skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It takes 5 minutes of reading analysis provided on the WikiLeaks page to have a heart attack.

>The US TISA proposal only applies to SOEs at central government level. This was a
controversial issue in the TPPA,
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where each party designated which, if any, rules would
apply to the sub-central government level.
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As a result, the US and other federal
jurisdicons whose states or provinces own SOEs have less exposure than countries with a
unitary system of government.
>New SOEs may need to be created because of market, policy,
social or regulatory failure, or because a government rejects the neoliberal model for some
or all such actvites. In most instances where new SOEs are created they need special
support, at least initally, and may need to adopt measures that favour local services rms or
other ‘non-commercial’ practces to meet their objectves. There is no provision for this kind
of future-proofng in the Annex (and only limited in the TPPA
23).

Reading the rest of it is even worse.
In Poland we had private post service win a contract for most of official gov-to-people mail by severely undercutting SOE post office. They did it by employing almost all of the shitty BS ways one can come up with: temp work (almost show up and get a bag of mail style), almost no physical presence (for official mail/court notices!), outright falsification of delivery status (FOR COURT MAIL)
After half a year people were so pissed that they lost the contract
Those annexes at least in part will let them get away with it.
Sure, it would be nice to stop some of the extreme protectionism (cough, France, cough), but those rules are just downright horrible in practice
Arq only runs on Windows and OS X though. I would prefer to use something open-source, that runs on Linux. I won't be renewing my Crashplan subscription when it expires.
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High school is not particularly G-loaded, it rewards conscientiousness far more. That says more about how high school is set up (busywork, non-time-bounded effort signalling games via extracurriculars, rewarding reaching thresholds rather than exceeding them, rewarding generalism rather than specialization, etc), than the general usefulness of intelligence vs conscientiousness.
I think there's plenty to make a case that Mayer specifically was a large negative vs Yahoo on twin-earth where someone else was CEO.

Many(?) aquisitions were her plan. From the article:

> goodwill impairment charges of $1.2 billion

This means since 2012 Mayer has overseen the aquisition of companies for at least $1.2b more than their book-value worth, and now that value is gone. Paid a premium for brands and then lost the value of those brands.

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> “She believes she can figure it out on her own,” says a former top Yahoo exec. “Her attitude is, ‘I watch TV shows, so I know TV shows.’” Mayer hired Katie Couric — in a deal reportedly worth up to $10 million per year, mostly in stock — because she personally likes the former TV news personality, without a sense of where and how Couric’s brand would appeal to Yahoo’s user base

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> Mayer was gung-ho on expanding Yahoo’s media business, particularly in video entertainment, approving a Netflix-like slate of scripted original series with a seven-year business plan to recoup the investment

> Yahoo formally exited TV-style entertainment in the third quarter of 2015, taking a $42 million write-down on [original series, deals, then axed Yahoo Screen division]

Her plan.

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> Yahoo in February folded seven digital magazines, including titles covering food and travel, which had been a Mayer pet project. She wanted to launch dozens of vertically oriented magazines, dictating that they use Tumblr-based designs, hoping to better monetize Yahoo’s monthly audience.

Her plan.

> Mayer has positioned those closures as a refocusing on Yahoo’s four strongest content segments — news, sports, finance, and lifestyle — as the company aims to cut 15% of its workforce over the course of 2016. But those were the areas on which Yahoo should have stayed laser-focused all along, according to S&P’s Kessler.

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She had ideas that were either unworkable, poorly implemented, or she was unknowledgeable and hired the wrong people.

> I don't think the failure is on Mayer

That's how this works. She had a job and failed. It's okay to say that. They aren't paying her to not take responsibility. They will be paying her more than you and I and many readers of this comment combined may ever make, just to leave.
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Afraid I have not tried to hook up any external monitors to it at all so can't answer this unfortunately.
Apple approaches R&D a bit differently than Google does. Apple sees R&D as primarily a means to achieve operational efficiency and/or supplier independence. Product development is driven by customer needs and is tightly controlled at the executive level.

Apple likely has a half-dozen products sketched out that they can't release until some technology / market hurdle is overcome. So they focus their R&D on the technology hurdles, and their lobbying/PR efforts on the market ones.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/heidiblake/the-tennis-racket
Author is not actually suggesting replacing your version control with ZFS. From the first paragraph:

> Of course, I'm not seriously suggesting you'd ditch a "proper" version control system, but it gives a good sense of what's possible at the file system level.
Journalists aren't a special class. Freedom of the press either belongs to everyone, or its a tool of tyranny and elite oppression rather than freedom.

