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> Finally, it's not MBAs who decided to focus on growth at all costs. It's the nature of the game. Either you get to the top or your competitors will do that. So don't hate the player, hate the game.

Well, I do think it is fair to make a strong connection between the whole concept of maximizing shareholder value being the ultimate corporate goal and MBAs and their education. If the ultimate corporate goal would be maximizing customer value instead, the whole social media landscape would look very different.

And the funniest thing is that nobody has ever been able to explain me why maximizing long term shareholder value would be a better goal than e.g. maximizing long term customer value. I mean, in order to maximize long term shareholder value, you need to pay your taxes and competitive prices to other factors of production like labour and debt holders and your supply chain. There is no rocket science there. And if your goal was to maximize customer value instead, of course you would need to pay competitive rates to equity holders, otherwise you could not run the company and maximize the customer value.

The corporation is an independent legal entity. The whole idea that the stakeholders who get their moneys last in case of bankruptcy and risk only the money they have invested (others are risking their careers, homes, businesses etc) are designated as "owners" of this entity is really weird once you start thinking about it.
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During 2017, I saw a lot of news articles talking about how the Evil Power Companies were being Meanie McMean by not letting people with solar panels use them when the grid was down. The implication (in many news articles) was that these powerless people with solar panels could use them to power their home while the grid was down, if only the evil power company didn't require that solar not work if the grid was down.

I don't remember seeing any articles that blame the power company for home solar not working off-grid... I do remember seeing articles saying that most home solar installations won't work if the power grid is down, but nothing that implied that the power companies were behind it.
> he parachuted into a heavily guarded museum

Totally made up story uncritically relayed by the interviewing ‘journalist’, mind you.
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Managing those experiences takes effort, otherwise you're sure to end up with the issues you describe.
Even when the data makes sense, sometimes people hand you over an unparsable csv with their results, while the conclusions comes from a gut feeling. Sadly not everybody understands standard tools like boxplots, and analyses are often hard to reproduce.

The tooling to make it easy not there yet.
> modern stacks have a huge opacity problem, everyone wants to be magic, and everyone fails.

Also, lots of people are impatient and/or intellectually lazy. We have piled up a ton of abstraction layers, yes, but they aren't hard to pry apart. But people want immediate results without doing necessary cognitive work - understanding-guided exploration.

It usually isn't hard to identify which component of your product is misbehaving. Before getting into complex magic of containers and sandboxes and stuff, I'd start with the easiest - looking at the Network tab, at your server's resource use, reading the logs, adding some log statements measuring times in suspected areas, actually profiling the backend code (e.g. with a statistical profiler). This should quickly help you identify where the problem is manifesting itself. Then the search for the cause begins.
If that makes you feel old, I must be ancient.
Are these positions only US - Remote?
For advertisers to trust this proxy server, the NYT cannot control this proxy server to preserve its integrity. So now you're asking the NYT to base their business on an advertiser-controlled server?

What happens when the proxy goes down? What happens when there are bugs? Do you think publishers can really trust advertisers to be good stewards of the publisher's business? Think for a moment about publishers that are not as big as the NYT.

Okay, maybe they do trust an advertiser-controlled proxy server. This means that both tracking scripts and NYT scripts are served from the same domain, meaning they no longer have cross origin security tampering protection. What's stopping the NYT from serving a script that tampers with an advertiser's tracking script?
The theory is that fixed costs for banks are so high they cant profitably source and score these loans. However Fintech p2p firms can using "technology".

Note in my experience most p2p financing companies aren't actually peer to peer. They have a bunch of cash from investors, banks or other p2p loans companies which they then loan out.
You answer to his/her assertion that popularity will shift is that it hasn't shifted yet?
I didn't have much option but to switch to DDG this week. Every Google search from our domestic IPv6 range is receiving the 'suspicuous traffic' blocking page from Google with its demands to complete unending CAPTCHAs. I used to receive one every few weeks, now they're constant [0]

I've found DDG ok so far but need to dig into how to do literal searches.

But since the only Google product we used was Search, it was indeed quite easy to switch away.

