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The official name of the country is The United States Of America. But that's too long for day-to-day use, so we need a shorter name. What do you want us to use?

America? We get all these howls of protest, but what do you like better?

United States? To call us that has the same problem. It's kind of unfair to the United Mexican States, don't you think?

That leaves "The" and "Of". But we can't call ourselves those, because of The Dominion Of Canada.

The short name for The United States Of America is "America". It just is. And we don't particularly care whether you like it or not.

"The Boston states", if I understand correctly, does not refer to the entirety of the USA, but only to New England (Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut - the states that center on Boston).
Didn't Sequoia invest in them too? You might be right but this is not the best example lol
https://variety.com/2018/biz/news/att-time-warner-merger-app...

More details, especially where it matters. and a more analytic language.
Oral argument is usually just for clarifications/questions over the written briefs. Judge Leon likely later read the written briefs on his own time (that is his job, after all).
Why are you driving on the sidewalks? Please stop doing that!
On the one hand my first impulse is to ask “What’s the supply-side version of caveat emptor?” but if companies like Uber are hiding the true pay of their IRS-1099 “gig workers” then I have to wonder if they aren’t running afoul of disclosure or fair labor laws as well.
Here in the Bay Area there is a smaller scale issue of the same kind between Palo Alto and East Palo Alto. In this case the former does not like the latter to have anything similar in its name... oh well.
Wow I wonder what will happen if anyone gets seriously injured in an automobile collision?
App Engine autoscales. To be sure, this isn't a key feature for a lot of sites which don't achieve a ton of scale, but Google can keep spinning up new frontend instances and the Data Store essentially "just scales" if you use it properly.
Private home licenses are different from public locals licenses and signals are also slightly different. Actually what bars do is buy a home license and use it for public locals.

What I would find infuriating is they get away with it. Data Protection laws are very strict for the little guy, we will see what they do with the 500 pound gorilla.

I'm not optimist. These laws did nothing to curb "legal spam" until GDPR. I'm very satisfied with how all the idiots that flooded us with spam are now begging me to allow them to keep doing it. Good riddance!
Because Power 9's have on-chip NVLink ports.
Maybe this will cause Trump to retaliate by bringing back net neutrality?
What are you trying to learn from them?
Your location (address photos were taken) and full name are visible from the link you shared.
I think this is much ado about nothing. Companies get killed for cutting dividends, so doing buybacks are a good way to create value for shareholders in a manner than can be ramped up and down. It's also more tax efficient (I pay taxes on dividends, but don't pay taxes on owning an ever so slightly larger piece of the company).

The author picks on Apple, but doesn't mention that Apple has dramatically increased its headcount and R&D spending all the while buying back stock. The truth is Apple is a mature company that is an incredible money making machine, they literally don't have ways to use the profits to make more successful tech products. What else should they do other than reward shareholders?

Anyway, if it turns out when I sell my shares they were bought by the company, guess what I'll do with the proceeds? Either spend it (stimulating the economy) or plow it back into other investments. Buyback money doesn't magically disappear, it just cycles what the capital is being used for.
You will want two have two (conceptual) independent entities, doesn't matter if they are processes or threads. Depending on the architecture they may not even live in the same machine. One entity will deal with user input, which will cause some work to be requested. The other entity will perform the work and report results. You pass messages between them.

The exact architecture will vary according to your needs. There was one project I was involved with, which contrary to what Joel Spolsky would say, we recommended that it be entirely rewritten. The biggest problem? Spaghetti code and threads. Or rather, they way threads were misused. You see, there was no logical module separation, they had global variables all over the place, with many threads accessing them. There were even multiple threads writing to the same file (and of course, file corruption was one of the issues). To try to contain the madness, there was a ridiculous amount of locking going on. They really only needed one thread, files and cronjobs...

For the rewrite, since we were a temporary team and could not trust whoever picked maintenance of the code to do the right thing, we split it into not only different modules, but entirely different services. Since the only supported platform was linux (and Ubuntu at that), we used d-bus for messaging.

This had the not entirely unexpected side effect of allowing completely independent development and "deployment", way before microservices became a buzzword. You could also restart services independently and the UI would update accordingly when they were down.

Even then, at least one of these services used threads (as tasks). Threads are great when they are tasks, as they have well-defined inputs, outputs and lifecycle.

At another project, I had to call a library which did not have a "thread-safe" version. A group at another branch was using Java, and they were arguing that it would be "impossible" to use that library without threads. The main problem was, as expected, that the library used some shared state. We would just fork() and call the library and let the OS handle.

Threads are a nice tool, but that is only one of the available tools in your toolbox. Carpenters don't reach for a circular saw unless there is no other way, because it is a dangerous, messy and unwieldy tool.
Some websites do use <base target="_blank"> to make links open in a new tab by default.

