skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When a car is turning right and a bike is continuing straight, the bike is moving much faster than the car, through a narrow and obstructed window, from behind. The chances of the driver seeing you coming are low.

When designed well, the parking lane stops and becomes a turn lane. The car is responsible for merging across the bike lane in one action, and then making the right turn in another. This happens while there is less of a speed differential, and because it pulls over, it's obvious to the bike that it intends to turn right.

The amount of sidewalk you have to scan to see if there will be pedestrians in the crosswalk in the next ~5 seconds is tiny, whereas the amount of bike lane to scan is essentially the whole block.
What counts as “tech”?
Media? Electronics? Tech consulting? Software? Games?

I can think of at least
Spotify, King, Rovio to name 3
> That's right, it averaged out to net zero over more than a century.

It just averages out because you selected an arbitrary period, which makes the point essentially meaningless. Id didn't average out from 1800 to 1900, from 1814 to 1914, from 1800 to 1850 and so on.

> It's a fundamentally different behavior, both in direction and magnitude.

Again, this is not correct. If you look at the actual data, you can see that the the inflationary periods in the 20th century actually have smaller inflation per year than those in the 19th century. The fundamental difference is the absence of severe deflationary crises, of which there were plenty in the 19th century. The top ten highest inflation rates of the last 200 years were all in the 19th century. Have a look at the data: http://www.in2013dollars.com/1800-dollars-in-2016
Another option is to use EFS (AWS version of NFS). It's easy to use/set up. However, EFS costs 3x-12x (gp2-sc1) more than EBS. https://www.fittedcloud.com/blog/aws-elastic-file-system-a-q....
It's one thing to use the friend graph to show in your app who else uses it. That's pretty legit. The other use case is to store it to some database and keep it there.

FB provides since ~10 years widgets for showing who else is liking xy. I know these Social Widgets are not so customizable and thus not pretty enough to match some custom design but at least they provide some safety nets.

Maybe Facebook could just provide more Social Widgets/CSS customizability instead of letting people write their own "Facebook Extensions".
This is typically the argument for VAT over other sales taxes. In the EU, A would charge $2m + VAT. Let's say 10% for ease. So B would have purchase costs of $2.2m, and would charge $4.4m. $400k of that is VAT, but they get a $200k VAT refund for the VAT paid on the purchase from A. C would charge $6.6m, of which $600k is VAT, and claim $400k VAT back. End result is A, B, and C would all pay $200k VAT each.

In your second example, the VAT inclusive price would still be $6.6k, and the VAT due would still be $600k.

In practice many non-VAT sales taxes also counters this problem by trying to define what makes a "final" sale or a sale to consumers as opposed to other companies, and taxing only that.
I do hope that Stack Overflow will become usable again. In my opinion, the problem is mostly the answerers.

I went all the way from a simple coder to management, and now I'm doing both, running my second startup. I talk to people of different walks of life, and I always do my homework.

But on Stack Overflow, it's like I'm back to the early years of my career, a stupid newbie whose questions get randomly downvoted. I delete it, tweak the wording a little bit, and now it's suddenly accepted. I say something like, "a solution or a 3rd party library", an idiot downvotes me saying that "requests to recommend 3rd party libraries are offtopic". I change it to "a solution (3rd party library is OK)", and now it's suddenly fine.

It's like the mafia of high-karma answerers decided to adopt Les Grossman as their role model.

As a side effect, the good answerers are gone, and the really tricky questions are left unanswered, so I often answer them myself. Although, the way Stack Overflow is, my desire to contribute to the community is diminishing.
By local, I mean national, or state, depending on where your taxes actually go. Not necessarily from your next door neighbour.

But I think we're looking at this from different aspects. I was considering self-imports (eg Alibaba, some Ebay/Amazon sellers). You're considering big-box-Chinesium-imports vs something made by a local mom-and-pop. You might get better support from the big box longevity but that might be more reason for protectionist policy, not less.

If you compare buying imported crap from a big-box to importing it yourself, you're paying the big-box for your "free" warranty. They build it into the price. But 30-50% of your cash is ending up offshore with no benefit to your own economy.
No, it was not obvious to me since I have never been super rich before
No, it wasn't stable. I have linked the actual data, please have a look. It was only stable if you select arbitrary time periods to make it look stable.
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I noticed the atom team are trying something similar with an experiment called X-ray https://github.com/atom/xray

It will be nice if this becomes a thing, I think it’s more likely that electron apps become significantly more performant than that everyone starts rewriting their apps in QT, for better or worse.
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Shell companies work because it allows them to shift profit around. That is exactly why this proposal goes after revenue. The problem is not identifying ownership.
Furthermore, a variation of 4% hardly fits the definition of "sinking".

