skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's not more expensive for the company, just the financiers

This is not how spreads work. (The problem is related to determining where the burden of a tax falls.)

If an investor is willing to pay $10 for a company, an IPO gives the company $9 and the banker $1. That same investor would pay $8 for 80% of what those $10 would have bought. The price to the company is, out the door, lower.

I’ll give the SPAC sponsors credit for beating the VCs and investment bankers at the fee game. They get a wider spread than the bankers. (IPO fees aren’t allowed, by law, to go to 20%.) And they get VC carry for what’s essentially a flip. Except it’s better than carry—there’s no hurdle! They could lose 80% of investors’ money and they’ll still get their 20%.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is neither legal nor securities advice.
Uhm, that's how the AW, AW S1 and AW S2 run so that's perfectly fine.

He's not comparing it to a Pebble.
> the dangerous territory of < $3 a share.

that's only dangerous until the stock does a reverse split.
Not just the body, apparently the screen itself.
In regards to sidewalks, is that true? Serious question. I've been to several European countries, but never gave a second though to sidewalks, which leads me to believe they weren't noticeably better or worse. With all the older city centers, I would imagine there are some pretty bumpy and uneven road and sidewalk surfaces?
I don't understand your complaint at all. Phrasing the question differently doesn't deter people who are guessing, but it does deter people who don't understand what is being asked! People clearly (myself included) get confused at those questions and think they're incorrect - so change the question. Doing so doesn't make it harder to guess the answer, but it does make it easier to show that you know the right answer.
That was unintentional. ;)

It's just that usually M&A is only about money. Employees are just a cost item.
s/unexplainably/inexplicably
Which is funny, because those people can easily circumvent these measures, and crawl Google anyway.

The only one hurt are the users.
duck.com is owned by Google.
What's interesting about this is that HTC has a 10 year licensing deal with Apple that expires in 2022 [1]

Wonder if that deal came with a poison pill. I doubt Apple wants to be a counterparty to a mobile licensing deal with Google at this point.

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2012/11/10/apple-htc-patent-settlem...
There are a lot of things that are shocking to watch with the perspective of time.

Like this article, from 1993, about the 'Anti-Soviet warrior' Bin Laden:

http://www.businessinsider.com/1993-independent-article-abou...

I find it fascinating.
>Professor Krueger suggests that the increase in opioid prescriptions could account for about 20 percent of the decline in men’s labor-force participation from 1999 to 2015, and 25 percent of the observed decline in women’s labor-force participation.

It seems likely that lack of work and resulting depression would drive drug use as well. Depressed people often "self medicate".
Sarcasm doesn't always convey correctly over text, especially when there are folks around who don't know that this is not the first time Google has been down this road.
Roads themselves are a big ask. Sidewalks are a rounding error.
Good thing too. Because Pebble owners know what time it is when they wake up in the middle of the night. Apple customers have to pick up their phone or ask alexa, I mean homepod.
Try indenting those lines two spaces.
+1 for title
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Taipei

Found this comment which I am going to blindly trust. ;) So, for reference, the HTC salaries were in the range of 50-70k NTD/month.

"90% of people working in Taipei make from 22-68k a month. College grads often make 22k a month out of College and those with a Master Degree start at 30,000NT a month. They spend about 5 years to make 40k a month. An Engineer might make 50k-75k a month. The only reason the Average is skewed to 70k is because Taipei has millionaires and billionaires that skew these numbers. It in NO WAY represents what the everyday working Taiwanese or Foreigner generally makes.

TAIPEI WAGES

Min Wage 18,000

Factory Work 18,000-20,000

Typical Office Worker 22,000-40,000

Nurse 30,000-40,000

Taxi Driver 60,000-70,000

Flight Attendant 50,000-60,000?