[0] seems to be triggered by a combination of having JS disabled on google.com and rapidly refining searches based on the displayed results, without clicking them. Basically Google thinks we're robots because their search results are inadequate.
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I think you have a very valid point there, but I would argue it is also important not to react to such situations too strongly.
This is something April Wensel talks about here [1] .

[1] bit.ly/2v37AzE
Exactly. Shorter days are difficult for working parents. I'd rather my child have a reasonable learning day and then structured extra-curricular activities (even if it's just semi-organised craft, science, etc play) than making concessions at work. Not all vocations can negotiate shorter hours or part-time work without risking their employment.
Really cool project! This is a wonderful way to approach a problem. Before thinking too hard about it, cleverly applying the brute strength of the machine and saving a lot of work. I'd read more posts like this
> If you do go and track down the problem in your depedency

This is the part the parent's cow-orkers didn't perform. There's nothing wrong in updating a dependency to include the fix for the problem you're experiencing. But the people in question were apparently too lazy/clueless to even track down the problem, opting for randomly upgrading stuff instead.
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Do you mean this quote?

"The major problem — one of the major problems, for there are several — one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.

To summarise: it is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.

To summarise the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

To summarise the summary of the summary: people are a problem."

Douglas Adams, The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe
For a 101 course I would expect some history from the 20th Century.

If it is just a product catalog for Google APIs then buyer beware.
You should probably email the moderators (hn@ycombinator.com) if you suspect nefarious listings, rather than publicly making speculative accusations of misconduct. You may be right but it would be unfair if it turned out you were wrong.
So... always use `-O0 -march=i586`, because using obvious optimizations for your hardware is a total waste of time and will definitely never ever be beneficial? Seriously, I get that it's possible to go off the deep end over optimizing, but that site is way off the deep end in the opposite direction.
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>>I know that a percentage of WhatsApp users would stop using the app if they started requiring a payment again

Most of their users come from countries like India(Im an Indian). Where people are very price conscious. And yes they would move on to other free services if charged.

>>because apparently paying $1 per year for using an application on your $999 phone is outrageous

Most smartphones on which people use WhatsApp in India are less than $100 phones. These days you get good usable smartphones in India for around $50 as well.

>>but I wonder why can't they just make it an option again as an alternative to ads.

Because bandwidth costs money.

Best way out of WhatsApp is to ship their app with the phone and have the manufactures charge $1 * avg life of the phone.
filing?
It's an HR hack for attracting desperate candidates.
In Florida it was popular around hurricane season after we lost power.

I'm glad I finally understand why because all that I'd seen reported was the solar systems installed must be turned off. I'd always assumed all these systems (many of which are meant to be used in a storm + lower electricity costs) had a transfer switch.
You can't make a full on model audit on a neural net, but there are architectures such as the Transformer (an attention scheme) that can give a lot of insight into what the neural net thinks. We can also visualise what inputs maximally activate a deep neuron in a CNN. Not all DL models are truly black boxes.
How did you get your Startup credits?
Hey, thanks for listening.

I believe in short time would be nice to have a way to use for the query the create, update and write time of a document. Now, I am doing the creat time manage inside of my document with Date.now(), but when I was running a bunch of promises to create the documents, the createTime between the documents that I was manipulating was in same case the same, so my pagination failed.

Another things, like compound queries inside of subcollections should be nice. A way to export all the database for backup.

A flag to alert the Firestore to return the document when I do an update in this document in the same response (one round trip (dynamoDb has it). I know I can reach this goal witht transaction, but I believe it is simpler than a transaction.

A way to update a array without transaction.

Thanks
Nevermind arm/Intel, consider that the Intel processor of a notebook is way less powerful than its desktop counterpart
Also, David Beazley's work on SWIG is also outstanding! He deeply groks the C++ type system as well a plethora of other languages, and made a great tool that ties them all together.

http://www.swig.org/

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

>The Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator (SWIG) is an open-source software tool used to connect computer programs or libraries written in C or C++ with scripting languages such as Lua, Perl, PHP, Python, R, Ruby, Tcl, and other languages like C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Modula-3, OCaml, Octave, Scilab and Scheme. Output can also be in the form of XML or Lisp S-expressions.

