skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe someone in that department has put options and when they have call options the spigots will be turned on?
Why should the sole focus of a corporation be making itself expensive?
I wonder if this also affected MVNO's.
We have a couple apps and there really is no "discovery" through the App Store. You have to pay for ads, whether in the stores directly or in the many ad networks that put you in other apps or other advertising. Unless you're already at the top of the lists (because of your off-store brand), or you win the lottery in the game of getting featured, the App Store doesn't drive new users.

For the majority of apps, the App Store doesn't provide discovery. It provides a nearly frictionless delivery and purchase interface. That's worth something, but not 30% off the top. That's worth a premium on top of processing fees, like X cents per transaction and Y% of the transaction, where Y < 6, I think.

Edit: I should say, I don't think there's any way this is going to happen. It would take an anti-trust action to make any difference, but that's not likely to happen.
Doesn't matter. An asshole is always an asshole even if they aren't an asshole 24/7. This is an equally important thing to understand. Being an asshole is a defining characteristic. Like being a murderer or a slave holder or a thief. Most murderers spend only a minute or so out of their entire lives committing a murder, that doesn't change who they are.
> The moon is not a great example because it isn't habitable.

It could actually serve well as a strategic and logistic launchpad for subsequent missions.

But still, you highlighted a key point yourself: That it's not always going to be possible (or desirable) to continue expanding through the galaxy because we may run into a "dead end" with no stepping stones (i.e. habitable planets) within our range of travel.
Relative to cost of living, typical SV compensation is not "pretty well off" or "cream of the crop". It's not even close to the latter…

My tech coworkers live in the dingiest of apartments. Housing prices are outpacing gains in salary, and the majority of housing is out of reach of the median tech-worker salary.

There are some exceptional positions at exceptional companies, such as FAANG, but I strongly believe they're exceptional. Frankly when I look around my office I see either a bunch of young engineers working too long and too hard for a salary that won't really ever get them anywhere, or folks who already got their share of the pie. (And perhaps are quite fine on a SV salary.)

I'm also strongly considering leaving the Bay Area, as I'm tired of trying to change the minds of a generation that doesn't want me here.
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What alternatives are there on iOS?
That's precisely my perception, based on the conversations I've had with burners. Every depiction of it is a place to go to feel something that they are no longer able to feel in normal life.
What is the difference between Sonder and a hotel chain buying a piece of property and building a multi-tenant luxury hotel?
If you have the choice, change teams or companies as soon as possible. Life is too short to spend it paying off someone else's debt.

If moving is not an option, then follow the parent's advice. Add all the missing tests as fast as you can. Explain what you are doing to your manager. And set up CI to email your team whenever anyone checks in breaking changes. This will motivate your teammate to start running your tests. If they are particularly narrow-minded, they will be unhappy about this. If this happens, reconsider your decision to stay.

Even after you write a lot of tests, coverage will be low. You will likely code some bugs that negatively impact the business. I urge you to find a mentor inside the company, a senior engineer or engineering manager, and show them code and explain the technical debt to them. Try not to blame your teammate for the situation, just explain to your mentor that you are concerned about introducing bugs. Ask them to keep your discussion confidential. Your mentor can back you up when your bugs negatively impact the business.
I'm glad she's found a way to be alive one week out of fifty-two, but I'm sorry the other fifty-one weeks a year apparently suck that much!
If you could acurately simulate biological systems with a computer model, you could do drug development in the cloud without the need for clinical trials. Unfortunately, protein folding and even predicting whether a molecule will be an agonist at a particular receptor site are very slow algorithms.
The enterprise has more buying power but will also want to turn their investment into a profit. So whatever they do with that land ultimately needs to pay off. For it to pay off it needs to create enough extra value by being in that location.
And virtually unavoidable in the smartphone app space because of the gatekeeping function of the stores. I don't know exactly how we got here given that nobody would have accepted this sort of curation on a desktop, but we somehow just walked into it on our phones.
ab is ApacheBench[0], was measuring the response time of an API.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ApacheBench
I assume more testing will occur after the four bugs are addressed. Will that be published on the Jepsen blog?
The problem is that humans, you and me included, are very bad at extremely large and extremely small numbers.

We don't have infinite planets. We have 10^21 stars, roughly, and some constant P average planets per star.

If the odds of life are 10^-14 per planet, and the odds of intelligent life are 10^-7 per life hosting planet, and we presume every star has one planet that might support life, then in the 10^21 stars in the universe, we'd expect only one intelligent life. That is one possibility!

