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Not everything needs to be a business

The Mozilla team is supposed to work without getting anything exchanged from users of their work ?

Some things can be a public good.

Businesses and providing public goods are not opposed
Most of the time the touch and display is delivered as one module (similar to the iPhone where the whole front is one module) The front would probably need to be customized so it fits their design and they would probably need a flex designed also so it fits with their board design... maybe they are designing their board around an off the shelf display module? It’s usually a puzzle - not easy
perl5 is not abandoned, it's just currently not fashionable. There's nothing I can't do server-side in perl that I can't do in any of the other important dynamic languages.

Over the last couple of weeks I've been training people who've been stuck in svn for far too long to use git. My go to three sentences to help orient them has been "git is like perl. It's extremely useful and there's nothing you can't do with it. The problem is there's lots of different ways of achieving the same thing."

I'm not sure your argument that 'top down decisions are good' is why is valid. And the whole 'whitespace is syntactically meaningful' thing in python gives me the heebeejeebies. On the other hand when I decide I need to learn more maths, python and sympy is the tool I reach for.
Or more precisely, the profit is part of the money being spent on capital assets. Because they spend much more: the $10bn non-cash charge from depreciation (but that’s “maintenance” capex), the $4bn they “save” by paying employees with stock (essentially a capital raise), they also raise debt ($17bn last year, mostly to acquire Whole Foods) and many assets are not purchased but leased.
Someone can't just "enter" the internet service market. It takes billions of dollars. All the incumbent has to do is temporarily lower prices to keep people from switching and raise prices again once the new player goes bankrupt.
We are. Nature has enormous prestige across all fields. It has the highest H-index.

Nature (the multidisciplinary journal) should not be confused with other Nature publications that have the name "Nature" in them, like Nature Neurscience or	Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology.
Proof: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/05/level...

I was paying for 100 Mbps from my ISP back when this was going on, but YouTube and Netflix were unusable in prime time. Those were the two high bandwidth services I was paying my ISP for, but my ISP held my video streaming for ransom and got away with it because I had no other choice for high speed Internet.
I'm from one of those countries in the list. It has been known that this is the case and that countries vote for neighbors ever since I've first watched Eurovision (in like 2007). I'm really surprised that this isn't common knowledge outside of the circle.
Oh right, the mobile app auto-corrected EU to Eau and didn't reply to the context I clicked in. So, any iOS apps to recommend? The "Hacker News" one apparently sucks for commenting.
I read the (now locked) thread, the way they handled the report leaves much to be desired.
More deregulation would provide the threat of having more competition later, so it would be a factor of development. There are others factors at play too of course, and net neutrality doesn't seem to be going in the right direction.
I was wondering how far down I'd have to scroll to find the first sensible comment. Congrats.

The internal logic of these claims is non-existent. During the actual campaign Hillary and her supporters were convinced Russia (the generic bogeyman of the western establishment everywhere) was shilling for Trump. After all Trump was a lot more friendly and Hillary was stating that she'd shoot Russian planes out of the sky over Syria, so such a motive would have at least made sense.

Now that whole narrative fell apart entirely. We have the head of famously anti-gay and conservative Russia posting LGBT memes and supporting Hillary, despite the risk of war between Russia and America should she have won.

Yet, the desire to believe is so strong, that like all conspiracy theories it's simply morphed into whatever the smallest step to fitting with new information is, that preserves the core. Now it's all a genius plan to "sow division" by posting pictures of fox statues made of shotgun cartridges. Quite why Russia specifically benefits from generalised "division" or why US culture needed help being divided is left unexplained.

This is exactly the behaviour you'd expect to see if people with strong motivations were looking at noise. Leading us to your last question:

how much confidence do we have these are Russian state sponsored ad?

We only appear to have Facebook's word for it. But you have to watch out. One of the subtle ways this conspiracy theory tends to morph and warp is the distinction between the Russian government and Russians. Even in the headline of this thread, note that it's "Russians" and not "the Russian government".

There are liberal Russians. There are conservative Russians. There are 144 million Russians, a little under half the population of the USA itself. If even 0.1% of them decided they cared about the globally-famous US election, and if Facebook had simply selected "ads paid for by Russians", then this is exactly what you would see - a mishmash of stuff with no unifying theme or agenda.

