skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i think that's what's special about graffiti. it has a heart of damage, of destruction; of disrespect. it has undeniable artistic elements to it, but it remains very difficult for people, even those in the 'quite accepting out-of-the-box' world of the LA art scene, to reconcile. they invited a vandal and he vandalized. i think that's kind of beautiful in a way.

"why didn't he respect our space, our praise, our attention, our money? why didn't he respect that he was being given something 'bigger' and 'better' and 'more' than his petty world of crime?" because fuck you. graffiti is fuck you. still. regardless of recent attempts to embrace it, recognize it, retain it, reform it from the art and corporate worlds. it's attractive and interesting and 'hip' to these people, but they struggle with it.

i remember reading a graf mag sometime in the 90s, and a rather amazing and accomplished artist said something to the effect of "i think what's most important is damage. everyone can do damage, regardless of skill." i throughly rejected this as a young kid looking for an artistic outlet, but many years later, after becoming a part of the corporate world learning more about art and business and society and money, i think he had something. i think maybe that is what's important. it's not art that everyone can call art, even some people that are trying really hard.
I think Python 3.x started as the default flavor in this release.

Does this have the specific feature to port from 2.x to 3.x?
This seems like an aggregation of snarky Techcrunch articles bashing Yahoo for x "bad decision" over the last few years. It's based entirely on the flawed premise that we could draw some sense of Yahoo's bigger picture by looking at a collection of individual issues that may look bad to an outsider (like not letting employees work from home) without any new insight into what's going on internally. Throw in a few numbers and missed performance metrics, and you can only conclude one thing: Yahoo is doomed to die a slow, unspectacular death, like a star burning itself into a brown dwarf. Breaking news?

This article brings no new perspective to the table. But since hating on Yahoo is so fashionable lately, perhaps it will get the author invited to a few more tech conferences.
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Ugh, articles on topics like this are always so damn opaque.

It's like watching people go in and out of the empire state building. You could do it all day for a year, watching them go in, assume they're doing important things, watching them go out. At the end of the year you have no idea what they've done, though. You're still just people watching.

> Yahoo also confirmed that it paid Henrique De Castro $60m, whom Mayer fired for not delivering

Sorry for all my questions in the dark, but what does that mean?

It can't just be pegged to metrics. How could expectations possibly be set up so that you've recorded some stats and hired a COO, then 15 months down the line the numbers didn't change enough, therefore you think that firing the COO you brought on board will help? How do you get to that point, where firing him is a useful thing to do?

Maybe it's as simple as they needed an sacrifice to drown out some earnings noise. Could it be that simple? What else is in play here?

