skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Rather than liquidating the entire company, Yahoo could sell its Yahoo Japan and Alibaba shares, pay a one-time dividend, and keep its core business intact.

Except there is not a lot of reason to believe that either:

1. Yahoo could dump its holding of Yahoo Japan shares at current market prices (current share price is a good rough estimate of realizable value if you aren't trading enough to move the market, but selling off around a third of Yahoo Japan isn't that small of a block...)

2. Yahoo could actually find a buyer for its Alibaba holdings (a non-public firm) at the analyst estimate of its value used in the article.

> The now-isolated core business would have positive value.

The article doesn't really make the case for that. It says the core business is profitable, but current profitability doesn't mean positive value; it could be in debt, profitable, and not expected by the market to remain profitable long enough to get out of debt -- that would give it negative market value.

Really, all the facts in the article tell you is that at least one of the following is false:

1) The author's implicit assumptions about the market value of Yahoo's core business, or

2) The estimated value of privately-held Alibaba, or

3) The assumption that realizing the value of its holdings in YJ and Alibaba would be transaction-cost free for Yahoo (and thus that those holdings should be undiscounted when aggregate to determine Yahoo's worth), or

4) The efficient market hypothesis.

I have no problem believing that all four are false, and misleading in this case.
Hmm, works for me. What am I doing wrong?
I think even more important question is "what essential dev tools you've purchased that had some sort of open source equivalent".

As for me, last thing I remember – I've purchased http://theolabrothers.com/sip/ when is wasn't free. And it is just a simple tool I don't require at all (any image editor can be used instead), it is just much more convenient than any other alternative.
Perhaps migrating QubesOS from X to Wayland would provide the groundwork for GPU sharing.
> The premise is questionable. A webpage lives in its own medium, or it is its own medium. It is normally meant to be read with an electronic device, to be interactive and linked, though those devices can be quite different of course.

The corruption of the www is something that still makes me sad and angry even though I know I lost the argument years ago.

You should not know, nor care, how the reader is usin the information. Maybe they have screen readers or braille devices or extra huge high contrast text. Maybe they want to print it out.

Most www tex does not need to be forced into an app (which is usually a really bad browser) or to be forced into specific layouts and columns with widgets and gadgets.

I really wish newspapers would learn this lesson.

I want the text. Put all the banners and gizmos and adverts at the top and bottom of the page. Then give me nicely formatted properly styled text and get out of my way.

I am happy to pay for this. Real money, not just leaving an ad-blocker turned off.
We have a little tool that can produce a multi-column print view (based on paper size and orientation) from most web-based articles. Chrome doesn't support multi-column CSS in its print view yet, so it doesn't work there. If anyone's curious, there's a video here: http://blog.fivefilters.org/post/75603097111/pdf-newspaper-2...
I do not understand the need to print out any webpage. The occasional form for a bank still requires faxing but that is usually a pdf anyways.

Also, what about the environmental cost? If we make it easier to print, will more people print? Whether we make it easier to print or not I suspect that as children are exposed to technology at a very young age there will be less of a need/want to print. When you have a tablet that you can take with you anywhere, what's the point?
Well, to be fair, the character who initiated the whole thread comes off as rather obnoxious, occasionally rude and offers clearly unreasonable suggestions such as "remove the templates". All in all, most of the replies I see in this thread from the Rust team show a remarkable patience and take time to justify their current choices.
I like the idea of evolved civilizations using prime numbers[1] to contact us.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_(1997_US_film)
URLs should be displayed for sure, but inline is far too disruptive to smooth reading. I think it would be better done "reference style" if possible. Something similar to how it is done in markdown would be nice:

I get 10 times more traffic from [Google][1] than from
[Yahoo][2] or [MSN][3].

[1]: http://google.com/ "Google"

[2]: http://search.yahoo.com/ "Yahoo Search"

[3]: http://search.msn.com/ "MSN Search"
Footnotes work great for this, just like the olden days (or exactly like Wikipedia).
"SSH2-RSA" isn't an encryption algorithm. It's a description of the SSH protocol using RSA authentication.

It is easier to provide the list of things that are worth worrying about than it is to list the things that are safe. There are a lot of as-yet unbroken ciphers and constructions. So, here are the things to avoid:

* Block ciphers in the default mode ("ECB").

* The Dual_EC random number generator, which virtually nobody uses anyways. You weren't going to accidentally end up using it. Or, for that matter, any other PKRNG (random numbers produced by public key algorithms).

* RSA with 1024 bit moduli (or below); RSA-2048 is your starting point. Conventional DH at similar key sizes will be an issue too, but there's a "means/motive/opportunity" issue for RSA-1024 given its prevalence.