You can argue that what Gawker has done is outside the scope of press freedom, but not that there is some group of individuals to whom press freedom is unavailable.
why not store many small batteries in the wings ?
I work at NASA primarily supporting our aeronautics programs, and I'm excited about all-electric and hybrid-electric civil aircraft conceptual design analysis and optimization (for both fixed-wing and rotary-wing). It's one of the big "what-if" areas that is being looked at by NASA aeronautics in the next decade, and an area that has a surprising diversity of intuitive reactions within the industry at large.

Meaning, there is a camp if industry experts that feels that it is a dead end, and another that sees it as a practical way forward. My opinion is that there are gains to be made there, but practical systems will have to be designed and optimized in a far more integrated manner than how most civil aviation systems have been in the past (integrating, for instance, the design optimization of the propulsion, airframe, and mission profiles together at mid to high fidelity early in the conceptual design process).
What was that replicated filesystem back in the 90s that promised to be the next NFS, but with disconnected operation and merging when you came back online? Coda, that's right. I had such high hopes for it in my move to using a laptop as my primary machine, but never got it working despite several attempts at it. Admittedly they weren't more than a couple hours at a given time...
"I really don't think the article was seriously suggesting what you think it was"

Then maybe it shouldn't have a purposefully click-baitingly title suggesting it does...
AT&T Is Interested in Buying Yahoo's Internet Business
Depends on what was promised, doesn't it?
Lecturers are striking against low-paid, casual work, which hurts students too
This article has me thinking about hybrid electric aircraft (is anyone working on that?). A small internal combustion engine could generate electricity to charge the batteries to run electric motors. With this set up, you could still get the efficiency advantage of the alternate propeller placement. The engine could be much smaller and lighter than it is conventionally because the additional power needed for take-off and climb thrust could be temporarily drawn from batteries. Further, in the event of engine failure, you would still have battery power available to the propellers for a short time in order to make an emergency landing.
How much can you retrain someone's brain in 15 minutes? That child's experiences are not wiped out.
Java would have been a better language if they had breaking changes. However, they prioritized compatibility. Type erasure is a big compromise, for example.

Personally, I thinks it's better to have breaking changes and a good conversation tool.

Apple will have most Swift developers on Swift 3.x this year. Next year everyone will do the quick upgrade to Swift 4.x. Apple really takes advantage of migrating its users and developers to their latest versions.

Swift is much less verbose than Objective C. I think it's better to deal with the changes. You'll still write less code:

http://ctarda.com/2016/05/clarity-is-more-important-than-bre...

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2016/02/09/should-i-use-objecti...
"The first human" is remarkable because there are many tool-assisted versions of this. It's delineating the fact that no emulators or automated input devices were used.
Yahoo.com is the address I ping when I'm testing a new wifi connection. This article seems to suggest they also have a website. Wow. Learn something new every day.
What would have happened to Nokia phones if MS hadn't taken over? They pretty much dug their own hole.
One is an ORM, the other is not.
If you want I can explain to you the difference between airplanes and horses, u interested?
I once turned on the radio right in the middle of an NPR interview with some older sci-fi writer. Unfortunately I couldn't catch the name, which saddens me to this day, but he said something very interesting.

The author had been reading and writing sci-fi for decades, and he was asked what he considered to be the "golden-age" of science fiction, whether it was the material he first read in the 30s or 40s, or later.

I can't remember the exact reply, but it was along the lines of:
"The golden age of science fiction is ... 13. At 13 you are just becoming aware of the world around you enough to really comprehend the ideas in the story, but your personal experience is limited enough that it is all still new, and your mind is blown.

Therefore the golden age of sci-fi is whatever sci-fi you were reading at 13."
Once Upon a Time
I have no idea how you learn, but analogies are basically the only way I use of absorbing new concepts.
It's pretty clear that "objective and rational" is a cover for you to reinforce your existing beliefs, rather than any sort of critical thinking, but, hey, you do you.
What about email addresses?
Playing devils advocate here - isn't that supposed to be helpful? As in, what an amazing capability to be able to do that.
I don't have any inside information but as an outsider the main thing that puts pressure on everyone is the margin that Apple commands on its products. People have repeatedly said that even when iPhone had 20% of the smartphones sold, they were taking in a much bigger slice of the pie when it came to profits. How do we tell potential shareholders "you can put your $1 on Apple or you can put your $1 on us but just so you know we have to ship n times as many phones as Apple does just to make the same amount of money that Apple does".
Author here. :) Glad to answer any questions about what we're doing!
Or Xerox PARC.
Why bots won’t replace apps anytime soon
Sorry, missed it http://thefreethoughtproject.com/clinton-emails-expose-googl...

This issue was quite hot on HN a month ago.
On Leaving the World Better Than How I Found It
This is true, but subsidies are only useful if they are discoverable and truly available.

I grew up in a poor neighborhood, and the only reason I'm not poor is my parents were both educated and made sure I was too. But I know a lot of people who were poor and uneducated.