Or Facebook could have just made a mistake. The government asked them to find evidence of Russian interference, and let's face it, going back with "there's nothing there you are all delusional" is not a good political strategy. I'm sure they felt they had to find something.
How many months has it been? I'm quite sick of hearing about net neutrality. Europe has it so if it's so necessary, vote with your feet (hosting and VPN wise) and they'll get the message. And if they block vpns, I've heard great success stories of community Internet which is supposedly faster and cheaper. You might even be able to get net neutrality by just running your own ISP rather than trying to get huge corps in line.

Can we stop repeating the same thing over and over again? We're all well aware that it's something everyone wants except those who stand to make money off of it.
These results are not remotely surprising to anyone. It's been long known that closely related countries tend to vote for each other.

And it's not really a matter of people doing bad things, it's simply the general public voting for what they like. It doesn't have to be political at all; maybe people just tend to like songs that are culturally close them.

Look at the graph: Ukraine and Russia vote for each other a lot, despite their political friction.
Precisely. Ruby was such a hit with rails they never bothered creating an ecosystem outside of the web.

JS doesn't have this problem because it has the terribly unfair advantage of a monopoly of the most popular platform in the world.

But Ruby did not, the server was open too all. And so when competition arrived on the backend, people chose a language that you could use for the web and something else.
> What was in it for the foundation to get rid of her sooner?

It just occured to me just now that this has some similarities to technical debt:

- The costs to the individual employees are a lot more obvious to those individuals than the costs to the organization as a whole are to the leadership.

- The costs to the organization are both real but hard to quantify: Higher turnover, missed opportunities because staff don't have breathing space to think about seizing them, decreased ability to execute on goals. The costs to the organization of solving it are much more tangible: an immediate and sharp hit to the ability to execute on some things right now. Its easy for someone to argue that it is too costly to solve and hard to push back on that.

- Requires leadership to be able to recognize the symptoms of the problem, to keep open communication channels that would let diagnostic information bubble up, to acknowledge that there is a tangible cost to taking action but agree that its worth it to avoid the larger hidden costs, and to actually take that action.

I suspect there is probably a good essay to be written (or which has been written) which defines this category of organizational rot and fleshes out the specific leadership habits that are needed to notice and fix it.
So if nobody can enter it how did it create itself in the first place ?
> Decentralize the vote to the public and you destroy the risk of collusion. This is endemic in centralized systems.

Quite the opposite. It's exactly the decentralisation of the vote that caused this.

In the past, when one person or committee per country voted, only the UK and Germany voted disproportionally for each other. After the switch to public voting, lots of countries now vote for their neighbours. Clearly, the general public is less cosmopolitan than that committee, and tends to vote for countries they know or feel related to, or understand the music or cultural references from.
Docker was originally an internal tool to power dotCloud's platform.
Both of you guys are posting from your real accounts a politically correct statement but you guys have showed no evidence that your method is really the superior one.

People at exon, large banking companies, stock brokers can make promises and a consultant/contractor can't change his mind?

No body cares about building sustainable business, most just want enough cash to retire peacefully.
By my eyeballed guess, it doesn't need any reduction in nuclear power for the renewable sources to surpass it. The nuclear line looks more or less horizontal to me.
Voting is done by phone or SMS and costs a couple of cents. As far as I know, it's totally legal to vote more, but that means you pay more.
Since you are short on time it would be advantageous to use the most powerful tools in a directed way. The best IDE is Visual Studio, its best web development framework is ASP MVC Core (which you can later deploy to Linux VMs) the fastest way to generate your database (for a newcomer) is probably EF Core code-first, then you end up on the front-end, which css and javascript Javascript is difficult because it comes with many choices, which libraries/frameworks to use JQuery? Typescript? Angular? React? That's another question.

Get Visual Studio, Test Checking in Code / Undoing code, create database relationships, put data into database, get data out of database, learn MVC routing, learn web dev.

Also get a mentor, just somebody on a chat that you can ping so you don't grind away for days on something that takes 3 seconds.
Why do you use labels and comments instead of GitHub’s Statuses API [1]?

[1]: https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/statuses/#create-a-sta...
> Hint: it is a response to an industry which failed to regulate itself.

Hint: maybe stop being condescending.

Also, I'm from EU and I'm split on GDPR. On one side I acknowledge its benefits and where it's coming from (the industry is known for highly morally dubious practices), on the other hand I don't agree on principle with the implication that users don't/can't have free will to enter into (however unfair) contracts these companies wish to use.
I don't force them to make any decision. How am I exploiting them?

