skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, they're:

(1) the owner of Flickr, an acquisition they've tried to futz around with, but haven't actually managed to damage too much yet. (True, the site design's become much more heavyweight, but that's a general web design issue) Interestingly, whilst they tried to go ad-only, removing "Pro" accounts, they later reinstated them - but with an oddly tone-deaf press release that trumpeted that account level's availability again, and that rates wouldn't go up for two years. Fair enough, except Pro had been $25/yr, and they quietly noted they'd be $50/yr in the future. Is ad-only revenue that strong to consider dispelling paid accounts?

(2) The original curated web index. Fiendishly difficult to scale, absolutely, but while it lasted, it was remarkably useful. Could such still work? It'd be a tremendous challenge, but, Wikipedia might suggest so - it's not as if Wikipedia is free of dead/changed links, but the footnote links do indeed tend to be useful.

Yet, as I recall, their finances are/were quite robust - we may well simply not be Yahoo's audience.
always gotten what I felt was a more than fair market value settlement

Yup. Me too, fortunately just one time.

I paid $20,000 for an Acura Integra. Five years later it was stolen. State Farm gave me over $16,000. I'd love for that to be a more regular occurrence (but not frequent enough that they'd cancel the policy).
Unsupervised Learning with Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks
I didn't phrase things clearly. I was saying in consumer products (unlike B2B--where you may bring in other consultants to help with product naming) advertising agencies may have input on product naming and so forth. But that seems to be counter to your experience in any case.
What exactly are capabilities, in this context? It's not something I've been acquainted with. Wikipedia gave me a short article that appears to be about schemes for tagged memory, which I vaguely remember hearing about for a hot minute in one of my intro survey CS classes, and then never again.
> and prohibit you from reselling (or even giving away) the bottle of wine you don't want.

I think the airlines, as opposed to wine sellers, have a good reason for having tickets to be non-transferable - seats on a plane are a scarce resource. Compare with a similar area where access to a scarce resource is transferable - cultural events like sports games, concerts, etc. What happens there is that there's a whole industry of people who buy out all the tickets and then resell them at higher price, often hoarding until last minute to justify the markup. This kind of antisocial behaviour is quite common and a big problem.
In many cases we are talking about organizations using software that requires not just an obsolete internet explorer version, but an ancient one. There have been many years to assess and fix this problem, and just because companies stuck their heads in the sand and expected it would always be someone else's problem. I have little pity for the companies, but I feel deeply for the IT employees that will have to deal with the fallout from poor decision making from management.

Buying or developing technologies that rely on weird proprietary quirks of free versions of software isn't very sane. There's not even a business model in place you can rely on to continue to want to support you since it's free.

That brings up an interesting point though, a special NPAPI plugin that aimed to provide perfect compatibility with older IE versions for a small per-seat license fee could do really well...
Interestingly, you can embed SVG in a data URL as well.
My family came here legally as well, I was 10. Got stuck on I829, been renewing my permanent residency status every year for almost 18 years. Based on my home country's government records I'm not its citizen. I applied for U.S. military some time ago, but got denied due to depression I went through in college years. I'm a citizen of no country, and yet I love the U.S., I would die for no other country.
Sounds like his father had a lot of interaction with Daniel Lee.

"Everyone in here is innocent, you know that?" - Red, The Shawshank Redemption

EDIT: Can't reply to the child comment. But we only have one side of the story here. At best it seems his father was a fool and it's hard to trust the word of a fool.
I don't think trying to "motivate oneself" will bear a lot of fruit. Motivation is a combination of beliefs: belief that a thing will be beneficial, and that it's possible.

That's at the macro level. On the micro level, structure helps a lot. Some of the more go-getter people you know are just on autopilot, but have done the work beforehand to hack their motivation, mostly by forming habits and setting themselves in social environs that reward achievement.

Motivation is a fickle, mercurial beast. Trying to run on it at all times won't work. Use motivation wisely, for short bursts of work that get/keep autopilot-you on track. Things like: going to sleep when you want to stay up, making a plan for issues you don't want to think about, setting habits to do things you don't like to do.
Vista left mainstream support three years ago [1].

[1] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows/lifecycle
Magic Leap's plan for the future used to be incredibly weird
Tooling is the big issue here – there are lots of ways to create animated gifs, but very few to create svg animations.

All the examples deal with programatically-created animations, but there's definitely a market for a tool to create Homestar Runner-type animations using SVG.
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It should be better than that. Orgs are hierarchical so that in theory the coordination cost is constant per leaf node (worker bee) and the total cost is O(n log n) in number of leaf nodes.

