skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The effect of unionization had the opposite effect in Germany, Denmark, etc. It caused a huge shift to contract work. Contractors have more protections in those countries than they do here, but do not enjoy nearly the same protections as full time employees.

http://ec.europa.eu/epsc/publications/strategic-notes/future...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/11/business/europe-labor-rig...

I admit that the social protections in those countries generally means that the shift to contractor work is less likely to affect things like cost of healthcare, retirement, etc.

Some big US tech companies might be zombies (IBM, HP), but with our less restrictive labor laws and emphasis on entrepreneurship they have been replaced with new giants (Google, Facebook, etc.)

This did not happen in the tech sector in Europe, the giants fell, Bull, Nokia, etc. and nothing rose up to their size outside of the banking sector. Part of the reason may have been that the overall environment was not flexible enough to allow new entrants, among many other factors. SAP remains strong, but I can't think of another pure software/IT company in Europe of that size or market position.
Completely agreed on the weird obsession that this is. I get wanting to have something you know, but I don't get dismissing the things you don't. Especially on some pseudo ranking based on "authenticity".
> If you want purity of intent in every transaction or contract you ever enter into then the world is going to be a very frustrating place.

I do, and it is. I don't think I get what you mean. Just because a lot of groups choose to lie about their intentions means that it's OK that Apple does the same?
Supposing you're right, what is Facebook so good at that MySpace couldn't manage to do? What really is their "moat" that no one else can touch?

Interesting that you mention obesity, tobacco, cocaine and opiods because not all of those problems are inevitable for all societies. Personally, I think the two most misused technologies from last century is the car (invented late 19th century, but mostly innovated on in the 20th), and television. We've been here before, and the problems can be fixed so long as the answer isn't "more technology".

As for cigarettes, Australia has led the world in curbing smoking rates through a number of "socialist" measures. I don't know enough about the other two but I don't think it's as bad as in America.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-GUI-library-used-in-creati... check out this explanation of how Blender's UI is implemented - same approach would make sense (maybe even reuse same "toolkit") here because you'd have "drawing code" in you app anyway, so why not use it to draw parts of the UI too, and you'd also want graphics card acceleration for some operations too
GVR has already said that Python 4 (if it's even ever called that) will not have the same kind of breaking changes 3 did.
Even if you run official builds by the python foundation from the library on docker hub? That seems like a business opportunity: certify software for RHEL by all the government bodies and pay RH for sign off and then be the only vendor to be sanctioned to run “third party but vetted” python3.
> Do large, bright stars ever pass that close?

Yes, but it's extremely rare.

> What would that look like?

Not much. The Scholz flyby was at 0.6-0.8 light years, the same order of magnitude as the distance to Alpha Centauri. It would just look like a star, probably not even a particularly bright one.
> These are good laws, even if those without actual driving experience may not understand them.

No, they are not. You didn't even touch the arguments I gave.

If there is a risk of collision with the car behind you, then not you but the driver of the car behind you is at fault for not keeping a safe distance to account for their reaction time and brake performance.
I'd really rather not have video game designers and video game journalists dictating their versions morality to me.

I'll bet this will turn into the usual identity politics nightmare that ultimately caters to a tiny fraction of gamers while worsening the experience for the majority. If this were such a massive problem, millions of people wouldn't be spending billions of dollars and hundreds millions of man hours playing these games.

This is about politics, not gaming experience.
Man, I wouldn't want to be a community manager in those games. Trash-talking is one thing – and I'm quite quick with the mute-button (and usually let them know), but something that is incredibly hard to spot/punish is behavior in competitive games. Once you reach a certain skill level, a single guy on the team makes or breaks the entire match.

With League of Legends, the problem is that a match lasts at least 20 minutes (not sure if this is still the case) until someone can surrender. A while back, I then played Heroes of the Storm, where most matches aren't longer than 20 minutes.