Reading this I get nothing but the feeling that there's clearly a lot we're not privy to. Instead we're just people-watching outside of the Yahoo office.

~~~

As a bystander it seems moves like this would make all Yahoo employees more risk-averse than they might otherwise be. What message does this send if the COO was ambitious?[1] That trying something and failing is not OK? That's not conditions developers want to operate under.

Could something like Tumblr (or any new popular service) be invented at Yahoo today? I imagine they have plenty of bright people, but I suspect there are unwritten penalties for sticking your head out or attempting a project of any ambition. And maybe there aren't, but this certainly doesn't help the impression.

[1] We must assume the COO was not brought on at great expense merely to stay the course.
The problem with Yahoo is that it doesn't really serve a purpose. I haven't been to the website in years, because there is nothing that it offers that fulfills some need. If I want to search, I use Google (or less likely Bing or DDG).

I couldn't even tell you what Yahoo offers because they don't seem to offer anything. Sure they have news, email, weather, etc. But so does Google and everyone else.

Yahoo should have taken Microsoft's buyout offer. Microsoft needed a landing page ever since they lost MSN. I guess now they have Bing instead.
This related Bloomberg article provides some perspective on Yahoo's foreign stakes.

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-04-17/how-can-yah...

The valuation of their two main foreign assets actually exceeds the market cap of the whole company. This indicates that not only is the current strategy not working, even with billions of dollars available a new strategy won't be found.
That makes logical sense in the same way as turning central park into a "park skyscraper" makes logical sense.
I was considering phrasing my comment as "conversations between stoned philosophy students", so yes, that sounds about right.

Not to mention the fact that a philosophy course about Borges will likely be examining the work of the philosophers Borges was referencing. I've yet to see anyone make the claim that Borges originated any of the important philosophical ideas in his stories.

Edit: Just to back this up a little more, here is a quote from the man himself: "But I wonder if they are my ideas. Because really I am not a thinker. I have used the philosophers’ ideas for my own private literary purposes, but I don’t think that I’m a thinker. I suppose that my thinking has been done for me by Berkeley, by Hume, by Schopenhauer, by Mauthner perhaps."

http://denisdutton.com/jorge_luis_borges_interview.htm
I think most of the news sites, including Hacker News is really focused on Silicon Valley and NYC startups so unless there's company from outside US acquired to a hot US company, it's really rare for it to be in news.

One big acquisition lately outside US was SoftBank buying Supercell for $1.5B (http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/16/net-us-softbank-ac...)
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"Shortly thereafter, on 9 June 1959, Herbert York, Director of Department of Defense Research and Engineering, announced that he had decided to terminate the Saturn program. York felt that the DoD should not be funding a booster whose only concrete role was to support a civilian space program." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverstein_Committee

The internet is a direct result of years of hard work by the US military, but nobody calls it a military network. GPS is still run by the air-force but nobody calls there iPhone a piece of military hardware. So, sure NASA used a lot of military know how and plenty of people from the military but it was a civilian agency and focuses on non military applications.
Honestly, my perception of difficult for 2048 clones is really skewed. After wasting hours playing it when it first came out, I'm now good enough at it that I can reliably get 2048 in one go every time I play. I've even gotten to 4096 multiple times. I've given up on 8192...

btw, if you want to know how to beat it, just google for a strategy guide. there's million of blog posts and stuff on the subject by now, and they're quite easy to follow once you get the hang out it -- not a bunch of edge-cases to memorize like a Rubik's cube.
OMG they find one of these all the time.
https://www.whitetruffle.com/ has been doing this for a while.

Anyone with experience as a candidate on there want to tell us what it's like?
I just installed this. How do I know when a comment is new? I just looked at a few threads i hadn't opened before and I was expecting all of them to have the "new" UI element but they all looked normal (other than the new UI that the plugin brings for all of HN)

edit: and as I post this, my own post is marked as new. For those interested, new posts seem to be denoted by an border on the left
I really like Palo Alto for exactly the same reason. Nice sidewalk cafés and very walkable.
I think "learn about ice" would have worked.
If by cover you mean he essentially shrugs and says "it was the 90s" and moves on to ES6.
Expressing disagreement by down-voting is actively encouraged. I'm not a fan of it.
Here is a great interview with him in The Paris Review [1]. I love when he says,

"It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there’s not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination."

I know the Caribbean very well and could not agree more.

[1] http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3196/the-art-of-fic...
They should ditch Bing and get back to their core business of building a search engine. Google isn't perfect, just look at Wolfram Alpha and Duck Duck Go, there's room for improvement and people like options. Yahoo should be one of them.

There's got to be a way they could leverage the data in Tumblr and Flickr and Alibaba to create richer search results than the few lines of text and low res pictures and weak shopping results that Google currently offers up.
Yahoo has a lot to offer but they were dethroned as top dog and had nothing to fall back on.

Look at Google. They become top dog in their subject matter and then they start trying to compete in everything else. mobile OS, robotics, deep learning.

Look at MySpace and compare them to Facebook, who has gone out of their way to purchase up-and-coming Social networks, WhatsApp, Oculus.

My guess is that their problem isn't that they don't have something to offer it's that they didn't have the NEXT thing to offer. They have constantly been a step behind in their acquisitions instead of a step ahead.
