skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can bypass the paywall with this link: http://bit.ly/1XdzZgO (Google search the original URL in quotes in future)

Sounds like she's in a tough spot. You're pretty much forced into a situation of focusing on the good numbers when you're a public company or you'll get beaten up by the shareholders and shorts. So it's difficult to shine sunlight on the bad stuff to disinfect because that's not what public investors want to hear.

Going into search? That's just crazy talk. Google has the space completely wrapped up.

I think Yahoo has some excellent properties like finance.yahoo.com which is amazing and could unlock a deluge of cash with the right biz model. Retail investors visit the site in droves daily. Right now it's an advertising disaster. Prime space taken up by spammy link-baity ads injected into the main center content: "10 most popular fitness models on the planet". And prime spaces on the right taken up by amazon ads. The most targeted ads by etrade, scottrade and ameritrade are the smallest ads on the page with tiny icons on the left. They relaunched yahoo finance in September and sounds like their users hate the new site: https://yahoo.uservoice.com/forums/315477-finance-dd-3

The WSJ article isn't going to make life at Yahoo any easier unfortunately.
I would recommend anyone interested in this story to also read the Forbes article about Mayer's problems and potential exit at Yahoo (http://www.forbes.com/sites/miguelhelft/2015/11/19/the-last-...).

On top of stories about large number of executives have left over the course of 2015 (http://recode.net/2015/10/19/yahoo-talent-exodus-accelerates...), the lack of vision/planning that contributed to executive discontent:

> But perhaps none of these incidents damaged morale more than Mayer’s reorganization of Yahoo’s product teams. When Mayer launched the effort last fall, everyone agreed the existing structure had outlived its usefulness—for instance, mobile products was partitioned from other groups. But Mayer embarked on the process without laying out a grand vision for it. Instead, she began sketching out different scenarios in one-on-one meetings with various executives, floating one plan by one exec and a different by another. Unable to make up her mind, the process dragged on for months. “She went through 20 different permutations,” says an executive with knowledge of the process. “The product guys were twisting in the wind, not knowing what they were going to run.”

> Product releases slowed to a trickle, and a turf war brewed as executives became concerned with their futures. Jon McCormack, a star executive who had joined Yahoo in January from Amazon and was promised a broad engineering portfolio covering critical areas like mobile, landed in the vacuum created by Mayer’s indecision. He was gone by the end of February and now works for Google. When Mayer announced the new structure in April, it was too late. “That was the beginning of everyone losing faith,” says another senior executive. “That’s when people started to look for other jobs.”

I don't consider being the CEO of a multi-billion dollar company that's still trying to figure out where it fits in the 21st century a job anyone could possibly do, but it seems like Mayer's strategy has been a little all over the place with no real gain in any segment. From the WSJ article:

> As her strategy has shifted, Ms. Mayer has variously cast Yahoo as a challenger to Netflix Inc. in online video content and as a threat to Google Inc. in Web search, but has made little progress toward either goal.

I'm just not sure where she's trying to push Yahoo towards. What is their vision?
Jack was just named CEO on October 5th, it will still be a little bit before we see how the Street reacts. The next quarterly earnings should be telling.
I liked how they put the entirety of the infographic text in the alt text - really shows that they care about accessibility!

I would have definitely liked their thoughts on (2)-(5), and perhaps release some anonymized case studies from their 200 data points.
Not my experience. I've had three cars totaled over the years and always gotten what I felt was a more than fair market value settlement. I've always carried major-name insurance which isn't the cheapest but have always been taken care of when I needed it.

People often get emotionally attached to their cars and are not realistic about what they are worth.

Edit: I can easily see an insurance co. refusing to pay for damages caused while you "rented out" your car, unless you are specifically insured for that.
Comments like "Not exactly somebody I feel much sympathy for" and "he definitely was heavily involved in similar activity himself" miss the point entirely. The point is that swatting is too easy. Victims can't count on law enforcement to help. Family members are victims too, and they're powerless. I don't care how little sympathy you feel for Blair/r000t, his little sister did not deserve to have her school put on lockdown because of something her brother may or may not have done online.
I only wish more people could see this post: your posts higher up in the comment thread almost look reasonable but this one really highlights the descent into madness necessary to accept your view. Things haven't gotten worse; your parents needed to work hard to have a good life. We just need to learn a new language, move to a third world country, give up all of our rights and our home, and pick a new profession.
Wow. I have really no words for this. One that you would do it, two that you would boast about it. Props for honesty I guess.
The law is very logical, in the way applied mathematics is very mathematical. I've a hobby of getting fellow lawyers started in programming. There's nothing to teach them about boolean logic but some new symbols. Most have all the instincts for set theory and even graphs, too. Intellectually, those're just a few of the tools they couldn't function without.

