skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft owns five of the top ten platforms used by enterprises. These enterprises pay them tons of money to make these platforms run, some spending more than $100M each.
MS got their foot in advertising, don't think of Bing as a failure at $5 billion revenue.
> the average Iraqi doesn't have a standard of living adequate to afford [such a standard of living]

Impecable logic, technically not even wrong, but ... you are saying the wars didn't cause colataral damage to a significant degree because ... you cannot live without air conditioning?
Absolutely, the lizard part of our brains are wired that way. Typically, folks manipulate our assessment of risk, as we are terrible at assessing that.

Most of the most awful atrocities in history fit that pattern, from Ceasar in Gaul forward.
I got rate limited somehow and I can't figure out a way to even know what comment(s) / discussions kicked it off or how to remove it. Almost 5000 karma. Pretty frustrating.
I use twitter hashtags to unblock me.
Where else exactly?
Yes, that's exactly it. FireOS is a fork of Android with all Google's stuff pulled out, and Amazon wants their piece of the mobile advertising pie as well.
> While anecdotal, I only know one person that still uses Microsoft office, and that is just for Excel. Everyone else is libre office or Google docs. I grew up on office but once they introduced that stupid ribbon menu I ditched it. Apparently I was not the only one.

That's highly anecdotal. It's probably not much of an overstatement to say that a large fraction of the economy literally runs on Excel notebooks.
Has Gates figured out how to short it? The last time he wanted to "bet against" Bitcoin he was ignorant of the derivatives market on CME.
Applefans forgetting that Apple does as much BS are the best!
> But having a trustless, semi-distributed, potentially anonymous, and global currency that we can send to anybody in the world via the internet in a few seconds - or even via an offline mesh network - is an incredible, exciting innovation.

The Star Trek replicator is also an incredible, exciting innovation. It is also as real as a cryptocurrency that does what you describe.
Bans like this seems to increase the opportunity/value for "alternate" app stores outside the recommended vendor, offering things that the vendor wont.

EDIT: Point is that many apps receive a ban because they conflict with the interest of the phone vendor, but they can still be of great use to users.
Do you believe that exposure to weather is killing a statistically significant number of people in the UK?
Agreed, but they still make like 90% of their money from ads.
The quote:

> "The asset itself is creating nothing," said Buffett, comparing bitcoin to "productive" assets such as gold or a farm.

That actually wasn't the quote, the remark about gold and farm was made by the article's author.

Edit: here[1] is the actual quote and video

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17197491
Depends on the point of view really.

Google's single product: you.
How I built my dream company
If it's not in quotes, keep in mind it may have been misrepresented. Not even kidding. Sometimes the part in quotes is inaccurate too. This is Newsweek we're taking about - a living argument against ad support automatically leading to quality if there ever was one. I keep hoping someone will go into some depth on this topic, but nope.
Spanking for Misbehavior? It Causes More (2017)
I'd bet they are closely tracked from a certain distance and, whenever they buy a ticket or cross a border, someone gets an alert.
"The model in question is the EOS-1V, which, incidentally, the company actually stopped making a full eight years ago. Since it has simply been selling out the rest of its stock, which, it seems, has finally depleted."

That says a lot about how few they have been selling.
They should probably move towards a crypto-backed micropayments model...
I'd say Amazon is different, but Google has a monopoly in mobile operating systems worldwide (certainly in the EU), so I don't think it should be allowed to block apps that hurt its business. That seems quite anti-competitive to me. Plus, ad-blocking has been deemed legal by at least four courts in Germany, and I believe in the U.S. and Canada, too.

Also you could have used the same "don't bite the hand that feeds you" argument with VOIP apps on carrier networks. And yet, most countries have passed laws against ISPs banning competing services on their networks.
> he process of transformation from a me first attitude to a group first attitude.

