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If you read more closely, the author is not arguing this. He doesn't touch what the Instagram guys should have done, just what they did, and what they did was give up control of their product.

That has an advantage, which is you can plug into Facebook's monetization model and instantly start making money, but it also has a disadvantage, which is no longer being in total control.
I've been the point engineer in these types of interactions(over on the GPU space, but still plenty of IP to worry about there).

You're very, very careful to make sure this doesn't happen, up to and including having two discrete teams that work with different vendors to make sure it doesn't happen(sometimes mandated by contracts).

In my last gig where I did this our group was the one part of the company that most vendors came to precisely because we didn't disclose techniques or approaches. Someone just casually mentioning "Vendor X" does Texture Compression with "Y" in discussions is enough to get them to never talk to your engineers again.

(I've seen very senior engineers do this in order to try and move the needle with a vendor only to completely sabotage the whole relationship without even realizing it.)
Not really. Again, you are making several misconceptions (this isn't uncommon, economists don't really understand finance and they understand even less about financial history so they say very odd things that ppl seem to pick up on).

First, the system was not safe...at all. There were pretty much constant financial crises through the 1960s.

Second, the reason why these crises occurred is because the US promised to buy central bank gold at X price. This wasn't sustainable, this caused crises as central banks tried to acquire gold and the UK/US tried to stop them doing so (gold pooling arrangements are an example). It was a fundamentally bad system.

Third, the reason why the system appeared "safe", in today's terms, was govt assumed all the financial risk. Trade and capital accounts were closed, even ones that were open had significant limitations. For the US, this didn't work out terribly because they could keep printing "gold" paper that actually had no value...for everyone else, it was terrible (particularly, the UK). This required some level of protection of domestic industry and resulted in poor competitiveness, high taxes, and high prices for consumers. The funniest thing about this re imagining of the 1960s is that if you actually read what policy makers thought, they believed it was terrible system that would fail (and they were correct).

It is impossible to distinguish between productive and speculative finance, and it is actually very important that you don't try to (this was a major concern in the 1960s and for the IMF, they believed they could control speculative capital movements distinct from productive capital movements...it didn't work). The 19th century saw several financial manias, they produced waste but also tremendous value (canals, railways, electricity, etc.). You can't have one without the other. Finance is risk, and you can't take risk without the possibility of failure.

One of the problems today, typically outside of the US, has been the inability to cope with failure (and so you get lots of idiots saying we just need to get rid of "speculation"). No, the aim of capitalism is to maximise productivity/competitiveness by maximising failure. The solution to this problem is social policy (i.e. Denmark) not trying to fiddle with capitalism. It should be no surprise that this viewpoint has coincided with an increase in concentration of wealth (rich people generally don't like competition/capitalism...another aspect of history that is forgotten).
That a company's monopoly position will eventually be overturned doesn't mean we shouldn't do anything about it. Using your criterion for government involvement it would be fine if industries were constantly dominated by a monopoly as long as that monopoly changed hands every 10 years. That's an unsatisfactory outcome for society. The point to antitrust is that there should always be enough competition that consumers shape the market - not firms.
To me that movie's screenplay is the apotheosis of Hollywood writers' contempt for history, scientists and mathematicians, and their own audience. That the same screenplay actually won a fucking Oscar for "Best Adapted Screenplay" is a pretty sick joke.

It treats the actual facts of history as a worthless and inconvenient irrelevance. At every turn, reality is sacrificed, not even out of a necessary requirement to streamline the narrative, but because the truth fails to conform to the writer's prejudices, and the clichés of contemporary drama.

When presented with this dishonesty, writers usually issue some lame defence about reaching for a greater truth, but what they really mean is they lack the imagination or ability to distill the truth into a compelling story, or they simply don't care enough to try. So instead they feed their audiences warmed-over garbage, and win awards for it.
speaking as a millennial there is a big reason Marriage is overtaking divorce.

Health insurance. Most of us dont have jobs that afford us competent healthcare. Seriously, thank the gig economy. Affordable Care Act providers either do not exist in some states or are overpriced/worthless for what they do cover. There are still roughly 25 states that have not expanded medicare either. Getting married is a quick and simple way to either pick up good healthcare from a friend, or get a discount on your own for "being married."
Apple does make an Apple Music app for Android. That alone is a reason they'd want to keep it around on Android.
Even many people who like visiting NYC a lot don't like living there. I'm definitely in this category. I'll take a long weekend just about any time of the year. But the one summer I lived there, I couldn't wait to leave after a couple of months.
Could a side issue be that the game format just wasn't sustainable? The sales steadily declined after Walking Dead because it's just more of the same?

