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So without Big Government, Steve Jobs would have just called it quits then? Get real! Its the entrepreneurial spirit that drove them to compete and what drives any successful company to compete. There's always a new model private jet coming out next year.
Oooh.. I'm glad they screwed over well-funded companies with multi-year contracts. Now at least they're going to get the shit sued out of them unlike when they go after regular users.
When I work on systems, I ask, "how does it scale and how does it fail?" Everything I work on considers handling of failure cases, especially 3rd party APIs. I'm surprised by how many people assume that the network will just work and their provider will be available.
"Make your own and host that"

You're going to host your own version of Google maps?

Host your own version of 'background check' or 'credit check'?

Host your own DB of global financial transactions?

Host your own instance of weather data? Geospatial data?

It's not possible in most situations, and not feasible in most others, unfortunately.
Are you referring to the tax increase (per employee tax) that they prevented or another special concession they received?
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I feel such relief that I no longer have to see how offended everyone is about everything and how much they hate Donald Trump
I like to play with liquid nitrogen. We have parties and make cocktails with it and do instant ice cream. In a couple weeks, we're going to do a thing where we make Dippin' Dots with them. Liquid nitrogen is fun stuff.

It's also dangerous, and not in obvious ways. It's like the opposite of a cauldron of 400f peanut oil --- if that oil could also quickly asphyxiate you. And your intuition for how to mitigate the risk is bad; for instance: gloves would be a mistake. And that's just for handling it; freeze something the wrong way and give it to a friend to ingest and you could perforate their alimentary canal.

Should people be able to play with LN? Absolutely.

Should someone start a company and sell super-fun mini-dewars to people as a novelty item, like the Soda Stream of chilling? If they did, a lot of people would get hurt.

I am fine with it being a little bit of a hassle to get LN, and I am fine with it being a little bit of a hassle to buy a pretty boring desk toy. The CPSC appeared to have been fine with that too; its problem wasn't with you owning little magnets, but with companies selling them as novelty stress relieving desk devices to rekindle your sense of childlike wonder and also make excellent refrigerator art (all things on Zen Magnets current page).

I don't think HN's take on magnets and the CPSC is very sophisticated or interesting or really even all that well informed.
Lexical and computational semantics may be superior to FOL, (for machine translation, at least) but they've been around now for a very long time without showing much promise toward thawing past AI Winters. I've not heard anyone propose their adoption as the missing next step toward modeling general knowledge across all AI problem spaces.

In fact, populating a LS/CS knowledgebase with requisite facts was a game stopper when they were first invented and still pose challenges of scale that remain unsolved decades later. If it accomplished anything, Cyc proved that manual curation alone of a rich database of propositions is depressingly infeasible. So how does one automatically curate a general fact KB, no matter what semantic model the facts take? I don't think expressiveness of the propositional representation will ever decide that question.
Here's the NIH overview of addiction treatment, summarizing thousands of studies:

https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/principles-drug-addic...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3678283/#S14
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DOS did quite well after Microsoft acquired it.
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We use pgbouncer with pools of thousands of concurrent connections. It does what it says on the tin.
I can't fathom how you could post this or the other comments you dropped in this thread. They're obviously bannable offenses, but since you've mostly posted fine comments to HN otherwise, I'm going to assume you went on tilt for some reason and not ban you. Please don't do it again though.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Just to try it out, would this be an example of the kind of result you'd see at Archive.org?

https://archive.org/details/CaminandesLlamigos
That is still the issues in some of the projects that I work in.

Team not knowing any version control properly is one of the most common issue that I find. Nobody knows about unit tests. Build systems and checklists would be something too alien to comprehend.
The n+1 problem stems from the issue that the euphoria from alcohol is strongest while bac is rising. When it’s static, there isn’t much euphoric effect.

The euphoria is mitigated by actual drunkenness, so the best euphoria is while absorbing the first beer, less with each one. But once the absorption of a beer is complete, you just have the remainder effects of alcohol without the euphoria.
That Google doesn't provide support is a myth.

They provide one of the best support I've seen for G Suite. You can get somebody on the phone no matter the timezone and the issues I've had with G Suite thus far have all been fixed.

And Blender did mention that they had access to higher level support actually, due to their channel being popular. Support people however are often powerless and what happened to Blender seems to be human error.