>In the context of this argument, they're logically isomorphic. The fact that the civil rights movement has more emotional significance is irrelevant.

No, they're not, and the significance of the civil rights movement is not "emotional." Drastic measures are required when people are being systematically oppressed and abused. Not so much when you want to start a taxi company.

>Emphasis mine. Your definition matched what I said exactly.

Right, except for you conveniently ignoring that last bit.
Coincidentally, I just released a podcast interview with Gary right after he gave this talk at NDC London in December 2013: http://herdingcode.com/herding-code-189-gary-bernhardt-on-th...

It's an 18 minute interview, and the show notes are detailed and timestamped. I especially liked the references to the Singularity project.
$60m incentive to get fired... hmm... that's a real shocker.
Is it worth implementing push notification when SMS still works fine?
So I should have both SMS and Push ?
I feel the same way. It definitely varies from neighborhood to neighborhood, and even street to street. I think he was trying to hit a resonating sentiment but experiences are so varied I think he failed.
I think they were going to try, but the agreement they had with MS did not allow it. This was on my wishlist for Satya.
I'm surprised this article didn't bother mentioning Gliese 581g: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_581g
Seems he took the Wat talk a little personally, but I'm not sure why he defends {} + [] by saying the first { is a statement... wat?
Thanks for link. Liked the 70s vibe and humour.

From about 14:40 he gets animated, basically conducting! Would love to know a programmer's explanation for the function or purpose of arm waving and hand signals in a presentation. Not knocking, just curious!
> MUNI is good

gonna leave that right there as testament to your credibility
I would Like to mentions this great book I found other day.
And its really helpful https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7585467 or http://webappsuccess.com

Really helpful tips for startups
Yes, and that's the primary reason why we still need to use OS sandboxing features: the Rust type system can't protect the C code that we're using, and we have to use some C code, even if it's someday just kernel32.dll. But I'm confident that the sheer number of memory-related browser vulnerabilities that have been found and continue to be found in browser engine code means that the Rust safety features are a significant security advance. It's about reducing the attack surface.
yea, my score of 286,394,094 is about to be pushed off the board by hackers :(
This is what I don't get about Bing though. $10 billion dollars, 5 years of investment, and I don't know how many man hours.

At BEST it's a mediocre imitation, and at worst, a disaster. Search is definitely not a solved problem; I think that there's still a huge potential for disruption there, but throwing money at it won't work if Microsoft's attempt is any lesson.
Actually the article is wrong about De Castro's pay - he was only paid $50m for his 15 months with the company.

The CEO + CFO pay took away from the owners of the company (the shareholders, remember them?) a full 10% of the company's earnings. What did they do to earn this incredibly rich pay? Top line revenue dropped over 6% and operating earnings were flat.

I understand outsized pay for extraordinary performance - but paying 1%er FU money for caretaker performance seems like a recipe for a stockholder lawsuit.
Like this!

http://www.stefanom.org/spc/index.php?view=4940722
People bring this up sometimes, but I've never heard of this being used in any real attack/malware. It appears to be a purely theoretical threat.
People realize it but also admit it's a terrible name for a language and referring to it as golang is much better in the long run.
Dethroned as top dog in some categories, but still strong in others.

Yahoo! News still dominates Google News, Yahoo! Finance still dominates Google Finance. Yahoo! Answers is pretty much unrivaled in Q&A category (I know, I know, the quality is not there, but all we care is traffic figures)

For many of the Google searches a site on *.yahoo.com network is still a top result.
I believe an answer to such a question involves topics out of the scope of HN, but I guess it doesn't hurt once in a while. I went through that situation a couple of weeks ago, so here is how I dealt with it. Hopefully you'll find something useful in it.

I had to become stable again as an individual first. It means getting used to be alone and not having someone to share my life with everyday. I've been spending a huge amount of time with my self. It's been hard, but it's also been the only way for me to figure out what I wanted in life.

Luckily, I am a developer doing what I love, and that helped a lot. I believe you are too.

Another important point was for me to realize that she and I weren't meant to be together, and she broke up with me for a reason. We believed in different ideologies, and she probably wanted something I could never give her. I don't know what your situation is, but there is a significant chance that you broke up for a good reason.

Don't hesitate to talk about it with others. Anyone.

Brace yourself and enjoy the time you have with your self. You may have most one of the most significant things in your life, but you're now free to be and become anyone you want. Do the things you could not do in your relationships.

bradleysmith is absolutely right when he advised you to "grin and bear it. Struggle through, and find the focus within yourself. You'll make it through this, regardless of what happens."

Once you manage to stabilize and strengthen yourself as an individual, your love for coding and other things in your life will be stronger than ever! : )

One book that helped me was The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand. It's about one's love for his work, in part.
"Smaller, hotter, but in the habitable zone of it's star. Relpek 681f orbits a hot yellow star but far enough out to not be cooked by it. Yellow stars are so hot that they would turn our planet into a barren, semi-molten wasteland at the same distance.

Scientists have noted that the atmosphere of Relpek 681f would have to be very thin in order for it to maintain cool enough temperatures, but it's well known that plant life would probably have an easier time dealing with it's solar radiation output..."
To be fair, these implementations are only poor in your opinion. And your suggestion might be poor in other ways.