This sort of militant journalism is getting out of hand.
Couldn't agree more. It's not just that I can totally relate to everything Silhouette was saying, but he/she definitely presented their thoughts calmly and thoughtfully, even in the face of quite blatant trolling in a few instances.

Since Silhouette (and gdpr_throwaway) want to keep their anonymity, I opted for virtual beers by upvoting :) But happy to convert those karma points to real food or drink -- and hopefully an insightful conversation -- if you feel like getting in touch (my details aren't so private).
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> Dropbox's value is equally dubious.

That's a very short-sighted value. Even if you don't believe that there is no value in providing a very convenient and easy-to-use file hosting and file-sharing service that even supports collaboration, just having access to so much personal information is already quite valuable.

And people actually pay for this, to the point that Dropbox is profitable as it is.
> Where any laws broken here ?
Yes.
The article mentions "British data protection laws were probably broken". NB Facebook lawyers have been trying to push the Guardian around. - https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/974995682124804099

IMHO, but I am not a lawyer - clearly the law was broken, Data Protection Act.
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Profits are always shifted legally. For example Google Australia is separate entity from Google Ireland. What Google au might do is 'lease' trademarks, copyrights, logo etc from Google Ireland and pay them for it. The amount paid varies year to year but all of it is legal and money this changes countries legally. This is Google au expense that's tax deductible.

Also, I chose Ireland as an example because it offers tax concessions to industries ( at least it did in 2006 when I was in the valley)
For me it has distilled into something much simpler: Enlightenment or Fix It.

Those who seek enlightenment want to ask good questions and learn. They want to be educated and be a part of the community. You need to give some to get some.

And then there are the fixers. The least effort they can put in getting their immediate problem solved. Long term value and learning something is not a priority.

Unfortunately there are a number of "fixers" who answers too. They give short extremely to the point answers without much depth. Some because it is a quick way to handle ”easy" questions. And others simply hunting for points.

As everybody else I have my own view on how to solve this. Raise the bar to ask a question. Spend more effort on actually build a well founded and good question before allowing answers. With the current system the churn is too high and there is too much focus on fixing rather than learning.

How cool would it be if people started to ask "What questions do I need to ask to try fixing this problem?”

With all its flaws SO is still one of the best resources out there. But I am afraid that it is considered "good enough" for anyone willing to make greater changes. Or it has reached a size with too much inertia to make such changes viable.
Hello author, NetEng department here, good article, thanks!

I'm sad to say this problem affects IPv4 too and its not that uncommon when using layer 3 switches. The TCAM allocation for IPv4/6 is usually a fraction of the size allocated for MAC addresses.

Also a big annoyance of mine is that TCAM space is something few people graph by default on their NMS system. Case in point: we have Cacti as a backup NMS because it can graph >anything< that is a number. Some L3 switches have a MIB from the vendor that reports TCAM usage, others from the same vendor use a different MIB, and others from the same vendor don't expose the stats via SNMP at all and we have to scrape them from the CLI! So the vendors don't make it easy for an operator to track a limited and critical resource of a layer 3 switch. I urge everyone to graph their switches TCAM usage however they can.
The EU's proposal isn't the best, but it'll hopefully spur more debate and shake us out of our current local optima, where corporate taxes for multi-national corporations are just odd. How about this proposal: tax company on a fraction of global profits, where the fraction is the fraction of revenue that was attributable [1] to the EU?

[1] - Different ways of determining attribution, but simplest is based on billing address of the customer making purchases, including purchasing ads
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I definitely have hoarding tendencies. I have 100s of vintage UNIX computers, 1000s of books on CS and EE topics. I mostly find the idea of them inspirational, even if I rarely get to explore them in the depth I wish to. But the hoarding tendencies don't seem to show up in my work product, i.e. I am very deliberate and keep a small stack of active projects/tickets/emails. I guess I am good at compartmentalizing?

OTOH people often seek me out for pointers to code/libraries/tickets/books etc at work and in my circle of professional friends. I'm kind of like a librarian.
"Looking back, it seems insane. Bluntly put, we took a known poison and – for three quarters of a century – used it in machines that puffed it out in breathable form. Then we drove them millions of miles a day, all over the world, regularly dosing billions of people with the toxin."

We are still doing just that, even though we are using milder poisons now.
Precedence parsing is surprisingly robust and error tolerant, as well as being bottom up. Sans braces, it can be used for much of your expression syntax depending on how overloaded your terminals are.
I use mine (which also goes out as an email) to consolidate the things I’m working on in my mind.

The benefit to me is I write reflectively on what I’ve learnt, the benefit to my audience is that it positions me as an expert (you only need to be one day ahead of someone to be an expert).

I do post daily though.

I also really enjoy writing, without that it would be a chore.
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POC?
Yes, I'm struggling to think of a good mechanical example of inheritance as code reuse.

