skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yahoo! earns less than Google per search [1], has few other properties, is trashing its already-moribund brand and keeps growing its legal liabilities. Consider, too, the political/headline risk Verizon would inherit.

Yahoo! (like Twitter, in my opinion) may only find a buyer in that sort of financial purchaser who doesn't mind looking bad resurrecting corpses. Unfortunately, those bidders are notorious low ballers.

[1] http://marketingland.com/yahoo-microsoft-rps-guarantee-42680
This sort of dismissal based on platitudes ("Most of the time you have no market at all") is the sort of comment we don't want on Hacker News. Anything can be dismissed this way, and anyone can do it. It feels good, gets upvotes, and generates more of the same—and thus the discourse clogs up up with more and more of this. That's bad. And what does your apparent critique boil down to? "The intention is not really to help you here I believe"—in other words, (a) you read minds and (b) you assume your conclusion.

For higher-quality discussion, we should apply the Principle of Charity: that is, assume the strongest plausible interpretation of an article and respond to that. Poking holes in a weak one may be fun but it is not substantive.
A small nitpick: a little bit less than half of the voters voted for Trump (63 million people), not half of Americans (which would be 159 million people).
In Soviet America, it gets you.
My plan is to find a remote job to avoid having to commute, rent a house in the San Gabriel Valley, and then spend my free time enjoying delicious Asian and Mexican food.
> He spends millions of dollars of other people's money

This is simply not true. The bank created credit money out of thin air. They didn't have to take money from anywhere to give it to him. On their books, his loan looked like an asset.

This is a common misunderstanding of how banks work. He didn't steal anyone else's money, he got new money. Read this introduction of how money and banking work from the Bank of England http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarte...
> I think the parent post was confusing multimedia with technology.

I see... that makes sense.

I have been in a Tesla (not as the driver though, it was a taxi !!!) and that screen garnered the same reaction from me as I reacted to the 12" iPad. The touch interface did seem to be well implemented.

From a pure interaction perspective I still find the new BMW iDrive interface with the physical command dial to be quite practical, especially in the left hand drive versions. The screens are not as enormous as Tesla but they are still serviceable.

I totally get the point with updated BT and wirings. I recently bought an very cheap BT 4.0 receiver to plug into the AUX socket and stream audio from my phone. There is a significant difference between the audio quality produced by BT streaming compared to playing CD in the head unit.

I wish such things were user serviceable.
Adam Curtis created a documentary that features interviews with Thomas Schelling and others quite a bit; talking about MAD and the nuclear strategy of the US during the cold war. The whole series is incredible IMO but part 2 is probably the best of them.

Pandora's Box "To the Brink of Eternity"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TRHcNDYpFU
Uhh yes and where do you think they show the ads?
Yes, I was similarly lucky for the most part that when I was "causing trouble" it tended to result in further challenges rather than complaints.
In the context of (unsalted) MD5 passwords: If they have a large legacy base of MD5 hashed ones, how would one "move" those to a stronger hash function?

I can imagine something like re-hashing the existing one with a better algorithm and some salt, and storing new ones solely using the new algorithm + salt. But that introduces some additional complexity because every hash needs information about how it was hashed (MD5 + X vs. just X).

Is there an established best practice for this?
News we aren’t supposed to know
Indeed, unpredictable people/situations, are less attractive.
May I please get whatever Windows version powers the Dreamliner?
New tiny FPGA from lattice
> Point is, we think in different ways, so keep trying different approaches until something sticks.

So true, great advice. You have to experiment and find out what works for yourself.
You have the standard things like a calculator, card game (start with blackjack), anagram maker/solver...

With the web you can move to things like an address book, todo list, message board (regular or reddit/hn clone)...
I think it is (was) a handy feature to estimate the current load/power usage. I found it to be rather accurate.
It's non sequitur.

"I have a phone number but don't want to give it out" is different than "I don't have a phone".

