skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They might have already had Nvidia hardware they bought not planning on switching to linux at the time. That's the position I found myself in a few weeks ago (tho that 1070 for VR... HHNNNGGGG)
In a similar vein, I really like this line from "Try this at home" by Frank Turner: "If you’re oh so fucking different then who cares what you have to say?"

The entire song, while nominally about making music, is pretty fun and inspiring and I feel applies very well to other kinds of entrepreneurialism as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66knvY3vxsA
Due to the fact that distance matching is done server side the application doesn't have any knowledge with regard to distance. The only knowledge one has is whether or not one receives messages from an other user.

Using triangulation to pinpoint an other users location would therefore require to move in and out of range (while the targeted user is continuously sending messages). Thus significantly more difficult than if the actual distance measure was depicted in the UI or leaked elsewhere.

Finally closing the API to outside requests limits the ease with which the above could be automated. Any idea's for further improving these security measures are most welcome!
I wonder how many desktop Linux boxes are hidden behind corporate firewalls and thus hidden from these stats. My observation when I worked in oil & gas (at a company focussed on the exploration / geophysics side) was that they were almost exclusively Linux on the desktop, those machines being used for scientific visualisation and data analysis.
Twitter will cut 9 percent of its workforce, or roughly 350 people
Set goals and go about pursuing them. It requires discipline but once you surpass the initial blocks it becomes second nature. Also, don't forget of yourself. Do some form of physical activity and set some goals for that too. Rinse and repeat.
Providers also have a lot of staff dedicated to working with the insurance companies. I'm pretty sure billing complexity is one of the things driving consolidation of physicians into large practices and health systems.
Yeah - the representation is far from perfect. We had some internal debates on what might be a better visualization, which shows overlap and convergence across the categories, and could also depict related ecosystems and relationships without overwhelming the viewer.

A venn diagram map was one of the alternatives we considered: https://www.google.com/search?q=venn+diagram+ecosystem+map&e...

We ultimately chose the transit map paradigm based on inspiration from Gartner's implementation of it for the digital marketing ecosystem: https://www.gartner.com/technology/research/digital-marketin...

Would love to know of other visualizations that might work better!
By alternatives to the Magic Mouse I mostly meant mice that aren't that flat.

However I actually use a vertical mouse by Evoluent and in my opinion the vertical position is the real benefit. It really reduces wrist pain for me. However it still comes with the same limitations as any other non-Apple mouse: No touch scrolling, not even horizontal scrolling. Which is why I use a touchpad as well.
I actually found Arch a lot easier transition with GNOME than I did Ubuntu. Arch always has extremely good and quick support for virtually all drivers.

If you have one person in your company that can debug / manage a Linux machine then the whole office should be good. Even my wife with no experience can intuitively use everything. Hell, we even game on our home desktop
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Jekyll documentation into Spanish
I have already translated into Spanish some lines of Jekyll. I anyone would like to contribute with this project, be my guest.

https://leonardoruilova.wordpress.com/2016/10/27/jekyll/
http://zephyrosanemos.com/
It's not even about that. Google's services are delivered over the Internet, so they're reliant on someone else to deliver their traffic (and advertisements). Their corporate strategy playbook in those cases is to either commoditize or disintermediate their market dependencies.

In this case, I think they were looking at Fiber more as a "model" for other overbuilders (similar to what they did with the Nexus phones). If Fiber was as successful as Google had hoped, they'd probably open source their operational model since it would effectively commoditize the last-mile access business and give Google more negotiating power with ISPs (without having to invest a ton of money). It was never a business they wanted to be in long-term.

Obviously, it didn't work out the way they had hoped. My guess is that subscribers didn't flock to them the way they had imagined. The Internet is a big echo chamber on this issue; and of course anyone commenting on an Internet forum is going to be technologically adept enough to care about Gigabit broadband. If their market analysis was done online, I can see how they might get false signals due to a sample set of "frequent Internet users" rather than "people who pay for Internet access". It's a subtle distinction, but actually quite relevant since the people who pay for but don't use Internet access often are the ones who make the whole model work.

When you get out into the real world where telecom service is measured in homes passed and take rates, you realize that those "vocal Internet users" make up maybe 10-20% of the market. ISPs make the bulk of their profits from Grandma Mabel who pays $70/mo for a triple play bundle and uses 100 MB of traffic a month. Households like Grandma Mabel account for probably half of an ISPs customers, and Grandma Mabel is not going to get any additional benefit from Gigabit Internet -- so she's not going to pay any more for it.

