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Digg was the most dramatic I've seen. Digg v4 rollout managed to completely annihilate the user base within a few days and it ended up being sold for pennies a few months later.
And this here is exactly why I don't like Google Search. It will return 100 different results for 100 different people all searching for the same string.
Funnily enough, XFS is the only file system on Linux where I've lost data. Back in the day, the wisdom was to stay away from it if you were in an iffy power situation because it would serve zeroes if there was a write to a file near a power loss (I.e. you wouldn't get old file or new file but something else)

Having had that happen to me I always used some extN and didn't lose any existing files.

Of course that's a decade or more ago and I may be misremembering but a cursory Google looks like other people encountered something like it too.
It was Apple that insisted on the limit.
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Alphabet's margins in fact are not down in any meaningful sense. They're basically unchanged for years.

2016 net income margin: 21.5%

2015 net income margin: 21.7%

2014 net income margin: 21.3%

2013 net income margin: 20.4%

2012 net income margin: 21.6%
> there's no fundamental problem in achieving feature parity

Sure, but if you're going to make that argument, all software is equivalent, because you can just implement the stuff you want and delete the stuff that gets in the way.
I also would like to know whether it makes sense to move from Denmark to there in terms of economics.
People would still want to eat 'real' meat, I'd venture. It would probably be a luxury thing, like shark fin soup, is my guess.
> That being said I think there is a minimum level of effort, intelligence, and resilience required to take advantage of certain lucky opportunities if they present themselves.

Lucky you for having been born with willpower and smarts, then.
I think he means free search results.
That's really cool! I got very frustrated with SwiftKey when I tried to use it to text my Chinese friends.
"I'm impressed that you managed to navigate this area. It sounds like you have a very intelligent approach."

To be honest, it's likely more survivor bias than skill or successful execution of a preconceived plan. This is important to recognize as I'm asked a few times a year how to end up in the place I'm in, but I don't think there is a solid path to do so, nor am I in a position to give advice beyond the standard 'think hard, work hard, keep your eyes out for opportunities, pay yourself first'.

Just saying - in case anyone is reading this in the hope of steering their career one way or the other, don't take the answers I gave here as anything more than an anecdote :)
The problem is most people probably don't agree with your definition of force and theft. I also don't know how you define the natural and why it should matter whether something is natural or not.
Yeah, that's an incredibly stupid idea–and I say that as a big fan of reasonable limits on free speech.

Creating "free speech zones" seems like a surefire way to start telling everyone to "take it to the free speech zone" and stop annoying "normal people" with your ideas. It's like the wet dream of these people that have started calling citizens consumers, even in a political context, and advocate the criminal prosecution of peaceful protesters when they don't all stay on the sidewalks.

FWIW, I first remember hearing the term in the context of the Beijing Olympics, which should tell you everything you need to know about that idea.
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"NYT could easily up their game" smacks of "I could build that app in a weekend." It's not so easy.
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I think what it changes is that it isn't necessarily condescending. It can also be an ironic recognition of a real dynamic.

Effective startups focus their innovation on a limited number of things. If you're really innovating in areas A and B, you pick the safe, boring choices in C-Z. That means that in C-Z, you benefit a lot from experience. The people with lots of experience are older. It can feel weird to turn over a lot of power to people who are much older, especially when a) the nominal progression to adulthood involves getting away from that, and b) it involves admitting there are important things you don't really understand, which is a hard admission for founders who have spent their lives mainly distinguished for being super smart.

That has to be uncomfortable, and so I admire Page and Brin for using humor to deal with uncomfortable truth rather than sweeping it under the rug.
No he didn't, that's Nicolas Sadirac.
An off topic nitpick: In the UK strictly speaking carers by definition are not paid. People often say "carer" when they mean "care worker". This is important because care workers have legal rights which are often ignored, and because carers are often not identified (and thus don't receive the statutory help they're entitled to) because people think "carer" means "paid employee".
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I have a problem with it. Destroying jobs because of tax implications of a death is unacceptable.
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Anyone have details on how exactly he did it, and how he got caught? I'm not a lottery player but I'm intrigued by the fact that one state had refused to pay him because they thought it was fraudulent. What was their cue?
The only thing that seems to have worsened is image search, when search by image was first added it was easy to get other copies of an image, now with AI magic it seems to find results in the same category better but not the exact image you're looking for.
I think you meant Murphy's law. Moore's law is the one about transistor density doubling every x years.
Are we really to the point where Nazi ideologies are spreading like wildfire, to the point that their "intolerance" will be seized by our "tolerance?"