Nowadays, I played a lot of Rocket League, where each match is 5 minutes (or 7 at most, depending on the amount of "goal cams"). But still, they can feel a bit like an eternity, if your mate decides that "you're a fucking noob, because you missed the ball 10 seconds into the game and we certainly can't win in the next 4:50 minutes" and just plays like an idiot. Sure, you can report those players, but ultimately, someone has to review the games and I suspect this is quite impossible to achieve.

So, what's the solution? I don't know. Maybe the solution is on an individual level – stop playing "for the win", but try to enjoy the ingame moments (like "I hit the ball mid-air" or "I achieved a pentakill"). Or only play with friends on your team and mute the other team.

After all, in most competitive games, you achieve about 50% win rate anyways, once you reach a certain mid-range skill level and don't play with your friends, because the match making algorithms will sometimes give you good team mates and other times bad, or toxic, ones.
The death of traditional tex mex is hinted at in the article. I think it's because the vast majority of transplants and modern youth simply do not want cheap mounds of food from dingy establishments. Yet true tex-mex can only operate this way. They cannot raise prices and modernize their establishments because then they are completing on a separate, higher-priced plane. I'm not going to a tex-mex restaurant that wants > $8 for lunch because it's unlikely to be tex-mex. But others are not going to any dingy restaurant serving mounds of unhealthy, greasy food regardless of prices, and so we have the impasse.

It's no different than saying froyo is killing the ice cream truck.

Having said that, there are still a ton of tex mex establishments just barely raising their prices. Some are locally chaining up (e.g. Matitos, Cristinas, etc in the Metroplex), some are not really traditional (or in the process of losing it) and already chained up (Chuys, Pappasitos, Uncle Julios, etc). The rest are operating on small margins, but they're not completely dead and some are even opening anew or revamping. They are no longer dirt cheap, but still not expensive.
Don't charge by the day! Your costs have nothing to do with how much it's worth to a customer.

Talk to companies that might be target market. Figure out how much it would save them.

1. Nothing. But maybe you can use feedback to improve the product so it is worth something to them.

2. It saves them $10000 a year. You can't charge $25,000.

3. It saves them $5000000 a year. You can charge more than $25000.
Was just talking with my wife about this yesterday when we went to an Asian fusion place for lunch. Sometimes you just want to eat gyoza, sushi, and mapo tofu in the same meal. Doesn't mean you don't appreciate that they're foods from different cultures. It's quintessentially American to gather up the best bits of multiple cultures and offer them all in one convenient package.
It hasn't been anything close to that long since major libraries mostly worked on 3, though. You can't just declare the old version of a major software ecosystem dead because you updated one part of it. We've seen it with operating systems, we've seen it with browsers, and we also see it with programming languages and all the libraries and tools that make them useful.
I'm cautiously optimistic on this. I don't know what they can actually do, but I'll take anything at this point. Toxicity really ruins the gaming experience.

Game devs and designers nowadays go out of their way to prevent people from being assholes to each other in games, but it still happens. Even games such as Hearthstone or Clash Royale, that are entirely limited to emotes, still develop a language around telling the opponent "fuck you".

I'd argue that in games, it's worse than around the web. If someone's being a jerk to me on HN, Facebook, Twitter etc I can just choose to ignore them, block them, not mind them, etc. But in games you are forced to interact, either as co-op or opponent.

Being matched up with respectful people (either as teammate or opponent) is one of the most rewarding things in gaming. And being matched up with assholes is one of the worst experiences. So every match you roll the dice on whether you're going to feel great or feel like shit by the end of the game, and it usually has nothing to do with winning or losing. I find that whenever I start truly enjoying a game, regularly being paired up with toxic people impacts the experience to the point of quitting. Both Overwatch and Rocket League, two delightful, fantastic and rewarding games, were completely ruined for me because of that.
Tex-Mex was really popular in Europe in the early 90s (along with the color orange). I ate at a restaurant in Paris that served decent enchiladas and chalupas, but the guacamole old, brown, and inedible. Today, I suspect you could get much fresher avocados... and of course margaritas are everywhere.