The big ISPs haven't offered gigabit residential service until recently because there was simply not enough demand for it to justify the expense. I think Google assumed that was just a negotiating position, and that there was a larger, unserved demand for high-speed residential connections. But either way, faster Internet is better for Google's core businesses (YouTube, search, etc.) When you own 70%+ of your market like Google does, you become more concerned with growing the market overall than with growing your share. And considering broadband infrastructure is a capital investment that holds its value pretty well, they honestly had very little to lose. But it's telling that they never invested more than a pittance into the Fiber project as a whole.
Can't we still tell from browser fingerprints?
I like your concept, but zoomed out the layout kinda reminds me of a swastika with more arms.
I like mine :) Simple and speedy (hopefully)

http://www.retu.be/
Vega-Lite – A high-level visualization grammar
It's a really tough problem to solve for everyone.

You don't want to introduce a fee to file takedown notices, as then the people the law was arguably meant to protect (the small content creators) will not be able to make requests as easily, and you don't want to just allow people to abuse the system and use it like a "i want this gone" button.
This is excellent. It could be improved by adding a very short summary of each bias. This would help the reader to drill-down to a specific bias of interest.
May I ask what GUI you use? I really like using linux via terminal and prefer it over Windows in many cases. I try making it my main OS every 1-2 years, but always switch back to Windows. The GUIs that I tried just don't feel right. Last time I gave it 3 weeks of 8 hours/day, and I still couldn't use it as productively as Windows or MacOS (even though I'm not experienced in using the latter). The fonts and symbols alone make it harder for me to work with it.

Didn't you experience any problems with that? Now I'm back again running Windows and terminal sessions to linux machines (for testing/deployment). I wonder if it's just me who can't work with it, but I have the feeling that developing a functional and yet simple GUI is perhaps as hard as the kernel itself. And most linux machines are servers, so there's little incentive, while Microsoft and Apple have spent billions on developing this over the years.
The content is great (and probably famous on HN), but I find the website itself is really not optimal:

- When reducing the width of your window, you obtain some layout disaster

- There are those weird pages containing only one sentence

- The articles are often split into many little pages, which I find pretty useless, and only makes it slightly more difficult to navigate.
Ha, good point--I'm as guilty as anyone, apparently.
I don't see the point here... GS lays people off. And? Why is this news?
A wall of text is often the simplest thing that might work: e.g. Twitter, StackOverflow, Reddit, Whatsapp, blogs, email, SMS.

Sure, nobody else is Knuth. Redesigning a personal website with scrolling text and the blink attribute won't change that in an important way.
Interesting. My memory of the subject is pretty out of date by now, as I don't follow Groupon much, but I'm certain that's how it worked during its hypergrowth period.

Indeed, it appears that we're both correct, assuming you're not in the US. Interesting article from 2012 sheds some light:

Some context about how the company operates: Groupon has had two very different payment structures. In what I call the American model, merchants receive cash upfront for a deal. Once the deal is closed, Groupon tallies up how much it owes the merchant and sends them the money in installments, with the vast majority of the money delivered within 60 days. If a Groupon isn’t redeemed, the merchant gets to keep the money. (Known in the industry as “breakage.”)

Outside the U.S. and Canada, Groupon has used a different scheme. For simplicity, I will call that the European model. In this scheme, Groupon only pays merchants when a Groupon is redeemed; merchants do not get cash up front. If a Groupon isn’t redeemed, Groupon gets to keep the money. Breakage is considered to be 20-25% of Groupon purchases, so this amount is significant.

There are exceptions to the above. I know of one popular merchant in Europe that negotiated to get the American model. But this is largely how it works.

http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/15/the-giant-red-flag-that-an...
I'd recommend Arch - IMO it keeps the graphics drivers up to date. You might just need to learn about the different package managers. It had 1080 support day 1 in their beta drivers.
That is a good point.
That has happened too. And I hate getting on the phone frequently to make sure I am even talking to the same person.
That's also how taxes work. If you are profitable, you can risk your taxes in addition to your profits after taxes in a business venture.
what about gitkraken as an intuitive git client.

better than sourcetree and tower by far IMO
I would say that the default behavior should be to respect the robots.txt of the time of the snapshot and only revert archival of accidentally cached pages that were never intended to be public.

Sadly, it requires a bit of human intervention there.
Since people are posting theirs, here's mine: http://chuckdries.rocks

My issue is that I don't have a very impressive resume yet (though I should probably link a PDF of my current resume anyway), so I decided to keep it simple and lightweight but also stylish because I bill myself as the intersection of tech and design.
A Young Millennial (Saba) Tries to Explain SnapChat to an Old Millennial (Me)
If Twitter's approach was to can him for asking reasonable questions (even on a public forum) before taking the job, that would be a signal that the opportunity wasn't worth pursuing for me.
> Exceptions should only be used for exceptional cases.

Why?