To me it seems like the opposite is happening. Nazi ideologies are marginalized and meaningless, yet propped up like some huge threat to us... like they might take over. And this is being used as justification for limiting free speech, in a hyper-politically correct society where even micro-aggressions could be categorized as "hate speech."

Perhaps we could just recognize and acknowledge that, while reprehensible, it's not like Nazi believers are anything more than a rounding error in normal society. And then move on with our days.
Most of Russian population insists they want nothing to do with Europe or European values - all of them. Does landmass outweighs their opinion for you?
Seems like the company they bought has the tech, infrastructure and apps. [1]

I'm sure it will provide value to some and not others. Overall I believe it's smart move for Disney.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/maurybrown/2014/07/07/the-bigge...
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>>It can deny the use of it's services to people using ad-blockers.

Many news websites in India did this recently. Of which many have rolled back. Why? There is always a competitor to which your customers can go. And when they do, you lose users to them, may be even permanently.

Sooner or later you realize its better they come to you, instead of going to competition.

Isn't this the whole point behind Android? You want your OS to run on most of the worlds mobile devices, even if you give it away for free, you still get traffic in return.
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A lot of the times I saw that it wasn't management having a lack of trust in developers it was more believing that they needed external affirmation of what they wanted to do.

I believe this is mostly the case of cowardice of making decisions on their own and owning up to the results. If they hire consultants and they mess things up (whether they do or not) they can point a finger at someone.
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or a passionate user who had a great experience?! I love finding solutions which require less 'square peg round hole'. Unfortunately, rare these days when piecing together a stack w/ the myriad of platforms/frameworks/etc.
Amazon hides a lot of its profits as R&D expenses. I'm not an accountant, but I think it's sort of a tax dodging scheme. Refrain from paying dividends, pump all of your would-be-profits into R&D, and essentially 'break even' on paper every quarter.
Kind of like Google Glass.
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No never heard of this - I work in very different fields though. There are initiatives enough left and right, but they're mostly bottom-up, with the majority fizzling out after the one or two persons driving up get other positions or different types of projects. Which is a chicken and egg problem; many people don't want to risk their projects on something they have no control of and might collapse as they've seen happen often to others. Maybe I'm just cynical having been through a few cycles of this, it would be great if someone did succeed. I just don't see the incentives. Quality in software engineering is a hobby interest, it's not vital to the success of research, or of a researcher. I know this causes a major cognitive dissonance shock to those who are heavily software-focused like most on this site; and of course it did the same to me, for many years even. I guess I've evolve along the lines of most humanitarian aid workers. You start out thinking you'll fix this once and for all in the next year or two, and 20 years later you find yourself being quite happy that you managed to make some difference to a village of a few families.
You're a couple of years behind...
It does not belong to Asia either. Russians distance themselves from the both insisting on their own, superior God chosen ways.
This reflects the current situation at Apple, interestingly.
Cleartrip, an Indian startup (must have grown by now - this is from some years ago) used/uses Common Lisp. I know via a friend who worked there and wrote a lot of the CL code for their site.

I've read that ITA Software (which Google bought some time ago), also used some Lisp, maybe Common Lisp.

Plus if you go on to sites like Franz.com (makers of Allegro CL) and LispWorks, you will probably find lists of clients of theirs.
This ^^^. My Dad is always talking into his phone to send text messages. I really want to tell him, "Dad, you're doing it wrong. Nobody wants to hear you narrate your text messages."
There is no "we" unless there is unanimous decision. And practically it is not possible for nation states. You may suggest "As a society, majority have to decide.. " if you are a believer of Democracy.

Edit: I know this may sound just technicality, I just dislike use of "we" in politics.
>Or even more critically, everyone has seen everything they want to see on Netflix, and Netflix itself cannot produce enough original content fast enough to justify the sub. Especially when they are competing with what is often free and immediately accessible.

What difficulty exactly would they have to produce "original content fast enough"?

Content is produced by independent teams. It's not like one show is holding others back.
The battle for the future success of Google isn't going to be over advertising. Google already knows they need to be more diverse than that. And they already are, even if we look no farther than their cloud platforms.