Now Tex-Mex is moving up-scale even in Texas. It's weird, but there's so much competition at the food trucks, fast casual, etc that it's hard for the old grease ladlers to pay the rent (and rent has really gone up).

The joke, “Tex-Mex is it’s invented in the Rio Grande Valley, San Antonio makes it popular, and Austin takes all the credit.” really only sounds right in Austin where self-deprecatory hipsterism is a thing. The valley and SA don't care.
> in an efficient market there should be no comparative advantage to having it because every manager should already be using it.

But they measured which managers actually do and do not use it, so that assumption already does not hold.

Assuming I understand what you are saying correctly, only surprise would be that managers don't actually make efficient use of public information.
This seems to me to be why people are pushed into management roles. Many of the above savings (especially the big ones) can be more quickly decided at the management level.

Also worth noting that you can have been in the industry for a long time, and to not have benefitted. Good experienced developers are a bargain. Bad experienced are still just bad.
Danish typically ranks high on these lists because the names for some of the tens have etymological roots in base 20.

But this doesn't add any complexity, compared to having just named tens.

Nobody is doing any kind of everyday counting in base 20 in Denmark. Everything is base 10, with 9 irregular named numbers for the multiples of 10.
Yes I'm a student so $200/day sounds great. Though, I'm not even sure that a company could be interested about my project. I was not asking its value in order to sell it, but just to start conceiving how much does a a project cost for a company.
Thanks a lot for your reply.
The adventurer trekking from Mongolia to London by camel
You learn everyday this is awesome find.
The ads are quite excellent at tackling the #1 reason I have ever had not to call: avoiding all the why-do-nerver-call accusations.

Of course, this being the 60s, many young people probably had many valid reasons to be angry. From what I gather, the “Greatest Generation” went on to create the most self-satisfied, stuffy, racist and misogynistic societies possible.

My father was kicked out for having a black friend, and my mother was told by her professor that no girl was ever going to become a doctor at his faculty. They met taking LSD somewhere in California, made a modest fortune, and only ever went back to piss on a new grave.
Zoom.us seems to work well using the browser extension alone. I've even gotten it to work in my Chromebook without any issues.
Optimal Purely Functional Priority Queues (Okasaki, 1996) [pdf]
There are parallel issues that muddy this debate where it concerns Facebook specifically (CA's self-reported extortion/blackmailing scheme) and issues that concern Facebook, but were/are standard practice, and widely requested by FB publishers, including media companies[0] (CA seeding the social graph with users of a non-election related app)

This tweet is sneaky. Users of the OFA app were voluntary; their friends weren't, and microtargeting of friends was of much greater value to a campaign (true believers are guaranteed, it's the undecided/uncaring who can move the needle) But that's speaking of ethics; under the terms of service all these actions were voluntary even for people who were never notified of what their friends had agreed to.

The one violation of FB terms may have been CA continuing to use the data after FB requested its deletion.

Still, as in parallel construction, once you have a good data set there are many ways in which you can reconstruct it and safely delete the original data.

Even if OFA did as FB asked and didn't keep data after the terms of service changed, they still had the knowledge, and it can be reconstructed (then that's another debate, which we may never get to until something flashy happens involving parallel construction)

[0]: Quiz time - if you wanted to collect as many third-party web trackers, what websites would you visit? To make it harder, you can only visit 5 sites - which ones?
Did you keep up with that project or move on to something else?

It's humorous to me that most people who end up selling data to hedge funds more or less "fall" into that industry by accident. Your story is exactly how it typically happens: you develop a new data-enabled product for one market, then a bunch of hedge funds find it and realize it's useful. Most companies pivot from their original market once they realize how lucrative selling data can be.
How were you able to discern who "activist short sellers" were? Or was it simply speculation?
Love it when they take these down but wayback has it. Instead why not put a banner saying "you really _should_ read this" at the top of the page!
https://meet.jit.si/
> For example, making code overly DRY and wrong abstractions coupling unrelated parts of the system unnecessarily.

