skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When apple moved to sealed black boxes they introduced a social contract with their users. The deal was no more user upgrades, but in exchange apple would make better systems. Apple hasn't held up their end of the bargain nearly enough. They haven't iterated any of the lines nearly enough, and since you can't make small improvements yourself any more that lack of dedication is even more apparent. I think the outrage really is stemming from the unrepairability, it's just the rage underneath people have struggled to articulate.
Opt-in will never happen for things like this. There are just too many people who don't care. Look at the rates of organ-donors when comparing opt-in to opt-out.

I'd be happy if they made things opt-out. As in you can opt out of them. I just had a miserable time getting my default documents folder to not be the onedrive folder so things stopped saving there and microsoft stopped complaining about me being over my pitiful 5GB.
> I mainly regret not taking university seriously half a lifetime ago, but as a result I became a lifelong self-learner.

Can you please expand on this? Why do you regret that?

I've read a great book about this topic: The Top Five Regrets of the Dying. It's a bit more general of course, but it might be interesting to you or others.
Good and bad agents? This stuff is pure evil.
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> They are nice machines overall. Good enough quality, good casing, good design, good internals, good service.

I'd agree with the aluminium casing and good external design, but in regards to internals; the GPUs are very lacklustre in performance, I had a problem with my MBP showing green tint on the screen after just months of usage and have a dead/red pixel on my new display already.

The fans also do a terrible job at cooling and the CPU can reach 95 degrees C while compiling code, which makes it not so hot a dev machine, (pun intended :-)

But I agree, the service is good.
I am no expert but I will try.

First, there is no strict separation between acquisitions and mergers. It is often somewhere in between.

If CenturyLink is valued at $16.6 billion with $19 billion in debt, that means the company without debt would be worth $35.6 billion. Likewise Level 3 without debt would be worth 19.4 + 11 = $30.4 billion.

The article says that "the value of the deal includes assumed debt", so they are really just paying 34-11= $23 billion for the Level 3 stock (I think).

It also says they are getting $10.2 billion in new debt, meaning they are issuing ~$13 billion worth of new CenturyLink stock, and giving that to current Level 3 shareholders.

If I calculated things right, CenturyLink shareholders will own about 56% of shares in the combined company, with Level 3 shareholders getting 44% plus some cash. The combined company will be worth about $26 billion, and have about $40 billion of debt, so the banks will wield quite a lot of power.
Yeah, that was my greatest take away from what I've read from him. Talk about the tail wagging the dog.

The restrictions in this light almost do more harm than good since it exonerates the banks (or rather the system) and every time we have a crisis (after people have been making the big bucks for years) we treat it as mysterious and unrelated to the profits made in the 'good' times.
> If you follow that trail of companies, you feel like you've hit "deep corporate america" where nothing has a founder and everything is a subsidiary of some larger corporate division of something.

A corporation is literally just a group of people acting together. Much as the tech world likes to maintain the image of the visionary individual put forth by the ideology of creativity, that's of actually how the world usually works.

Most innovation happens when groups of people leverage their existing collective abilities together well.
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>Where did you get the 0.01% from ? That sounds like a rather high number.

Why are you distracted by that 0.01%? Whether it's 0.001% or 0.00001%, it's still higher than zero. It still drives the incentives to push bad pages to the top of search results.

>, there is no evidence that this is true.

The evidence is Google's ongoing evolution of algorithms from the 1998 PageRank paper[1]... to Panda... to Penguin... to Hummingbird. All that constant rewriting is to stay ahead of the abusers gaming the search algorithms.

The link farms were created by spammers based on the information about Pagerank and using its link-weighting to the spammer's advantage. The public knowledge of how PageRank works allowed spammers to make search results worse. There are many examples[2] of of link spam that is not motivated by the "ads" in the right side of the page. What you call "web marketing" is often bad pages made visible by abusive SEO techniques.

Panda was a response to this gaming by analyzing extra signals to penalize link farms. Abusers continued to game Panda's revised algorithms and Google responded with Penguin.[3] Just stop and think deeply about why we can't just use Google's original 1998 PageRank algorithm unchanged in 2016.

At this point, making all of the algorithms and weights of Hummingbird public will only give the spammers the necessary information to make the search results worse for the rest of us.

[1]http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_penalty#Common_forms_of...

[3]http://searchengineland.com/google-launches-update-targeting...
I'm sure they can score a nice, well paid Federal Government job if games development doesn't work out.
My grandchildren are going to love my design documents.
Interesting, but surprising they didn't look at how Erlang bit syntax works. http://erlang.org/doc/programming_examples/bit_syntax.html

It's considerably more flexible, much more elegant, and (in Erlang) battle-tested.