Most people end up with less money, not because they lack skill but because they've not used their skill at the right place at right time.

Buffet advise doesn't work for everyone.
it is a response to an industry which failed to regulate itself

Pretty much everything websites do with your data are from voluntary exchange. We decide to subscribe to a website a visit it regularly and give to it your data. We decide to surf some website without ad blockers / web trackers extensions, and we don't want to pay for social medias and some of us actually like well targeted ads. I fail to see what the corps should have done to regulate themselves
Each to his own I guess.
You are making a huge mistake assuming that everyone has ability to tell a mediocre from a 10x engineer, which is patently false assumption to begin with.

Market has information asymmetry baked in. Not everyone is informed, that's where you earn your bucks.
I really like this kind of cross-disciplinary research and knowledge transfer. It should happen more often.

It’s interesting that so many equations governing different laws in different fields actually share quite a few properties, and on deeper analysis, can be explained by a single mathematical property. It makes me wonder how many insights we are missing simply because they were discovered in another field, under a different name, for a different purpose.
The problem with verbosity is that not how fast you can write but how easily you can read the language. Verbosity with no information gain is distracting.
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Why a contractor has to be great but the one who is enjoying his service, should not be the "most generous" person?

You see the irony? Appear weak and someone will own you. Appear strong, you'll own them. Simple.
Javascript runs in a Web browser or you could install node abd use that to run it like a script.

You might wanna grab a book or udemy beginners course and systematicaly work though it. Also if you find a good programmer discord they'll help you if something from it is unclear...
I found the following books presented useful mental models:

- Thinking Fast and Slow

- Decisive by Chip & Dan Heath

- Thanks for the Feedback

- Difficult Conversations
If I pirate your software, or use your patents,trademarks, copyrights then the companies,startups will appeal to government to put me in place instead of appealing to free market.

Depends on the jurisdiction of your his company and yours. It might well happen that Asian companies are stealing our technologies and we let them do that, and let our fellow citizens buy their cheap products. It's all about voluntarily exchange, and as long as governments impose monopolies on usage of force and on judicial systems you are bound to rely on the governments to protect your so-called intellectual property rights.

I doubt there were IP rights back in the days for hammer, wheels, farming tools etc..
> So why aren’t we fighting for that?

Because it is an inherently unstable equilibrium. Having two communication networks (of the same level of service, so this does not apply to adding a next-generation network with far higher bandwidth than the exiting network) is as economically sensible as having two power grids or two competing sewer pipes: It necessarily almost doubles the costs (because what dominates the costs is laying the cables, not buying the uplink). A link that is unused because the house is using the competitor's network still has nearly the same costs for the network owner as if the house were using their network. Which means the best strategy for the established network is to undercut the new competitor in order to kill it. The marginal costs of connecting a customer are minimal, while losing too many customers to the competition would allow them to do the same thing to you. That's why people generally wouldn't invest in such a network in the first place.

Competition works at the backbone level, as there is enough traffic overall to fill the pipes of multiple competitors. But last-mile networks consist of links that are either used and paid for, or unused with no option to sell the capacity to somebody else, so there is a natural tendency towards a monopoly (which is also in a way in the interest of the customer: Building two networks necessarily doubles the cost, which ultimately the customers have to pay for).

Also, they are in charge of the American internet anyway. One law regulating some aspect of the internet does not in any way change how much power people have over some other aspect. If people can make a law banning hacker news, they can do so without NN regulation existing beforehand.
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Disingenuous is lying about people’s motives to make your opinion seem more like a truth.

It’s okay not to understand Python or typing as well as you think but that should be a chance to learn rather than your cue to accuse people of malice for giving the world free software.
s/Occasionally/Frequently/

I made a temporary kludge around 10 months ago whose time to live was supposed to be a few weeks. Guess what happened to that? I am definitely looking forward to retiring it mind you.
I think the parent's question is related to why did they should the acquisition vs continuing.
Cult like following.
Infection like marketing.
Biggest thing: Not trusting people from other business.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
You can probably guess that it also has some downsides when you look at suicide rates. ;-)

Anyway, I am working on my own startup businesses. I find it very fulfilling, though in a different way to how I found medicine fulfilling.

I wouldn't have left medicine to work for someone else.

I took a large pay cut. I'd rather be more happy with less money than be less happy with more money.
I'm not an environmental scientist, but I thought this argument is usually applied to the cost of mining and refining the materials used to make the batteries and solar cells, which are not necessary for other methods of electricity generation.
>Your classification is based on a trivial expression involving primitive types.

