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Apparently having a large market share in advertising also means that you somehow own communication.

Yes, a lot of people use Facebook and Google but that doesn't mean that there aren't 50 bajillion means of communication. Network effects are strong but ultimately they don't prevent you from communicating with anybody. The person on the other end of the line who has a strong preference for their chosen form of communication does. There's also basically no barrier to switch, I mean I've got 12 different messaging apps on my phone right now and it's not even close to a burden. And that doesn't even include email and IRC. And when it comes to broadcast communication which this article seems to be focusing on Facebook and Google are by far not the only sources of broadcast. Hell you should be looking at the consolidation of print and broadcast television if you want to see a true cartel on information distribution.
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You never allowed the parent to send you marketing. They shouldn't be allowed to.
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Joining a company isn't a marriage. If you were on a date and you were asked, "so what made you decide to go out with me?" that would be a totally reasonable question. As long as you realize turnabout is fair play.
Ideal in the sense of "outcompeting the other animals of the time in terms of breeding". Far from ideal in the "I'd like to be happy" sense.
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As we move towards renewable generation, the shape of the peak and off-peak periods will start to change. In the southern states, you might see very flat pricing, as higher consumption during the day is offset by higher generation from photovoltaic sources.

We will see far more volatile supply, because of the less reliable output of renewable sources. Supply and demand need to be perfectly balanced at all times to prevent brownouts or outages. Balancing supply and demand will become more challenging as we start to take fossil fuel generators offline. This is where smart grid management becomes vital.

EVs could adjust their charging rate in real-time, drawing maximum current when prices are low and discharging at a high rate when prices spike. Smart air conditioning units and refrigerators could respond to pricing on a minute-by-minute basis, running their compressors when electricity is a fraction of a cent cheaper and allowing the temperature to drift upwards by a fraction of a degree when prices are slightly higher. Industrial consumers could pause energy-intensive processes when prices are high and store power locally in battery, pumped water or thermal storage when prices are low.

A slightly extreme example from the UK is the notorious TV pickup. We drink lots of tea and use 3kW electric kettles to make it. During the commercial break in popular TV programmes, there's a surge in demand that often reaches hundreds of megawatts as millions of people simultaneously switch their kettles on. The national grid employ a dedicated team to manage these rapid demand spikes. They study the TV schedules and continuously monitor the grid frequency, turning on extra generation capacity and drawing from pumped-water storage to balance the extra demand. With smart grid technology, the TV pickup could be automatically managed through a real-time market.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_response

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup
Reading about the Avrocar, I am surprised the design was not taking up more recently. It’s kind of the jet equivalent of the quadracopter, in terms of its operating envelope. It seems like all the problems that Frost had back in the 50s could’ve been fixed with modern design tools and competitions fluid dynamics. Except for the inability to achieve high speed flight let alone Mach 3.3 which military was interested in. But I wonder about using the flying saucer design has more efficient drone or regional delivery system, as it has the efficiency of jet power with the mobility of a helicopter, and its short range and low speeds are not a concern in those applications.

I hope some enterprising aeronautical engineering student at Calpoly parters with some compsci engineers at Stanford to take this up...
I believe if EU's laws are widely publicized and proved to be useful in EU countries, then there can be enough political pressure in the US.

A tangential, but political relevant point: tech companies are in a particularly bad spot in the US because they are hated by both sides; republicans hate them because they are perceived as having liberal bias while democrats hate them because of tax avoidance, worsening inequality, job losses due to automation etc. So a political action against them would be easier to pull off compared to some other sectors like energy or finance.
Could you tell me a little bit about Bitwarden? Any glaring cons that you could think of right out of the gate? How is fill on mobile?

I'm really liking it so far (After ~1 minute of research). An open source password manager with a CLI (coming soon https://github.com/bitwarden/cli), what's not to love?!
Here's the docs for it: https://algorithmia.com/algorithms/deeplearning/PhotoQuality...
Which makes me ask the question: do you, gentle Hacker News reader, really want diversity of opinion and why? Do you have unpopular opinions and if so, would you get fired or ostracized for sharing them? Are you practicing crimethink?

After all, the only people actually working on alternatives to Google and Facebook are the alt-right who have been de-platformed. Gab.ai is so de-platformed that google doesn't even let them put their app in the play store! Unlike the Pirate Bay and scihub, gab.ai is actually not violating the law. You aren't one of those filthy alt-righters who voted for Trump are you? Are you a person who raises uncomfortable questions that cause mental pain by triggering or creating cognitive dissonance in ideologically defenseless individuals you wish to torture with your arguments?

