skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DBpedia is data scraped out of Wikipedia and made available as RDF, SPARQL (and JSON). The scraping process is... okay. Sometimes it is great, sometimes it is really crappy.

Wikidata is intended to be the database behind Wikipedia. The current infoboxes that show you things like the population of cities—ideally, they'll be driven at some point directly from Wikidata. Then Wikidata can be a place for disparate data to be placed, often directly from government and other official data sources. The US government census data would just be routinely imported into Wikidata, and then the Wikipedia infoboxes would be driven from that.

It may also at some point lead to the creation of an alternative to the current category system on Wikipedia. Wikipedia currently has policies around categorisation of people. For instance, we might have a category called "British physicists", and a category called "Jewish physicists" and a category called "LGBT physicists" but because it would be too difficult to maintain, Wikipedia doesn't have a "British Jewish LGBT physicists" category. See http://enwp.org/WP:OVERCAT

What Wikidata means is we might be able to get rid of the category system, or rather have a category system where the categories are based on Wikidata properties. So instead of having all those categories, you could have a faceted navigation system where you say "Show me all the scientists, now show me all the British scientists, now show me all the physicists, now show me all the women physicists" etc. etc. And you could pick any property you choose, not just the ones that Wikipedia category editors think are important.

This also gets rid of a whole load of politics around categories: there was a big storm a while back when someone decided to split up the "American novelists" category into "American men novelists" and "American women novelists", and some of the latter decided that this was rather a demotion. Eventually, Wikidata may end up powering the replacement for that, enabling readers to find what they want without editors having to make contentious judgment calls like that.

Where Wikidata becomes quite interesting is that because it ends up being used by Wikipedia, there's some kind of motivation to get it right and keep it up-to-date. It's all too easy for projects like Freebase to import-once-and-forget. But if it is used as the basis for a public-facing project like Wikipedia, there's hopefully some more pressure to get it right. (Obviously, how much you trust that is rather dependent on how much you trust Wikipedia to get things right.)

It also may end up being the centre node for pointers between databases: because Wikipedia is a reasonably good collection of everything (or, everything that a few people at some point decided to write about in a books, which is a reasonably good low barrier), then it becomes a fairly good central index for pointers to other data sources. Bibliographic/authority control databases like GND, BNB, VIAF and others are already being merged into Wikidata, as have pointers to the identifiers used in some specialist scientific databases. There'll be plenty more where that came from.
Notwithstanding Meyer's faults or idiosyncracies, I wonder if there was anything anyone could have done to reinvigorate Yahoo?
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I like this part :

> " Mayer also favored a system of quarterly performance reviews, or Q.P.R.s, that required every Yahoo employee, on every team, be ranked from 1 to 5. The system was meant to encourage hard work and weed out underperformers, but it soon produced the exact opposite. Because only so many 4s and 5s could be allotted, talented people no longer wanted to work together; "

Can somebody talk about his experience in the same conditions?
I understand. The way it was presented seemed deceptive though. Hope that feedback is useful.
> However, I have the impression that, organics, in contact with perchlorates (or any strong oxidant) will result in CO2

With enough perchlorate, it will. But with smaller amounts of it, there's a huge number of possibilities, including products that are more complex than the reactants.
Could you say something about the business/license model? How did you negotiate with the copyright owners?
Hi, Jeremy from Subspace here. We're getting ready to launch and would love to hear any feedback on the product. Thanks!
"Are a company's shareholders really more important than its employees?"

Shareholders in this sense actually represent financial responsibility.

One could argue that Yahoo! has been hurting it's employees by failing it's shareholders (financial obligations). As a result, massive layoffs will be required, whereas if Yahoo! had maintained it's health, it's numbers would have grown/shrank organically.

In this sense, the Alibaba money only delayed, and made worse the correction to Yahoo!'s underlying business model.
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Turn up the storage to 128 GB and come to the realisation that android users are expected to use memory cards if they want to store all their videos/photos/music.
Yes, it is strange. What about Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, TI, Cisco, IBM, HP, Dell and others?
A good reminder that an "acquisition proposal" without any indication of price is not an acquisition proposal. Asking so much information without any such indication is just crazy.

I strongly recommend this excellent post from Justin Kan: http://justinkan.com/the-founders-guide-to-selling-your-comp...
Paltrow is 42.

Basing hiring decisions for middle aged persons on their college record is incredibly foolish.
Byte is a another generalist+software magazine that was pretty good and didnt survive. Most of the magazines still being printed are dovted to a single platform. And they cover application usage rather than development.
I'm not arguing that she could (or couldn't), just that whether she could do the job was more than just "she's famous". Personally I fall in the camp of people who will judge on experience more than degrees, clearly Meyer is on the other side.
The counter-Mayer argument is that Yahoo! should have focused on "media" and ad sales, two of their strengths and then maybe "dabbled" with enhancing their products.