But hey, there are 2FA devices you can use instead.
And this is why the people who wrote this code base I'm maintaining have manual stack-tracing code for the application - so whenever an exception is constructed of certain types we can dump its call location into the logs. Otherwise exceptions just appear as weird nonlocal flow control that loses information.

GCC users have backtrace_symbols() for this.

(It was an interesting exercise to see how much of the ARM stack unwinding I could do in C++ rather than assembler; I managed it with only one asm instruction to get the link register and a lot of instruction-decoding C++)
That's why I said FISA warrant... which includes 3 hops.

Otherwise they would collect any email ever sent unencrypted via submarine fiber wiretaps. While feeds into XKeyscore.
200 times more COBOL transactions today than Google searches
I consider myself an advanced user and I enable sending Telemetry and crash reports on Firefox explicitly. I dont do that on Chrome but I prefer doing that on Firefox. The point I am trying to make is, although I agree that some users may opt-out, many trust Mozilla and so would usually let it collect data like this.
> They lend out millions of dollars of other people's money

Banks don't lend other people's money. They create money when they lend. Read this from the Bank of England. http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarte...
If you're an individual, form a sole proprietorship (https://www.sba.gov/starting-business/choose-your-business-s...). Just note that, if someone sues you, you are personally liable for any damages.

If you intend to work on projects that carry risk (e.g software that handles a business process that, if fails, costs a client thousands of dollars in damages), opt for a LLC (where your personal finances will be protected from any lawsuits).
It's definitely unlucky for the stranger with the good food!
I find scratching one's own itches is always the best way to learn a new language. Solve a problem that you have.
Give it time, it's only been nine years... https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=400364
I've always thought that the most valuable thing I taught my reports was to not accept meeting invitations by default.

Ask:
1) What's the agenda?

2) I don't see why I need to be there. Do you really need me?

3) If there isn't a solid YES to (2), then answer "I'll keep that time open. Call me if something comes up that needs my input."

It's amazing how many unnecessary people are invited to meetings under the guise of "he may be interested/have input."

Respect people's time and don't waste it!
A web search engine.
I think the time remaining reflects estimated time with current usage. I don't think having a estimate of how much longer I can browse HN before needing to plug in is useless.
Dont forget alcohol either. A dose of Indica has little mentally-intoxicating effect but a similar muscle-relaxing effect as a pint or 2 of beer (at least for me ), just no calories or potential for dependency.
Which heroes? Trump?
From what I understand, Marx was opposed to reforming capitalism, since he thought it could steer the working class, at least temporarily, from the total revolution he was pushing.

I have read that Social Democracy arose in part from the failure of the working class to revolt and overthrow capitalism. In the communist movement at the end of the 19th century there were two different responses. One, lead by Eduard Bernstein, decided instead to turn to electoral politics and try to move the economy to socialism in gradual steps, and so they joined the other groups that had formed the Socialist Democratic movement.

The other group, lead by Lenin, decided to change the party into an elite group that would lead the working classes to revolution, and this lead to the communism movement as we know it and all the totalitarian states it produced.
It does seem this was done to bring GBP/USD pricing back to parity with EUR/USD and is only an issue if you resided in the UK and need to spend GBP.

The SP-32 server was 48.99 GBP which is 60.65 USD via ovh.co.uk while the same server could be ordered for 69.99 EUR or 72.57 USD via ovh.ie.
Predictive API Comparison: MLJAR vs. Amazon ML vs. Google ML vs. PredicSis vs. BigML
That's my thinking as well. He would have known that there wasn't a chance in hell he could ever pay that back, nor could he reasonably have believed this situation might change in the future. I would expect this, combined with the amount, extravagance, and opportunistic nature of this whole thing, to show intent to defraud. (But I don't know much about Australia's legal system.)
Benchmarking communication between Elixir and Ruby
But... That's logical.

It evaluates the remaining time using current ressource usage. It is "accurate". It can't predict how much time your rendering will take, it can't predict the future. But it does an accurate estimate of how much the battery will last under the current load.

