skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linux's value stems from the fact that it works on a lot of (proprietary) hardware and from the scarcity of robust open source OS's among mostly proprietary ones preferred and taught to students or employees through education suppliers and government contracts, it is hardly the magical gift of a free market (one sans IP law and subsidies).
You're looking at closer to $1500 total for dinner for two with wine at Per Se, unless you're ordering something extra-fancy.
This is not the greatest example. Picasso just made $999k, but it came from somebody else. There was no value creation there as a whole. In Monopoly I can sell a thing for more than I bought it too!

Perhaps a better example is that a farm increases in value as the techniques and technology for growing increases. Ultimately the extra value comes from somewhere, everything else is just redistribution.
Even Standard Oil wasn't even close to a full monopoly.
My apologies for identity confusion

I know that there are companies that sell this type of content to a lot of people. This doesn't contradict the statement that the majority of people who are looking for that type content, can find what they want for free. It still leaves plenty of people to sell paid content to. Based on the amount of content I can see even from cursory looks, this seems likely.

Now, if you have access specifically to market research data that contradicts that - then I stand corrected.
Someone else mentioned it: Invites still work. I still regularly use it. If you need an invite for some reason let me know.
The comment above you had a ton of examples of where you couldn't get something in a re-usable package, and you responded by shifting the goalposts to just using less plastic.
I actually didn't try yet. I presume I will have to remove some of the modules and symbols that are not likely to work in browsers, but other than that yes, it should compile to JavaScript!

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give it a try!
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Standard Oil? Microsoft?

Though these companies ended up getting split up.

We didn't make anti-trust laws out of the goodness of our hearts but because doing nothing created monopolies.
There's no conviction in your words here. I must have surprised you, and maybe got you to think which is good.

Who, other than you, said anything about concentration camps? Your argument rests on essentially name calling.

You haven't pressed me on details, you haven't torn me to shreds based on argument because, apparently, you don't need to present any argument other than name calling outrage.

I'd say when your position continues to fail to do anything meaningful other than expand the homeless population, you have some serious defending to do.
And old is new again :). The ratio of ram to disk cost has historically varied wildly. The pendulum will come around again in a few years when huge SSD's are cheap.

I have a feeling with multi terabyte SSD's at cheaper prices we'll be shuffling all our data back to "disk" again :).
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many NVMe drives on the market are useless jokes. try some from the now biggest semiconductor company, test their fsync() performance and don't get a heart attack for seeing those ugly numbers. ;)
Monsanto is certainly not a monopoly, and their very existence as a large player is kept alive by state-enforced intellectual property.
From what I've seen online a lot of these adware extensions do something similar. To me it doesn't make sense as an obfuscation method since anyone capable of capturing traces of network activity (or using chrome dev tools to do the equivalent) can probably recognize a base64 encoding and can just run the decoder a second time.

Maybe it might fool some automated analyzers though.
I don't disagree. And for 90% of them worrying about cache locality or branch mispredictions on a daily basis would be a waste of time. It's fine to deliberately ignore such concerns. It's somewhat less fine to know absolutely nothing about how programs are actually executed, and what makes them go fast.
And our comments are creating no value. We're just ephemerally yelling into the wind. If the claim is about resource usage, the concern is about value. If nothing else, they are at least creating value - something we both aren't doing.

Hell, I don't even expect you to agree with me. I'm just posting to speak my point of view and amuse myself. This conversation is pretty much the most wasteful thing we are going to do today.

Real life is less utilitarian than many people wish. Even if our conversation is more efficient, it generates not one bit of value - at least financially. It does amuse me, but I'm not really sure that's very valuable.
To be pedantic: minus taxes
I wouldn't trivialize the reliable detection of people, especially small children. I think we are just now getting at the point where that technology could be reliable, and from an automaker's perspective, it could be a similar level of investment as autopilot, and a much smaller benefit (more people would be saved by reliable autopilot, and it's also much more desirable to consumers). Even if they had such a technology, the automaker would certainly be afraid of the legal consequences of their system failing a real scenario, opening itself up for liability lawsuits and bureaucratic investigations.
An update from my coffee break:

Here's an IIHS/HLDI refutation of the study by Mary Meyer and Tremika Finney of the University of Georgia, that I mentioned above: http://www.iihs.org/iihs/sr/statusreport/article/41/2/2
It is a while I don't code in elixir however when I was learning the complex part definitely wasn't the one in this course.

The complex part is to start to think about decompose a big problem into smaller problems solvable by different Erlang modules.
When to spawn another process or when to re architecture the code.

