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Do you think running a social media app which is multimedia heavy for developing countries give you profit?

Sorry that's not true. Facebook generated revenue of ~25 million for 2016 in India. Supporting 100s of millions of users content for 25M dollars. I'm sorry this is a lossy business but good thing to keep increasing number of users to pump up the stock price and keep engineers motivated.

Snapchat won't go to countries like India, SE asia which are densely populated as it doesn't really make sense to them.
1. Poor app experience as users have cheap android phones in which fb app won't even work properly.
2. Hosting cost/Advertiser cost might not be great.

These two points make sure, investing in developing countries to get more users is nothing more of a Stock Play and a joke.
This is pretty short-sighted though. The definition of "doing well" is relative to the last round's valuation, regardless of business fundamentals.

So if your company is actually worth $100M, but you raise $150M at a $1B valuation with a 1x preference, you would get nothing if the company sells for $150M later that year. That would have been a 50% return on the actual true company valuation, had you actually raised at that.

This is an extreme example but hopefully you get what I'm saying.
well that went too far - it's not always 100% founders' fault. They might not even be aware of this...
This is a bit strange. Remember, Waymo is the plaintiff, and Uber's lawyer is asking the questions.

There's a long series of questions about Levandowski's $120 million bonus. Uber is establishing that Levandowski's contribution was valuable, which is the opposite of what they want to prove. There's a big censored section which may have to do with Levandowski's compensation agreement.

There's a censored discussion of Sebastian Thrun ("He was CEO of Udacity").

Uber's lawyer asks Page how much Google invested in Uber. Page evades.

There's discussion of conflict between Levandowski and Chris Urmson. Levandowski wanted to be in charge. Page says Levandowski's contribution may have been negative.

There's more, but if there's anything exciting in there, it's in the censored sections.
I hate this line of reasoning, because it almost always end up asserting why America should not adopt socialist policy X, because socialist countries fail.

When it is pointed out that policy X is currently active in Sweden, France, or Japan, it is handwaved away by saying how these countries are too small/too big/too sparsely populated/too densely populated/culturally homogeneous/just plain culturally different.

Apparently Venezuela and Cuba have so much in common with the USA, unlike those exotic places like Canada or Sweden, whose culture we barely understand.
>> sourcing the bride

To be clear, this is not at all normal in Japan either (at least not in Tokyo or Osaka or anywhere other than very small companies with septuagenarian managers). No one prices matchmaking services into compensation considerations. Agree generally with the rest.
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>"Of all the myriad way a protien can fold, it happens to find one that induces the same malformation when it interacts with another protein."

It doesn't really "just happen", amyloids consist of peptides folded into beta-sheets and aggregates of these seem to be the most thermodynamically stable structures it is possible for polypeptide chains (regardless of sequence) to form:

"From a wide range of in vitro experiments on peptides and proteins we now know that the formation of amyloid structures is not a rare phenomenon associated with a small number of diseases but rather that it reflects a well-defined structural form of the protein that is an alternative to the native state — a form that may in principle be adopted by many, if not all, polypeptide sequences

[...]

These observations, therefore, have led to the remarkable conclusion that, at the concentrations present in living systems, the native states may not always represent the absolute free energy minima of the corresponding polypeptide chains — the native form of a protein could in some cases simply be a metastable monomeric (or functionally oligomeric) state that is separated from its polymeric amyloid form by high kinetic barriers" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24854788

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11535494
I don't like the explanation as a set of piecewise cases. this just refers to the current object context. this refers to the window at the top level because you're operating within `window`. There aren't "simple functions" and "object constructor functions", just functions, and the `new` keyword executes the function within the context of a new object. Event listeners are not a special case, it's just that the callback is executed from the context of the event -- which makes the difference between `function (e) { this }` and `e => this` much easier to understand.
True that Japanese companies should pay more. For what it's worth, it doesn't appear to have started. Nikkei ran a story today noting that summer bonuses (which are a thing) are down for the time in five years.
I would love to see the video that frame is taken from to watch the arc of the plane as it initiated go-around and missed a collision by just a few feet.
agreed, but it's a cool tutorial topic. I don't think anyone expects this to result in a useful OS, but it makes me contemplate learning about rust.
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Why do you need more than 100 developers for a project?

How much time did you spend finalizing the decision on each of them? Maybe it wasn't quite enough.

It would be hard to find one or two really good software engineers that would like to use my particular stack and approach.