It's not "his classification", just his example.

The classification is established terminology in Computer Science.

>Since both will likely be represented by strings, it will return garbage, "weak" in your definition.

It's not his definition, and it's not weak in this case. Weak is not about getting garbage or not, it's about the semantics of a behavior. It could be that the result of the weak behavior is exactly what one wanted (e.g. to add a string to an SQL statement -- I might be adding together SQL statements and text about them to produce a book on SQL with my script).

In any case, the SQL statement is a string in Python, not its own type, so the result will not be weakly checked, it will be strongly checked as what it is (a string) -- Python will do what it should.
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> 1. Raised $2.9m, 4 employees, 5 years. Let's say 2/3 of overhead was salary, which seems reasonable. So that's 500k each, or 100k/yr. This seems excessive? Were the founders paying themselves too much? Or where did the money go?

This comment is so naive that I don't know where to begin. You can't hire any quality people at $100k / yr fully loaded in SF Bay area.
What laptop is best for deep learning experiments?
But in calculating reparations, wouldn’t you want to compare the wealth disparity between descendants of slavery and the average per-capita wealth of the African countries from which the slaves originally came? As opposed to average white American wealth? Isn’t the former more indicative of the damage caused by slavery? After all, had there not been slavery, the descendants of slaves would certainly have very different economic outcomes, right? But it’s probably not even so simple since many descendants of slaves also have some European ancestry by way of mixing with white Americans, so maybe we would need to figure out the degree to which mixing occurred and weight the calculation accordingly? I don’t know the answers to these questions, but surely they must be answered before the reparations conversation could be advanced.
What are you using as a replacement to Jira?
I think this should be changed. I cannot imagine that this pay-to-win mechanic has any positive effects.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17051076
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Have you ever been with your family to a hill station? Have you ever visited hill station for camping?
Isn't it sad that most of todays junior programming curricula favour copy+pasting 10s of main() method only "applications" over explaining data types and some basic bit twiddling?
The Wikipedia article about the Clodilda says:

> After the Civil War, the people had asked the U.S. government to repatriate them, but they were refused.
They may have been ignorant of the extent of slavery, but I'd be surprised if they weren't aware on some level of what was going on.

There were fairly notorious slave trading outposts up and down the African coast. Eg.

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

David Livingstone came across Arab slave traders in the 1870s deep in the interior:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Livingstone#Livingstone_...

We often talk about slavery in the West, but many don't realize how endemic slavery was to the Arab world and how late it lasted:

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

Slavery in the Ottoman Empire was abolished in 1924 when the new Turkish Constitution disbanded the Imperial Harem and made the last concubines and eunuchs free citizens of the newly proclaimed republic.[17] Slavery in Iran was abolished in 1929. Among the last states to abolish slavery were Saudi Arabia and Yemen, which abolished slavery in 1962 under pressure from Britain; Oman in 1970, and Mauritania in 1905, 1981, and again in August 2007.[18]

Finally, the reach of slavery is pretty incredible. During the Great Game period between Russia and Britain in Central Asia, both sides would come across Russian slaves who had been taken by Turkic raiders. This was at least 1840 or so.

But again, to circle back around to the point, nobody was really unaware of this stuff going on. Slavery unfortunately has been a pretty common feature of history. We all played divide and conquer. The West weren't the only people smart enough to figure out that strategy.

It takes some agency from those peoples when we see them as unknowing, ignorant victims who were tricked by outsiders. They in reality made brutal and tactical decisions about their local enemies. They weren't dumb, they knew what they were doing.
Big carriers* often route directly, but even then, it's not guaranteed (they could use a third-party or even a competitor as a fallback in case their own interconnect goes down), and to be fair, big carriers (Twilio, etc) are decent at fighting abuse - it's not them we need to worry about.

Small & shady carriers are where the problem is, and those often just resell capacity from bigger carriers (some of which in turn resell even bigger carriers), or sometimes even resell illegal "black" or "grey" routes as they're called, could even be compromised servers from legitimate customers of big carriers.

In the end this entanglement mixes legitimate calls with malicious ones by the time they reach the destination (final) carrier, making it impossible for them to drop malicious calls without impacting a lot of legitimate usage.

*I avoid saying VoIP retailers because it doesn't really mean anything; carriers often allow you to use different interconnects, and VoIP is just one of many.
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