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It's a franchise system.

Franchises are wonderful when you are in expansion phase--especially if you have a nicely banked war chest (which this company does because of the VC backing).

The test of a franchise is when it is in stable or contraction phase.

That's when you find out if it's a business or a pyramid scheme.
Library of Congress Announces Launch of National Film Screening Room
Did any of you even bother to read the entry behind that link?
>However with long hours, night shifts, pressure etc you have to enjoy what you do or burn out early

Is this about the doctor or the programmer?
You do not want to pay?

For TV, I'm happy to pay for renting from google or a monthly fee to Netflix. In return I never need to go to the cinema, I watch films at the time that works for me, and no ads!

Yeah, I'd be happy to pay for quality video, podcast, and articles, but not 5$ to each site I want to read from.
Are you upset about the droning of civilians with very little oversight? Are you upset about the kidnapping of civilians into cargo ships to act as prisons without jurisdiction?

This attack killed four people, let's say there have been 20 times as many, so 80 deaths overall. do you believe the CIA, Mossad, Iran secret services, China secret services, didn't kill more?
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I want to love Stripe, and I do wish them well, but I've gotten such weird feelings about some of their offerings.

On HN and other parts of the internet, representatives go out of their way to make themselves seem available if you have an issue, or have a problem. But when you finally do reach out, I haven't found them to be as receptive as they otherwise portray themselves to be.

Maybe it's miscommunication internally, or maybe it's employees not being well-equipped. But when you send a thoughtful, well-written message and don't hear anything back, it makes you wonder if it's just lip service.

Whatever it is, good on them for hitting such a great milestone. I know I'll never hit $20B in anything except in Zimbabwean dollars.
I think, personally that Product Owners at google should be empassioned, benevolent dictators that dictate some usage in their applications. As it stands, so many applications and areas are either incomplete, confusing or unusable. Groups in particular is one of the worst things I've had to use... yet the only way to get an internal email list allowing external contact for GSuite. Really? I can do single address forwards from domains, but not group.

Not to mention the crapstorm happening with YouTube, censorship in docs, drive and who knows what else.

In the end, I'm not sure it won't collapse, leaving MS and Apple to reign the way things are going. It seems Google's leadership has taken a "show me the money" shift in focus.
You don’t have to bribe FSB directly to buy databases. You simply search among numerous online forums in .ru for a contact in Telegram, ask for a small sample, negotiate a price (100-10000 USD depending on database), pay for it with BTC, and obtain it via Telegram.

There was nothing FSB specific in the databases obtained by bellingcat, just regular citizen data.
OT but why do you want to push containers? In my opinion it's a misadventure from the real issue of a proper package manager (which in turn is a misadventure from a proper build system) The issue with current containers is it's the wrong level of abstraction, containment should be per binary and ideally inline with code (see pledge(2)).
Is that really just Python code?? Must be over a million lines, no? I've worked with Odoo, which is a bit of a kitchen-sink (ERP, CRM, POS, sales, accounting, invoice, stock management, manufacturing control, website builder, marketing and a bunch more) and its Python code weighs just 15MB, the rest is JavaScript or data files.
This is such a great stepping stone to playing with k8s. Maybe there should be a book with each chapter named k1s, k2s, k3s. Each chapter introduces more and more features with the why of each. Eventually you get to the full set of features and can use k8s in its entirety.
Around the same time as these there was another app that made you drag a depiction of your photo around a mock darkroom to "develop" it with those "filters".
I've got no VR and no problems. Game infrequently, computer off for weeks at a time. Yes, Steam or Battle.NET will need to install updates but that's just like any console.
If you live in a wealthy country, you probably "lost" more money writing that comment than what you paid for WhatsApp, even paying twice.
There's a lot of bullshit, but it would be a huge mistake to assume that there's nothing significant there. Check out the Bitcoin whitepaper for a technical primer.
You seem very dedicated to making this a case of “everyone is bad, so no one is bad.” I’ll repeat that old saw, two wrongs don’t make a right. The injustices and acts of violence committed by America against others don’t justify, excuse, or mitigate similar acts by Russia.

Now, can we get back to the topic at hand without these diversions? You were claiming that the “circus” of the UK being outraged by the use of a chemical weapon to attempt to murder two people on their soil, and the incidental killing of a third and injury of a fourth (both civilians) was a “circus” I think. I’m still interested to your non-diversionary response to my take on why that would legitimately anger not just the government of the UK, but anger and terrify its people.
> For example, WhatsApp founders requested a completely different office layout when their team moved on campus. Much larger desks and personal space, a policy of not speaking out loud in the space, and conference rooms made unavailable to fellow Facebookers nearby. This irritated people at Facebook, but Mark personally supported and defended it.