Really great work but I would go a little bit ahead and add some more specific Elixir/Erlang part.

Also what really really helped me was to understand how a GenServer was written, it may be worthed to make the student write its own limited version of a GenServer...
>no one was harmed except for the competitors who wanted to compete with Microsoft on its own platform.

That's not the point. The point is that "services rendered by MSFT" was _not_ a free market. Going against the initial thesis (that monopolies only exist due to gov't).
I mean if we're pulling reasons out of our asses, I like the idea that it's because shitty public transportation and geographic spread of more affluent areas makes the whole thing much less feasible.
For clarity: U2F does not use one-time passwords (OTP), but challenge-response authentication. This is why it provides better protection against phishing than hardware OTP tokens.
Yes. It feels like everyone is under some sort of collective hypnotism or part of some strange reality show.

Literally, if you told me that something was being added to our food or water supplies to produce the odd effect that normalizes the madness that's happening, it would be completely plausible.
A spot of satire to go along with this: https://alwaystrend.in/articles/interview-question-what-happ...
This person barely touches on what seems like the biggest problem - autonomous cars (especially electric ones) could make 100-mile commutes the norm, massively speeding the conversion of agricultural and wild land in to housing and asphalt, and further destroying this already rather strained planet. All of the harm wrought with automobiles will have the two things tempering it (monetary and time cost) removed.

Oh, and they're hell on Earth for walking, cycling, motorcycling, or vibrant, human-scale neighborhoods.
The best innovation of modern civilisation is indisputably access to cheap shirt laundry.
> The courts might order them to pay child support.

Now that's intriguing; it almost sounds like the state is willing to take possession of children in exchange for a monthly fee.
By not driving to the petrol station, not doing scheduled car service, not dealing with insurance, not renewing driving license, and likely a few other things.
My memories of playing it as a child is kids crying and whining. I think this game is designed so nobody really wins, they just slowly bleed the losers until they have a breakdown and quit.

Playing it as an adult, it was mostly an excuse to drink, and people had the sense to quit before the breakdown part.
You'd generally consider the bank to be a player in the game theory sense, making it zero sum.
On Standard Oil: https://mises.org/library/100-years-myths-about-standard-oil
The availability of self driving cars will significantly remove some of the biggest disincentives to car use, such as licensing and parking costs. The immediate impact of this would be a stronger incentive to drive a car over other alternatives and more cars on the road.

This change in balance between transportation options will have significant negative impacts on cities, many of which are already actively engaged in encouraging people to choose other transportation options than the car.

A collision between self driving car share companies and city governments seems likely. As self driving cars become more prevalent, we may see cities enact more anti-congestion regulations as a result.
Flat disagree. The php framework is going to run on every shared host in the world, and sprint boot isn't. I'm not saying PHP is better, I write java all day every day, but if I had to build a website for a random friend or family member, I'm writing it in PHP, because I know their hosting will run it.
If all inoffensive sites ditched HTTPS, merely making an HTTPS request would justifiably arouse suspicion.

It's important to make sure that inoffensive sites are behind the same barrier, to make that a poor signal.
If you control the user's computer, that isn't phishing. That's keylogging/credential theft.
Based on the definition you provided, it seems fairly obvious to me based on how I interpret that definition. "acting in a particular manner" = leaving the child in the car, that is the act. "foreseeable outcome" = death. "reasonable care to avoid consequences" = anything that the parent could easily do which would prevent the foreseeable outcome. There are a few things parents can do, and could even combine them. And let's be honest, all are very, very simple. A quick look where you actually lean back and physically see inside the car seat to verify it's empty is enough. That literally takes 2 seconds and about as minimal of an effort as I can think of and it's 100% accurate in prevention, so long as you work it into your routine when exiting a vehicle. For example, I have a system of making sure I never forget any important item that I regularly carry with me anywhere (key, wallet, phone, etc.) The details aren't important and could be considered specific to me, maybe. But it works 100% of the time and I never forget to mentally check for it. I also have never forgotten/lost any of the items I check for in about 12-15 years (since I started using it). And make no mistake - I'm not doing this because I'm naturally organized. I do because I an not. I'm scatterbrained and forget things all the time. My system is designed to ensure that I don't forget anything critically important like, oh I dunno, my kid in a car in the blazing heat.

Same for the front/backovers. I've had my kid do both of these. The rule on my side is simple. The car doesn't move if I don't have eyes on my child. If I can't visually confirm my kid's location, I assume they are in one of these spots and the car stays in park and then I mildly panic until I can locate them again. Only then does the car move. How is any of this hard for people to make into a habit?