But we simply don't know what the odds of life and the odds of intelligent life are in the slightest. We don't even know what range of possible values are reasonable. And humans are so bad at contemplating numbers like 10^21 and 10^-14. They're too extreme for one to think of them rationally.

And saying "well, it happened here, be it must be common" is selection bias- we can only contemplate the problem because it happened here.

The right answer is to get more information to improve our estimates of the probabilities. If we can find life at Alpha Centauri, that would either be a hell of a coincidence, or a very good indicator that the probability of life given a planet is high.
How is this different from Walmart taking a commission for putting your products on their shelf? Why does Apple get so much slack? 30% seems reasonable for giving access to its shelf.
You have more experience than I have, obviously, because I'm only involved in running one bounty program on H1.

I have not been impressed with H1. Perhaps my opinion will change as our program matures, but I am not optimistic. I think there's a lot of space in this market for competition.

I suspect if I was driving as much revenue as you are, they might be more responsive. That's life.
This is what other people are doing already but on a larger scale with VC backing.
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Why can't the US just start serviced apartments like they do in Australia and Asia?

Apartment type buildings w/ laundry + kitchens stuck in a hotel like building w/ front desk to check you in.

That's gotta be a way better use of city resources.
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“The human fingerprint on rising temperatures was clear in the heatwave this year,” said Michael Mann, a professor of atmospheric science at Penn State University.

the famous "hockey stick" actor was exposed using temperature adjustment code with a comment called "fudge factor" to "hide the decline" that we found out from climategate leak

In two other programs, briffa_Sep98_d.pro and briffa_Sep98_e.pro, the "correction" is bolder by far. The programmer (Keith Briffa?) entitled the "adjustment" routine “Apply a VERY ARTIFICAL correction for decline!!” And he or she wasn't kidding. Now IDL is not a native language of mine, but its syntax is similar enough to others I'm familiar with, so please bear with me while I get a tad techie on you.

Here's the "fudge factor" (notice the brash SOB actually called it that in his REM statement):
yrloc=[1400,findgen(19)5.+1904]

valadj=[0.,0.,0.,0.,0.,-0.1,-0.25,-0.3,0.,-0.1,0.3,0.8,1.2,1.7,2.5,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6]0.75 ; fudge factor

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/11/crus_source...
Yeah, of course I am and I understand it's their job to do that. I really hate it when waiters come interrupt you, but what made you think I'd actually say it out loud? I used the phrase "fuck off" as an expression of annoyance, not contempt.

Now, white people not realizing that different cultural norms are at play and calling Chinese waiters rude, now THAT is definitely deserving of contempt.
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I think you misunderstood my comment. I can apologize for it being unclear, but not for having an unfavorable opinion of violent protestors. Whether you accept that apology is up to you.
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I did. Well, Global Entry. Still subject to equipment failure or other slowdown. Clear might be better, but I refuse to spend $179 to avoid an inefficient process I'm forced to endure - it's easier to just stop flying.
All distributors take a percentage of the sales. In fact, physical distributors probably have even better terms.
SMT is the generic name? Hyper-Threading is the name of Intel's 2 way SMT implementation. I don't think they call the Xeon Phi 4-way SMT Hyper-Threading, but I could be wrong there.
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I'm totally with you on the market needing "corrected" incentives in some cases to get us what we want/need as a society. A example to me are the broken ISP market because of physical constraints. Another different category of cases are issues were the prisoner's dilemma applies where we have negative externalities like pollution. I don't see how that's the case here.
I believe industrial needs to be its own, separated zone because of the pollution. Commercial and residential can be happily mixed though and if the market is telling us to build a giant apartment building somewhere because people want to live there and pay for it then why would you second guess that?
Turning an entire city into hotels would of course never happen because there is no demand for that. Why not allow building of hotels everywhere though?
I'll tell you what will happen: an anti-trust case of massive proportions.
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On references and treating good candidates like they're the scarce, I agree.

On "they'll have stream of completed projects", not so much. "A high tide lifts all boats" and at the same time it does not tell you a lot about the candidate's responsibility in an unsuccessful product.

I met enough tech engineer "leaders" that got their job from business people because they were good at talking even if they were pretty bad at everything else.

Soft skills are VERY important as a people manager but they cannot come at the expense of business acumen, good product sense, mediocre processes and technical inadequacy.

So when something is important for the position and it is easy to test, test it.

I agree on looking at reference for other things, harder to test.
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I wonder why these people were so careless about keeping their meatspace identities private.
I'm sure it would cause outrage, but I can definitely imagine a negotiation happening. It's in both Apple and Netflix's best interest to stay together. The rest is just negotiating a percentage that works.