This theory of course cannot be proven, however the closest evidence we may have is AOL.
I've seen this a lot as well: execs that are so busy re-inventing their business that they don't manage their core operations.

<< Aswath Damodaran, a professor at N.Y.U.'s Stern School of Business, has long argued about the danger of companies that try to return to the growth stage of their life cycle. These technology companies, he said, are run by people afflicted with something he calls the Steve Jobs syndrome. “We have created an incentive structure where C.E.O.s want to be stars,” Damodaran explained. “To be a star, you’ve got to be the next Steve Jobs — somebody who has actually grown a company to be a massive, large-market cap company.” But, he went on, “it’s extremely dangerous at companies when you focus on the exception rather than the rule.” He pointed out that “for every Apple, there are a hundred companies that tried to do what Apple did and fell flat on their faces.” >>

It's probably not a coincidence that Steve Jobs had Tim Cook there to manage core operations, while Steve spent a lot of time focused on reinventing the business.
Types are not that useful for security - it's as easy to create a MutatingController in Ruby as it is to concatenate some strings containing SQL and a string containing raw input in Haskell.

Better typing can help, and Ruby programs are more likely to be "stringly typed" than Haskell programs in practice - but the difference is a lot more subtle than one might expect.
bitcoin will not be impractical to store, the blockchain maybe, but clients like electrum allow you to store bitcoin without the blockchain.
It's her doing some of the job. Maybe it's big enough that if the rest of her time was spent sleeping it would still be worth hiring her. Maybe she'd be amazing at the rest of the job, regardless of qualifications. But if you're looking to hire someone to actually run something then being famous isn't enough on its own.
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This is actually pretty amazing, you deserve more upvotes, but that's none of my business :)
> "useful when used by a professional" to "half as useful when used by anybody and full of false positives."

Where I work we have a desire for both.

We want developers to be able to scan their own code -- preferably automatically as part of a CI process -- for things that are clearly wrong, without needing to be appsec experts, and clear out a lot of the low-level brush.

We also want complex tools that are used by appsec to be able to do their jobs faster.

This is timely since I'm about to do a search for tools for this. I'd love, for example, a way to see the permissions for all lines returned by "rake routes", whether those are resolved by CanCan or where CSRF is disabled or whether it's been overruled by some skip_authorization_check.
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Sounds like an interesting story ... care to elaborate?
No. A company's most important duty is to its customers; without them there is no income or profit. Its second most important duty is to its employees; without them there are no products or services to sell to the customers. Coming in third are the stockholders; the parasites who risk a bit of capital in order to profit from people who actually produce things.
Typing just adds another level to writing. For me it's like a check function that spots flow inconsistencies or brings up better choices of words, whereas the handwriting feels "organic". There is a more archaic, immediate, sensual sensori-motor connection between the ideas and the output. That's the type of connection that cursive consolidates (which is why I think it's priceless to teach kids cursive vs. script).
Having learned to type on a typewriter (!) I see a huge difference in the way ideas flow due to the way word-processors have evolved. Maybe speed has something to do with this but I'm not sure.
Using both definitely enriches writing.
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Normally they do, but the fact that Mayer cared about her qualifications surely means it was about more than just the famous face.

Generally speaking disqualifying someone for not having a degree is (in my opinion, and many others but plenty disagree too) foolish, but if you're only considering her for being famous then nobody would even bother finding out if she had a degree.

edit: By the way, if you want to reply to a comment and don't see the reply link (presume that happened to you? ignore me if not), click "link" for that comment and take it from there
You can.

Split your APK based on SDK version. Have different manifests with different permissions & code for the respective versions. The new Gradle toolchain makes all of that easy to do, but it is tough to maintain lots of version specific code long term.
NASA has a huge number of exciting proposals, but can only fund a handful of them per decade.
I thought the end of the Shuttle would free up money for robotic exploration. But science and manned exploration are separate budgets.
"Finally, Google needed more than 1 month to close the deal."

So, what happened and why did it fall through?
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Embedded Systems Design and Embedded Systems Programming were my favorites, closely followed by Dr. Dobbs and Radio Electronics.
It's a bit of a slight of hand that involves independently valuing each part of the company. Nonetheless, that 55% YoY loss in GAAP income doesn't look too good. There's also the fact that the company has $20bn in current and deferred liabilities and debt, with long-term liabilities up 300% since 2009.

