skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a large public corporation usually a clear majority of shares are held as pure investment by big institutional investors like pension companies. Their goal is to turn a small amount of money into a large amount of money without too much risk. So they have no reason to block this sort of deal.

Moreover, such companies are often desperate to minimise overheads on operations. Once upon a time they'd employ dozens of specialists, now they're relying on computer models as much as possible to reduce costs and don't much care about what's actually driving the price changes that the model is looking at.

Boards at big companies actually now know this. Suppose you're the board of a big corp and you'd like $10M each even though you didn't do a good job? Just write up paperwork saying you propose that you get paid $10M extra each because of diddly-dee, put it up for a vote by shareholders with a recommendation that they vote "Yes". A few smaller shareholders are paying attention, they'll vote "No". The big institutions are entirely on auto-pilot, and will follow your "Yes" recommendation, your vote passes, you now get $10M with no effort. Giving the board a pile of money for no reason might bankrupt the company. Not your problem, the shareholders voted for it.

For the pension company making your shareholders $10 and then asking for $1 to cover overheads from actual specialists (10%) is seen as worse than making your shareholders $8 and then asking for 10¢ to cover overheads from a few pencil pushers (1.25%) even though in the first scenario the shareholder kept $9 and in the second they only got $7.90. Nobody wants to pay 10%. The result was foreseeable but it's hard to say if it could have been prevented.

The Red Hat board will recommend shareholders accept the offer. Big institutions will (and in this case in my opinion quite rightly) automatically agree and so it doesn't matter what a handful of small private shareholders do.
> I think it should also be a requirement to show a state or federal ID before you can cast your vote. I'm always floored when people try to defend voting without requiring any kind of identity verification. In Puerto Rico you're required to register ahead of time for a voter ID and you must present it in order to vote. If Puerto Rico, which is drastically poorer than all 50 states, can pull this off without it being considered a problem then I find it really hard to take seriously the claims of people saying it sets too high of a bar.

The problem is that the state and federal ID system is so fucked up that it disenfranchises voters. Until that system is fixed, you can't use it for voting.

This issue then becomes a partisan one because voter fraud is so rare that it doesn't seem to need any additions, so strong pushes for voter ID laws (which almost never address the issue of the ID systems) are targeting those who are less likely to have ID, which tends to be concentrated with voting for one party. If anyone actually cared about voter ID laws for non-partisan reasons, it would go hand in hand with a national ID system.
> The only other option is not to give them loans at all

That seems like a perfectly reasonable position to take - don’t give loans to people who don’t qualify for them.
Are these services free?

We currently test Rust under qemu-system for FreeBSD and have no real good solution for OpenBSD and DragonflyBSD. It would be very interesting for us to do "native" testing.
If you mean Myhill, her studies haven't been replicated. More recent studies have shown similar mitochondrial ATP between patients and controls.

http://www.biochemsoctrans.org/content/early/2018/04/16/BST2...
Left CentOS about 4 years ago for Ubuntu, never looked back. Debian is a better system, Ubuntu is a very nice consistent distro. You should check out Proxmox, also debian based, very nice alternative for containers in small-medium deploys. Cheers and open-source on!
EDIT: AGAIN down voted for no good reason! Is this automatic? How does this work? Cheerio, will log off for another six months, if anybody can suggest another real hacker's forum I'd be very grateful! TIA
ofc you realise that one of the major contributors to the Kubernetes ecosystem is Redhat.

So IBM now control key elements of k8s setups like etcd (a CoreOS project, ergo a Redhat Project, ergo an IBM project)
It's funny how banks are liberal to give Million dollars loans to someone who has no "official" income. Sounds like there might be a bubble there.

> The only other option is not to give them loans at all even if they put up a high down payment.