Unless I am misinterpreting this, Brian and Jan negotiated for and received a separate working environment for the Whatsapp team where they could avoid some of the pitfalls of Facebook's open plan office and actually get work done without interruption. That David seems to be suggesting this as a criticism says a lot.

On a completely unrelated topic...I am reminded of a quote by the writer, Upton Sinclair: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
The problem with UniFi is people read about how great it was for someone who somewhat haphazardly flung a few APs around their house and lived happily ever after... and for many it's just not going to work out that way.

A lot of work can go into making WiFi work well.

With multiple APs you've got to adjust the Transmit power (defaults to Auto, which means High, which is generally bad). For good roaming, increasing the minRSSI is critical. 5G and 2.4G have very different propagation characteristics so they need to be optimized individually. With several APs you may even want to disable 2.4G on some of them.

Band Steering may or may not play nicely with the devices you have. Some devices have trouble if they can see many APs advertising the same SSID -- Ring Doorbells are notorious for not being willing to associate to an SSID at all if many APs are advertising the same SSID.

At my old house I got away with one AP placed centrally in the attic and another in my detached garage. At my new house, at about 2.5X the size, I'm running 5 APs and it has taken me a solid month of fiddling to get my devices consistently associating to the best AP and roaming appropriately.
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I agree. All other arguments aside and assuming they're 100% correct, I doubt they're going to waste resources to file a lawsuit over an image of a person that did not generate any monetary value. Ignore it.
China Claims More Patents Than Any Country. Most Are Worthless.
My intent was to expose hypocrisy. Housing policies that implement de-facto economic red-lining are not liberal.
And a wire running between them...?
Denser housing in areas such as SOMA — where you're close enough to bike or walk to work if you work nearby — could actually reduce the need for better public transit, as more people now have the option to live closer to where they work. Or at the very least, they wouldn't need to transit as far. You bemoan an hour long commute, but thousands of people in the Bay Area whose commute is far worse would welcome it.

And that's not to say that better public transit isn't something worth striving towards; it should be done together with housing. But currently, the area's general attitude is to have neither.
The theory has always been that countries would compete with each other for FDI, but the reality is a little more complicated. When Amazon put the location of its new headquarter out for bid many cities are willing to throw any concession at Amazon. However that does not mean cities like SF or NYC would do the same. Not every location has the same attractiveness for business. Similarly not all countries are the same in their attractiveness to business. You can't expect countries to not take advantage of the differentials and offer identical terms unless doing so is in their own interests.

On the other hand, as a thought experiment, what would have happened if China had been more open or fair to foreign investments? Then even more businesses would have invested in China and thus subject themselves to the influence of the Chinese government. For an example (not to imply any moral equivalence) see the tremendous power the US government wields over transactions conducted entirely between foreign entities.
Exactly, anyone who buys a car as bad as any other.
There's no meaningful distinction between Russian government, Russian oligarchs, and Russian organized crime at this point.
Interesting how HTC went the high end (and very expensive) route with their Pro headset + wireless adapter, while Oculus went low-mid with a standalone device.
1. Sure, contrary to some views here that Apple is too big, too talented, or too successful to do any wrong (see bsimpson's comment), we do have plenty of historical evidence that Apple is fully "capable" of doing so.

2. Nobody said Qualcomm was a model corporate citizen or too big, talented, or successful to do any wrong. All companies including Apple engage in unethical behavior in pursuit of profit.

3. Wrong, I haven't made any unfounded allegation. I stated Qualcomm alleged Apple made false testimony to regulators around the world; hence their cancellation of rebates that started the US lawsuit. Also, wrt Apple's assertion on Qualcomm's FRAND violation, Apple has made the same empty accusation against all wireless IP holders of FRAND violation with absolutely zero evidence over past 10 years -- Apple hasn't provided any evidence this time around either.
I believe that some Smalltalkers were able to turn objects into things that were "like actors" when implementing Croquet / OpenCobalt [1]. These systems relied upon creating their own sense of "time" via a protocol named TeaTime [2]. I have tried to get more information on the actual implementation of TeaTime but have come up short so far.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_Project

[2] http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2003001_croq_collab.pdf
That in and of itself is the sole reason Google doesn't bug me as much as some other networks (Facebook comes to mind).

They provide a lot of value, but in the end, I think a lot of their products will eventually use market and mindshare.
My point is not that everyone is bad. My point is that this is par for the course. We don't live in a world of law. We live in a world of civilian law separated and insulated mostly in countries, and over that, anything goes. We are not at war because our wars are financial now but it is very normal for the kidnapping and murder of people that a security threat to a country.