However, this can create a vulnerability as the linked website now has a reference to your site through window.opener and can take the user away from your site:

https://www.jitbit.com/alexblog/256-targetblank---the-most-u...
With a top speed of ~12mph, the scooters are way too slow for the road. It's much safer on the sidewalks. The sidewalks in downtown San Jose are also quite wide, so there's plenty of room for pedestrians and scooters to share.
not exactly the best example when you consider what their research arm bell labs gave us.

Not saying that monopolies are good, it's just not black and white...
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Judging is the act of applying law (general) to a particular case (specific). Since laws can't anticipate every future situation at their time of writing, no matter what there will _always_ be some disconnect between these two -- i.e. vagueness/generality in law, leading to edge cases.

Which is why two judges can come to two completely separate conclusions on a single issue, while drawing from the same laws, based on their own personal methods of interpretation and biases.
Well, you don't let lock semantics fall outside of a library frontiers. That means you do two things; first you do a global organization of the threads (no OOP-like patterns), second you export threads to the outside world in a hierarchy that exactly reflects the code hierarchy (easiest if you export a single thread).

There are some patterns that are safe as long as you implement them correctly. The patters that are good for IO are among the simplest, so that's where the GP was coming from. But it's not viable because he has full control of the code, it's viable because his problem domain has good options.
Ah, D3, the Assembly of Data Visualisation.
Async cult (mostly node people) proseltyzing that promises/callbacks are the one true way while glossing over many many scenarios where that execution pattern is less than desirable.

Wasn't projecting async all the way down to IO primitives.

Commented because most of the debate seems to be threads vs callbacks--with processes being unwisely overlooked.
Greece didn't exist as a united country, but for Alexander the Great, who spent his school years in Athens, and tried to unite all Greek states into one Hellenic country, yes, the history belongs to the Greeks and not a Slavic tribe that found itself in the region 900 years later. Not to mention that they were given a written language by the Greeks of the Byzantine empire.
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Interesting idea, but why inflict this churn on all Chrome users? Just make a standalone client that runs through all possible variations so that server developers can test against it.
That is exactly the length of the sidereal day. Not Aristo's fault if you didn't specify the kind of day you wanted!
Yep, Apple also has tons of cash reserves, so taking on debt doesn't really matter for them.
Being event driven was not the problem with the Therac 25. No QA, no real testing, and the elimination of hardware locks which would’ve entirely prevented the problem in the first place were the problem with that system.
Communication with privacy
Hello. Just a simple question related to all this privacy talk. What are (in your opinion of course) the safest apps for communication trough mobile phone?
Yeah, common sense.

Also, actual science work that they have to do.
Using cryptotokens as a method of recording who-owns-X-physical-thing seems useful at first glance. It would work for as long as there are no bad actors.

The main issue is dealing with a 'fork'. If Person A has the private key that 'possesses' an item, but the courts say that Person B is the rightful owner (and physically transfers it to them), how do you securely fix the chain?

If person A cannot or will not be compelled to transfer the cryptoasset with their private key, then the chain now has incorrect and uncorrectable information on it. If some records on your chain are not trustworthy, trust in the whole chain breaks down.

The only fix is requiring a centralized backdoor, at which point you might as well just use a non-blockchain database.
Problem is you so often get stub articles about a town or person.
I believe the point is to make it sufficiently widespread that an ignorant server developer can't ignore it.

(edit: or at least will start getting bug reports as soon as a Chrome/Chromium user enters the population)
I should point out that this doesn't really change the broadband ISP landscape. Time Warner Cable is not apart of Time Warner anymore. All this does is give AT&T a better chance at entering the "original content" space and to take advantage of the fact that streaming providers like Youtube TV and Netflix would need to now pay AT&T for their content.

Honestly I don't think this is all that bad of a move. I'd rather AT&T absorb Time Warner than Comcast.
Great job guys! Nice to see one solution that covers many different types of potential security threats.
And they were taking on debt as a work around for double taxes on foreign income. At crazy low rates because they are not a credit risk whatsoever. It was basic accounting.
I mean, you're always going to run into this problem with this kind of library. Building a big, complex data visualisation pretty much requires expert knowledge in whatever language/environment you're doing it in. Law of Leaky Abstractions and all that. The purpose of something like d3 isn't to hide everything from a newbie, it's to make the code a bit cleaner and save the expert developer a bit of time. I think beginner programmers in general expect too much from libraries.
Yes they can, but they probably will not. Otherwise the Assistant AG's statement would have said so. Notice how he danced around it.
Well obviously, harri man...
Companies like Symantec implementing devices like Bluecoat proxies are notorious for not doing their due diligence on their network stack. This ensures that it’s actually tested against devices and has the support of users to be fixed rather than a few developers who won’t be able to move the needle. At least that’s how I read this
Indeed, threads are almost synonym with shared mutable state. If you don't want shared mutable state, then you can use a process.
We had tools for years that supported TLS 1.1 and 1.2 while large amounts of the web broke with them; merely having such tools doesn't make server developers care.
I'm going about that my speed on my bicycle, much of the time. "Too slow for the road" has a meaning on the interstate highway. Someone who says that about city streets needs to go back to driver's ed. It's fine that the speed limit is 35mph. If you can drive that and safely pass slower traffic, do so. If you can't, slow down!
I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords.
I never made any claims as to her company status. I was just pointing out the companies house records such that the celticninja could investigate her status by themselves.

