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I'm not talking about the US.

And the social responsibility arises from shaping the local economy in such a way that a large number of people become dependent on the company. If a company becomes the main employer in a small town, it automatically takes on some responsibility. This is less true today when most people know they're not going to work for the same employer until retirement but it is still true for traditional companies with that kind of legacy.

It's not about some theoretical ethical responsibility for the greater good of mankind but about taking responsibility for your actions and the effect they have on people you have built a relationship with. If Industrocorp, Inc builds a factory in Podunk and the labour demand raises the number of residents by an order of magnitude, then relocating operations and firing a large number of staff will ruin the local economy the company created.

I'm not sure how that concept is difficult to understand: your actions have consequences, ergo you are responsible for the consequences of your actions. Large corporations may be amoral, but the CEO of a privately owned company deciding to offshore half the employees isn't. Especially when the company periodical repeatedly claims that the employees are valued and their families are important. This makes the CEO an asshole. Period.
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People not knowing what decisions have been made, and which have yet to be made, is poor communication. The first thing you do after making a decision is communicate it unambiguously.
You can define that a socket and thus a device cannot even be turned on when you're not in its proximity. So, it won't even be possible for a child to use the microwave when you're not present.
They (Medium) hope to change the granularity of publications from “subscribed to a newspaper” to “subscribed to a journalist” with a free (Patreon?) / ad / paywall choice for journalists.

Of course, they have not really solved the issue of investigative journalism, the risk of which requires deeper pockets and the backing of a well-renowned organization such as Reuters, NYT, … to get you out of difficult situations.

They do not have a solution implemented either. They have yet to meet the issues of ad blockers, aggressive or intrusive ads, privacy, or how to pick a premium price that matches the ad revenue that would otherwise be generated.

While Evan Williams cited Facebook, he also dismissed search (and searchability), which is unwise. Facebook's largest issue is precisely that. People tend not to find content they are interested in, and they struggle to tweak their stream's algorithm to fix that.

All in all, the newspapers they aim to disrupt have a head start of about five years, and what they consider their real competition are struggling on problems they have not faced yet.
Whilst I sort of agree with you (and also think that IP law is absolutely stupid in many respects at the moment). The shear number of potential infringers that the internet as a distributed publishing platform has created vs the number of people that can be employed creates a situation where automation is required. I don't see any reason why the legal process encapsulated by the bot can't be the thing that the lawyer signs off on and takes responsibility for.

EDIT:
Over here in the UK there is precedent that lawyers for e.g. speculative invoice cases involving copyright claims (also know as copyright trolling) can have their right to practise law revoked if the claims are found to be spurious. Maybe lawyers that evaluate DMCA takedown bots should face similar consequences if the bot is too heavy handed? This could create the correct incentive for them to ensure that obvious fair use is accounted for.
Actually, over lossy links, it's well known to be an impossible problem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals%27_Problem
how much energy do these consume? would solar panels on a cubesat provide enough energy for staying on orbit for years?
The only thing simpler would be sending messages to a centralized queue for people to fetch. Yet Twitter needs 4100 employees for that (though not all engineers I hope).
It's also `Bitcoin - all_the_hard_problems_bitcoin_solves`. Still nice but you can't compare it with Bitcoin. This is more the sort of service banks could use to track loans.
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How do the approvals work if you are not in the US?
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There's always a reason behind a decision that can be explained to a group of people such that they understand and accept (if not agree) with it. A decision very well might have nothing to do with engineering. That's fine, and it's acceptable to say: "We're making this decision because of X."

It's better to expose everyone to the full business context so that they understand what the priorities are (within reason). From experience, engineers and scientists aren't always training themselves to consider business value. Sometimes it requires a step back to say, even though this is worse from an engineering perspective it's better from a business perspective. We're all here to serve the business, so let's do what's right for the business. Software doesn't exist to serve itself.

Maybe we know how to engineer and manufacture the best widget in the world, but the widget market is falling off, and we need to build a wamboozle instead.

People understand this stuff. The failure is often a failure to explain it.
thanx for the enlightement!!!
I agree.

> Medium blends all of this in some uni-branded way and at the end of the day, people don't care about the publisher/brand anymore.

> Once the platform is even more crowded, the readers won't come themselves. You need to actively market your content and then the question is: Why would you market Medium's platform instead of your own?