People speak of Microsoft's support being good for example. Remember the Skype transition to Microsoft accounts? I lost half my address book in that transition, contacted their support and they kept insisting that it isn't true and that I might be having a second Skype account. After several attempts with different people, I couldn't get them to transfer me to somebody technical that can recognize this is a bug. I gave up eventually and lost Skype IDs of people I've know for a long time.

Microsoft's support is shit, it's as if it doesn't exist in some situations actually and yet people don't mention Microsoft as having poor support. Is that because you can get a dummy to read textbook replies back at you? I'll never know.
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I would guess that those clients are young and with high income, so their net worth may not be that meaningful yet. Otherwise, they would be well-advised to fire their financial manager, take their million dollars and live somewhere less expensive.
That definitely solves the building part.
More companies than that, and large ones. These are just the ones that went public... some of them don't want you to know their trust/safety/moderation features just went dark. Smyte just ruined a lot of people's day(s).
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Good advice. I was one of the last on board at a startup that eventually sold its assets to another company. We were treated well, but I was lazy in my job search and the next job I should have thought harder about rather than taking the first offer and first interview I had. Good luck, OP!
The @HelloSmite Twitter account stopped abruptly on June 4th after daily posts in May.

I postulate more than few roles were halted at that time.
And there will be absolutely no consequence to these actions. Completely messed up!
Fortunately for Smyte, its former customers probably all signed arbitration agreements.
Sounds like paradise! I wish I had a setup like that. :/
Unfortunately it's not pci 4, though.
Oh please. Don't pretend that battery destroying, relentlessly network hogging apps are a good thing.

No app should retry an impossible query forever. This is not the same as some sort of laughable abstinence-only birth control policy, where you get to roll your eyes, and say "yeah right. good luck with that."

What's more, an app that hits the network of an uncontrollable third party, should always check with a controlled system periodically, to verify that the third party shall continue to respond predictably, as a sanity check.

And beyond even that, if the sanity check within your own domain, for your own app that you created, and are responsible for, is unresponsive, it really should cripple the app's connections to things you don't control.

Finally, as one last safety measure, if your status/activation end point dies, and your native apps go dormant, you should expect to be able to re-activate them with a number of channels, including emails, push notifications and new releases that up-version the app.

If you build your kingdom within a walled garden to begin with, and rent all your tools of the trade from an external platform, expect to behave as a subsistence farmer.
That would require anyone but a modern nation taking the blame for something bad on this Earth and we all know that is not going to happen.

Forget it's the Asian countries that produce the plastic. White people did everything didn't your hear?
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hosted where? On a VPS, in a data center, or in your closet? All of these depend on third party services and good luck keeping them up and running as well as someone who makes just that ONE little thing their entire reason for existing.
> this scenario has literally never happened.

It's very similar to what happened with Netscape, except they simply prohibited it rather than increasing price because of it.
That does not work, because you are out of work then. Nobody will meet you or call you out of the blue.
Please don't introduce generic flamebait into threads. That's in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Legit confused this with Zenpencils.
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Could you please not post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? that's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17364899
Money. The porn and gambling industries generate massive revenue and there's little risk of failure versus most startups. It's not like porn and gambling are going to run out of customers anytime soon. You don't necessarily need to be a good person to be good at tech. I'm not saying it's right, it's just an unfortunate reality in many industries and tech is no exception.
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the whistle is far more likely to be blown when things go too far

In your admiration for a Google employees, you’re projecting your own beleifs and norms.

The whistle was blown; Project Maven is too far.

> I get nervous as hell thinking about AI and ML in the hands of governments

Me too, but a cleaner way to deal with it might be to demand better transparency and accountability from the government. Beleif that large corporations will act in your unstated best-interests (and not their own) seems pretty noisy.
Was there something so dangerous for Twitter in Smyte's business model that required such a brutal shutdown?
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If any of this is at all interesting to you, I'd recommend checking out the very excellent ESPN documentary "Broke": http://www.espn.com/30for30/film?page=broke

ESPN's 30 for 30 docs are really great, even if you're not particularly huge into sports. Broke is one of my favorites (after a "The Two Escobars"). It goes into a lot of detail about how ill-prepared many professional athletes are for the lifestyle, how they overestimate their net worth and their projected career duration, and digs into all of the different pitfalls new signees might face as they enter sport. It's easy to blow it off and say "whatever, they're all soft, tattooed millionaires anyway", but there's a lot of heartbreaking instances where people did the right thing and still ended up bankrupt.