Foreign English Teacher 55,000-70,000

Engineer 50,000-70,000

Doctor 150,000-400,000

Foreigner Specialist with Foreign Income---150,000-300,000"
From the article:

>Adelman sued the officer and DART.
# Go parameters
GOCMD=go
GOBUILD=$(GOCMD) build
GOCLEAN=$(GOCMD) clean
GOTEST=$(GOCMD) test
GOGET=$(GOCMD) get
BINARY_NAME=mybinary
BINARY_UNIX=$(BINARY_NAME)_unix

A little bit of Clean Code education is needed here :)
Why on earth do you want to introduce so unnecessary abstraction?
If those would use a lot of switches which you don't want to duplicate and just possibly want it to change in one place, I would say OK. But you don't even use it that way:

$(GOBUILD) -o $(BINARY_NAME) -v ./...

CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 $(GOBUILD) -o $(BINARY_UNIX) -v

So this doesn't make sense at all. You should write the commands as it is and it would be a lot easier to read an already hard-to-read syntax Makefiles anyway.
Ask HN: How would you approach becoming the digital hub of your town/small city?
Imagine trying to become a place for your fellow citizen to consume information or services. How would approach such endeavour? What services would prioritize? What feature would you consider important for growth?

Also imagine this as a PRIVATE project: offering public services like a government service would do is out of question.

Would you cather a specific segment of the citizenship first? If so which one?

As any small city think that the average population is not very digital-friendly.

Disclaimer: this is not a request for ideas of any kind, I am wondering how would you go about digitally conquering your town. For science. (Or fun and games)
Facebook's Harm Is Taking Life Out of Context
Been using Arlo cameras for years now. This only happens to me when the camera is misconfigured or the motion is directly toward the camera.
Where are your 2 dedicated cameras?
Many positions that require higher education (unlike software engineering) don't even touch those figures in some EU countries.

Or is Taipei that expensive?

edit: saw the comment bellow
Seems like the rate limit of api.foursquare.com has been exceeded.
because so many people are horrible
The rumour at the time was that Google fully intended to enter the hardware business. they wanted to keep Motorola forever and didn't just buy them for patents, but Samsung threw a hissy fit and threatened to drop android entirely if Google was going to compete with them directly. Moto was sold as part of a deal with samsung (samsung intro'd a tablet with a very microsoft-y UI shortly before google sold motorola, and after the sale the software was re-done to be much closer to stock android)

Presumably, with the Pixel line going head-to-head with the Galaxy S last year the situation has changed enough that Google no longer fears that Samsung will ditch Android. It's also worth noting that the rumour here is that Google will buy specific manufacturing and hardware assets from HTC, but will not buy the brand. So it's less of a "buying the company and keeping the parts they want" situation, and more of a "buy only the parts they want" situation.
> What matters is that people in general are biased. It is unreasonable to anticipate that they will act otherwise. Do you agree with that?

Yes.

So whenever people start discussing policies which benefit one race over another, I give them the finger. Whether they're "Black Power" or "White Supremacists", its all the same to me. Unfair advantages towards one race will always be met with skepticism from me.

I'm not an idiot. There will always be selfish people who want to advance their own race above all others. And my response to them, whether they're Black, White, Yellow, Brown, Red or Purple, is the same. A giant middle finger.

My political aim is for equality for all.

> There are policy choices which must be made by governments in which there is no option which will result in equal benefit to all races. Indeed, there is no definitive way to even measure that which everyone would agree to. Do you agree with that statement?

Of course. The world isn't perfect, and I don't expect perfect policy decisions to be made all the time.

Take for example the current opioid epidemic. By and large, Opioid deaths have shown a great correlation to rural white women deaths. So any Opioid related legislation will naturally benefit rural white women more than other races and subgroups. (See here: https://wire.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/women-bear-greater...)

However, the Opioid epidemic affects us all. So I would support any fair legislation that deals with Opioids across the country (even if disproportionally, rural white women would get the primary benefit).

So even if "one race" or subgroup gets an unbalanced benefit (and in this case rural white women), the general cause of destroying the Opioid epidemic is a cause I can rally behind. Some issues affect us all, even if they affect some of us unequally. And that's where the power of fair governance comes into play.