* MD4, MD5, and SHA1 aren't backdoored, but are broken or weak. But: all three are survivable in HMAC (don't use them, though). SHA2 is your best all-around hashing bet right now.

* The NIST P- curves. There's no evidence to suggest they're backdoored, but (a) the rationale behind their generation is questionable and (b) they have other annoying properties.

So far as I can tell, you are now fully briefed on the "distrusted" crypto.

Don't build your own crypto. Use PGP for data at rest, TLS for data in motion, and NaCl for the rare in-between cases.
Because I don't believe you until you release the proof-of-concept. It's like saying you made some huge scientific discovery without including the data and methods to back it up.
It's a high ask, but there's a fundamental difference between iAd talked about in this article and the million dollar commitment iAd they started off as. The original vision for iAd was branding campaigns ie-tv and magazine like campaigns. A million dollars minimum and from Apple isn't crazy at first glance. What they're focused on now, especially in this article, is CPI app installs. Totally different markets.
You're welcome to make a pull request so that the quote is associated with you.
Singapore and its development is a unique case, so I think it's hard to compare it to other countries. It's still a very interesting story: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0060197765
Except that didn't happen and they had no ads to run on their highly touted network. If you want to jump start the service with a few big fish you sign deals with a few big fish. You need to have ads to fill inventory or there will be no inventory to sell.
"I did think of that, read the comment again - it's the one about the extreme temperature variations which prevent higher life forms from arising :)"

Ah, sorry.
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I think you accidentally a word...

> as an indicator of base.

As an indicator of base 8 (octal).
At least is not poorer and less productive than some countries that i know....
And, most importantly, nobody hates new zealand... compared to other "richer" countries
I really hate this term "emerging adults." Suddenly we're not full adults anymore, just because many people of my generation have failed to live up to the standard of adulthood? I really hope this isn't a trend/term which catches on and justifies continued ageism or the denial of rights.

In general, I've always hated these "generational" descriptions. They're guaranteed to be woefully inaccurate for many people in the generation, yet provide ammunition for ageists to discriminate against young people.

For my part, I haven't lived at home since I was 17 and, at 21, have a very "serious" job (which definitely pays the bills). I'm certainly not an outlier in this regard. The people who fail to do this are simply that: failures. (Though that failure isn't necessarily their fault.) Where does this fit in his theory of extended adolescence and infantilization?
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I had the same reaction initially, but I found it a lot more palatable when I realized that the lifetime notation was taken directly from the ML family of programming languages.

For an example, see the Queue data structure snippet here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_ML#Module_system

A lot of Rust's little syntactic foibles are actually borrowed from whatever language might've inspired the feature. I've had some fun on Google trying to unearth their inspirations.
Apparently you get this structure here as parameter:

http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/std/fmt/struct.Format...
How to test demand for your new product using Google AdWords.
Perhaps no revision is necessary.

Singapore may have been nothing 100 years ago, but trade through the region has been busy for much longer. Hence when Singapore decided to develop, it looked to the preexisting trade patterns, and developed accordingly.
Hmmm, I just tried to login to Adzerk using my account that I registered back in March 2013. It doesn't work anymore. I can still enter my username/password, but nothing happens. I can even reset the password.

Perhaps it's because when I signed up, ad serving was claimed to be free for up to 100 million impressions per month. That changed: http://adzerk.com/blog/2014/01/an-update-about-new-free-adze...

"Certainly! If you signed up for an account before January 6th 2014 and were actively serving ads, you can still serve as many impressions as you want for free up to 100 million impressions per month. However, to contact Adzerk support after your 30-day trial ends, you must purchase a support app in the Marketplace."

So I guess they disabled my account because I wasn't actively serving ads? It would have been nice if I had received some kind of notification at least.
Always happy to see shifts toward lighter-weight operating systems. Sadly this technology seems too tied to Red Hat to be of wider use to those of us building platforms.

IMHO CoreOS provides much better primitives for building platforms including systemd, etcd and (most importantly) fleet for scheduling. Are we expected to use OpenShift Broker for all container orchestration? Seems like a deal breaker for anyone not already in Red Hat's orbit.
TCG?
So why not just use an appropriate resistor?
> The better subreddits, in my opinion, address this through guidelines, posting policies, and very strict subreddit moderator policing: removing nonconformant or low-quality posts

A moderator deleting someone's comment should be the last resort. It's irritating to spend 5 minutes writing a comment in a subreddit, press post, then see "the comment you're replying to no longer exists" because the moderator decided deleting a thread of 10 comments was more appropriate than taking some time to write a comment with their own opinion. It's also irritating when one's own comment with 4 upvotes is deleted while someone else's comment with 6 downvotes remains untouched although collapsed. This recently happened to me twice, a week apart, on a subreddit I'd been visiting intermittently for the last 4 yrs, and very occasionally commenting in, without any trouble.

