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Ask HN: What companies are doing “Software on Linux” right?
I have recently launched https://www.softwareonlinux.com with the aim to map the demand for specific programs on Linux. I believe that given sufficient demand, software vendors may be convinced to support Linux "natively". I also think that an increase in the availability of popular programs on Linux could spur adoption of Linux.

I would like to learn about the companies that you think are treating Linux as a first-class citizen. I think these companies could become ambassadors for software on Linux, and could share their lessons learned about building products for multiple operating systems.

One of my personal favorites is Spotify. Please share yours.
Smart move, sure enough in this case.

See, once you have the data pipeline in place, you can bring front-end/ reporting platform to generate any reports you wish, from free (e.g Google Data Studio) to self-hosted open source based, up to SaaS solutions which available few hundred bucks per month. Yet, you have full control/access to your data. This is the main benefit IMHO.

In our region, Tel Aviv, where Jelly Button and DoIT are located, $240K per year == 2x great s/w engineers annual salary.

Perhaps it is time for MixPanel's product/exec. people to reconsider pricing model at large scale. I assume there was a discussion between the parties before they went on let's build our own.
And let's not forget Alpha Go.
"such as" doesn't imply that it's Google Station exclusively
You are correct.

https://smartasset.com/taxes/california-tax-calculator#NIGzB...

Total income after federal and state taxes is $241,739.
I'm pretty sure they are only visible on default setting, it's possible to turn them off.
I am guessing they mean the account was not really deleted since probably the account was just deactivated and the data is still with disqus.
Proposals to use AI chatbots for job interviews
Thank you whoever is writing these articles.

I'm fascinated by the history of computers and these articles are a great read. Like a Damn Interesting [0] for computing.

[0] https://www.damninteresting.com
The speed of containers, the security of VMs
> cellphones with fake specs

but, don't you just need to show off any old cellphone, and then say something like 'this baby has twenty-three ARM IXXIX cores, running at one hundred point six gigahertz, with forty terabytes and a double AMDXOLCiD display!' to fake the specs?
I think it has more to do with insecurity about future. Sure I can work less and live a pretty cozy life a software developer. But I have no idea what will happen to my profession and to me in 10 yrs. Who knows if I'd be able to keep up with tech in 10yrs, maybe my brain will slow down. My job can be outsourced tomorrow or I can be replaced by someone younger, cheaper and more * hard working* than me.

Better to work and make money and position while you still can. Thats the reality of the modern world. I don't care about the joneses by do I care about my inability to provide in future.

Old age these days is 3-4 decades, I've seen what happens to people who end up with little money when they are old. It makes me insecure and scared. I am not sure how easy or hard it is to decide to end your life before you are too old, I am guessing its not easy to convince yourself.
It's worse in the midwest. 95% of the available tech jobs are boring as hell, so there's not much left to look for in them except money.
If I'm understanding you correctly, you're saying, 'How does the libertarian argument (removing regulation) improve a worker's ability to negotiate.' Is that correct?
We asked grandparents for annual memberships to experiences in our city. For example a membership to the the Children's Museum, Science Museum, and Zoo are awesome and give us something to do throughout the year.
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Walk your talk – we do
"The whole project took us about 5 weeks to complete."

More valuable metric is person hours.
The Consent of the (Un)governed
As far as I can tell, the OS is the same, but the Google apps are different.
I read about that actually. They use a 3rds model: retain a 3rd of existing systems, improve on a 3rd of existing systems and bring in a 3rd of totally new gameplay systems.

I don't bother with non-gameplay DLC. I don't get these story packs. I'd prefer DLC that overhauls some aspect and provides deeper gameplay.
the fact that they "are simply to build" is part of the problem. I consider it highly unethical and could use a hand educating decision makers before this technology is making us all miserable.

see also https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6343760...
I wrote up a root comment but this is actually a better place. I agree with this sentiment! The rest of this is additional commentary on the rest of the discussion on this article.

I don't know why but I'm seeing a lot of anecdotes to support or dispute the linked article. The world is much bigger than any one person's experience, and the data indicates that overall, there are fewer insects. We may have anecdotes that agree or disagree with that statement, but that doesn't disprove the statement or in fact provide any useful content to the discussion.

The real question here is 1. is this a bad sign (magic 8ball says yes) and 2. what can we do about it (this is a deeper question that can't be easily answered because we haven't done in-depth analysis of why these insects have started to disappear, but the suspicion would be that large-scale agricultural and suburban pesticide use is having a much larger and potentially disastrous effect on the earth's ecosystem).