(My thoughts on the matter: http://www.mcherm.com/reasons-why-my-code-style-is-wrong.htm... )
Sadly these days you need a GPU just to drive the DE.
You could give elementary OS (https://elementary.io/) a try. Got a nice looking GUI but i'm not too sure how mature it is.
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How would you see it happening in modern times? Peace and calm reflection?
Thanks for your patience :) I learned some new stuff too!
Somewhat unrelated but if you're looking to generalize the stopping abuse problem you may want to check out Smyte: https://www.smyte.com/
Scale: Pharo Smalltalk in the shell
That's an orthogonal point to working at Twitter :/. Even if Twitter were acquired, there's basically zero chance they'd fire all the engineers.
grateful for the explanation
If you are working with code (re: git) I find the JetBrains products built in git to be all I really want out of a "GUI git client". I drop to the CLI for some more complex stuff but basic push/commit/merge I normally just stay in the IDE.
I would say so, it uses a Linux kernel after all.
> Let's say a team wants to build a website. Are you sure you'll have better odds at making it in time with a specialist for HTML, CSS, and Javascript?

Yes, I'd prefer an expert in LESS and SASS and another expert in Angular or whatever javascript framework, rather than two jack of all trades. They're different skills. In fact, most software shops do specialise at least to the level of frontend and backend and usually further depending on their size and the size of the project.

There is still a role for a 'senior foreman' to oversee the process, but that was always the case, even in Smith's time.
You're spreading misinformation.

The DMCA requires carriers like Youtube to:

>[A service provider shall not be liable if] (E) if the person described in paragraph (1)(A) makes that material available online without the authorization of the copyright owner of the material, the service provider responds expeditiously to remove, or disable access to, the material

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512

The Youtube Copyright Strikes system being employed here (which is NOT the ContentID system) IS the DMCA Safe-Harbor compliant take-down system which was designed, developed and used exclusively because of the DMCA law!

The DMCA law does not provide for a government based form or system for takedowns, rather, it places the onus of a takedown system on the safe harbor who wishes to be safe.

This is DMCA request! You just apparently do not realize that the DMCA makes providers like Youtube create their own in-house DMCA take-down mechanisms.
A Healthy Disdain for Technology
If the discount is what brought profitability, than wouldn't this mean the car is mispriced?
This is looking at browser useragent strings, and as such Android shows up under mobile, not desktop. Now ChromeOS on the other hand may be a interesting question.
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What's lacking in your life that you need to be so judgemental?
> removal requests should be handled per individual case

Are you going to fund the internet archive to handle that workload?

> if the domain owner changes, they should not be able to remove content from old archives.

Why not? If that work belongs to anyone, it is the current domain owner. Why does the fact that the internet archive happened to crawl it mean that suddenly they lose control of their information?

This is elevating the Internet Archive from 'hey it's cool someone made a copy of that while it was up and no one cared' 'because the Internet Archive crawled it the world has absolute rights to that information from now on, wishes of the owner be damned.'
Last week, Samsung sent a series of takedown notices aimed at videos showing a GTA V mod in action. The modification replaced an in-game weapon with an exploding Samsung phone.

Sometimes it's a good thing to take a step back and laugh at yourself. It's a humbling experience and may even open opportunities to show your customer base who you are in moments of weakness.
It probably depends on the kind of work you do. For most web development you need a browser, a development environment and a bunch of terminals. There's little difference between OSes there.

What kind of thing do you have trouble with under Linux?

Personally I find Windows very hard to use because there's no central way to update installed software on it.
We had no choice. We are a 3D software company and we need to do CUDA, WebGL, WebVR, etc. We also have dual 4K monitors for every developer and you need good GPUs to drive them properly -- integrated Intel just doesn't cut it.
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Linux was GPL licensed long before these projects were open-sourced under CDDL, and there are obvious reasons for why Sun at the time would not want to have their technology advantages incorporated into Linux (like it being their main competitor to whom they were losing in the market place).

Crafting a new GPL incompatible license for ZFS and DTrace resulted in Linux not being able to incorporate them.
> IPFS will become toxic real quick, if it becomes know that IPFS can make you an unintentional distributor of kiddy porn and pirated content.

Yea, this is where you're mistaken. It cannot make you distribute anything! You only distribute what you download. Don't download kiddy porn, and you won't distribute kiddy porn.

> All it takes for you to commit a crime and/or copyright infringement, not only as a consumer but also a as a distributor, is to be tricked into retrieving one hash.

That is fair - but the same could be said for every p2p system on the planet. Has anyone solved this problem? How does BitTorrent protect me from unknowingly downloading kiddy porn?
Being able to say "I worked for Twitter" is and will be impressive to most people regardless of Twitter's future. It's not like future employers will see that on a resume think you're the one who sunk the ship (unless you do something high profile to make your negative impact public knowledge).
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> would therefore require to move in and out of range (while the targeted user is continuously sending messages).

That, or a number of co-operating clients located at various locations in and out of the range.