Yeah, I don't see the problem with this.
50% premium on stock price, or $10B+ of extra money
I do not feel safe sharing a bike path with a guy with zero handling skills on a heavy ass bike. What is so hard to get?
no, but most cloud providers are not opensourcing their contributions to linux.
It's not the next bus, it's the number of buses going the other way, which will on average be greater than 0.5 by the same reasoning given in the article.

It's also possible for the result to be biased because of scheduling. If inbound buses pass every 10 minutes at 16.00, 16.10, 16.20,... and outbound buses at 16.01, 16.11, 16.21, ... you'll usually see an inbound bus first. Though I expect this was not the case here.
NixOS due to its excellent community and quality.
> It will be interesting to know what those areas are.

JBoss vs WAS will be a major thing where they are most directly competing. Java, especially in its EE incarnation, is not so hot on HN but massively important in the enterprise.
IBM will acquire Red Hat for $34B
Sure, require ID; but it must be freely available and easily accessible, and states which end up with different ID takeup rates for different races should be prosecuted.
This feels like Sears buying KMart - One ailing firm buying another in the hopes that scale will fix everything...
So...how does this - if at all - impact linux (running smoothly) on thinkpads? From what i hear, beyond the normal open source contributors, numerous redhat engineers contribute towards fundamental device drivers for the thinpad platform of laptops...which, as i undestand it, why linux distros run soooo smoothly on for example my thinkpad t420. Perhaps my thought is selfish, but i love me some thinkpads - specifically because they run linux sooo nicely. So, will ibm force these guys to focus on other stuff? Or, am i worried for nothing?
Which went up because.... it's now seen as an acquisition target as well?

Edit; ah sorry I didn't know...
To be fair, a bunch of the latter ones are fairly specific. roughly:

POWERx: IBMs CPU architecture

VAR - value added reseller: if you're to small to talk to an enterprise vendor directly, or want a mix of stuff, you buy from them. (the "value added" bit is that ideally they sell you setup or other services in combination)

CUoD - Capacity Upgrade on Demand: IBM will sell you a server with more CPUs and memory than you paid for. If you then need more, you can buy a license key to temporarily or permanently turn on the extra hardware that's already in your server

HMC - Hardware Management Console: Terminal/interface you use to configure the server and the firmware.

LPAR - Logical PARtition: POWER systems have a hypervisor at the firmware (and to a degree hardware) level. the "virtual machines" you create on it are called LPARs.

OpenPOWER: IBMs effort to make POWER CPUs and surrounding hard- and software more open (partially sharing designs with partners, partially open sourcing)
I am having a feeling that Dell might buy Canonical soon.
I'm curious to know more. But I also think it's important not to paint all meditation with the same brush. Transcendental Meditation® is it's own weird thing.
I'm not in agreement about violence being the answer, but when the democracy has already been subverted, democratic action is very unlikely to be possible to fix it. It's then a populist power struggle that usually leads to violence. No one in the US government these days actually does much more than lip service to the idea of democracy, and we have long been going away from direct democracy for quite some time. The regularity that public opinion mismatches policy actions is staggering, and the amount of pressure of disagreement it takes to stop an unpopular policy is crazy.
Andrew Ng's course definitely requires some linear algebra knowledge, and explains how things work under the hood.
Same goes for fast.ai

I think even that level of knowledge is not always necessary. Often, just having the intuitive understanding can be enough to get great results e.g: understand that this is a black box that takes features in, predicts things, and you have to help it by giving good features; or understand that word2vec builds vector representations based on words that co-occur in the same context.
Microsoft and IBM Partner with Red Hat: Why You Should Care
The problem being that forked projects rarely get much traction. Look at Devuan. Only the very hard core Debian fanboys moved over. Sure, it's nice not having systemd, but the project will never have the user base and developer support that its parent project enjoys. Maybe, though, with RH being bought out, people will take a second look. I've always favoured Debian over RH for servers, as the upgrade path is dead simple and almost always works. RH/CentOS is a tough row to hoe in this regard comparitively.
Jersey worn by Mikel in 2018 World Cup has been added to the FIFA museum
The boilerplate and vague statement of Red Hat remaining a distinct unit doesn't really tell us anything. More relevant is what the CentOS and Fedora communities think of this acquisition, because no matter what they are community driven projects.