Interesting observations - some cultures have that inbuilt. I wonder how bootcamp is like for them.
Given that most of the value of the system is derived from centralisation of data and applying the exact same standard to every citizen to ensure comparability the free market in this case would not increase efficiency, in the same way healthcare markets don't.

Multiple actors would just increase bureaucratic overhead.
GP wasn't specific about absolute vs relative GDP (American performance in QOL per GDPPC may not be terrible, but certainly not beyond all doubt), the Oklahoma/Iraq comparison was.
They are actually local VPNs looping back to your device. That's the only way to change DNS servers when on cellular data. Until Android P, which will finally allow that.
This is a different topic than my comment that you replied to but the "ten years ago" thing stuck out to me: I think books (and blog posts!) written very recently by people with deep expertise are likely useful as well. Figuring out which ones those are is the tough part.
That's pretty terrible. Seems like even some basic effort would sniff out a lot of these ...
Not nearly an ELF loader, but during my security class, I wanted to test my payloads, so I wrote a load_bin program which read a file into a buffer, then jmp`ed to the start of the buffer.
Most of the books have footnotes to explain the parts that are non-obvious, which you would miss from watching it.
> Maybe they should focus on the quality of ads, because currently they are complete garbage. And privacy invading.

I prefer low quality ads because I can be more confident that they won't effectively manipulate me. I like to avoid the influence of pure product-propaganda on my decisions.
It can start small: project A is predicted to not be full time, so you are also assigned to project B. But at the first obstacle (or the first wishful-thinking based estimate or plan) you don't get enough done on either project, overtime is needed, and it's your fault. Then project C takes the sales team by surprise, and who's going to deliver it?
Those have strong user counts because they are free or significantly less expensive than alternatives. Search is free -- if they decided to charge anything for search, people would switch to yahoo or bing in a heartbeat. If they charged for chrome, that would be a red letter day for Firefox. Android would see a hard fork.
It indeed does not apply to Google or Amazon, as both Android and FireOS allow sideloading.

It does effectively apply to Apple/iOS, as it doesn't. (With a bunch of caveats.)
Alphabet robotaxi subsidiary Waymo orders 62,000 Chrysler Pacifica Minivans
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Audit Meta Tags with Headless Chrome
Pulling the plug on a fiber backbone for an entire company to stop 6th graders from cheating on an exam? Seriously?

Doesn't sound plausible.. smells like a cover up.
You may have looked on a bad one.

System-wide blockers on both iOS and Android do use the VPN API, but the idea is to intercept your outgoing traffic on the TUN interface, emulate the TCP/IP stack, and filter it locally, right on your device.
Hypothetically, if you have EU citizenship by ancestry you would be protected under GDPR. If you have this but have never been to Europe, how is Facebook able to determine that from a US IP you aren't eligible to delete your account under GDPR? (i.e. a true delete rather than their fake delete)
I read the article and watched the included video. The headline does seem to suggest Buffet said something he did not say. The use of double quotes is confusing and potentially misleading.

I haven’t had my coffee yet but I don’t think Buffet himself even says the word “gold” in the included video.
It'll fail .7% of the time for each read. You must assume you will be read multiple times at multiple locations under different lighting and motion tracked the rest of the time. Once you get a couple consistent identifications, the system can be pretty sure it's you.
Yeah I've seen that for sure. I'd be chatting with someone and be all "yeah it's 9.99" and they're "no it's 11 something".... same class, we each saw something different on different platforms.
What Is 42? …or the Semantics of Function Arguments in Erlang
This is an issue I've noticed with GitBook in general. I think I began to notice it in 5.0
Google Assistant fired a gun: We need to talk
That used to be true but it is no longer - Office 365 has a far higher revenue and growth rate than Google Apps - and when you are a corporate customer, it is far better integrated into your existing IT investments.
I've been aware for long that I know so little about org-mode so I had never imagined I could do such a thing. Love this idea for understanding a code base, I'll have to try this out.
AI might be one of the few tech niches where China has a legitimate advantage. Obtaining certain kinds of data is tough, there are many unresolved ethical and legal considerations. The communist regime has already proven itself to have no moral qualms about the most abhorrent acts like organ harvesting from political prisoners. Rule of law is not a problem either. The regime has also displayed great interest and belief in AI. Whatever the companies want they're gonna get.
> They are the fuel that powers a new form of technology infrastructure