The discussion I'd like to see here is about the ways we can verify this study (trust but verify), determine the source of the problem, and work torwards eliminating that source.
Seems like you're just upset that a company's press release doesn't mention other companies.
Actually, 'Veblen Watches' sounds really good... I wonder if the name is available?
The prices posted by OP seem to be referring to the carrier Reliance Jio. Their network speeds were great initially(20-30mbps when other carriers we're hardly at 5-10mbps). The speeds have deteriorated significantly now. The network seems to be reeling under the load of it's huge user base.
To be clear: you worked on the N64 port of Killer Instinct 2?
An injustice that lifts hundreds of millions out of poverty...
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Nice idea, but you should probably add links to a github project on the presentation page.

I doubt you'll get anyone to just download and run an app, without at least taking a glance at the source first.
If it's like most android releases, you're either going to have to pray your carrier releases a version (not going to happen) or wait for someone from the android community to build a ROM specifically for your device.
Honest intellectual sparring over art comes in the form of art. Saying "I could have made that" is false in the context of art. If a person could have they would have. If they didn't, they can't. The proof is in the work.
A source close to the two companies tells us that the acquisition price was close to $90 million. This marks Zeta’s eleventh acquisition since it was founded in 2007.

Apparears adding ads worked out well for them. However distasteful most of us think they are, obviously they were able to get some non trivial monetization from them.

There are a lot of competing services and projects around, it's a mystery to me why none of them have gotten any traction yet. It's also fairly trivial to self host an opensource comment system, or roll your own. Does anyone here have any insight into why this isn't a more popular option?
Check out RoboZZle, which is more advanced (including eg call stack, enabling some fancy tricks): http://robozzle.com/
Amazon’s Australian Launch Brings Excitement, Dread and Defiance
> problems with teaching evolution

This is literally the only thing in your whole list that is "anti-intellectual". Everything else just stems from a different set of values than your own.
I think it depends on the type of censorship and what the purpose is. Just look at the colonial mentality of neighboring countries, where simply being from "the West" gives you huge perks.
The only reason Cook would be vocal about being a freedom fighter is when its in his interests as CEO of Apple. Cook is a servant of the shareholders; not the US public or Chinese public. Their goal is to increase Apple's profit margins & volume ("profit"), not to increase liberty among the US, or spread liberty across the world. He's CEO of Apple, not chairman of Amnesty International.

I don't understand why people keep confusing the two as if CEOs are some kind of philanthropists. They're not. They're egocentric maniacs who represent their big business. That's what they're trained for, and what they're good at. See also the documentary The Corporation. IMDB's summary [1]: "Documentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance." or Metacritic's summary [2] "This feature documentary analyzes the very nature of the corporate institution, its impacts on our planet, and what people are doing in response."

Also interesting is the correlation between CEOs and psychopaths [3].

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379225/

[2] http://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-corporation

[3] http://time.com/32647/which-professions-have-the-most-psycho...
7 Features of Passport Scanning That Will Benefit Your Business
Your friends were probably excited because they didnt have a character limit when sending a text, they didn't have to pay for each message they sent, they could share images, videos. All of that for the fraction of the cost of sending a text message.
Analysis of the #GuptaLeaks email network
So we shouldn't hold anyone accountable? Just give up?

What's needed here is a coalition.

If N companies pulled out of China and it didn't liberalise, they've incurred a cost for no benefit. If N+1 pulled out and it did trigger China to liberalise, they'd benefit from doing it.

The trick is finding the N+1 companies and convincing them they're enough to be the trigger.
The social aspect is true. I made a lot of friends when i took my lotus Elise to track events and other outings.
I have tried reading this twice but can't find how are they leveraging the internal spot markets? Are they re-selling unused capacity to a third party?
They do have an importer between all games, afaik. I know you can take the saves from CK2 and import them into EU4. It's a DLC on steam.
yeah you pay the down payment once. so this guys saying next year that person has ¢150k to live on.

no problem
As a Canadian who's spent a few years in the southern states, I can say that the difference in infrastructure here does help reduce the risks of road accidents when there's snow. In the south the entire city shuts down because the people there don't have the snow plows, road salt, and winter tires to deal with it. However, in a really bad storm the reduced visibility and slippery roads can still make your drive very dangerous.
We can, but you end up as signal within a vast amount of noise (Gandhi's "first they ignore you" phase isn't always passed).

If you eventually do get contact it will end up with a kind of theatrical act where we are acting that they should care and are being heard, and the CEO may end up acting as if he does care. Perhaps even with more than mere actions.

Maybe he even cares as a human being (if he doesn't -> psychopath), but with his CEO hat on he certainly does not.
Seconded. Snowplow is a great option and gives a nice compromise between rolling all your own bits and just doing a vendor.
These are fair points, yet the most prominent names attached to this fund are also pretty active participants in the national political conversation (J.D. Vance, Bezos, Buffet). Vance, who is leading this, is famous for moving back to his home region, beleaguered Appalachia, on mostly altruistic terms. Bezos has been targeted with tweets from the president suggesting a thirst for brute force regulations on Amazon and WaPo for nakedly political reasons. I don't think it's naive to posit that altruism and a concern for the political order are at play here.

