skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes perfect sense if you look at it from the perspective of deliberate ship sinking.
Fine, but I was more concerned with the text of the link, not the destination.
You mean it has two slots but only one module? That's great news if so, it means I can just buy the 16 GB model and upgrade later, if/when I need the 32 GB (possibly replacing both modules).
>I truly wonder if those companies would opt to just leave their staff in India, and to hire mostly just customer-facing support types here otherwise.

It's already much cheaper to employ someone in India than to pay that person in the US. The only reason they are using H-1B employees based in the US, is that some companies that are contracting Infosys and Tata want US based employees.
> Because the tech industry is something with a fairly long lag between demand & supply, the best case scenario is that the wages go up all around & hopefully that is spent in the US, instead of hoarded for a princely return to India.

For that, employment based immigration needs to be addressed. Ideally, one should be able to self-petition to immigrate after a few years legally working in the USA.
Jobs set for huge 2017 pay rises (Australia)
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> had to cheat to pass inspection

What, VW bribed the comission? FBI should arrest them too..
I do as well. As outlined in The Halo Effect, people want very tidy, clean, and rational reasons why a company failed. Blame must be specifically laid somewhere. However, there's a pretty good chance no one available could have saved the demise of Yahoo. Variance is a thing.
I think there is absolutely no indication that anybody, other than Jesus Christ himself descending from the skies mounted on a Harley Davidson in flames, could have saved Yahoo.

So, bashing Marissa here would be really, really pointless and sad.
Why would one need to mention numeric arrays? Lisp has all the usual capabilities in this area, and with a little effort is as fast as C, sometime faster. See stats comments elsewhere in this thread.
Was Marissa Mayer expected to stay with the investment company, move over to Verizon with the Yahoo property, or leave entirely?
I wish there was a real alternative to search. I use DuckDuckGo, but I believe they run on AWS and purchase index data from Yandex et. al.

At this point, is it even feasible for anyone to enter the general search market, or has Google simply set the barrier to entry too high? Are there any niche search engines that focus on things Google has either removed or doesn't index? Are there other alternatives besides DDG, StartPage, Yandex and Bing?
Ask HN: If you are to start a project today, what would be your stack?
I had this legacy app with a mesh of jquery, boostrap and php. Moved things to use django a year ago. Recently moved the frontend to use Vue.js. While moving things, I am always confronted on what is the 'current' way of doing things. Was curious to know what people would use if they started today.
Exactly. I am in Arkansas, $100k is crazy, only a director of a big department can make this kind of money.
It has been registered for 15 years but it looks like it was purchased by Yahoo within the last three months:

Creation Date: 2001-10-09T04:22:42-0700

Updated Date: 2016-10-25T09:47:51-0700

Appears to have previously been owned by a Barcelona-based furniture supplier:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site:altaba.com

who are now on altaba.cat.

But the new owners have quickly modified the robots.txt and hence locked-out public access on archive.org
Yahoo Japan is a separate entity. Yahoo (Altaba) is a minority shareholder (35.5%).

Of course, the Yahoo brand in general has value elsewhere too, but I don't think this meaning Yahoo Japan will be rebranding.
> The proposed legislation would increase required salaries for positions granted under the H-1B scheme that replace American workers from $60,000 to $100,000 per year.

Big whoop.

There are (three?) big players that are heavily outsourcing folks at "client sites". Ideally, H1Bs should be relatively easy to get for the first ones – after all, many companies have a legitimate need to bring in specialized labor from abroad. Then tack an exponential difficulty curve per company.