A company can be profitable and still have a negative valuation, specifically if its liabilities outgrow its revenue. Generally, such companies become takeover targets if there's anything worth preserving. (Theoretically, the concept is that equity holders will take a discount on their shares because the company's poor prospects reduce liquidity in trade, and holding onto a share is seen as riskier than taking a lesser haircut now.)

The previous discussion is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7606891.
mine wasn't changed: it was DDG before, and still is.
The OnePlus One is $349 for the 64 GB model right now. $299 for 16 GB. I was just on their website regretting my Moto X (2014) purchase.

Edit: I should mention that I love my Moto X, especially with Android L - But the OnePlus One comes with Cyanogen, +1 GB of RAM, double the storage, much bigger battery, probably a better back camera, seemingly better screen/microphones, definitely better front camera... For almost $100 less. Ouch.
>Deflationary currencies reward saving over spending. Aka, you can just sit on your money and it increases in value.

>That's really bad for an economy.

The economy is hardly in brilliant shape right now. This process of Boom/Bust has been running for the last century or so and they still cannot control it (or properly understand it) and they have had a lot of time to try and master fiat currency, controls, regulation etc. You say that people saving is bad for an economy, but that implies that the only good thing for an economy is constant spending and growth. That is bad for an economy, the belief that only through constant growth can the economy work. At somepoint there is a plateau, the planet cannot support an infinite number of people, at some point the world economy will stop growing. according to current thinking that may as well indicate the end of the economic world as we know it.

It is time to try something new, it may go against what most people believe but it cannot be any worse than the current situation which is not working as evidenced by the economic slump of recent years.
That's kind of the thing, though. Contributing editors are often brought in because of their notoriety.

There's valuing a particular quality in an employee, and then there's being completely misguided in weighting that quality.
Lots of sites have subcontracted Bing search and Bing maps. They would point back to MSN.
Exactly. SpaceX has completely designed this rocket around easy readiness tests. That's why the rocket was switched from a parachute landing, to a VTOL device[0].

They basically want this to be a smart rocket. Something that can just launch payloads into and out of orbit, and come home like a good dog after a long day of work.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9#Reusability
Which is kind of funny, because they are still playing catch-up with Scala.

(That's perfectly fine on its own, but doing the usual Scala-bashing at the same time as copying most of the language varbatim doesn't make the Kotlin team look any better.)
I think venus holds more promise for massive teraforming. I can't find the link but calculations have been done about spinning a large occluding shield at the L1 Lagrange point to cool the surface over a few hundred years. Then with proper reflectivity adjustments, the surface could be made earth-normal. Heck, take all the extra CO2 and boost it to Mars to help them fill their greenhouses.
We forbid our children from watching Caillou. We explain to them that the way he behaves is not acceptable or allowed in our home. We don't want them to think Caillou's behavior is okay. They self-police now.
From the guidelines:

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

> For example, blog posts, email signups, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they don't count as Show HNs.

I think this is more a "email signup" than something "other people can play with".
My wife was complaining about that same thing. She was like "What the heck is Yahoo search?!? Is that even a thing?"
Look up MiniMsft's blog -- he talked a lot about stack/ranking at Microsoft and the effect it had on the business. It wasn't a positive, let's just say that.
How is Yahoo doing better? Mayer has definitely changed a lot, but I'd argue that much of it is for the worse.

Her most prominent changes, stack ranking and acqui-hires, are pretty bad in general (inciting cutthroat competition and burning cash for disloyal employees).
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> Now, I refuse to print anything unless I have to. Cursive is so much easier, so much faster, so much more legible, so much neater.

I respectfully disagree. As someone who has had the "pleasure" of trying to grade college level assignments from best to worst: typed, printed, and then cursive as a distant last.

Cursive is faster to write, but it being more legible and neater is debatable. Obviously it varies based on who wrote the cursive or print, but broadly speaking print is a lot more consistent between individuals than cursive is.

A lot of doctor scripts now need to be printed, because cursive caused too many enquiries/bounces and incorrect prescriptions. Although bad hand-writing often comes up when the talk of electronic patient records is discussed/promoted.

Cursive's only real benefit is speed. Maybe someone could argue that it is visually "prettier" to look at (I'd agree). But in terms of productivity speed is the only main draw.
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Dissent does not specify or care how exactly a group is formed, and the sybil/sockpuppetry attack protection it provides is inevitably only as strong as the group formation mechanism. Dissent's accountability guarantee basically means that - unlike most anonymity protocols - it is not any more vulnerable to sybil or sockpuppetry attacks than (say) an otherwise-comparable group communication protocol offering no anonymity.