Of course, there is no way they would use that negotiated the percentage for the rest of us.

I think it would take an anti-trust action of some sort to cause a dent here, but I'm not holding my breath.
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There are a lot of instances of "technically true, but wildly missing the point" in that article. A washing machine is cheaper today than it was in 1959 because in 1959 automatic electric washing machines were brand new on the market. Same thing with televisions: it's hard to argue TVs were ubiquitous in 1959 compared to today. It's not a very valid comparison to say that something that was cutting edge technology in 1959 is cheaper now than it was 60 years ago. And more benefits going to health care and daycare merely reflects the astronomical increases in the cost of health care and daycare. That's the entire argument over "real wages": costs have gone up more than or on par with people's ability to pay them.

But I wasn't surprised when I got to the bottom and found it was written by someone from the Johnson Center at Troy University, which is backed by the far right-wing Koch Foundation, so much that two years after this CNBC article was written, Troy University put out a statement saying they were going to stop getting involved in politics: https://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2016/07/troys_johnson_cent...

This CNBC article is a submarine from the very people who created this economic model. Of course they're going to try to put a positive spin on it... because washing machines are cheaper now than they were in 1959! Proof that the average American worker is doing just fine.
The logical stable point is that all city centers will be in effect hotels or homes of the very rich who can afford to bid against the expected return of those units.
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In a nutshell .. that's what the whole MVP thing is about. The minimal you have to do so business can sell immediately.
> If we can find life at Alpha Centauri, that would either be a hell of a coincidence, or a very good indicator that the probability of life given a planet is high.

Why would finding life on just one more planet – out of the 195 or so "worlds" that we know about, including moons – suddenly make "the probability of life given a planet" high?

By your own reasoning, whether we find life at Alpha Centauri, or do not find any life there, will not really change the probability of discovering future life or intelligence among the rest of all the 10^21 * P planets.

We could always just keep saying that "There are only 2 planets in the universe with life. No more." "There are only 5 planets in the universe with life." and so on and on.
Oddly, economists way more laureled than this guy crashed LTCM.
I agree it would be interesting to know more.

Top line revenue is difficult to compare across companies in different industries. The top line revenue at a small car dealership may be much higher than a similarly-sized software company, but the margins on that top line revenue are grossly different.
I'm saying that, as a lay person myself, I am happy to be convinced by a persuasive argument made in good faith by a credible source. My friends and acquaintances who are knowledgeable in this field talking to me privately have less at stake professionally than someone writing an op-ed for public consumption.

Now, I am happy to change my point of view when I am unable or haven't the time to learn a topic more on depth even if I don't fully understand the details or resolutions of apparent superficial paradoxes. But when even basic explanations from an author defy logical sense - not a lack of domain knowledge - it raises a red flag for me. I'm not going to suspend critical thinking to entertain the fallacy of authority. I only cite the counterarguments I cite because even in their simplicity they demonstrate gaps in the case the author is making. I am more than happy to have someone better versed give a better account for why buybacks are worse than, say, sitting on cash or dividends.
Without buybacks or dividends every stock is worth $0.
maybe this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot where a large, fairly wealthy neighbourhood of black people was firebombed by the local militia.
You would expect a healthy market to produce falling prices in response to increased demand? What market forces are you talking about?

The remarks about efficiency also seem to be an outcome, not a motivation. Cash in the hands of investors should always be more efficient than cash in the corporate treasury.
The name stands for STimulator of INterferon Genes, where interferons are essentially message-carrying molecules involved with the immune system. STING protein, I believe, is essentially a detector which gets triggered when a cell is invaded by a virus or encounters a parasite. For that, it still serves an important purpose.
Your appeal to history being cyclical is a statement of blind faith.

The past is not necessarily a good predictor of the future - corps have an unprecedented amount of power over our government.

I'm making a rather specific argument as to why things are going to keep getting worse. I do not accept your general appeal to history as a counter argument to this - we are in new territory.

Why specifically should we expect the trend of increasing corporate power over our legal systems to reverse?

> Civil rights, LGBTQ rights, women's suffrage, the rise of the middle class, worker's rights... I could keep going.

LGBTQ is the only recent development, no corporate interest to fight there and it was still a ridiculous struggle.

I think that the kernel of my disagreement with you is that your argument is rooted in appeals to history. And I think the kernel of my disagreement with this notion is simply that we suck at government.