I have read a number of things on medium, but to be honest, I couldn't remember who wrote most of them. The homogeneous design, while visually appealing and easy to read, means I rarely remember whose blog I was reading on medium. The lack of identity in the design seems like it would impede branding and marketing. Which then means it's going to be tough to make money, even if they add in paywall, advertising, etc.
A great thing that I mastered is when I lie to believe myself. I know it is a lie, but i also know it is truth. Helps a lot.
How does the Human Body know when it's time for puberty ?

Some people say the hypothalamus secretes a chemical , but how does it figure it out ?
> By helping with tax money I meant supporting the refugees, so. No.

And that's fine for me too, as long as your and mine tax money doesn't go into fueling the war instead, like weapon, military training, sanctions, ...

> It wasn't the West who massacred an unarmed protest with an airstrike back in the day.

It was the "west" that financed the opposition in Syria, and wanted Assad taken over for a long time. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that it was also the "west" or ISIS (it was called democratic opposition back in the time) that organized this. Wouldn't be the first time. Example: shooting on Maydan square.

> Newsflash: the occupation of Iraq was opposed by most of the "West".

Opposed verbally, as in "I don't want to participate, but I'm fine if you do it, I'll even give you some minor support". And I said "west".

> Rwanda was left alone, oh look how wonderfully that worked.

Rwanda is a place where it went to hell, but I'm pretty sure it would be much worse if "west" intervened. Examples of interventions of "west", and in some cases "east" where local population would be much better if left alone: Afghanistan, Syria, Egypt, Tunis, Lybia, Iraq, Iran, Georgia, Yugoslavia, Vietnam, China, Korea, Hungary, Poland, Chechoslovakia, Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo, Croatia, Australia, Chile, Panama, Honduras, plus many African and Asian states. In all those places foreign intervention brought much more problems than it solved, and is a direct or indirect cause of millions of dead people.
Yeah, there aren't any paid placements on hacker news that I know of. There are job listings for YC companies that start at/near the top and work their way down over time automatically.
Well, mole rats and whales are a lot closer to us so there is a higher probability that they will find something that translates well. Although even mice have their limits

http://www.pnas.org/content/110/9/3507.abstract
> Surely they need 50 engineers because their product is fairly simple and there's no need to have more engineers than features.

Right. There's not even a way to adjust notification levels based on person or group. I ended up turning off notifications for the whole app, so it stopped serving the same use cases that text messages do. People still need to text or call me if they need an urgent answer.
Type "Whatsapp" into LinkedIn and you will get some idea, but probably biased towards more junior people. I agree would be interesting to see.
I have absolutely no idea what you are trying to argue. I interpreted your post above as somehow opposing free trade in labor since "most people in the west prefer..." economic protectionism.

If you were not, my mistake.

As usual you're attributing to me arguments I've never made

Why bring up "most people in $GROUP prefer" if that is not a valid argument in favor of a policy? I truly have no idea what you are trying to claim.
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Language/platform choice explains why they need 50 engineers rather than 100. The trivial scope of the application explains why it's 50-100 and not 5000. It's a messaging service! If they weren't extending their application by developing new functionality then 50 even sounds like a lot (assuming they don't run any of their own hardware).
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Ironic that the interview is on Forbes' website. You know, the one that is toast.
Nietzsche should be studied alongside Plato. I can't remember the quote, but Nietzsche emphasized that the strength of a person could be judged by the strength of the enemies he choses, and Nietzsche definitely chooses Plato as his arch-nemesis.

Some people - like me - even think that Beyond Good and Evil is a direct reply to The Republic. Many amazing and sometimes disturbing lines of thought emerge if BG&E is read as if it were part of the dialogue with Socrates.
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Yeah they're keeping their jobs, but all they are doing is managing decline, nothing to take any pride in.
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Sounds more like damage control to me. Something fails -> "That was my intent all along!"
That will help their karma score, but is still a problem for comment ranking. Downvoted comments appear lower on the page, thus get less attention.
That's rather sad. Weirdly enough, the remote with a microphone is only shipping in countries with Siri support. I wonder what happens when a new country gets support - do you need to buy a new remote?
If it had something like that out of the box, I'd get an RPi 2 today.
Exercise. It's not "as healthy as I am now", but it makes a big difference. Anecdotal evidence, but my 73 year old father still rides his bike over mountains (and shot his best ever golf score last month). He does complain that he wishes he had the body of a 60 year old ;-) My wife's uncle has to be pushing 90 and still runs 2 km every day. If you just keep going, it's amazing what you can accomplish even in the later stages of life.

