skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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https://modeanalytics.com could work for you
That doesn't mean it's not worth discussing. I could get hired to be the CEO of Ford and get a contract for a ton of money. But I'd do a poor job probably. It would be worth discussing afterward; how did this happen? Why are executive salaries so incredibly disproportionate to their impact and benefit to the company? What can be done? What should be done?
I don't know, it mentions that she had "little control" over the investments, but then goes on to explain that:

managing those investments was a key reason that Yahoo’s board hired Ms. Mayer. Mr. Loeb had accused Yahoo’s previous leaders of mishandling both their core business and the Alibaba relationship.... Ms. Mayer delegated the Alibaba issue, hiring an experienced dealmaker, Jacqueline Reses, to be the company’s principal liaison to Alibaba and its leaders, Jack Ma and Joseph Tsai. Ms. Reses helped the Chinese company navigate its initial public offering. She also renegotiated an agreement, struck just before Ms. Mayer arrived, that would have forced Yahoo to sell an additional 122 million shares in the offering. Those extra shares are now worth $15 billion.
For anybody reading this and nodding, here are a few unsoundness samples from Typescript: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14475818
strong password hashing definitely has it's place as part of overall app. security.

Where I think many/most applications would benefit from more security is in detecting/reacting to attacks.

Most apps have no controls in this line at all, and make an attackers life very easy in that they can keep trying vast numbers of attacks without being blocked by the application.

There's been some decent foundational work done on this by things like OWASP AppSensor (https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_AppSensor_Project) but I've not seen many applications actually implement the guidance...
Muh Women in Tech
Yet another crying over lack of meritocracy and propagation of women and minorytys.
Everyone giving her a hand becouse of being "woman" insted of juding on merit
read COC
Sounds more like she joined a sinking ship and it sank.
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Well they are obviously fundamental type of investors, and I have no doubts this type of investment is superior to pattern matching and chart gazing. But I see all those guys doing their pretty technical analysis charts in stocks and bitcoins and even though I think it's all BS, I wonder, is it? I mean, can you get a small edge? why would they be at it all day if it wasn't making them money?
I'm sorry to hear that.

I think a good place to start is to ask what you're passionate about. There's very often a way to turn it into a way to earn a living.
How does category wise product ranking work in e-commerce websites?
I am learning about how ranking algorithms work on various websites.
I found these resources -

Hackernews's Ranking Algorithm - https://medium.com/hacking-and-gonzo/how-hacker-news-ranking-algorithm-works-1d9b0cf2c08d

Reddit's Ranking Algorithm - https://medium.com/hacking-and-gonzo/how-reddit-ranking-algorithms-work-ef111e33d0d9

Reddit's comment Ranking Algorithm -https://redditblog.com/2009/10/15/reddits-new-comment-sorting-system

I am excited to know how category wise ranking algorithms work on e-commerce websites or websites like Quora/Pinterest/Stackoverflow.
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Omni changed my life. That Pete Turner photo on the first cover was like nothing I'd ever seen before.

No magazine since has come close to having that perfect blend of hard science, soft science, art, fiction, futurology, fun, and occasional weirdness, all wrapped up in a package with high production values.
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It isn't just the wait time, but safety. There is less to look out for when turning right vs turning left, resulting in fewer accidents. This is the same reason some employers require employees to back into a parking space when possible.
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Probably

i) a court case

ii) a judge giving a decision

iii) proper legal representation, free if needed, for everyone involved

iv) possibly "balance of probabilities" rather than "beyond all reasonable doubt".

Those things would prevent a lot of the abuse that the US Civil Forfeiture system sees.
ref https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Check-Point-Bericht-...
if you don't have the resources to interview them how can you have the resources to teach them?
As far as I remember, Yahoo was a portal first and foremost, it didn't start with a search engine. The quick googling I just did seems to confirm that, it started as a human curated directory and didn't start crawling till 2002 (and almost bought Google at that point).
From reading this (and following this vaguely), I took the following assertions:

i) MM had virtually nothing to do with tripling of stock value, that was due to ownership in Alibaba/Yahoo Japan

ii) She did not turn Yahoo around as a business and made failed acquisitions.

Yet, the article wants me to believe

iii) Nobody could have done any better in this position. She achieved the best possible outcome

If her net contribution to Yahoo as a business was 0, it seems pretty unreasonable to assert that NOBODY could have made any better acquisitions (e.g. buy Instagram, not tumble), or strategic initiatives (why focus on search?).
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Does .NET have a bad reputation for compatibility I don't know about? I thought the only breaking change was with generics in 4.0, still running programs originally compiled for 4.0 with 4.7 installed.
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Yeah but those stocks were going up regardless. I thought the only point in Yahoo existing for the past few years was trying to figure out some way to avoid tax on selling the alibaba/yahoo japan stake. Yahoo critically failed at that and when it did it got sold soon after. Not sure if this all looks good for Mayer as a good value creating leader.
There are fully automatic machines for making crowns (I have two made on such a machine), surely the process should be much the same.
Thanks a lot for your suggestion. Never heard of keras, will check it out.