You might be able to take time off between the hours of 9AM and 5PM to apply for programs in person, or have time to fill out a lot of forms, or know what programs are available, or speak/read the language that's on the forms fluently, but a lot of people don't.
As somebody who was that "smart kid" I know that I personally felt that the easy-yet-time-consuming work was just boring. It wasn't until finding classes where I was adequately challenged that I began to care about the assignments, and it took years to develop the sort of persistence and drive that wasn't required of me in school.

Would I have been more successful at university and after graduating if I had more "grit?" I think so. But I didn't need it, so I didn't have it.

What can be done to prevent this? The obvious theoretical answer is to reduce class sizes, so that students can do coursework with other students who learn at a similar rate. If only America would adequately fund education...
> Smartphones outsold feature (dumb) phones only in 2013, five years after the iPhone came out.

Yes but who had higher profits? That's the real factor. Outselling by itself is meaningless if your margins are poor.
Discrete convex analysis for iterative auctions
Nah, he just talked about how some ethnic groups are genetically predisposed to being good slaves. Seems to be a weird set of priorities where that is deserving of free speech protection, but Gawker as an actual press organization needs to be silenced.
It's definitely being worked on. Google "hybrid electric aircraft" and you'll find some discussion of the efforts.

It's less advantageous than it is for a car. For one, the difference between maximum power and cruise power is far lower in a typical light airplane than it is in a typical car. A Prius might max out at 130hp but cruise at 25hp. A light airplane often cruises at around 75% of maximum power. Another problem is that the hybrid powertrain adds significant weight, which hurts efficiency much more in airplanes than it does in cars. I don't think these kill the advantages entirely, but it's probably why it's not as far along in airplanes as it is in cars.
Easy APIs Without Authentication
Riding shotgun in a DIY self-driving car
ZFS is very powerful indeed; I've been using ZFS to share a data partition between OS X and Ubuntu. The versioning capabilities the OP mentions has a lot of potential.
In the corporate world? Nope. Outside of that, people text each other.
[IANAL]
Kind of. At-will means you can fire for nearly any reason, but you can't fire for the _wrong_ reasons.

Retaliation for refusing to sign a contract under duress ties back to "continued employment isn't considered compensation for signing an additional employment contract." Even if there's a restructuring a few months later, the burden of proof would be on the employer to prove that there was no retaliation.
4k video for $450? Xiaomi’s drone hits DJI where it hurts
How to cut down your app development cost by a factor of 2 or 3
If she knew it was impossible, why did she take the job?
my main frustration with realm is that the design for the rxjava support is not that great. I can't use custom schedulers when fetching data and almost always end up mapping realm data objects to Pojo immutable entities generated with Autovalue, thus giving up the lazy loading speedup (since I have to copy all the data). also sometimes the asObservable() method returns empty collections a few times before returning the whole collection EVEN IF FILTERED WITH .isLoaded() and is wayyy too much spammy (it redelivers to subscribers a whole lot more times than when the underlying model is written to), therefore I have to debounce the stream with 1 second to save the adapter from rebinding the whole dataset again.
I think their mistake was thinking "media" would be the cash cow. Everyone was in love with the idea of "portals" Netscape, Excite, AOL, Microsoft (MSN), etc. That somehow they could "capture" the audience and keep them in their portals.
I would eat the marshmallows immediately and then steal more. I stole food all of the time because my parents were too cheap to give me enough lunch money. They own a two million dollar house in Saratoga and my father is the CEO of a semiconductor company. Go figure.

I'd be more successful in life if they didn't let me go hungry all of the time. At least be less bitter.
Uh, I used to be a cashier at McDonald's (reasonable job? you decide), I can tell you that they would never have let me wander off to use the phone for 20 minutes randomly, other than at my lunch break, which I needed to use to, y'know, eat lunch.
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How can I get Wi-Fi access if I do not have cable
Probably left to the developer and their server to re-populate the data, as needed, in the other devices
As someone who normally attributes large amounts of fault to CEOs, that's a fascinating rebuttal, (both in that of the many arguments I hear, it's not often among them, despite making me have to think hard about my stance) so let me try to counter it:

Do I fault the oncologist? Depends. Is there any reasonable expectation of success? Was the failure mode that ended up panning out one that could have been avoided with known courses of action? Was there any "user error"? Similar questions could be asked of Yahoo, and while I realize that I + most people not in a yahoo boardroom probably don't have sufficient visibility or background to answer decisively, never felt the external signals (her management decisions) I've seen demonstrated a course of action I would have been confident in.

