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> Free speech and transparency are ideals, not just laws

Yes, and the ideal is that individuals will be free to express themselves both by creating content and in choosing whether and how to distribute content, whether their own creation or others.

> On a more pragmatic level, if they're standing in the way of political speech by elected politicians without transparency, those politicians will eventually decide to legislate against Twitter.

That retaliation, unlike Twitter's action, would violate both the ideal and the Constitutional law of free speech.
The story you are referring to is this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Cicoria

It's a fascinating story.
Also, WTF, the last thing I'm worried about in SF is not having enough restaurants.
I don't own a wallet. I keep my license and debit card in my vehicle, and my one credit card in my desk at home.

I pay cash for everything but gas, except online purchases. I've been operating this way for most of life.

Treating people as if they're degenerates or below intellectually average for not using plastic (or staying away from Facebook) is uncalled for.
That would be lovely.
The missed penny is what notable persons have long and loudly proclaimed distrust of the US Intelligence Community.
These are some photos I took at the family plot in Danville Virginia, back in 2006. Parker (Southern custom allows for women to sometimes have a last name as their given name) must have been truly loved for a marker this ornate. More than likely, women were not allowed in the Woodsmen association, so it must have been her husband Charles that was a member.

https://imgur.com/a/hT2qIUT
As a company they provide value to their customers, who are advertisers, by delivering them prequalified leads.
I'm sure at some point someone will figure out how to better target advertisements based on DNA. In fact I could think of a simple and obvious one - target based on race or sex. More advanced techniques would be to figure out what proclivities you might have, such as being easily addicted to certain substances and behaviors.

Seems dangerous.
I think it's a testament to jQuery's influence that, even though many of us don't use it today, we still often think in a jQuery way. The most useful common bits of jQuery's approach got baked into standards.

I think it's impressive that even when I'm not using jQuery (haven't in many years), I find myself writing code using features/capabilities where jQuery was an obvious inspiration.
senator, we sell ads
Lets not forget that Facebook the company is not just Facebook the Website

They also own Instagram, Whatsapp, and a host of other massive online properties

While Facebook dies, Instagram (seems anyway) to be thriving
So many down votes... yet the comments below seem to support my original comment. This is not a new phenomenon and the writing style seems opinionated and biased.

The subject matter itself is certainly worthy of publicity and debate, but just in a more comprehensive manner that reflects US history. Politics is big business, because it's pays to know those in power at almost every level. If this administration is far more egregious than those in the past, then at least they could present their argument in a historical context rather than acting like it's come out of the blue.
> Look if you wanna play pretend grown up slot machine at least understand what you're getting into.

I've got over a decade of experience as an accredited investor. The groundless insult with no other content to go with it is inappropriate for Hacker News and blatantly violates the site's rules. What made you so upset that you felt you needed to lash out toward a stranger on a forum?

If you want the straight-forward argument: FB is an easy value play on the reaction. Assume a continued slowdown in growth, by just the end of fiscal 2020 they're at $35 billion in profit against an AH $500b market cap = 14 forward PE ratio. You have to be willing to bet on persistent multiple compression across years, I'm going to bet the stock goes up and maintains a reasonable multiple based on their growth rate being beyond that of their peers. One of the best value plays in tech on multiple vs growth rate.

Match their multiple to Microsoft and Google, even despite having faster growth than both. Instead of a $500b market cap, in a little over two years they're at more like $900b-$1t. Or play it more conservatively, assume a fat discount vs Microsoft and Google, a 20-23 type PE ratio, then they're at a $700b-$800b market cap. That's a 40%-60% return in 30 months, on a conservative scenario.
You can make a mechanical keyboards significantly quieter. Most of the noise isn't actually from the switches themselves but rather from the impact of the keys bottoming out into hard plastic. So a set or 2 of o-rings on the keys will really cut down on the noise.

When I get around to constructing my next custom. I'm going to use non-clicky switches with a thick acrylic plate and of course a set of o-rings. In theory, it should be very office acceptable.
Is monthly active users just for the Facebook website, or all sites they own? (like instagram etc) how do the other sites compare?
Even today??

They have years of profits and growth baked into their stock valuation.
I see people say things like this a lot on HN ("I would easily pay X for Y, if it meant no advertising"), and I worry that we are a bit of a self selecting population with the means for such things.

Imagine you have family with 4 kids. Are you actually going to spend $600/year on facebook?

Also, I wonder if the people who _wouldn't_ pay for a subscription are just quieter? And finally, would you really want to be on facebook if it lost half of its user base because that half didn't want to pay?
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Can you not see the potential of space exploration/settlement? There will be industries we can't even imagine that will be worth trillions. Imagine an economy that is more massive than all state economies on earth combined. That is space in the next 50-100 years.