That's just another form of technical debt. Over-engineering is also a well known cause of debt accumulation.
https://jitsi.org/

This is open source and free and so on
I think a large portion of the problem discovering things here is that they often have very counterintuitive names. Krita is very logical for me as swedish but outside Sweden not so much I guess.

Apache is a webserver? Really?
Konqueror is probably a game, right? :-)
“Why?”

“I’ve always wanted to get a true world perspective on things and decided to get it out of my system while I’m young. Now I’m ready to refocus on my career and apply what I’ve learned to the right company.”
Noble goals, I hope they don't lose their way and try to overextend their influence by silencing non-"progressive" behavior or "wrongthink".

I hope everybody wins.

It seems like they're going to heavily censor popular streamers:

"This is just all reality now. So streamers are ambassadors of culture bigger than just League of Legends or whichever game. They’re ambassadors of online life."
Are you willing to even consider that what you're calling rational might not actually be rational?

It's one thing to say you want to subsidize $group with some sort of legislation because it's moral or better for the broader economy, etc. It's another thing entirely to claim to be forcing any individual company to be acting in its own best interest.
That's nearly exactly how german works, 428 is "4-vier 100-hundert 8-acht and-und 20-zwanzig", 512 is "5-fünf 100-hundert 12-zwölf" (excuse my rusty german). The und thing is a germanic thing I think.
I use Chrome Remote Desktop for Windows, but it is also available on Linux.
>you need to jump through hoops to install Python 3.x

What? You can install Python 3.6 from EPEL[1], takes 5 seconds.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
As I begin to laugh at this joke I realise how old I am.
Pretty much everyone is shoving everything into the browser that is one of the problems.
Whats killing tex mex --and frankly quite a number of other american fusion cuisines-- is what I like to term lard-as-a-service. Elites didnt kill tex-mex, Texas did.

Things like Tacos al Carbon and fajita dishes take time, patience, and effort to achieve not only a reproducible but flavorful and healthy results. Huitlacoche, corn, and other fresh produce have the duality of problems for restaurants and cooks: discounts offered only at scale and the potential to spoil.

Finally, places like McDonalds have ruined food. Everything has to be delivered in 6 minutes or less, or your yelp review will shutter your business. this combination of 'fast/cheap/good' drives restaurants to eschew creative dishes and involved recipes in favor of simple durable ingredients. Sure, the fajitas came frozen, but most customers wont care if you fry them in margarine and drown them in an ocean of inexpensive cheese that has an amicable shelf life. Refried beans can either be made in house, or if you dont like the idea of hiring a chef for a fair wage, purchased from a sysco truck on 70lb batches of flavourless grey box shaped paste.

Or, skip it altogether and sell something that was cheaper than sourcing 6 vegetables like Brisket and canned beans. So long as someone else cooked it, its not on your ledger.
Maybe I'll be able to play Overwatch again! I aged out of that environment so suddenly after I took a year long break from gaming, but to be honest it was never good for me to begin with.
The info was gated behind a paid login, so thankfully we didn't have to worry too much about scrapers. We also set up a notification system when new campaigns came out, so they didn't have to long poll for new info.

We actually did have quite a few people scraping our homepage for some reason (which was rarely, if ever, updated) but they were mostly other aggregators as well, not potential clients.
So, you are saying he and his team waited 5-6 days to come up with a useful and intelligence but not a vapid response?