For example, I would suspect far fewer people are willing to invest upfront in a game like yours. It's much easier to find two people who want to play chess against each other where they are fully in control, than two groups getting only one single, slow game out of it.

One way a more thoughtful, strategic game like yours might work would be to achieve critical mass with a simpler, fast paced game and then add depth.
I really don't understand the MUNI hate people here seem to have.

MUNI covers most of the city, goes frequently and is inexpensive. I use buses everyday to commute and to get around the city and find them surprisingly good.
Lovely story! I'm guessing you hand-transcribed it because I noticed some typos:

"took away and sense of grandeur"

"as if weren’t a supernatural creature"

"determining the different"

"a poor woman who since childhood has been counting her heartbeats" ["has" might be intentional, but it also might have been "had"]

"a her taking his ease" ["hero"???]

"finding out in the prisoner had a navel"

"rent the sky in tow" ["two", I'd guess]

"have up his job"

"he’d be duplicated" ["been", probably]
I would prefer a 'da Vinci humanoid' to paint it.
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> Never been to NYC...Caltrain takes you to south

I live in New York City.

On a weekday, the last Caltrain train out of San Francisco leaves around midnight. The next one does not leave until 5 AM.

In NYC you have several trains going out in that time period, whether you're going to Long Island, New Jersey, Westchester or Connecticut.
I love linode. I switched from slicehost for its 32bitness back in the day, stayed for the awesome culture and independence. Slice host got sold to rack space.

However, I am seriously considering a move to Amazon Web services for one main reason: I need to decouple the hard drive space from the ram. The hard drive space is so expensive on linodes!!
And not only that, instead of using a box section for the steel piece, they used two c sections welded together like this: []. A box section is strong, that built up section, not so much.

The thing is, that design would have been a horrible pain to build as designed. It's a design failure. To build it, you'd need to slide a large steel section up two screws, following it by a nut up 30 feet. It needed to be redesigned by someone who knew more about fabrication and erection, and then checked closely to make sure that there weren't material changes in the performance.
Exactly.

The sentence in English is translated perfectly in this instance - the underlying implication of 'to see ice' carries the exact same meaning as the Spanish.
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I don't think you realize how small a kilometer is! Or how valuable a Euro is (in terms of real money like dollars). That sounds to me like an incredible rate of profit.
I wonder if there is a way to perpetuate the "Star-Switching" feature of this one

http://www.stefanom.org/spc/index.php?view=4994899
i'm a happy DO user (30 droplets at the moment) and I agree with your cattle analogy. I am not surprised to see multiple droplets spontaneously rebooting on occasion (even when system maintenance has not been announced)

however, I have no experience with Linode so I can not say if they are "kittens" as you say.
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I couldn't figure out why PoachBox's apply page rendered so terribly in Chrome on Windows. Taking a look at the source, the entire site is built with iWeb. I don't think it is a real site, just harvesting info.
"Introduced" him to ice, maybe? It's usually translated "to know", as in "took him to know ice", but I think "introduced" works better here.
or a middle eastern sovereign wealth fund, or a Chinese mega-corp?
I think it's a bit of a stretch to call the JVM an interpreter. Having said that, if you want to deliver Rust as bytecode, emscripten would seem to satisfy that usecase (though obviously that's not what the original author was talking about, and it doesn't work properly at the moment).
"That extra comma could kill someone."

Only in old versions of Internet Explorer.
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Stay strong. The best way to stay focused is to follow your passion, keep doing what you truly like to do. During your spare time, keep yourself busy with things you enjoy. Always keep yourself busy. Don't hesitate up some friends, even those you didn't see for a long time. Set yourself goals which you'll enjoy following. Stay strong and enjoy everything you do :)
Yea, but what you have to do is drop them at just the right distance to evenly space 9 of them while only placing one at the same orbital alignment of the two central stars so they all follow the same orbit.

http://www.stefanom.org/spc/index.php?view=4994899
What you have to do is drop them at just the right distance to evenly space 9 of them while only placing one at the same orbital alignment of the two central stars so they all follow the same orbit.
I think sometimes it is OK to be simply enchanted. (Well I think it's always OK, but ...) I tend to favor literary "analysis" that dwells on that feeling of enchantment, tries to explain it to an extent, and sometimes even re-create that feeling. I'm not sure an overarching "meaning" is always really needed.

For several years I followed the mailing lists dedicated to several of my favorite authors, and at the same time took literature classes at university. Both were great, but I'll always consider those mailing lists my "real" education in literature. University was mostly good for learning to write a certain kind of essay, and how to read in ways that are valued by tenured professors (which isn't exactly a bad thing--these are smart, interesting people).
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Sorry for my ignorance but what is a CA? Here in Canada, CA stands for Chartered Accountant.
> that a web page cannot easily distinguish two user agents.

Don't need to, to be more precise.
This is a problem which needs to be fixed, as cryptolocker demonstrates.

We really need some hard boundaries set between non-interactive and interactive requests to open files.

Sensible ones too - not "ask about every file", but maybe "grant process access to this folder in my documents folder, without recursive access".

Even better would be "fire this backup utility first, then grant access".
Possibly; but without being familiar with TX, I would like to point that Oracle are enhancing Solaris TX with _Flask_, which essentially IS SELinux.
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