skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also think that sites like reddit and hackernews have taken a part of the role that a portal once provided. Content that is crowd-sourced seems to be better received than what a single company can push in a curated list.
> Sociopath: a person with a personality disorder manifesting itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behavior and a lack of conscience.

Given what I've heard about the man, I honestly think it fits the bill.
She had nothing to do with coming up with the financial engineering. From the article itself it says the hedge fund Starboard Value came up with the move and has been pressuring the board to do it for months.
Yahoo Provides Update on Planned Spin Off of Remaining Stake in Alibaba Group
I'd much rather use Java, and SWT, which implements native widgets than ship a browser without toolbars. They can even leverage their JS code with Nashorn or Rhino.
Ask HN: How does Apple and other companies prevent leaks?
Obviously leaks occur, but how can companies like Apple prevent that their designs and features are leaked?

Do they have some special water marking system or other security system to prevent files and pictures from being leaked? I can imagine that during the development phase developers must come and go. Some leave on their own and some leave angry maybe with a potential intent to leak images, files or other information. So how would they protect themselves against this?

I cannot imagine it is only by contract.
Do you mean get all the features in windows 10 ported to iOS and android?

Cortana integrates pretty deeply into the OS for that to happen.. Apple/Google would have to allow it and THATS not happening :)
I believe the BMW 1 Series is the same.
Parse it as: people are not really "innocent until proven guilty".
I guess you can play arbitrage between the two stock markets.
This sounds like exactly my experience as of late with interviews, so it's nice to know I'm not alone; unfortunately, I don't have a "network" and live far away from where any "network" could be set up so I'm a little stuck in the mud.
Is there any clear benefit to using Cortana over Siri?
The risk of 0.28•$X,000,000 is there due to alternative minimum tax rules, which is much worse and more immediate than what might happen to the $X0,000.
you'll still take home a large payout even after taxes have been deducted, i would not worry about that, would be more worried about when/if the company either goes public or gets acquired.
The problem with EU is high customization per capita, given the diversity.
She's throwing the company away she is currently CEO of.

The BABA stake had to be separated from Yahoo, but this is literally the worst possible way, aside from selling the shares + paying taxes, to achieve this.
There is a whole new generation of FOSS/hacker folks younger than me (I'm in my 40s) that I can't relate to. It's so much an ego and self-marketing thing ; everything you do is blogged, you do the speaker circuit, you're judged in interviews by how many stackoverflow questions you've answered, what you have in your github repo, etc.

It makes me feel very old. I just want to keep my head down and hack.
> Let anyone transfer any amount of money

You would probably need a money transmitter license, which is hugely expensive and time-consuming. You will have to Know Your Customer to comply with anti money laundering regulations.

Basically you idea is to setup a bank and make transfers between customers free, which some banks already do, though not to 20 decimal places :-)

As a consumer, my choice is to now sign up for this tipping service, give them my identity, deposit some money, and then I can go tip a website $0.001 for a cat video. So now my identity and some of my money are tied up with the service.

Bitcoin seems more appealing than that scenario.

> How is this not a solved problem yet?

Because the State controls the banking industry.
Awesome job board for finding talent. Already using it and by far the easiest and cleanest to use.
I think both Siri and Google Now offer third-party hooks, even on the watches. I'm not sure about Cortana.
No way to say "hey Cortana" even if the app is open? Personally, I'm looking for an app where I can say "take a note" then spend the next 15 minutes saying my notes into my device with having to touch the screen.
It reminds me of the Java community when Sun stopped adding significant features for years after 2004. Every feature which wasn't added was widely considered by most Java developers as being in the name of protecting us from ourselves. When Java 8 came out suddenly some of those bad/evil features became flavor of the week. There's a tendency to try and convince yourself that the language designers made the best decisions at every turn, which isn't a healthy way of thinking critically.
Anyone know if it's possible to install this or the Arrow launcher without installing Google Play Services?
Wouldn't this be like installing Chrome then and installing Chrome apps?
Except the NYT has surprisingly turned things around, considering five years ago they were a dinosaur on it's way out, much as Yahoo was and is.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/30/business/media/new-york-ti...
I hope React Native will expand to desktop eventually, native controlled by javascript is the best of both worlds.
Cortana does: https://dev.windows.com/en-us/cortana
Philipp Morris didn't invent cigarettes. If it wasn't them, it would be some other company. etc. etc...

Guns don't kill people. People kill People. etc. etc...
There were a few attempts to do this with generics, some seem decent. But I've always found myself preferring to write a few extra lines than using such a language extension.

