS and now ERS and current fuel restrictions was mostly to:
a) make F1 more "green"
b) make F1 a platform for development of technologies that are relevant for the road cars.

Active aero isn't one of those but ERS and fuel consumption are and you can see this stuff is making its way into the normal cars already. KERS is a gimmick maybe, but I'm happy that they're tackling the problem of fuel consumption.
Hey Adrian I have got a question. Why did you chose elastic search for indexing couchdb data. Why not couchdb-lucene?

Couchdb-lucene seems more tightly integrated with couchdb to to me.
Shuffling Zombie Juror (http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.g...)

From the RC1 announcement (http://lwn.net/Articles/583929/):

I realize that as a number, 3.14 looks familiar to people, and I had
naming requests related to that. But that's simply not how the
nonsense kernel names work. You can console yourself with the fact
that the name doesn't actually show up anywhere, and nobody really
cares. So any pi-related name you make up will be *quite* as relevant
as the one in the main Makefile, so don't get depressed.

Besides, any self-respecting geek will know pi to twenty decimal
places from their dorky youth, so 3.14 isn't really *that* close, is
it?
Well, the 3.14 series (including RCs) is all named the same it seems:

Shuffling Zombie Juror

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....
Up to 755 gallons of crude oil spilled into Lake Michigan from BP refinery
This should've been in my never-ending history:

$ tex -v | head -n1 | awk '{print $2}'
3.1415926

but it wasn't (I distinctly remember using this line to prove a point a few months ago).
"it is a replacement for rdbms"-mongodb
That's the first thought that came to me when reading the article.

Honesty is the best policy small lies are always counter productive and increase expectations to an unreasonable level sometimes making you putting a lot of effort into meeting it.

There's very few situations where lying is a good idea however 100% complete honesty is probably not a good idea either there's some things in business you just can't reveal however outright refusing to answer the question is probably a good solution.
Great idea Mark! My support .. I have numerous entrepreneur friends who are always struggling to find good iOS developers. hopefully your course will create more of this rare breed :) Good luck! ps: where do you plan to host this course?
What is an entity system framework for game development?
See through the cracks: The charity may be owned by a friend of the stockholders or managers. If the donation is reported by some media outlet it may as well recover the money; sometimes is mostly help their own agenda such as...

- A real state company that helps an organization that seeks to prevent the construction of new buildings (because it destroys the forest/parks) but in reality they just want to keep the price of their own stock as high as possible.

- A clothes company that support anti-fur organisations, only because the rival brand is the target of such protesters.

- An alternate reality where Shell supports anti-Exxon campaigns done by Greenpeace.
The copyright holder can issue multiple licences for a given product.

It's not about suing themselves'.
> "If you built the fastest racing car on land, one that throws aside all rules and regulations, what would that car look like, how would it perform, and how would it feel to drive?"

The big question is whether it would qualify as a "car".
I'm on android - are there similar apps for that?
As Mark Cuban might ask, "Can you spot the sucker in the stock market?"
> build an investor exchange opensource based on bitcoin

Can you elaborate?
Also, we're possibly one step nearer to Plan9's portable /bin concept (where each user overlays her binaries with those provided by the system).
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You might end up with the equivalent of Group B rally cars from the 80s: Too powerful, too dangerous, and too awesome!

http://youtu.be/0fskgShipUY
I think you missed the first answer. There is no place for it. It's big, heavy and needs to be exposed.
is btrfs production quality yet ?
I feel Dr. Goodson is fighting a straw man here. Nowhere does the original article make the statement that Google used an "unbelievably complex model that no one could ever understand", or that we had no understanding of why GFT worked (merely that the assumptions were not made explicit).

What it did say though was that "Big Data practitioners" (whatever that means) too often tend to make the mistake of ignoring threats to external validity [1] because dealing with big datasets gives researchers a false sense of confidence in the assumption that "N = all". This is a very valid point and IMHO the most important takeaway of the original article, but it is not addressed here.

On a side note, I feel the pothole example (where using a mobile app to crowdsource pothole detection in Boston unknowingly led to a bias towards younger and more affluent areas) would have been more relevant towards discussing that thesis than focusing on the details of GFT.