I wrote an Erlang-inspired version of bitstrings for OCaml: https://people.redhat.com/~rjones/bitstring/html/Bitstring.h...
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> I think native ads will find their place and be a net positive for the internet...

I am curious how you see this happening. To me these ads are an embarrassment to the human species. The language you use suggests that you and I may live in entirely different universes.
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> Definitely. If fiber provides a 10% return on investment, definitely.

Telecoms return about 10% at scale. Startup stage of a telco is incredibly expensive; and you typically won't see positive cash flow until a decade or so later (which is why it's usually financed by debt offerings; not equity or cash). Risk is also high; because if you enter the wrong market as an overbuilder, you can ensure nobody in the market (including yourself) will ever turn a profit.

All in all, overbuilding a telecom is a high-risk, low-reward investment with a very long payoff period. There's a good reason there aren't more companies lining up to do it.
pyramid schemes, prostitution, drug trafficking are all things that pay well if you're smart enough to get away with it
A $100M U.S. Government Fish Farm Nobody Wants
<nod> I ask because I have a bevy of 14.04LTS installs (bare metal), and have never had any issues running same in VBox. 16.x and its systemd move has left me quite uninspired, so wondered if anything was due to that.

Thanks
I've never seen that Open MCT project before. I wonder how similar this is the applications they actually have in place presently.
Twitter is testing a new reply design
The resources sector is tanking, and very badly.
It is definitely bizarre looking back. You can clearly see all of these opportunities to have a good shag with someone whose company you enjoyed when there appeared to be mutual attraction but they were passed up because you were both so wrapped up in insecurities.
> the end of arctic ice

nitpick: it is actually antarctic ice we need to worry about. Arctic ice (except on Greenland) is floating and so it is already displacing its weight in water.
I regret getting my first credit card, which ultimately led to my first breakup after my first proper relationship. It also led to a bunch of personal debt (a lot of which I've cleared, some I still have).

But if I hadn't, who knows how that would've affected later life - would I have ever met my now wife? Or would I be living somewhere else and working somewhere else? Would I have some of the cool stuff I have?
Two things:

1) Believing in religion and being conservative about it too!

2) Allowing myself to become obese during late teens and early twenties.

These two points have done incredible damage to my social life and self esteem.
In 2010 I bought a MacBook Air 13 that I considered to be about perfect. It's reasonably cheap (barely more than $1000) and is small and light without making too many compromises (I'm looking at you, 12" MacBook).for years I've been waiting for Apple to release one with 16GB of RAM and a Retina display. They of course have not. About 2-3 years ago it became clear that that was a choice rather than a technical limitation.

When the 12" MacBook came out I went to the local Apple Store and tried it. Hate the keyboard. Performance is too much of a compromise. You can charge it or use peripherals (or carry a dongle everywhere) and of course I knew th Air was now doomed (Apple tends to limit their SKUs).

The new Macs have now lost me completely.

- 2/4 C ports is shocking. 1/2 of these should be As. It's way too soon for all Cs. I read a comment the other day: it used to be that if it fit it worked. Now everything fits and nothing works. Apple might be imagining a universal port but they're ignoring the cables. There are still active/passive cables, USB 2 vs 3 A-to-C cables and so on. Apple used to only adopt technologies once they were mature.

- loved the old keyboard. Hate the new. Saving 0.5mm for a shitty keyboard is too much compromise.

- I use the escape key and function keys Asia like IDEs in particular. It was already jarring having different key bindings in OSX vs Windows/Linux (the latter two being relatively consistent within Jetbrains IDEs at least).

- Loss of MagSafe.

Recently I bought a refurb Dell XPS 15 with minimal specs for $900that I spent $450 upgrading to 32GB of RAM and a Samsung 950 Pro 512GB SSD. It has a respectable GPU (960M). It's trackpad isn't as good as a Mac's but where PC trackpads were once woefully bad (embarrassingly so), it's not bad. The gap is livable.

Come December there'll be an update and likely you can upgrade one to 32GB with a Samsung Pro 512GB/1TB/2TB which. With a GTX 1060 will be a pretty versatile machine.

Will we be waiting another 2 years for the next Mac update? Will some lines flounder without updates after much fanfare like the Mac Pro?