And what value is that new infrastructure actually delivering? People keep talking about blockchain this and that but I've not seen any compelling use case yet. Maybe this is just shortsightedness on my part but every time I hear a proposal for a thing to build on the back of cryptocurrency, it always sounds like a very suboptimal solution.
It's all rather arbitrary. As with every other state, California's economy is tied to lots of workers outside its boarders. It isn't a country. It isn't surrounded by water. So it is harder to capture exactly how much activity happens within California in comparison to how much happens in an island nation like the UK.
I believe Google shares the 30% cut with the telecom companies but not sure what the actual split is.
I'll be that guy. The writing was completely off for me, I don't know if it was the Chinese sensibilities that I was lacking, or something lost in translation, or what, but I couldn't understand the main characters at all. The multipage scientific exposition sections do not make this "hard scifi" (and they're whacky anyway). I never got the hype, and I never wanted to follow through with the other 2 books.
Pigeon or Pigeon Messenger.
Generally those states pay more than they receive in federal funds.
As I understand, Apple has blocked updates for all countries, and Telegram is a British company, not Russian, and russian users are only 7% of its userbase.
Given how many billions are being currently spent on self driving, there's going to be a lot of dissapointed investors if they've just been sold snake oil, and anything decades out absolutely is snake oil in the corporate world.

Hell yes. A lot of hype has been sold at a dear price, driven in no small part by Uber’s desperation to find a profitable business model through automation. The reality is that critical edge cases are hard, and no one seems to know how to fix them. Two factors that I believe will dictate “decades away” or as you rightly say, someday, but not today, probably a loooong time from now. First, these crashes are not going to stop as long as SDVs are on public roads, and that includes the bad joke that is Tesla AP. That kind of thing is just too juicy for the media not to latch on to, and too scary to the average person to ignore. As a thought experiment, imagine if Uber has mowed down a well-off white kid instead of someone they could dismiss as a “formerly homeless woman.”

Second, the tech itself is hard and may be on shaky ground to begin with. The assumption that with enough training AI can adapt to the point of “better than human” is yet to be borne out in reality. And yet, the billions have already been invested, so a lot of people have a lot on the line to make some kind of MVP. So “millions of miles driven” gets bandied about, but it’s not miles in torrential rain, or terrible roads, or snow and ice. Who cares how many miles Waymo can drive on a sunny day in California? Get back to me when they can do the same on a back road in Maine, in the winter.

IMO this creates a feedback loop of hype and investment until the bottom drops out. Then it won’t just be a technological problem, but political, legal, and shrouded in “winter” as investors once burned will be reluctant to wade in again. To the people who see the billions invested as evidence of promise in and of itself, I say Theranos... Juicero...
Apple has blocked Telegram from updating its iOS app, says founder
And yet the neighboring state of New Hampshire, which has some of the lowest taxes in the country (0% sales tax, 0% state income tax), beats Vermont handily in SAT scores.

https://blog.prepscholar.com/average-sat-and-act-scores-by-s...

What does Vermont have to show for its higher spending? Why do you see higher spending as an automatically good thing if it doesn't have any evidence of having a beneficial effect?
The stock market doesn't care about users, it cares about profits.

Android and Chrome and Google Play are unprofitable.
yea, you can follow this simple process:

1. Register with site.

2. Wishlist any courses you might have in interest in.

3. Wait... Sometime soon, there will be a huge sale where every course is under $10.
A labor of love – developing a free synth app
The article had an interesting title, but the actual text quickly descended into comparing hard science like physics with soft sciences like political science and sociology.