My point was that, if you switched and the murdered was a nuclear scientist and the assassins were Mossad agents (like it happened at least once), no one was surprised or made sanctions because of it.
The MacBook issue was while running macOS so initially no one suspected that it was fixable in software. We assumed (incorrectly) that they'd tested their own OS on their own HW completely. A reasonable assumption and an honest mistake on their part.

This is quite different because Windows, which they ship with, works well. For better or for worse, Linux users expect to take a while to sort out new hardware.
>Publishing a DB dump with a checksum has been around for decades

This solves the problem of where you would publish said checksum. Instead of publishing it in an issue of the New York Times, say (which could theoretically be forged), you publish it somewhere that you can be 99.99% sure won't be forged, is viewable to everyone, and can be done fairly cheaply and would likely hold up in any court of law.

However, that's pretty much it. That's the whole benefit. You could also probably publish said checksum on facebook, with the same likelihood of it not being tampered with.

Note that I'm not arguing that blockchain won't gain adoption, just as people probably could have made a similar value-based argument about facebook in its early days, I personally believe there are cultural forces that will keep some blockchain asset in somewhat high demand.
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Even a single AP, single client, 160 MHz AC wave 2 2x2 connection in clear airspace has less max theoretical throughput than a gigabit hardware (1.7 vs 2).

What makes a sane high density 5 GHz office design with 40 MHz channels (theoretical 400 mbit/s, real usually ~200-300) work is that office workers don't actually need that decent of a connection, just a guarantee voice jitter won't be >10 ms and that throughput will be "fast enough".
Even if they did, so what? This is not a court of law.
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I promise you that I reread that article before I commented about it, and we can all plainly see that 1% of the discussion is about balaclavas and 99% of it is about the effect of the law on Muslims. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_law_on_secularity_and_c... is also relevant.

To be fair, maybe the article is that way because it was written by non-Frenchmen with non-French sensibilities. I understand that French attitudes about religion and assimilation are different from American ones, and that I'm missing all sorts of other context besides. My "oh deary me how troubling" reaction probably isn't worth very much, and in any case my broader point is that I'm not advocating jumping to conclusions or boycotting France or whatever else.

But at the same time, if you want to call it "misinformed" to worry about the law's effect on religious minorities, that comes across as pretty one-sided in its own right.
How well did Linux run out of the box on the new MacBooks on shipping day?
MX Player, a Video App Used by 175M Users Each Month, Adds OTT Service
good - they deserve it!
I think the ratio of true to false positives is vastly more interesting and an indicator for how well the technology is performing and if the burden is reasonable or not.
Gimlet says: "We resell old ad spots. Our ads are recorded separately and are modular, so we can take out old ads and put in new ads whenever we want." in a thread about how country specific ads have been noticed https://www.reddit.com/r/gimlet/comments/71abgp/anyone_else_...
Can't the kernel just be forked by people who don't like this CoC?
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As a fellow large Aruba user I'd recommend extreme caution with how much you're pushing the BT stuff for telecommunications in a high density wireless environment. We've had that bite us in the ass a few times already. A lot of stuff doesn't mind running slower but telecommunication/video hates jitter, loss, and delay far more than anything else and you're putting it on the lowest end wireless infrastructure you have.
Putting either houses next to jobs, or jobs next to houses, would solve the problem.
Well in this case their API is backed by a connection to credit card systems... the hard part. The card companies could have done it, but they needed Stripe to show how obvious it is.
As a way to make use of resources you'd otherwise not have a use for this is interesting, but my feeling is that as a way to reduce "your" energy consumption it's misguided. I'm pretty sure that the energy usage of running even on very efficient dedicated hardware is going to be a lot higher than the incremental increase in consumption for an incredibly tiny VM instance in a data center focused on energy efficiency.

The hardware choice is arguably overkill as well, at least if wifi is available and on use. Run it on a repurposed old phone, eliminate its share of the power draw of a network switch, etc.
No, I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying that American companies are obligated to not help other governments implement oppressive laws, or, in general, aid and abet in carrying out things that we consider despicable as a culture. This is not at all the same as American companies spreading American law elsewhere. The law should be applied to those companies operating here (in particular, any of their management and engineers here) not to their foreign customers.

Similarly, if China would punish any company that, say, does not censor information about Tienanmen protests here in US, that's their business. That does not push their censorship laws on me in any meaningful sense - it means that if I deal with a Chinese company, I get Chinese censorship, which is reasonable and expected; or I can deal with an American or a European company instead. There's no law applied to me either way.
I have a few tips:

1) I like the media and keep track of journalists. Part of this is getting to know who is writing where (freelance and full-time) and what they're writing about.

2) When I write pitches, I customize them to the individual writer. If you send generic pitches, you've already lost.

3) I don't use the word 'exclusive'.

4) I treat a pitch like it costs the soul of my first born.