This is how very large orgs like the military scale. Common sense shows it can't be exponential, since the military is not totally paralyzed.
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Inside the Sony hack, one year later
> I think, generally speaking, society's morals have improved over the ages (glossing over the whole "what is morality?" debate — but you get the gist of what I'm trying to say)

I think you're bordering on the tautological there. To say society's morals have improved demands an eternal natural law to evaluate it against. As society's view of what is the natural law changes, it's difficult to say whether we've improved rather than simply changed.
It's awesome to see the US Military (or more specifically, people who've studied at military schools) doing work in crypto and cyber-security, especially with all the effort on the part of civilian agencies to erode it.
Whenever I see a struggling company like this I ask myself the simple question. If the company didn't exist, would there be a need to create it? In the case of Yahoo I think the answer is no. If they disappeared tomorrow there would be no compelling reason for others to try and fill the gap it left behind. Hell, I doubt most people would even noticed they had gone.

So they need to build a new business from the dying ashes of the current revenue. At the moment it does not look like the CEO has any good ideas on how to do that.
So does this mean I no longer have to test my website with Windows IE (6!) 7-10 at all ever, under any circumstances? And be able to tell clients that IE11 onwards is all that has to work in IE-land?
Come on Jason. With a bigger budget you would probably have done things a bit differently. But as I said, it's a well done (and appreciated) look into a neglected area of computing history. And frankly the interviews are probably the most important thing. I'm not being critical.
>But it does seem like Yahoo isn't doing anything innovative right now.

Aren't they starting to stream nfl games for free? The first one they did was from what I heard handled very well. I thought there was talks about more.
Yeah. I stopped filing bugs with Apple years ago, except in extreme circumstances[1][2] where the bug is fucking up my daily work, or a serious bug that is blocking one of my apps in development.

The process is just too rude and disrespectful to the submitter to participate in.

Apple behaves like it is Apple doing developers a favor by allowing them to submit bugs, rather than the other way around.

[1] http://masonmark.com/the-xcode-fairy

[2] http://masonmark.com/more-xcode4-fuckery/
How to Launch a Mac App and Become #1 Top Paid App Globally
20 failed startups in Asia in 2015 and lessons learned
The NY Times also just ran a story[1] on another serial swatter, including the immense effort (over 1000 hours across all involved) of a rankled Georgia detective to actually bring him to justice, since the swatter was a Canadian minor.

Little help from the FBI until the victim count had surpassed 40. Extreme difficulty getting Canadian law enforcement to play ball until they were able to get video evidence of the swatter broadcasting his antics live on the internet.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/magazine/the-serial-swatte...
It depends on who is trying to resurrect it: Marissa Meyer or Steve Jobs. Imagine a reality show: Jobs or Musk in 2010 were tasked to turn Yahoo around, and the rules were that they would only have access to Yahoo's internal resources and cash. I would bet with my money buying Yahoo stock that they would reverse the curves.
pretty sure you're referring to God as the "third party" -- but I'm not sure how it was revolutionary considering Judaism had a very similar system in place where offerings were presented to God for forgiveness. Jesus is just the ultimate offering in that sense for Christianity.
This looks nice, but a bit more information and some explanation in the readme would be nice.
This looks nice, but a bit more information and some explanation in the readme would be helpful.
That explains why I've only found solutions for big systems - such a small niche. Tank you for the input!
Advantages of Big Data and IoT in Digital Marketing
Perhaps I'm overly critical but, if

> ... [T]he stench of stale coffee and rancid soda cans that I collected from office trash cans to help make ends meet.

was the worst he had to deal with in a cleaning job, he had a very nice office to clean. I've cleaned up much worse in my office, and I do IT for a living.
Microsemi buys PMC-Sierra
Had to read it twice to get it. I like your first idea, a simple booking system, one that doesn't even cater to airlines might work to begin with.

As for the Airbnb, it is something to think about. Why not try it as a channel? Will keep in mind. Thank you!
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> organizational goldmine.

Strict tree chain of command. O(n log n) coordination cost. Much better than quadratic. Approaches linear with the flatness of the org.

(Semi dupe of my comment above, but I couldn't resist)
That is a very interesting situation to be in, do you have any concerns should your resident status get changed? What would you do if you were required to leave the US?
> One API for all platforms

Last I heard, Apple was not going to support Vulkan. So for iOS and OS X, you'd be SOL.

Please correct me if I'm wrong though, I'd very much like to be.
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This is pretty much EXACTLY the application my team was about to write from scratch some time in the next month. Using Mira is gonna save us a ton of time. Thanks for the awesome tool!
It does pretty much corner the market on PC gaming, though, which is the single biggest segment of people that care about hardware-accelerated 3D graphics.