This way, a startup would be able to recruit a very talented individual from abroad. But big corps wouldn't be able to layoff and replace their workforce.
"In light of the fact that following the Closing the Company will operate as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940" - this is why. It will let Verizon save billions of dollars on Alibaba stock if it can get Yahoo out of the way.

http://fortune.com/2016/02/08/verizon-yahoo-alibaba-taxes/
Skilled being the key word
He remembers 2007, when he won the big one
I don't think this is finished yet. The paper is very complex, and not completely checked yet. Other issues will possibly arise. That's part of any large maths proof.
The real world is always more complicated, since cps carries stack in its arguments.
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I believe this is part of it https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.06344v4.pdf
now it might be!
Travel batteries for charging phones. Not necessarily all that cool anymore but highly useful nonetheless. I've accumulated about half a dozen of these bad boys, and I give them away to friends and colleagues. It's kind of viral.
Whether There’s a Multiverse or Not, Judaism Can Take It
So they show that a graphene gyroid structure could be quite strong compressively. Now, the challenge is actually make such a structure. Making a template for graphene to grow on like this is bound to be quite challenging, minimizing the amount of defects in such structure even more so!
Well, at least they registered Altaba.com. No IP address as of now, though it looks like their mail is handled by Google Apps!
Here's a blog post with a little more technical information:
http://www.physicscentral.com/buzz/blog/index.cfm?postid=822...

Link to the paper: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.11...

Also, A less click-baity title might be "Uni. of Alberta researchers discover the physical process behind negative differential resistance."
I don't really mind people failing.

I do think there's something wrong with someone earning massive amounts of money to fail and then everyone saying, "Oh well, anyone would have failed in that role."

Why pay someone huge sums of money if failure is the expected outcome?
Why Must there be one "correct" view of the comments on a document? This insistence seems to be what hobbles us.

People will disagree on what is or isn't worth reading. That's fine. We should see the problem as sorting comments per viewer, not for all viewers.

If 10 of my close friends think a comment is worth reading, then I personally would like to read it. It doesn't matter what the moderator or a quoroum of random internet people think at that point.

We should be using the social graph to filter out nonsense, and to surface constant that we are likely to enjoy.

If anyone is interested, I've written code to do this here:

https://github.com/neyer/respect
I fixed the typo in your question: "With Linux, do we really need windows anymore?"
> Then there are the embarrassing things like I couldn't find the shortcut to go to the end of the current line. On Linux it's the End key - on Mac I assume it's some combination somewhere.

Crt+a. Every emacs shortcuts work everywhere in MacOS.
Under US form of government, it is not permitted to have multiple overlapping anarchist legal orders, unless the system was radically reformed.
Is Humanism Really Humane?
I use this laptop. Suspend and resume work just fine, and resuming from hibernation, if you go the Windows route, is still <5s, thanks to the NVMe drive.

Wifi and Bluetooth work just fine. Yet to have an issue.

I drive a 4K Dell screen via a Kensington dock - this is a nice solution, one USB-C connector into the laptop, supplies power, and gives me Ethernet, 4k60 DP (which also allows chaining, but I haven't tried that, yet).
Honest question, why not?

Are you better than lions? Are you better than sharks? Are you better than the bacteria in your guts? They all are pretty successful.

Humans are so arrogant.
Frequent sender of such E-mails chiming in here:

Often when there is a response expectation, I'll explicitly say so in the subject, so that if you're scanning your E-mails it will stick out. Will also specify my default assumption should you not respond. I like to be super clear. Company culture is the product of the people who participate in company culture.

SUBJ: [Reply needed by 5PM] Deadline for project approval approaching

(somewhere in body): Blah, blah, blah. If I do not hear back, I will assume we will go forward with the project.
They did merge it with Stash, though, didn't they?
I'd like to imagine the multi-billionaire has taken a nostalgic moment out to reminisce, but I doubt he will be too cut up :-)
This is obviously an opinion piece disguised as a scholarly article. I'm not sure what the hidden agenda is, and the HN comments don't clarify matters much.

For example, this nonsense statement reveals the author's bias: "Clojure is a rising star language in the modern software development community." Huh?
>they are above the 90th percentile of pay for that role

The problem with that is that companies will do what they are doing now. Give people titles for lower wage jobs (support, QA etc...) pay them the 90% for the lower wage job, and have them perform the duties of the higher wage job.
Not many options left for exchange scholars beyond the extension of J visas now. It'll have some impact on science output in the US.
Can you remove the restraint of trade so you can H1-B a president?
>Why pay someone huge sums of money if failure is the expected outcome?

