skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What did they say two years ago?
What we've learned from Ember.js after 2 months developing our new product
I don't understand your sentiment here. If there is a large overlap and both companies are struggling (and struggling is dying when you're an Internet company), why not eradicate inefficiencies and try and build a stronger player?

AOL and Yahoo are not beholden to provide for their employees in perpetuity. That's a very Japanese mindset.
Funny, just got an email from my 4y/o's montessori school explaining why they start with cursive!

"It is commonly asked why children learn cursive writing instead of print in Montessori classrooms. From a practical point of view, it is thought that very young children's scribbles and early drawings are flowing and circular, more like cursive writing; making it more natural to learn first. At the Casa level, children love to repeat things making it a good time to practice penmanship. Given the distinct shape of each cursive letter, there is less confusion and less tendency to reverse letters such as b, d, p, and q. In printing there can be a tendency to mix upper and lower case letters together (e.g. CaNada,) which does not usually happen with cursive letters. Cursive also seems to be a more efficient way of writing since the letters are joined together.

Another reason stems from the fact that in Montessori schools children write before they read. In traditional schools, children in the first years of school are learning to read and write simultaneously and can be confused if they are learning to write in cursive and read in print. In Montessori, when the child is three and four years old, he is learning how to 'write'. He learns the sounds the letters make, learns to recognize them and learns how to form them. Once he knows the sounds, he can put sounds together to write words with the Movable Alphabet (cut out cursive letters that can be moved about freely and combined to make words) and eventually, with pencil and paper. For children who come to school knowing the alphabet names associated to print letters, it helps that the cursive letters look different when they learn the sounds of the letters. As a further step, children learn to read. When this happens they read print letters. Once children know the cursive letters, they are usually able to easily recognize the printed letters. So, they have the advantage over children who have learned to recognize print first and do not necessarily recognize cursive letters."
Are they usable in different countries? I know that, unfortunately, some prepaid CCs issued in the US can't be used in other countries, for instance. But maybe that's less likely to be the case in Europe, or, really, just about anywhere else.
Forcing? I didn't realise Firefox were hardcoding this in now.
Pretty sure he meant "canon" in that context.

1) A general law, rule, principle, or criterion by which something is judged
2) A collection or list of sacred books accepted as genuine

(http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/canon)
Oh, makes sense. I did not see that this is a bridge between DBs and faker. Mixer does something similar directly on top of sqlalchemy if I recall correctly.
Benchmarking Ruby with GCC and Clang
Not mentioned in that list; Microsoft.
Yahoo's board was being too hasty and that Mayer was going to try and Googlify Yahoo.

Yahoo, even today, has some very incredible assets that aren't being leveraged. Instead they're trying to compete on search. Which is retarded.
I personally think there's a difference between substantial long-form content and the standardized "elongated-form" content that all starts out with something like "It was a cold December morning and the sparse streaks of light crept softly through...". That's purely for entertainment value over informational value, and I can see why the parent commenter could grow tired of it. As soon as I saw the first line of this article, I knew it was going to be a haystack I didn't feel like perusing for needles of information.
When will it happen? I cannot seem to find this info in the article.
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Really neat tool. I would like more granularity in the screen size selector. Perhaps in half inch increments?

+1 for radio capabilities.
Ask HN: How to break up and delegate programming tasks
I can solve development problems in my head and transfer them to code without a problem. I can design the build the whole system and pass on implemention tasks to the other senior people. However I can not seem to break the tasks up ahead of time on paper in a way that a junior or mid level developer can use to execute the tasks. Does anyone have any resources or tips that I can look into to help me be a better senior developer to the not so senior devs?
> Ask.com, a search engine that no longer innovates but happily takes in $400 million in annual revenue

Holy crap. I must have taken a wrong turn in life. HOW?!
To add to this point: nobody can read all the long-form journalism out there. I love long pieces, read at least a couple each day, but I spent 20 seconds reading the intro to this piece and decided it wasn't worth my time. That's not to say it shouldn't be written that way, just that I'd personally read something else than this. So instead I just glanced at the HN comments to see if I was missing out.
> Do some economists really believe that the "right" thing to do is fire thousands of people?

Yes. The idea is that they'd be more productive in other companies (or start their own). In a country with decent employee protections, unemployment provisions, and public healthcare, it can even be more-or-less true.

> Are a company's shareholders really more important than its employees?