When the article said that Search is the only product that Google was a winner on, it seems to have forgotten about gmail. And how a large number of enterprise customers are moving their internal email to gmail, and thereby their Office Suite to Docs. If Google fills in the gaps that custom software development fills in the enterprise (small department level workflow apps, content management, industry-specific forms, processes, and data flows, etc)... THAT is what will make a whole new Google over the next 10 years.
Yeah... I recently uncovered a way to bypass the tor browser bundle proxy on some linux flavors [0]. Unfortunately, The bounty from the tor project isn't nearly as much[1], but at least I can sleep at night.

[0] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-703-released

[1] https://hackerone.com/torproject
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The one you are looking for is student/faculty ratio. They used to promote that until they realized they could puff up their ratio by including staff as well. Similar to the unemployment rate excluding people who can work but have stopped looking.

SO much BS in the US.
I thought the ending paragraph was flawed. Betamax showed the weakness of the 'go-it-alone' strategy.

FTA:
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I know in the past NixOS did the same for the ZFS kernel module: prior to NixOS installation, it was able to download the ZFS source code, build it and then load it from inside the installer Live CD/USB while it was running, and this would require just a couple of commands. I don't know if this is still true nowadays or if they just distribute the ZFS kernel module directly in the Live installer.
Or people could read the articles. For most topics don't want to bother to have a discussion with someone that only knows what was in the TLDR comment. Maybe it's a little too Aristotelian for your tastes but I think taking the time to read the article is a decent barometer for genuine interest in discussion. If I wanted to read lulzy drive by comments on articles based of what was in a TLDR I would not frequent HN.
Who deploys production systems on a large scale with a "private" build of the filesystem code? I want my production systems to run on code that is being used by as many people as possible; I don't want patched kernels, I don't want privately built kernel packages, I don't want a unique system that only I've ever seen. I want a system that is as boring as possible (while still providing the functionality I need to effectively do my job). I want a system with a bunch of people complaining about it and asking questions about it online, so that when problems arise, I can find answers.

Now that ZFS is available on Ubuntu and seems to have some adoption, I guess it's a reasonable choice for some. I'm still a bit iffy on it. I don't really want to add license concerns to my list of worries.
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They now have my email. There are these things called "relational databases" that allow one to collate lots of other data with a unique identifier. There are organizations that do nothing but gather that data and resell it. I do my best to stay out of that marketplace.

What benefit is there to me to provide any seller of consumer goods with my personal data?
Can we expect such Judgement from Chinese regime?
Call me conservative but "Can get stuck in irreversible read-only mode if only one device is present" doesn't equate to "okay for production use" when I'm considering deploying a filesystem; likewise "device replace" being "mostly OK".
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Or because Google paid them. Google already pays over a billion dollars a year to Apple.

I find Apple making AMP suck less for pay, to be much more likely than the Apple developers doing it because they think this is good for the web.
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First, as a non-lawyer, I would say that it is implied by the Seventh Amendment. Second, your premise is flawed, as according to the Ninth Amendment, there can be fundamental rights that are not explicitly listed.
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HBO Go might be okay (I've never used it), but it's a rare day that I can watch a full episode of anything on HBO Now (Xbox One) without "We're unable to play this video right now. Please try again later". Netflix is the only streaming service which has performed flawlessly for me over and over again. You'd think it was a solved technology problem by now, but Amazon, Hulu and HBO Now still seem to have playback issues for me on a semi-regular occurrence.
Or a brisk walk to and from the office.
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There exists a free browser that can be built from the Google Chrome source repository, but "Chrome" isn't it.

Mozilla has similarly and previously made their branding intentions clear.
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Write Once, Run Everywhere != every line is 100% compatible with every platform.

Really any more the only things that aren't "cross-platform" are bugs, and very new stuff.
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> Amazon hides a lot of its profits as R&D expenses. I'm not an accountant, but I think it's sort of a tax dodging scheme.

That you're not an accountant must be the reason you don't understand spending on R&D isn't hiding profit. If you spend the money, it's not available as profit.

Now, you use the term "hide" in relation to profit - which blatantly implies illegal activity. If that's the case, please provide the financial statements that you used to derive that immense legal claim. Amazon is a half a trillion dollar corporation with a vast number of very wealthy shareholders that would love to see all of this stolen profit that is being kept from them.
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thanks - I'm going to try that. I'm in Italy right now and a show I was watching isn't available!
It's true that Google search has some fancy features that DDG doesn't have, but I have found that the core search results are very similar. DDG has become a solid search engine with some of its own more specialised fancy features.