Obviously this is survivor bias, but if you look after yourself and have a bit of luck, there's no reason you can't be healthy enough to enjoy life well past 80.
Centralized queue and global fan-out makes it only harder to do at scale, not easier. With 1-to-1 messaging, it's trivial to shard the whole system.

http://xkcd.com/1425/
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But... ,in a libertarian country, HP wouldn't exist in the first place.

Crony capitalism still is not capitalism.
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I think Blendle is on the right path here, moreso than Medium. They offer a decent uni-branded layout (although I prefer Medium's), but allow tweaks based on the source. I think Apple's News app does the same thing. I can often recognize the source newspaper/magazine despite staying within Blendle's interface (similar to how one could recognize the New Yorker just from the typography).

The one thing I'd like Blendle to add, but maybe they did so already, is the ability to follow journalists. A number of my friends, for example, are freelancers and publish in multiple publications.
So, it's a run of the mill wireless keyboard with typewriter-ish keys glued on it ...

And the carriage return lever seems to be only for show, it would have been nicer if it actually was a return key...
Yeah, Us+ looks like an app that totally failed technologically so the author now pretends that it's ironic. If that was her intention from the beginning, she's kind of a troll.

I do see how the concept of an emotion reader would be helpful for some people. In particular, I know people who could really use a "sarcasm" flashing on the screen because they seem to miss it.
Check out: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Erlang for some erlang implementation examples of common algorithms
The official library supports 3.x, and the downloads are on the link you put in your original comment.
> On a side-note, how can someone say something is unaddressed with the amount of information available on the internet? People just need to read a bit when in doubt and stop with false (and dangerous) assumptions.

I meant by mainstream media. They ignore majority of issues and keep misinforming people dependent on old age media.

>This is false and it's easy to confirm...

1) Some camps are actually good suited, its easy to make video/picture of bad state of them - depending on angle - but in general they provide survivable environment - good enough if you run away from your country worrying about your life.

2) Those camps receive huge amounts of foreign aid including cash. We are talking here about hundreds of millions dollars. If the camp is in bad state, then organizations so willingly sending money to those camps should finally start checking where they go. Its easy to throw money at problem through ignorant organization (what was happening in Africa since decades through "charities" completely misusing money), but why common folk in Europe should be taken responsible for their inability to account money they send? Why regular taxpayer needs to pay for mistakes of US, UK, France and Italy governments going in to the wars like in Lybia or Syria? Again, this is no A/B situation, there is many ways to deal with it and one currently offered is probably one of the worst as it will fuel right wing parties to promote separation from EU structures.

And videos like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFiumADzwdI are of not help as this shows that immigrants intentions might be way off. Even some old Syrian refugees are against current migration explaining, that the only reason for it is to get on social welfare. People that own properties and are considered wealthy in Syria.
I don't see how that's an issue here. The recipient doesn't need to know if his message receipt has been received. The burden remains with the sender to retry, just like TCP. The real Two Generals' Problem in instant messaging can just be passed to the communicating humans to deal with.
I remember reading somewhere that it's a bit different for the over 50 crowd, even for PhD's.
Not everyone running Haswell. Would be interesting to compare this performance with other processors.
As long as he can get the legal stuff square (non-competes, etc) it's not that risky. You're not trying to start a unicorn tech company, just convert a few contacts into customers to replace your old income and hopefully make more than you did before. My dad did this last year, at 60, and it's been going pretty good. Having a big network is a huge plus.
How much of the benefit of Crystal was due to just having a positive game plan for dealing with people that bolstered the author's confidence.

The comments from Crystal reminded me of horoscopes. They could be correct about lots of different people or perhaps be correct at certain times for most people.

Feeling like you know how to deal with people in an interview can be a majority of the challenge.
They said they understood the mortgage part, it's the health care they don't understand.
> America's obsession with "free market" is why you have terrible banks, terrible health care, terrible conditions for low income workers.

America's lack of free markets more like. Between the bailouts and increased regulations, bad behavior has been rewarded and good actors (including small community banks) have been hit pretty hard.

> If you elect a government that decides...

The problem with thinking government is the solution is that popular opinion is cyclical:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_Unit...

So whatever power you give to government to "set things right" and "ensure fairness" will be used (in probably less than 10 years) by someone else do do something "unfair" and "corrupt".

> They need to be legally required to operate in a way that is financially reliable, and held accountable when they don't.