There are two coins to toss: whether IBM reaches into Red Hat in a way that kills off either project; and whether enough of the community steps out.

I'm curious what openSUSE folks think of SUSE having been acquired by Novel, then Attachmate, and then the Micro Focus merger. They've been through a lot, and openSUSE is still here.
I'd rathe someone take another shot at service management.

I don't want to hold onto everything about SysV style systems - I love SMF in Solaris! - but I'd definitely prefer a leaner and more focused approach to development than we see with systemd.
IBM buys Linux giant Red Hat to thrive in the cloud
Personally, if a service crashes, I want it to stay dead. Otherwise it's less likely to get fixed.
The Mind Illuminated by John Yates (aka Culadasa) helped me a lot on how to structure my practice and how to deal with specific issues arising during meditation. I also find it quite well-written.
I don't see the previous comment as recommending bloodshed.

I do see it warning that it's a possible outcome.

As for technical solutions - paper ballots make this a solved problem, albeit a labour-intensive one. (How much effort is democracy worth?)

The idea that vote counting contracts should ever have been be handed to contractors *who fund specific political parties and have been indicted for bribery and other criminal acts" is almost surreal in its aggressive disdain for verifiable electoral fairness.

https://columbusfreepress.com/article/diebold-indicted-its-s...

https://www.accesswire.com/471912/Voting-Technology-Companie...
You bring up edge case after edge case. Yeah, -35C isn’t cycling weather but it’s also not something that most people who use cold as an excuse not to cycle to work ever experience on their commute. Most don’t transport sensitive musical equipment either. Or work somewhere they can’t hang a wet jacket.

There are circumstances where your arguments apply, but they’re none of the typical situations encountered by most people who are making excuses why they “can’t” cycle.
Defeting aws not ms. And projects like ansible and cloud formation / manage iq are the weapons
It was there a long time back. Sensible people tune out when vendors announce partnerships, but the deals Red Hat made with Microsoft and IBM during May 2018 were significant and push forward Red Hat's ambitions to dominate cloud platform software, as well as driving containers and Kubernetes into the mainstream. And today the announcement was kinda proof.
If you are playing games and learning to code, you are not bored and definitely not the type of young men I was talking about.
You would at least be able to say: No, we won't train an LSTM on 5000 datapoints (unless there's some heavy transfer learning going on).

Once you get your hands dirty, and need to debug unexpected issues, understanding what happens under the hood becomes more important.
”sat through a presentation on why I should file patents”

Some years ago, I worked for Red Hat. I remember them saying the same thing about patents. There was even some kind of reward scheme if you filed one with your name on it.

(in hindsight, I guess I should have held on to those employee stock options!)
A ticket for tracking the incident (with posts to graphs, alerts, other tickets and so on - what you use slack for) + conference bridge for live discussion focused on restoring availability is what I personally like.

As long as you keep it technical and kick the salespeople out of it, the conference call is very useful tool to keep people focused on mitigating the problem ASAP instead of spending time looking for the root cause (ex: restarting the application/reverting the bad commit instead of fixing a bug, creating a new build and pushing it through).

If the issue is not killing the company you can chat about it, sure, feel free to use the tool you feel most comfortable with. If we are in a "the site is down" situation though chatting is too slow (and I always promise the SWEs I will insta-revert their last deployment when that happens until I find a good one, though I rarely do so), and talking keeps your hands free.
I seriously wonder who is still left at oracle who actually cares about technology and pushing it forward, instead of using it as a tool to squeeze money.

Most competent Sun people have left oracle and are onto greener pastures.
This is a massive cash expenditure. IBM's biggest bet to be back into the cloud game. Given the amount of cash involved this might be IBM's last card, at least from an M&A perspective, so this deal needs to work.

