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Yes, may be. But it still does. Everyone has a MBP these days, and more people I met before bought it for style more than any other reason. What looks sincere to me? Thinkpads. Only sincere people work on them. :)
But Gweneth Paltrow was completely unsuitable for a lifestyle blog on Yahoo! She was a college dropout!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1...
Believe it or not, digital data and encryption were real things in 1996.
Ask HN: What is wrong with delicious
the firefox extension cannot connect, and their website design now look different with cheap ads

were they sold lately and i havent noticed

any recommended alternatives with firefox plugin or extension
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This happens all the time when VCs fund companies that they had better stay away from. That said, Yahoo! had potential at the time and actually was a giant (the #1 website in the world for a very long time).
Exactly. But when do you trust you have the longest chain? It could be that by some stroke of misfortune or malicious manipulation, a shorter chain suddenly catches up. Is a chain that is 10 links longer safe? As I said - eventual consistency. But when is eventually? This is a real issue for BTC transaction validation.
> Because they bought tech giant shares, and it’s tech giant, or collapse until it’s sold for scrap.

I was under the impression that investors essentially treated Yahoo as a proxy for Alibaba due to their holdings. I'm curious how much investors value Yahoo itself these days.
That's a hard sell for those of us with children to support.
I summarized this video by K.C. Berridge about some of his research on dopamine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15TvKADY0QQ

* animals that lose their dopamine learning mechanisms can still learn new things

* even when dopamine is there, sometimes the system will continue to respond to unconditioned responses that are learned and expected

* microinjections of amphetamine do not increase reward expectation - they increase peak of desire for reward - like when food is more tempting after not eating the whole day; sometimes a nasty salty taste is desirable in sodium deficiency, say

* system is computing value, rather than learning

* incentive-salience is a cue-trigged type of wanting; say someone else across the room lighting up a cig cueing your desire

* the cue becomes an attention magnet - the cue is very hard to not want to pay attention to

* the mesolimbic state of brain at a certain instant in time plays a huge role in amplifying responses to cues - hunger increases desire for food, repeated experience of drugs amplify the cue for drugs

* an addict is a person who will have a super strong dopamine response when provided opportunity, due to sensitization of cue-triggered want - even months after enduring withdrawals, acquired hypersensitivity may still exist
Actually, you can. I just asked mine to "play some soothing jazz", and it loaded up a jazz playlist.
See also, Julia's home page: https://julialang.org/

I toyed around with it for a while, and really liked it. I wondered to myself "what makes this language specific to numerical computing? it seems generic enough to be used wherever I'd want to use Ruby or Haskell..."

But then I tried using it. And even though the language is generic enough, the standard library just plain assumes you're only doing numerical computing, and makes everything else needlessly hard by trivial omissions.

That was like 2013 though, so maybe things are different now?
>U.S. government's behavior up to this point indicate it's a power grab for a tool of control

The US government wanting to enforce warrants is not a power grab.

Crypto is an infringement on the existing, 100% constitutional power of the US government to conduct warranted search and seizure.
The Apple AirPort is one such router. It's expensive but high quality. I get great reception through walls, outside, etc.
Incredible news. We have all heard all of the positive coverage and how tremendous it is. What I find interesting is that how come nobody is talking about the potential of AlphaGo as a war strategizing AI?

If you provide terrain(elevation etc.) information, AlphaGo can be used to corner opponents into an area surrounded by mountains where AlphaGo is sitting on the mountains. We all know what happens after that.

Don't want to kill the party but I am completely surprised with the lack of chatter in this direction.
Yahoo being Yahoo means Yahoo driving revenue via bundling spyware, plus a dying fantasy sports site.

The Sun/Oracle Java JRE, Firefox, etc, Yahoo hasn't made money from anything other than tricking low-sophistication users into making Yahoo their home page by installing toolbars and changing browser settings, and they do this by paying to have installers of unrelated but necessary applications do the dirty work. This is all they have had as a business model for 10 years.

Yahoo should die, it's a scammy company surviving by doing things that would lead us to condemn anyone without the pedigreed name. They had dreams that the scammy stuff was just a way to keep the lights on while they restart their search efforts, or their technology driven products, but that's all just a dream, this company has been dead on the inside for 10 years.
The magic of Kernighan:

"When we were choosing among typesetting systems, Brian never let on that he was one of the original authors of Troff, the system we ultimately went with," Donovan said. "I realized this only after researching many early papers on digital typesetting; Brian co-wrote all of them."
Ask HN: Does anyone have any data on effectiveness of onboarding screens?
Specifically, do you read onboarding screens or do you swipe through quickly to get to the actual app?
WhatsApp Encryption Said to Stymie Wiretap Order
Google’s A.I. Beats Human Champ at Go for Third Straight Time
My guess is that they gave it a try and the purchase volumes never materially compared to credit card payments. Integration was done very poorly. You had to go to a special link "commerce.microsoft.com" and click on a small, un-styled link at the bottom of the page called "Redeem bitcoins". It was never integrated in to their main purchase flow in an easy way. It couldn't be found just by chance. You had to google to figure out how to fund with bitcoin.