But I don't agree with the "that's an interface, not inheritance" argument. Well designed super classes tend to provide an interface - they just don't use the "interface" keyword.

If you declare a method as abstract, you're defining an interface that subclasses use to define new behaviour. You see this all the time. If a method is defined as protected, you're saying "I'm allowing subclasses to use this interface to change behaviour".

For example, test frameworks usually provide an overridable method that's run before each test - setUp. That's interface - "I will call setUp before every test - feel free to override it".

To me, that's where shit gets hard. It has to have a well defined interface, it has to be an is-a relationship and it has to be a subtype (Liskov). That's why we see composition over inheritance because it's far simpler to just drop one of the constraints and get decent work done.
> shows on Netflix start to prominently use T-Mobile products

That’s payment in kind.
I'd imagine "Proof of Concept."
I think Zoho Creator is everything that is being asked for in the threads below for airtable.
Cheap Pricing, Tonnes of drag and drop field types, powerful webhooks and api for integration (in fact there are a lot of integrations out of the box) , good partner network with hundreds of developers already running multi million businesses from the platform, able to scale to over 3 million users per app, big plans at reasonable prices, drag and drop approach PLUS developer IDE for coding if you want to get into detail. Dashboards, HTML combined with CSS and javascript type language.
I have met the CEO of Zoho Creator and he is NOT going to sell out to the VC's or a large company any time soon. It has been bootstrapped for over ten years. One of the major problem I have had with platforms is them being BOUGHT OUT by large companies (ie Podio and Citrix, Foxpro and Microsoft) and then they KILL them or don't keep upgrading them like the orig founders had envisioned.
He is just being Canadian. It would be very impolite not to apologise, having just screwed up your neighbour's entire political landscape.
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This kind of work combining propaganda and disinformation with AI models and feedback into them to get a progressive change of belief is fascinating. I think of this as the first of many wars democracy will fight against AI and we are currently loosing.
If the app uses no Javascript UI frameworks, and completely maintains all UI/DOM state in Rust code, it might be possible to significantly reduce memory usage when compared to typical Javascript apps.

Keep in mind that "electron-quick-start" (basically an empty Electron app) uses 40 MiB on Linux, so anything with a slightly complex UI would probably not use less than 50 MiB, regardless of the "backend language".
I was wondering how Breitbart and Trump did so well. It makes sense now that it was not luck, but they had access to new "tech" in away. Fake news for them is kinda like how Obama was the first to used Twitter and other SM platforms to get connect with voters and get elected.

Reminds me of the quote ~ "it's artificial intelligence until you understand how it works. Then it's just algorithms"
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I don’t understand the size argument. Disk space is super cheap today. Facebook’s Android app is 350MB and not a lot of people really care, on Desktop, 150MB is nothing.

Plus it satisfies the “all libs/dependencies in one app”, which is exactly what macOS’s .app, Linux’s Snaps and AppImage, or more generally all Android/iPhone apps are doing.

I agree with the RAM/power things too, but these issues come from web pages in general, not Electron itself.
Usually when you want to find a "loophole" or "mistake" in the predictions of conventional economic theories -- like the idea that free trade is good -- it makes sense to start looking at the sorts of things we already know that neoclassical economics has trouble with: asymmetric information, externalities, and human irrationality. Asymmetric information isn't generally a major issue when it comes to imports (and if it is, you use inspections, not taxes), and with a few exceptions (like the reputational status of Cuban cigars or French wine) human irrationality isn't either, but externalities can be a big one. When you look at, say, steel tariffs, there are relatively few positive externalities, and plenty of negative ones, associated with steel production, but for another industry like IT, the externalities may be positive, such as promoting technical know-how among citizens.

So in the specific case where having a local industry brings positive externalities, I think there may be a case for some limited forms of protectionism, but even these can be misapplied. In the specific case where countries want to promote "white-collar" industries, such tariffs should only apply to end-consumer products, never to products which are sold to businesses, because usually the farther along you are in the supply chain, the more "educated" your profession is, with a few exceptions. The most compelling positive example comes from China's development of its own Internet services like WeChat, Baidu etc, which stemmed directly from China's exclusion of Western competitors like Google, Facebook, and historically Visa/MasterCard, and which may have promoted the growth of an IT industry in China. For a negative example, Brazil's tariffs on video game consoles are devastating for Brazilian video game developers, because their potential market is eliminated. Even in this latter case targeting a consumer product hurts domestic businesses. Another case is when positive domestic externalities are replaced with negative foreign externalities, such as when considering carbon taxes on imports.