Since I have a pre-set project at hand, I want to use the system first, so as per your suggestion, I'll go with keras.

However, I want to understand the system at a deeper level, purely as a curiosity.
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I noticed you skipped ME... :-)
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if you read the story it is all about knowing how to put the knowledge you have yourself but more importantly the knowledge others have to good use. Being good at something, have a skill set it, is only part of the picture. Using it effectively is an art.

I think the best part is that his company basically gave the ability to upstarts who entered the pizza business because of a consistent well developed product. That they went the distance to not toss much of their ingredients into the river speaks volumes about a man who grew up poor. You learn from that style of life that everything has value and you need to find it

so instead of concentrating on the possible loss for the engineer celebrate that someone from such an upbringing could create an industry and give work to many more engineers.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6efoqw/evaluat...
Sorry to read about your unfortunate turn of events. Regardless of what course of action you decide to take, in your situation I would seek out to find out as much as possible about the staffing, investors, connections of your competitor. If you have the funds, I would suggest hiring a PI to get as much information on your suspected founder. You could also file FOI requests on the government R&D body about the reviewers, their connections, etc, etc.

Depending on which country you are based in, there might be an option of talking to possible litigation funders. Information is power, so the more information you can acquire and the stronger the basis you will have for making unemotional decisions. Situations like this are asymmetrical. You don't engage on the lawsuits level but turn up the heat and the risk of public disclosure not only to the competitor but the connections that may have played a supporting role.
They sold it for a fortune before it sank.
Way less problems: the World Calendar
900k/week? That is 46M$ for a year.
That is 500 times more than a salary considered pretty decent in the UK tech world.

No matter who you are, what you do, that is just plain too much money to receive as a paycheck.
Un-patched for months, could Cisco 0-day lead to another round of WannaCry?
You're treating this specific case as a fundamental issue, when it's a specific and superficial one that can be reasonably addressed in a future TS release:

See for example:

- Nominal types proposal https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/202

- Co/contravariance annotations proposal https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/10717
I actually agree with the article that nobody could have done better, but they certainly could have done the same as MM for a whole lot less salary.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6epyhj/cisco_0...
There are some simplifying assumptions that may help with some of your questions:

> What would happen if he switched back to the normal 3 dimensions in the middle of the wall?

The 4D cell the player is in is clear, no matter how you rotate the world around them. The cross-sectional representation of the world can misleadingly show you things you (and light) can't reach, though.

> In miegekure everything is kind of discretized (grassy area to desert area), but in reality that would be continuous.

It's as discretized as Minecraft, but with an extra dimension. In Minecraft, you can't simply go through things, just as the Miegekure won't let you.

> What would that actually look like, for example, the area right next to the wall?

All common representations of 4D space show you a cross section or x-ray projection, which, as with such things in life, show you internal details you can't see with visible light. Unfortunately, there seem to be no realistic representations available.

> if I were sitting in an easy chair and started looking down the 4th dimension what would happen?

There's no way to answer that without knowing what you're actually sitting in. An easy chair is a 3d object and a 4D you can't sit in it.

> How does gravity work in those 3 dimensions (2 of our spatial dimensions + 1 of the hidden dimension)?

Locally, remember that gravity is pretty much just a constant force in a particular direction. That works in 4D, too. If you're looking for physics answers, the answer is that most such forces would be incredibly weakened if they dissipated in an extra dimension.

> For example, since the three dimensional projection of a hypersphere changes diameter, does that mean the 4d dimensional analogues of earth are just different size earths?

This is answered in the Matt Parker video linked to in another reply. The shape doesn't change diameter - that's just a feature of the physically unrealistic but pretty representation that's most common. It could be called a shadow or projection.

> in one of the miegekure videos the windmill in the new 3d space is like a cross section of the windmill but extending for a distance

Remember that for it to exist in miegekure, it has to be a 4d object. It is one that has been chosen to look like a windmill in a particular cross-section. In other directions, the game designer simply chose how it behaved. It is, in essence, not a windmill, but something carefully made to look like one when looked at in one particular way.
Surprising. I thought Bitcoin is classed as a commodity. So if I sell some copper for cash, or a second hand book is that considered money transmission?
Just gonna mention that N3 stands for Notation3 [0]. I'd never heard of it before, and just googling for N3 doesn't lead to any direct results.