This is entirely avoidable in every single case, but it requires creating unbreakable habits for yourself.
Microsoft is built on State-granted monopolies, like patents.
I live in London, and this is a pet peeve of mine. Central London traffic moves slowly above ground and the trains are usually full. So of course we need more trains? Billions gets poured into it.

But like you I don't think it will help.

Instead I wish government here would stop all expansion of Central London lines. Very publicly. And instead focus on picking, say, a dozen towns near the motorways and rail lines surrounding London, and expanding the connections between them and further out. Especially towns where there'd be little resistance to high density development.

Instead we get high speed links to other cities so people can travel from even further out to the centre of London in less time.

E.g. I live in a suburb where better train connections along the edge of London + further out could easily make it a viable commuter destination for 4-5m people where it's now viable for about 2m. In some cases the rail is already there, but there just aren't any direct trains. There are many similar opportunities. Developing satellites like this would be so much better than the relentless focus on the centre.

And there are many hubs like London around the world where we're just shooting ourselves in the foot by seeing congestion and thinking the problem is lack of roads, rather than seeing congestion and thinking it reflects a lack of alternative destinations.
Five years ago people were saying that about both Tesla and SpaceX.

"Is he really serious about going into space? The whole thing sounds ludicrous. Even if he reduces the cost 10X, launches are still crazy expensive and have al sorts of strange complications."

"Is he really serious about electric cars? The whole thing..." etc.
I've had my immortality rings from Alex Chiu for years now. They should just talk to him.

http://alexchiu.com/
Microsoft must be on a LaTex kick at the moment. I just noticed there is a Microsoft language plugin for LaTex for VS Code. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscod...
I think the key here is to leave two children in the car so they cancel each other out.
In MS land it's very common for developers to be unwilling or unable to use the command line. The two groups where this is most notable are the younger devs and the ones that come to development via the access/vb classic path. To them if something can't be done in visual studio then it can't be done.

One of our code tests for hiring is writing a very simple version of grep with only a few flags like case sensitive, recursive and inverted. Of the 10 or so people that kind of completed it, not a single person seemed to understand that multiple flags could be specified (in any format).
"Oh cool article by someone else. Btw here's my PayPal address.

Whoa whoa whoa, if you don't want to send me money then just don't."
> you learn of a new concept or word and then immediately see it referenced soon after

It happens to me all the time. For anyone who hasn't experienced this, I offer this experiment. Pick one or more words from the list below that you don't already know. Repeat it to yourself a few times, read the definition, and invent a sentence using the word. Remember, choose a word or words you don't know.

frisson -- shudder of emotion with goose bumps when deeply affected by music

comity -- courtesy between nations for the laws of another

blithe -- happy and not worried; not realizing how bad a situation is

voxel -- 3D analogue to 2D pixel; a portmanteau of "volumetric" and "pixel"

pratfall -- comical fall landing on the buttocks

deus ex machina -- a god introduced into Greek/Roman play to resolve plot; for example, in Raiders of the Lost Ark, the hero's problem is solved for him rather than having him solve the problem himself; the film would end the same way even if Indiana Jones didn't exist: Nazis open the ark and kill themselves; pronounced day-us-eks-mah-kah-nah

marmite -- large cooking pot having legs and a cover; also a British sandwich spread made from yeast extract

Maybe you can come back to this comment 48 hours from now and tell us if you've heard your chosen word in real life soon after learning it.
Because most aggregators become biased and limited silos either intentionally to sell advertising or otherwise via community moderation, power users, etc. The same stuff always bubbles to the top or is buried at the bottom. Variety is key.
It probably holds true for startups. The longer the startup existed, the more has been built. Code, userbase... So one would expect it to last longer.

I wonder if it also holds true for profitable companies. That would mean that - all other things equal - a company 10 years old is worth as much as a company that is one year old but makes 10x the profits.
It is. It's benefiting from someone else's work without thanking them. This is basic elementary school ethics.

It's equivalent to performing a symphony, but not mentioning the music was written by Beethoven. Not illegal, but wrong, even if you don't explicitly claim it's your own work.
> High-speed trains are dispatched around one train per hour between major city pairs,

Depends on what you mean by high speed.

Currently high speed in the US means the speed that the British HST achieved in the early '70s, about 200kph. The airport train in Norway (Drammen to Gardermoen) can do that where the track and traffic allows and runs every 20 minutes.