> Even subreddit mods cannot change the voting on submissions

Perhaps this is the real reason a subreddit moderator deletes upvoted comments they don't agree with, while leaving downvoted ones. Downvoting and replying should be the means to control quality, with a moderator deleting a comment as the last resort.
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I highly recommend this, it changed my life, well, at least one of the three lives I still have left http://i.imgur.com/XN6z8US.png
Printable is less valuable to most people, but it still has value.

Plain text is not accessible but a well crafted printable version can double up as both printable and more accessible for some users.

I wonder what the equivalen of "printable" will be? "Text on your ereader that you can annotate"?
There's really no point in either.

A radio signal would need to be extremely powerful to travel 500 light years without degrading (not to mention that even the senders may not be able to decode it after 1000 years :-)), and sending spacecraft to navigate 500 light years hoping it will perform all maneuvers correctly and not get hit by something in order to reach a planet without being able to send any useful information back seems naive and pointless.

If there's any space faring civilization out there, they're probably content with their own star system and maybe the ones closest to it - there are so many planets and asteroids to mine for resources (plus recycling would be a big thing) they could last for hundreds of millions of years...
The first thing you have to do after you install Ubuntu 14.04 is Goto Software & Updates then choose drop down Download From: Other then on new window click "Select best server" , You will have a speedier installation of rest of softwares. I am sure you gonna do this for future releases once you compare the speed of suggested server (usually country specific)and best server :)
I feel the same way. My success as a programmer is some combination of luck and hard work, but it'd be unfair to judge others based on the kind of luck I've had. I was lucky to have been exposed to computing at an early age, stumble upon source code for qbasic games, like programming, major in it, and happen to have my graduation date align with a huge period of growth in our industry.

Good luck magnifies the effect of hard work, bad luck can make it appear non-existent.
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A couple years back there was a similar presentation at Defcon that used routers that exposed UPNP to the public internet. I've linked the talk below:

http://defcon.org/html/links/dc-archives/dc-19-archive.html#...
Honestly, media on Android is so bad it doesn't need any help crashing. I worked on a large production app that played sound files in the background when running and about once in a thousand the Android media calls to play the file would just permanently hang. The only way to reliably handle media on Android is to have a watchdog process that checks when your own is hung in the Android code and kills and restarts it from saved state files. This was a call to play just never returning, so there was no error to catch or anything that could be done.
It's true that the price has not practically hit $1k, but it's close.

We recently looked to do 1,600 high coverage genomes through one of the X10-capable centers. We were quoted around $1,800 per genome for 101-bp 30X coverage. This price included library prep and some basic bioinformatics.

In comparison, the lowest price for exome sequencing (1.1% of the genome, targeted at the protein-coding regions only. an exome is about 1/10th the size of a whole genome in terms of data size) on the HiSeq 2500 (the earlier generation of Illumina NGS machines) that we ever got was about ~$750 per exome (and that was also at the 1000's scale).

The last thing to consider is that the new X10 centers will be more than happy to take your business-- in order to keep costs under control and to make their investment worth it, they pretty much have to run the sequencers constantly-- something like 18,000 genomes a year!
>Except that didn't happen and they had no ads to run on their highly touted network.

Nope, it did happen. When they started it they had quite nice rooster of collaborating companies, and quite good conversion rates. At some point, they had 15% of the mobile ad market.

Plus, they didn't just go from 1M to $50 because nobody came to them at $1M. That was the inital price back in 2010, and just for the launch. Afterwars it was a gradual progress of opening the service and letting more advertisers in (went to $500,000, then to $100,000 etc)
Hentry Petroski's To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design [1] has a chapter on the Hyatt Regency. The whole book is great.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/To-Engineer-Is-Human-Successful/dp/067...
Could you provide a definition for "in an anonymous way" in #1 and "prevent from reading" in #2?

My concerns are:

As for anonymity: Internet protocols require addressing - without an address where to send packets back you can only communicate unidirectionally - sending information but not receiving any. Does being identified by an address still considered "anonymous"?

As for prevention: I'm not sure why need any sort of law to do so. Is there any case - except for law enforcement situations - where one's prevented from disclosing their private information?