See this is the real problem: I no longer have faith that this is a sector Apple gives a shit about. I realize laptops and desktops are "trucks" (to quote Steve Jobs) but he understood you still need tucks. Post-Jobs Apple seems to not understand and/or care about this.
Sorry for killing the vibe of the joke, but what does that expression mean? (Non-native English speaker)
With the advent of EFI booting, you can brick basically any motherboard by wiping it's EFI partitions.
There's another possibility, when I was sixteen, I went to a very large highschool with approx three hundred sixteen year old girls so its not like I had a lack of opportunity, but for legal reasons and cultural attitudes toward age differences that very specific missed experience is now permanently inaccessible. Everything WRT that topic is good today, older women my age are very enjoyable ... but I obviously missed out on some fun, many years ago. You're only gonna be sixteen exactly once, for about 365 days, that's it.

So if you're 16 and want to have sex with someone who's 16 the only certain advice I can provide is you're not likely to stop wondering what it would have been like any time soon, and over time the odds very rapidly reach zero (roughly by the time you graduate HS?), so get out there while you can ... while avoiding diseases and pregnancies. Of course seeing as older, smarter, and far more experienced versions of yourself repeatedly manage to fail to avoid diseases and pregnancies remarkably often, maybe forever wondering is better than forever herpes/hiv or forever having kids while you were still a kid yourself.
But are the ones making alarmist claims the same as the ones making more solid predictions? There are many climate change/AGW groups.
What is a business practice that only works in the US?
As much as I love the Bioshock series, I take all of the figures with a pinch of salt considering I, presumably not alone in this, own at least 3 copies of each on various platforms. I'm also about to buy the remastered for PC, just because.

The sad part is that the real people who made these great games will see none of this continued income.
The thing about wishing your life was different in way X is that if it was, you would be a different person now, wishing it was different in way Y.
>We were going to see the end of arctic ice, have a perpetual ozone hole necessitating sun screen when venturing outside and decimating wildlife from cataracts, see New York and other major cities drowned, etc. (Not to mention famine killing billions of people, etc.)

You should be more careful with your information sources. I'm kind of familiar with the claims of ending arctic ice, but only from straw men claims from deniers of climate science. I have not been able to find any alarmist claims from climate scientists on arctic ice, only websites that misinterpret the claims for their own propaganda purposes.

The flooding of New York and shifting of agricultural zones are not predicted to already have happened. When climate scientists talk about these things, they do not use the alarmist language that you are using.
You could still use maven w/o an IDE, it's really not that bad.
Ah, but what if South Carolina hadn't been so stupid as to shell Fort Sumter? That was the actual start of the war, and was a perfectly legitimate casus belli for the United States.
Make public transportation more efficient and a better experience: https://angel.co/massachusetts-bay-transportation-authority-...
Wow, that's great to hear about the head cam. Where are you putting these recordings?
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hopefully they would include USB3.1.

Do you mean to say you wish they would include USB-A?
That's incorrect. That's what happens when the info documentation for info has not been installed by your distribution. Normally you get https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/info-stnd/info-s...
> They also need to introduce a Surface product that the average consumer can afford--even Apple has done this with the Air line and the non-Pro line.

The Surface Pro 4 costs $150 less than a comparable Macbook air.

https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Microso...
And that is the reason I've steered clear of the ecommerce platform space. I value having a life.
I regret totally blowing off studying math after my junior year of high school and never studying CS at all in school. I've filled in a lot of the gaps but it would have been easier then.

But then again, it's hard to say, isn't it? My life would have turned out differently if I hadn't made the choices I have and overall I'm pretty happy.
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There seem to be a MAJOR problem with your reasoning.

Why do we fear carbon emissions? Because climate change will make swaths of planet uninhabitable and/or underwater, forcing people there to move.

Don't tell me your solution is preventively moving half billion people. Isn't that the result you wanted to avoid? What's the principial difference anyway between land becoming uninhabitably hot and land becoming uninhabitably cold (due to lack of heating)? You lose land either way and have to move people from it, worsening situation everywhere else.

Your solution is basically shooting yourself in the foot to avoid gangrene, and the amount of faith you have in such solution is disturbing. Your position is one big reason why climate change deniers exist: because you scare people with your misdirected zeal.
I was going to say, my brother has logged considerably more time than that on any version of Mass Effect.
what type of gym do you use?
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I've been using Pandoc for documents where I have mostly text and images. It's also worth to note that LaTeX commands can be written in the Markdown document and most of the time it'll work correctly. Additionally, for custom preamble additions you can create a separate file and pass it to pandoc with -H.

Here is a document I created recently using pandoc, python, inkscape and bmake, where I put a bit of LaTeX in the markdown document:

* PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-2M0DmQ8rj2SmJnMUFpcEZacFE...

* Markdown: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-2M0DmQ8rj2NV9SWktQTWdKQ3...

* Preamble additions: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-2M0DmQ8rj2bmNjQ2RweFRfY0...

* BSDmakefile: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-2M0DmQ8rj2UDhaVk4zMVlOcD...