My immediate reaction from reading about N3 is that it doesn't seem very easily approachable, especially when compared to JSON. If I type "json" on Google, the first result [1] is a fairly human-friendly spec with a huge list of implementations at the bottom. If I then type "json example" on Google, the first result takes me to a page with lots of examples [2] of JSON side-by-side with XML. In comparison, looking up Notation3 takes me to a w3 spec page for which my first reaction is to say "tl;dr", and looking up examples takes me to two pages [3] [4] which fail to immediately clarify anything.

[0] https://www.w3.org/TeamSubmission/n3/

[1] http://www.json.org

[2] http://www.json.org/example.html

[3] https://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/Examples.html

[4] https://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/Primer.html
It is not if you own the company. It is certainly too much if you are an employee.
IQ has "major flaws" too.
>> No one choose a job based on the union.

Unfortunately, that's an overreaching statement. I personally know a few people who have accepted pay cuts to leverage the type of job security afforded by certain unions.

>> How many unions in the private market can really claim you wont get fired.

Certainly none, but does it really matter? There's exists a threshold where the difference between won't get fired and very difficult to get fired are pragmatically indistinguishable.
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The linked video in the article was "removed for violating YouTube's policy on harassment and bullying." A mirror of the insanity is currently here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0IUx1XckYA
"Arguably, Yahoo was unfixable."

I really don't think so. Their product would have succeeded with a more humble and focused approach.

A generalist company like IAC/InterActiveCorp is doing fine: Yahoo too had all the assets to keep a position of relevance on the global internet.

Yahoo management was bad. That's all.
That is what I meant, yes.

If you own the company and/or properties, and get 900k per week out of it, you're family either have a lucky (or rather bloody) history or you're incredibly smart.
They could have payed roughly 500 people for 5 years with that money. Maybe one of them would have caught the bugs that led to their data breaches.

They also could have bankrolled 10 or more start-ups with that cash.

Hell, they could have spent it on blow for their workforce. At least that would have made for interesting stories.
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I know this is going to sound bitter but I could have trained a monkey to do her job. And I would have asked for only 50% of her salary.

I'm sure she thinks she did a great job and earned her position etc. By realistically I think her best assets are like any other professional CEO' s. Good at bullshitting and at golf and knowing the right ppl.

What really frustrates me is how nothing ever sticks to these guys. Lose or fail it's never their fault and they always earn their money's and bonuses.
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This and Miegekure show cross-sections or projections of a 4d space that are common but that show details that could not possibly be seen by functional 4D eyes. Are there any attempts out there at showing a 3D representation of what 4D eyes could see? (For example, if you have a solid 4D cube, you can only see the outside of it, but the cross-section shows parts of the inside, as happens you take 2D cross-sections of a 3D cube)
I would also add that there are many cryptos, that comes into play in a few ways. One major difference with traditional "money" right now is the wild price fluctuations. You can have $100 worth of a crypto one day and the next its worth $1000. In some ways that is bad, but in others it is very very good!

I am no bitcoin evangelist by any means, but I do try to see both the positive and negatives. With taxes I have a feeling in due time because of the "recorded" nature it will be even easier to track than cash. How is the government supposed to collect taxes if I sell someone a baseball card for $1000 cash? I personally would pay taxes on cash or crypto just to avoid any hassle.
I think that 2nd critique is spot on. I tried reading his paper yesterday and thought the graphs looked rather strange, with weird transitions in 2030, when he assumed all CO2 reduction efforts would stop.

Wikipedia isn't very nice to him either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjørn_Lomborg#Formal_accusatio...
Ask HN: Invest in Sailfish OS?
Currently I'm searching for a new smartphone. And at the moment there are 4 OSes left: Android, iOS, Windows and Blackberry.

A lot of app makers are dropping support for Windows, and Blackberry is already putting Android on devices, so there are only two real options left.

But I have been following Sailfish for some years and to me it looks very promissing.
Later this month Sony will add support for (all?) Xperia devices and Russia and China are also busy developing for Sailfish OS.

So I got the feeling Sailfish could become the third option in the near future.

What do you think? Could Sailfish be worth investing in?
That's not even the highest, either. Pichai makes more than double.
You didn't address OP's point:

>If her net contribution to Yahoo as a business was 0, it seems pretty unreasonably to assert that NOBODY could have made any better acquisitions (e.g. buy Instagram, not tumbler), or strategic initiatives (why focus on search?).
I always grin when I read articles where she talks about her work ethic and 12-14 hour work days. Whether she ultimately did anything, it does not matter. Most likely she added very little operational value.

She was paid well, but ultimately, was put in place by activist investors to sell off the thing and not rock the boat too much.
> Likewise a picture of a sleeping person may look like a dead person. Stop with the pictures of dead people all over the place already!