It boils down to tool support for me. If you can't have code completion and things like gofmt, no one (well, at least not me) is going to use such a thing.
> Why would this change make any difference to those questions?

I don't think it does. I think the difference is that Starboard suggested that Yahoo sell its core business - http://www.wsj.com/articles/starboard-urges-yahoo-to-drop-al... - and Verizon's CFO suggested that they might be interested in buying Yahoo Core if it was put up for sale - http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-07/verizon-wo...
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While the software seems interesting, a lot of the site itself has poor font weight choices, and poor typeface-background contrast making it a total pain to make my way through as someone with colorblindness.
It's an hour long project for Android Wear. The default note taking does what you say, but I doubt it would work very well for 15 minutes.
> you'll still take home a large payout even after taxes have been deducted, i would not worry about that, would be more worried about when/if the company either goes public or gets acquired.

But they will be on the hook for an AMT bill in April which will likely be worth 3-10 years worth of their current annual salary. The tax question is by far the most important question for this individual. The question of losing the $X0,000 that they put into the options directly is a rounding error.
> Technology is a meritocracy.

You can keep telling yourself that, or you can drop your naive ideology and look at how the world actually works.
I think everyone who uses Go for anything is pretty clear about why they like it, and one of the major reasons is simplicity. So why are people then surprised when criticisms over lack of features fall on deaf ears? And to be honest, this whole argument about pitchforks seems like a straw man. If anything, it's currently fashionable to dump on Go at every opportunity. Hell, it's fashionable to dump on everything around here at every opportunity. It's a way to put yourself above something with the least amount of effort.
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You can do all those things and more with other games. Eg: street fighter.

I'm just agreeing with xyzzy4; finding the game fun is more important than anything else.

Personally, I don't like the fact that luck is a bigger factor that chess players are willing to admit. Sometimes you make a move that anyone would consider strategically good, but little did you know, that move would put you in a bad situation many moves later, and only a machine or maybe a grand master could know it.
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And so, basically, does Go.
I approached ESOfund in the past, and did not ultimately use them, but not by any fault of theirs. They were very professional, helpful, and knowledgeable about my options and provided very good information about my available choices, even ones that wouldn't benefit them (I did extensive independent research on the decisions available and on their suggestions).

I believe their mission statement is to take the risk for you, which includes AMT if necessary, in exchange for some percentage of your stock to be negotiated. There's no risk in reaching out.

As far as AMT, I believe (off-hand) it's 18% of all income if it would be greater than your existing tax burden. So if you make $100,000 and are currently taxed 30%, your current tax is $30,000. If you exercise stock (where the gain is difference between your equity plan and the value as of the latest 409A, multiplied by the number of options exercised), that counts against AMT.

In this case, $18,000 would be your normal income against AMT, and you could gain another $12,000 in AMT without paying any more. This means gaining approximately $66,000 in value from the exercise without paying additional taxes. You would pay 18% on the rest of the value gain. For another $1,000,000, you'd pay on the order of $180,000.

Note: talk to someone who does this professionally, perhaps a tax attorney, as my word is from memory based on my research from a while ago.

If you believe in your company, or at least believe the stock will be liquid, I absolutely recommend finding a way to exercise your stock. All the better if you don't take a tax burden.

I also found out there's some kind of tax thing where you can preemptively exercise options (at grant time?) which won't be taxed as a gain because the value hasn't changed, then you just get the options as they vest (though it's a little late for that now :P)
What's the inspiration for 6? I know it's a running joke that evidence goes missing, but I don't think I've ever seen a news article about a specific instance in Chicago.
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> Go is one of the simplest languages in existence.

No, not even close.
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I'm not sure to understand your point.
Could your clarify?
What's so bad about it? The end result is the same as the original plan - one company with a stake in Alibaba, and another company with Yahoo's core businesses and the Yahoo Japan stake.
It gives you more explicit control over the storage being used for expression evaluation.
Tab bar mode conflicts with a bunch of other modes. So a lot of times you will switch to a buffer and and the tabs will disappear. It also doesn't support 'most recent' tab ordering.
... and a more formal whitepaper for cryptographic people:
https://cossacklabs.com/static/secure-comparator-paper-v1.pd...
I have a theory that you'll have a very hard time teaching your kids to be into something if you're not. Kids whose parents play a sport on the weekends or who play music regularly are probably more likely to stick with those things, at least recreationally[1]. Eat your veggies (which probably means you're cooking tasty veggie dishes) and your kids will.