5) When I get coverage, I write a thank you note.

6) I'm always available to explain technical concepts in a languages journalists understand. And, I never request credit.

Basically, know who you're pitching, write good pitches and don't be a dick. Nobody got into journalism to serve as your personal marketing force.
Presumably they realize that it would be an unproductive dead end next to the original, and don’t want to become a subject of mockery. They want to make noise and rattle their cages, and that’s where their commitment ends. It’s hard to see this extended reaction to something that is at the end of the day incredibly common and banal, as more than trying to suck up the air of publicity while its fresh. After all, people really do care about Linux kernel, so for a short time their “ideas” are given a hearing they would otherwise never seriously be given.
Intel uses SystemVerilog for implementation and most likely also verification, some of the verification features in the system verilog standard were actually contributed by Intel. At some point they were using a ML derivative called reflect https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/tom.melham/res/reflect.html in a verification environment called Forte https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/tom.melham/res/forte.html. The implementation of Forte was open source at some point but sadly has (as far as I can tell) vanished from the internet. Here is a fairly recent presentation on formal verification by Intel (https://www.turing-gateway.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/ass...)

Here is another mention of Forte (https://ptolemy.berkeley.edu/projects/embedded/esd-seminar/s...) the link there is dead and the wayback machine apparently does not index ftp servers unfortunately.
Of course it would, but I’m responding to someone saying “build up the Sunset,” and saying you also need to build up transit. Your criticism is not relevant.

As far as an hour commute goes, if any part of SF could be made as affordable as places like Concord and Vallejo, where those mega-commutes are originating, then I’m sure people would flock to those areas. But I doubt it would be those same people: it would be tech workers living in the East Bay who would want to live in SF but don’t want roommates.
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Speaking with a fair level of ignorance, how hard would it be for some onboard computer to be freaking out that a landing attempt is being made way off course of a known runway?

Going to guess this is one of those things where, yes, we have all the requisite technology, but practical implementation is the hard part.
Indeed! I find that the degree of customizability that Windows allows to be more than sufficient for my needs; but I have no doubt that there are people who have different needs that are not accommodated.
He did choose one - cleaning rooms.
Heh that’s a cool idea. Fly through the tree like a maze
"In the meantime, this Turkish woman's resume will always have the five papers below."

Turns out it won't: 2 of the 5 papers have been retracted.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.0214...

https://bmcnutr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40795-01...
That's really cool. I had no idea Brave did that, and thought it was just another Chromium spin-off.

Unfortunately I'm unwilling to change browser for this, and would rather see it as an addon or local software install so it works on the user's choice of browser, but it's a very good idea.
PilotsEyeTV is a really really neat thing. They sell entire box sets of whole flights. It's pretty cool that the European airlines allow this amount of camera work in the cockpit:

http://pilotseye.tv/en/flightroutes/

If you really want to see something captivating, watch this clip of a Swiss A340 crew handling an overheating engine in-flight. It's incredibly well done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEf35NtlBLg
Yep, and disable the lowest data rates, particularly if you have decent coverage. The AP is forced to send certain types of traffic at the lowest available data rate so everyone can hear it so you save a lot of airtime on that traffic but also clients will be more likely to roam because they can't "stick" to a far away AP at a really low data rate even if they wanted to.
I agree with less hassle generally being better, but the PC gamer in me just can't transition to "mobile" like that because that what it would feel like to me.

The hardware in the OC Quest is probably some kind of Nvidia Tegra style SoC, at least that's what I'd expect in terms of performance out of it. Ideally, I'd want the future of VR to be in eye candy popping UHD with super high refresh rates, tho I doubt mobile computing will be up for that task in the next decade.
Use the stack you are most proficient in, unless you are building a SaaS in order to teach yourself a new language/framework.
Despite its being in the title (and URL) of the article itself, it seems almost certain that the first 'a' doesn't belong.
Does it do anything for non-EU residents?
With the caveat that some clients really have trouble with DFS channels. Generally not a problem if you're refreshing your office with new wireless though.
Although only spacex is clearly Musk founded.
They never opened
Putin's Russia is weak but more bold and reckless than the USSR.
> ... we only see the people that are successful...

Try this http://autopsy.io/
>under what regulation or law you can do that?

this question is answered in the parent post to:

>>>There are no US laws against private companies building censorship tools in the US, let alone in China

>>Not yet. Maybe there should be [a new law -- DenisM]. ;)

If the problem is deemed severe a new law could be made that restricts participation in "oppressive activities", however they are defined. This would be similar to "trading with the enemy" act [1], or to COCOM [2], or to terrorism-related financial restrictions, or to Iran / N Korea / Russia sanctions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_with_the_Enemy_Act_of_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinating_Committee_for_Mul...