In fact she was, had you taken the time to review their 288a forms (November 15, 2004), a company director, which was not a huge surprise given she was a founder.

Flippin' 'eck your "bolt-counting" pedantry and davej's below are what gives HN a bad name and makes engaging in the comments often tiresome.
What’s going to happen to gig wages when the economy hits a recession?
The gig economy is already bad enough for workers but in the US it's even worse due to the health care situation. We should get rid of any advantages corporations have over individuals like health insurance.
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Aristo's Answer: The intelligent are doing the work.

Confidence: 30.56%
What if they fired everybody at CNN!? :D <3
I’m still surprised that NFS doesn’t have a TLS option. Or a way to grant access without relying on IP whitelists.
What do you mean highly irregular? They all have regional monopolies. Of course they have crap service and high prices.
That was made by Facebook, and likely funded in part by the fact that they're guaranteed all of the traffic (and thus add revenue) from those internet connections and that it would generate a fair amount of positive PR.

As everyone else has pointed out - we'll be paying for the full cost (and probably quite a bit more based on ISPs previous behavior) of the connection one way or another. Either we pay for it through ISPs charging service owners for the privilege on being on the limited packages (thus upping the cost of the subscription indirectly for everyone) or ISPs forcibly create monopolies by pushing users on to their own web platforms, then raise prices later (as is the end goal of any push to fabricate a monopoly). It's pretty much strictly lose lose from the customers' point of view, at least in aggregate over the long term.
Can confirm this from 100% ancedotal evidence.
Agreed. Yesterday, I replied back with similar sentiments. I was immediately down voted. I second that theory of yours where all the risk seems rational when you are one of the founders.
This breaks relative anchor links. I wouldn't recommend using it unless you really have to
You have no idea about the content, but you think you do. Somehow, current deals for Warner Bros and 20th Century Fox are in the billions. And so is value of News Corp, CBS, AIC and so on. Why do you think you can proclaim the near worthlessness of the content or that people don't want my content? Because you are an opinionated nobody? What do you know?
Second that. Outside of HN an average person, or probably north of 95% Uber riders, neither heard nor care/cared about internal problems at Uber. None of those problems really reflected on qualty of services they provide to the final consumer.
This is how much money you were supposed to have saved by 35
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Anne Arundel. Comcast offers gigabit pro here.
I argue this is even better: anybody who plans to benefit commercially must pass on the fruits of their success to upstream.
I am a big fan of allenai :p
Average fare is much more like ~$3
> And China was never very ambitious beyond its own borders.

True, but very informative, as China's borders have grown and shrunk and grown again quite a bit over the centuries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=zdHkY3XYHKA
This is part of Chrome's scheme to avoid protocol ossification -- where you realize you can't deploy any enhancements because of widespread non-standards-compliant (but likely, for the original implementer, "good enough") behavior.

The idea is to catch them early by simulating future versions now, which in their belief is best done by perpetuating traffic that contains bullshit versions on the wire. It's fairly clever, in that any implementer who doesn't want to break significant portions of web traffic now must code their implementation in a way that anticipates Chrome's future versions, which is most sanely done by coding their implementation in a way that happens to match what's in the spec. Meanwhile, noncompliant implementations will likely break for a huge amount of users, causing widespread uproar and, presumably, pressure to fix the problem.

Google's clients (e.g. Chrome, Android) and servers originate and receive a high enough portion of traffic that they could pull this off on their own without anyone else's buy-in, and still achieve the intended effect, but they're reaching out to the community to build consensus. It's a hacky idea, but one that backs noncompliant implementations into a corner now, instead of them sticking around forever and causing incompatible changes later down the road.
They could fix the damn MBP keyboard...
"I get run over by cyclists on the sidewalk almost daily"

Are you seriously saying that multiple times per week, you are knocked over by a bike?
At this point I'm happy to do business with AWS to sustain it as a counterweight to Google and Facebook. Amazon are fairly evil to their employees and suppliers, but thus far they haven't done evil to their customers in the way that the other two have.
Judges in the lower circuits are also held accountable to higher circuit judges if they don't interpret the law while taking past case judgement into consideration.