This group of people suggests to me that they're realizing that having so much of our economy concentrated in a few states is a political vulnerability that can be easily exploited by a demagogue.
Reality of capitalism. Work or die! or join them in keeping the masses overworked
I like minimalism, a few shades of gray and one color (maybe two) could be enough for calcing. And the consumption too.. but the delay is too much.
I'm actually not sure about that. Many people could spend their share more wisely than if it is thrown into the mouth of healthcare machine.

If healthcare is allowed to eat into UBI it will quickly find a way to consume it completely.
I agree. I have been playing this with my daughter (she's 6) a bit. It is fun and she really enjoyed the early parts.

We got to a part requiring the recursive calling of a function and she didn't bat an eyelid at the idea of it.
hey zukken, are you using Android as well? just looking to confirm it is an android only issue. Also saw your other comment, just tried emailing myself using my second email and it worked. (just to confirm it's dan@echopodcasts.com)
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Yes, that's true. What I wanted to point out is that a good idea in theory can quickly turn into an instrument that's being used for other purposes.

China is a great example to be studied in this regard. Their changes do indeed ensure that profit will only be one of several considerations for company policies in China; this will undoubtedly result in more consumer-friendly corporate behavior, but it also tightens central control and is likely to deepen the kind of censorship measures that I personally would not want to wish on any person or company.

Letting all people (of a given country) have a say means involving the government in which the company's headquarters are located. I'd rather not have national[istic] interests working from within companies, I feel laws and regulations are better suited to get a fair & transparent outcome.

The German model that the sibling comment brought up is quite sane in comparison. It limits the stakeholders to only those who actively participate in production, which provides a kind of decentralization enforced by laws, but not directly steered by central interests. In terms of overall benefit to society, it's hard to argue against that model and it has served the Germans well. (However, it's also worth noting that having unions sit on the board doesn't prevent the company from making unfavorable decisions outside of the limited national and workplace-environment-related interest of the extra stakeholders, and often those changes can only be deferred / slowed down but not outright avoided.)
This is genius! I know exactly what I'm getting my daughter for Christmas now! Thank you so much. You have just changed my entire life for the better :)
That's not the case. Sorry. It certainly isn't that the EU redefined anything. These rules are quite clear.

What is less clear is the nuances of "just how" Apple was given favourable treatment.

It's very much in the fine details of Ireland's agreement with Apple, but what it boils down to is that Ireland gave an evaluation of Apple's tax liabilities tailored to Apple.

Even without this, Apple's tax liabilities would have been highly favourable but it is this "technical" matter that puts Apple & Ireland over the line, and is the basis of the 13bn figure, which is only a fraction of what Apple actually manages to avoid paying with their creative tax practices.

The best plea that Ireland can make in this regard is ignorance, but now that rules have been clarified the adjustments must be made.

I felt that Apple's whole response to this was highly disingenuous and inflammatory.
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If clojure is your thing there is core-logic https://github.com/clojure/core.logic
I am an Iranian software developer which I live in Ankara/Turkey. The IT Industry in Iran and turkey is a little different. Because of sanctions using cloud infrastructure is not popular in Iran and most of the companies are using their own private infrastructure which causes high cost and less reliable services.

Meetups in Ankara is so popular too. In Ankara, we have at least a meeting every 2 days but in Iran, it may be a meeting per 2 weeks. The most of meeting in Ankara is technical and they talk about technologies and tools, in Iran, most of the meeting is about business and startups.
Voice directions. Remember that they are coupling this with landmark based navigation
Most likely. This was the most jarring thing when I came over to Android. The lack of available updates is embarrassing. Not just talking about $40 walmart specials either.
Agreed the article is unclear. My understanding is they’re using unused capacity on servers that are already performing other tasks. So they’re not really creating a spot market for unutilized servers, so much as for unutilized capacity on the severs they’re already using.

For example if one of their servers is using 50% CPU, they can fill the remaining 50% with video encoding tasks.

But obviously I don’t know any better than you. That’s just my takeaway from the vaguely worded article.
It's not real clear in the article at all, but it appears that they are simply re-allocating unused computing power (on non-video encoding reserved instances) to video encoding tasks on demand. I think that the author is just calling it an "internal spot market" for sake of reusing terminology familiar with their audience (or to try to attract clicks).
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I'm not asking you to trust me.

I'm asking you a question.

OP was saying that Xi is more liberal than his predecessors.

You said "Xi's regime is less liberal than ever."