This is all just speculation, of course, except the part about border carbon adjustments, which has been the subject of serious analysis:

http://www.rff.org/files/document/file/RFF-DP-16-09.pdf
Alcoholic drinks (not just casual content like vanilla extract) have been consumed by humans for millions of years. To put it in perspective, milk has been consumed by humans for less than 10000 years. It would be unsurprising that there might be some evolutionary selection that benefits people who consume some alcohol. I find this specific topic interesting, given my observations about patterns in my adult friends (when they started and stopped drinking, when they started and stopped working out, when they have kids, etc).
Completely agree, I make hundreds of apps and actually generate a large monthly recurring revenue from building and selling SaaS apps based on Zoho Creator. I have scoured the globe for something as good. Air table looks flash but is WAY behind zoho creator. Airtable do not have any language so you can't develop workflow, automation or validations of any reasonable complexity...
Like its $1B revenue you mean?
> The JVM is fast enough for Minecraft,

That's debatable, the requirements for running a Minecraft server are quite big for what it does and it's very easy to make it lag.
I think Facebook would be missing the correlations of likes to the Big Five personality traits. But they could rebuild it if they wanted to, by promoting a free personality test on their site. (I assume that correlations between personality traits and political learnings has been researched before and there’s various bits of data available?) Then you can go from targeting ads at likes to targeting ads at political views.
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This is the same guy who praised inclusion of DRM as a web standard? Really Tim?
And facebook, just like snapchat also only moves pictures, text and news around then?
"may be wrong but I'm not sure I get why they put so much emphasis on the getting of the data from Facebook, as I feel that that's really easy."

That's exactly the point.
My bad, I wasn’t clear in my question. I’m not looking for gigs, more for resources for those working a job and having a gig. I think being in this position has its own challenges. I was curious to know if there were books or forums on the topic folk would recommend?
I can definitely second that. History of Rome on Spotify is one of my favorite things to listen to
Is it really so hard to write a native GUI for three OSes if you must?
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or 2 OSes if 98% of the potential desktop / laptop market will suffice and your product is not aimed at developers.
What do you think guys ?
Are we really trying to project Donald Trump onto Marcus Aurelius?

This is a post from 2009. Any analogies to Trump are being done by you.
Only if it's agreed. If it just happens without any deal taking place, it's not really payment.
> They give short extremely to the point answers without much depth.

Typically, this is because these questions are a minor (cosmetic or trivial) variation* of an question asked many times already, and usually addressed in the docs. Search results aren't likely to put this question at the top of results, so the aim is to resolve the OP's need.

*so technically not a duplicate.
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/business-bootstrap...

It's quiet, but you are welcome to join and try to liven things up. It is aimed at folks not specifically looking for VC money. Sidelines are perfectly welcome.
Parent from 2 up here. For the record I agree with both of the comments under me. All good points. I guess it’s not much help to call Trump a neoliberal. I’ll take that back.
Well,

Why not a modular approach then?

Make the "Backend" switchable.

I could image that we would see many different and interesting approaches!

PS: kotcity ist kinda a bad name, kot in German means excrement... So, basically shit city ;)
I think it’s cool that people are playing around with this sort of thing.

The truth is, though, I don’t understand why this architecture is attractive in this case. This is essentially a thin front-end UI on top of a fast cross-platform backend. That’s a great structure - but why not make the UI native for each platform?

Calling into a Rust backend from Swift, or from whatever UI framework you use on Linux or Windows, is going to be just as easy as with Neon. At the moment, you are including vast amounts of code and using a large amount of memory to display a very small amount of text on-screen. It seems very inefficient for such an otherwise elegant application!
It's 100% in memory so I would imagine memory consumption will be bigger. But being in C and in-memory is meant for CPU efficiency.
Humans does not exists for millions of years. ~200k years more or less.
This is a commonly touted statistics. But it is like saying banning a Car of type 'X' will save Y lives because for the past few years Y lives were lost in accidents involving car X.

Sadly it is so easy to fool people into falling for this and turn them to ardent vaccine supporters.

A vaccines does not prevent death. It just, if it works, prevents the incidence of a single disease. Try to see the difference. If 5000 kids were dying of Measles, introducing a Measles vaccine will not save 5000 lives. It just prevents incidence of Measles. Kids with poor health/immune system will still be dying. But they won't show up in measles statistics, showcasing a huge win for the vaccine.

If you look at the Mortality rate of kids, you won't find any drastic drop in MR corresponding to the introduction of any vaccine...But you ll find drop in disease incidence..But as I described it, I think it is quite meaning less..

btw. I was not starting a debate on if vaccines are actually saving lives. What I was asking was the validness of the claim that vaccines (yes people, eh..I mean doctors say "vaccines", instead of specifying any single one, for some reason generalizing all vaccines to be similar) are safe. And since vaccinations are done to every single child, what if we might be again subtly damaging generations of children..
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Populists have been doing similar things for ages and most of the population goes with it