I think a more accurate equivalent would be a widespread trend of depictions (pictures/tattoos) of people doing everyday activities with their eyes closed: surfing, winning awards, at the Eiffel tower, etc. That would certainly bother me because that is not the usual state for a waking person's eyes.

Edit: L'esprit de l'escalier moment - I should have used the arms-crossed-over-chest corpse-pose rather than eyes closed. Sometimes people assume that posture while living, but I mostly associate it with dead bodies prepared for burial.
These choices are fundamental to the language as it was designed. There's nothing more fundamental than how variance works.

Want to bet that in 2 years from now we are still going to talk about the same language with the same issues, and that those two proposals are going to be rejected?
Nobody could have done any better in this position. She achieved the best possible outcome

Her plan was to bring back the glory days, back in the first internet land rush in the nineties, when Yahoo was one of the true giants of the Valley. She wanted to put it back where it had been, on par with Google and Amazon. But it didn't work. Could it have worked? Hard to say. I doubt anyone really knows. But it didn't.

I don't think she deserves a lot of credit for that. For tens of millions of dollars a year we should expect success, damn it, not a valiant effort.

The alternative would have been consolidation. Shut down all the stuff that's losing money. Sell off everything that is working but doesn't really fit. Focus on the stuff that's working, like Yahoo finance and sports reporting. The result would have been a coherent media company that could make real money. But it would have been a distant shadow of what Yahoo once was.
Eat the tich comrade.
I guess so. I'd expect no different from any other CEO.
It isn't clear that the salaries are in fact disproportionate. The article makes the case that there were many mistakes, but that it's hard to say if anyone else could've done better. And the shareholders did end up making a lot of money.

I'm not sure anything should be done here. The shareholders chose to pay a lot to get her as CEO. Even if they lost out, it's not a reason to intervene. People make bad bets all the time.
Out of curiosity, what is the known highest salary for a tech-type employee? (dev, sysadmin sre, whatever) You know, those whom without tech companies tend to sink.
So you are against exploitation, yet you add a "but"? Who cares if someone else can do the job pretty readily. Anyone can be a prostitute or stripper (yeah, I know, looks and all). Some folks would argue that a 17 year old might do it better, but that's no excuse for exploitation.

"If people's regular jobs paid a "living wage", people wouldn't have to Uber, but it's how the world works."
Just because some folks have to do it to get by doesn't make it right or desirable. If we can do things as a society so that people don't have to Uber just to get by - and we aren't doing it - we as a society are horrible people. And that is more where we are at now.
Do unions work differently in the US? Because I am pretty sure that while you can't get fired for being in a union (or strike action), you can get fired for every other reason you could get fired for.
You should look up the NTPC chairman's explanation for why average PLF runs below 75%.

Apparently, the transmission & distribution network for evacuation is overburdened already. This results in plants running below their rated capacities.
In what way don't they use namespaces? It's object oriented using a lisp system (hence arbitrary macro support for lexical and dynamic scoping). Each service object would track its own processes.
Or ~100 highly qualified principal engineers.
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> No matter who you are, what you do, that is just plain too much money to receive as a paycheck.

Why? Because you say so? This is dangerous thinking.
> You are not answering. You still (3rd time I point this out) haven't replied to the majority of what I wrote in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14442878 where I explain the utility of Bitcoin, legal protections, and 0-confirmation transactions. Should I take your silence as tacit acknowlegement?

You're link goes to some random comment in an unrelated thread, so I've no idea what you're talking about. The legal system is great when you can identify a thief, but that's difficult enough for in-person theft; it's virtually impossible when operating pseudonymously over the Internet. As for 0-confirmation transactions, the bottom line that no amount of sophistry will get away from is that 0% of the shops I've been to in the real world that take bitcoin allow payment in seconds, whereas 100% of the visa-accepting ones do.

> for example a small corner store, which I am sure you will agree should not be valued at a P/E of 20.

Huh? It absolutely should be; that's exactly what a P/E of 20 being normal for mature businesses means.

> Bitcoin has a 8+ year history of never reversing transactions despite many massive thefts. So, as I said, Bitcoin's irreversible property has no equivalent in other financial systems. And you were wrong that RTGS systems provide irreversibility.

I'm sure there'll be examples of RTGS systems that have gone just as long with no reversed transactions, especially if you measure by transaction volume rather than clock time.

More importantly there's no fundamental difference between Bitcoin and Ethereum that makes it impossible for the same thing to happen; indeed the 0.8 (I think?) hard fork demonstrates that the level of coordination that would be necessary to reverse a transaction already exists. The only difference from conventional RTGS is policy; Bitcoin's operators doesn't reverse fraud, whereas it sounds like some RTGS operators do. I'm not sure why any non-fraudulent business would prefer the former.