A simple fix would be to have every sender generate a random vector of random length 0-100 meters (and re-generate every time you've moved at least 100 meters, you don't want to regenerate if the sender doesn't move as you'd be able to zero-in on a prolific sender), and have the message "originate" from the end of that vector.
I've never used Upwork but I've used DeskTime for several clients and jobs and it made taking screenshots unnecessary as it tracked how much time was spent in each program and website which could be categorized, which I could then make aggregate stats of for the client for billing (and if the employer owned the master account they could make their reports).

Screenshots seems like a privacy issue unless the worker can disable them for checking email or whatever as long as that time wouldn't be billable, but it seems like Upwork could have some better ways of tracking productivity.
Technically, yes. Submitters swear that their requests are valid under penalty of perjury.

Nah. Perjury only applies to the part where they need to swear that the sender is authorized to act on behalf of the allegedly infringed work.

``(vi) A statement that the information in the
notification is accurate, and under penalty of
perjury, that the complaining party is authorized
to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive
right that is allegedly infringed.

There is a "good faith belief" requirement, but I don't think that part has ever been tested in court, so I have no clue what count as "good faith belief" in reality and if there are any actual penalties involved.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/105th-congress/house-bill/2281...
How come they didn't take a picture of the almost completed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_New_Safe_Confinement ?

Along with wildlife I find it also a sign of things moving forward.
Several years ago, I was dealing with Windows XP on my parent's machine. I decided to do something crazy and install Xubuntu (my preferred Linux distro) on it. They didn't miss Windows that much, and there has never been a time where Windows was needed for anything; even the new HP printer + scanner worked fine. Turns out that Linux is just as good for email, web browsing, Youtube, and solitare.
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From my perspective it doesn't seem like much of a risk--no more than any other job, and probably less than most.

Even if Twitter flames out and gets sold, it's a highly recognizable name, and will be from a long time. It's a name that jumps off the page of a resume. It will help you get through HR filters for a long time to come.

And particularly in the anti-abuse space, going to work at Twitter has to be like going to play in the major leagues.
I don't believe that the Streisand effect is a common outcome, not even for especially ridiculous cases.
Not if they're air-gapped.
Here's mine too, I guess: http://lawrencewu.me/

Would love some honest feedback on it!
That begs the question. Consumers pay huge premiums for brand-name products when cheap generic alternatives would serve the same function. Is that not a "systematic pricing imbalance?"
>And what if my mum sees this?

First, why is she watching unsolicited "porn" if it's so bad? Second, what kind of parent watches a sex video of their kid? Should be obvious what's happening pretty quickly and then Alt-F4. And then why would a relative share the video?

I get there's a different cultural standard and not everyone can just shrug and say "ya well I don't know why you're watching videos of me".

It just seems like a serious deficiency if relatives are watching and sharing private media.
As a rookie programmer (but 10 years in IT, loving maths), this was my thought exactly. Basically a matter of field/domain definition, insofar as humans still have to interact with the code.

In short: most enterprise code should be elegant and simple, even if verbose (many conditionals, as little nesting as possible, etc) so that a 12 years old can understand it, because in real life you'll get much turnover and lack of means/skill/motivation. Hence, costly maintenance, etc.

Writing an open-source kernel consistently for 20+ years is an entirely different problem, and the fact that you use code in both these examples is a distant commonality of the problem sets; it is my experience thus contention that the human factor and real world conditions are paramount to ascribing qualitative assertions such as 'good' or 'tasty'. That is, until machines program themselves or others without human oversight. ;)
I think the country could get along just fine without out. Better, in fact.
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I'm not so keen on the .plan files. But looks alright
Gitkraken is pretty nice!

That said, it seems to have some issues every now and then (for example, I had to increase an Inotify watch limit).

* You can't seem to re-order the UI - which would have been great!
* Auto save working copy as a stash when switching branches (Sourcetree does this)

And finally, I had read an HN thread about it having some vague issues with it's agreement (but I have not read the agreement so I don't know about any specifics).
> May I ask what GUI you use?

Stock Ubuntu for the most part. Sublime or atom as text editor. Kraken or Git Gui for source control GUI. Chrome/Chromium and Firefox for web browser. Very little else is really needed. Although I use Gimp, Blender, and Skype (which works poorly on Ubuntu unfortunately.)
How about trying to actually do it? I agree self-help books are mostly fluff that can be said in half the length, but I do think "Deep Work" is a useful technique.

One problem I did have with the book was that Deep Work might not be useful for someone whose work is largely mechanical or mundane, though in that case I'd apply Deep Work to learn skills to into more interesting jobs if one wishes.
Is that an XML document in an HTML comment inside an OBJECT tag? eww
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You also forgot to mention how they took order from clients at one desk, then swiveled the chair around and told the prop desk what the order was so the house could front run the order or do one of any number of other unethical things to the clients.