Because all big C-level positions work this way? Doesn't make it a good idea, or even rational. But humans are of the rationalizing type, not actual rational beings.
It's going to take a couple of years for it to be realistically usable day to day, but I have some faith in the distributed search. http://yacy.net/en/index.html

In a long run, but only is personal storage going to allow this easily, but our searches are usually pretty limited in scope. I could resolve ~90% of my queries with indexes of SO, cooking websites, very limited number of blogs, documentation of standard libraries of a few languages. This would even fit on my phone right now.
Well there, you said it yourself. There were tariffs causing a market distortion at play. People were already making money off of that, and acted to protect it. That's not the only Malthusian disaster the world has faced.
Does this mean that my email addresses will change to "@altaba.com"?
In theory that sounds good... In practice does the wage difference go directly to the companies who manage the H-1B employees? It's not like they would pass that on...
I want to echo on your message and also to thank you for contributing with a positive comment and not with a harsh one like most people often do.

I remember a few years ago when some of the stuff that Marissa was doing to reshape Yahoo's internal structure were being looked with good eyes and were being replicated in other companies (Bringing in remote people, focusing on some products, etc.) I guess we can all agree that in the end she didn't do the best job but maybe no one else could've done it differently. No way to know now.
Yes, this I have in plan (e.g. best of week/month). But for this I need enough quality content and users.
Are Your Sales Less Than Ideal? You Might Have a Product Marketing Problem
Are the Cloud's Days Numbered?
Let's do away with excessive scorn for failed CEOs and excessive adulation for successful CEOs.

There's a lot of randomness in business and in life.
I suppose, there's a huge responsibility coming with that role, and you also know your name will be stained forever. But it's something somebody has to do.
Last year XP15 (8gb) model has two 4gb sticks inside. Still, two easily accessible slots.
The studio is based in/near Northern Vancouver Island wilderness. How cool is that?
> It is the other that needs to reach our level, not the other way around.

Funny you say this, because most of the people in "shit-hole" America would think exactly the same of you.
There are five other countries on the Baltic Sea for whom that is their only ocean access, Russia's northern ports may not be open year round, and their Black Sea ports are behind the straits of Bosporus, Dardanelles, and Gibraltar.

Sweden and Turkey can both make naval operations more difficult and expensive for Russia, particularly those operations it might prefer to keep secret. Switzerland isn't exactly a place you might ordinarily want to go through on your way to somewhere else, unless you really like climbing over mountains (or digging under them). Militarily, it's almost always easier to go around Switzerland than through it. So you would only ever attack Switzerland if they, specifically, had something that you wanted, or were threatening your flanks or rear.

Sweden-Denmark, Egypt, Panama, and Turkey, and to lesser extents, Malaysia, Canada, and Spain-Morocco-Gibraltar all preside over strategic bottlenecks to aquatic vessels. They have huge strategic value.
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Changing a company name is one thing. Google did the same, essentially, with the formation of Alphabet. But please, dear God, don't tell me they are changing their domain. It's like the Eddie Murphy joke about falling down the stairs - for what seems like an eternity. ["My shoe!"]

It's hard to believe what's become of the mighty Y! brand.
I wonder if the $100k would apply to academic H1B's too. If so, that's pretty much the end of those.
I'm guessing the brand doesn't need to change.
"It's already much cheaper to employ someone in India than to pay that person in the US."

Agreed, but there might be advantages to having someone in the US.

Given a 'major change' it's not entirely unfeasible that these companies do a re-structuring, i.e. using a different customer engagement model (1 customer-facing American + more staff in India) and leverage more 'remote' style technology.

Also - remember that these companies may have been billing those staff out, so 'more cost' = 'more revenue' for them.