Anyway.... I don't think most of you want the Internet Facebook and Google insulate you all from. Why the heck are you complaining?
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I'm curious what you think about remote work and whether it's overall a net positive for companies that are struggling to find talent in their own country.

There seem to be some obvious benefits: no need to worry about getting people visas, expanding your talent pool to beyond your geographic region, and so on. There's also legal tradeoffs: dealing with complicated laws with taxes, benefits, and so on.

In your experience, is opting for remote a net benefit? Or perhaps more fittingly, in what situations do you think it's appropriate for a company to consider building a remote workforce, wholly or partially?
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This is exactly the reason I'm concerned about investing in Crystal (and OCaml, where multicore is also in an awkward state). I need to be confident that when I need parallelism, the language supports it (good threading primitives are imperative too, so not just pthreads).
What is your opinion on Trump's new H1-B policy? Will this hurt innovation as a result of lack of access to talented engineers?
The very first section is Let's (briefly) talk about pay.
Have you observed any change in practices with respect both visa application processes and admission at the border processes since the Trump administration came into office (e.g. longer delays, higher rate of refusals, extra scrutiny, etc)? I'm thinking about "field practices" rather than material changes to existing regulations. Thanks!
Is the AC21 and the 6 year H1B extension going to be revoked? If so, that would mean that without elimination of per country cap, over subscribed categories cannot get a Green Card?
I suspect that it’s a bad idea to make investments based on how high the cost floor of the investment is.
None of that contradicts the fact that telemetry, the feature, is opt-in.
Signal severely breaks SMS handling on Android (it hijacks the store and stops reporting SMS to the OS, breaking backups, sync and other uses) so that's really not a good idea.
> It's not really one network, but a group of potentially-overlapping networks.

That might hold true for the technical implementation, but it doesn't hold true for the actual user experience.

If you are from the US and looking to befriend somebody from France, then you don't have to join "Facebook.fr" to make that connection, it all works through Facebook.com.

Not too long ago the same process looked pretty much like this:

"Are you on AIM?"

"No, are you on ICQ?"

"Nah, but I'm on MSM!"

"Sorry I'm not on MSM, but I'm on Linkedin!"

"No good for me I don't like Linkedin!"

"Guess I'm gonna make an MSM account -_-"

For that very same reason I ended up creating my first Facebook account on Facebook.de, which was a scam site back then. But decades of compartmentalization of users into "regions" convinced me that if I want to get any use out of Facebook I better sign up with their German version of the site, as most of my friends/family are German, that's how alien this whole "aggregate all your social contacts in one place" idea was back then.
It's not modern society that sucks, it's our version of modern society that sucks.

If you're into essays, check this one out: http://julesboykoff.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Boykoff_L...
We already have this in U.S. It's called your FICO score.
It's surprising that firing a chunk of dynamite from a rifle consistently won't detonate it, but it detonates when it hits the target. I think I'd be very nervous firing those from a machine gun the first time.
They charged me USD 1 sometime after I signed up.

Ironically thats what I loved about Whatsapp:

I paid them, they provided an awesome messaging client.

No spying. No ads.
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Common confusion over the cookie law.

* It was never about all cookies. It was about 3rd party cookies.

* An agreement was only necessary if you were transferring a user's private data to a 3rd party.

It was a huge privacy leak. The EU tried to shut it down, so the world's corporations decided to keep doing what they were doing without changing a thing, whilst mocking cookies, and by proxy, the user's whose data they were fleecing.
> I've got 12 different messaging apps on my phone right now and it's not even close to a burden.

This might be a generational issue. I have older relatives who can't use more than one app. If at that. Maybe the people who complain about these things are just bad at discovering other apps and platforms.
> for at least hundreds of thousands of years, to which they were extremely well adapted adapted evolutionarily.

Hundreds of thousands of years is not a really long time in evolutionary terms, and evolution doesn't necessarily, even given a long time, get out of a good-enough local optimum to “extremely well adapted”.

It's also debatable whether conditions in which humans evolved are really a steady state.

More to the point, humans being ideal for the conditions—what the argument from evolution suggests—is not the same as the conditions being ideal for humans.
Hour of Code includes options that use JavaScript and Python (and a handful of less mainstream options). If you are allowed to choose, you can use the filter on the side to select 'Language: Typing'.

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From EU Regulation 2016/679: (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX...)

(32) Consent should be given by a clear affirmative act establishing a freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject's agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her, such as by a written statement, including by electronic means, or an oral statement. This could include ticking a box when visiting an internet website, choosing technical settings for information society services or another statement or conduct which clearly indicates in this context the data subject's acceptance of the proposed processing of his or her personal data. Silence, pre-ticked boxes or inactivity should not therefore constitute consent. Consent should cover all processing activities carried out for the same purpose or purposes. When the processing has multiple purposes, consent should be given for all of them. If the data subject's consent is to be given following a request by electronic means, the request must be clear, concise and not unnecessarily disruptive to the use of the service for which it is provided.