Basically, if you’re a flat earther you’re pro brexit and trump. Because “experts” in political science said brexit and trump are bad and you ignored them, you must also be the type of person who ignores hard facts.

It’s a subtle (or not so subtle) put down for anyone who’s politics is right of left.
I had a nest of ants move into my driveway gate controller, eggs and all: http://www.righto.com/2010/08/getting-literal-bugs-out-of-dr...
#nocoiner
Per capita, it’s much worse in the northeast than in SF or NYC.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/drug_poisoning_mor...
I moved 5-6 years ago and admit it's easy for your ambition to be outsized there. I moved to Boston and realized I wasn't all that ambitious after all. I wanted to move back to VT for the outdoors - however, I moved to the Mountain West and realized it has much more outdoors and much more of a tech economy, so I never moved back.

Bonus: While we have all the winter mountain sports here at their highest levels, there's also 300 days of sunshine and much higher average winter temperatures where I now live! Good luck breaking single digit temps (F) in the worst winter months in Northern VT.
There is currently no non-niche application for cryptocurrency. Until the time that arrives, they are probably right.
To put it slightly differently: software engineering is about efficiently producing working programs at scale.

It's like chemistry and chemical engineering. Chemistry is about atoms and molecules, and about chemical reactions. Chemical engineering is about building and running chemical plants that efficiently produce the desired chemicals without blowing up.

Though I guess that's the difference between computer science and software engineering, not between programming and software engineering. Maybe in the chemical analogy, programming is pipe-fitting in the chemical plant.
I think it's relatively common advice that you don't price software between $500 and $10K. Below $500 you sell through mass-market channels and market to the end users (or their low-level managers) who buy it on their expense accounts. Above $10K you send out high-priced salesmen to sell to the C-level. It's much more difficult between those two levels, so you can increase sales by increasing prices above $10K.

This old piece of common wisdom is probably mostly obsolete now that software is generally sold as a subscription...
I'm also a Go noob. I tried writing a basic web server in Go yesterday to handle Twilio SMS callbacks. Trying to inspect the requests I was receiving was such a pain, I gave up and wrote the server with Sinatra. Am I missing something that's making this more difficult than it should be?
I can't decide whether this is noble or simply pragmatic. Kudos, either way.

I wonder if there will be a trend towards bootstrapping?
I cannot fit a cluster of GPUs into a phone where I could make magic happen real-time though :(
Well, if you look, for example computers parts in Germany with geizhals.de, seems like the shops' majority will deliver products only inland. I've read something about complications with different VAT rates between European countries, IIRC if they differ, the seller must apply the customer's rate, and this can create a debt or a credit and so on...

Didn't noticed the same thing with shops in UK or France tho.

Edit: grammar
or you can compromise with an ultra minimalist GUI that runs on top of xorg, such as openbox/fluxbox and similar.

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

Archbang , which uses openbox, is a good example of a distribution to try in a VM if anyone wants to see an example in action.
It's a (bad) Visual Basic program that also runs my house and logs the GPS in my car. And while it's meant to have voice recognition, it doesn't, because I haven't found a good solution yet that meets my needs. It has a significant number of half-implemented features, because I only invest time in it when inspired to and only so far as it makes my life easier. There is no machine learning of any kind and the command structure is quite static.

For instance, I found I was often asking my house a couple times throughout the day for the thermostat status when I was at work (I have a fairly temperature sensitive pet). This week I went ahead and just told it to go ahead and wrote a little 'status report' email, and then call for it a couple times a day in Windows Task Scheduler.

https://github.com/ocdtrekkie/HAController
Would it be possible to skirt these policies by having a system-wide ad blocker that's only partially configured? Either the user has to modify their systems settings to use the local VPN or take some action to load or enable the blocklist.
Waymo just announced it's ordering 62,000 Chrysler Pacifica minivans for use as robotaxis. Do you still think it's just a pipe dream?