Edit: There are a handful of comments about price fluctuation. Microsoft liquidated to USD right away using a company called BitPay. BitPay would take on the short term price risk and Microsoft would get exactly what they quoted in USD. Microsoft was not subject to BTCUSD price fluctuation in this scheme.
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> Switching to Auto Layout for almost all layout needs, with a single Storyboard for both iPad and iPhone.

I'm surprised that worked out for him, given what I've heard about Storyboards, which is that they're fine for really trivial UIs but don't scale well at all for any workflow that's even slightly complex. But that was like 2014. Maybe things have changed since then?
when I think about AI, I'm always reminded about glitches. For example, finding a weird behavior that can be exploited in a video game to beat a boss easily. It's one principle difference between playing other people and the cpu: humans are able to evolve their strategies, experiment, etc.

For the AI to really be the best, it must sometimes lose because it's trying a new strategy and experimenting. It also must be robust and find the error of its way easily -- in other words, know quickly that it's being gamed.

AI must be able to reprogram itself, or it's only a matter of time before a winning strategy comes out against it. If it can't reprogram itself and evolve without humans is it really AI?
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Well, yes, but it's still humans standing on the shoulders of other humans. Even though human players do memorize opening books, it stays in the family so to speak. Meanwhile a human player facing an AI engine is battling both the AI, and great human players of the past (who invented the openings).
Yahoo! was great fifteen years ago, now it’s just irrelevant. The world moved on to niche content sites and they were left behind. I can’t think of a single sector where I’d choose them over competition. I’ve heard that their web mail service is stellar but so is Gmail and I’m staying with it. It’s not like they came up with a service that was x10 times better than anything out there, far from it. They have been around since the dawn of the web and haven’t manage to build anything innovative in the last ten years. Where is Yahoo! in the whole social media thing? I mean Google tried their luck with Google+. What did Yahoo! did? They bought Tumblr and didn’t even bother to integrate it with their services.

Yahoo! has to focus on doing one thing and doing it very well. They can’t be both a services and a content shop. It doesn’t work like that. When it comes to content they have to compete with traditional news organizations that have decades of experience on the field. When was the last time you read something interesting and original on Yahoo!? For me, it’s like never. The problem though is that if they had to choose one sector that would mean massive layoffs and that in turn would send the stock way down. So that’s never going to happen, at least not unless reality hits them hard.

I feel kind of sad for them though because for me there was a time that I visited Yahoo! on a daily basis, before Google came-up with a better search algorithm and stormed the web. As with every company that was there from the beginning they hold a special place in my heart. But the reality of the web is that unless you innovate you become obsolete sooner or later.
> Does anyone have any idea why this is?

I wouldn't be surprised if they had a contract with a payment provider that was just too expensive for the little to no revenue that came in via bitcoin. Other than people that got bitcoin early there are not really any bitcoin users out there.

Also pretty sure that handling refunds and customer support for failed payments must have been pretty involved.
I don't understand why we "need" textbooks, specifically in the world of Computer Science. Most of the amazing work done to make computers are what they are today is available online.
I am working on a single file color pallete manager based on html5 localstorage
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They probably went through an external payment processor, so they weren't exposed to the Bitcoin network or its speed/risk at all.
Microsoft did liquidate to USD right away using a company called BitPay. BitPay would take on the short term price risk and Microsoft would get exactly what they quoted in USD. Microsoft was not subject to BTCUSD price fluctuation in this scheme.
No new information in this article.

Latest discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11271816
Yahoo!'s identity crisis has been going on for at least 6 years, here[1] is then Yahoo! CEO trying to describe "what is Yahoo!" in 2010 . It may have started earlier, but this was the first time I noticed it.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/28/ok-seriously-what-is-yahoo/
We had Godel on the limitation of logic and Turing on the limitation of computation. I think AI will only change the way human calls intelligence. We used to call people who can mentally calculate large numbers genius. Lots of that has to be re-defined.
They do have much worse performance when compared to an optimized rasterizer like WebRender (disclaimer: I work on WebRender). That's because they use legacy immediate mode APIs like GDI for painting, which are a poor match for modern GPUs. By contrast, CSS is fully declarative, which allows for much better batching, global culling, etc. Native toolkits cannot fix this without breaking backwards compatibility: their programmatic CPU drawing is fundamental to how they work. The best they can be is GPU-assisted rather than GPU-accelerated.