Original author(s): David M. Beazley
The working definition for instinct based moral judgements in the study is to have an absolute position on things (ex: kiling is wrong, whatever the circumstances), and I can see how it can be easier attribute morality, and cooperate and trust people with consistent believes. As long as they don’t kill people you can say they kept their moral views, it’s very simple.

On the other hand, people who take moral decisions depending on the situation and the context are unpredictable in a way. And the result will be more difficult to judge as moral or not. People who stick with them long enough might come around to trust them and see them as moraly sound, but there is a higher barrier to entry.

The study was about partner choice, and for me the takeaway would be that it’s easier to trust people that are also easier to understand
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Mycroft is again, a whole assistant setup though, I just need a good local voice recognition component. Command processing and TTS are already built-in to my own code. I'm not totally opposed to adding a Raspberry Pi, but since my existing automation code runs on Windows, I at least need something that can talk to a Windows box.
Cool. I will look into those, but I was asking as a general interest in math question. I actually have no interest in machine learning. I'm bored of chasing money. Interested in 3D computer graphics and math for math's sake.
Nothing can compete with 0 rupees.

Also unlimited SMS are free these days.
Having spent more than a decade working and hiring in the Java world, I'm inclined to agree.

Having spent much of the past year writing Rust and interacting with that community, I'm inclined to disagree.

My overall feeling is that it isn't only JavaScript, but it is JavaScript and languages that attract a higher caliber of developer don't suffer from this problem the way that languages that appeal to a wider demographic do.
It always puzzles me why anyone would spend so much money and effort on building such large batteries when they are doomed to need replacing every.. say 10 years..

When technolgy like cetrifugal systems can last 100 years only needing bearing maintenance every 25 years
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Being a solopreneur myself I think the hardest part is maintaining and improving what you've built.

For makers the rush dies pretty quickly once the idea is validated (with praise, press or downloads) or invalidated (nobody cares).

Unfortunately, the journey only truly begins after that point and everything upto it really doesn't matter because even if your are on the frontpage of HN/PH it's not that big of a deal after a week.. But doing support, handling feedback, doing the boring stuff like content marketing, seo, optimizing conversions and worst of all waiting is the part that matters. The stuff that really makes your product incrementally into a business but which you can't see happen (like a flower bloom).
Lock elision, pthreads and MySQL
I don't understand the rationale behind a separate group/committee/website/idea for the same distro with different defaults. I worked with the Antergos team, a team of 4 people, to write a distro that let you pick and choose everything, from DE to browsers. While I've mainly faded away they are still hard at it. In short, if we can support nearly every DE with 4 volunteers, what are these *buntus spending their resources on?
I joined Uber last year. They had already standardized on React long before that.
> Pacific Gas & Electric (which powers much of CA) recently announced that they may pre-emptively shut off power to certain parts of Silicon Valley out of concern for potential fires

Huh, where can I read about this?
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sorry, i didn't understand your point. Which part are you saying isn't true? If it's about 'encrypted' vs 'e2e encrypted' I apologize as I was vague, but did preface it with the fact only e2e would be considered.
Something about jQuery does remind me of JavaScript
Check out the rear fenders on the Honda clarity plug-in hybrid:

https://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/17120...
Nothing. For poor it might make them think for a few seconds, but its still nothing.

The real issue is they can't compete with $0.

Also best way WhatsApp can work around this is to just ship their app with the phone, and bill the phone $1 * avg life of the phone.
> To get any sort of stable battery-free power, you have to run the panels well, well below peak power (30-50% of peak is as high as you can really run), and even then, you have a horrifically unstable system. If the array power briefly drops below demand (perhaps an airplane has flown over), you shut down the entire output for a while

It doesn't seem like a battery or capacitor to handle blips like an airplane flying overhead would need to be very large?
Meh. As far as I'm concerned, it does _exactly_ what it says on the tin -- democratizes access to custom ML. Will you get a state of the art model out of it? Probably not. Will you be able to train a decent model and deploy it at scale fairly easily? Probably yes. That's the problem they're solving: getting people to use ML/AI without hiring a $400K/yr research scientist.
Please keep ideological flamewar off HN.
Consumers are hungry for curation. Not surprising at all.
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> some "mild facts" are legally considered "harmful, discriminatory, and disruptive."