Also, were they clear that they were supposed to be working for one company instead of doing freelance work? The tough thing about freelance software development is that the pay is often less but the expected output is about the same as a normal employee. But with less pay and no job security, freelance developers may have to take on multiple projects just for practicality sake.
All that's "really" required is patience and some mathematical maturity. It is a complete book for the most part, but if you already are familiar with concepts like sampling theory, calculus, and concepts like convolutions and signal processing you'll be better off.
Reminds me of the over-inflated house prices of Istanbul. (300% increase over the course of 5 years)

Perhaps prices aren't as dependent on "complex stock mechanics" as it is dependent on supply/demand. Demand being made up of increasing levels of wealth (or credit) and supply being made up of pure greed.
> I also have no idea how you'd sell a product that considerably reduces billable hours.

I think you'd want to sell it to the folks who are paying for those billable hours.
That was amazing. Thanks for linking it!
Everyone seems totally ok with this, I can't really understand why though?

Back in 2007 he was called on his absurd energy consumption and pledged he was going to do something about it. That right there, in isolation, is fine - he got busted doing (literally) the exact thing he was telling everyone else not to do and said he was going to fix it. Cool no worries, nice one Al.

Since then, not only is it still happening but it's gotten an order of magnitude worse AFTER he's taken fairly drastic steps to make his house 'green'.

I mean at the very least, shouldn't we be just a little pissed at him for this?
He's never actually been involved in _working_ towards any of those things, and has no specific expertise to do so. He just follows developments closely and talks about them a lot.

Basically he's just a fairly smart guy who's very afraid of dying.
The employees of Good Technology would most likely beg to differ.

https://venturebeat.com/2016/01/11/after-good-technologys-42...
Yup RTR is a great addition. It's so foundational it keeps slipping my mind to recommend.
Oh ya, some countries realize being vindictive twits is counterproductive. Anyways, I was just mentioning that states had their own laws here that provide a bit of protection, if not much.
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I can think of another reason why a handheld object would seem bigger and heavier when you're young and small, as opposed to when you're old and big...
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A sufficient opportunity to the followers of ghost games where you rush a ghost hero in Ghost Fire Skull Hero. You practice an illusory character of hero games which is only in your fancy and yet not in real or tangible form. It is with duel scope as it blazes fire on his super villains with addition of luxury car driving of death games.
The specific example that blows my mind is that:

<table>
<thead>
<tr>..
<tr>...
</table>

has an implicit tbody. Sure, there are some sane reason to have implicit values. And in some cases I think it is actually obvious what those tags would be. This case, however, does not appear to be obvious to me. It is just as likely that this was a table that has a header, but no body.

I don't fully understand why "existing documents" are relevant at all. Since you basically have to "opt in" to the new version by declaring the doctype, we could have had much cleaner semantics on a new doctype. This seemed to be the goal of the xhtml push a few years prior. I am not privy to all of the history of why that failed.

To directly answer, my goal for the spec of HTML would have been a spec with fewer special cases. Preferrably, one that made less of a surprise between people that know XML and HTML.
> To use an imperfect analogy from corporate finance, you could think of the fork as a spinoff. For most of PayPal’s life, it was owned by eBay. Holders of the EBAY ticker owned the parent company eBay, which encompassed eBay proper as well as PayPal. On the day of the spinoff, eBay stockholders received, for each EBAY share they owned, one PYPL share. At the same time, they got to keep their existing EBAY shares.

This is a misleading analogy, because EBAY holders can only be granted PYPL shared because EBAY owned PYPL. So unless BCH was an existing entity before the fork, which was covered under BTC already, this analogy doesn’t capture what happened here.

We’re not talking about companies, were talking about distributed databases. Databases contain information, and can be copied, as opposed to a company. A better analogy would be someone scraping Twitter, making a copy called Twooter with all past tweets from Twitter, and then forking off from there with their own “twoots”. In other words: it’s a copy, not a stock split.
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Have the street cars and lamp-posts changed their lighting to LED?
Why do you say "zero share" of the same sales channels? It's literally the exact same audience/"customers" as BTC. 100% share.
No, exterminated. The book describes the killing of many complete cities, like Jericho in 6:21

> And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.

Ai in 8:24

>And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword

And the Gezer you keep clinging to in 10:33

>Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.