Also, writing "requires you pay for it" may have bad consequences. For example, in Russia we had a copyright law that said quite similar thing - a statement that any software license must explicitly define payment process (or explicitly declare rights being provided free of charge) - and this led to issue with perceived legality of some FLOSS licenses that don't say anything about. To my knowledge, this hadn't been ever examined in a court and had been fixed in laws since then, but hope you see the point.
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"It takes a lot of work to make it look easy."
Correct - we disabled all the accounts that weren't active when we made the decision to focus on larger customers. We didn't notify accounts because we didn't want people trying to game the system by artificially creating impressions to keep their account open.
It's also the reason why Flash was so prevalent until recently and is still installed in 90-something % of desktop computers: it's faster. Significantly faster, and very specially so in the 90s and early 2000s.
Some sub reddits make it clear that they delete a lot of comments. (Askscience is one example). This is great. A well crafted answer to a deleted post is still useful - someone has a mistaken idea about science and that is deleted while your well crafted post corrects the myth.

And in some subs it is iust a lot easier to delete posts that are almost trolling than to allow a large angry thread to spawn. Often those are the same tedious meta topics, or very simple beginner topics, that have been covered very many times and which are not interesting but which are flamebaity.
It doesn't seem bad, but the CPA doesn't really matter if they can't fill. If Apple is leaving money on the table that means they just don't have the impressions (which is believable, you don't see iAds in a lot of apps).

It could also be a targeting problem (they don't know who is most likely to download), but iOS users are pretty app happy so I would imagine this is the easiest type of ad to convert with. Apple has a huge advantage here as the control the whole ecosystem and are the only ones in the world who can optimize the App Store. Just 25 installs after 1,702 taps for a free app with good reviews seems depressingly low.
You are not the target market for Loom. It makes no sense to ask why you'd pay for Loom over a VPS because they're not going after people who know what a VPS is. They're going after your mom, grandma, etc.
Having read the thing now, I have to agree with mercurial.

The thread started with inane suggestions from someone asking them to copy Clojure's (and Typed Clojure's) syntax. If anything, it went on for too long.
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> Yahoo is absolutely massive, and their sites now have more unique desktop users than any other web company is the US

Yeah, but having more unique desktop users shows dominance in the modern online world in way similar to how having the most equine-propelled vehicle sales does in the modern world of personal transport.

> Seriously, they've something like 800m monthly active users globally, which isn't that far off of Facebook.

Facebook has over 1 billion active monthly on mobile, 1.3 billion total. So, yeah, I'd say that's pretty far off
Not really programmer related, but I find these truthy:

- (Flight instructor's mantra): Fly the plane.

- When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

- Measure twice, cut once.

- (Paraphrasing Senator Moynihan): Show me the data. You're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.
If something is hard to print in a legible/useful manner, somebody is likely to print it once, realize things didn't turn out right, and then try to print it a few more times with different settings until they get something that works (or they give up).

So making things easier to print probably helps the environment more than hurts it.
Right that's what I was trying to convey in my lazy comment. It's not about architecture, weather or whatever else. Americans just generally aren't interested in sipping coffee while people-watching or exchanging political, religious cultural views with anyone less than an intimate friend for a couple of hours out of the day. Their cultural DNA simply lacks the propensity for that kind of activity.

Americans unwind in one of two extreme ways: individual reclusive zen retreats or challenges (yoga, spa treatments, rock-climbing..) or over-the-top social interactions (heavy drinking gatherings, fancy dinner parties, themed events).

Sure there are exceptions as some have mentioned, but they don't make up enough of a critical mass for it to have a meaningful impact on the culture as a whole.
don't let your router be able to be accessed from outside, ie disable 80/8080/22.
The graph is claiming that countries should appear on the line - above the line are doing better than average; below the line are doing worse than average.

Vertical distance from the line is what you're looking for, so NZL is a crazy distance below. NOR, GRC and IRL are the furthest above the line.

However, another way to view this graph is to say that structural policies have no predictive power.

If you take out the outliers: the countries away from the central blob (e.g. Greece, Portugal and USA: all countries with exceptional circumstances), then the correlation is gone or perhaps even negative - meaning this is a poor model and a pointless exercise.
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I can't speak for them, but I think a lot of people upgrading from XP to 7 are going to have to upgrade hardware for it to even be worth it unless you were already on a fairly high end XP box. I think 7 can be optimized to run on lower end hardware, but it takes a lot of work.

The main beef I have with upgrading Windows though is the time it takes to do so. A while ago I updated someones PC from XP to 7 and when it restarted after the upgrade it just ran like complete crap. Took at least 3 minutes for the desktop to come to a usable state after it had appeared to be fully loaded. This is an experience I find all to often on windows but almost never on Linux. After installing about 8 hours (yes 8 hours) of updates including quite a few .NET frameworks and restarting multiple times, the computer was finally in a state that I considered "acceptable". Started up fast and was responsive within a few seconds of the desktop loading. I was missing a lot of drivers, but I had the driver disc, they were pretty painless for the most part. The resolution still looked a little funky and I found out I had to install the nvidia driver from the website. Was a pretty decent experience after a pretty awful ordeal.