Public funding and government obviously because they were the only ones with the capability for space exlporation up until maybe 10 years ago. Now that the private sector can, it will, and much more efficiently than government ever could.
A perennial HN favourite, but well worth reading if you've not already, or re-reading if you haven't lately.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Secret%20History%20of%20Silico...
You’re assuming a lot with those statistics.

Paternity tests involve random ~50% of your dna. Sperm samples are generally contaminated and thus less clear cut. But, people’s relatives have been used in the past for these tests dropping the bar even further.

However, being related genetically is not enough. Some people have twin siblings they don’t know about pointing out being related is not nessisarily mean you know anything about the other person allowing for false positives even at 3,400cM.

Unlikely sure, but harm comes in many forms. Saying I can’t think of anything is a long way from saying it’s safe.
Quite alarming, with the size of Facebook, the stock price could still suffer such a huge fluctuation...
Sure, but a large body of water makes finding life much more likely. And if we find life on our doorstep, we ought to reduce our estimates of how unlikely abiogenesis is – suggesting the Great Filter is ahead of us, not behind us.
Whataboutism.

Your statement, while accurate, says nothing about the veracity of the current article.

I wish I could do more than downvote you.
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When almost everyone is on Facebook, user growth just has to slow down -- basic math. User growth becomes meaningless as a metric and revenue per user is what matters then. What did investors expect? Indefinite linear or even exponential user growth?
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Facebook isn’t declining much. More so growth has just stalled. It’s still a huge company and Instagram will continue growing. If they can get Facebook Messenger and/or Whatsapp monetized to even a few bucks per user, that’ll add a decent chunk of change too.
Awesome - thanks!

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That’s a question which may or may not be meaningful in the first place. In the classic formulation it’s a meaningless question, because time and space expanded from a singularity in the BB event, so there is no “before” just as there is nothing into which space expanded. The vacuum exists within the context of spacetime and the universe after all.

Maybe it was part of a cyclical series of events as you suggests, Big Bang followed by Crunch, and then Bang again. Maybe the String Theorists are eight and it’s cyclic and ekpyrotic, and our universe is just a burst of energy release by interacting Branes. Maybe none of that is right and some other model which better fits observations and predictions will turn out to be better.

One thing to keep in mind is just how tricky it can be to ask seemingly good and simple questions about these things. People come into this with a lot of assumptions and intuition that tends to fail at thes scales. Classic questions that don’t actually mean anything in the formalism are, “What is space expanding into? What came before the Big Bang?” There are other models which accommodate these questions such as eternal inflation in the context of a multiverse, but not in the formalism.
You don’t except if management are devs themselves. From a business perspective, Elixir is a terrible choice.

Ive worker on Elixir over a year and it is great, but there are 0 devs and learning it is hard for newbies
I don’t, but it’s fair to ask. He was unequivocally the best senior manager I’ve worked with. Extremely technically smart but skilled at letting people under him work autonomously, good communicator, cared a lot about pushing best practices past bureaucratic barriers.

His description of Google made it seem like it had the same dysfunction every place has. And the monorepo was a totally mundane, garden variety eyesore kind of in-house framework that you’ll find anywhere.

I think he recognized the usefulness of just working with it and picking battles. He was just dumbfounded that any outsider would see the monorepo project and think it possibly had any relevance for anyone else. It was just a Google-history-specific frankenstein sort of thing that got wrangled with tooling later. The supposed benefits are all just retrofitted on.
It sounds like your one liner made the boss appear misinformed/easy to manipulate, in public. This never goes over well.
It makes sense to consider the cost of having a given bug vs the cost of
fixing it. Of course, such estimates will almost always be hand-wavey.

I agree with that approach in theory, but in practice it turns out that that it's a lot easier to estimate the costs of fixing the bug than it is to estimate the cost of having the bug. As a result, because of our biases, in any ambiguous case, our bias will be for keeping the bug, since the cost of having the bug is the impact of the bug multiplied by the probability of someone hitting it, and it's always easy to lowball those probabilities. "Oh, no one will notice that," or "Yeah, but that's a really obscure case." And then you find out that all it takes is one obscure case for your trading application to lose hundreds of millions of dollars a day. Or for hackers to breach your systems and make off with millions of credit card numbers. Or for malware to turn your IoT devices into a botnet.
React is great for rendering (and updating after initial render), but if your app is highly interactive then jQuery makes things easier even when using React for rendering.
I would agree that deployment story could be better, thing is you have to allocate time to setup CI/CD and all the relevant integrations regardless of what language you are using so the extra one time effort to get things working smoothly for Elixir is not that bad. This is also an area of strong focus of efforts to improve the tooling so I think it will get better in a reasonable amount of time.
http://http.rip is what I use
If you want to take a deep dive, the IPCC is the place to be : https://www.ipcc.ch