The United States legal systems are massively distributed, fault tolerant, resource starved systems that consume exclusively dirty input from malicious users. Like any system that consumes unstructured input, the uncertainty inherent in how the facts of a situation get mapped to structured conclusions ("questions of fact"), and how the legal rules operate on those inputs ("questions of law") to produce a result, are all infected with that uncertainty. Few of the facts the system is meant to deal with reduce to anything so discreet as bitstrings. Legal rules in statutes and even in case law, like the bit of First Amendment in the article, start out trying to state rules with all the rigor of a pure function. But law is a highly dynamic, reprogrammable language. It's Ruby, not C. The statutes aren't the running state, they're just input.

That's partly why I still program to relax after work. It's satisfying to address little bits of a problem in isolation, to see my solutions work, and to know they're reliable. Problem solved.
What is the Radar rdar:// link at the bottom?
I believe the difference between up and down cargo is because the trunk is dropped and burns up on entry, only the pressurized capsule itself lands.
Gitlab EE (Enterprise Edition) is also open source, you can grab it and use it without an enterprise license if you really want, it's more of a trust-based system. Which I support 100%. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee
do you have a source for this idea that they take your inputs and use it for further ad-targeting? i don't see this specifically mentioned in the privacy policy for this auto-insurance product: https://www.google.com/compare/autoinsurance/form?p=privacy-...
I wasn't really talking about renting your house for a long term thing... that doesn't seem as disturbing, since you are moving out when they move in... I mean something like AirB&B, where you rent your place while your stuff is still in it.
Daily fantasy has very annoying pop up on Yahoo! Sports. Also, I guess daily fantasy product resulted in killing of NCAAF and NFL picks against Yahoo! Experts and Yahoo! Users. The Picks link goes to message "something went wrong, we are working on it" page now for several weeks. Instead it Should be 404 and Picks link removed.
Ask HN: How do I learn to transition from Sales to Growth Marketer
HN Community,

I am a all sales guy, but I want some hard skills and want to learn topics like Google Advertising, SQL Analytics, SEO, A/B testing, Landing Page optimization, PPC, and Email Marketing.

Overall, I really like the topics of user acquisition, retention, and referral programs.

I am tired of trying out intro level classes. What cost-effective resources would you recommend to learn and apply these topics?

Thank you in advance :)
The Stock Market Will Rally in December and Then Crash – Here's Why
`window.noclip = true;`
`window.mewtwo = true;`

Yeah, this comic must have been designed to destroy my pathfinding algorithms.
Oh wow... shit... it's the same guy for all of these indeed. I think I would've been super proud of myself just for accomplishing even one of these things...

I guess these are the type of guys that would start to approach the definition of a modern polymath maybe?

Not saying he is one necessarily (or that he isn't), but what would examples of modern polymaths are there? considering a lot of the fields to be mastered need enough detail and knowledge that it seems hard to find one.
Of course. I was genuinely curious.
It's worse than that. Insurance for your private use of your consumer purchases often explicitly does not apply to commercial use. It can void your policy. Trying to submit a claim can get you charged with fraud.

I have read about this related to AirBnB. A quick google turns up this article, though I don't really think it was what I read previously:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/06/your-money/airbnb-offers-h...

(Also: I worked in insurance for a few years.)
I got a replacement Amex card (after some fraudulent charges) 4 or 5 months ago, and it had an all new number, not just a few digits.

This card also had the embedded chip, so that may be why it had the new number.
Shit I am dumb. Thanks for the lesson. *Facepalm.
Agreed. My bad, probably didn't help. Was in a mood of sharing.
Love these. Does anybody know a good central source for similar stories? They (things like folklore.org, etc.) are scattered around the interwebz, and get lost in the noise.
Are You Affected by WordPress Calypso?
There hasn't really been a "focus" at Yahoo in a long while - it feels like the new HP, where almost all the folks who built previously successful businesses within it have moved on, while at the same time the company is too big and integrated to make any meaningful changes or grow new profit centers (given that their cash cow is stalling).

Its corporate stagflation. They are too diversified and have too many products to move quickly, generate almost no enthusiasm between either users (all old guard) or engineers/employees, and there's very little that any executive or employee can do.
Big problem here is that he's missing the primary role of the State. The State is the organization that has the monopoly on violence in a certain territory. If you look around the world there are plenty of areas that are "Stateless" and they tend to have multiple organizations competing (always violently) to gain this monopoly and become the State. His examples perfectly play into this: 1900s immigrant communities in New York had violent competing gangs, Medieval Europe has a crazy high murder rate (as that was a very common means of dispute resolution), and many black communities are still struggling with having been abandoned by the State.