HTML was designed well for documents overall. It's remarkable how it's "obvious" that HTML is terrible, but every single proposed document-based replacement for it has been significantly worse. Take LaTeX, for example (sometimes brought up as a system "designed right"): you basically can't do floats at all in the system. All packages that simulate them are hacks. If the Web used a system designed like that, the volume of complaints would be deafening at this point.

I'm the first to admit that CSS has a lot of problems. But they're not the problems people always cite. The core model of downward width dependencies and upward height dependencies, with floats as a first-class citizen positioned during line breaking, is sound. Where CSS went wrong is in all the complexity like margin-collapse, border-collapse, mismatched border styles, CSS 2.1 Appendix E painting order, etc. These are the biggest flaws in the design, but nobody cites them as problems: in fact, frequently authors want more and more features that don't make sense and would make CSS worse.
My laptop has no separate number pad but its keyboard has a mode in which some keys are remapped as numpad keys.

Sorry, it's a live-only demo for Samples.js, recording (and export) would require more in-depth Web Audio API usage, timing etc. Probably someday I'll extend this idea and release another, more feature-packed tool. Not in this one.
That argument would apply to nearly every duplicate.

HN's approach is straightforward: we treat an article as a dupe if it has had significant attention in the last year or so. That's frustrating when there's a post you particularly like, but all we can really do is try to be even-handed in general. The limited spots on the front page are the scarcest resource HN has.
At one point Yahoo all together was worth less than the combined value of Yahoo Japan and Alibaba. So in those days Yahoo itself was valued as a net liability, I don't know today.

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/10/is-yahoos-core-business-reall...
Thanks, that sounds encouraging!
> Perhaps the Matrix wasn't using the humans for power, but rather the computers wanted to get good at writing music, so they gave each human in it slightly different music and watched their emotional responses.

This is possibly my favorite comment of the whole thread.

It's a super interesting idea and could make for some fascinating science fiction. Poorly programmed AI might not wipe out humanity, because it still needs humans to evaluate its fitness function.
Windows: Winhex

https://www.x-ways.net/winhex/
This is a good post. It would be an even better post if the first sentence were removed.
Interestingly, this thing, made in China, has almost zero sales in China. Its price is a bit high, if compared to TL WR703n, which can do a lot more things. http://world.taobao.com/search/search.htm?_ksTS=145780791366...
Sounds like it might be safest not to use CodeIgniter.
I was really REALLY interested in the language due to the clustering ability and their JIT they build into it. But it does seem like the language was build without any systems-usage in mind. How sad. Nothing will ever quench my thirst for clustering.
> Let me know if you can think of any she did have founding interest in.

A good manager doesn't have to come up with the idea. Most of the great ideas come from the trenches -- or competitors, frankly (Adwords, meet Overture, Keyhole meet Terraserver and so on). A PM's job is to be an advocate and grow the best ones by finding the resources, trying and discarding ideas that don't work.

The PMs that suck are the ones who obsess over pushing their ideas above all others.
Did Pipes go away on her watch? That was a sad day.
Intelligence is in the eye of the beholder.
I should probably do that. I'll post a response here.
That said, just by eyeballing some graphs at Coinbase it looks to me like the exchange rate was a more volatile back when Microsoft started accepting Bitcoin than it is now. Which isn't to say that they couldn't reasonably decide that it's too volatile, but it does seem odd that they'd do so while the volatility's dropping rather than increasing.

I'm inclined to guess that all the BTC in the news just led them to a more fundamental reconsideration of their bet that it is (or will become) a viable unit of exchange. There are a lot of take-aways you could get from recent events that might lead to that decision, but the most fundamental one is simply that it's become clear that a huge portion of the people controlling Bitcoin's future don't want it to become one.
You need to remember the difference between theory and practice.

In theory, yes. The technologies where available. But in practice, much has changed. In 2016, technically illiterate people are encrypting their files without even realizing it. Technology has changed what law enforcement can expect to encounter in practice.

(Also "decades ago"/"1996" ...Well now I feel old.)
>The government is demanding new powers: the power to search our communications

This is an embarrassingly bad opinion and it's embarrassing for HN that it's at the top of the thread.

The constitution does not require a rewrite to the fourth amendment every time some nerd comes up with a new widget.

The government has always had the right to conduct warranted searches of communications, whether that was opening mail, wiretapping phones, or just good old-fashioned eavesdropping.