Sometimes DDG feels less convoluted. Not just because of Google's excessive ad overload, but also because Google guesses too much for my taste. They think they know me better than I do and that turns out to be incorrect often enough to be annoying.

Where Google does have an unassailable lead is in maps. Their "explore" feature is extremely useful for finding places to eat & drink. Directions are great. Google maps is simply excellent.
Regarding things like serialising/deserialising, I don't think there's much issue 'philosophically': in the case of Lisp's `read`/`write`, we can spot the ambiguity and deal with it by writing separate functions, for example:

- `serialise`/`deserialise` to produce/consume machine-readable data; must be mutually inverse (which rules out your example of functions).

- `pretty-print` for human consumption; has no inverse.

As a MVP, these could just be wrappers around `read` and `write` (macros would prevent any runtime overhead); the names convey the intended meaning. Later on we could start enforcing some checks, but since Lisp is dynamically typed, we'd have to do runtime tag-checking (e.g. "if type of 'X' is 'function', throw an error"). A static type system/checker would be better.

More generally, each application should be responsible for parsing its input into a domain-specific model, with machine-checked types. A pair of communicating applications may choose to delegate that responsibility to some common library, but they should not assume that their input can be trusted since it's 'coming from that other system'; e.g. they shouldn't pass around a `String` of input as if it were a domain object, and mangle it by pull out particular characters, concatenating things, etc. That `String` should be parsed into its components ASAP, and those should be passed around.

You're right that "apps hungarian" is another possible approach: slightly better than just documentation, but still not manchine-checked. I think the history of apps hungarian degenerating into systems hungarian is another example of this type/representation conflation.
>When we eat meat, we don't value the fact that the cells we're eating were once part of an animal, we mostly value the taste

You'd be surprised. We even have different names and preferences for different age stages of the animal, different varieties of the animal (regional etc), etc.
> I would quit my job and finish my degree tomorrow if there was a "no bullshit, we'll just get you your degree as fast as possible" option.

Have you checked out WGU? It's online only, acredited, fast-if-you-are-fast paced. My only criticism is that the BS in IT: Software Development does not have a strong math background. WGU also offers a master's in IT Security. A lot of the classes will double as certifications, too. I think you'll get a lot less bullshit here than normally possible.
Well, the word comes from the ancient Greek "τέχνη" (techne) which meant "craft" -- it basically meant creating things in the real world rather than "ἐπιστήμη" (episteme) which meant abstract knowledge, which is what philosophers were after.
I'm not sure if I read it here, but there was a great example given on how to answer people with approach of "if you are not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide".

Using this logic, just recently I somewhat won an argument with my fiancee. She always believes that I'm hiding something on my phone because she doesn't have PIN to it and because I'm unwilling to give it to her, she assumes the worst.

Therefore I made a bet. I asked her what is she doing in bathroom? She answered she does what everyone else's is doing: #1, #2 or showering. I replied you must be doing something wrong or maybe illegal, since you always not only close the door, but you lock it as well! We had short argument back and forth about obviously how it is not about hiding something, but rather about enjoying your own time in privacy, and I think she kind of got it.

We have a bet in place for 3 months now that when she leaves the door wide open while in bathroom, I will give her code to my cellphone. So far I haven't had the need to give it out just yet :)
Yea i am at 10000 now, but did not want to redo my finances :P

Also I would like to add that my friends who do not speak German are making all making less than 8333 (excluding those at google or a bank).
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I was a bit surprised by the fact that all of the judges' opinions, which are embedded in the article, were in English.

But it turns out that English is the official language of the Indian Supreme Court, and the court has even gone so far as to rule that it need not provide a Hindi translation of its rulings:

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation...

It seems kind of bizarre to me that as an American English speaker half way across the world, I'm in a better position to read and comprehend the Indian Supreme Court's rulings than a great number of non-English-speaking Indians.
Good job!

If it's not a secret, how much did they pay to you? Seems like this could be considered, at least, a medium severity, and the top bounty they gave so far is only $500. If you don't wanna disclose that, that's perfectly understandable. I'm just curious.