Anyway, worth a viewing.
There are some who feel the difference but don't care about it, and there are those like me which has what I call "latency intolerance." Where we get pissed about the 10ms difference.
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HN doesn't bet any money on anything. Please don't post unsubstantive comments here.
Let me suggest something that will turn everything upside down...

How much of our “logical reasoning” about the world is just really strong correlations?

Look, AlphaGo Zero beat the best chess programs by just precomputing MCTS. What does that say about finding the optimal solution to a problem?

It seems MCTS beats even AlphaBeta search, by far.

So when you talk about applying rules, you’re using a system that tried to reduce the system to a few rules and maybe recursively use them. That may work for some things. Certainly it seems to work amazingly for physics. But that’s the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics.

Ultimately what if I suggested that “understanding something” with huge vectors or monte carlo search is actually far deeper understanding than a few rules?

I am talking about the actual territory not the map. Yes the model is neat and tidy but the model is just simple enough so that humans can understand!

What if an AI can no more explain its solutions to a human than a human can explain human decisions to a cat?
It looks like if you have small team and you want to develop iOS / Android prototype fast RN is good choice. This case you're looking not for "best user-experience" but "okay user experience fast".

But for big companies java/kotlin or/and Objective-C/swift native apps will be more efficient.
You've broken the site guidelines here, which specifically ask people not to insinuate astroturfing or shillage without evidence. Please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't do that.

If you or anyone wants explanation of why we have this rule, I've posted a ton about it: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Food and clothing aren't services they are once off purchases that you own, these are more like buying the software and self hosting it than SaaS.

Electricity and water are heavily regulated and often government owned, not run by Silicon Valley cowboys.
To your point about high end and low end pieces of beef, steaks are usually priced by the tenderness of the beef, which tends to have an inverse relationship with flavor (of course, there are other factors as well, and some people just prefer a mild-tasting cut).

As you might have inferred by now, good burgers are typically made from cuts like brisket and chuck that are tough, inexpensive, and high in flavor. Using high-end steaks for burgers is simply a waste, doubly so for well-marbled ones.

The fat percentage would not be difficult. Any good butcher would probably be happy to help you set such a comparison up. That is, if they don't warn you that it's a waste to use that T-bone on a burger first.
Hey dang, that response and edit was pretty civil, since the names are removed could the flagged state on OP's comment be removed as well (edit: please)?
Don't take chances with a blacklist, use a whitelist since counterfeit products can change brands overnight:

https://familylivingtoday.com/best-carbon-monoxide-detectors...

or

https://www.consumerreports.org/products/carbon-monoxide-det...

(but you've got to pay for that one)

Or, simple rule of thumb, stick with one of the major brands like Kidde or First Alert (other reputable brands like Nest should be safe too). Or better, use more than one major brand/model just in case there's a design flaw in one of them.

If you don't want to pay for Consumer Reports: their top rated standalone detector is the First Alert CO615 ($30)
For University culture, The University: An Owner's Manual by Henry Rosovsky.

For teaching, McKeachie's Teaching Tips by Wilbert McKeachie.

For when you get assigned a course that is outside your confort zone, Teaching What You Don't Know by Therese Huston.

There are many great books; some universities have their own curated lists. Here's Stanford's: https://teachingcommons.stanford.edu/resources/teaching/plan...
> customers at their physical stores so they wouldn't have to carry a wallet. It's like GPS. Many legitimate civilian uses

It's not like GPS, because GPS doesn't invade my privacy. I'm not sure that being identified everywhere I go is "legitimate", though it is common.
I don't really bother because when I've tried in the past it's just been really tedious.
Most dynamic language implementations don't let me inline a bunch of 128-bit or 256-bit values in an array, or allocate them on the stack.

Code that deals with a lot of values which are small but larger than a machine word can be made a lot more efficient if there is a way to treat those values as not objects.
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Yes, yes, and yes.

What's more, you could be product focused and still produce bad products. I just left a startup that seemed to have really bad decision making in areas like "what feature should we build first/second/third", and major areas needing design and careful thought were instead treated as an afterthought. But the tech was solid and lots of work was getting done, so... good enough?
Honestly, I don't know yet. Our timeline is "when it's working really well for software engineers", so it's hard to judge.
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Is liquid nitrogen a waste by product of generating the oxygen ? Can it be used for cooling ?
Wow! Kind of re-adjusts the weight thrown behind the mirror test. [0]

Recognizing self-recognition and sentience is truly a quagmire of problems, but I suppose it makes sense that it becomes tied to the most salient sensory input for the entity.