OpenGL seems to be making a bit of a comeback, with Steam trying to expand offerings for Mac and Linux, and presumably, their Steam Machines. Although I'm doubtful how many people that build multi-platform titles are actually doing the nitty-gritty graphics programming on those different platforms - most of the titles I've seen are using engines like Unity or Unreal that abstract out already.
In 1995, "Software Engineering" would usually have implied CASE tools and heavy weight UML. It's current "success" is largely based on a bit of redefinition toward testing and team interactions and common values. They are rather different notions.
Whether or not this would be helpful is discussed here:

http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/faq.html#would-type-annotation...
It was intended to be so ;-)

This was talked about and was there for a while.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3107/ [2006!]

These weren't specifically called "type" annotations but I think that was in the back of everyone's mind.
You can tell your clients you only support whatever you want, and they can tell you they won't be a client of yours anymore unless you support what they want.
Can this be fixed?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25588642/pycharm-false-sy...
Depends on your client. Currently my company only supports IE9+. I personally only support IE10+, though I'll still throw on a shiv or use modernizer, but I'm not going out of my way. This hasn't cost any business. IE8's stickiness is largely from older business machines or China. For client facing sites in the U.S./E.U., imo the support isn't warranted unless you can point out through analytics that it would alienate a big portion of your audience.
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It was added a couple of months ago.
Do you own any electronics made in the past 5 years?

That counts as the rich walking on the poor, except it's not quite as interesting.
Beginning of the end. 10-SEP-1992

People have been curious about the new PC game Wolfenstein 3D.
We have wondered how the speed of the "real" 3D effect was accomplished.
This explanation came off the usenet from someone at SGI:

Wolfenstein 3D cheats. It's not really drawing 3D textured polygons.
What it's doing is sort of a cross between ray tracing and bitmap
decimation. For each column of pixels on the screen, they shoot a ray
out and find which wall it intersects with. From the length of the ray,
they know the top and bottom coordinates of the wall in screen space,
and from the intersection point of the ray with the wall, they know
which column to use from that wall's texture. By decimating or
duplicating pixels from that column, they resize it to be the correct
height for the screen.
Dell PCs leak their service tag to any website
I pretty sure the daughter and local busk pail dispute your assessment of only one serious tangible problem.
Thank goodness. IE 11 has enough warts and weirdness; having to deal with all the brokenness in IE 8 was driving my front-end colleagues to alcoholism...

I have a beautiful dream sometimes, where I go to work, and I only have to care about supporting Chrome...
> What's incredible is that the magstripe reader requires no form of wireless receiver, NFC, or RFID

Another way of looking at it is that the magstripe reader is a wireless receiver. It just usually works with signals so weak that they can only be transmitted a miniscule distance.
From my reading, the WTO ruled correctly is this case. In 1990, the US passed a dolphin-protection law that added strict requirements to fish caught in US waters. The “dolphin-safe” certificate was designed with this in mind. Depending on where the fish is caught (in the "Eastern Tropical Pacific Zone" (ETP) or "Other fisheries"), there are more stringent or lax requirements. For the ETP zone, an example requirement is that a captain must receive training/certification on dolphin safe practices and also verify the entire haul of fish was caught using dolphin-safe practices. Fish caught in the "Other fisheries" are subject to less stringent requirements. Since much of Mexico’s tuna are caught in the ETP zone, they argue that they are unfairly being held up to US standards. Other countries, in “Other fisheries” zones, are held to a lower requirement. If Mexican tuna are sold to other countries, then they fulfill multiple unnecessary requirements and are at a disadvantage to other countries. Futhermore, it would segment their fishing industry into "US approved" and "Non-US approved" because certification must be applied to the entire haul of fish, not a portion of a haul.
There's a lot of text after this but the court determined this certification is unfair and is considered "less favorable treatment".

Here is a pdf of the case: https://docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/FE_Search/DDFDocuments/225...
See also: http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/11/pcs-running-dell-sup...
For forgiveness of sins against God. For sins against another person, forgiveness may only be granted by that person.

Judaism does not recognize absolution as part of the process of sin and repentance. There is no designated authority who can dispense forgiveness of sins after confession and penance; rather, sins between persons require the asking and granting of forgiveness by the parties concerned while sins between persons and God require the asking of forgiveness by the penitent and the granting of forgiveness only by God. Finally, Judaism does not recognize reconciliation (the whole-hearted yielding of all inner negative feeling) as a necessary part of the process of sin and repentance. Although reconciliation is known and even desireable, rabbinic Judaism realizes that there are other modes of rapprochement that are fully adequate and, perhaps, more realistic.

http://www.js.emory.edu/BLUMENTHAL/Repentance.html
Phenomenal write-up. I'm excited to spend the next few weeks really digging into some of these ideas.
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Why are you linking to my own comments?
It is hard to immigrate easily without an employer or family sponsorship. A few people get it through green card lottery. Some come on a tourist visa or education visa and then overstay.
How Loneliness Can Make You Sick
SVG is a pretty solid image format.