(imo, current load is better than trying to compute the load trend)
Maybe they meant distributes? Modulo (sort of) distributes over multiplication: (a * b) % c = ((a % c) * (b % c)) % c
How to secure your passwords automatically using Lastpass
What I meant was: "if you force an attacker who obtains a one-off copy of a password (perhaps overheard) to actively install a backdoor (in order to have the capability to perform an attack at some later time - as opposed to being able to passively maintain that capability by simply remembering that person's password pattern) then you increase the costs of attacking greatly"
This is not a mystery. PRISM == use of secret court orders to collect information from companies regarding certain targets. Can you clarify what you think it is and how it is relevant here?
> he had no money to pay it back, ergo it's fair to conclude he had no intention of paying

i don't think that would stand in any court. the former doesn't imply the latter by necessity.
> were started/ramped up under W. Bush

Assault on privacy and massive surveillance started as soon as the internet became a household word - which actually happened under Bill Clinton.
I liked it.

It expresses, succinctly, the problem with 'either you are with me or against me', and its evily-more-persuasive cousin 'there is no apolitical speech'.

Sometimes I wish I was more apolitical, for my own sake, and if this defends the status-quo, so be it. What was the chance of making any difference anyway?
A loan is an asset on a bank's books. I think it's obvious why they don't care until, well, you know.
You can't forcibly migrate other people to wordpress, and its their blogs which have the value.

Tumblr is an important community even if it does have a few weirdnesses and inconsistent policy enforcement.
Nope. Glassdoor is highly inaccurate.
Incredible. One would have thought that this is a solved problem. Of course it depends on usage how long the battery will last - so what? It's not like OS can't determine the power spending trend and draw conclusions about approximate time left.

What is probably issue here is that Apple gets blamed for lots of things which are outside of their control. But it would be much nicer if OS advised customers how to fix these issues and get longer battery life. But yeah, removing indicator is easier.

Sheldon: "Your fix engine light is on."
Penny: "Yeah. I really should put a tape across it."
Level Up Your Cross-Browser Testing
Avoid the desire to do a rewrite. Knowledge is baked into the existing code that you could be tossing away for no reason. If things are reasonably encapsulated, there is absolutely no reason to rewrite everything.

I cringe when developers call for a rewrite. It's a massive red flag to me that they aren't team players and will be lazy. They won't take the time to read or understand things. Rewrite calls make more sense after they have read the code in the first place to being with.
It's great when everybody can see through stuff like this and work with a coherent but imperfect approach (no matter what field you are in). I guess it takes knowledgeable, experienced folks to really understand the context and make the best tradeoffs, since no way of doing something is perfect for all applications.
Sure, maybe he was planning to win the lottery when the payment came due.

The question to me is, do you think he took and spent the money with the expectation that he would be able to pay it back? Seems pretty obvious the answer is no.

Not saying he should be locked up, but let's be reasonable here.
Another step in the transition to HN becoming Reddit :(
problems before: dirty taxis, disrespectful drivers, limited availability in some neighborhoods, often opaque and expensive pricing

problems now: we don't have enough flexibility to give 4 stars for a good but not perfect ride
>Nope, they are abusing their monopoly on credit creation and access to markets / lobbying.

You think banks have a monopoly on credit creation? Do you understand what credit is or how it works? Everyone is free to create and distribute (or accept) as much credit as they want.
I was part of a group that analyzed some of the security claims of the Mylar system. You can read about what we found here: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/920.pdf
We will build a state-of-the-art data center that will cover all your hosting needs; based on fully libre[1] software, libre boot firmware and performant libre-friendly hardware. We will always respect your freedoms and your privacy - we don't spy on you.

- based on 100% libre software and libre-friendly hardware with Libreboot, including our front- and back-ends

So if you're limited to Libreboot, the last set of Intel processors you can support came out in, what? 2009? 2010? Cross referencing the list of "supported" systems[0] with some general googling for their release dates[1], 2010 seems to be it, unless their data center is gonna run on a rack of Macbook 2's and Chromebook C201's.