Even values, like "learning is important" may work like this. Bet they'll study better if they see you learning new things, watching you struggle and gradually gain understanding and skills.

"Reading is super important!" says parent who only reads instruction manuals, Facebook, and (maybe) garbage fiction. "You will practice the piano!" says parent who hasn't played a note on an instrument since high school. "Get your ass out of bed and to tennis practice!" says parent who wheezes going up a flight of stairs. "Math is vital to your future success!" says parent who can count the times they've used anything past 8th grade math as an adult on one hand.

Show, don't tell, I guess.

[1] Nearly of people I've encountered who were serious amateur or part-time pro musicians came from families that played music, not families that played no music but insisted their kids take piano lessons, for example.
Why do you need to write unit tests for spelling mistakes and typos in Python?
On PC it refuses even if my user interface is English.
Basically the same for me. Changed my name to a pseudonym in 2009, hid all my photos, and deleted all my info. Now it's a glorified rolodex + lets me see pages for businesses & events that are Facebook-only for whatever reason. Spent a total of 4 years as active user, 6+ as inactive, and vastly prefer the latter.
Access to reasonably affordable healthcare is one of the foundational pillars of any society. If you actively undermine that pillar for your own personal gain, you are dissolving the bonds that hold society fast. You are killing society.

Perhaps sociopath is the wrong word because it has a very specific meaning in the medical lexicon. The word I am looking for is one who actively and directly kills the society around him, seemingly with no remorse. Parasite doesn't work because a parasite kills an organism external to itself. Intensely greedy comes close, but also falls short. Any ideas?
It's frightening to think that they have crunched the numbers on how a user's emotional state is reflected in profitable interactions.
This is harsh. I think it's too harsh.

Facebook is in many ways an organically occurring reaction of people.. people doing things the internet enables. Facebook is as led as they are led by their users which is everyone.

I agree that there are some negative consequences of online behavior. COnversing online can get nasty easily, with people feeling little slights and reacting until the whole thing collapses into far worse than normal human interaction. On the other hand it allows us to converse with a much wider group. Would we be talking in Person Mr. Stokes, about Facebook? Facebook didn't choose features for addictiveness, they chose and promoted features because people used them. We're attracted to a lot of things that aren't good for us. People read celebrity magazines, and feel bad. They wallow in jealousy and other negative emotions. They do this on Facebook because they're on facebook.

There's a sense which this reasoning excuses everything. Tobacco companies gave people what they wanted too. But this is way more mixed.

People follow the objects of their envy, a bastard sister of admiration. It's hard to lay that on Zuck.

I'm going to completely bastardize a Douglas Adams Quote I can't find because I don't remember what words he used:
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"create value" has to be weighed against the alternative if it weren't there. Very little of value that Facebook does would be missing from the world if Facebook didn't exist. Alternative ways of networking and sharing information would and do exist and Facebook's version isn't adding real value. 99% of the valuable things about Facebook are the user-generated content, not Facebook itself. Facebook's work is primarily curation via how they run their feed algorithm, and they do a generally shitty job at that in terms of value to the users.
And how do you think Java got generics? There were experimental offshoots of Java (for example, Pizza and GJ) before Java 5. The authors went on to help design the generics in Java 5.

I don't see a similar effort to improve Go, at least not yet.
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The design and the focus on perks are two of the best features compared to other job boards!
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This needs to be more common. I'd put in a not unreasonable amount of money (~20$) monthly to automatically pay to the sites I regularly visit. Need this for firefox, stat!
I must admit I was thinking more about the mental process of constructing the content of e.g. an argument than of the process of putting the content into grammatically correct sentences. I completely agree you can talk, and even be gramatically correct, without really thinking.
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Global pyramid-like schemes are worthy of existence? Any threads on Bitcoin on Reddit highlight this - people thought about or bought Bitcoin in the past as an investment. Now most everyone who buys it or accepts it hope its value will increase as their main incentive to collecting them. Why is it beneficial for all of society to make these people millionaires and potentially billionaires if adoption was high enough? Furthermore, what happens to the last 30%, when the first 70% have adopted. It's completely unreasonable.
> The man's main contribution to humanity is the spiritual equivalent of cigarettes

It's more like fast food or candy. When consumed moderately or intermittently , they can be relatively fine but when consumed voraciously, they can be very destructive.
Tools shape behaviors and amplify effects, so I don't think tools automatically get a pass.

Further, I think this is bunk:

> If it wasn't facebook, it would be some other website.