Sure, that sounds feasible given how just a day ago everyone went after Zuckerberg for keeping silent and a day later he releases a statement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity

(relevant, not a complete answer by any stretch)
Network structure and Fake News
Zoom.us works perfectly with Arch +1 on that.
I hope for everyones sake that this is about gaming experience, and not politics. But eh who knows, you're most likely right.
Manufactured outrage. Nobody is leaving Facebook. They're too vain. Even Brian Acton was saying #DeleteFacebook from his Facebook.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16633630
This is false, the NRA has compromised as recently as last year. Here's an article from their website congratulating the concealed carry reciprocity act being coupled with the background check fixing bill - https://www.nraila.org/articles/20171206/house-passes-concea....

That's what a compromise looks like, gun owners get easier concealed carry rules and everybody gets safer gun purchases via enhancements to the NICS system.
They can just ask their ISPs to remove facebook.com from their DNS. That'll remove 80% of the users. If that doesn't work, they'll just have to ask their ISPs to block traffic to facebook and their associated IPs. It's not like they can't just install DPI equipment.
The assumption is less that every individual has perfect information, rather that the market as a whole has that information. For example arbitration is assumed to 'work' however it's also assumed the returns will be driven down over time.
Behold the OSX library version of memcpy, 177 instructions long: https://gist.github.com/tlbtlbtlb/6f6fdc5154210dc72950d8ef02.... It unrolls to 128 byte chunks. Presumably it's enough faster than REP MOVS to justify the memory footprint.

I believe most libc implementations are similar, such as glibc: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob_plain;f=strin...
The Obama campaign didn’t deceive users of its app, and it didn’t violate FB’s then policies, but it apparently did harvest friend-of-user data just as keenly as CA: https://twitter.com/jaypinho/status/975077567551197184
Around 2008, I read some public filings by banks. I made only two back-of-the-napkin adjustments:
1) I combined off-balance sheet assets and liabilities into the balance sheet, and
2) I changed the expected % losses to approximately that of Wells Fargo.

With those two simple adjustments, I saw that some big banks were in the hole by (combined) tens of billions of dollars.

The market prices for these banks made it clear that major investors either didn't read or didn't understand the data in the public filings.

Fun fact 1: My bank WaMu which was itself was maybe $0-$10B in the red so I immediately withdrew $2K in panic. I found that money hidden in my filing cabinet about 5 years ago.

Fun fact 2: What was even more crazy is that a famous private equity firm (I think TPG) had just dumped in billions of dollars into WaMu but that still didn't fill the hole (and why would such a big firm be less sophisticated than a nobody like me?)

Fun fact 3: FDIC had ~$50B at the time, which maybe wouldn't cover the losses at the pessimistic end of my estimates.

Fun fact 4: In accounting classes, I identified 3 very shady areas of accounting: options, off-balance sheet entities, and pensions. I believe the first two have since been fixed but I think pension accounting is still very shady so... beware.

Disclaimer: I studied finance and accounting in school and read 10-Ks in my spare time in the early 2000s so I have some knowledge of accounting shenanigans. I also had some experience in real estate. But that's about all the expertise it took.

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> I'd really rather not have video game designers and video game journalists forcing their versions morality onto me.

Unless you're using your own servers for the game and they're still doing this, they aren't really forcing you to do anything. They're their servers, so they go by their rules. If you don't like it, you can just, y'know, not play the game.
Basically, anyone who launched a public campaign qualifies. If you're just short selling without any related posts about why you're short, etc. you're not an activist short seller.

It's ambiguous, no doubt, but actually pretty easy to discern in practice. There are a few big names that dominate the landscape, as well (e.g. Citron).
I’m not a big fan of Zuck, but that’s just how real estate acquisition has to happen in Hawaii due to very odd state property laws.
It's not a contradiction. A better, more formal definition of "public" would be, "information which is sufficiently accessible that its price impact has diffused through the market." In the context of capital markets, "public" doesn't mean that everyone knows it, it means that it's essentially accessible to anyone (in a reasonably similar slice of time). As a corollary, it also means that public data has more or less exhausted its (individual) impact on the market.

Most "public" information is actually woefully underutilized. The only real requirement for data to be public is that everyone could know it, not that everyone does know it.
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