Yes. With employees, there is a contract, which in some fictional-economics sense was a negotiated agreement between equals, so the company only has those obligations laid out in that contract (just as with bondholders). With shareholders there is no contract, instead the company has a fiduciary duty to act in their best interests.
It's true that Apple has nothing like the direct revenue streams of Facebook or Google coming from the web via advertising (but Amazon isn't in the same business either).

What I think the point is that all four companies operate very large online services. There's even significant overlap on a lot of key products: maps, messaging, email.
yeah, the big 4 are Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft.
This quote: "Cable layers, like hackers, scorn credentials, etiquette, and nice clothes. Anyone who can do the work is part of the club. Nothing else matters. Suits are a bizarre intrusion from an irrational world. They have undeniable authority, but heaven only knows how they acquired it." Love it!
iTunes hacked
Semaphore and spinlock sure are different. People rarely use spinlock in user mode programs since there are better synchronizing mechanisms in user mode than busy waiting with spinlock. However, in kernel mode program spinlock is invaluable since it's the only synchronizing mechanism that works in any interrupt level.
My fine motor skills are "unrefined" shall we say. My drawing is equally rubbish, soldering is good though (surface mount and everything!)

the label that was finally attached was dysgraphia. However any skill that I learned after the age of about 16 is largely unaffected. I learnt drumming from 16, and fencing at 19, and there is no problem there, however tennis I fail horribly at, lacrosse I'm ok at.

I have a journal that I draw in, however its a real effort to write legibly. Its terribly frustrating to write long words so I sort of scribble the intermediate letters.
I chose not to receive updates to my search. Mozilla updated my search anyway. That's forcing. It's underhanded.

And now I have sponsored links when I open a new tab in Firefox, from Mozilla partners.

It's starting to stink. The Mozilla foundation is losing sight of their mission.
Instagram Passes 300M Users, Now Larger Than Twitter
Presumably they wanted her to actually do the job, not just be the face of the job, so her skills beyond "being famous" would of course matter, like hiring anybody else.

Of course that doesn't mean I agree with assuming that no qualifications means can't do the job, but that's unrelated to her being a celebrity (and indeed a commonly debated question with two big groups of people on both sides).
Toolbars and arbitrage.
You literally can't type a search query in firefox without it asking you which engine you would like to use.
Goodbye Nokia store We shall miss you
basically malware (ask toolbar)
Can someone explain to me how you value a company turning a $500 million annual profit at -$4billion? I could understand if the company had $6 billion in debt, but it doesn't.

What am I missing about the accounting?
Dunno about 3V, but here in Portugal we have a similar system (called MBNet) and it works fine everywhere. I do all my online shopping with it.
[Mayer] highlighted various signs of promise. ... Display advertising revenue was down 6 percent, but the number of ads sold had actually increased by 24 percent.

Good news, everybody! We're doing more and making less!

Yahoo isn't a products company -- it's a pile of cash with long audience reach. This isn't a bad thing (and indeed was the situation at Apple when Jobs returned), but it does mean that the company has lots of options but no core mission. The danger is that such a company can kill its cows while searching for stars.

It's hard to avoid the conclusion that Mayer has failed to develop any kind of coherent strategy, let alone execution. Instead, she appears to have substituted chaotic action as a metric of progress (new home pages every day! Purple everywhere!), mistaken her hobbies as evidence of expertise (e.g., deciding Yahoo could become a destination for high-end prêt-à-porter fashion consumers), and taken on high-concept strategies without any kind of plan for generating revenue and income (e.g., going deep on content). This doesn't even get to Yahoo's constant overpaying for startups that are inevitably killed by indigestion -- I like to say that VCs operate on the greater fool theory, and right now the greatest fool is Yahoo.

Couple this with what is evidently a tendency to micromanage without attention to detail, a constant reworking of HR aspects without any comprehension of how such changes affected loyal employees, and an almost imperial demeanor -- no surprise that her tenure is already being prepped for postmortems. Mayer's failures have at best led to drift and at worst burned the little remaining daylight left for Yahoo. Were I a major shareholder at the company, I think I'd rather have little Bobby and his nickel in charge than Marissa and her $2.08 billion.
The shuttle is in no way comparable with the SpaceX solution. The shuttle was notoriously slow for turn around because it was a massively complicated machine that had to be man-rated. A Falcon 9 first stage is a much simpler machine. On top of that, the shuttle had to go through re-entry, with all of the G forces, and thermal shock associated with that. The Falcon 9 first stage has neither of these problems.
> "Dissent seeks to offer accountable anonymity, giving users strong guarantees of anonymity while also protecting online groups or forums from anonymous abuse such as spam, Sybil attacks, and sockpuppetry. Unlike other systems, Dissent can guarantee that each user of an online forum gets exactly one bandwidth share, one vote, or one pseudonym, which other users can block in the event of misbehavior."