This can be used to justify pretty much anything. "Somebody'd be selling this heroin. Might as well be me." Or, less obviously: cigarettes, fossil fuels, and junk food.

If good people to refuse to do something harmful, it will be done less well, hopefully causing less harm. Whether or not Mark Zuckerberg is better or worse than the average ivy leaguer doesn't seem relevant. What matters is that he's the one with the power to change what Facebook is doing, and he's the one who profits most from it.
Mind the cache
This post seems to rising from ash. Definitely saw it on HN year ago.

I don't want to say the word "perfect language", but there is no such language that can meet the demands of every nerd on the planet, the goal of the Go programming language is stated clearly, compiling speed overweight the needs for generics, that's why LLVM is not considered for the go compiler.

Also the language is considered feature complete, if one doesn't want to met with "angry pitchforks", do the homework, e.g. the generics topic has been picked up over and over, that it's not funny anymore, if you are interested, the amount of debate online can take days to read.
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you might be right, but there is a lot of creativity out there surrounding logo manipulation. i've seen many variations of twitter, facebook, etc; to fit a given design.

IANAL, but if i was running a company and people were using their own takes on my logo to reference my product, I would be flattered more than anything. If they were using it as their own, I would certainly have a problem with that. I was under the impression that it was the latter that companies would need to go after in trademark abuse. Going after the former feels... needlessly abrassive, and can turn off formerly hard-won, die-hard users.
I don't know about Gaelic, but German language and culture in the USA was ruthlessly suppressed during World War 1, and they were forced to assimilate into the broader Anglo culture. I don't see that happening today if 10% of our population speaks Chinese as their primary language & we go to war with China.
They are just as smart, but due to the nature of their economies, they can out compete on cost.
Siri does not, at least at the moment. It's widely hoped that it will, but today no.
I think the basic problem is that people are not going to give you any money at all! Let it be bitcoin or their dollars. Or if this project works out, would be pretty interesting!
> if the site isn't turning a profit isn't that still non-commercial?

Wouldn't that mean Twitter and Facebook are non-commercial?
If the block size is increased, a lot more transactions will fit in a block, so transactions would get much cheaper.

And while it's a great goal to have all monetary transactions use Bitcoin, that is very very far from reality for now.
Hoping latest in type hinting along with IDE support will really kick this one home: https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/help/type-hinting-in-pycha...

I'd love support for "check this project" that would essentially be similar to compiling a Go project.

Python is awesome for so many things:
- Quick project iteration
- Web development
- Testing (test suite is actually pretty sweet!)
- General purpose programming and scripting

Currently, not the most productive tool for large projects or complex projects, or projects where static analysis pays huge dividends (usually this fits in one of the previous two categories anyway).

Doesn't mean it has to be: but it'd be really nice to have...
Counterfactuals are great for students, for readers of popular fiction, for philosophers and pundits.

They just suck for historians. That's because a historian is fortunate to concentrate on what actually happened, removed from his or her opinion about things at large. When engaging in a counterfactual, all of that subjective "nonsense" (in strictly historical terms) comes to the surface and the historian is just engaging in a form of intellectual self-stimulation.

I love reading them, and coming up with my own, but they're a form of polemic, not an academic pursuit of their own. I think most professional historians understand that.
Not having to buy an Apple device which is unaffordable for many...
I have the same problem with Android Wear. My phone's setting overrides my language choice when I set up the watch.
Good point.

Still, any AOSP fork needs to track Google's version only if they want to run applications built for Google's version of Android.

The first iteration of Firefox's mobile OS didn't run any Android apps so it would be no loss if their fork of AOSP also didn't run Android apps. That's why I would suggest renaming so that people don't think they can install Android apps.
Sigh, that's sad.

It baffles me that there are still so many services that try to 'automagically' intuit which language someone wants to have a service in, instead of just simply .. asking.

Google play is a prime culprit, for example, showing a mixture of language content on the play store. See also subtitles, dubbed content, books..

Another one - Sony's Playstation store, where if you choose a country, then the language (despite them having the assets available through their international presence) is permanently set and impossible to change.
Go is "trendy" and will fall right in line with Ruby on the trendy block. They'll have block parties together and "Go" swing dancing. Wait, that was a fad too and a pun.
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> current election cycle

In the US or where?
I suppose they're being rewarded for their insight.

Additionally, if you're just thinking of bitcoin as a currency, and not a global social paradigm shift, I think you're missing the point.

You can issue your own currency on top of the Bitcoin blockchain— among the other myriad uses.

This is about emancipation even more than enrichment.