And you are right about local trains, last time I was in Bonn (about 15 years ago) there was a train leaving the station every two minutes (not to the same destination of course).
Agreed, a reasonably designed 2W 2.4GHz radar in your car can detect both breathing and heartbeat. It couldn't tell the difference between a large dog and baby, but maybe you should be dealing with it either way...

Now I can see the car manufacturers don't want the liability for the a monitor failing to go off (false negative) due to any malfunction, when the number of false positives will be much higher. Thermometers and radars do fail, but humans will become dependent on them, and blame them and the manufacturers for anything that goes happens.
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> I can do the math, it's cheaper

You're basing your math on the state of cars today. This will change drastically. A self driving fleet will be very cheap to order compared to current taxis or ride sharing services.
That's in the App Store Review Guidelines, not the Apple Developer Program License Agreement. But that is a good point.

However, Opera Mini has a “Mini mode”, where the parsing and JavaScript execution is done on Opera's server, which then compresses the data and sends it to the phone for display. In this mode, it does not use the WebKit framework. Opera Mini has been on the App Store since 2010.

https://techcrunch.com/2010/04/12/surprise-surprise-opera-mi...

I wonder if section 2.5.6 applies to apps that display web pages as one function among many, and not to web browsers. Maybe Apple figures that if the user hits a “Web Page” button in some app, they expect it to work just like Safari, but if they download Chrome, Firefox, or Opera Mini, they actually want the web browser to be different from Safari. But I haven't researched this yet.
What other services are you willing to abandon on the basis of that argument? Medicare? Public schools? Fire departments?

If a homeless encampment appears on a public transit mainline, should we shut down the city's transit system until poverty is eradicated worldwide?

Our civilization is certainly low, but it could fall a lot further.
I use iCloud keychain. Safari autofills passwords only if the URL matches. If the password doesn't autofill, I know something odd is going on. Makes it trivial to recognise phishing sites like the one from the linked blog post.
Linux is not the gift of any system. Linux is an example of “value added out of nothing”. It is also an example of “value added out of nothing” that is both patent free and open source. Whatever the system is, value can be added out of nothing by for example creating art, writing a book, and even writing software.

Your problems with patents or the free market make no difference to that.
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You are hypothesizing.
Modern has many conflicting frameworks of code organization, so learn the basic mouse trap: html,css,js and then take the initiative to learn a ListProcessor (Lisp) based language and unclog your brain by mastering map, reduce, and apply.

The tools are still primitive in my opinion, but precision is how computers behave. Making the leap toward Functional Programming has changed my coding life. Before recommending any more books, I would recommend watching Rich Hickeys talks on InfoQ about the general state of programming in general with such classics as "Are we there yet"

Essential reading might as well be direct links to helpful source code. Imitating the masters is not a poor approach, but studying their way of practice and doing so yourself is far superior.
Sorry to hear that. Pretty much the same for me since I started middle school up to now (in my early 30s). To this day I have no close friends. During my years as a student, after school it would pretty much be just me sitting in front of the computer. My cell phone call log? Mom and dad, and the occasional junk call. Post-school, as an adult, it was pretty much the same. Like the article states, it physically hurts sometimes to be truly lonely.

I hope loneliness is over for me, now that I got married very recently. If you're wondering how that happened, it was a blind date setup by my aunt. I was lucky to meet someone that liked me, and had things in common with. I was really lucky that she still liked me even after she found out I had no friends, and pretty much no social life.

I hope you are able to fight your way out of loneliness.
Barefoot running is a lame fad for people who think there's secret value in the obscurity of old things. Modern societies have been running with various foot coverings (usually sandals) for thousands of years. So there's nothing wrong with running with shoes.

If barefoot running is all about moving differently, you don't need to be barefoot to do that.

Do Thai boxing conditioning for a few months. Learn to jump in all directions for two minutes with 60lbs on your back, and jump rope for 10 minutes straight, and crawl on all fours in various directions and positions. You will definitely be able to move differently, more efficiently, without injury.

Does this have anything to do with running? No! Running is running. Moving differently is moving differently. If barefoot running pretends that the latter is what the former is all about, it's wrong.

If you want to run, and you can run, and you do run, just keep doing what you're doing. Anything more and it turns from exercise (or a way to get somewhere) into a hobby.
My wife speaks differently (to her, "next" is chronologically next; as in less than 7 days hence). She is the only person I've ever known to speak so, though our backgrounds are not very different. We are both too stubborn to adopt the other's usage, thus we've learned to circumlocute to avoid miscommunication.