Looking at some of the documentation this doesn't seem correct. It seems I could still connect multiple devices to this pool as different entities even if they are all still me.

Perhaps they mean that I would have to have multiple connections open to send multiple votes/messages. One connection cannot send multiple votes/messages.
I did this after I learned that Safari on iOS does this by default. If in all of my usage of my phone browser I didn't run into issues, I don't see why I should on the desktop.
Nice read, but still some misconceptions and misunderstandings.

If I am in a multiprocessor design, where each processor runs completely independent from each other and there is no central organizational unit like a central OS, like in many embedded designs, there is no such thing as a spinlock. A semaphore is also not used for sending processes to sleep.

Linus explanation makes sense, speaking only about a single OS, which may is comprised of multiple processors. But makes no sense at all for real multi-processor designs. I don't blame him for his narrow view, more his professors that he never experienced real embedded design.

I have worked in the past with multi-processors designs, where one processor was using one OS, like OS9, and the other processor had no OS at all running. Both processors where exchanging data via a dual ported RAM. So basically both processes where competing for the same resource. But even than, using a semaphore does not prevent race-conditions. Even then it is very tricky to use them. Because dual ported RAM allowed real concurrent access to the same resource.

In summary, the semaphore definition is the more broad definition where 2 (or more) processes are competing for a single resource. The naming convention within Linux is more specific for this requirements. The "invented" spinlock is just a renamed version for a fast semaphore, AFAIK. Even a mutex is just a special case of a semaphore.
Firefox has a wizard which tells you how to change it the first time you click in the box. If that isn't a good experience for the search box I don't know what is. They have actually significantly enhanced the UX for how searching works when they switched to Yahoo default on installation. (These enhancements may only be in the nightlies right now)
Water is more common elsewhere in the solar system. There might be water ice on the Moon, even Mercury. Comets are largely water ice, so are C-type asteroids. Many moons of the outer planets are supposed to have liquid or water ice in their cores. Titan and Europa possibly have more water than Earth.

Which is to say, there's probably easier and (eventually at least) cheaper planetary targets for H2 and O2 factories.
No. Check out the example in the article, an attacker can make your browser submit a form with a POST request using JavaScript.

It's slightly harder to exploit, as the attacker can't just send you a link to facebook.com, but they can send you a link to example.com which has the form and uses JavaScript to submit the form.
One of the best things I did personally was to overhaul my shitty handwriting into something I'm actually happy with, and isn't just "how things panned out".

I'm saying this because doing such a thing, in your case, could very well turn out to work towards making your handwriting tech compatible as well, thus eliminating that hurdle. Win-win, really.

Edit: As a further advantage, I actively think of the way I write and incrementally improve upon certain letters for efficiency and legibility. Pardon me for tooting my horn so vigorously. XD
It didn't eat us.

One'd expect self replicant things to grow into every available ninche, however irrelevant it is. Thus there's no self replicant thing consuming our galaxy (or there is, but it's incredibly new).
> Mozilla should allow users to choose their default search provider on installation.

That's EXACTLY what they do. The same way the did before. Google was the default and people could easily change it to bing, duck duck go or whatever they wanted.

They still can but the default is Yahoo instead of Google.

Options > Search > Default search engine.

It's really easy.

I'd advice you to CHECK things before spreading this kind of disinformation.
corin_ : Companies don't hire famous people to "do the job". They hire them because they are famous. E.g. Alicia Keys at Blackberry, Rihanna at Puma, Will.I.Am at Intel. So, university degree is indeed utterly irrelevant.
You would think so, but having worked on a ship built at SHI there is still a lot of installing part c, cutting it out, installing A, D, and L and then reinstalling C.
Samsung in Talks to Launch Apple Pay Competitor
Yahoo sports is really good, for example. It's not a bad aggregator in general and has good original content mixed in.