What? I thought the argument from the other end was always to deny these were facts. You are saying, yes, they are facts. But they are too volatile so we won't examine them?
Keep in mind I tested these at the same time. TBH I don't remember when, probably in late 2016/early 2017. I distinctly remember Signal's video chat wasn't good, and you couldn't reposition it on the screen. Lack of stickers, a doodle pad, etc. Featureless was a harsh word, but compared to it's competitors, it's not a reach.
I agree look at this weird styling on the Honda clarity PHEV. Rear fenders and tail end are hideous imo

https://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/17120...
I will bite on this bit..

<Every battery built since 1799, when they were invented by Italian physicist Alessandro Volta to settle an argument about frogs>

The Ancient Egyptians had batteries thousands of years ago..

https://www.ancient-code.com/ancient-egyptians-electricty-ba...
This comment breaks the site guideline which asks:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: it looks like you've been using HN primarily for political battle. That's not allowed here, and we ban accounts that do it, regardless of your politics; it's destructive of what this site exists for. Please stop doing that and use HN as intended, in the spirit of intellectual curiosity and thoughtful conversation. We'd appreciate it.
When I was 12, we were messing up with the Amiga on geek friend's house, ProTracker had just been released, playing Defender of the Crown on the school PCW computers and doing Z80 programming on my own Timex 2068. :)
The majority of the left supports decriminalization or legalization as the other commenter pointed out.

Pretending it isn't a partisan issue is silly.
Well, peanut allergy is lethal and can be triggered by even inhalation of peanut dust in more severe cases.

Sensitivity to sunlight is way more manageable (by applying sunscreen and covering the skin) and although kids share food and/or eat them in the same environment I don't think they're carrying UV lights to apply to other kids.
> text editors that don't lock up when I type an open paren

This miiiiight be just you. Even sublime text (forget vim or another cli editor) runs fine on ancient hardware.

What type of files are you editing?

> Or use entire sticks of RAM at rest.

I'd hope my text editors would use as much ram as it needs in order to give me the smoothest experience. If possible, that means storing the whole file in RAM (up to a set limit).
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17652131 (two days ago).
Why open(2) and close(2) all the time? If I hit this problem—and hacking on Nginx itself were an option—then I'd make the following Nginx changes:

1. at startup, before threads are spawned, find all static files dirs referenced in the config, and walk them, finding all the files in them, and open handles to all of those files, putting them into a hash-map keyed by path that will then be visible to all spawned threads;

2. in the code for reading a static file, replace the call to open(2) with a look up against the shared file-descriptor from the pool, and then a call to reopen(2) to get a separately seekable userland handle to the same kernel FD (i.e. to make the shared FD into a thread-specific FD, without having to hit the disk or even the VFS logic.)

3. (optionally) add fs-notify logic to discover new files added to the static dirs, and—thread-safely!—open them, and add them to the shared pool.

This assumes there aren't that many static files (say, less than a million.) If there were magnitudes more than that, in-kernel latency of modifying a huge kernel-side FD table might become a problem. At that point, I'd maybe consider simply partitioning the static file set across several Nginx processes on the same machine (similar to partitioned tables living in the same DBMS instance); and then, if even further scaling is needed, distributing those shards on a hash-ring and having a dumb+fast HTTP load-balancer [e.g. HAProxy] hash the requested path and route to those ring-nodes. (But at that point it you're somewhat reinventing what a clustered filesystem like GlusterFS does, so it might make more sense to just make the "TCP load-balancing" part be a regular Nginx LB layer, and then just mount a clustered filesystem to each machine in read-only-indefinite-cache mode. Then you've got a cheap, stateless Nginx layer, and a separate SAN layer for hosting the clustered filesystem, where your SSDs now live.)
Depends if you're being pedantic and talking about sex-vs-no-sex rather than protected sex. There are loads of achievable and affordable options including freely available and/or subsidised contraception, practical sex education, down the spectrum towards abortion, etc.
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