I have no idea why it later says they didn't slay them. There is still enough description of putting everyone to the sword to call it extermination.
I don't think Airbnb's management is intentionally ignoring the law -- rather, it's just that AirBnb got too big to look at its toes... should definitely work on improving internal communications, and penalizing those customer service ppl responsible.
Unfortunately in capitalism, the only carrot you have is profit. The question then becomes: How do we make "meaning" profitable? I really don't mean this as snark; if you could find a way to have helping the mentally ill increase shareholder value, you could probably make it work. I'm not arguing that this pursuit isn't horribly broken from a humanistic standpoint, merely that it might work and would be a lot more feasible than changing something which has become fundamental to how our world functions within this lifetime.
Almost all countries baby boomed after WW2, not just westernized ones.
my favorite google ux story is that the "ux study" behind drive.google.com switching to some weird, pseudo filesystem with double click to open (in a webpage!) was based on a user study with 12, twelve, participants. half of them were not completely dumbfounded by a web page that required you to double click to interact with an element. not completely dumbfounded meant that they either clicked twice initially (2 IIRC), or clicked once, waited fewer than 5 seconds, and then tried double clicking.

the big joke, at least while I was there, was that ux for random tools kept changing because they kept hiring ux engineers who needed to change something, anything, just to get promoted.
Agreed. Still, I expected he doesn't really need a job and if he takes one is to advance his futurist agenda, not to do gmail features. Maybe he can't do the work himself but what I expected to hear is he is a leader or at least a sort of VC for singularity-like projects to be integrated in Alphabet or something. This seems... very down to earth.
Yeah then it becomes even more interesting to me ;) especially when it comes to NUMA etc...
Not everyone lives under a strong rule of law that we enjoy and take for granted or has access to stable currency. But, it's kind of ironic that if things turn really south everywhere, the infrastructure needed to maintain blockchains will go also go down. Exactly when such a thing would be pretty handy.
not likely. corporate payouts happen all the time based on share ownership.
I know lots of anti-vaxers when it comes to their children but none who are withholding vaccinations from their pets. Odd that they are trying to prevent something that has never been diagnosed in an animal.
If it was a bad experience for him, from which computers were a respite, as he said: i understood that he suffered ostracism, social isolation, bullying, and felt exculded and stressed-- unappreciated-- ridiculed-- called a nerd in the negative sense-- that sort of thing. That is painful. If we have an industry made up of men who experienced this in adolescence or in high dchool or even in college, that would be a lot of pain pushed down and covered up with the usual toughness and lack of empathy - a self-protecting measure in the face of abuse. I can see that it is formative for many people, and can be hard to switch off when one finally ascends to accomplishment, wealth, and power. I get that, and I think people should feel angry and hurt by ill treatment, but then try to reshape it somehow with effort into empathy for others who are being treated worse. I'm not saying it is easy, but as the intellectual elite, i think the industry ought to give it a real try-- set an example in a time when examples of empathy and support are more needed than ever.
Any savy Java developer knows how to AOT compile to native code, if that really matters.

There are plenty of JDKs that support it, and even Oracle is finally adding support for it with Java 9, initially only for Linux x64.

By Java 10 timeframe no one that only knows about OpenJDK and not the several other JDKs can state that Java starts slow vs C, because both will be AOT compiled to native code, loading native .so files.
Canonical are rolling the dice and hoping Oracle don't go after them, just as they rolled the dice on the patents around multimedia they bundle but Red Hat and Fedora don't. The wisdom of relying on the generosity is left as an exercise for the reader.
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Hasn't the NVIDIA kernel module been closed source essentially forever?
That's very different!
Honestly, Bitcoin is proving to the world why we need financial regulation.
Not really. Some plants reproduce via wind action. The original "flower" might not have looked much like a flower - it might simply have been a receptacle to catch pollen blowing in on the wind and/or a location where pollen was produced.

At that point anything that happened to brush past could pickup pollen then accidentally deposit it in a female flower somewhere else. Even a tiny advantage would escalate. You can imagine things like nectar originally being an accidental thinning of cell walls, allowing sap (or the equivalent) to leak out inside the flower purely as a side-effect of the flower's development. Attracting insects would be a further accidental side-effect but a beneficial one.

I'm not saying this is how flowers and pollenating insects evolved, merely that there are plenty of plausible scenarios that require nothing but random chance and the re-purposing of existing structures.

A failure of human imagination is no argument against evolution.
fantastic, that is at least one point for the team! way to go!
we are capable of making measurements now, and they show undeniable, massive improvement. i'm not even sure what your objection is, it's like questioning what addition means when someone tells you 2+2=4
> That's presumably not loading any libraries at all though

Sure it is loading libraries, everything that System.out.println() depends on.
Wow. How can you even have that kind of an SLA? Like what if you happen to be in the shower or in the middle of traffic or if your Internet drops out or something? How do these SLAs work?
For an n+k Reed Solomon code, you can recover from k erasures, but only from k/2 errors.
So:

1/ Fix something that in ten years hadn't been able to deliver stable RAID code and only found out this year their scrub option corrupts data instead of repairing it? Well, that's going to be trivial.