I don't understand the synergy with AOL at all. What does AOL bring to the table?
There was a big thread a while back on HN that went into the details. What I got out of it was that the negative price reflects the market view that despite the cash coming into Yahoo, they are more likely to destroy value than create it.
They owned shares in Alibaba that had a market value of $4b more than Yahoo's market cap, which in theory should have reflected the value of Alibaba plus all the other assets.
Apple's software & services revenues are pretty significant, its gross revenue from iTunes Store, App Store, etc comes to $7+ billion per quarter:

http://www.asymco.com/2014/02/10/fortune-130/

Presumably Yahoo aspires to reach the level of [Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google], Microsoft is in the process of a major pivot so it probably wasn't considered an aspirational target (even if they do make massive amounts of money)
Is either of them gonna snail mail me a printed copy of articles each morning so that I can read them without the distraction of the internet?
This is a complicated story. The BND's priorities have changed (they are now migrating to Windows internally instead of GNU/Linux). FOSS is also a lower priority. See this video from the German Bundestag about funding GPG and related projects: http://vimeo.com/111715711 . (TLDR: We already gave them some money. Others should step in and cover the bill.)
The company is doing much better than before, but "not good enough."

It all comes down to returns. Yahoo might be doing better, but if it's not doing as well as other potential investments, money will flow out of Yahoo into other, more productive companies.
For what it is worth, I like the new Yahoo news app on my Android phone.
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I am 100% certain that when I updated to Firefox latest, my default search engine was changed. Give me just a moment to reconfirm.

Edit: Just confirmed. Installed FF 30. Turned off the option to receive search updates. Updated to latest, provider was still changed to Yahoo.
Would you be willing to share how money this kind of site generates? I always fancied making one myself but the competition seems hard.
It's civil and the lawyers are already planning an appeal.
Sure: nine quadrillion, four hundred and sixty trillion, five hundred and twenty-eight billion, four hundred million.

Next would be quintillion, sextillion, septillion, nonillion, decilion, undecilion, duodecillion, tredecillion...um...quaterdecillion(sp?)

Granted, I had to write it out to convert (or I could have sat and derived the rule--divide by three and subtract two to get the prefix). And I may be an exception, having spent a brief bit of my childhood interested in names for very large number. :-)

But it's pretty easy to know that 10^15 is bigger than 10^10. 10^5 times bigger. Ideally, we'd get sufficiently familiar with scientific notation to immediately understand that the difference between 9 lightyears and 9 000 lightyears is the same as between 10^12 meters and 10^15 meters.

I don't hold any illusions that people do have that fully internalized, of course. I don't.
Can Our Smartphones Help Remedy Mental Health Problems?
Wow this really is only the beginning of you offering better, faster and more reliable builds on Travis CI. You seem to have a lot more things planned to improve stability, I'm totally excited that you shipped this today.
Yes, these storytale leads make me think, "get to the blasted point already!"
It just means that the share price doesn't reflect the true value of Yahoo.
The Tomte (Nisse in Norwegian and Danish) is close to what's called a gnome in English, and usually lives somewhere on the farm. As long as it is respected, and offered food for Yule eve/Christmas eve, it will help take care of the farm. If it is not respected, it will play lots of little or big pranks, like tipping over a bucket with milk, or opening the barn door to let the animals run off.

It does NOT spy on children, and frankly, they live in a completely different universe than the modern Santa.
>Gwyneth Paltrow had created a best-selling cookbook and popular lifestyle blog

A contributing editor job is essentially a writing position. That strongly indicates that she could do the job.
Is being patient worth it? Not if you live in Russia
Don't all the current nexus devices come with full-device encryption enabled?
Given that a lot of web sales/pageviews has mainly to do with branding (i.e. the more famous you are, the more pageviews you get, making you even more famous), Paltrow's name (and the brand that it carries) is her doing her job.
>Surely Microsoft is still considered a "Big tech" company?

MS market cap: 371.84B

Yeah, I'd say they're big and I'm not sure if they're trying to "turn themselves around." They're making money hand over fist, mostly from the enterprise end of things and Windows/Office licensing. Of course, they are doing poorly in the mobile arena, but that doesn't mean they're in financial straits.
I mean, yes, I understand that they're doing that calculation. But it doesn't make sense to me.
Former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar Pulls Back the Curtain on Vessel, His YouTube Rival
Do you mean a language with a very strong type system like Haskell, where you could create a web framework in which things like user input have different types associated with them? Those can offer some real advantages by never mixing untrusted input with page output and various calls to other systems.

But you don't get a lot of web application security advantages when you compare, say, Python and Java.

Of course, a very weak type system like PHP's can definitely introduce additional security flaws.