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/31/17412908/waymo-chrysler-p...
This article has a good quote from Warren that likely better captures his view on gold.

http://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffett-compares-stock...
they're most likely in /r/all. Reddit now has filters for subs that will show up in that feed, which handy.
The ones I have used on Android just use the /etc/hosts file.
I am always skeptical of comparing numbers of homeless people, as different countries have vastly different methods of measurement.

For instance, New Zealand has the highest number of homeless people per capita. But this is only because in New Zealand, you're basically counted as homeless if you don't have a rental contract or own a house. I was technically homeless for 18 months or so, despite having a roof over my head and being perfectly happy with my living situation, I certainly didn't consider myself homeless until I read an article telling me I was. I still didn't consider myself homeless after reading the article.

Unless we know how the numbers for the UK and California are calculated, there's no point in trying to compare the numbers. Where did you source your numbers from?

I did a bit of research, and while on the face value, the numbers are correct, they aren't really correct at all. There are lies, damn lies, and statistics.

The official number of homeless in the UK is 307,000 [1]. This includes "sleeping rough, or accommodated in temporary housing, bed and breakfast rooms, or hostels". There are only about 4,800 rough sleepers in the UK [2].

In California, there are 113,000 homeless people (2017), of which 88,000 are unsheltered, i.e. sleeping rough. [3, page 25]. HUD defines homeless differently to the UK Govt too, living in a motel or a hotel (if not paid for by the government) is not considered homeless [4]. So there's a whole category of people counted as homeless in the UK, but not the USA.

There are massively more rough sleepers in California than in the UK, even counting for the fact that the UK is much colder than CA.

Anyway, my rather long winded point is that it's difficult to compare numbers between countries, because countries have different ways of counting things.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/nov/08/one-in-every...

[2] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

[3] https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2017-AHAR-P...

[4] https://www.nhchc.org/faq/official-definition-homelessness/
Heat isn't wasted if you live somewhere you need to heat your house anyway. Many people turn energy -> heat without any 'useful' byproduct in between. Imagine if instead they got free bitcoin or cancer research or server hosting in the middle - there's actually a company that is already working on that - putting servers in people's houses to heat them.

But anyway, it also produces a unique currency system with many benefits.
There was a point where it was that simple to run GUI widgets on a desktop, too. The likes of xman and xclock were just that, programs that one could just run and stop.
Yes, it times out. If a site uses HTTP, there can be a notification about it being blocked, for HTTPS sites it is not possible. Some ISPs block packets by inspecting SNI field and such blocks can be bypassed by playing with TCP packet size either from client or server side. Some ISPs just block traffic to blacklisted IPs without inspecting the packets.

> Second what has the coverage of this been like in the local media?

All major media in Russia are controlled by the government. They reported that Telegram is used by terrorists and drug dealers and Durov refused to comply with russian law and provide decryption keys that are needed for the invesigation (Durov says that accounts in question are long deactivated and that he was required to provide keys allowing to decrypt the traffic of any user, and that those terrorists used WhatsApp as well).

Putin's advisor on Internet development also suggested that russian users can switch to messengers made by russian companies.

There also was a small rally in Moscow against internet censorship. Only about 12000 people from 12-million city took part in it.
Even in advertising it’s arguable that Facebook has become stronger than Google. FB ads already command a premium over Google ones. While Google is still gonna be the dominant player for the foreseeable future, it’s definitely a risk.
The businessinsider.com article linked by posted qz.com article has some hilariously bad answers for the leaked Google interview questions. Most of them distill down to "here's how we would make a clever attempt to avoid answering that question, by answering an easier one" and some are followed by "here's a smarter answer, submitted by a reader infuriated by our published response".
I believe you. But if you're going to venture into personally intimate areas like whether someone needs psychotherapy, the burden is on you to clearly disambiguate your intent, because these moves are commonly used to snark at and demean others.
You do not have to go that far to that kind of apps, fou can check f-droid or fossdroid for free and opensourcer android apps.
SF should offer $10K for residents to move to VT.