EPA Finalizes Its Plan to Replace Obama-Era Climate Rules

EPA Finalizes Its Plan to Replace Obama-Era Climate Rules

“I t will establish what the E.P.A. can and can’t do,” Mr. Holmstead said of the new Trump rule. He maintained that, when the new measure is fully implemented, it will reduce carbon emissions in the power sector by 34 percent below 2005 levels, roughly equal to the goals of the Clean Power Plan. Mr. Wheeler also said the rule could lead to new coal plants in the United States.

Source: www.nytimes.com

Work Peak Is Earlier Than You Think

Work Peak Is Earlier Than You Think

Almost all studies of happiness over the life span show that, in wealthier countries, most people’s contentment starts to increase again in their 50s, until age 70 or so. One might think that gifted and accomplished people, such as the man on the plane, would be less susceptible than others to this sense of irrelevance; after all, accomplishment is a well-documented source of happiness. A study published in the Journal of Applied Sport Psychology in 2003, which charted the life satisfaction of former Olympic athletes, found that they generally struggled with a low sense of personal control when they first stopped competing.

Source: www.theatlantic.com

OIN, the Linux-based patent non-aggression community, exceeds 3k licensees

OIN, the Linux-based patent non-aggression community, exceeds 3k licensees

Thanks to the Open Invention Network (OIN), the largest patent non-aggression community in history, Linux and related open-source technologies have become mostly free of these expensive entanglements. Absent the now 3,000 strong member community of patent non-aggression that Keith Bergelt and his team at OIN have painstakingly built over the last dozen or so years, the level of open-source software innovation and unprecedented adoption rates could simply not have been achieved.” By preventing patent aggression against Linux and other free and open source software, OIN has protected our entire software ecology of research, development and commercial utilization based on sharing.

Source: www.zdnet.com

Debian Riscv64 port in mid 2019

Debian Riscv64 port in mid 2019

Given than the arch-dependent packages are about half of the Debian[‘s main, unstable] archive and that (in simple terms) arch-independent packages can be used by all ports (provided that the software that they rely on is present, e.g. a programming language interpreter), this means that around 90% of packages of the whole archive has been available for this architecture from early on. And, of course, all other contributors of Debian help by keeping good tools and building rules that work across architectures, patching the upstream software for needs of several architectures at the same time (endianness, width of basic types), many upstream projects are generic enough that they don’t need specific porting, etc. Currently there are more than 500 packages from the Rust ecosystem in the archive (which is about 4%), and they cannot be built and used until Rust has support for the architecture.

Source: people.debian.org

China is creating an alternate reality about the HK protests, in real time

China is creating an alternate reality about the HK protests, in real time

This is a news event that seems like it would give Chinese censors a run for their money: the protests involve millions of people; they are happening in a place that is technically part of China; and online posts about it are written in Chinese. Searching for “Hong Kong” in China only brings up propaganda, celebrity gossip, and business news. During the 2014 Umbrella Movement, Hong Kong’s last major protests, Chinese censorship was much more porous.

Source: qz.com

Faire (YC W17) Is Looking to Hire Senior Data Scientists

Faire (YC W17) Is Looking to Hire Senior Data Scientists

Our experienced data scientists and machine learning engineers are tackling recommendations, ranking, search, and underwriting, helping local retail thrive! Faire will soon be known as a top destination for data scientists and machine learning, and you will help take us there! Faire is an innovative online marketplace that uses machine learning to match local retailers with the makers of products that uniquely fit their stores.

Source: boards.greenhouse.io

Slack Wants to Replace Email. Is That What We Want?

Slack Wants to Replace Email. Is That What We Want?

There was the woman who cited a “truly unhinged Slack situation” — dozens of new rooms serving a workflow that seemed only to make sense to the new boss — as one reason she ultimately left her job at a major media company. There was the guy who told of an ambitious new employee at his firm who spent his first weeks scouring thousands of Slack logs dating back years before his arrival. (The company C.E.O. recently told employees, via email, “Instead of an endless back and forth in Slack trying to get my point across I am just having a real conversation when convenient.”)

Source: www.nytimes.com

The birth and death of a bike company: What happened to SpeedX

The birth and death of a bike company: What happened to SpeedX

A source at Bluegogo describes it as “like a year riding on a rollercoaster” but doesn’t look back on it as a painful time, “even in the last few months when everyone was struggling. Chandler Xu, on the frontline as the Unicorn campaign went bust, is still haunted by the failure of SpeedX, a year and a half later. The company’s failure took a heavy toll on Xu’s health, plunging him into what he describes as a “serious depression.”

Source: cyclingtips.com

A Janitor at Frito-Lay Invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos

A Janitor at Frito-Lay Invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos

Six months later, with Montañez’s help, Frito-Lay began testing Flamin’ Hot Cheetos in small Latino markets in East Los Angeles. And Montañez is no longer sweeping floors: Over a 35-year career, the former janitor rose through the corporate ranks and is now the vice president of multicultural sales for PepsiCo America (the holding company of Frito-Lay). Before Montañez joined the executive team, Frito-Lay had only 3 Cheeto products; since then, the company has launched more than 20, each worth $300m+.

Source: thehustle.co

YouTube under federal investigation over allegations it violates kids’ privacy

YouTube under federal investigation over allegations it violates kids’ privacy

As the investigation has progressed, YouTube executives in recent months have accelerated internal discussions about broad changes to how the platform handles children’s videos, according to a person familiar with the company’s plans. [Sex, drugs, and self-harm: Where 20 years of child online protection law went wrong]
The internal conversations come after years of complaints by consumer advocates and independent researchers that YouTube had become a leading conduit for political disinformation, hate speech, conspiracy theories and content threatening the well-being of children. The prevalence of preteens and younger children on YouTube has been an open secret within the technology industry and repeatedly documented by polls even as the company insisted that the platform complied with a 1998 federal privacy law that prohibits the tracking and targeting of those under 13.

Source: www.washingtonpost.com