For example, if Dissent is used within a completely closed group setting, in which all members are convinced that all other members are real people and not sockpuppets, then Dissent will guarantee that no real group member will get more than one pseudonym or bandwidth share in any given communication round. At the other end of the spectrum, if Dissent is deployed in a completely open setting that allows anyone to join at any time with no barrier to entry at all, then any user will be able to create sybils or sockpuppets just by joining multiple times, and Dissent offers no sockpuppet protection - but neither would a non-anonymous group communication protocol.

More realistically, groups might operate at intermediate levels of openness with different sybil/sockpuppet protection tradeoffs, and Dissent preserves whatever protection that group management mechanism provides. For example, a group might require users to deposit a bitcoin in an escrow account on joining, which they would forfeit if the group later votes that the user is misbehaving and should be banned. Sybil attacks would still be possible but would cost money.
That's if their phone has an SD card, of course. Lots of Android devices assume you'll use some kind of cloud storage for anything you can't fit in the phone's internal memory.
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Scientists all carry around laboratory notebooks that they write in by hand.

Not to be overall pedantic, but hand written lab notebooks are being replaced by electronic versions. That changed (in private labs) started back in the early 2000's.

In fact, if electronic notebooks are available, scientists are usually encouraged to not write anything down by hand as it might interfere with IP claims.
In March 2007, we signed a term sheet with Mangrove who wanted to invest in Zlio..A few days after, I met a Google Executive who decided to buy the company. For the little story, Zlio, became blacklisted/sandboxed by Google 6 months after…. It killed the company…

When I’ve taken a job at Zlio.com in 2007 to start their US operations, with Jeremie Berrebi as a CEO, I was really excited by the growth I was seeing. All signals were green : users, revenues, traction, VC funding. They had it all.

A week after I joined the company, Google sandboxed us, and we’ve lost 90% of our traffic. After months and months of work trying to solve our inbound traffic issue, we pretty much all gave up and decided to move on to other things.

Is it possible they were doing blackhat SEO, which got them banned from Google?

Otherwise, this sounds pretty damning for Google. I'm just trying to think of alternative theories. It seems like if Google were willing to act this way, they'd have a history of doing so. Do they?

EDIT: Yes, probably spam: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4755386
Fewer and fewer people believe this myth nowadays as opposed to 10-15 years ago.

https://hbr.org/2010/04/the-myth-of-shareholder-capitalism

Jack Welsh never did believe it.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2013/06/26/the-orig...
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The juggler and 'computer plastic surgery' segments were created by Information International, Inc., the latter being for the movie "Looker".

Information International, Inc. 1982 Demo Reel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADF3-6owY0A

A scene from "Looker":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_wK74Ejnqc
“Like an actual hundred,” Mayer responded, “or like 60 rounded up to 100 to make me feel better?” The department responded that it was more like 60.

Being a CEO is often a job of pulling teeth.
Seems like there are only two ways to go forward with a startup:

1) Shoot for flipping and acquihire. This is where most folks are going. It probably makes the most sense for an early 20-something

2) Stay off the radar because you are uncool, using old tech, doing something stupid, the market's not big enough, or so forth. Bootstrap. Don't do a lot of PR. Don't get attention, because there are a ton of big companies full of guys who ran successful startups who are looking for cool things to work on -- if you don't look the right way, they'll just run over you and do it on their own.

The game-changers like Uber or Facebook probably start out in category 2 and then have such incredible momentum and execution intelligence that by the time they're noticed, it's too late for followers-on. That's a most tricky maneuver to pull off.

(Note: I know nothing about startups except having a few that didn't pan out, talking to friends online that have some, working in SV, and reading a lot about them. I have as much chance of telling you something useful as the psychic hotline. This is tough stuff.)
>Writing something in C does not automatically imply having to use goto.

I didn't say it did. But any large enough C project will obviously use them.

>Goto statements are not bad.

Do you know what quotation marks are?

>C has loops and functions

It does not have exceptions. Which is what all the goto uses in question are being used for.

>It might be a good idea to know what you're going to be talking about before opening your mouth.

How ironic.
instapaper can send the articles you've saved to instapaper to your kindle every day or every week.

That's a fairly good approximation of what you're asking for.
Except that there exist a #4: "We are unusual".

It's a big jump to conclude that we are usual in every way, one that normaly leads to flawed conclusions.
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Yeah, I learned, probably from it, that that's exactly one of the results from this sort of stack ranking. At the extreme, it's almost impossible to assemble a "dream team", tiger team or whatever because absent sustained political cover, some of them will have to be assigned a 1 or 2, and be shown the door or otherwise have their career zapped.
"After waiting for it 30 days, we decided to accept the Mangrove investment proposal."