FWIW, I thought the first Walking Dead was super interesting. It reminded me of those old Choose Your Adventure books. I had a blast playing it because it _felt_ like there was weight behind the decisions. After beating it, I started a fresh game so I could go through a totally different path / play style and... the illusion shattered. The choices didn't have any notable effect on the game.

And that was that. I just wasn't interested after the first game.
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The YubiKey 5C is really quite small in comparison to the normal YubiKey 5.
An order of magnitude lower. I see 40Mb on macos right now for a simple app.
My parents got married in a friend's house and they had the reception in the backyard with friends playing music. I think the wedding cost like $100 or something. Unclear why modern weddings have to be so expensive. Mine definitely was overpriced.
Eh, no need to turn this into a EU/US pissing contest.
Lisbon, Portugal:

1. House rents are really expensive (as in London/Amsterdam expensive)
2. The wages are low (completely the opposite of London/Amsterdam)
3. It's really hot today

Contrasts with:
1. Amazing food (oh god, the food!!)
2. The city is pretty
3. Smart, nice and educated people
4. Really nice weather (motorcycle with amazing weather 90% of the year)

Healthcare and a good education accessible to "everyone" is also a nice thing.
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This definitely sounds like a correlation and not causation sort of thing. Court cases are much more expensive for the plaintiffs too, so they aren't going to take it to court unless if they're reasonably sure they can win and the expected payoff makes it worth it.
It is impossible to buy hot food in Amsterdam late at night. This to me marks a city as entirely non-functional. It’s not like I’m asking for 10 gigabit fiber to the home, just pizza. It’s bizarre.
Based on your handle and your concerns, you should email me. :-)
The graph on the page directly disagrees with that last sentence. 18-34 age range was bouncing around 11-13 percent divorce rate. Not much has changed at all in that age range.
Then try QML! You can create Qt apps using JavaScript (it's ES5 though).
That and there is a huge marketing effort aimed at girls of all ages telling them what a "dream wedding" should look like, and it's not a bunch of lawn chairs in your back yard and a potluck. They're also constantly reminded that the wedding is their day, nobody else should be telling them what it should look like.

The one good thing is that when people get divorced and remarried the second wedding is almost always a much smaller and more intimate affair. Nothing breaks the spell like living through planning and executing a "dream wedding".
What happens when literally every contract requires you to agree to arbitration? That seems to be the direction things are going.

Sorry, can't sell you groceries unless you sign this.
I'm beginning to think that all the craziness surrounding the Bad Things (TM) Chrome is doing, is being done surreptitiously as a warning from engineering in Google to GTFO...

Given how google is embracing and building for totalitarian markets, such as China, as are its peers in the tech space - I think this is maybe a way to warn people to get the hell away from Google's products.
I hope you don't mind me bookmarking this (very astute) comment and using it as part of my chat with folks as to why they shouldn't work for a startup.
At least they admitted to it.

Good luck getting the petrochemical industry to admit to any wrongdoing they've ever done
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California taxes are quite high, too.
Chicago

1: Segregation. The black and brown people are all concentrated in the South and West sides, along with most of the violent crime. Despicable and sad.

2: Lack of nature nearby. The city has some nice parks, especially the public lake front, but there isn't any decent camping within a 3 or 4 hour drive.

3: Weather. I've lived here my whole life, and I am becoming less tolerant of the winters as I age.

The traffic is pretty bad too, but I bike commute so I don't really feel that part too much. Finally, and this is a more pernicious problem, but the state's fiscal situation is terrible. It doesn't seem like such an issue now (especially for a fairly affluent white guy like me), but the future will almost certainly include service reductions combined with higher taxes.
I can't comment for pyQt. But the regular C++ Qt app I'm tinkering with at the moment uses 11MB private and about 50MB in shared memory for displaying a simple window with some nested widgets and scrollable lists.
Not all countries have the medallion system (or that system the way it works in parts of the USA), and in some places drivers felt they were paid pretty adequately the way things were, and so they reacted very negatively to Uber drivers showing up and undercutting them.
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SF Bay Area:

1.) Traffic. I simply can't drive anywhere anymore between the hours of 2-8 PM.

2.) Zero sense of community. The only reason anyone lives here is to make money. Young people are incapable of existing here without a $100k+ job or living with their parents.

3.) Rent/housing goes without saying

4.) Random insane scary dangerous people walking the streets everywhere. This was a real weird one for someone coming from the midwest.