A lower district judge can't overrule a higher judge's opinions.
>"It took Twitter 10 years to turn a profit"

Twitter and Vice Media(as opposed to just the magazine) both have origins of 2006.

From the article:

>"In 2006, Vice started Virtue, a cheekily named ad agency that allowed the magazine to deploy its creative talents on behalf of brands. A year later, Vice became one of the first digital-media outlets to get into online video with vbs.tv, a digital-video site funded with a $2 million investment from Viacom."
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> In terms of popular media, the early seasons of South Park and the Simpsons look absolutely saccharine compared to where culture's Overton Window is today. "Don't have a cow, man!" is positively benign.

I'd argue that South Park actually matured and toned things down on one hand, and amped things up on the other.

Their early episodes relied heavily on shock value. The later seasons are more nuanced, and rely less on gross out, bodily humor, or people laughing at cartoon kids swearing.
> On average, it estimated they were making $10.75 per hour in the Houston area, $8.77 per hour in Detroit, and $13.17 in Denver, which was slightly less than Walmart’s average full-time hourly rate in 2016

I'm not saying this is ok, but I think there are also more intangible things that come into play here. Working for Uber gives you the freedom to work when you want. You don't have to call in sick or find someone to take your shift. You just don't get in the car that day.

Which really, I think, is the allure of a lot of gig jobs: the ability to be your own boss (kinda).
We need to stop importing children and adults until we make sure all current citizens have jobs. Not everyone has cancer nor needs healthcare. The truly broke get it for free. Only thing not covered is cosmetic dentistry like non silver fillings and partial dentures and brand name medication.
Yeah, I think access rights is a big use case. Even could be useful for real-world services, assuming people are willing to trust the service provider.

- Spend a cryptotoken as the cost of creating a forum account to fight spammers or malicious users.

- Only stream this video to people who have signed a message with a privkey that controls a token which corresponds to the video. Use steganography to encode privkey into stream, so if they release it publicly, their access rights can be stolen.

- Concert tickets that can be validated and transferred on a blockchain would also be cool, but maybe a bit heavyweight and unnecessary. Have trust when buying ticket from a scalper that it is real and valid, transfer to your own privkey so it can't be sold twice.

All of this is complicated by regulatory uncertainty, though. No way that any of these are economically viable if you have to deal with AML on every transaction, and it's not clear you can transact in non-monetary cryptoassets without being liable for following money transmitter laws.
That is a good question. Anyone with knowledge on the topic care to pitch in and elaborate? It seems to me it is within the rights (and "obligation") of DOJ to appeal and pursue this further.

The burden to prove impact on competition is on the plaintiff. The article does not elaborate on the judge's argument about how they failed. I am curious about the other side's argument also.

Two statements to ponder:
>>"The bulk of the third-party competitor testimony proffered by the government was speculative, based on unproven assumptions, or unsupported -- or even contradicted -- by the government’s own evidence," Leon wrote.

>> "I couldn’t help but notice that the more and more questions were raised during trial about the reliability of Professor Shapiro’s theory and model, the more the government appeared to be minimizing the importance of his analysis," the judge wrote.

I can only infer from this the judge felt DOJ did not have a consistent and non-speculative case (see above). I am not sure what they can bring up during appeals as new evidence. They can appeal the speculation argumentation I guess.

In general, I am not sure what else one can bring to the table regarding mergers. Yes, whatever you bring to the table is going to be some form of speculation. That in itself should not be enough for dismissal, in my opinion of course. The law says differently (substantial). The defendant can always claim they are not going to raise prices. If 5 years from now, the consumer is <place word of choice here with negative connotation>, nobody is going to recall this merge as the root.

People just find it too hard to understand the impact of financial actions (one of the reasons you do not see SEC filing more often).

I am awaiting for the written ruling, but having checked previous cases, and inaction from DOJ, I don't expect much.

P.S. I am not sure this is really a vertical merger. It doesn't seem this clear cut to me. Thoughts on this?
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> there's too much to cover in so little time

Then again, you look back at what students and school boys from earlier eras were able to learn and accomplish by the time they were considered men (which by the way was like 16-17 in antiquity), you wonder what the hell our modern education system is doing sometimes.
That’s how I’m able to get Botox injections for my migraines. There’s a thorough process in place for in office treatments already across many fields of medicine. This would be no different and plenty of money. I doubt Botox costs 1500 to manufacture a dose.
E.g. http://stopthecap.com/2011/06/29/san-francisco-still-in-stal...
Right. But I'm thinking if there is a way to solve this systemically (including US).
How is it the same? If I'm hosting a Web app, my users can't write to S3.