RedHat is much smaller than IBM, however far better managed with a clear product roadmap, lean sales and customer support. In a good scenario a reverse takeover will take place and RedHat management will take control and lead new IBM to a better future, however this is very unlikely.

IMO: This is great for RedHat shareholders, terrible for the new IBM co...
>Why is it so taboo to talk about the fact that a significant portion of the political ruling class is eager to actively subvert democracy, no matter what technical solutions are available?

I get called a conspiracy nut for talking about this. Neither Republicans or Democrats really give even the slightest of care towards election integrity. What have the Republicans or Democrats done to actively try to fix anything? Republicans prefer to not talk about it at all, Democrats love to talk about how they're for election integrity but do nothing about it. Democrats even conveniently purged voters in Brooklyn just in time for Bernie vs Hillary primary and were sued for it [1].

Almost none of the ruling class cares. Only maybe 3 or 4 senators, congress, actually care. If you let the people actually vote and participate in Democracy, those people might stop being part of the ruling class and money may actually start trickling down.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/new-york-city-boa...
I wouldn't call the GitHub+Microsoft acquisition response "overwhelmingly positive".
The problem are 5 seat vehicles with an average of less than 2 people in them: waste of infrastructure, fuel, insurance, parking space, the environment, time...

Which is good if you sell cars, insurance or fuel. If you can be even more wasteful with a SUV or a pickup truck even better.

In this regard, Clive Sinclair was ahead of his time with the Sinclair C5, a personal electric vehicle created in 1985. I wonder what a reimagined version of this vehicle would look in 2018.
The whole point of these devices is data harvesting. The Times op-ed last September titled These Are Not The Robots We Were Promised [0] covers the discrepancy between our expectations of personal assistants and the reality they came to be.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/09/opinion/sunday/household-...
Not that cheap cheaper than a car yes but you are looking at £4 -5 k for a Vespa - 1 or 2 less for a lesser brand with worse handling.

The problem you have with 300cc scooters in particular the 300GTS is thieving scrotes nick them for moped based crime.
The person’s life story was the point.
How would you feel about having a taser in a collar at the base of yours (and everyone's) neck? It only gets turned on by the authorities if they see a crime in progress. It's perfectly harmless otherwise, right? If you're not doing anything wrong, what's to fear?

In the case of markers like this, it's pretty easy to correlate by race or other heritable factors criminal behavior. If there's no harm in it, when a crime goes down in an area it seems reasonable to go and just round up all the people with rough genetic markers matching, right?

It might even make sense to keep them in groups organized by genetic markers and race, since that should speed up policework dramatically.

And later, if you want to procreate with somebody, maybe you should make sure their genotype won't mark your kids for poor treatment by the authorities--after all, accidents _do_ happen, and the labwork is never 100%, so better safe than sorry.

Can you see why this makes people antsy?
This is actually wrong. The average expected time till next block is almost never 10 minutes because hashpower goes on and offline all the time. It gets adjusted every 2016 blocks based on historical block timing so that if no changes occur then future blocks would be 10 minutes on average - but changes always happen so this is never accurate. As such, you do learn something by looking at prior block times.
"it's pretty tough for a house to lose more than 20% of it's value"

Yes, June 2006 to April 2009 was pretty tough on the US housing market!

"if the house isn't worth the debt you took on, that's technically the debt holder's problem not yours"

Right, unless you care about having zero net worth and/or not having a roof over your head.
> The openjdk's mercurial repository returned 500 HTTP-errors 9 times out of 10.

I don't know why that would happen - that's a shame. They're moving to GitHub soon though.

> Total size of the source code with sub-projects dependencies : 1.5 GB.

Is that a problem? How large are most other large, long-lived projects' repositories? Linux is also several GB, for comparison.

> After that you have to further download a pre-compiled JVM to bootstrap the compilation

Yes it's bootstrapped. Just like most other programming languages. Is this a problem?