Problems in our culture generally for some reason only plague one race or subculture at a time. Its the result of an imperfect world. So I understand that.

> I certainly haven't given you any reason to believe I care about the dominance of my race above all else.

"Stop the tide of changing racial demographics."

You said it, not me. You said the wall is a racial issue. Fundamentally, the wall is an immigration issue, but YOU chose to turn it into a racial issue.

At a certain point, when someone quacks like a white-supremacist, I start to think they're a white-supremacist. A typical conservative would have kept the discussion racially neutral, but YOU chose to turn it into a race issue.

If you want me to think of you differently, choose your words more wisely.
I agree. If it's not a spouse, it's an elderly parent or grandparent that might need help. If it's work, they can pound sand, but if it's family, I don't mind being available when needed.

I ordered the new watch. It will be my first, so I'm pretty excited to check it out. I hope it motivates me to write apps again.
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> A good example are Georgia and Ukraine: crises were created out of nothing to keep a festering boil on Russia’s ass.

I'm ukrainian, can you tell me more? You know how maidan started? It was a peaceful protest and if cops simply ignored it, nothing would happen.

Instead they did this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-talnbWQDpI

This caused a bigger protest and response was the same. And etc and etc.

At some moment they started to kidnap protesters from the hospitals. Then one of protesters have been found dead near the river. Another found in the wood with plastic bag on his head and they took out his intestines.

> created out of nothing to keep a festering boil on Russia’s ass

There been reasons for it.

You know, I've been a pro-russian ukrainian all my life. I didn't liked ukrainian language(I'm from russian speaking part) and still can't speak it. But when russians started it propaganda campaign I started hate EVERYTHING about russia.

Unlike Russia Today russian speaking propaganda was much dirtier and much more retarded. One they showed a magnet from speaker on TV and said that it was a bomb with HIV dropped by ukrainian aircraft.

So... I wanted to say: fuck your "good example". Because isn't good for non-retarded person.
idk, still works pretty well.

(transitive) To let loose, to free from restraints.
(intransitive) Of a grip or hold, to let go.
Makes sense. Own the hardware and the software and create a seamless experience. It's what Apple has been doing for years. Hopefully, they can pull that off if that's indeed the aim: I might consider a Google/HTC device if they pull it off and heck it might be running Fuschia and not android and that'd be compelling to me.
I'm just saying, don't subscribe for slavery!
They could, though then there would be more trust issues about who hosts and controls the database. A database of which every participant keeps a copy, and with strong guarantees about consistency between the copies, has pretty obvious attractions.

I am definitely not saying blockchain is the only or even the best way to achieve that! Just that this helps explain its appeal
Just PR? Really?

Isn't drag essentially quadratic to speed? Isn't needed input energy also quadratic to speed, while momentum is linear to both mass and speed? Hardness aside don't you have much harder hitting bullets with these heavy elements?
Nice! Are there any plans to document their existence in the Build Encyclopedia[0]? Or is the idea that each company should vendor the build rules for languages like Go?

[0] https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/be/overview.html
From your list I have had no experience with in app purchases or client side sql.

I had a fair amount of trouble with push notifications on android (callbacks not being called etc), but those issues were eventually resolved (and had no issues with iOS).

Everything else on your list I found much simpler &a quicker than working with the native platforms
Yeah probably. When I checked just now it looked OK everywhere except Tesltra in Australia. https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/www.independent.co.uk
Its a good question to ask if the regulation is more expensive than the scamming.
Here's my macro:

https://i.imgur.com/zkaxakJ.png

It just types out whatever is in my clipboard. I use it for copying and inserting credit card numbers and passwords, since some sites don't allow you to paste into those text fields.
When Larry Page goes to the Bahamas, they don't take the company's treasury with them.

Who exactly are the developers going to do with the ICO money? From the looks of it, the answer is 'pay themselves'.