What Tim Harford (the author of said article) denounces is the recent trend that sees people claiming Big Data is "the end of theory" [2], where traditional theories and hypothesis testing are being replaced by theory-free procedures such as validating metrics against a hold-out set. The problem is that while previously the relative scarcity of data lead social science researchers to carefully consider their data sources, the abundance of passively generated data we have now tends to cause them to forget to do their due diligence when assessing the threats to the external validity of their findings. Normally such concerns naturally arise when you're deciding on your data collection methodology or your experiment design, but Big Data analyses do tend to be different in that they focus much more on finding latent relationships in existing raw data. This also increases the risk to unknowingly fall prey to the multiple comparisons problem [3], which is the other important point Harford touches on but isn't really addressed in this post.

In that respect, yes, Big Data analyses can be more prone to this kind of problem. Even if you dismiss it as a case of bad scientists and not bad science, it remains that the general population is much more prone to overly trust findings that came out of such analyses, and articles such as Harford's are important to remind both practitioners and laypeople to be careful.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_validity

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/mar/09/big-dat...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_comparisons_problem
I thought that what happened was that the HFT players were able to find your limit and so front run your order.
They were, but then they got back again
While this is true, I have the same feeling as jmnicolas since Linus released version 3. I guess it's because of the new release numbering scheme. Let's not forget that we had 2.6 for close to 8 years!
Get rid of the human pilot - get the engineering teams compete with fully autonomous cars, maybe with the team feeding it strategic directives during the race. I would certainly love reading about it, though I acknowledge that the lack of human drama would make poor advertising copy...
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Yes i was thinking about the Group B cars too.
It's just a page not found. Was this supposed to go to something different?
they would probably have AI drivers by now :)
In idiomatic Python, the only reason for class inheritance is for code reuse.

In other languages, especially Java, class hierarchies are a matter of self-esteem.

Javascript programmers could do worse than emulate Python in this regard.
I would assume that 3.12 would be used instead since it's the latest long-term stable release of the kernel.
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" This is my first post: )"

I really don't mean to be snarky, but please try to use paragraphs. It'll make it much more likely people will read your post.
This looks very good. I have not delved into maths stuff for quite some time so it is refreshing to read such an approachable article.

Which other relatively simple techniques could we apply to find out who is similar to us in terms of movie taste, etc?

Also, It may be better to compute cosine similarity based on movie type, as it may provide less noise.

Moreover, I have never used R but it seems like a very neat language...
The danger comes from the Dysmorphical Disorder, not the selfies.
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Yet another post titled "don't do X", which actually reads as "do not exaggerate with X" or "did you know? X has some caveats".

Of course inheritance is not a solution for everything. Avoid using deep inheritance hierarchies, you'll paint yourself into a corner. It's advisable to prefer composition over inheritance. You should not be that guy who only has a hammer and everything looks like a nail to him. But it doesn't translate into: "hammer? don't do that!"

All the examples he's giving either demonstrate abusing the inheritance concept or just show that it has certain limitations. There are well known solutions and guidelines for dealing with problems such as fragile base class, other than throwing the whole paradigm out of the window
FWIW I'm already using 14.04 beta2, and the kernel there is 3.13.0-20. This means the stable version will be 3.14, doesn't it?
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Maybe my memory is bad, or perhaps I'm subconsciously "lying to myself," but I don't think I lie anywhere near as often as the author believes she and other people do, even about tiny things.
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Too many special characters. This is why I don't like Haskell. As a polyglot, it's really helpful to have a piece of syntax spell out what it does. Python is usually really good at this. I don't get how it can be so hard for language designers to learn this. Why use ":+" when you can use "append"? Now I have to google "Scala append" every time I start writing a new Scala program. Good job. But at least the Scala example uses "+", which is sort of understandable with lists. You can suspect that it has something to do with appending when reading code. What does ">>=" even mean? Or "(($){.R)"? WTF? I give up. I don't like languages that try to fight me.
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I think the best way to think about this is to think of the mobile phone network. Do you sign up with AT&T or do you sign up with T-Mobile? Despite T-Mobile's (allegedly - I don't live in the US, so I'm just going on what people say) better customer service, their network is just far less prevalent compared to AT&T's which enables AT&T to maintain its hold on customers. But T-Mobile continues to build out its network, having already achieved the point where there is enough of a network to pick up the necessary customers to fund the continued expansion of the network.