Anyhow - I just don't think it's so simple, and I'm not sure that just upping the threshold will work. Granted, $60K is too low.

It'd be nice to have the number set to be commensurate with specific people in specific fields, as measured by various things, i.e. 'tied to an index' so that as the economy does better, companies can bring in more people, but if things start to tighten, the H1's tighten as well.
This isn't in line what what others photographers (including myself) see.

Many respectable sources estimate 35mm to approach 24MP in the best conditions with specific film, 120 to be in the 40-80MP range, and 4x5 to be 100-300MP.

Tim Parkin is one of the better commentators on this subject: http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/sony-36-megapixels-vs-6x7-vel...

To address some of your other points: good LF glass can approach 70/70/50 line pairs per mm which is still really good, diffraction doesn't affect resolution as much as some people think, and f11-f16 is the sweet spot on a lot of modern LF glass - you don't need long exposures with those apertures and Portra 400, for example.
Taiga, Gitlab, ...
What I miss about Yahoo! in the early days was explorability. Many sites were categorized. You could browse a category or find a site you liked and explore from there.
I think there's a big misconception here on this thread, thanks to the poorly written WSJ blog post. Rep. Issa's bill only applies to companies which have more than 15% of their workforce of 50 or more on visas. That number is calibrated to affect outsourcing companies like Infosys, TCS, HCL, etc. So, while it's fun to jump on the "foreigners shouldn't work in America" bandwagon on this thread, this bill is not what you are looking for.

https://www.americanbazaaronline.com/2017/01/06/new-h-1b-vis...

However, Rep. Zoe Lofgren's bill is a little different and does two things, replace lottery by a bidding type system and eliminate country caps, which, by introducing an artificial 8-12 year wait time for Indians, makes even non-outsourcing company employees de facto indentured labor. (So, if you are one of five experts in the world on say, mining safety, you still have to wait 10 years for a permanent residency just by virtue of where you were born.)
Altabax is a skin cream for bacterial infections.
They can. It's harder than what it would be for a permanent resident, but they can, as there is a grace period.

Maybe you are thinking of L1?
I think of alien abduction stories and related horror fiction as our species' fear of someone else doing to us what we do to animals in factory farms.
Yahoo to Change Name to Altaba
link for the lazy: https://www.dropbox.com/s/tgarynpj65ouafd/insta-logo.png?dl=...

By the way, anyone who can display it (all my nice monitors aren't with me at the moment) can you see it on this imgur link? http://i.imgur.com/qCna54M.png
I think back to Gillard and Australia. I liked her as a PM and felt that the reason she didn't make it is she simply wasn't heartless and evil enough to fight in that chaotic, insane and corrupt political environment. Abbott was and Rudd..ugh..something something party implosion; whatever.

It has nothing to do with her being a women. There just aren't many people who can put up with that endless rubbish.

With Yahoo, you have to give her credit. She has been there for a while and has attempted quite a bit. Saving Yahoo was going to be a totally chance attempt, as its competitors are crushing it in ... everything. From the surface it looked like she was in a better environment overall as well (compared to my Aussie politics stretching example anyway).

I think a company like Yahoo could have, and may still turn itself around. AOL did, mostly by investing itself in news and editorial sites. Maybe Verizon will be able to do something with their data, customers and brand -- and maybe like AOL we won't even realize they're the company owning the articles we're reading or the services we're using.
Why'd she do it then? Got paid a lot, that's for damn sure. $219M over 4 years.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/25/technology/marissa-mayer-pay...
Alt-Tab-Away?
I wondered if it was related to Alibaba, which has been closely linked with Yahoo.
But the point isn't that they dumbed it down. It's that the crux of their argument is basically, "You should be able to track the stolen emails." Which is fundamentally not true.

Easy example:

1. Download emails via IMAP
2. Disconnect from Tor
3. Copy emails via FTP to wherever

#1 and #3 have different IP addresses and TCP connections. The whole "packet number" thing is just ludicrous--that's not how the Force works!