You might notice some untransformed LaTeX commands in the figures. That's no fault of pandoc mind you, since the figures are just graphic files to be included from the POV of pandoc, that's just because I haven't bothered yet to get that part right due to there being no real gain for me at the moment from getting that part right so I just type LaTeX in the figure text also even though I do not transform those.
That I did not start working on something that has the potential to have a bigger impact on the world.
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If you intend to purchase a system with the intent of running linux on it, please consider a system76, (or any other Clevo reseller, such as Scan Computers in the UK) or a Lenovo that is known to work well or the XPS Dev Edition and you'll have much better time getting all these things to work, (usually out-of-the-box) than on a random PC meant to run Windows and nothing else.
Sam Altman has given a speech a few times (I heard it most recently in "How to Start a Startup") where he uses the same equation, but adds luck, where luck is a random variable going from 0-1000:

Startup = idea * execution * product * team * connections * money * luck

I think that's a very accurate assessment of the situation. You need to work hard, have a good team, etc., etc., but without luck, you won't be successful.
Sure it's a nostalgic sound, but I can't tell you how many college lectures are punctuated at some point by this sound.
> I can't approve. You've made the choice. You've paid for this choice.

I made the choice, certainly. I'm fortunate that my family is well off enough that I could afford my flat when I bought it - mostly with my own earned money, but with backing (and the safety net) provided by my parents. No bank would have given any loan to me with a freshly started company. By now, that I could get a loan for the flat on my own, I could not afford the price, since prices have risen steeply. So yeah, graced by my birth and the hard works of my parents I was in a position to make that choice. Others are not. I was fortunate - not lucky.
That is actually pretty neat, I've been wanting a macbook dock for ages and this is almost that...
Why would that make you take the numbers with a pinch of salt? It doesn't matter that you bought 3 copies, they sold 3 copies. The numbers are still accurate for copies sold, they aren't claiming active players or something, there's no subscription fees here.
What's wrong with just wrapping and unwrapping values as different types, at the few points you need to do so?
Seconded for Adguard. I've tried several others blockers, such as Blockr (which don't update their filters often enough), to something more all encompassing like Weblock (which creates a proxy link and filters at the system level); ended up breaking a lot of things like App store downloads and updates.
Eating beef and pork is tasty but really bad for the environment.
Yes,

NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB
>I regret letting myself get comfortable, to a place where the money is too good to leave.

That sounds terrible, so sorry for you ;)
>why would you ever not want touch to work?

If someone doesn't care about touch, then all it means is "I can't wipe dirt off my screen without clicking on things."
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I regret choosing an elite university (Oxford) and its ultra-generic Engineering course, rather than a more specific course in say, electronics or even maths but at a less prestigious institution. I came out with a paper-thin knowledge of a dozen engineering subdisciplines, rather than truly knowing any one of them. Many of my peers became accountants, many others quickly became 'project managers' - spreadsheet jockeys. I cannot think of any who actually became engineers. Like others, this frustration has led me into a life of continuous learning.
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Not getting enough sleep while I was in university.
The telemetry data will continue to harm them so long as it's a mystery. They need to say what's in it. Maybe one of the EU data protection commissioners or an alert PCI-DSS auditor will ask the right question with legal force.
I'll go against the tech culture grain and say I regret not going to college. I stared working when I was still in high school and I never pursued a degree. Sometimes I feel like if I had gone to college I might have pursued a different area of interest. I enjoy programming but I'm almost 40 now and starting to feel just how disposable all the work I've done for the past 25 years is.
If you have IEEE compliant floats, you can't, because the right side may result in Infinity, making the complete product NaN.
Your first credit card led to your first breakup? Was that really the only factor?
Where/why did they go?
FWIW: I went for it and got into a pretty tough program (OCS US Marines), but got 'boarded' 3 days before graduation. Brutal experience in many ways, but I'm really glad I did it despite not making it to graduation.

My regret is not following through with a meeting/interview at the CIA a couple years later. I don't remember all of the details, but in the end I was afraid of the same outcome ('failing') so I cancelled it politely and moved on; I shouldn't have and regret not even going.
There's [1] if you don't mind Google Music.

[1] - https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com
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Playing Basketball for several years despite having no talent whatsoever. With hindsight it was a complete waste of time.

That's probably not the most important regret in my life but it's a clear one, and one that I can confess without being too personal.
As with everything else, who you surround yourselves with matter a lot. Hindsigt is 20/20, but obviously your co-founder/partner was not the person you were hoping to start the company with, and if you feel you have to "stop being human" to interact with your employees then you should probably re-evaluate whether they are the right people.
A corporation is a collection of assets owned by stockholders.
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