I would see car chargers going the same way. From now on, if you want to play in this market, you're going to have to face down Tesla's advantage in the charging network. This is Tesla building a moat to make it harder for competitors, but as with all moats, it is not unbreachable - with enough resources, a competitor can achieve a minimal viable network which gets them a foothold in the market.
Helmets are a bit like bullet proof vests. If I was to be sent to some unknown part of Afghanistan and I had the option of placing a bullet proof vest in my luggage I would probably take it, just in case I needed it when I got to wherever it is in Afghanistan. However, for a gentle stroll to the shops or a trip to the back garden I probably wouldn't think to wear a bullet proof vest. Yet, actually, only last week some girl got hit in London by a stray bullet and, with her life being a mess right now, I had really better go for the bullet proof vest. Had she been wearing one then she might have avoided that neck injury.

Personally I do not wear a bike helmet, however, if some of my former mountain bike friends called up and took me out riding all day on trails I did not know then I would find a helmet and make sure it was properly fitted to my head. So I am not absolutist when it comes to helmets.

As it happens I have sold thousands of helmets and fitted a few hundred for people. Along the way I read the instructions and you do need helmets to fit properly, i.e. with the straps tight. I have also noticed that most cyclists including those in the peleton ride along with the straps somewhat less tight than they should be. Hence I suggest that rather than have helmet debates with people you helpfully point out to them that (if they are wearing a helmet) that the straps are dangerously done up. Point out to them that they could get strangled by their helmet in an accident if, due to the straps not being very tight, the helmet slips back. Assist them in getting their helmet setup properly, by which time they should not be able to move their jaw and give you any more lip :-)
It sounds like her expectations are way too high, and it's taking a toll on you. Is she your girlfriend, or your wife? It might be a good idea to think long and hard about that.
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> he doesn't believe homosexuals should be allowed to marry.

No, we cannot even infer this much, all we know is that he donated to a political cause. We know nothing else, can we stop the bullying now please?
A bit of inspiration can do wonders :) However, I was hoping that the red and green .com indicators would tell me whether the domain is available or not. Didn't find that information accurate.
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From the press release.

Why should the excitement of online dating only be for single people? Now Woopal, a new Danish startup, enables everyone to take part in the dating game by matching their single friends with each other.
"Without patents, some can have a good idea, invent something and become rich."

Equally, they could have a good idea, invent something and then have an existing, larger company just copy it outright (with no legal recourse for the inventor).
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Thanks for the reply. Every term I promise myself that I'll make a timetable and stick to it etc. but I always end up prioritising other things and before I know it, I find myself having to cut corners to scrape through and meet deadlines :( Pomodoro method looks cool, I'll try it next term
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> If you raise your focus up past your hipster Macbook and decaffed latte, even a small Linux release is a pretty big thing.

Oh, burn!
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There is also Seedmatch (https://www.seedmatch.de) and FundedByMe (https://www.fundedbyme.com)
My reality is some combination of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRPDO63rI1E

and the Truman show.

Get a job? Fuck that -- retarded. All media talks to me, I'm worth billions.

God talks. I made His temple. I entertain God.

-----

God says...
the programming how_about_that Shakespeare heads_I_win_tails_you_lose
tattle_tale Ghost Varoom gross I_veto_that California
left_field Icarus recipe I'm_bored that's_all_folks God_smack
theft ha grumble what's_the_plan stuff yuck quit you_don't_like_it
thank_you_very_much quit I_am_not_amused