Now, that could in and of itself be debated, but I think it's only a peripheral argument to the core point: Is compensation commensurate to the work done? (Which frankly I often think is the subtext in these CEO discussions) This is where a large amount of my personal issue lies, since regardless of which direction I think Yahoo could move, the course of action taken was "iffy" and the compensation extreme. Winding down a lost cause? Could have been done without nearly as much expenditure, and likely with greater shareholder value. Reviving a faltering company? Clearly has not happened. Nevertheless, she is pocketing hundreds of millions for what is by all standards a failed job.

So again, do I fault the oncologist (CEO) for failing to treat the terminal cancer (business failure), if all other options are undesirable? Probably not more than as the parent said, they "share a hand" in it, but to me that does not necessarily entail a declaration of aggressive "fault". Do I pay them exponential multiples of a typical salary to do so? Probably not. I realize that from this 10000 foot view it's a very subjective argument, but to go into line items requires a good deal more time than this post before work allows, and I hope this conveys the idea sufficiently even so.
Actually, perhaps this doesn't address all your points, but I share the sentiment about VM snapshots "feeling" quite similar, in fact I experience it every day as I run ZFS as a root filesystem within VMware. The real gain for me is that all of these tools are in-band with my working OS. If I were provided a VM(s) on AWS or some SAN by my employer, that could in theory give us a mutual benefit. Ops could avoid giving me access via IAM or whatever and expanding beyond some set limit, but allow me to perform almost identictal "ops like" tasks using ZFS (which I also find to be fairly user friendly).

Incidentally, I'm also a fan of nested virtualization and using git on top of ZFS... I believe all of these tools complement each other nicely as opposed to being mere repetitions.
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It's hilarious how the educational establishment tries to take well-known concepts with a rich psychological and psychometric history behind them, rebrand them, decide they're the Most Important Thing Ever for three years or so, and then toss them for the next thing. They usually pretend along the way that the same people haven't been in charge of the educational establishment for 60 years or so, and that the present state of education is some sort of test-driven Korean drill-and-kill dystopia, to which the latest fad is a breath of fresh air.

"Conscientiousness" is the term of art. It's part of the Big 5 personality model ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits ) which has its own various promoters and refuters. Inasmuch as the literature is contradictory it's because it's not a model that works super well for actually doing stuff, beyond marginal effects (more conscientious worker == better, all else equal) & tautologies (hard workers work hard and do better at hard jobs that reward hard work).
Adidas introduces new business model based on robots in US/EU speedfactories
Yes, the free upgrade is over at the end of this month. After June if you want to upgrade to Windows 10 you'll have to pay for it, so Microsoft needs to wait for confirmation of a purchase before initiating the upgrade. Though the BBC article doesn't mention if Windows Update will still pre-download the upgrade files thus consuming copious bandwidth and hard drive space.
No problem man, awesome to hear it's useful! Be sure to try out Mendeley[1] too as you may find it better.

[1]: https://www.mendeley.com/
The metaphor doesn't hold: Yahoo! didn't have a fatal disease, it had failing businesses. This oncologist literally cannot cure certain terminal ailments.

A better metaphor might be: Yahoo! was like an old rusted out car. You hire someone who tells you how they can fix this car, you pay them a lot of money, and then they leave the car in worse shape than when you hired them. How much blame do they deserve?

Which is to say: A new CEO absolutely can turn a failing business around -- that's what she was being paid tons and tons of money to do. If Meyer did feel like Yahoo! was a completely lost cause or that she would be incapable of fixing its problems, then she should not have taken their money. As an extremely wealthy person to begin with, she had that luxury.

In short: She absolutely has culpability in the failure of Yahoo!.
https://twitter.com/f_u_e_n_t_e/status/706462603401412608

"A... fingerprint... is... a... username... not.. a.. password... There. I can't say it any slower."

Biometrics should not replace passwords. Ever. They serve different purposes.
The best case I saw was to catch things your kids say. It's really hard to get a child to repeat exactly what they said again.

I'm guessing your phone would have to be pretty close to the child though.
This is awesome. Olivier (author of that post) has made some really cool stuff if you go back through their blog posts. Also I wonder if this means the CopperSpice guys will stop development.

I often find myself wishing that Nokia had licensed Qt under the MPL or a custom 'contribute back' license instead of the venomous LGPL. I don't think there's any other framework out there that does all the things Qt does for C++ devs and I'd use it for a lot more things if it had a more reasonable license. Its one thing to expect modifications back (which I complete agree with), but mandating how code can be linked and excluding closed platforms (embedded, mobile) are horrible terms to have to adhere to.
We can navel gaze at Yahoo as a company all we want, but I think Marissa's accomplishments as an individual should not be overlooked.

She largely got to write her own ticket at Yahoo and had two healthy children while moving from a mid-upper management role at google into a real CEO position.

Most women that have two children back to back like that in the professional world end up in a "mommy track" career path.