> The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a scientific and intergovernmental body under the auspices of the United Nations, set up at the request of member governments, dedicated to the task of providing the world with an objective, scientific view of climate change and its political and economic impacts. It was first established in 1988 by two United Nations organizations, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).... The IPCC produces reports that support the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which is the main international treaty on climate change.
IPCC reports cover "the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human-induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation."
The IPCC does not carry out its own original research, nor does it do the work of monitoring climate or related phenomena itself. The IPCC bases its assessment on the published literature, which includes peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed sources.
Thousands of scientists and other experts contribute (on a voluntary basis, without payment from the IPCC) to writing and reviewing reports, which are then reviewed by governments. IPCC reports contain a "Summary for Policymakers", which is subject to line-by-line approval by delegates from all participating governments. Typically this involves the governments of more than 120 countries.
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This highly depends on you business requirements
Yep. Just having the $100 disposable income for a social media site means you have disposable income for other things that advertisers would love to pay to show you.
If you want to lose weight, you have to go below before you can stay at maintenance. :) Otherwise you won't stick with it.
It's not any slower than C. In some cases the compiler can actually generate better code because of stricter rules on pointer aliasing. You can also do more with only stack allocation in Ada, which is a huge win.

It does generate some extra code for things like range checks and checking invariants, i.e. things you can skip in C to write buggy code.
What's the source platform for Google Hangouts? I would be interested using them internally for our video chat needs, a link would be useful to see their pricing.
Big problem with network effects is they tend to unwind just as aggressively as they start.

WhatsApp is very popular amongst my social circles in Europe, but I don't really know anyone who actively "uses FB" (as in posting content, actively friend requesting new people etc). I am sure they are still counted in MAU stats but are increasingly "zombie users", somewhat hooked on the addictive properties and notification spam FB delivers rather than getting actual value, which is unsustainable in the long run.
username: bxtel

Thanks! Looking forward to using this!
Sometimes I ask whether people are "Willing to put that in writing" (important verbally-negotiated deal terms).

If I get a no, that becomes part of the negotiation.
"something like React" includes Vue.
Still not sure how many planets can form life. We think you need water, certain gases, a stable temperature, magnetosphere to block solar radiation, planet like Jupiter to absorb asteroid like impacts...etc. I'm not sure if Mars ever had all that.
"It most certainly doesn't--the incentives between the provider and users are well-aligned here."

This might be true but we dont know that. Offering fake security or selling people out for money are a recurring theme in markets for "private" services. You're expecting us to believe nobody on your team would take a payout from or be coerced by US LEO's or spooks. That's crazy. It's better to not put you in that position of us having to trust you like that.

To drive it home, Crypto AG in Switzerland backdoored stuff in the past, RSA was paid $30 million IIRC, and US ISP's got in $100 million range. The NSA was spending several hundred million a year with FBI helping on domestic coercion and CIA using tradecraft against foreign targets. Even Swiss have Onyx system now. There's a real, even if slim,chance people in the company get paid off, legally coerced, or hacked at some point in future. So, it's better if those of us that might be affected push for as little 3rd-party access to secrets and closed implementations as possible plus maximum rigour and review in design/implementation.
Given current diagnostic technologies, correct. I think genetic data and other types of bio data can be used to invent significantly better diagnostic tools that would reduce or eliminate the problems you talk about.

For example, we currently do not have a diagnostic test that can tell the difference between a virus or bacteria so physicians prescribe antibiotics just in case. If we did then we could reduce the use of antibiotics. Genomic sequencing won't help this case specifically, but sequencing at the proteomic or metabolic level may.
Somehow, I don't see this article getting a lot of traction here on HN. I'm certain most of us have good friends and colleagues here in the US on an H1B Visa; I'm equally certain most of us have seen and experienced the abuse of the system.

H1B's stated purpose is "Specialty Occupation"s. A lot of these Visas are being used to bring in workers for very generic IT helpdesk jobs. There's still many that are granted for exceptional talents in the field of Information Technology and Computer Science, but there's also a large number granted to companies that are primarily outsourcers, whose appeal is not specialization but simply being cheap.

It's been suggested many times on HN that the regulations on H1Bs be changed to make it a bidding process - Only bring over applicants who are being paid the most. I'm not sure I agree or disagree, but I absolutely think more careful scrutiny of what's considered a "Specialist Occupation" is a step that's reasonable within the current regulations. There's a lot of complaints of Fraud and Abuse related to the program that are also being addressed with more careful scrutiny.
Facebook is diversifying into non owned operated 3p apps through audience network.
This is my experience as well. Product progress is prioritized over code quality, and the ultimate cost to velocity is real but often unacknowledged. Bugs go unfixed because they are very hard to fix, and this high cost is taken for granted.

