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Twitter is the Yahoo of this generation.

One could also use it to verify membership (or non-membership) in a set without having access to the set.

Suppose I have a secret list of websites from whom you shouldn't load ads. I can then just publish a bloom filter which you can use in your browser to see if a web request should be allowed or not, without having access to the original list. I know this is contrived, but hopefully you get the idea.

They don't cache images (of Pokestops) client-side. This has got to be one of the bigger inefficiencies of this client. Aggressive client-side caching can relieve a lot of load on the server.

Clearly, you have not heard of "rent control". I know people paying $1200/month for a 2BR in the heart of the City. I even met a guy who was paying $350 for a 1BR in Nob Hill, not far from Grace Cathedral.

About 72% of SF's units are under rent control. So not all landlords are making "fat profit margins".

> Quip has inline comments and document level comments, chat rooms, private chat, and the ability to tag people and documents anywhere.

I think Google Docs has all of the above.

> Summly was none of those. They got one 17 year old dev, and a fairly-decent product they made basically no use of. I don't know how good D'Aloisio is, but he's not that good. Especially without the kind of status and support that could turn out a bold new product within Yahoo.

Summly was not D'Aloiso's product in terms of development. He may have had the idea, but the technology was SRI's (the same guys who developed Siri), and IIRC, Summly had exclusive use of that. So please stop demeaning it as "some 17-year-old's app".

That is the stated narrative: that it's hard to hire CEOs who are good, and we need to give them every dollar we can.

But there's a darker, and (IMHO) more accurate narrative: corruption or nepotism. Company A's CEO serves on the boards of companies B and C; and company B's CEO serves on the boards of A & C; and C's CEO on A & B. When the time comes, CEO_A votes for a big raise for CEO_B (and so does CEO_C). Now, when their turns come, they point to CEO_B and say: "look, the market is valuing CEOs so much! You've got to do something!". And CEO_B and CEO_C express outrage and vote to give CEO_A a huge raise. And the cycle repeats.

Of course the connections are not as direct, but the club is a very exclusive club, and they all know how the game is played.

If you're a current $YHOO shareholder, what does this deal mean for you?

Came here to ask this. Why was the land sold in the first place, if it's a public piece of land? Why doesn't the City of LA buy the land and place it in the public trust?

I hate these half-assed pieces of reporting. I don't like the guy, he sounds like Ehrlich from SV, but if you're reporting this as news, at least fill in the blanks!

The ultimatum was: if you can't convince us that you're productive remotely, you must start coming in to office. I know a couple of excellent techies who continued to work remotely after.

I worked there, and I agree with him. Is that authoritative enough for you?

I was in Yahoo long before Marissa joined. And I saw her in action for 3 years. Some of those "work from home" people were very good, and were all given exemptions to continue working from home. But the lazy ones, some who I knew to be lazy, were told to shape up.

I experienced Marissa's ire firsthand too. But despite that, I give her high marks for trying. Yahoo had been ossified long before she got there; read PG's essay on Yahoo's culture. Blaming her for Yahoo's troubles is like blaming Dönitz for Germany's loss in WW2.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_D%C3%B6nitz

I don't know about hyped, but Carol Bartz (also at Yahoo) was the most disappointing. She single-handedly killed Yahoo faster than anyone else. Compared to her, Mayer is a genius.

> Today, with more than one billion websites across the globe

Huh, what? There are estimated to be more than a trillion sites out there, from what I've read.

I think a more accurate classification (from the popular journalism viewpoint) would be that a startup is a tech company that hasn't gone public yet.

I keep reading about the decline of the Japanese population, and I wonder: what are the major causes of people not producing enough kids? Is it that there's not enough bonking going on? Stress from work? Long hours at the office? I mean, sex is one of the most fun activities nature has given us, for free. Why aren't enough Japanese having sex? Is it something in the culture? The comics, maybe?

This is a serious question. I often wonder why something that worked for millions of years, is suddenly not working.

You could say the same about, for example, the NSA wiretapping your calls and listening in on them. Until you get caught in some bizarre situation as a result, you'll be happily oblivious. But your rights are still being violated.

That data (your profile) is yours, and yours alone. No one has the right to package it and sell it without your consent. Now, it is possible that you may feel gregarious and offer up your data; but that would be by choice.

FTA:

> More than 194,000 people have died since 1999 from overdoses involving opioid painkillers, including OxyContin.

Wow, that's about 12,000 per year. :(

The biggest problem with Amazon reviews is that they'll let you post a review of something you never bought! Sure, they do add the "verified purchase" tag for things you bought; but for calculating the aggregate stats, etc. Amazon will cleverly ignore the fact that you could just be talking out your ass (or selling reviews). I find this very dirty on their part, and it's something that can be fixed with 1 line of code.

I've left it outdoors, and it's still working. I did cover the top (where the batteries are) with some plastic to prevent water from going in.

It should work against birds, as long as the IR detector can sense a change. The bird must stay in one place for a couple of seconds at least.

I have a problem with my neighbor's cats deciding to pee and poop in my front yard. I decided to go with a few of these: https://www.amazon.com/PetSafe-KIT19001-SSScat/dp/B000RIA95G .

They worked reasonably well, but the cats have learned that if they run quickly past one, it won't hiss. So now I'm thinking of modifying them so they use an IR beam, and a beam interruption would trigger the hiss.

The eternal battle goes on.

Problem is: if they want free trade with EU, they must accept free movement of labor; which was the main underlying problem which caused people to vote for Brexit. If they adopt free labor movement, the Brexit would have been for vain, and most Brexit supporters won't go for it.

> I agree with what you're saying, but if anyone's responsible for it, it's actually Congress

And by Congress, it really means YOU, the (American citizen) reader, who keeps voting for the same crooks.

I've heard it said many times: ideas are a dime-a-dozen, execution is everything.

Look at the date: they were made in 2009, when the company was barely a year old. At that time, an additional 730K in loans could have been a needle mover.

> Why does HN pretend political revolutions are peaceful?

So HN is a single-minded entity? Just because a couple of people say something you don't like, you paint all of HN, with its 1000s of members, with that?

So when your "AI" makes a recommendation, it recommends some encrypted symbol?

From their FAQ:

Is PBase free?

    No.

> I've had chicken nuggets that meat eaters had no idea were fake,

Because chicken nuggets are mystery meats to start with. They're usually made from meat slurry, with various fillers added, and shaped into that shape. A chicken breast, for example, has 43g of protein per 140g of weight; a nugget, on the other hand, has 3.1g of protein per 20g of weight.

Does the US have some sort of sanctions against Venezuela? I'm not sure if we do or not, but I'm wondering if we do.