What these anarchist arguments come down to is saying that profoundly non-utilitarian arrangements that have repeatedly shown to be rife with human suffering are superior to stable first world societies due to adherence to some hokum about liberty being the most important thing.
Apple's internal bug tracker is called Radar.
See also news this morning that y-mail is blocking users who are running ad-blockers; I'd bet their confidentiality terms are headed for a revision too as the user info fire sale gets underway.
the fact that the SVP of marketing left to join the lowest grade studio Hollywood have is worrisome. so much so I'd think it was a demission and not someone leaving on will...
Just stop making non-ECC RAM

That's what's currently done with flash, but for DRAM that's not smart from a system point of view.

A long time ago ECC was done with Hamming Codes[1]; now there are similar but more sophisticated versions. These codes share a property such that the wider the word, the fewer the additional bits required. So, e.g.

8 bits + 5 bits
16 bits + 6 bits
32 bits + 7 bits
64 bits + 8 bits

That is enough for a minimum "hamming distance" of 4 between valid words. That gets you SEC (single error correction) plus DED (double error detection). You can save 1 bit if you're willing to forego the latter.

Many decades ago (but I couldn't find a reference with a quick google) Micron made a chip that had on-board ECC. IIRC it was 8+4, which meant that it would internally correct a 1 bit error, but there was a possibility it would mis-correct some 2+ bit errors (which were rare).

But that meant that Micron was putting 50% more bits onto a die over a non-ECC device. They probably did this not for system reliability but to cover up the failings of their chips at the time. Yes you could make each bit smaller, but no way would it pay off if you needed to put 50% more bits onto a die.

ECC is best done with wide words. For example, a SIMM that presents a 72-bit interface can easily be built with 9 chips, each 8-bits wide.

The system (CPU, memory controller, whatever) takes in 72 bits (or some multiple thereof) from DRAM and does ECC internally. Note that as words get wider the time to compute ECC goes up. So a system could even speculatively execute using the uncorrected data, while in parallel checking to make sure that it was OK. This requires recovery in case of error, but since errors are infrequent it could be a big win overall.

It doesn't make sense for a DDRx spec to require ECC. It's cheaper and smarter to do ECC at a system level.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_code
Each party has different acceptable levels of risk, and different outlooks on the market. Imagine a hot market. What landlord would sign a long term contract? Imagine if a landlord in silicon valley rented a house out on a 20 year lease 15 years ago. Big mistake.
Driven people want purpose and to be part of a team thats making an impact.

It's toxic to demand written agreement to stay. The request itself says "Things are so bad that nobody wants to be here. Maybe if we all sign this paper, then at least we're all in the same boat".

(Side note: money is among the least effective incentive. Waiting for a large incentive payout just makes the time more miserable.)
What's also interesting about our chip readers here in the US is that they only do chip + signature for credit cards, so they're not adding anything if someone physically has your card (I've had the ones they auto-reissue, which Chase claims they cannot stop in their system, stolen from my mailbox).
A genuine question for you. What exactly does Yahoo do? When I think of Google, I think of search. With Amazon, an ecommerce giant for my shopping needs comes to mind. But with Yahoo, nothing comes to mind except all the spams I got when I had their email...
In a word, no.
It should be possible to detect this with a reader firmware upgrade, if the reader reads more than one track on the card. If both read heads are showing similar signals, the signal isn't coming from a normal card.
What would you do instead? (aside from the obvious "not use PHP in the first place")
Get involved in local government.

As someone else pointed out, most epic problems are social problems. Building a moon base was a technical challenge in like the fifties, and now it's an organizational problem of getting a hundred million people to agree to do it.

Government is our primary mechanism for solving organizational problems; you can invent other ones, but why bother?

Our government -- assuming you're in the US or a similar country -- is a citizen government. While there are a lot of bureaucrats involved in carrying out policy and a some of our higher elected offices become full-time jobs, the vast majority of the policy makers are ordinary people taking time out of their ordinary lives to decide which problems we want to tackle and how.

If you have reached a point of stability in your life and are looking for a way give back, start hanging around your local town, city, or county meetings. You'll find a lot of opportunities to just jump in and start helping -- events and ongoing activities you can lend a hand with, volunteer advisory boards you can lend your knowledge to. And if you find an area where no one seems interested in doing something, well, that's an opportunity for you to run for local office and try to start something new.
Since you enjoy needlessly damaging property, there's all kinds of petty vandalism you can get away with too! One time I had my car keyed in a parking lot for no apparent reason. Cost me a couple hundred dollars and was a hassle to get fixed. At the time I was pretty upset, but now I understand it must have provided a few seconds of fun for the person who did it!
A good insurance company will include taxes on the replacement in their total loss settlement offer.
duh. Should've guessed, given the context.
Actually, their spam filtering is quite good these days.
I've got 503: Over Quota error message.
Yep, LSTM RNNs:

http://googleresearch.blogspot.ca/2015/08/the-neural-network...
A standard vesting schedule is basically what is described there. An agreement to stay with the company and if you break it, you don't get your options/stock.
So much for Coin
FYI: In my 2009 VW Tiguan, you don't have to slide the cover shut to turn off the light. The light will also go off when the visor moves back up.