Which is 'fine', if the value they created is the crypto-currency itself - wham, bam, they are done - at the time of the sale. This is not the case for the vast majority of ICOs - there are just a bunch of promises about how eventually the coin will be super-useful, with no oversight for how to get from now to then.
Another side to "I think we have a skill shortage. " is either "over qualification" or "it just isn't worth it". When manufacturers say they can't fill jobs, most of the time it's not a skill shortage, it's a shortage of people willing stand and get dirty welding or pressing a button for 8 hours for $10 an hour. If people stayed in these jobs for a while, manufacturers could work them up the learning curve.
Just one clean and short landing? HTML5 template, premade. Just upload, analytics, MailChimp form and boom.

More complex? Either wix (just website) or integrate the landing page in my webapp (Google cloud or was)

It should be the least work you could possibly do or, at least, not cross your MVP development.
Or just look over at the alarm clock.
But you said "anyone" in a programmer-friendly thread.
Then Motorola was threatening to sue other android phone makers if Google did not make a move. Google took strategic decision to acquire motorola. In 3 years patent war kind of subsided. Google saved a bunch of tax against big motorola losses, and avoided patent war among Android phone makers.

So in term of bigger goals it was not total failure. And now situation is different, patent wars are mostly gone. Google can use HTC hardware expertise quickly for newer devices. Also unlike last time Android/OS unit is far more integrated than Andy Rubin days, so better chance of success. I am thinking Google Fuschia OS project might also get hardware help from HTC acquisition.
I mean, the fact he was trespassing is also a pretty major part of it.
29 years old. We don’t have a goal yet so I’m sticking to fundamentals.

She has a degree in Communications so something web-related might be interesting.
> I agree that there is nothing inherently wrong with having a useful mental model for "this is how to act." But I think we face substantial challenges in teasing out how to separate masculine and feminine expression from the raft load of problems that cause the trend known as the feminization of poverty.

Yeah, among the elderly, marital status is the largest determining factor in poverty rates; and among the unmarried elderly, sex is the next major factor [0]. That said, I don't see a trend in the data I've seen on this, but that could just be for lack of samples.

I will say that this definitely touches on your earlier comment (which I'll quote)

> Even if a woman marries well, after her kids are grown, there are very real problems for her and other people to expect her to remain confined to certain caretaking roles.

This is basically the conclusion of a major, life-altering decision.

Option a) Optimize for "feminine" roles, be able to have and raise kids in an optimal manner, and attach yourself to your husband's naturally greater earning role so that you can maintain your lifestyle into old age.

Option b) Optimize for general/economic roles, choose a difficult and time consuming career which nobody else will appreciate you for, because you may not have a family in your 30s to care about how much you earn. Live out the rest of your days on your own dollar (albeit with nobody around who wants you to cook for them or support them emotionally, which even to me as a [fairly young] man who cooks for others seems kinda lonely). Statistically speaking, this route goes poorly for both sexes, but especially poorly for women (that "never married" category on the SSA fact sheet).

At a glance, it seems unfair that these are the two main choices for women, but I don't see how you could expect much different.

The difference can be largely attributed to the unique maternal relationship, and the fact that it is a career in itself. The uniquely paternal part of child rearing is more of a job than a career, and part of the gig is to have other work anyhow.

It seems like a very difficult decision, and I sympathize with it. Young and foolish as I am, I think that if I had a straight daughter, she has a better chance of achieving a likely life goal (having [a] kid[s]) and remaining above the poverty line if she is at least well equipped for the "feminine" role. I would have no trouble encouraging her to work on that while also getting a proper professional education.

[0]: https://www.ssa.gov/retirementpolicy/fact-sheets/marital-sta...
I dont think you and the other response understand.

Google used to conduct a relatively straightforward string matching search. That means if you used words like "what" you could end up with unrelated matches, or lower quality matches, because they would match with the word "what".

Now, bear with me, these days google seems to use some kind if machine learning to suggest results to you based on what others have searched and chosen.