(42) Where processing is based on the data subject's consent, the controller should be able to demonstrate that the data subject has given consent to the processing operation.
It’s on worldwide revenues, not EU revenues
> PEP 528

Wow, working IO in Windows cmd.exe, finally?

The changes [1] seem to implement most of the functionality of the module 'win_unicode_console' [2], which was made to work around bugs that have been open in Python since 2007 [3].

[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0528/ [2] https://pypi.org/project/win_unicode_console/ [3] https://bugs.python.org/issue1602
In a totally unrelated comment, I want to say, one reason why I find the UFO thing interested is in hypothetical situation if we can have proofs of existence of aliens, all those nonsense, ridiculous religions (like Islam, Christianity, Judaism, etc) would be horseshit to common people. With a simple question of : “Why your God only sent his prophet to earth?”
Your case is not opt-in, the user doesn't have a choice. It's accept the new conditions or get forcefully terminated.

That's enough to deny the claims, which is what is happening here.
If you go into the Store, the now prominent way to get apps on a new Windows PC, searching for Chrome shows a lot of low quality apps like "Chrome Guides" and such. Putting the official installer (even as just a link) in the Store will help people find Chrome who don't realize it isn't in the Microsoft Store.

I'd argue Microsoft could benefit from doing this for a variety of common apps users are looking for, if they want the Microsoft Store to become the default/canonical place people look for software for their PCs.
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I don't have any formal documentation around.

For ghostwriting I focus on a couple different niches. I work with a company to get the books written. I write for the audience rather than what interests me. If vampires are hot one month I put that out. If it's billionaires the next I do those. I have a couple different "authors" that I write under that stick to each genre (One only writes LGBT Romances for instance). A large part was building up the email lists of readers and managing some social network profiles. Once you build up your following it gets much easier. I know some authors that churn out a book every 2 weeks and people will spend the $2.99 (or read it on kindle unlimited) every time. My release schedule is a lot slower, but I'm trying to find more reliable ghostwriters to speed it up.

Regarding the buying of book rights. I have a publishing company I run that looks for books that are not 'successful' and I make an offer. I'll clean up the book and re-release it under a different author name and do a little marketing. These I aim to cover costs before end of the first year.
Missing is "your torturous interview process that consists of a worthless online test, a 10 hour homework assignment, and a grueling whole day interview with whiteboard trivia unrelated to your day to day work has a high rate of false negatives".
The sentiment they are trying to get across is that they want someone who won't let problems lie and who will proactively execute on fixes without waiting for permission or being assigned the work by a tech lead or manager.

Couple of examples of this:

1. Speeding up a test suite by identifying the slowest parts and optimizing it so every developer that runs the test suite benefits.

2. Making deploys more stable or getting them to zero down time so you're not forced to deploy during off hours and impact your customers.

Wanting people who will do things like this is often expressed as "ownership", but I think it's the wrong term. It's more about making the team more efficient and productive.
Today's electric cars already have the ability to delay the start of charging. It doesn't need that smart of a grid, just a smartphone app.
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But isn't Telegram universally recognized as being not really secure? At least that's what I remember from every mention of it on HN over the past year or two.

I'm a Telegram user (because network effects) and I agree it's a fast, slick app with both good mobile app and web interface, but I do not expect it to be secure.
There's a top-heavy concentration of ownership from the information that's been disclosed.

* Satoshi Nakamoto's ownership is pegged at 1.5 mln bitcoins

* Chamath Palihapitiya and Social Capital own "about 5% of all bitcoins out there", so 600,000 BTC as of today http://thisweekinstartups.com/chamath-palihapitiya-david-eun...

* Winklevoss twins have disclosed ownership of roughly 200,000 BTC when filing for a Bitcoin ETF https://www.coindesk.com/winklevoss-twins-plan-nasdaq-listin...
I'm not aware of the costs of remote employment, which will vary from country to country, so it's hard to say but as immigration policies get more restrictive, I suspect that more companies will go this route. That being said, we still get a lot of requests from companies to bring their remote employees and contractors to the U.S. so that they're working as part of the main team even though the cost of employing them is probably higher.
How about: make your product faster so you don’t need progress indicators?

I see these way too often, and most operations really should feel instant to the user. Little things should not be taking multiple seconds to complete.