So I can easily believe – and in fact now think it's the most likely explanation – that the renter slid the cover open and the light didn't come on. Without the light on, there's no reason to even think the slider should be closed. Someone unfamiliar with this mechanism might not even realize that when everything is working, the slider works as an on/off switch.
Yahoo is textbook example of failure of online "advertising revenue" only company. Most such companies failed in last dot bomb. Only Yahoo survived because it was the largest with decent cash reserves. I am sure another dot bomb like event will take out today's darlings too.
I agree. The concept of petrodollars explains everything in the OP and more.
I would imagine that recruiting is harder for Yahoo than retention. It must be very difficult for them to attract good people, at all levels of the organization.
my perception is - they dont love the internet.

they are missing the whole "fuck you, were yahoo, were building the internet" chutzpah which was so charming, and for which we all have a little glowing candlewick in our hearts for.

For example .. I really wanted YUI to be usable .. it was so close.. but they didn't listen when people gave them feedback - eg. telling them to polish the table grid widget, this control was arguably the reason people were even using yui at all.

The internet pluggable data feed pipes thing was promising.. almost there but not quite gelling in the developer group-mind.

They have to hire some really opinionated people and let them loose on skunkworks [ but realworld ] projects .

I look at the yahoo front page once every 3m to see if its still dead.. I check my email there due to nostalgia.

They need to forget about ad revenue bullshit, get fired up and make stuff.

I can guarantee there are great people at yahoo gnawing their arms off because they have nothing to rally around.

They are dying anyway .. its time to hit for the bleachers.
> If your response to question seven was "False," you chose to interpret the words "speech" and "press" to refer to the act of burning a flag.

In my defense, the Supreme Court has already done this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Eichman

> United States v. Eichman, 496 U.S. 310 (1990) was a United States Supreme Court case that invalidated a federal law against flag desecration as violative of free speech under the First Amendment to the Constitution. It was argued together with the case United States v. Haggerty. It built on the opinion handed down in the Court's 1989 decision in Texas v. Johnson, which invalidated on First Amendment grounds a Texas state statute banning flag-burning.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2007/mar/29/20070329-114...

> Two state laws that prohibit misuse and desecration of a U.S. flag are unenforceable and unconstitutional, a federal judge has ruled.

I'm sure similar arguments could be made about a lot of these, but I've seen this one misinterpreted, so I'm making an example of it.
don't know why this is broken, but I'll file a bug. thank you! One of these days, I'm going to run a bot that crawls all pages on yahoo.com and reports non-200 responses...
You can also bypass the paywall by clicking the 'web' link under the post title on HN.
Ok let's go with that. By comparison, coal is around 900, and gas around 500, according to the U.K. document and the EIA [1].

Once we have molten salt reactors, nuclear's impact should drop further, both because they need much less concrete, and because they need much less uranium. Even Terrestrial Energy's basic version is 6 times more fuel-efficient than conventional light-water reactors. Transatomic's is 75 times better than LWRs, and can be fueled by our existing nuclear waste stockpiles, which could power all of civilization for decades, no mining required.

But maybe you want to stay with currently deployed technology. In that case, you have to take into account that we mostly back up renewables with natural gas, which is five to fifty times worse than nuclear.

1. https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=74&t=11
Would this cover some insights into the videogame crash of 1983 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_video_game_cras... )?
Even better, just for this sort of thing there is a link called "web" at the top of the page that links to Google with the title. It's in the same line as flag.
So, if we had the technology to do it, how many degrees should we cool the planet? Could we eliminate hurricanes and other catastrophic weather?
Wow, this would be awesome. Extract:

Significance of Research

As stated in Chapter I, distributed version control systems, particularly Git, have
been rapidly increasing in popularity among software developers in recent years [4]. The
problem exists when these organizations have sensitive data that they want to use with
Git in an unsecure environment. To secure an environment, especially over the internet,
involves high levels of cost. As the name implies, GV2 provides Git with a Virtual Vault
in a remote location, such as on an Amazon Cloud, using their Amazon S3 storage
service. GV2 provides new documented functionality and performance to the research
community. This is new research that has high interest from the Department of Defense
and other organizations who want to run applications using a third party cloud service
provider but also want to maintain confidentiality and integrity of their application data.
In the future, many traditional applications will be modified to support this same type of
security in an unsecure environment in an efficient manner that is transparent to the user.