What does this mean, practically? At least two things:
1.Laymen have to think less critically, less technically when searching. Considering google is, for the average person, basically the window to knowledge, I think this is ultimately a disservice to society.

2. Search quality for technical information seems to be declining, now that laymen and non-laymen alike are searching using the same " extra" words and, I may just be projecting a poor understanding of neural nets here, but our technical results end up getting sort of clustered with everything else.

Am I the only one who has this problem with the decline of google search's technical relevance? Maybe I'm doing something wrong...I still think what google has done to make the internet more accessible may be a net harm to society.
Apathy is the status quo's greatest asset.
Education can take a generation capping things today will led to shortages in the unknown future.
You don't need to be familiar with or pay attention to this stuff, but you can't both reserve the right to ignorance on a topic and take a stance on the same topic.

If you don't want to pay attention to what's going on with transgender people, then go on and live your life — that is 100% your prerogative. If somebody tells you they're a woman, you can just let it pass without any burden on yourself — you don't have to think about the validity of their statement or the implications or what they've gone through in their life.

But if you loudly proclaim your lack of knowledge about transgender people while also loudly proclaiming that they should be treated disrespectfully, I don't think the transgender people are the ones being unreasonable in that situation.
Careful, the two links posted below are people screwing with you to prove a point. The real link is http://www.equifaxsecuritybreach2017.com

You know it's real because it's http.
Forget features or rates - snarfy chooses car insurance because their app uses less battery and is _buttery_ smooth.
At the executive level at Lenovo, there's little room to recognize the unofficial Thinkpad X62 as anything more than a mere curiosity when comparing Thinkpad sales to Apple's Macbook sales, forgotten after morning coffee.

Less extreme modifications to retrofit the classic 7-row Thinkpad keyboard to a more modern T430 chassis wouldn't even rate a mention.

Keyboards are really really important but only a tiny subset, and even if the retro Thinkpad's target market all bought them, that would still dwarf corporate sales where Thinkpads are bought by the thousands, including parts and lucrative service contracts.

As an individual user who will only personally ever own a handful of Thinkpads, I'm never going to be a lucrative service contract.
There has been a lot of research in search engines since AltaVista collapsed and Google won. Much of it is in public domain.
how could you save more than 100%?
Wait, when did Google become a private equity firm?
I'm liking tech less and less.
We don't use makefiles for cascading builds like you would in C and as such a lot of the power of Makefiles is lost in the golang world.

We do use them to specify "simple" repetitive tasks in a uniform way, with some minimal amount of order defined (for instance making sure go get is called before go test, or our code for embedding version numbers into binaries for builds).

[edit] An example from one of our public repos https://github.com/MediaMath/grim/blob/master/Makefile the codebase was one of our first times writing go so we aren't terribly proud of it, but the Makefile is representative of the kinds of things we do in make.
I did some web searches and found a document that has techniques in it that I've seen work well:

http://www.dianegoodman.com/documents/RespondingToBiasedOrOf...

Personal anecdote: I was playing a game in college with some other students. One was periodically bragging about some particular sexual exploit in a roundabout way. I think he was looking for validation, but when he didn't get it, he tried again. I said something along the lines of, "That comment isn't acceptable and if you keep saying things like that I'm not going to play with you." It was definitely confrontational, it drew a line in the sand, and I didn't hear him say inappropriate comments for the months that we played together.

Half the struggle here is just deciding that someone else's behavior isn't acceptable and that you want to do something about it.
"Max-nesium salad" would be just spinach though :) "Tasty and colorful max-nesium salad" would be yours.
So when there’s a new blog post on a topic of interest, how does that work? The internet isn’t an encyclopedia of a finite size.

Offline search is the equivalent of the Internet Yellow Pages from back in the day. New, relevant information is being added continuously. The search index 10 minutes ago is different than it is right now.
Tim's in a bit of trouble.
Really appreciate the perspective. This is just one more on the huge pile of things where the US would be well served to just look around at how other countries are doing it better.