Either way, it's hardly "state of the art" hardware by any stretch. Maybe they'll go with some custom RISC processors?

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libreboot#Supported_systems

[1]https://www.techpowerup.com/119540/asus-releases-kgpe-d16-so...
> gets upvotes

Why would it get upvotes if it's not helpful? Just trying to understand.
> Tobacco is small compared to Pharma. The average american spends over 1,000$ per year on prescription drugs.

Yes, but medical marijuana is a lot less important to pharmaceutical companies than recreational marijuana is to tobacco companies. Pharmaceutical companies care less about medical marijuana these days than you might think.

And it's not so simple, because it's not so easy to see how money gets directed. For example, Altria is a massive, diversified company (albeit less so since Kraft Foods was split off). They likely see their investment in smokeless tobacco ("e-cigarettes") as a lateral move to help them corner the marijuana market once it's legalized. They also see it as a hedge against the decades-long drop in tobacco usage. But which is it? The answer is "both" - weighing those against each other is tough. And it gets even more tough when you try to consider how much they would have considered the loss of the tobacco business to be a threat back in 2006, when their business also included production of cookies and macaroni & cheese.

These incentives are oftentimes conflicting even within the same company, so from the outside, we can't just say "well, industry $X is larger than industry $Y, so they will get their way". They have to decide that the issue at hand is actually more important to them, which isn't so obvious, and that's even before you get into the fact that those industries may actually overlap.
I have to imagine if they do buy it, they'll strip it for parts. They already have AOL, which has a dated name, but not one now synonymous with horrible security. And with the redundant properties between AOL and Yahoo, I can't fathom them not wanting to consolidate those, probably into a new brand entirely.

Between AOL and Yahoo (and their own Verizon email addresses where they're an ISP), they'd have a huge portion of the world's email accounts, and I could see a push to pull an Outlook.com: Move everyone to a new service, but keep all the old legacy email addresses from older services.
Bruce Schneier.
I'm using a 2013 Macbook Air and the only website that makes it feel aged is Facebook.

Even the input boxes are poorly and awkwardly given these stupid resizing animations.
So will it be okay if wealthy elite do it individually and not as a group?
The following sentence is "Trump's election just means the threats will be much greater, and the battles a lot harder to win."

And I think that's a bunch of poppycock. The threats would be no less under a Clinton administration. The battles would be no easier.

Have we all forgotten the Clipper Chip debacle under the last Clinton administration?
This is rather cool. It seems like the research into older system line drawing symbols (towards the bottom of the document) and which fills the PUA section of the font might make a good basis for a Unicode proposal to add some of them.
I think that 1000 is also including your base calorie burn. I.e. if you sit in chair you burn 300. if you run 10 minute miles, you burn 700. Some of those calorie estimates are a bit off..
One would expect people faces with lack of cash to adopt some substitute currency. Is that happening?
Sadly, the upvote system reacts eagerly to many things that are bad for HN, e.g. indignation, snark, cynicism, sensationalism.

One can speculate about why—my theory is that it plugs into reflexive neural circuits, rather than the slower, reflective ones that make for more thoughtful reactions—but the fact itself is painfully well-established.
No one wants to pay over $4B for it.
I have been using their Cloud RAM product for a while now and haven't had any issues.
German Economist Calling Time on Capitalism
Fugitives can hide very well in the backcountry too.

And I'm not moving to a village. :)
Pyret
They will if there is competition...
Make an LLC. They are really easy. In most states you just file articles of organization to the secretary of state. The articles of organization really just say what you have for a name, what the address is, etc. There are many low-cost online services that will also do it for you, like LegalZoom.

Of course it depends a lot on your state.