So my question then is how would his predecessors handle the Hong Kong booksellers?
I'm a Domain Driven Design True Believer. But sometimes we all write stuff that's just CRUD and transaction scripts (in DDD parlance not SQL)

I also read the guys arguments against how ORMs are still SQL like, I contend that's caused by most (non functional?) languages not treating querying against collections as first class citizens.

I'm a big fan of C# and my favorite feature is Linq. With Linq you can query any data source using native type safe C# syntax, pass Linq expressions around and they will get translated on the fly to a query language that the source understands. You can send your Linq expression to sql Server, Mongo etc in production and mock out your source in your unit tests to use Lists and still test your queries.
Among the Biggest Losers: Blue State Taxpayers Who Earn More Than $200K
Attempt to resolve the rural EMS divide with software, remote training and IT services.
I think its the reality of humanity. There is always someone more desperate, more hungry than you to take what you have.
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Ew, cringe!
Not so many, really... Look at the TV/radio/news markets and see how many voices there are. And the FCC loosening rules to let Sinclair etc own a higher percentage of sources in each market is only letting it get worse.
It depends on the area, I have used it in multiple cities and except one location (problem with all networks there) all else was good. There is an option in the jio app to register complaint about slow network, I have had some luck with that.
Instead of repairing my MacBook, Apple gave me back a Thanksgiving Turkey
How Internet Co-Ops Can Protect Us from Net Neutrality Rollbacks
Are companies in the Albuquerque/Santa Fe startup scene ever hiring? Is it all word of mouth? New Mexico would be one of my top choices but all I ever see online are government Los Alamos etc. positions for people with advanced hard science degrees. It would be hard to resist the temptation to move there if there were any clear opportunity.
Or just use earphones maybe?
Number theory often involves theorems that are simple to state and extraordinarily difficult to prove. It's one of the branches of maths that comes closest to hard problems in computational complexity and proof theory (at least, as I understand the matter).
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Dear god. That could contaminate the entire Columbia River watershed in a few years...
The Trees Behind Your Tools
If a million dollars in legal fees could shut down the pesticide industry, then someone would surely do it, but pesticide companies can spend billions of dollars on lawyers, and on lobbyists and political contributions to change the laws in their favor.
I'm happy to see non-Intel solutions in the cloud and I'm looking forward to seeing more - AMD currently has a superior product at any price point (except for AVX2 workloads).
For some reason pricing isn’t showing up on the nav of the mobile site , whereas it does on desktop. Apologies for that. We’ll fix it shortly.
What I Learned from the People Who Built the Atom Bomb
That's for mobile data, right? How are the wired connections there?
Would you use a currency where 10% every year (not once) goes to a relatively small number of banks?

USD M2: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/money-supply-m2
CryptoKitties Mania Overwhelms Ethereum Network's Processing
Renaming everything with the added suffix of Go seems like a bit of an odd choice to me?

Wouldn't it just make sense to optimize the original version? Having multiple naming conventions seems like an invite to confusion.
Privacy Badger works as well.
You can learn prolog at more than one university in the world.
I’ll definitely share this one with my nephews.
Svalbard is nice, except (IMHO, if you stay for a while) there isn't enough people there.

Longyearbyen (Largest settlement) has got on the order of 2,000 inhabitants which basically means that in a few weeks, all the faces are familiar and the ones which aren't are tourists.

Now, this obviously leads to a close-knit community and isn't inherently a bad thing - but I'd find it a bit claustrophobic in a while. (Doubly so if I was single, as the dating pool is very, very limited.)

The scenery is hard to beat, though.

Fun fact: Part of the deal when Norway gained sovereignty over Svalbard was that anyone from anywhere could settle there without bothering with visas and the like - as long as you can provide for yourself. (This, admittedly, is somewhat more difficult than it sounds, as just about all housing there is is owned by the Store Norske Spitsbergen Kullkompani, the coal mine which until satellite communications became a thing was Longyearbyen's raison d'etre - so finding shelter can be a challenge if you decide to give Spitsbergen a try)
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>Landscrapers make sense where real-estate prices aren't so high.

Except when real-estate prices aren't high, you're usually super far away from industry and population... the things that drive up real-estate prices.

If proximity to related companies wasn't important, why does Silicon Valley or Hollywood even exist instead of a peppering of low-cost buildings across the midwest? We already know the answer.

Companies like Amazon can afford to "create" new hotspots and ship engineers there. Literal tiny towns with a gigantic new data center that can attract "support" business like new restaurants. But for most companies, there's a benefit to being around other companies. (e.g. My software company buys hardware and services hard drive failures from an IT company across the street.) And what happens when you have lots of companies around? The competition for space drives prices up. And what happens when so many companies want that space? The buildings start moving upward into the sky.

It's simple economics. Land is valuable. Especially in tiny overpopulated places like England and many EU states. This should not be surprising or new knowledge.