It’s definitely on the technical leadership to stand up for code cleanliness and push back against product, and on the higher-ups to recognize the importance of this dynamic.
I imagine this perspective is quite rare. Apple's VP of Inclusion and Diversity had to deliver a formal apology after the following similar remark:

"And I’ve often told people a story– there can be 12 white blue-eyed blonde men in a room and they are going to be diverse too because they’re going to bring a different life experience and life perspective to the conversation."

(https://beta.techcrunch.com/2017/10/13/apple-diversity-head-...)

She departed Apple soon after, though I don't have the evidence to make the stronger statement that she departed because of the remark.
From the article: ``The company reported 1.47 billion daily active users, while Wall Street expected 1.49 billion; it logged 2.23 billion monthly active users, as analysts expected 2.25 billion.''

It doesn't feel like the results justify the 20% drop.
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Eh, they have their place in history but jQuery was at least 10x more popular than all of the others combined.

Strong leadership without the bickering and bikeshedding that ruined its competitors.
> If you have your IDE properly configured

You're misunderstanding me. I'm saying the IDE should discover headers for me. MSVC refers me to a Byzantine series of clicks, drop downs, text input, and OK buttons. That interface hasn't changed for 20 years

A proper modern UX would scan for valid headers in a dir, then allow me to choose which ones to "import" into the workspace. Not make me hunt for them through an antiquated and inefficient UI
What incentive is removed, you can get paid easily for killing someone? Im legitimately curious about your viewpoint if you view this as a good thing
The definition of lying generally involves intent. Do you think these journalists generally are intending to mislead with statements they know are untrue in the same way the producers of fake news do?
This is terrible, just suspend, and dump to disk if you need more memory, this should be transparent to websites.

or, you know, start optimizing. Opera 12 used to render websites using 5-10MB, same websites took 50-100MB in Chrome.
Nah, the backlash we're seeing against mainstream media these days are, I believe, in a large part driven by those reporters that failed to do their due diligence when it came to Iraq.

Except that the “MSM is lying” crowd still overwhelmingly supports W. bush and the Iraq war, and didn’t seem to mind what the media had to say for 8 years of his presidency. This whole thing kicked off under Obama when “alt” news was talking about FEMA internment camps and that kind of madness, and later when Pizzagate and other stories weren’t carried in the mainstream.

If your theory were right, you’d expect the Left to be the ones who rejected the media, but that isn’t what happened.

Edit To be clear, I’m saying that this is less about skepticism (healthy) than rejection of media in favor of preferable narratives. It’s the extension of disliking what science education has to say about evolution and seeking to have Creationism taught in schools. When you can’t beat them, avoid them, craft your own narrative and reject reality.
> Wehner also said Facebook still expects expenses to grow 50% to 60% from last year

> “But as I’ve said on past calls, we’re investing so much in security that it will significantly impact our profitability,” Zuckerberg said. “We’re starting to see that this quarter.”

That sounds like a big 1-year jump. From what I can tell, the big Facebook scandals (fake news, Cambridge Analytica) came from faults in company policies rather than security glitches.

I wonder if labeling it "security" is a PR thing as their web ads all focus on FB taking active steps to make sure those types of scandals don't happen again.
To those using Elixir, how are you deploying it? Would love your insight especially if you're on GCP (app engine, super curious).

Thanks!
Paul Falstad did (and does) all the heavy lifting for this project, but the co-host of the JS version at lushprojects.com is my site and I did the original port from a Java applet to a GWT application that complies to JS.

Glad to know so many people find it useful. I always thought it was a great visualisation tool which I why I wanted to put the effort in to do the port.

Off to bed now, but if people have questions I'll take a look at the discussion again in the morning.
Yes, you can install the java version on your local machine. http://www.falstad.com/circuit-java/

I've done this in the past and it works just fine.
The current generation of Americans tends to assign imaginary meanings to random dictionary words. Some clinicians might classify this as a sign of mental illness, but this is an unpopular enough opinion that few would venture to voice publicly.
I've been to several technical trainings, including one at my last company on iOS, and some Goldman Sachs training on slang, their proprietary in-house language. I got almost nothing out of either.

I don't think you can really learn how to code without just doing it. Someone may say it's a "learning style" issue, but I've come to believe learning style differences are overblown when teaching "method", e.g. cooking, dancing, programming, drawing, how to play an instrument. You can read all day about how to play a violin and still be garbage until you pick it up and play it.