This concept will deeply complicate the uncanny valley of machine sentience, and the boundary between live organic life, and contrived artifacts that simulate comparable systems.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test
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The short, simple sentences and the unassuming vocabulary made it feel like an ESL piece for college students. I also found it moderately interesting, but it really could have benefited from a more personal touch (why and how did she get into this business?) and longer, more engaging anecdotes.
Bringing in people's names in order to attack them is a breach of this site's civility rule.

Yes, we are aware that Smyte is YC W15. Thanks for the reminder that you protect your own from base accountability at high cost to others.
In a case like this, does that mean that Smyte (the company, even if they no longer own the trademark) still exists and is liable for all the penalties? Would they usually ask for the cash to pay for them as part of the asset purchase?
You've crossed into incivility repeatedly in your comments. Could you please stop doing this? Re-reading the site guidelines might help: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
They had contracts that they took on when they acquired the company. Twitter are now legally liable for these contracts, I won't be at all surprised if someone sues them. And frankly, they would be in the right.

What an absolute debacle. This doesn't bode well for the entire Twitter platform.
I think Youtube gets 45% if I’m not mistaken.
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In this case it was a symptom of them being too simple. The use of range requests wasn't specified.
Eventually yes. Fortunately there is enough demand for actual machines, but if that ever goes away and all of our compute power is owned by a handful of companies then we'll be well on our way to a scary dystopian future.

At the moment everyone is trying to do a land grab, but once that phase is over and the market consolidates on 2 or 3 cloud providers and sysadmin skills have disappeared we'll see what a disaster it is.
FTA:

> According to reports from those affected, Smyte disabled access to its API with very little warning to clients, and without giving them time to prepare. Customers got a phone call, and then – boom – the service was gone. Clients had multi-year contracts in some cases.
Please stop using HN for political flamewar.
I do something similar (real-time detection of spam-comments) at https://blogspam.net/ and I'd be reluctant to even attempt to handle fraud.

If my site messes up then dodgy comments might get posted (unless they're blocked by other systems). If you misclassify an "is-fraud" check you either have a customer lose money, or a potential customer be denied service. Neither of those are great.

I suspect actually doing anti-fraud testing could be done simply with a few heuristics, knowing the kind of attacks I see on other sites I run, but the only way to be sure is to get a lot of data-volume and real-life results to compare against.
You crossed into personal attack and incivility in this thread. Please don't, regardless of how wrong someone else is.

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The Flow core type system is sound: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3152284.3133872, although there are unfortunately some known unsoundnesses in the actual type system. Does Dart suffer from the same?

Hack does check type hints at runtime, so it's "sound" in the same sense as Java might be. Is this the same sense in which Dart is sound?

> the type system is sound and checked at runtime in cases where it can be proven statically safe

I didn't understand this. If the code is statically proven safe, why would you need runtime checks?
Have you looked into "Self-contained deployments"?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/

On the Windows side, .NET Native does static linking.
true. yes. lol
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I have been planning to join Toastmasters but for my procrastination :(
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I think what he calls "5% time" (24 min of an 8-hour day) is what most burger places call "break time" (15 min every 4 hours)
I don't want to make assumptions about your metabolism, but I find that I actually need to eat food on a fairly regular basis, to the point that I would not characterize it as a "once off" purchase.
As long as protesting is still legal in the US, it's part of the proper way to deal with the problem.
Last year the initial event of the "adpocalypse" happened, which both demonetized a lot of channels, and at the same time roughly halved what advertisers were willing to pay, even for complying channels. Since then a few additional waves of demonetization happened.

Every time Youtube demonetizes a creator they are also demonetizing themselves. The combined effect of all that could have held back profitability significantly, especially considering that they are shooting for comparatively low-margin advertising business model compared to other platforms.
McMansion style is essentially Mr Potato Head Style. Glue on a couple ears, eyes and hands.

Almost all of the junk built today will end up like a set of cheap Home Depot Cabinets. In the land fill. Because most of this stuff also is extremely susceptible to decay. The moment someone stops maintaining it religiously it quickly becomes unsalvageable.
"Beautiful and fully readable output code"

beautiful ... ?
readable ... ?

neither ... yes