> and install further debian packages such as X11 stuff (???).

Java includes windowing libraries. Is this a big problem?

> I looked at the Debian package's Makefile from the package maintainers

What were you looking for in there? You can just build Java without trying to build Debian packages.

> The complexity, and especially the dependencies, of the JVM are outstanding.

I really don't think this is the case compared to any other large systems project. What was the real problem you found? It needs a binary to bootstrap it? Yeah like almost all languages. It's a bit large? It's been around for decades. It provides windowing libraries? Wow what a crime.

> I guess some work groups are paid to work on Java

Hundreds. Hundreds of people are paid to work on Java full time, at many companies. I would guess probably more people work on Java implementation than any other programming language.

> if people are not paid to work or develop it...

Let me stop you there, because they are.

> At that point, Java looks more like a research project than a production-ready tool.

It demonstrably is production-ready. Massive companies use Java in production in enormous, complex, demanding deployments, and have been for decades.
Or an indication of where the selling price will go to....
I agree, plenty of criticism and skepticism here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17227286
Also, the fact that people blindly accept that companies somehow still have to work like authotarian goverments from old ages is mind boggling.

Especially in the US, there is a massive lack of employee discourse inside the company.
Many comments mistaken redhat as an OS company? They are not. IBM did not buy redhat to get RHEL.

They bought it for the hybrid cloud as clearly stated.

Redhat has openstack platform, cloud formation/manage iq, openshift, ansible, ceph, glusterfs, codeenvy (behind eclipse che),... Etc
Slack is proprietary IRC and IRC is one of the original Internet time wasters.
I haven't felt this way since March 25th, 2014.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7469115
Does this have regulatory approval already?
California Is Full of Rude People
California is full of people being rude.There is an Asian girl in a white shirt at Starbucks who is being extremely rude and prejudice towards people. She is an asshole.
i Disagree and there is no data to support this
is that an american perspective? There many places where ordering delivery food is a very ordinary thing.
I've followed POWER for a while now, and it seems to be mostly marketing hype. The POWER8 was not much better than the Xeons out, and had almost no availability. POWER9 excels at a lot of IO-bound tasks, but again, it's nearly impossible to find. It doesn't help that there are very few systems you can buy out there. On paper, the POWER9 looks awesome. Then you look closer at the actual architecture and realize that a lot of pieces of the design are weird and/or seem somewhat useless. It also doesn't help that they're extremely expensive, especially since there are so few options.

So while I'd like IBM to compete with Intel, they need to pony up more money if they really want to push the industry. Don't make it so hard to buy one, and publish benchmarks/comparisons with Intel.
> Before you continue...

How ironic
Oracle sales means promising everything and delivering half of that at best. Are you sure you want to use that as an example?
IBM buys RedHat for $34 billion
A Vespa 300 Gts can do 75-80 but youd need a full bike licence in the UK for that.
Their open power initiative is really no more "open source" than say Intel's processors, with the possible exception of Management Engine shenanigans from Intel.
SUSE has been acquired many times in the past several years (Novell, Attachmate, MicroFocus). In theory, EQT will help us "get back on our feet" in terms of self-sufficiency but how things will actually pan out is obviously still unclear.

[Disclaimer: I work at SUSE.]
> The only other option is not to give them loans at all even if they put up a high down payment.

That's an excellent position to take.

Canada also has a problem with undeclared foreign income.
Also, this might be just IBM buying out its competition..
like oracle and all the others do most of the time.
But Red Hat/Fedora has been a huge contributor to very basic Linux ecosystem things which everyone benefits from, like the freedesktop standard stuff and more.

I wonder how this change will pan out across the entire Linux-sphere. I’m wondering and I’m trying not to be pessimistic.
Under the current messed up ruleset, many people qualify for loans that they likely shouldn't, feeding a housing price bubble that is taking lifes necessities and pricing them out of the reach of most people.