There are of course lots of details here about potentially piercing Tor with traffic analysis and compromised onion routers, etc, etc. But their description of how the system works and why the NSA should definitely be able to give 100% attribution is literally wrong. It's not a simplification--it's just literally not how the code works.
Mayer to Leave Yahoo Board After Sale to Verizon
Great article. Question not directly related to your writeup: in your casual usage of a phone/photo app with the new, wider color space, do you notice a difference in your experience of using the app/looking at images? Or, in other words, does the wider color space feel at all different?
I figured it is pronounced "alt tabba"; it's so handy that you keep it an alt-tab away.

Perhaps Ogden Nash wrote a poem about it?
In an alternate universe, Altaba Inc propably translates to Detroit Online. Once the center of The Web, now a shrinking core surrounded by blight.
The 90's called. They want their poker strategy back.

Poker is not about reading your opponents "tells". That is a myth perpetuated by Hollywood and ... professional poker players.

While there definitely could be some value in using psychological manipulation to best your "live" opponent, gaining some advantage via a physical tell is a crap shoot at best except against the absolute worst players or the biggest mark.
I've never seen sys-admins verify security of dependencies outside of the major dependencies (like the language VM version). Security wise they have been much more concerned with the security of data storage systems (databases, elastic search, etc...), the operating system, and the network in general.

Security of the application is very much so responsibility of developers, not system admins, as the developers have the best point of view to understand the implications of the software they are developing/integrating with.

If there are routine violations of security at the application level that aren't being caught by developers working with those systems then the company as a whole needs to sit down and make sure the development teams have the proper security procedures in place, because putting a department in charge of security that has all accountability but no power to remedy the situation is a recipe for political fights between departments and a disaster. Proper code reviews and team leads with experience should be able to catch more security issues than sysadmins will.

If your sysadmins are in charge of security review of the application then they have to be in charge of security review of every low level dependency at the individual package level. Otherwise your developers won't think about it because it's not their problem (IT will review and let me know if anythings bad) and it encourages them to lack accountability of the security of their own software.
I recently bailed from bitbucket when they stopped allowing me to log in without making an Atlassian account.

I remain a happy trello user until that happens to your product as well!
You can only edit a post for up to an hour after you've posted it.
You are looking at the extrinsic value of a pig, but when it comes to ethics, you should look at its intrinsic value.

A pig wants to live just like a dog does. They want to avoid pain and suffering just like a dog does. They seek comfort just like dogs. The fact that they were bred for a certain human purpose, doesn't change any of that.
> How is that comment anything but a refusal to move on unless some magic tradeoff free solution appears?

A programming language design is the combination of a set of features. The hard part in designing a language is working out how all these features interact with each other.

For example, one feature of Go is that every type has a default value (0 for decimals, nil for pointers, empty string for strings, etc.). This property leads to the inability to include algebraic data types cleanly. To see this, consider this simple ADT (in Haskell syntax):

data Either a b = Left a | Right b

What's the default type here? It could be "Left(default-value-of-a)" or "Right(default-value-of-b)". You could introduce additional syntax to define the default value, but that increases complexity. You could introduce a rule how the default value is inferred in these cases, but that goes against the Rule of Least Surprise. You could remove the "default value for every type" feature that clashes with ADTs, but that causes problems elsewhere. Therefore Golang lacks ADTs and uses pointers and multiple return values instead.
Ok, I didn't see that coming. Dell building a better Macbook Pro than Apple :-). I wonder how their high DPI support will compare with other Linux distros.

If the durability is up there with the Thinkpad series of old I could see replacing my current machine with one of these.
Golang, Vuejs, Redis, and Mysql
I wonder what's going to happen to Flickr. I still haven't found a replacement place to host my pictures that I want to show off to others.
Really, a senior dev can't make $100k with bonuses? You should come to Atlanta. Only about a 15% higher cost of living than Little Rock, and you can definitely make $100k as a senior developer.