All of the modern amenities we enjoy ultimately came out of a very effective way of finding things out about the world: empiricism and the scientific method. Until we bring that to bear on systems of governance, I will not be satisfied by any appeal to our current knowledge of how these things work. Because we don't know shit.

The aviation industry is my favorite example of how much we can accomplish with empirical systems engineering. The industry has collectively achieved an absolutely ridiculous standard of safety by carefully analyzing accidents at a systems level. From mechanical failures to user interfaces to pilot training - they consider each level on its own and how they interact. And the result is absolutely incredible.

We could bring these same techniques to bear on our societies. But we don't.
On Android, I can install whatever I want, replace whatever I want. Hell, I can even install another App store if I wanted.

On iOS, you can't do any of that.

How is that not infinitely more anti-competitive? Somehow licensing software to other manufacturers makes you more anti-competitive then owning the entire pipeline?
My company runs F# + .NET Core on AWS Lamba (almost our entire backend infrastructure). We've been very happy with it.
Maybe - we've not tried it, but I just asked Justin who architected sso, and he suggested that maybe https://github.com/buzzfeed/sso/blob/master/internal/proxy/o... could be used.

However there would be some caveats - like for example `skip_auth_regex` (see https://github.com/buzzfeed/sso/blob/master/docs/sso_config.... ) would not work with this, because the original URI would not be checked.
One of his arguments is that corporations spend a larger % of their net income on buybacks due to exec compensation incentives and many companies do both dividends (which tends to be continuous and a shock to the stock price when removed) and buybacks which are more isolated events.
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As someone who is - or has been - a member of all of: the NRA, Gun Owners of America, Citizens Committee For The Right To Keep And Bear Arms, the Second Amendment Foundation, and Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, I have to ask "why?" What exactly about NRA members and associates scares you?
Not familiar with Lionbridge, but lots of contract companies pretty much serve one large, local company. It’s often hard to drum up work for a large number of contractors on demand.
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>I criticized him for not making an argument in the article. He didn't, nor did he link to this paper.

But he did make that argument in the article. It's a short-oped so he didn't make it in the same amount of detail, but it is in the article. Did you read the entire article?

>A company’s profits are, however, the financial foundation for investments in productive capabilities, first and foremost in employees. Investment in training and retaining employees is the key to productivity growth and innovation, for individual companies and for the economy.

I'm not saying the argument is right or not. I'm saying your outright dismissal of the entire premise as garbage and a meme not worth considering is wrong.
I'm mainly looking for their successful treatment of others because that is a typical way to assess medical professionals. When a surgeon wants to perform a bypass, most people ask how successful that surgeon has been in the past.

I understand that you're saying that the doctor can't do anything if I'm so lazy that I find excuses all the time, but I don't feel like I have ever given a doctor an excuse. I feel like doctors give me excuses constantly about their success rates.

From my perspective, if they give the same advice to 100,000 people and of them they have 0 successful treatments by their own data, I'm going to assume I should find other advice
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> Does it though? At what? Resource allocation?

Yes. See

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

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

> It is hugely inefficient and wasteful.

In comparison to what?

> Is that the same free market bootstrapped into existence by the state and bailed out by the state periodically?

Government bailouts are the opposite of a free market.
It's not a great analogy. A bonus is extra cash in your bank account. A buyback is not extra cash in your account, unless you sell the equivalent amount of stock.

Actually, the dividend is more like a bonus.

Actually, I don't really see any merit to the analogy at all.
If a widget company is pretty much dominating its total addressable market, any excess cash it has should be used to buy back its shares as a way of returning cash to shareholders rather than try to expand into unrelated businesses.

The market (i.e. the shareholders getting the cash) is a better mechanism at finding new investments than the executive leadership at the widget company. As a widget company investor I invest in their widget making skills, not their skills in essentially starting new businesses.
Oh, I think it's a lot bigger than that. The woman was the leader of a known, established Burning Man camp. I'm pretty sure the friendships she developed there are more meaningful than the ones she has outside of Burning Man, and it's a bit sad the rest of her life doesn't give her the same social validation. I think we've failed a bit as a society if we can't give people what they need to feel happy on a _slightly_ more regular basis than once a year.
Barely 30 and all the cool kids have already moved on... I think there's a metaphore in there somewhere.
I am invariably going to see in the world of Slack, "IRC, why don't you die already".

No, IRC is not going to die. FreeNode is alive and well. And while you busy slamming and wishing death of IRC, just check the memory usage of your Slack client.
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The company owns a part of itself, but you own part of the company, so you actually own part of the part the company owns, in addition to the part you already owned.