I reject that the dichotomy is government on one side and corporations on the other. Most of the time, they are on the same side. Corporations campaign and get regulations and handouts friendly to their business models and push out competition. On a local level, sure, you have taxi lobbies getting strict rules that eliminate competition. On the federal level, we have laws on the books that allow jail time for violating copyright, which is basically violating a business model. I could see civil penalties, but jail time?
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> The problem with learning functional languages is finding pragmatic learning materials.

This is kind of true. But there is a nice community around erlang. I always found good, valueable input at erlangcentral.org and stackoverflow.
You present good points.

Our goal at Crystal isn't to game the system when communicating with others, but to help you be more aware of these personality differences (and show them at the right time with tools).

For example, my dad is extremely task oriented and logical. I'm the exact opposite. When I listen to him talk about something for an hour in extreme detail, understanding his personality helps me be a little more empathetic, as I know it's naturally something he's going to do.
Crystal sounds impressive, then again underlying they might just have "universal personality descriptions" that fit everyone - like the astrological star signs.
Cool thing. Good luck with your project.
Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good is nice in my opinion: http://learnyousomeerlang.com/

But an even better idea is to check out Elixir http://elixir-lang.org/ and http://www.phoenixframework.org/ which have been gaining a lot of steam as of late.
I do a minimum of 5-10 hours a week of aerobic exercise (mostly cycling), to make time for more, I'd either have to quit my job or board the kids somewhere.

I also have some anecdotal evidence. My father was always an avid cyclist as well, until his hip joint wore out. He had to give it up, and in the space of a year turned into an old man. I'm sorry, unless something else kills you in your prime, it will happen to all of us sooner or later.
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No data diodes or equipment like that?
The only difference I see between Medium and any newspaper site is the number of editors. They say that 300,000 people published on Medium, a newspaper has a much smaller number of writers. I know that such a scale could change many things but I get to Medium by a search on Google, links on HN,FB and similar services, exactly the same way I get to a random newspaper article or blog page. Content has been unbundled and Medium is not special in that regard. Am I missing something?
We're all someone's cattle in some greater scheme. The community funds education and healthcare, not because we're nice people, but because there's a net benefit to having a healthy and educated workforce. It's cynical and sad, but also realistic.

> Have some more goddamn kids.

Volunteers for the bordercases EU breeding programme eagerly awaited! :)
> America's lack of free markets more like.

The good bits of US healthcare are the bits provided and paid for by the government. It's a weird combination of expensive (the US government pays more per capita than any other healthcare system; and insurance is expensive) and hard to access.

> On the federal level, we have laws on the books that allow jail time for violating copyright, which is basically violating a business model. I could see civil penalties, but jail time?

I agree that jail should be avoided for non-violent criminals. Isn't copyright law a combination of civil penalties (for people who just download stuff) and criminal penalties (for people who operate a business based on downloading stuff)? So if I download a bunch of movies they can sue me for loss of earnings of those DVDs, but if I burn those movies to DVDs and sell them it becomes criminal?
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Complicated yes, but surely nothing that most people couldn't figure out if they had the curiosity and no formal education in the field is it? The equipment here seems to be common kitchen containers and meat from the supermarket.

I don't think experiment design is something scientists are necessarily very good at or needed for. Just look at the recent articles pointing out the large proportion of bad results - probably coming from bad experiment design. A hobbyist on the other hand, could try again when it fails and fix problems.

Could it be the hard part is writing it up and submitting to a journal? That's not something you could just hack together without a lot of probably uninteresting self-teaching.
And yet on their Server Software Developer ad [0] they have:

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This reminds me a lot of https://github.com/tpatel/OpenSequenceDiagrams.js, which was designed to be collaborative (eg, https://thefiletree.com/demo/diagram.sequence).

It seems way more streamlined, produces more beautiful results, and probably could be made collaborative as well.

Edit: I made a realtime collaborative plug, here is an example: https://thefiletree.com/espadrine/sequence.sequence

However, the syntax is not as extended, it seems.
Thanks for that correction, will look into it and correct.
Which run of the mill wireless keyboards have mechanical key switches?
Look everyone knows the tragedy was caused by the Inuit polar bear demon Tuunbaq, I don't understand the fuss.
50 developers actually seems grossly too much for such a simple product. I can only imagine it is because they wrote the app over and over again for each platform, in that terrible legacy fashion, without being able to share any code.
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A whatsapp conversation is not dependent on the parties coming to a consensus on the timing for a common event.

Also, an army can only send so many messengers before you run out of soldiers (or operational readiness). Packets are free and plentiful. If you're on a network link so bad that you can't even occasionally receive a TCP ack, then you're very much an outlier.
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