----

God says....
C:\TAD\Text\PARADISE.TXT

of waters deep,
Hoarse murmur echoed to his words applause
Through the infinite host; nor less for that
The flaming Seraph fearless, though alone
Encompassed round with foes, thus answered bold.
O alienate from God, O Spirit accursed,
Forsaken of all good! I see thy fall
Determined, and thy hapless crew involved
In this perfidious fraud, contagion spread
Both of thy crime and punishment: Henceforth
No more be troubled how to quit the yoke
Of God's Messiah; those indulgent laws
Will not be now
It's possible, as the Kernel Freeze is on April 3rd (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseSchedule).
True, however (in my parallel universe of ideal world), bus drivers, postal delivery drivers and every other road user should know how brake by wire works in practice. The foibles of it should be no big deal, like doing a hill start with a 'stick shift' car, something ingrained into you during a driving test.
Yeah sorry but from where I'm standing the studios are just suffering the consequences of their own ineptitude: as you might know the app is (originally) from Argentina, but what you likely don't know is that over here there is no legal alternative like popcorntime, and what little there is sucks, its overpriced to protect the traditional media system (which is getting pwn by the oldschool DVDR) and full of really old content nobody cares about.

Mind that by neglecting those markets the movie industry is losing even more money because people over here would actually pay for a service like popcorntime, but the bizantine system of regional distributors and studios run by people who don't even know how the internet works stands in the way of such a legal app.

I know because I was part of a team that once tried to do such thing: the tech part is easy, the legal part is impossible.
Ah, a band-aid on a band-aid.

What was wrong with open outcry? Sure, you had to physically be there, but nothing has changed - traders still cluster around exchanges to keep latency low, HFT kit still lives "on the floor", and what was once done with humans and bits of paper is now done in a far less efficient fashion with computers. Less, because the marginal benefit ends up going into the pockets of those who can afford exchange co-lo and mountains of hardware to parse FIX a tick faster than the other guy, meaning that the rest of the market ends up suffering, and not having a more efficient fill mechanism, as touted.

HFT is that asshole who takes his umbrella with him into the pit, and blocks your trades.

If anything, the solution here is to abolish algorithmic trading, and decrease tick resolution substantially, which if lengthened enough, would take C out of the question and make the entire market equally accessible to all.

I mean, seriously - does the value of Brent light sweet actually change thousands of times per second? According to the markets, yes, according to reality, where people buy futures with straddles/swaps so as to have a fixed, manageable cost, no.

The entire thing is un-necessary, and doesn't add value to humans.
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We ban people who personally attack other users. Your comment was worse than the one you replied to.
That is the entire game of market making. You are literally complaining about market makers doing their jobs.

As a market maker, I might sit out there offering to buy 1000 shares of Microsoft at $40.20 and sell 1000 shares at $40.30. Then someone comes along and buys 1000 shares from me at $40.30, so I need to put a new quote into the market. Do I put it in at $40.30 again?

Hell no! There are two main reasons why not -

1. I know that there are buyers out there, and most likely the reason there are buyers at $40.30 is because they believe the stock is worth more than that. I need to revise my prices upward to reflect that new information.

2. I'm now short 1000 shares of MSFT. If the price goes up further, I will lose out. I need to persuade someone to sell me 1000 shares to cover that short position, so I need to offer more money - therefore I need to raise my quotes.

Most likely is that I'd now put in a new offer at $40.32 and raise my bid from $40.20 to $40.22.

This is the mechanism by which market prices reflect new information. Market makers change their prices to reflect information in the order flow. This is the entire reason that liquid, efficient markets are able to exist.
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this headline is misleading click-bait. the customer recovered only his/her own Droplet, not someone else's. and the DigitalOcean explanation is perfectly reasonable. they should only perhaps improve their UX to not surprise users with this.

all in all, someone is venting frustrations.
Founder of the IoT company that made Cloudwash here.

You might enjoy the engineering writeup of how we hacked the internal protocol of an existing washer, and gave it a web API. Signal analyser and Arduino fun!

http://engineering.bergcloud.com/2014/02/cloudwash/
'All at no cost to you.'
Really? the 400$ a year I pay for my motorbike rego that goes straight to ACC is no cost to me?

(I do think it's a pretty good system however)
Why would you conclude that?
I think it has a lot to do with the battery size. Last year there was I think 6 seconds of boost per lap allowed. Now it is something like 30-40 but they did need a bigger battery to support that.
it is partly thanks to no traction control that we are seeing so many cars overtaking in corners. with traction control, it would be much tougher
Fair enough to a point, but was chairman of the board from seven months after it's founding and personally lead the design of the first car, the roadster, and even won two design awards at the time. He's absolutely earned the accolades he's got for his work there.