If your business won't make any money, I'd certainly take that 1 employee down to 0 employees. Once you get the first employee, the tax hassles increase by a couple orders of magnitude. (Payroll taxes include income tax withholding, social security, state income tax withholding, state unemployment tax, just to name a few. It's a huge mess.)
A Star Wars Parallax with Multiple Backgrounds
I imagine Schelling saw much larger applications to this idea, where the finding people in a city was only a throwaway example for him. (For example, he talks about how it provides a basis for relatively stable agreements between groups that are at war with each other.) But it's a memorable one, and your video looked like a really fun project! It would be interesting to repeat this periodically and see how different teams do.

I enjoyed the team walking right past the other team's sign, and the clip of the knife juggler.

Edit: it's interesting that the teams in your experiment didn't exactly pursue the kind of strategy that Schelling suggested (which is basically to meet in the most "obvious" place at the most "obvious" time: maybe the city's best-known landmark at noon?). In Schelling's version of the scenario, the people trying to meet weren't necessarily allowed to write each other messages or ask strangers for help, just to decide on a (single?) time and place. With that restriction, there would be a stronger motivation to think harder about what appears "obvious". But they were still relatively successful with the approach of going to some of the most famous landmarks like Faneuil Hall, which both teams ultimately thought of.
Magical revolutionary slab of wireless aluminum. Pairing seemlessly with others magical revolutionary slab of wireless aluminum. Just put one atop the other and they will stack automatically.
remaining battery isn't like MPG though, it's more like remaining range. The trouble is computer use patterns can be way more bursty than car fuel usage in normal conditions. The nearest equivalent to spot MPG (how does what I am doing now affect endurance) would be the battery used by individual applications, and I believe that's still there.
I think there are lots of valid questions to be asked about any ambitious project and it's not wrong to ask them.

But I'm focused right now on my question, the one I just asked. What do we think the threshold is? What's the inflection point?
Cool, reposted news from three days ago.

Just as dumb today as it was then.
This makes sense though. Your MPG will drop significantly if you go up a hill or slam the accelerator down.

Similarly, Apple can't say for certain how much time is left, but it can say that the battery is low.
It's true. Installed 10.12.2 update this morning.
Sorry for that. Thanks for showing me this, I didn't know/notice.
JetBrains tools tend to be heavy

Right now, I'm using Webstorm with the Golang plugin on a 2012 13" MacBook Pro with 16GB RAM. What's so heavy about Jetbrains tools? For me, it's quite a bit more responsive than VisualStudio 2015 on a 2016 Dell Laptop with 16GB RAM and a much newer processor. (Both laptops have SATA3 SSDs.)
Sure thing!

Imagine if I had two friends, Google and Yahoo. Both are asking me if they can borrow a dollar.

Over the last few years when Google borrows a dollar it gives back an extra 3.5 cents the next year as a thank you. On the opposite side, when Yahoo has borrowed a dollar they've lost 13 cents within the next year.

Left to their own devices, Yahoo will implode and be out of money in under 7 years, likely much sooner. The $4 billion price tag was a way of salvaging what may still be valuable properties within Yahoo, but the company on paper is rapidly losing money at any valuation.

It's like asking someone to buy a car that's broken when it's unclear if they can fix it.
Oh search sure, but I thought they would get more views on things like DoubleClick ads embedded in other pages.
Tbh, this is what would let you better use systemd to manage your containers. It's a container runtime. Not an init system
I'd be more interested in hearing how yearly/monthly/quarterly reviews are conducted for different people.
Buyers don't leave feedback most of the time. You're basically looking at only buying from very high volume professional sellers. I that's ok if that's what you're looking for but I like the low volume casual sellers myself, I think they put more care into it. The only time I've ever been scammed as a buyer was when I bought from a high volume professional seller.

>other expensive and related items in their history

Is there a way to view what someone has bought now? Last I knew they got rid of showing the buyer's item on their feedback page a few years ago. Is there another place to find this information?
I'm not a fan of JetBrains products, since they are slow, hog memory, and seem to encourage people to structure their code poorly. I do like the idea of using an editor called "Go-Gland" though.