Beyond that it's not too bad. The best weather in the country, public transit isn't terrible (relative to the rest of the US), great food, and endless jobs.
Steve Yegge was a true visionary. In 2004 he predicted the massive popularity of (future) Electron:

> web application programming is gradually going to become the most important client-side programming out there. I think it will mostly obsolete all other client-side toolkits: GTK, Java Swing/SWT, Qt, and of course all the platform-specific ones like Cocoa and Win32/MFC

https://danluu.com/yegge-predictions/
"Agency" approaches meaninglessness when you can't understand what you're agreeing to, can't afford a lawyer to interpret it for you, and can't get access to the courts later because of an arbitration clause.
Jesus is not a popular name among English speakers. It's popular among Spanish speakers. (Joshua is currently popular, but according to your link that popularity reaches all the way back to the hallowed days of the 1970s.)

Similarly, Eve doesn't have enduring popularity among English-speaking Christians, but that's a very different claim from saying that it hasn't seen enduring popularity.
So obviously do whatever is required for content to work and if you don't enjoy being jerked around put a little badge somewhere "Best viewed in firefox" with a icon and a link to the download page for the users platform.
How many years you lived? How many more you think you'll do?
Is not the next day that should worry you, but all the ones from there onwards. And the people you will care about, including the ones that survives you.

The thing is that you don't know what could happen, but digital records are there for the future, and what happens on it, different policies, different social trends, different governments and so on.

Things are changing fast. If is profitable, will be exploited. And is not that some person will find your personal data. AIs and bots will do it with everything they can access. And could affect you in ways you can't predict now, with effects that may be very unpleasant.

This may be far fetched, what could happen today, if you were older? Getting poor? No medic coverage? Lost house or pensions? No insurance when something wrong happen? Can't get any work? Now extrapolate for unknown conditions in a not so far but still unpredictable future.
This was addressed in a blog post after Ashley Madison incident:

https://www.troyhunt.com/have-i-been-pwned-opting-out-vtech-...
No good if you use catchall to give every site a different email address?
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> what does another billion buy you, besides bragging rights?

The only real way to look at wealth is through the lens of power and influence. In day-to-day life, is $250 million that much different than $1 billion? Probably not. But when it comes to power and influence, $1 billion (or more) is an incredibly better place to be.

Once you get into this kind of wealth, you can attack global problems. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is probably the crown jewel, publicly, of the kind of power this sort of multi-billion USD wealth can accomplish. We will see in the next few decades what the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative can do for education, or what the Bezos Day One Fund can do for homelessness and poverty. Of course having huge endowments doesn't necessarily mean you will be successful in your mission, and plenty of these sorts of foundations are just set up to preserve wealth and establish political bastions of influence.

Imagine also the effect that comments from other prominent billionaires have on politics in general, or the economy. Warren Buffet can swing intraday trading to the tune of billions of dollars just by commenting on individual stocks or sectors. Mere millionaires don't have this kind of influence.

So sure... you make anywhere north of, what, $100 million? and you can retire comfortably. Maybe a couple hundred million more and you can have a trust that might stay solvent for a couple generations. But a billion dollars? Two billion dollars? You can now build your own rocket and send yourself to space, build towers and monuments, influence entire nations... With a billion dollars you have exclusive access to the only worldly things that are so luxurious that they cannot even be expressed in monetary value. The differences are staggering at that scale.
you mean divorced?
Big difference between building localization into the app architecture and translating the app to 20 languages as a starting point, though.
If you had picked another example of pre-made food, I might agree, but cookies are really easy. Just follow the recipe on the back of the chocolate chip bag, you'll get something that is far better than anything out of a bag that's engineered to sit around in a store for months.
> FB feels like the opposite experience to me - crappy product decisions, bloated UX, bad will.

Which almost feels ironic given that they tend to hire some of the best designers around the world.
Two things I would have liked to see:
1) is this just the U.S.? The Baby Boom happened in many nations, as did an increase in divorce at about the same time, how do their divorce rates compare?
2) couldn't one say equally well "the Baby Boom-fueled divorce explosion continues to recede"? This might not be about Millenials at all, but rather about the Baby Boom generation.
The original post said

> why are you using Python?

I'm not sure

> Platform-native APIs.

are a replacement for Python?
An upper middle-class wedding on the coasts at any venue goes for a minimum of 30k. A really cheap wedding is just having in your back yard with a keg, but I don't think the OP is talking about that. A nice wedding with all your college buddies, looking at 100k.
Lol, I am from Chicago living next to Boulder now. Everyone on my street is from the midwest, the weather here in the winter and summer is 1000x better.
Artic lakes are bubbling with dangerous greenhouse gasses
Y'all who fight for workers' rights on HN are the real troops o7
> Women that marry in their late 20s and have kids in their 30s don't really have great dating prospects when they're fast approaching 40 and have a kid.