Strong unadulterated crypto threatens to take that existing, longstanding power away from the government. The government is hardly going to give up without a fight.
Thanks, I'm only just watching match 2 and hadn't seen that. I really hope they publish this data. It would be incredibly interesting to construct a "review of the game by AlphaGo" from this data.
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> keeping them from having this power does not make their jobs more difficult than the 200 year baseline.

I don't think that's entirely accurate. The problem is that the content they were looking for 200, 100, and even 20 years ago used to be physical. Now it's digital.

Previously when they searched your home, they'd be looking for physical evidence -- mail, letters, receipts, paraphernalia, what have you. Today, a lot of that information has moved to electronic devices, taking what was once safeguarded by your front door, and putting it behind a new electronic lock.

I'm not commenting specifically on what powers should or shouldn't be available to law enforcement, but I think it's pretty clear that the situation has changed from 200 years ago, and we should be making decisions in the current context.
> But aren't there are HTML elements everywhere where the size is determined by their content

The height is. Not the actual width. Remember, widths are computed top-down, while heights are computed bottom-up.

> Less trivially, I've just put an explicitly sized DIV inside an unsized inline-block DIV, and the outer one is definitely sized according to its child.

That's because inline-block uses intrinsic width (specifically, shrink to fit width), which is computed separately from actual width in a bottom-up pass. Intrinsic width is a weird thing that is kind of a hack, and an ill-specified one to boot (although a useful one). It doesn't fundamentally change the fact that widths depend on parents' widths only.

> I think this is it: http://famous.org/

Famous is slow compared to CSS when you're using it for CSS-like designs.
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Almost certainly just low volume. Most merchants offering sale by bitcoin had little to no use.

And it makes sense, most bitcoin owners bought to speculate. Spending bitcoin isn't that different to just selling the bitcoin and spending with actual money, so if they weren't going to sell their bitcoin, why spend their bitcoin?

It's not like middlemen payment processors were avoided, most companies accepting bitcoin actually just accepted through a third party who would liquidate it back to money directly.
Flickr is still the go to site for photographers, there are other sites, but Flickr is the most popular.

However, Adverts on login page suck though and for those that don't pay they have adverts inserted that look exactly like photos. I don't see the later normally, but it's a pretty awful way to make money (though Google search and Facebook advertising are equally bad).
Nice one too. The concept of mine is entirely different though: to never deal with raw HTML strings, just logical blocks such as arrays and objects describing elements and their attributes and contents. With XT, I never need to escape content or attribute values manually because they are passed through appropriate DOM API, not inserted in raw state.

That was one of the goals but I'm writing a complete article on XT.js and XS.js right now, so I'll cover these aspects in it. But thanks for sharing your efforts! Starred on GitHub.
Is the main plus the small size? And maybe quality?
This feels like it's playing games with words a lot. What they've built here is a service which is perfectly cacheable: the same content is served to every user, and can be precomputed in advance. This allows them to run their page generation code in a batch generator instead of during processing of the http query.

It's certainly a very good idea to serve as much of your content from cache as is possible, and I don't think anybody would be surprised by that statement. However, they still have the same amount of page generation code, they're just running it at a different time. I'm not sure I'd call that "no back end". I'd call it an interesting choice of tradeoffs to optimise query latency.
For many programs it's easy to decide whether they halt or not.

int main(void) { for (;;); }
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and what is our purpose if there are no computers at all? you can keep believing whatever you believe, computers being good at things change nothing.
Cool, thanks for the response. For now, want to make sure Bicycl is useful and empowering on an individual level.

Then, those ideas would certainly seem like a natural progression...
I'm honestly still surprised they ever did.

I wonder how much they spent implementing their ability to accept bitcoin. Probably more than they ever made in profit.
Apologies, didn't mean to be condescending explicitly. Was intending it to be a light hearted joke to then be backed up with my personal experience. Any time someone has repeatedly broken something which a vast majority of folks haven't broken implies the problem is them, not the product itself.
> We still use locks on doors, even though they provide security theatre only

This isn't really security theater — the term refers to something which gives the illusion of security and doesn't deliver, not the failure to achieve absolute security. In general, door locks are about as secure as they're portrayed: they don't prevent someone from breaking in but they considerably increase the time, skill/tool requirements, and risk of detection. The other key part is that the threat model is obvious: people understand that if e.g. you put a Grade 1 lock on the door but leave the window open, it's not a failure of the lock.

> Criminal nuisance laws are probably enough to deter anyone actually turning on all lights at 3am.

How are you going to find out who to charge?