And for the occasional actually-time-consuming task, calculate the end point so you can display a proper bar. An indeterminate spinner is laziness, forcing the user to wait an unknown amount of time when you can probably figure it out.
Why would a company that designs integrated systems want that kind of standardization? It doesn't seem to be in their economic interest at all. Can you make a convincing argument for it?
> I believe if EU's laws are widely publicized and proved to be useful in EU countries, then there can be enough political pressure in the US.

Worked for universal healthcare, right?
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As the article says, under GDPR (coming in mid-2018) they will be able to fine 4% of global revenue, or 20m EUR, whichever is larger [1]. I'm not certain that this particular case is covered by the GDPR, but if it is, then that will compel action.

If Facebook declines to pay these fines, then presumably their execs would be arrested if they ever travelled anywhere in the EU.

While FB can claim that it “is only subject to the legislation of [the US].”, that is obviously not the case, and once the EU regulators gain their teeth, I'm sure we'll see FB change their tune.

[1]: https://www.eugdpr.org/key-changes.html
Sooo Microsoft time™.
I live outside us and when I apply for jobs in us interviewers back out (indirectly) once they come to know that I may not be able to join on a specified date due to the lottery based h1b. What are my other options? I do not have enough experience for an L1
I learned something. Thanks. Was there a similar system in East Germany and elsewhere or is this uniquely North Korean?
It has tons of of licensed code. I worked at Adobe at the time, and everyone I knew on the Flash team would have loved to open source the player.
> fundamentally misunderstand physics

Keep in mind that we think we know how to reach a destination faster than light (although not travel faster than light). We just don't know how [edit: to build the engine] or even if it's a practical approach. What it shows is that physics does allow us to reach a distant star and return in a single lifetime.

> inconceivably long lived

I'm not sure about this one. That species would have had to evolve somehow, unless they solved the mortality problem or unless Earth-like evolution is not universal. Even if they could, given the timeframes, why would they visit?

My point is that, yes, we don't have enough evidence to abandon possibility #3. We also don't have enough knowledge to abandon possibility #1 and #2.

That being said, I'd wager that if ET has visited Earth less than 1% of the sightings are authentic - we aren't that interesting.
Sorry, but India is not remotely close to a comparable country.

However, medical services in even poor European countries, so some wealthy Latin American countries like Uruguay, are far better than American alternatives.
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I read that book. It was the most deeply pessimistic sci-fi book I have ever read. Lots and lots of smoking and drinking too. I liked it though.
> I still wonder if React + React Native could offer a similar platform, although it would probably not be very optimized for games.

Would be mostly useless if canvas or webgl is the target.
"People like Sam Altman are concerning"

I think more concerning is the underlying perspective rather than his specific views on China. What you see is the assumption that one's experience generalizes and is the experience of all. The internet in many ways has made this worse rather than better because it removes some of the few remaining structures that force you to regularly and meaningfully interact with people of different life experiences (and no...your uber driver doesn't count).

His views on China, based on his experiences in China, are no different than the critiques of silicon valley startup culture as a whole. THey beleive their experience generalizes.

I talked about this in a class I taught once where we were trying to engage students in seeing the limits of their understanding of the user's they were designing for. I had them read an article from fortune/Inc....some magazine I can't remember or find... that was about startups related to pregnancy. The decidedly white-male founder base really stood out. If I remember, there were only 3 of the 10 startups that existed a year after the article...2 of those 3 were the 2 of 10 with female cofounders.
Tell that to my physical mailbox. Or my email inbox.
I've said this many times: Google's AI services are superior in every way. They have better results and are easier to use.

Amazon is the master of the "good enough". Their service works well enough that you can check the box that it exists and then point it at all that data you already have in AWS. And that's all that most everyone needs.

If you are using AI and your competitors aren't, it doesn't really matter all that much how good the AI is -- you're gonna do better and be more efficient.

It's only after everyone is using AI that it will start to matter how good your particular implementation is. Right now we're at the stage that any implantation is better than none.
Comparision of face recognition apis from MS/Amazon/Kairos.

Kairos is doing better here. ;-)

https://dataturks.com/blog/face-verification-api-comparison....
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I hope not and I doubt it. From my perspective, that would be a disaster. Companies would lose talented employees from oversubscribed countries.
Microsoft requires Store apps use the OS's JavaScript engine/browser components. So Chrome on the Store would have to be a wrapper for Edge, basically.

This isn't unique to Microsoft's Store, of course. On iOS devices, Firefox and Edge have to use Apple's browser components to meet Apple's policies, and on Android, I know Edge voluntarily uses Chromium rather than porting their own over.
Interesting. Do you have a link to such a histogram?