2/ Convince Larry Ellison to give something away to competitors.

3/ Convince Tim Cook to give something away to competitors.

Did you have any other ideas? Pull unicorns out of their butts?
400k is like the fully-loaded cost of a single engineer if you're trying to hire "top talent" and actually get them to come work for you (i.e. they're valuing any equity you're offering at the likely result of $0).
There has been a recurring theme in the comments: "You don't just replace HTML with something else and non standard overnight."

Perhaps, I should clarify... In my blog, I don't call for replacement of any current web technology. I am simply proposing an alternative client language that would exist side-by-side with current tech. Purely from technical perspective I believe QML could be this language, because unlike HTML, it was purpose-designed from the beginning as a UI language.

It does not mean rewriting browsers from scratch either. QML and the Qt Quick library share many aspects and technologies with any HTML browser - a JavaScript core, a web access network stack, utilizing native graphics acceleration APIs. So already there would be many common shared components. In my idea, QML would be just another frontend (language) reusing those components. Although implementing QML on top of current tech (HTML+JS+WebGL) is also within the realm of possibility, it's entirely not what I had in mind and would defeat the purpose.

I also don't want to add any non-standard extensions or plugins to existing browsers. What I would like to see, is QML being adopted as a new web standard. I realize this does not happen overnight and that there are political, commercial, licensing and consensual prerequisites that need to be solved first. It would be interesting to hear the thoughts of Digia and KDAB (the companies behind Qt) on this.

From a technical standpoint, I don't see any obstacles why this could not happen. QML is conceptually a simple language and I think it could be standardized relatively easily. The next step would be to standardize the library of UI elements (Qt Quick) or its minimal viable subset for version 1.
I just never checked the box.

"Have you ever been convicted of a felony?"

I would just leave it blank. I figured if anyone asked, then I'd humbly explain the circumstances and I could take my chances from there...

Nobody ever asked, and I went about my life. Obviously YMMV.
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I want to hear the epilogue to that story, but disappointingly the story seems to have gone quiet since it was reported.

Is Max-Hervé George still making 68% ROI per year at Aviva's expense? Did Aviva weasel out of it? Did they pay him off at a level he deemed acceptable? Did they go with the economical alternative of hiring a hit-man?
>>> Snapchat just needs to allow you find and add friends more easily. That's what's holding them back.

Not really. There is a balance which needs to be achieved. I have around > 500 friends in Facebook/Instagram but i don't really care much about what he/she shared every day.

Having lots of people makes the social media experience better in first few years but not long-term.
Delegating responsibility for countless tasks like any good CEO and focusing his energy on things he is good at?

Does he really need to be the guy approving bonuses to employees and coordinating details of investments in 3rd party companies?
Java 9 has a linker, you have remove everything that is not needed and have a application specific runtime.

On top of that, if lucky enough to be on an Linux x64 system, you can AOT compile to native code.
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Right, so could you recover from k/2 erasures with k/4 errors?
We're also some who regard the whole concept of "the Singularity" as being a quasi-religious crackpot theory no matter how you slice it.

Mind you, it's a powerful meme. Religious tradition abounds with references to some future event that will forcibly clean up the mess and propel us back to Eden. Some of the most prominent -isms of the 20th century subscribed to similar ideas. I guess our brains are a willing host to that kind of stuff.

On top of that, the technological version of the end-of-history cult has the added attraction of whispering into our ears that maybe we .. as programmers and masters of the machine .. may just be able place ourselves on the right side of history and become immortal citizens in future tech utopia. A pantheon of gods, for all practical purposes. That's a seducing idea.
Well, I guess we have different a different understanding of addiction. Building a great habit-forming app (what Hooked is about) is slightly different than selling crack-cocaine.

I would argue one is morally acceptable (building the app) and the other isn't (selling crack-cocaine).
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Am I missing the part where PDFs are said to be bad? I read it as the structure of the content within the pdf is what is problematic

> The PDF is unusable given the line numbers, headers, footers, etc
And sadly this lack of socialization and singular focus on computers is often incorrectly attributed to "being on the spectrum" rather than being what it is, a person who withdrew into themselves and computers as the result of maltreatment by their peers in school.
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There's thousands of people like me checking every minute if we can deposit bch to sell. There's millions waiting and I'm hoping to be the first.
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