The issue is... It supports the execution of javascript as part of its standard. So suddenly your image file, becomes an entire webpage. Not to mention its pretty trivial todo some write malicious things with SVGs.
On Respect: A Reminder from Charles River Ventures
You just made me laugh out loud :)
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Reminiscent of "Dos on Dope" (from 2005... http://www.secretgeek.net/dod_intro), to wit: "In DoD we embrace the NoSQL movement and jump straight to the data-store of the future: a CSV file."
Nope. SSNs were commonly used as ID numbers in K-12 and community colleges up until about the late 1990's, until they were forced to change.
"Personally, I think the fact that OpenBSD did not support any of the current virtualisation solutions, and now have an appropriate one in the works says a lot about their position."

It's ambiguous far as past is concerned. Two possibilities are (a) they didn't care for longest but caved on the issue or (b) they wanted it, waited for a solid codebase that never showed, and finally did one of their own. All I can tell is that it matters to them now.

"And, frankly, what use is an organisations "position" on VM hosting to a user? It either supports it or it doesn't, and if you don't plan on developing it the reasons don't really matter."

Not true. Very few develop for Linux or FreeBSD vs number of stakeholders. Nonetheless, many features non-developers would want came about because people needed it or were talking about it. I agree with you for OpenBSD specifically, though, as they've been clear about "code it if you want it so bad."

"EDIT: I'm also going to point out that mailing list posts in general rarely stand on their own, and exist within a context."

True, too. Probably best way to apply that is to just not quote mailing lists if it's a huge conversation. I only quote or back those references because later interviews corroborated them a bit for virtualization in general. We certainly shouldn't just grab things off mailing lists without a context, though.
A day in the life of Pluto
Binary trees are log(n), not n*log(n)
Interview Cake
This is pretty much EXACTLY the application my team should have written instead of trying that buggy redis-based solution. Using Mira would have saved us a ton of time. Thanks for the awesome tool!
The state of typescript packages
I'll bite - what would have liked to see in terms of syntax to (optionally as others have noted) provide hints as to what type each data element should be?
> hokum about liberty being the most important thing

So if everyone were locked in a cage but safe and sound that would be ideal? Last I checked the death rate was 100%. I'd take violent freedom, adventure, and life over safety any day of the week.
One minor feature request would be to allow Scheduled Events every minute. My current solution is EC2 -> S3 file every minute, but it's a kludge.
Perhaps he came here through the Diversity Immigrant Visa program (aka the green card lottery)? If you're a resident of one of the eligible countries it's just a matter of filling out a form and getting lucky.
The chip is being rolled out to keep up with VISA/Mastercard's deployment of chip. Note however that chip transactions are far slower than proximity or magstripe uses, making it completely redundant except for a malfunctioning magstripe reader.

It would have been as much software update to have implemented PIN and would've brought security to the level of ATM cards.

The generation and provisioning of card numbers is limited by other systems which includes fraud detection, account processing, auditing and other backend systems.
Bible says that reparation needs to compensate the victim for the loss, and then an additional fifth.

However, in the current system, there is no compensation to the victim. On the other hand, 3rd parties ( us, the tax payers ) spend additional money to keep the criminal locked up.

When the criminal earns in prison, it should pay the victim theoretically.
First real-time imaging of neural activity invented
> I took the car to a mechanic, who told me that it was impossible to tell whether the thermostat is broken without replacing the radiator first, even though FlightCar had wanted to fix both

This makes no sense. Replacing the thermostat in most cars is a matter of a $10 part and 15 minutes. You need a pair of pliers and a ratchet.

Meanwhile, the only reasons a radiator would warrant replacement would be extreme buildup (indicative of much bigger issues, like a blown head gasket) or a puncture.
it's another to casually slide a card like everyone else

How about to casually insert a duplicated key like everyone else?
You sum up everything that is required in a modern organization. I believe all modern organizations will be smaller units thriving on similar units, not required to be owned by them.
The plural of VAX is VAXen, not VAXes.
The Serial Swatter
I object only on the grounds that Flickr is the only good photo site for people who really care about their photos.

Having tried to use 500px for a few months, they cannot even manage to do album privacy correctly.
New immigrants who don’t know how to navigate a complex and hostile legal system are a pretty ripe customer base for fraudsters.

Just because a scheme seems to a knowledgeable observer to be too good to be true doesn’t make it okay to blame the victims of such frauds.
Funny thing, that. So it would have been better to have hidden the depression. Presumably you were applying through MAVNI? Ah well, good luck.
I just use imgur. Am I doing something wrong?
Sega?

Edit: is there a story I don't know about? I know a reasonable amount about gaming but I guess I'm drawing a blank on a successful Sega pivot. I remember some cool ads when I was a kid, I suppose.
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