Is there any need to gender that statement? It seems just as true of men as of women. With the possible exception of differing child-support rates in the sexes (for which I have not bothered to gather any data), probably even the same is true of:

> Men that marry in their late 20s and have kids in their 30s don't like the idea of living in a crappy apartment, driving a 15yo Civic and eating rice and beans well into their 50s because they're getting bent over for child support.
I would be interested in a counterargument because I am having trouble coming up with one myself.
If a VW lawyer contacts them to change the name, the obvious reply is “we will happily rename to hitlercar.”
Collective bargaining relies on negotiating blanket policies for all the workers. In some industries, that is fine. If all your brick layers get paid the same and given the same breaks, and all your brick-laying supervisors get their standard supervisor pay, that might be for the better.

It doesn't work that way for knowledge workers and creative types. Some people are rare talents, some people are just okay. Some people fill wear 5 different hats and cover responsibilities outside their title. One artist may be the visionary behind your greatest success, another just follows orders, but both are on the same team and at the same level of the hierarchy.

If you force a system where everyone makes the same salary based on how long they've worked there, the best people will leave. But if people negotiate for themselves, it isn't collective bargaining anymore, and you don't have a union.

Want to prevent burnout? The union negotiates for rigid 9 to 5 hours. Many creative people will hate it. Or you let people come in when the want, but they have to fill out a timesheet, can't work overtime without the approval of both a manager and a union rep, and have to adhere to rigid guidelines.

Unions can't work without bureaucracy, but creative people and creative organizations don't work well with bureaucracy.
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do that in a state like California, and you are considered married, regardless of a piece of paper being signed or not.
+1 hMailServer; Deployed it for a few clients who needed it to work with SQL Server. It was rock solid and hosted hundreds of domains and a ton of email accessed over various devices.

It's not glamorous software as its pretty basic but if all you need is basic, it will not disappoint you, and usually most of the needs of many folks is pretty simplistic.
Yup, my house in CO is twice the price and half the property taxes of the TX house I had.
Between entities of similar power, contracts contain terms to protect both parties. When one entity has more power than the other, the terms are used to further empower them at the cost of the other.
You've ignored the cost of the home required to cook those things in, which is really the whole point.

(not directing at you, more explaining to those who didn't already know)
I know they aren't photo spheres, but I wonder how hard it would be to patch all these locations into 360 images and plug them into a custom Google Street View.

https://maps.googleblog.com/2013/12/create-your-own-street-v...

Extrapolating a bit further, I would really want to play the next GTA installment in 80s New York... you'se guys.
Isn't a millennial getting married today only 18 years old? A career established person might have been born in 1980 or earlier.
The point I was trying to make that the court/law is the enforcer here, not Uber. I think the headline is misleading in this respect.

Your point that a party to a contract could waive their contractual rights is true but I would also argue that you are also choosing words to frame the narrative when you say the Uber "forced the contractor" rather than saying that Uber exercised its contractual rights to resolve the dispute via arbitration. In fact isn't the contractor who is trying to "force" Uber to give up its contractual rights by claiming that the contractual terms aren't valid? [edit: corrected are to aren't]

There is a larger discussion about the value/fairness of arbitration as a mechanism but as I understand it, it is established law that arbitration clauses are legal and I don't think anyone is arguing that Uber has "forced" someone to enter into the driver's contract with Uber.
I'll add that while it's got a great transportation system, it's still a very car centric city.

Train transportation is directed at getting you into the loop, and not so great if you want to traverse to other parts of the city. Want to go from Pilsen to Lincoln Park? You'll probably drive. Pilsen to Wicker Park? I doubt you are going to take the bus, so you'll drive there too.

The advantage of it being flat is that you can cycle to those places, but that option doesn't work 4-5 months out of the year.
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> trends like online shooters, Battle Royale games, loot boxes, or any of the other fads that have pulled teams off course with the false promise of easy money

Citation? Because I always thought that game studios switched to these because they were “easy money”, not because they were fads. Critics and journalists disliking a thing is different than it not being a successful strategy.
Reminds me of a story a friend told me from the days of working IT supporting 10BaseT coaxial Ethernet cabling, where if you broke the line at any one T-connector, the whole set of nodes on that cable went offline. One secretary was annoyed by something about the line under her desk and kept disconnecting it despite requests.

He finally came up with the idea to explain her that the cable end "leaked radiation" when unplugged -- technically true, just not at levels relevant to human health. From that day forward, no more issues...
They are likely able to show that the DB is comprised of simply the fingerprints, and not the full songs - thus they wouldnt be able to "use" the DB to profit from play-back of the songs it can identify.
Downvoting because you didn't back that up. I think moreso the article's content is complete BS whereas that graph is probably based on actual factual data - which actually does not align with the content of the article at all.
Ok, this makes it more, uh, tangible I guess. This is scary!